Tutorials:Hair Tutorials

Hair Tutorials

Creating realistic hair textures can be extremely challenging. There are a lot of different techniques you use. Which one(s) you choose depends on your project, your expected outcome, and your level of skill.

• Tutorials: Hair Recoloring Tutorial - Teaches how to recolour and manipulate Maxis texture to make new hair textures. This is the easiest technique, and this tutorial is written specifically for The Sims 2.

• There's some discussion on how to use Photoshop to create hair textures in this thread. The discussion starts at post #25 and continues on for a few posts. This little tutorial with pictures is basically showing the same thing, without the Clouds step, which adds all kinds of lovely waves.

• Painting Hair in Photoshop - This isn't a sim tutorial, but one on handpainting realistic hair textures in Photoshop. You'll need a graphics tablet to handpaint hair, but it's the best way to create completely original hair that looks truly realistic.

• Enayla, also known as famed fantasy artist Linda Bergkvist, has some tips on her method of painting hair at her site, Furiae. Click on Gallery, Tutorials, Painting Hair to get to it.

• Here's another tutorial on deviantART on handpainting hair textures...

• Another good tutorial, this one specifically relating to texturing hair for low-poly hair models. It also looks like a simpler handpainting technique that someone might actually be able to do with a mouse, for straight, simple styles.

• Another handpainting tutorial that uses a 3d model similar to sims. In this one you can see how the part, bangs, highlights and shadows work on the flat graphic and then wrap on the 3D mesh.