How to Create Custom Metahuman Hair
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2024
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🛠️ ESSENTIAL SETUP ADVICE: In Unreal Engine, go to your Settings (Topright), Plugins, and ensure Alembic Groom Importer is checked and Groom (Just type in Groom in the search and they will appear). Remember to restart your project after enabling it! Made a little video here to show you below:
www.patreon.com/posts/supplem...
This step is vital for importing the Alembic file from Blender seamlessly. Without this, your hair creations might not transfer correctly!
🕒 Tutorial Timestamps for Easy Navigation:
0:00:25 - Intro
0:00:45 - Requirements
0:01:00 - Creating MetaHuman in MetaHuman Creator
Setting up your MetaHuman:
0:01:32 - Grabbing Free Light Rig from Epic Game Marketplace
0:01:50 - Starting Unreal Engine Project
0:02:00 - Downloading MetaHuman into Unreal Engine
0:03:00 - Removing Default MetaHuman Hair in Unreal Engine
0:03:22 - Exporting MetaHuman from Unreal Engine to Blender
Blender:
0:04:30 - Importing Into Blender
0:04:56 - Separating Scalp from Head Mesh
0:06:33 - Removing Head Mesh Materials
0:06:51 - Unwrapping Head Mesh
0:07:02 - Turning Mesh into Empty Hair Object
0:07:12 - Adding Hair to Your Scalp
0:07:21 - Adding Hair Guides
0:08:30 - Brushing the Hair into Shape Using the Hair Comb
0:09:11 - Adding Hair Modifiers (GeoNodes)
0:09:55 - Increasing Hair Density
0:10:08 - Getting Rid of Bald Bits
0:10:48 - Adding Additional Hair Sections
Support & Resources:
3D Hair Resource Files are uploaded to my Patreon, would love to see you there!
Pateron / promptmuse
🥤If you want to buy me a coffee, I'd really appreciate it:
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🛠️ Tools & Resources:
Metahuman Getting Started Guide:
Coming soon
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Unreal Engine:
www.unrealengine.com/en-US/do...
Quixel Bridge Download:
quixel.com/bridge
Blender 4.0:
www.blender.org/download/
Patreon:
/ promptmuse
🌐 Let's Connect!
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Twitter: @promptmuse
Jumpstart your journey into the fascinating world of 3D hair creation with our step-by-step tutorial. Let's create something amazing together! ✨ - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Followed this tutorial to a T and get "failed to import" error. It says "please see output log for details" and when I check the output log, the error says "failed to import. See output log for details."
EDIT: if anyone has this problem, make sure you have the Groom Importer plugin enabled. I missed that
Thanks man, pinned this! Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner. Here is a quick video showing plugins needing to be install (they are
free)
www.patreon.com/posts/supplementary-97824272?Link&
Being a chrome domed fellow myself, adding hair to my characters always brings a tear of reminiscence to my eye.
🤣 Give them bad hair styles, we still control these avatar puppets and their fates, for now !
The most helpful Hair Curves tutorial I've seen so far
IM SO GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL... so helpful
Thankyou 🫶
that is a dope tutorial, saved me so much time and increased my revenue a lot as im now available to create custom hairstyles for metahuman! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Awesome! I've got a tutorial coming up next which hopefully with help your business produce models faster :)
Your tutorial is a rare pearl ! Perfect explanations and workflow🙏🙏
Aww thanks ! I’m glad it helped!! 🙏
Girl, i cannot express how much you've helped me!!! I was trying to figure this out for literally years and now I know how to do it because of you 🎉
Thank you very much 🥰
You are truly gifted for showing a complex and quite involved process in a logical well-explained tutorial!!! Thanks!!!!
Thank you so much! Sometimes when making the videos I worry about the speed and flow. I’m glad you enjoyed it - Thanks again for the kind comment 🫶
You...are...very...welcome!!!@@promptmuse
Bwahhahaa! I've just spent the morning looking through tutorials for this exact workflow and you posted this an hour ago! You are a godsend. Thank you!
