Flipped Normals – The Realtime Hair FlipBox

Flipped Normals – The Realtime Hair FlipBox

What You’ll Learn

• How to create high-quality hair textures for real-time use
• Baking hair textures using Arnold and xNormal
• Setting up and using GS CurveTools for efficient workflows
• How to build and place hair cards from scratch
• Structuring hair into layers (base, volume, depth, breakup)
• Creating natural variation with flyaways and support strands
• Optimizing hair for real-time performance
• Using vertex colors to control shading and breakup
• How to take a hairstyle from reference to final in-engine result
• Practical production workflows used in real game assets

We recommend taking the tutorials in the following order:

1. Realtime Hair Tutorial
2. Realtime Brow/Eyelashes Tutorial
3. Advanced Realtime Hair Tutorial

What You Get

• 3 in-depth real-time hair tutorials
• 8 complete real-time hair assets (braids, locs, waves, updos, long hair, and more)
• Full working files for each hairstyle (Maya scenes, FBX, Marmoset scenes)
• High-quality hair textures and hair maps
• Baking materials for Arnold and xNormal

Requirements
Basic understanding of Maya

• GS CurveTools (paid Maya plug-in, highly recommended)
• Arnold (for baking) and/or xNormal
• Marmoset Toolbag (for viewing included scenes)

Skill Level
Beginner to Intermediate: You don’t need prior experience creating real-time hair, but you should be comfortable with Maya and understand the basics of hair cards. If you’re already familiar with hair workflows, this will help you refine your process and better understand production-ready techniques.

Flipped Normals – The Realtime Hair FlipBox