yo just had a question about hair, I was wondering wats the best way to make hair, think long flowing hair, and i dont want to use hair particles in maya I rather model it or alpha it.

Here are two good tutorials that should help.

http://www.paultosca.com/varga_hair.html
http://poopinmymouth.com/process/hai...al/hair_01.htm

If you don't like using Maya to make the strips like Paul did you can manually paint the hair strips like in Ben's tutorial (the second one). Also take a look at how other artists and games have done their hair. Final fantasy games have some great examples of low poly long hair done nicely.

Here's an old thread that has some more ideas, plus images and links.
http://boards.polycount.net/showflat...t=all&vc=1

I made a quick tutorial about baking hair/fur to poly strips. It works pretty well if you have poly strips in mind when you start.

http://www.vigville.com/tutorials/hair/

thanx dudes really alot of help.

any resources on how to tackle the hairline? I'm having a bunch of trouble with that myself.

From 2007 GDC there's a PDF of the presentation called "Hair Styling - A Teenager's Dream, An Artist's Nightmare" from the folks at BioWare. Some tips & pics in there if you can find it.

Ah, here. Check out pages 15 and 16.
https://www.cmpevents.com/sessions/GD/S4585i1.pdf

hey cool, i actually have a friend that works at bioware

very awesome, thanks [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I happen to be making hair right now too. Great Varga hair tutorial by Paul there.

Here's an addition to the Varga hair tutorial he forgot ...


EDIT- asked about viewport transparencies...but its easy once you find the proper config for your video card I think. For my 8800 it was just color+alpha trans+high quality view mode in maya.