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Cheat Sheet: Hair

Overview of hair related things

Summary

Published: November 04 2022 by @manavortex Last documented update: Oct 06 2024 by

You can find previews of hair styles and -colors under Cheat Sheet: Character Creator

This page will give you an overview for working with Cyberpunk's hair material.

There is a modding guide for how to Replace a hair mod's slot
For a guide on how to add hair to Cyberpunk, check Basic Hairstyle Replacement Tutorial
For a more detailed explanation of the hair shader, see Hair and skin material properties
If you want to change an NPC's hair instead, you can check this or this guide.
To look up hairstyles in more detail, you can use NoraLee's excellent NPV part picker

Name of meshes by index

These names correspond to the mesh files.

To find a hair's control files, check the next section: #hair-control-files-by-index

Many hairs have different meshes if cyberware_01 is used. In this case, the alternative file name will be given in italics.

All the files below can be found under the following subfolder:

base\characters\common\hair\<hair name default variant>\<hair name as given>.mesh

To quickly find physics-enabled hair, you can use the Wolvenkit Search with the following query:

base\characters\common\hair > .animgraph > _wa_ // female body gender
base\characters\common\hair > .animgraph > _ma_ // male body gender

Colour in files by index

Hair: Control files by index

Hairs and all their components are assigned and defined via .app and .ent files. You can find them in the following folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\entity\hairs

How to find these files?

The last number in the file name matches the first number in the .mesh file name:

e.g., if you wanted to edit the entity file for female V's hair 28 hh_083_wa__ponytail_01, you could search for

player_base_heads > hairs > hairs_083

hairs_083 > .app > .pwa

Beards

Beards are only used by mascV. Their entity files can be found in this folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\entity\facial_hairs\

Any .app files are stored under

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\appearances\facial_hairs\

Beard morphtargets and the meshes they pull in can be found in the player's basehead folder:

base\characters\head\player_base_heads\player_man_average

Beard files by index

Beard component names

Any beard uses the same two components, beard and beard_shadow_01.

Beard 01 will only use the shadowbase.