Amazing, good timing eh!!! I hope it will be useful for your project 👍🙏
Wow❤ thank you so much for sharing this! You made it look simple. I am going to give it a try
Thank you so much for this video. Have been struggling for a few years now trying to make the slightest progress on a main character. The hair proved to be complicated even with the new blender nodes. I was able to follow along and I actually got it. Bouncy but it's there. Now for some clothes.
Awesome ! Yes onto he the clothes !!! I may make an update onto this video with some extras. But would love to add clothes 🫡
I have not try to do it yet, but this is the best tutorial I have ever seen about the groom! Good job! You are great!
thanks a lot for this usefull tutorial, was looking for this.
Actually the greatest tutorial. Thanks Prompt Muse!
Great video!
Thanks !!! 🔥
Amazzing video!!! FInally a good one on hair. Thx a lot!
Fantastic tutorial, very helpful for custom hair
Thank you so much for the video! It is very easy to follow and I learned a lot as a Blender beginner :)
This tutorial is awesome. Thank you.
fantastic resource, thaaaankyou
One of the Most clean and clear tutorials ive seen. thank you !
Thank you 🙏 That means a lot to me 💫
Thank you so much, this is the best tutorial I've seen on this! :')
straight to the point and clear. subbed.
I appreciate that 🔥 Great to have you on board
Great vid! Thanks!
great tutorial! I am using CC4 characters, so the simple attach worked for me. I had to play with the parameters in the hair groom to make my hair look like something, and I had to tweak the physics, but I got a decent little curly afro.
Wow i was always wondering if its posible thanks for mak8ng this tutorial appreciate it ! 😊👌🏽
Any time! :)
Great tutorial, thank you :)
I knew that if someone was to do a video tutorial about this, it WOULD be YOU. TSM for another amazing video!!
Haha Thank you! Wanted to do this for a while! I knew there had to be an easy free way somewhere 🫶 Lots and lots of trial and error to get the flow correct- I’m so glad you enjoyed. Thanks for dropping the lovely comment 🔥
Thank you so much for this, was going crazy trying to figure out how to export to UE, converting to particle system was the part I was missing. Cheers
This is greatly appreciated! I was a little intimidated by using the hair tools in Blender!
I think they can be quite intimidating as there are quite a few options! Glad you found it useful 🙏🔥
Thank u, this is soooo helpful!!!
Awesome ! Thanks for the comment. You are more than welcome 🫶🔥
That looks really good! Earned a subscribe :)
Amazing thank you!!
Very useful, thanks!
You are welcome 🎊🙏
Thank you! It was helpful ❤
You are more than welcome!!! 🫶
You're getting more and more beautiful and your videos are stunning. I saw your video being shown in the Realusion advertisement oooooo how great.
Abs.
Great Tutorial, subscribed, helped me a lot, Although, not much of a stylist :). Thanks best one yet
Awesome ! Thanks for the sub Mick 🔥
Lovely tutorial ! Best on youtube :) Thank you
Thank you ! ❤️
THANK YOU!
You are more than welcome ! Hope it proves useful 🫶
Thank you ❤
No problem !!! Thank you for your comment !! 🫶
amazing tutorial
Thank you so much 🫶
Thank You very much for this tutorial, can you make one for Custom Clothes and Jewelleries?
Amazing video - Remember me when you reach 1 million subs!! ❤
Amaizing Video you are Beautiful as we as intelligent expert.
hello! great tutorial! i've made a few grooms that have worked but recently i have this issue - when i add the binding asset to the groom it seems to shift and doesnt fit the head? everything works well until i put on the binding asset. Has this happened to you??
I love this video, it has helped tremulously! Would you be willing to do a video on how to make a beard?
Thank ypu for your tutorial! I have a problem: when I trying to create binding it failes with message: ''failed to create groom binding''
THANK YOU ,no matter what i do,when i activate physics in unreal.only a random part of the hair will animate no the full head?
awesome tut ! can you also make a video using haircards for this pipeline blender / Unreal ?
It’s in the making !!! Going to get one out for Wednesday you may like also 🙏 Blender
I made long hair style and the hair seems to go inside the body (torso) is there a way to fix this?
thanks
YOU are welcome! :)
Thanks for this in depth tutorial ! Is there any nice looking hair 3D model library somewhere ?
