Question colored hair tips

[HaiiiHarrr]

Hey everyone,

does anyone have a good way to make it so that the hair base is natural color (if anyone has a good natural red tone, please let me know, too!) and the tips are e.g. green/blue?

The root-tip rolloff is sadly kinda meh for this.

 

[DTB247]

One thing I try that seems to help is to make a two piece hair do where the lower part front back and sides tips end at a uniform point and frost those tips. then for the upper 2nd pc of hair do make it one color and ensure all the tips are shorter than the first pc.

 

[HaiiiHarrr]

One thing I try that seems to help is to make a two piece hair do where the lower part front back and sides tips end at a uniform point and frost those tips. then for the upper 2nd pc of hair do make it one color and ensure all the tips are shorter than the first pc.

Yeah, that's what I am trying to do, but to get matching ones is a pain in the butt.

ddaamm's hair is great, but sadly more of a front to back sorting instead of a top down.

 

[cmramlow]

@HaiiiHarrr you find a good way dude to get roots to work?

I'd love is somehow we could do this

 

[Origin69]

Plugins - Hair Color Texture

Changes the color of hair based on a texture. Usage Add to a Person Atom Select hair from dropdown Select texture The bottom of the texture is the hair root, the top is the tip Each hair will show a full gradient Left to right are individual...

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This could do it.

 

[HaiiiHarrr]

@HaiiiHarrr you find a good way dude to get roots to work?

I'd love is somehow we could do this

unfortunately not yet, I had seen the plugin posted by @Origin69 but didn't have a chance to play around with it yet.

 

[cmramlow]

@Origin69 I tried that plugin with a bunch of different brown gradients but couldn't get it to work, but I'm not the sharpest bulb in the sandbox.

I've attached an example I made of many variations which didnt work for me.

If you got it to work can you share your color file used or drop some genuis info dude? Thanks!

 

[Origin69]

I had a bit of a play around and was able to get this with Watto medium 012. (don't forget to adjust the scalp material too)

Here's the texture. I made these two mapping images to visualize how the hair is laid out horizontally and vertically and adjusted the gradient accordingly. Still a bit rough but it works.

 

[HaiiiHarrr]

I had a bit of a play around and was able to get this with Watto medium 012. (don't forget to adjust the scalp material too)
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Here's the texture. I made these two mapping images to visualize how the hair is laid out horizontally and vertically and adjusted the gradient accordingly. Still a bit rough but it works.

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Do you happen to know if you can get the texture file of each hair somehow? if this is possible, then by painting the textures itself it would be possible to more closely draw what anyone ahs in mind.

 

[Origin69]

Do you happen to know if you can get the texture file of each hair somehow? if this is possible, then by painting the textures itself it would be possible to more closely draw what anyone ahs in mind.

I don't think that is possible. Vams hair sim doesn't use textures, it's just a colour gradient. Stoppers plugin adds a texture to give more colour options, but hair isn't a mesh, so I don't think there is any way to see how the hair strands themselves are laid out on that map to colour individual hairs. That's why I made the horizontal and vertical stripe maps to visualize the hair layout, as all hairstyles can be different too.

 

[HaiiiHarrr]

I don't think that is possible. Vams hair sim doesn't use textures, it's just a colour gradient. Stoppers plugin adds a texture to give more colour options, but hair isn't a mesh, so I don't think there is any way to see how the hair strands themselves are laid out on that map to colour individual hairs. That's why I made the horizontal and vertical stripe maps to visualize the hair layout, as all hairstyles can be different too.

So for the dumb be: Red means closed to head, red furthest away? Or does one of the logic mean left to right and the other one hair length?

 

[Origin69]

This is what the horizontal map shows. (Using Lexi Long by RenVR)

And this is the vertical. As you can see the strand layout is not smooth left to right (and is slightly different for other hair styles), but it will allow you to estimate where to colour the map to get the look you want with a little less trial and error.