Hair: Vertex paint for transparency
How vertex paint makes better hairs
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How vertex paint makes better hairs
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Published: Jan 18 2025 by based on research by Last documented edit: Jan 18 2025 by
This page explains how to use Blender's Vertex Paint mode to make better and more natural-looking hair.
Check out Hair modeling beginner tutorial for how to create hair from scratch in Blender
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The difference between hair with and without vertex paint is notable. The quality of vertex painted hair will be significantly higher.
However, not going to lie to you â it's a lot of work. Whether or not it's worth it is your decision.
In Cyberpunk, vertex paint colour is used to fake ambient occlusion (as in, the closer to the scalp you get, the darker and less reflective hair strands are).
The two ends of the spectrum are:
Red: Dark, not shiny (for base hair clumps)
Black: Bright, shiny (for flyhairs)
The inner layers close to the scalp should be painted in bright primary red (255, 0, 0)
Strands get darker as they are further away from the scalp
Individual strands get darker towards the tip