Hair mesh remaster tutorial

[hearty hazel]

Small tutorial on how I remastered low poly hair so it matches TK8 strands better.
(Example: Kokoro's hair from DOA5)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15G0Y2seRU-QPj5II9v0gePVsFqQzd38MfDtvYmJs37o/edit?usp=sharing

And here is the addon needed to match TK8's texture UVs

Hair mesh remaster tutorial

[hearty hazel]

base strands to use or look at, better than guessing the size

[cinder ocean]

cool gonna try

[shell gust]

Do you know anything about this problem?

Wrong Scalp Mask Color in Default color only.

[hearty hazel]

nope, never had that issue

since you're replacing the face, did you try to change the scalp color in the face MI?

[bronze timber]

hi. i wonder how do i "fold" the low poly hair strands on blender

[hearty hazel]

fold? what do you mean exactly

[bronze timber]

the strand is rigid how do i make it follow a certain curve?

[hearty hazel]

follow the tutorial, everything is explained there

[shut cypress]

Sorry to bother but my UV unwrapping is weird, it is not as shown in the screenshot
Before unwrapping(1)
After(2)
Settings:

This is the blend file, I know that some hair parts are still triangulated, but I had that before as well on the first try, and the strands on the UV seemed as in the screenshot, and for some reason I cannot recreate it now

[shut cypress]

Made it even worse XD

[hearty hazel]

you need to use an addon to turn it into square UVs

its in the tutorial

[shut cypress]

I have that, and when I run it it crashes my blender due to how much shit is on the UV map :D

[hearty hazel]

try to do it little by little

[shut cypress]

And I am not getting this UV unwrap when I click on Unwrap

Im getting that monstrosity above XD

[hearty hazel]

i think you might have too many strands lol

how does the hair look before remastering it?

[shut cypress]

before remaster

[hearty hazel]

that hair doesnt need more strands 😭

thats already perfect for tekken 8

[shut cypress]

Oh.

[hearty hazel]

this remaster tutorial is more for ps2-ps3 era hairs, the ones that are paper thin with no volume

[shut cypress]

It's dagger's hair (growth and decay) from Marvel Rivals
I thought that I can't put it straight up in unreal engine and work with that one but tbh i havent tried it yet

[hearty hazel]

you should have tried it xD

what i do recomend is replacing the marvel rivals hair textures with any from tekken

and then move the uv map around so it fits the tk8 texture you choose

[shut cypress]

Will give it a try and show my results