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Because we’ll be using Blender to make the mesh for our hair mod, we recommend at least having a cursory knowledge of how to use Blender before attempting to follow this guide. If you don’t have that, we recommend [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z&si=GqdmSXxoU6_-RorW Blender Guru’s Donut tutorial series]. But any tutorial that teaches you the basics of how to move around, shape the mesh, create objects, etc, should be fine.
Because we’ll be using Blender to make the mesh for our hair mod, we recommend at least having a cursory knowledge of how to use Blender before attempting to follow this guide. If you don’t have that, we recommend [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z&si=GqdmSXxoU6_-RorW Blender Guru’s Donut tutorial series]. But any tutorial that teaches you the basics of how to move around, shape the mesh, create objects, etc, should be fine.


Open up your Multitool and [https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Modding:Unpacking_and_converting_files unpack the Models.pak game files]. This should contain all of the vanilla hair models we are going to use.
Open up your Multitool and [https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Modding:Unpacking_and_converting_files unpack the Models.pak game files], if you have hard drive space for it. Otherwise, you can just [https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Modding:Unpacking_and_converting_files#Unpacking_Process index it]. This should contain all of the vanilla hair models we are going to use.


Open Blender 3.6 and [https://github.com/Norbyte/dos2de_collada_exporter install the Collada/GR2 exporter plugin]. This will allow you to import and export .GR2s, which is the file type BG3 uses for its models.
Open Blender 3.6 and [https://github.com/Norbyte/dos2de_collada_exporter install the Collada/GR2 exporter plugin]. This will allow you to import and export .GR2s, which is the file type BG3 uses for its models.

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