Hair Profiles: .hp

What's a hair profile, and how do I use it?

Summary

Published: ??? by mana vortex Last documented update: May 13 2024 by mana vortex

This page collects basic information about hair profiles.

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• Check WKit Blender Plugin: Import/Export -> Hair profiles (.hp) for a guide on importing/exporting

• Learn more about Hair and skin material properties -> Hair material

What's a hair profile?

Via hair profiles, it's possible to quickly and easily create a large variety of hair colour variations without the need of having colour textures. That happens via two arrays:

gradientEntriesId

Determines the strand to strand colour by using the Strand_Gradient texture. The gradient serves to empathize/de-empathize contrast among the black/white scale.

Together with the gradientMap, this is used to generate varieties of unique hair materials.

gradientEntriesRootToTip

Is applied to the Strand_Gradient texture to determine the hair colour from start to top. Via gradientStops, the colour positions from root to tip of the strands are determined.