About the Arnold hair shader not showing in the viewport: you can plug it into the surface slot in the Arnold tab of the physical hair's shading group and then you'll get the arnold one in the render and the physical hair one in the viewport and you don't have to switch back and forth anymore :D
no really for hair cards, though it can be used. It's sometimes used to make hair then rendered out as image passes for real time materials in engines like UE. You can export it as curves now and render that in UE which looks great but that's the most expensive and most games can't do that yet
The reason the hair "goes away" sometimes, is because, in the Preview/Output tab in the Xgen menu, the option "Only primitives in view" is turned on meaning it will only draw section of the hair where the roots are visible in the viewport. Its a performance thing but on modern computers you can usually turn this off with no problems.
I was about to add this comment, not knowing this made me hate xgen and label it as not working, from when I discovered this I'm enjoying this powerfull tool
A few months ago I made a comment bashing XGen due to it crashing/being unusable. Turns out, there was a way to solve my issue, I just had to do a TON of research. If anyone runs into the problem I did where interactive groom cant be used, its possible that your Maya.env file has OpenGL turned off. If you open that file up with notepad, and delete that line, interactive groom will work like a charm. Another issue I had, was the hair going through my mesh. Turns out in the brush setting of interactive groom, you can turn on collision. I really hope someone who is running into the issues I ran into reads my comment before pulling their hair out like I did. GL everyone.
This looks super simple and incredibly hard at the same time. But it was really awesome! It's incredible we have access to these industry grade programs
How exactly do you get from 36:10 to 36:17? What do curves mean exactly? I've tried adding more guides and rebuilding my guides with a higher CV count. I've also created both maps, nothing I do seems to make the hair follow the guides closer to the head, it's decently out there like in 36:10...what am I missing? Thanks so much for the vid, this has been the best tutorial I've found, will be eternally grateful
All I did there was add more guide curves to wrangle the hair. If you don't have enough then the hairs far away won't be guided. Don't need to add more CVs for that issue. If the hair isn't following guides you may have another problem. Go to the Discord for more assistance if needed
Great video as usual! One tip I can add to using xGen is for your aiStandardHair shader, in the shading group for that material you can middle mouse drag the hairPhysicalShader into "Surface material" and add the aiStandardHair material into "Surface Shader" which is under Arnold. Then when you render it uses the aiStandardHair and in the viewport is has the hairPhysicalShader. It works as well using this method to have a Arnold material for surfaces and then in the viewport a lambert material if you need to paint masks and such since Xgen doesn't allow you to paint maps onto objects with arnold shader on it.
Everytime I'm trying to learn XGen I just getting littered with bugs. I really hate this tool and just can't understand why we still doesn't have any alternative really? One of most hated bugs is that this tool hates control+z. This time it happens again. I pressed control+z, it gives me an error and hair stops moving along with splines.
You're an absolute legend, its been a struggle trying to do solid hair with no delays. I've managed to finesse it well but now imma officially start incorporating this in my workflow
Dude, seriously, thanks for this. I have been pulling MY hair out for months just trying to figure out Xgen. Just working with clumping alone made me want to scream and quit altogether. Could you make a tutorial on saving your xgen hair as a preset for use with other models?
This is truly a great tutorial. Great explanation! I do have two problems though: 1) Tried to create a map (16:00) but it simply won't create it. All the icons like the save icon don't appear. Any ideas why? 2) Also when I re-open the file, the hair doesn't appear. They are listed in the outliner but don't show in the viewport.
I have the same problem with not able to create a map, it shows an error that Maya is unable to locate something in my files but I don't know what it's looking for in the first place lol. Help!! D;
I've been watching binge watching all of your tutorials and all I can say is thank you so much for your tutorials, I've watched your tutorials from zbrush skin textures to substancepainter. As someone who is new to both maya and zbrush (mainly because I use blender only) your tutorials are so easy to understand and its a great help! One question tho, I've been having a hard time with the hair clipping through the ears do i just add more guides? Anywho thank you so much for the tutorials it really is a big help for someone like me who wants to learn more.
Hello, can you please help me? I don't know why I can't paint my region map. Do you have any idea what I might be doing wrong? I did it in Lambert, and my UVs are correct. I don't know what's going on-please help.
