Zbrush Fibermesh to Maya Nhair/Xgen Guides

I show you, how to export Fibermesh from Zbrush 2021 as Curves, and transform it to Xgen Guides, as well as assigning Maya nHair to it. While you usually see Xgen being used to create Hair inside of Maya, nHair offers some unique benefits, especially for artists who like to have as much control over the final look as possible, since it delivers very reliable results, staying close to the shape of the Fibermesh groom, while offering several attributes, that let you tweak amount of Hairs per clump (Fiber curve), the clump width, curl and noise displacement, just to name a few. For the shading an aiStandardHair shader can be applied for realistic results. A quick guide to setup your nHair: 1) Create cube (or select any mesh) 2) Switch your Maya mode from ’Modeling’ to ’FX’ 3) With your cube/object selected go to ’nHair’ - ’Create Hair’ with the output set to ’Paint effects’ 4) You can now delete the cube, as well as the folli
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