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+|}</div>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
+* Load environment (head, body?)
+* Load Hair Tool bob 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!
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