Great tutorial, i-m new to maya, when I create density map, I can paint, but I cant see the black and white color, only grey material of the mesh. Try to change vewport setttings, nothing happend, I miss someting?
Hi J, Superb video, I make your tutorial, everything is fine except for one thing. The density for hair should be around 200, but for me, I have to put it very high to have the same density as you. The face of my character has the scale of a basic sphere. I put the width at 0.01, if I increase it the hair is not beautiful, I increased the number of guides too but it does not work either. I don’t understand where my mistake came from. If someone has the solution I am interested! Thanks :)
Description is in a collection so when you said what you did was wrong it wasnt A collections is a collection of descriptions So ill have a collection named “girl character” Inside that ill have descriptions “Brows” “Eyelashes “ “Hairstyle” ….
Hey Jay, Great tutorial as ever. Just a question though, how did you made the hair's volume so close to the head? When I'm applying xgen hair, the hairs looks like a helmet due to its thickness lol
Just a side note for anyone watching this video. When he says Xgen is bad for crashes; it actually goes beyond that. I've been toying with Xgen in Maya on and off for the past few years now, and let's just put it this way; Save often, and do not be afraid to create multiple save files. Because Xgen is bad enough, but Maya will bork entire save files at random. And if you don't have a backup, you could lose your entire work. I am lucky that I learned that some time ago; because just earlier today I nearly lost an entire day of work on my character. I saved it, then went to reload the save, and the character model itself poofed, and everything else in the scene was neon green (all materials gone). But I was able to load a previous save I made just minutes sooner.
@@KarelChytilArt I don't do much with nodes tbh. Since I'm self taught, the entire node system seems almost like Japanese to me. At least in contrast to manipulating things thought the UI, and attribute settings. I've done the odd things with material nodes, and followed a couple step by step tutorials otherwise, but outside if that, it just seems a bit complex. Is Houdini worth using if I don't make intricate use of nodes? I'd also be thankful for any other information you'd be willing to share in terms of Xgen style grooming. I made the mistake of having the first character I made be the most Xgen intense use character I could possibly make, and it's been taxing to say the least.
Hey J! To solve your problem with the groom sometimes not showing, go to the Preview/Output tab in the Description and uncheck "Only primitives in the view." You gotta do it for every new Description, but it will make it so previews always do ALL the hair. Great and relevant stuff as usual.
Does Xgen need real world scale model to work properly? I try adding guides but it so huge, i changed the width afterward but when moving guides it still show huge indicator that block my view and hard to move around guides too. Thank you!
@@artofjhill I`ve seen you set the density for the brows is 80 and it`s get pretty much, i had to do set up to 500 to get the same result. Is it any wrong with my set up?
Hi ! I'm following your video which is incredible by the way and I wanted to know if you also created a Density Map for the last hairstyle of the video because you only show the part when you create the red map, thank you in advance !
Hi, J your tutorials are really the best. I have a doubt guides are selectable while i was making eyelashes and brows as soon as i add description for scalp hairs after placing guide on scalp desc i can't select guides anymore, not even brows and lashes guides are selectable. there is a button beside hide or show guides (turn the selectability of guides on and off) does'nt work. turning off camera based selection does'nt work. please help..
Do you have any reccomendation on how to keep hair from penetrating the mesh if using a cap? Im so stuck, my model is done, but there are hairs penetrating and the collision modifier doesnt do anything, but make it an afro I have tons of guides. I just dont know how to fix this...
after i add the guide, increase density or add modifiers or create density mask and then add a new or move the guide,all the hair will become no effect even i adjust the density or modifier. what is the problem? i seen your video after masking the eyebrow u add more guides to it.
why does it usually happen that there is hair that seems to go through the topology? As if it came from within? I used a part of the head as a base and not the entire topology, could that be the error?
Even if you are Maya Artist & Zbrush. Im watching your Videos for my Blender / Houdini journey cause the knowedge that you provide is pretty transferable between others softwares. For example this Groom tutorial helped me a lot to understand basics :D
Hey J, Thanks for your awsome videos man. I want to have access to patreon videos but your page is not there anymore. Where can I have access to your patreon videos?! Thank you.
Sorry but According to my understanding, I wanna make one correction... Collection is actually a set of multiple descriptions... You can have multiple descriptions within one collection... Thank you...