Check the Uneal market place for hair :) Some on there to purchase
Can u make more videos about adjusting metahumans like export to change clothing in blender or marvelous designer and import back to UE 5.3 for a game project please 😊
Yeah would love to. Something I’m looking at the moment. 🙏🫶
Thanks for this great tutorial! All worked for me, except one thing: the hair roots are not sticking to the skin. They react to movements, following the head, gravity and skin deformations, but the hair roots seems floating, not attached / pinned. My character has very short hair (like a 3 day beard) and they penetrate into the head when he's moving. Any ideas on how to fix this issue? Thank you very much! 🙏
Thank you for the instruction. I really want to create custom eyebrows. Will you show me how in Blender? They don't have many female eyebrows, but eyebrows are so important to make a face.
I’m curious, do you know how far away implementing this is from making a character customization screen in Unreal? Like it’d be sweet to have some preset styles, but I’d love for the player to have sliders to choose the length of each of the sections or quadrants of hair. Or have hair grow over time in the game.
u look like chanel preston
Thank you for the very good tutorial.When I bind Groom, the Groom disappears. Is there a solution?
Hey~ this is a great great Tut!! I followed this for 5 times to understand the process but when I import my hair in UE, there's nothing. I double click the hair file to see detail... and also there's nothing. Can you help me identify anything that might be worth checking again?
When I tried bringing alembic file to other file than lighting preset, (game particularly, ) it says there's an error importing the hair file.. Is there a way to fix this? also, what if I want to use the character with this custom hair in other environment as a third person player?
Is there a way to send this character as a new character on the web editor?
All I needed from your video was: Particle system ,abc, import to UE…. The most annoying part is dealing with that particle system until you are actually able to get some decent looking hair style in blender. And then more tweaks in Unreal engine….
Having an issue in 5.4 where my unreal is freezing on the “importing hair asset” screen does anyone know how to fix?
When I try importing the alembic to Unreal it doesn't give me the groom import box, just alembic cache import. I think all the export settings were the same, and I added the groom import plugin someone else mentioned about in the comments. Any suggestions what I should do?
Edit: I figured out I needed to remove the normal alembic import plugin for it to work.
Don't know why but when i am adding interpolated hairs the curves and everything else is
disappearing
i dont have any tools for hair in my assets browser((( does anyone have this problem version 4.0??
My asset browser is completely empty. Where do I find those Hair geo nodes?
I've been trying to add custom facial hair for a year now, this video is great but when I try to bind the groom asset I get an error every time.
Hello friend, woud you be able to let me know what your groom asset error in UE says (If it indeed says anything at all). Hopefully its an easy fix
Ok so I fully restarted and got everything working except the mustache is clipping through the face when I use live link. The beard I made is working now though so I'm not too sure why that is. @@promptmuse
I restarted from the beginning and was able to get all the binding issues to work. The only issue now is clipping in the mustache when using the live link. The beard (different groom asset) moves with the jaw perfectly fine but for some reason the mustache isn't working the same. @@promptmuse
i love the tutorial so far but from someone who learned maya before blender i have a few questions :
1. 7:43 - Enable Scalp Collisions button isnt there?
- The Scalp Collision button seems to not appear for me? Is it something that has to be activated in the plugins?
2. How to ”smooth” the hair ?
- In Maya, there is a parameter called CV that allows you to control the number of control vertices (CVs) on each hair. In blender, i see that its 8 by default but id wish to upscale that number so i have more control over how the hair bends when i comb it. How do you do that?
3. 9:11 Everything in the Asset Browser is missing ?
I only have one thing when i open the ”All” option and its a thing called Unassigned. I dont have Hair nor all the hair options.
