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== Making custom hair for BG3 with Hair Tool == | |||
Prerequisites: | Prerequisites: | ||
BG3 Modder’s Multitool | * BG3 Modder’s Multitool | ||
* LSLib | |||
LSLib | * Blender 3.6 or 4.0 | ||
* GR2 import/export addon for Blender | |||
Blender 3.6 or 4.0 | * Hair Tool addon and preset library | ||
* VSCode | |||
GR2 import/export addon for Blender | * UUID addon for VSCode | ||
* Em’s Quick Hair Template | |||
Hair Tool addon and preset library | |||
VSCode | |||
UUID addon for VSCode | |||
Steps: | |||
* Load environment (head, body?) | * Load environment (head, body?) | ||
* Load Hair Tool | * Load Hair Tool preset, flip 180 degrees and place on the head | ||
* Make some small edits to the preset | * Make some small edits to the preset | ||
* Finalize hair to turn preset into mesh | * Finalize hair to turn preset into mesh | ||
Revision as of 23:36, 2 January 2024
Making custom hair for BG3 with Hair Tool
Prerequisites:
- BG3 Modder’s Multitool
- LSLib
- Blender 3.6 or 4.0
- GR2 import/export addon for Blender
- Hair Tool addon and preset library
- VSCode
- UUID addon for VSCode
- Em’s Quick Hair Template
Steps:
- Load environment (head, body?)
- Load Hair Tool preset, flip 180 degrees and place on the head
- Make some small edits to the preset
- Finalize hair to turn preset into mesh
- Load BG3 hair texture and apply to the hair
- Manually fix the UVs by X-flipping, then scaling down to the correct size
- Find similar vanilla hair and load it into Blender
- Parent custom hair to vanilla armature, add armature modifier
- Transfer auto-snapping weights from vanilla hair to custom hair
- Rename object data name to match vanilla hair
- Reset vertex paint to black
- Paint blue highlights, blur out
- Apply all transforms, export as .dae
- Using LSLib, conform to vanilla hair, then export as .GR2
- Hotload into game as a replacer, make any necessary changes to the mesh
- Set up quick template for the custom hair
- After seeing it in game, change hairpreset, scalp, and material IDs if needed
- Done!