J, man, really thanking you from my heart, I always felt XGEN pretty hard, but your simple style of teaching just taught me everything about XGEN I wanted to know, didn't find any tutorial this easy, Thank you once again
xgen is a cool fur grooming software for maya BUT I am sooooo over all the flaky buggy Maya issues and Xgen is riddled with them i.e. inexplicable crashes for no obvious reason ... Maya reallly needs to sort out the bugs or I reckon many artists will make the leap over to Houdini and other options for all 3D needs
hi sir am sravani sir when i am creating density or any map it showing like this error New_Project/xgen/collections/collection/description1/paintmaps/mask/hourse_gr_group4.ptx (Part of path doesn't exist) could u plss help me with this i already set up project sir yet its coming plss help me with this sir every time same problem
Is there any paid / opensource alternative for Xgen for someone using Blender. I am not a professional 3D artist, I enjoy 3D and I have invested time learning Blender, and do not wish to switch.
Whenever I create hair, many copper-like cylinders are automatically formed on top of the object and are not manipulated and how can i fix that? " file line 1: module 'xgenm' has no attribute 'XGTip'"
hi J, awesome video as usual, I have not finished yet, I'm around @14:00 and noticed that problem with the hair disappearing when you are too close. I dunno if you'll eventually aknowledge that later in the video but if you go into the PREVIEW/OUTPUT tab, under PREVIEW you'll find an option flag with something like "only primitives in the view". Uncheck it and xgen hairs will always be dislpayed. It's an optimization to hide the hair not framed by camera at that moment
Hello! you have incredibly cool tutors!!!! how and where can I find a tutorial on creating this hairstyle? your patron has been deleted and this is very sad. I can't find you there
Man!! Thank you for taking the time to put together such a comprehensive tutorial! Much Appreciated! You've gained one new subscriber! I'm learning so much from every minute of your tutorial. You tutorial is very concise with no "ummm...ahhhh..." pauses. Audio is crisp and video is sharp. Appreciate the quality of your tutorial.
Hi this tutorial looks fun! I am trying to do it myself, when i increase the density nothing is appearing on the scalp mesh. I even press the eye to update but nothing happens... Any ideas? Cheers
Hey J. tut was great. any chance you'll do a game ready hair breakdown? I know you did one with your ''Character Creation for Video Games'' but that was ages ago :D keep up the good deed m8
Hey thanks. I don’t plan on doing that any time soon. Game hair is a real pain and the techniques haven’t changed since what I did for my course. Still all the same way it’s done today and how you’d do it for a game in UE
Hi, Thanks For Your PERFECT TUTORIAL! would you mind making a video about how to get rid of some unwanted hair and how to perfctly avoid hair entering model?
I have a question when I use my own head mesh ,then make hair to use move guides to move guide , it's didn't move ,but if I made new scene ,juse use ploygon sphere to make xgen hair ,then use move guides to move ,it's can move . I don't understand what' wrong?
men, this tutorial is awesome, i have a question, im doing a 3d character, do you prefer to use xgen in a t pose or in a model with a pose? whats tge best to work in xgen? do you pose it in maya?
it's standard do make the groom before posing but I've done both ways. for just making a model or 3d illustration you could do it in pose to save time. production is always t pose
I would love to see second style work flow soo much but as a turkish people its very much affort .I mean 10 $ is 135 turkish lira … Enjoy with great model lucky peoples who is not living in turkey. edit : You are great teacher .Thanks for all information you shared with us
Hey J, i really liked you tutorial a lot and it was so so much informational and helpful. I just had one doubt. I have recently switched to maya xgen from blender coz of hair grooming but in xgen i find my hair intersecting and going through the mesh a lot while in blender we actually have an option "deflect emitter" to make the hair not go through the mesh while grooming ... So jst wanted to know if there's any such option in xgen as well.. will be really really helpful this can be helped 😊
Hey, glad you liked the video. Yea there is a modifier for mesh collision. You can load in your mesh as an .abc and it should help reduce hairs going through the mesh
I get a really wobbly result with the interpolation of the hair shape along the guide shape. It doesn't seem to follow the guides very well, even if I place more to try and control it.