Thanks for answering love u xox
FOUND THE ISSUE !!! A very important setting that wasnt mentioned is before even starting the tutorial make sure that, in Blender, you go to Edit - Preferences - Interface - Developer Extras and make sure its ENABLED !!! This will fix you many problems along the way like not being able to enable Scalp Collisions due to the button not appearing (7:43) & will make everything in the Asset Browser finally appear (9:11)
(Solved) Thank you so much for making this amazing tutorial. I am having issues with the curl modifier. when I adjust frequency, nothing appears to change, curls don't seem curl more, I deleted the guides and added new ones with 18 segments. The curls seem to be very low poly. very harsh sharp turns instead of a smooth curl. ***FIX*** I had the frequency set to high on the curl modifier (0.47 vs 0.047)
question: when importing alembic file it opens an alembic cache import option and doesn't give me groom import option(the plugins are installed) it only gives me the options of importing as static mesh or geometry cache or skeletal... and even importing it as static mesh it only imports the scalp without the hair... can you help me fix it?
ok.. after hours of trying I figured the problem. for anyone that might have the same problem you have to UNCHECK "show emitter" for BOTH render and viewport in particles (in blender)
unreal doesn't recognize it as groom, it opened another window which lets me choose between static mesh, geometry cache and skeletal mesh. I followed all the export settings and I don't know why its not the groom one.
EDIT: the "Alembic Groom Importer" plugin inside unreal engine was turned off. make sure it is turned on.
Thank you for your guidance on this @yogevos, been away from my Pc so just manage to get a little video together for anyone who is stuck www.patreon.com/posts/supplementary-97824272?Link&
Thanks! I actually had the same problem.
Thanks for the help 🙌
AHAHAH that intro LOL
Did you buy some extra assets, I notice thes a lot more hair assets in your Blender assets draw then seem to show by default?
No, hmmm are you using the same version of blender? The latest version is 4.0
@@promptmuse Yes
Great tutorial. The only problem I'm having with custom hair is, when I bind it, it flips it in the wrong direction and there seems no way to correct it.
I think it's because I moved my model from its original position before I added the hair. Even though I can line it up, as soon as I create the binding it flips it around again.
Oh thats crazy, not seen that error yet (Seen a lot though!) In blender ctrl + A and the All transforms...now try exporting and repeat. see if that fits that axis error.
I wish there was a tool to convert hair particles to cards/ribbons
7:43 as of Blender 4.1.1, "Use Sculpt Collision" does not work properly on real scale model. This is a known issue (#115843), hope it'll be fixed soon.
metahuman lighting is supported by windows. do you know how to make it work on mac?
I’m sorry im not really familiar with Mac settings at all, but as far as my limited knowledge goes it does run on Mac and I does the lighting (Had some friends produce a movie on a Mac using MH and the UE lighting)
@@promptmuse al the tutorials I find are for windows. I can't find how to make it work on mac...
Can you make it a little bit more stylized or make a guide in how to use hair cards with metahumans!!!
Oh yes on my radar !
If Unreal wants to import your Alembic (.abc) file as static/skeletal mesh, make sure to select proper extension (Alembic hair strands instead of all files).
My new issue is that when I import my hair into Unreal, the density is unbelievably low. I can't increase it any further without crashing my very powerful computer. Something is clearly wrong here. I can see my character's scalp from every single angle,.
Is it possible to bring this hair into the metahuman creator?
Sadly not, would have been a nice feature though!
When I change the number on "Distance To Hair Guides" nothing changes, I get the same result for when I select the scalp as my surface, as your hair got thicker when you did those two things... Everything else works fine until I get to this part.
Also when I set the Density to be anything over 20.000, I suddenly have SUPER THICK worm-like strands randomly placed on the head, at least 2 or 3 of those in random spots, and then the rest of the hair still stays the same. (Please helppp)
I have the same issue. Did you find a solution?
@@lemming77gode Sadly no, if only lol.
your email appears in the video for 1 second, while you were working on quixel. try to fix the editing.
your videos are the best, keep posting more about unreal engine 5. ✌
Thank you 🙏 Found it thanks again for the heads up. ✊
@@promptmuse Could you help me with one thing, I'm having problems with folds in clothes and it's stopping me when making my model in Blender. Could you make a video about folds in clouthes?
I've already tried reading some files but I still haven't been able to reproduce this on the mesh.
I would appreciate it if you could help me.😁
How about after putting into the sequencer? The metahuman hair does not follow the animation😂
Is there a way to add custom Blender clothing to metahuman?
There is , I would like to show it 👍
@@promptmuse Thank you, looking forward to see it.
