HairTechnique

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Hair for in-game rendering can be a tough beast to master. Alpha blending is usually required to get soft feathery edges, but can cause sorting problems. Lighting can also be difficult, so hair is usually rendered using an emissive shader (without any lighting at all). If the hair is being lit, options include bent vertex normals, normal mapping, and anisotropic mapping.

Hair Technique Examples

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The Harpy and Elite Mount characters from Allods Online. Images by Astrum Nival.


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The hair setup for Dominic Santiago in Gears of War 2, on PC/Xbox360. More pics here, words here]. Images by Epic Games.


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Yuna from Final Fantasy X, on PS2. Images by Square Enix.


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Hair from Final Fantasy 13, on PS3. Images by Square Enix Screengrab from the PS3 running at 720p. The hair may be using screen-space stipple. Images by Square Enix.


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Alisa Bosconovitch from Tekken 6, on PS3. Images by Namco Bandai Games


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Varga from Dominance War II, in-depth tutorial. Images by Paul Tosca.


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Pandicarus from Dominance War III, fur technique explained File:Squirrelyjones fur.pdf and here in the Polycount thread. Images by Mike 'Squirrely Jones' Voeller.


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Hair from "Shadow of the Colossus" using the "fins & shells" technique, on PS2. Images from the "making of" article, in Japanese, and File:Making of sotc.pdf (PDF). Images by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc..


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Breakdowns of the "fins & shells" technique explained in this CGTalk thread. Images by Jason Falconer.


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Hair uncharted2-drake.jpg
Drake from "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves", on PS3. Maya wireframe (top), in-game screenshots (bottom). Images by Rich Diamant.
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Hair uncharted2-chloe.jpg
Chloe from "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves", on PS3. Maya wireframe (top), in-game screenshots (bottom). Images by Rich Diamant.

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