@@randallwhiteis Heck man, I don't know. You tell me. The only hair I've made to date is Fibermesh, and instinctively I felt I probably have to treat it like I treat everything that comes out of ZB (As a high res object that requires optimisation prior to rendering) I assumed hair was the same somehow. I really don't have a grasp of the workflow here. I know I can export the curves from ZB into Xgen to serve as guides for the groom, but thats about it. I figured that at the point I take the bulk of my characters meshes into substance for texturing I would have some kind of realistic hair to accompany them. I'm an artist first, but I'm trying to get my head round procedural techy stuff, also. I need to. Perhaps joining J H's Patreon will get me there?
@@randallwhiteis So you're saying, do what I gotta do to the bulk of my meshes in SP, sort my hair in Xgen as per this tute, bring it all together in Maya and render in Arnold?
@@ravenboyreturns I don't know honestly, i use blender. But if you're making hair in Maya and want to view it rendered, you don't need to jump to another software, maya has rendering in it is what I am saying. If you're talking about texturing the hair I don't know how do that in maya. Looks like that's the next video from J. There are plenty of render settings for hair in xgen maya online though if you can't wait.
Dude, this is one of the best guides I've ever seen. You cover it thoroughly, but as simply as possible. So freaking good! Thank you.
Agreed
xgen is great but it BREAKS a lot LOL
About the Arnold hair shader not showing in the viewport: you can plug it into the surface slot in the Arnold tab of the physical hair's shading group and then you'll get the arnold one in the render and the physical hair one in the viewport and you don't have to switch back and forth anymore :D
Is there any way to adopt this workflow into game-ready models? Just curious before I watch later. 😄
Unreal uses this sytem.
no really for hair cards, though it can be used. It's sometimes used to make hair then rendered out as image passes for real time materials in engines like UE. You can export it as curves now and render that in UE which looks great but that's the most expensive and most games can't do that yet
The reason the hair "goes away" sometimes, is because, in the Preview/Output tab in the Xgen menu, the option "Only primitives in view" is turned on meaning it will only draw section of the hair where the roots are visible in the viewport. Its a performance thing but on modern computers you can usually turn this off with no problems.
I was about to add this comment, not knowing this made me hate xgen and label it as not working, from when I discovered this I'm enjoying this powerfull tool
Nice one. I didn't know about our nested folders not being able to have spaces. That explains why my xgen sometimes break I hope haha
A few months ago I made a comment bashing XGen due to it crashing/being unusable. Turns out, there was a way to solve my issue, I just had to do a TON of research. If anyone runs into the problem I did where interactive groom cant be used, its possible that your Maya.env file has OpenGL turned off. If you open that file up with notepad, and delete that line, interactive groom will work like a charm. Another issue I had, was the hair going through my mesh. Turns out in the brush setting of interactive groom, you can turn on collision. I really hope someone who is running into the issues I ran into reads my comment before pulling their hair out like I did. GL everyone.
Could u make a tutorial about curly\afro hair that would be amazing!! Thank you so much for all the tutorials
This looks super simple and incredibly hard at the same time. But it was really awesome! It's incredible we have access to these industry grade programs
You're a good teacher J. clear and to the point:)
I appreciate that. Thanks for checking out the video :)
How exactly do you get from 36:10 to 36:17? What do curves mean exactly? I've tried adding more guides and rebuilding my guides with a higher CV count. I've also created both maps, nothing I do seems to make the hair follow the guides closer to the head, it's decently out there like in 36:10...what am I missing? Thanks so much for the vid, this has been the best tutorial I've found, will be eternally grateful
All I did there was add more guide curves to wrangle the hair. If you don't have enough then the hairs far away won't be guided. Don't need to add more CVs for that issue. If the hair isn't following guides you may have another problem. Go to the Discord for more assistance if needed
I have the same problem, did you end up solving this?!
@@rubysnell6755 I did exactly what J Hill recommended, more guides. A lot more, but it did fix it.
@@darkiedark6218 Amazing, thank you very much :) just wanted to see if it worked!!
Great video as usual!
One tip I can add to using xGen is for your aiStandardHair shader, in the shading group for that material you can middle mouse drag the hairPhysicalShader into "Surface material" and add the aiStandardHair material into "Surface Shader" which is under Arnold. Then when you render it uses the aiStandardHair and in the viewport is has the hairPhysicalShader. It works as well using this method to have a Arnold material for surfaces and then in the viewport a lambert material if you need to paint masks and such since Xgen doesn't allow you to paint maps onto objects with arnold shader on it.
