Create Highly Realistic Animated Hair with These Blender Nodes

N_Hair_Nodes v2 is a tool based on Blender GeometryNodes by NENGHUO that helps you create various hairstyles – curly, straight, and wet hair, which you can color and style as you wish. The product is an update of the first version of the hair nodes set. Some nodes have been updated, and some of them are entirely new.

The tool contains several sets of nodes, for instance, Fuzz, Proxy, and Mesh to Node. The Fuzz set, which is a rework of the Baby Hairs nodes set, helps create short hair or peach fuzz. The Mesh to Hair set automatically transforms meshes into thin hairs, which, without this tool, has to be done manually. The Proxy nodes add lifelike physics simulation to the hair you created, making it flow as the characters turn their heads.

The author explained that hair systems in Blender since version 3.3 have relied on the Geometry Nodes, which are difficult to work with, and this tool will help you create hair in a simpler and easier way. The nodes set also has Collision, which is absent in the new Blender hair systems.

Here's the explanation of how to use the nodes:

You can add color to the hairstyles that you created by drawing with the colors or by using an image and putting it on the hair of your character. The author provides a tutorial:

The author also describes how you can add the nodes to your asset library:

Please note that the tool supports Blender 4.1 or higher.

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