TheMartinExperiment

I made a 3D system to draw 2D hair easier :D

Added 2022-06-26 03:00:40 +0000 UTC

I (kind of) hacked my way inside Blender for an entire week to make this work. Apparently, Blender wasn't built with this kind of functionality in mind, which is weird since this is a well-known technique used in many old-school games.

I asked for help in some communities to understand what was happening in some dark corners of Blender's documentation, and even though I got the directions I needed, most of the people replied with "bUt YoU cAn'T dO tHaT uSiNg bLeNdEr" to whatever I asked. Well, look at that, pessimistic advanced Blender users. I can.

I even made an "ImPoSsiBLe" real-time bangs adjustment rig to cover most of the cases!

I'm making a big deal of it because it is a great accomplishment. Tracing over that 3D hair I made was too time-consuming and wasn't giving aesthetic results enough for this project. Now I have actual 2D hair already drawn in every possible angle that will always look good, feel consistent, and that will spare precious production time on the pile of sprites I have yet to draw. There is no downside to this!

Now I'm completely ON FIRE to complete a cutscene with this technique and release this month's development build! But first, I need my six hours of sleep.