Awesome thank you
Everytime I'm trying to learn XGen I just getting littered with bugs. I really hate this tool and just can't understand why we still doesn't have any alternative really? One of most hated bugs is that this tool hates control+z. This time it happens again. I pressed control+z, it gives me an error and hair stops moving along with splines.
I don’t think I have that issue. It’s finicky but really good
You're an absolute legend, its been a struggle trying to do solid hair with no delays. I've managed to finesse it well but now imma officially start incorporating this in my workflow
dope, glad to hear it
Dude, seriously, thanks for this. I have been pulling MY hair out for months just trying to figure out Xgen. Just working with clumping alone made me want to scream and quit altogether. Could you make a tutorial on saving your xgen hair as a preset for use with other models?
22:56 I created Density Mask but mesh doesn't change into black. I can see the brush tool, but I can't paint mesh .. anyone help me plz :(
Idk but be sure it has a Maya material applied not Arnold or anything else
I've been doing grooms since august and this is the nr.1 video I keep coming back to! Thank you so much! Absolute master tutorial! Only love bro!
Love to hear that! Glad you’re finding it helpful. Make some dope hair
This is truly a great tutorial. Great explanation!
I do have two problems though:
1) Tried to create a map (16:00) but it simply won't create it. All the icons like the save icon don't appear. Any ideas why?
2) Also when I re-open the file, the hair doesn't appear. They are listed in the outliner but don't show in the viewport.
I have the same problem with not able to create a map, it shows an error that Maya is unable to locate something in my files but I don't know what it's looking for in the first place lol. Help!! D;
I've been watching binge watching all of your tutorials and all I can say is thank you so much for your tutorials, I've watched your tutorials from zbrush skin textures to substancepainter. As someone who is new to both maya and zbrush (mainly because I use blender only) your tutorials are so easy to understand and its a great help! One question tho, I've been having a hard time with the hair clipping through the ears do i just add more guides? Anywho thank you so much for the tutorials it really is a big help for someone like me who wants to learn more.
04:51 It's actually Pascal Case Camel Case only has Caps in the middle, like the humps of a Camel.
Thank you for that
My set up become unvisible on viewport,i can render them on Arnold but cant see on the viewport,can someone help me with that?
Hello, can you please help me? I don't know why I can't paint my region map. Do you have any idea what I might be doing wrong? I did it in Lambert, and my UVs are correct. I don't know what's going on-please help.
So fucking good man. Never reallylooked into Xgen before as I'm a Blender user but can really see the control you have here. very enticing...
It is the best. If blender had something like this it would be god tier
Thank you very much for your various videos (Student who tries to specialize in Cfx here) Your pedagogy is perfect!
Great tutorial, i-m new to maya, when I create density map, I can paint, but I cant see the black and white color, only grey material of the mesh.
Try to change vewport setttings, nothing happend, I miss someting?
Man. I've already watched this video 3 times and I'm still getting things out of it!
love to hear that. Glad you're finding it useful
Hi J, Superb video, I make your tutorial, everything is fine except for one thing. The density for hair should be around 200, but for me, I have to put it very high to have the same density as you. The face of my character has the scale of a basic sphere. I put the width at 0.01, if I increase it the hair is not beautiful, I increased the number of guides too but it does not work either. I don’t understand where my mistake came from. If someone has the solution I am interested! Thanks :)
Description is in a collection so when you said what you did was wrong it wasnt
A collections is a collection of descriptions
So ill have a collection named “girl character”
Inside that ill have descriptions
“Brows”
“Eyelashes “
“Hairstyle”
….
Hey Jay, Great tutorial as ever. Just a question though, how did you made the hair's volume so close to the head? When I'm applying xgen hair, the hairs looks like a helmet due to its thickness lol
Just a side note for anyone watching this video. When he says Xgen is bad for crashes; it actually goes beyond that. I've been toying with Xgen in Maya on and off for the past few years now, and let's just put it this way; Save often, and do not be afraid to create multiple save files. Because Xgen is bad enough, but Maya will bork entire save files at random. And if you don't have a backup, you could lose your entire work. I am lucky that I learned that some time ago; because just earlier today I nearly lost an entire day of work on my character. I saved it, then went to reload the save, and the character model itself poofed, and everything else in the scene was neon green (all materials gone). But I was able to load a previous save I made just minutes sooner.