Every time I try this and add curves in Blender, it'll be insanely long, even when set to 1m. Is there something in my settings that are off? Because I'm doing this step by step and not getting the same result hahaa 😪
Now you are right go less like 0.1 I don’t think I ever set my units to scale correctly for that project so just would go from 0.1. You can use the tools to make the hair longer and shorter afterwards so don’t worry if you don’t get the initial length you can always trim it !
@@promptmuse just tried that haha that worked yes!! 🙌🏽 I figured it had to do with units but i don’t see where to change them in preferences haha
@@ParisHolland 🙌
I've just followed this tut again, double checked plugins, it just wont import with alembic importer now in UE5. Driving me crazy! Anyone else getting this?
Hey do you have them alembic groom plugin installed ? In UE go to settings> plugins > search alembic groom and check and restart to install
Made a quick vid just to show this in more detail www.patreon.com/posts/supplementary-97824272?Link&
@promptmuse Yes, I do have those activated. I found the problem. I missed one untick on the particle setting.
The only problem I'm struggling with is, when I import into ue5.3 the hair is not as thick, infact nowhere near as thick as it shows in blender and even though I feel I've styled it in blender, it's not the same in UE5.
It's not a complex hairstyle i'm doing. Just an elderly male swept back style no parting.
@@jonos138 hello I'm having the same problem which tile is causing the problem
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Sorry been away in hospital and the network banned me from YT, but I'm back home now and will put all the frequently asked questions here to try and help you out:
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OK, i created what looked very thick hair. But in unreal it looks thin and whispey. I played around with the hair settings, root, tip etc. The only way i could get good coverage was increasing the width, but then it looked fake and not so real.
I must be doing something wrong.
Looks like when I export the alembic hair i'm only getting the curve guides not the particle thick hair???
Increase your hair in blender via the duplicate node. also just ensure under Render properties>Curves it is set on strand. Hope you have it sorted!
@promptmuse Thanks. I will double check those settings. 👍
My hair guide doesnt show up when i left click 😢
Hey did you get around this? Did you have the scalp selected when adding the hair guides ? 🤞 Hope you got going again !
@@promptmuse hi!! I did select the scalp when adding the hair guides, and I can visibly see the hair guide but it is veryy short unlike yours which is long. Is it normal?
@@rueriazel Yeah do not worry, just increase the hair curve length (I set mine to 25m - It's not relative to real world scale so seems crazy long but it works. You can find this option by hitting N on the keyboard and then selecting the tool tab (I show this at 7:20 onwards if that helps)
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3D ASMR sounds cool, imma think about that one for sure 🔥
I drag the Interpolate Hair onto My Hair and the hair vanishes!???
Yeap don’t worry that suppose to happen. Have a look at the modifier stack on the right hand side where it says interpolate, the option is under there to choose your scalp as your emitter for your hair (it’s a drop down) . It disappears temporarily as it doesn’t know where you want to grow the hair from so in the stack, that’s why you need to select it under the drop-down. I’m just away from my PC at the moment but will give you better instructions if those were rubbish!
@@promptmuse OK I got to exporting, then when I tried to import the hair into UE5 it asked to import it as Alembic Cache Import Options
I didnt get the same pop up as you for groom import?
@@jonos138 This usually occurs from not selecting the scalp in the outliner on the top right hand side of the blender screen- just before exporting.
I made this mistake many many times until I realised I had to click the scalp at the top of its hierarchy in blender and then click file export .alembic.
@promptmuse It wasn't that, I found out I didn't have the enable groom import plugin selected in plugins. All working now, except my hair is much thinner and shorter than it was in Blender. So I need to experiment with that. Great tutorial BTW. Thanks for your help. 👍
Cannot create binding, I get an error:
LogHairStrands: Error: [Groom] Binding asset could not be built. The target skeletal mesh could be missing UVs.
LogHairStrands: Error: [Groom] Binding asset could not be built. Some guide roots are not close enough to the target mesh to be projected onto it.
LogHairStrands: Error: [Groom] The binding asset (NewHair_BillFace_Binding) couldn't be built. This binding asset won't be used.
If someone is trying to import this hair to Mac on Unreal Engine 5.3 - it won't work. 5.4 will work when it's stable.
Too bad metahumans is impossible to package
Nooooooooo why'd it have to be blender :(