We are happy for Houdini grooming. No crash, udims, much better nodes.
@@KarelChytilArt I don't do much with nodes tbh. Since I'm self taught, the entire node system seems almost like Japanese to me. At least in contrast to manipulating things thought the UI, and attribute settings.
I've done the odd things with material nodes, and followed a couple step by step tutorials otherwise, but outside if that, it just seems a bit complex. Is Houdini worth using if I don't make intricate use of nodes?
I'd also be thankful for any other information you'd be willing to share in terms of Xgen style grooming. I made the mistake of having the first character I made be the most Xgen intense use character I could possibly make, and it's been taxing to say the least.
Hey J!
To solve your problem with the groom sometimes not showing, go to the Preview/Output tab in the Description and uncheck "Only primitives in the view." You gotta do it for every new Description, but it will make it so previews always do ALL the hair.
Great and relevant stuff as usual.
Thank you!
How do you assign a pre-existing ptx/ Density mask to a description? I made one but the file I made it with won't open without crashing.
Does Xgen need real world scale model to work properly? I try adding guides but it so huge, i changed the width afterward but when moving guides it still show huge indicator that block my view and hard to move around guides too. Thank you!
Yup. Works best at a physical scale. So for human hairs, human sized
@@artofjhill I`ve seen you set the density for the brows is 80 and it`s get pretty much, i had to do set up to 500 to get the same result. Is it any wrong with my set up?
Hi ! I'm following your video which is incredible by the way and I wanted to know if you also created a Density Map for the last hairstyle of the video because you only show the part when you create the red map, thank you in advance !
Excellent tutorial, thank you. How difficult is it to animate XGen hair? Do you have a lesson on it?
Hi, J your tutorials are really the best. I have a doubt guides are selectable while i was making eyelashes and brows as soon as i add description for scalp hairs after placing guide on scalp desc i can't select guides anymore, not even brows and lashes guides are selectable. there is a button beside hide or show guides (turn the selectability of guides on and off) does'nt work. turning off camera based selection does'nt work. please help..
Update - Toggle select by components, object type worked for me.
Do you have any reccomendation on how to keep hair from penetrating the mesh if using a cap?
Im so stuck, my model is done, but there are hairs penetrating and the collision modifier doesnt do anything, but make it an afro
I have tons of guides.
I just dont know how to fix this...
xGen is extremly buggy shit. I suggest you guys make copies of your working file so you can go back to normally working versions.
Hi! My hairs are going below the mesh just like inside of the head, do you know how to fix it?
will the pc specs affect the maya xgen to like when can do something then suddenly the attributes not affecting the hair?
for me 1000 density is only around 20 hairs per guide. is there a fix to this? thanks so much amazing tutorial
after i add the guide, increase density or add modifiers or create density mask and then add a new or move the guide,all the hair will become no effect even i adjust the density or modifier. what is the problem? i seen your video after masking the eyebrow u add more guides to it.
Thats such good timing, im right now working in my character hair i'm struguling for it to feel "alive"
what is your computer configuration? what is the processor and what is the video card?

U can plug maya hair shader in SG group and in arnold part of it arnold shader. It will show one in viewport one in rendet
' Looks good. ' Too bad many video game companies don't do this. Most of their hair looks like crap.
17:00 I can't see the white/black mask. I just paint on it and hit save for it to update
xgen and rigging are two reasons that maya is unbeatable
Great teacher, Thank you so much for this! Would be great to see a tutorial about creating hair for videogames.
Greetings from Colombia!
Thanks. Making Game Hair sucks though
why does it usually happen that there is hair that seems to go through the topology? As if it came from within? I used a part of the head as a base and not the entire topology, could that be the error?
Nice vid bro, if you have time can we have one of afros and short waves on black people?
I can’t get the paint tool to work, keeps telling me there’s no surface to paint on.
why xgen make a copy of itself after character replace reference in maya 2023?
the hairs of my guides come out too far just like at 35:33. I want to get them close to the mesh like at 36:18. how do i do this please?
How do you render the turn around? When i try to render (with arnold) the turn around the hair does not move when the caracter is rotated
after create guide and increase density, add a new guide and ctrl z or delete the new guide will it effect the hair?
Even if you are Maya Artist & Zbrush. Im watching your Videos for my Blender / Houdini journey cause the knowedge that you provide is pretty transferable between others softwares. For example this Groom tutorial helped me a lot to understand basics :D
Happy to hear you find them helpful!
hello,
once I set up the guide, after that I try to bump up the density, but no hairs appear...
So,k question, how do these become hair cards for games?
Would like to know how we can export the hairs and render in marmoset like you did for the previous videos
Yup. Next video
Awesome tutorial! It was clear, concise, and very well taught. Thank you very much for creating this!
🙏 I’m glad you liked it
Hey J, Thanks for your awsome videos man. I want to have access to patreon videos but your page is not there anymore. Where can I have access to your patreon videos?! Thank you.
Hey! Working on it! For now, everything is available for members of the TH-cam channel
J hill i have one question. How metrical system, meters or sentimeters?
Sorry but According to my understanding, I wanna make one correction...
Collection is actually a set of multiple descriptions...
You can have multiple descriptions within one collection...
Thank you...
100%
Oh pooey, I don't have Maya Arnold....I'm having so much troubles with shading/rendering with XGen and Vray..
ah sorry!
would you release the tutorial of the other xgen hair？❤
Hello, would like opensource this ma file?
this has motivated me to do the most feared thing in maya or as a cg artist . Thanks J for the indepth tutorial.
You got this
J, man, really thanking you from my heart, I always felt XGEN pretty hard, but your simple style of teaching just taught me everything about XGEN I wanted to know, didn't find any tutorial this easy, Thank you once again
Happy to hear that. Good luck with it and have fun
Can you make a tutorial o Dynamic xgen hair??
Thanks for this. Always found the original Xgen complicated:)
xgen is a cool fur grooming software for maya BUT I am sooooo over all the flaky buggy Maya issues and Xgen is riddled with them i.e. inexplicable crashes for no obvious reason ... Maya reallly needs to sort out the bugs or I reckon many artists will make the leap over to Houdini and other options for all 3D needs
Exactly what I needed. Thank you so much :D
Glad to hear it
Can any one help me with how to style this hair in different ways
questions! Where can I learn all of this?
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true maya experience
Solid as always!
hi sir am sravani
sir when i am creating density or any map it showing like this error
New_Project/xgen/collections/collection/description1/paintmaps/mask/hourse_gr_group4.ptx (Part of path doesn't exist)
could u plss help me with this
i already set up project sir yet its coming
plss help me with this sir every time same problem
any solution to that? i need it
edit: its not creating the paintmap bcz it has arnold shader ,change it to default lambert and ur good to go
One word it's a 💎 gem
Thank you Sir to make such a great tutorial about XGen, WE appreciate it a lot!
You got it
Is there any paid / opensource alternative for Xgen for someone using Blender. I am not a professional 3D artist, I enjoy 3D and I have invested time learning Blender, and do not wish to switch.
Blender now has a new hair system and it’s pretty good
Whenever I create hair, many copper-like cylinders are automatically formed on top of the object and are not manipulated and how can i fix that? " file line 1: module 'xgenm' has no attribute 'XGTip'"
Not sure exactly. Double check you have a project set and that you haven’t deleted history since creating the groom. Those are the common mistakes
hi J, awesome video as usual, I have not finished yet, I'm around @14:00 and noticed that problem with the hair disappearing when you are too close. I dunno if you'll eventually aknowledge that later in the video but if you go into the PREVIEW/OUTPUT tab, under PREVIEW you'll find an option flag with something like "only primitives in the view". Uncheck it and xgen hairs will always be dislpayed. It's an optimization to hide the hair not framed by camera at that moment
great tip thank you
Hello! you have incredibly cool tutors!!!! how and where can I find a tutorial on creating this hairstyle? your patron has been deleted and this is very sad. I can't find you there
Hey thanks. I moved everything to TH-cam membership. If you join the character art team you get access to all the videos including that one
Hello, while i am adding a region map some error showing that part of the path doesn't exist..... Any solution?
Check that you don’t have any spaces anywhere in the directory path names
Man!! Thank you for taking the time to put together such a comprehensive tutorial! Much Appreciated! You've gained one new subscriber! I'm learning so much from every minute of your tutorial. You tutorial is very concise with no "ummm...ahhhh..." pauses. Audio is crisp and video is sharp. Appreciate the quality of your tutorial.
Thank you! I hope it helps.
Plenty of umms and uuhhs, I just edit them out ;)
WHY ARE YOU SO PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE IN YOUR VIDEO.
Hi this tutorial looks fun! I am trying to do it myself, when i increase the density nothing is appearing on the scalp mesh. I even press the eye to update but nothing happens... Any ideas? Cheers
Be sure you have a new project directory set up at the start and place a guide
Hey J. tut was great. any chance you'll do a game ready hair breakdown? I know you did one with your ''Character Creation for Video Games'' but that was ages ago :D
keep up the good deed m8
Hey thanks. I don’t plan on doing that any time soon. Game hair is a real pain and the techniques haven’t changed since what I did for my course. Still all the same way it’s done today and how you’d do it for a game in UE
@@artofjhill totally agree on the pain side😂 'ts why I asked, as its still darn primitive ! Thanks for the great content !!!
Hi, Thanks For Your PERFECT TUTORIAL! would you mind making a video about how to get rid of some unwanted hair and how to perfctly avoid hair entering model?
when i go create a hair using xgen the maya crach
I finally have MAYA!! So I'm literally binging your videos on creating hair in maya. Probably the only reason why I got it.
THERE IS A WAY TO COPY THE SHAPE OF A GUIDE?
thats amazing thank you ! :) can this be imported into a game engine like UE5? or do we need to use hair cards for that ?
It can. Check out my unreal hair video
I have a question when I use my own head mesh ,then make hair to use move guides to move guide , it's didn't move ,but if I made new scene ,juse use ploygon sphere to make xgen hair ,then use move guides to move ,it's can move . I don't understand what' wrong?
men, this tutorial is awesome, i have a question, im doing a 3d character, do you prefer to use xgen in a t pose or in a model with a pose? whats tge best to work in xgen? do you pose it in maya?
it's standard do make the groom before posing but I've done both ways. for just making a model or 3d illustration you could do it in pose to save time. production is always t pose
I would love to see second style work flow soo much but as a turkish people its very much affort .I mean 10 $ is 135 turkish lira … Enjoy with great model lucky peoples who is not living in turkey.
edit : You are great teacher .Thanks for all information you shared with us
Hey J, i really liked you tutorial a lot and it was so so much informational and helpful. I just had one doubt. I have recently switched to maya xgen from blender coz of hair grooming but in xgen i find my hair intersecting and going through the mesh a lot while in blender we actually have an option "deflect emitter" to make the hair not go through the mesh while grooming ... So jst wanted to know if there's any such option in xgen as well.. will be really really helpful this can be helped 😊
Hey, glad you liked the video. Yea there is a modifier for mesh collision. You can load in your mesh as an .abc and it should help reduce hairs going through the mesh
I get a really wobbly result with the interpolation of the hair shape along the guide shape. It doesn't seem to follow the guides very well, even if I place more to try and control it.
Good timing for me, also. Beginner so very interested to hear how you export finished results to render in other software like Substance.
Why would you render in substance. If you're doing the hair in maya? Just use their renderer.
@@randallwhiteis Heck man, I don't know. You tell me. The only hair I've made to date is Fibermesh, and instinctively I felt I probably have to treat it like I treat everything that comes out of ZB (As a high res object that requires optimisation prior to rendering) I assumed hair was the same somehow. I really don't have a grasp of the workflow here. I know I can export the curves from ZB into Xgen to serve as guides for the groom, but thats about it. I figured that at the point I take the bulk of my characters meshes into substance for texturing I would have some kind of realistic hair to accompany them. I'm an artist first, but I'm trying to get my head round procedural techy stuff, also. I need to. Perhaps joining J H's Patreon will get me there?
@@randallwhiteis So you're saying, do what I gotta do to the bulk of my meshes in SP, sort my hair in Xgen as per this tute, bring it all together in Maya and render in Arnold?
or render it in marmoset or UE etc
@@ravenboyreturns I don't know honestly, i use blender. But if you're making hair in Maya and want to view it rendered, you don't need to jump to another software, maya has rendering in it is what I am saying. If you're talking about texturing the hair I don't know how do that in maya. Looks like that's the next video from J. There are plenty of render settings for hair in xgen maya online though if you can't wait.