Jhair 10 - WIP1/2

- As you might've guessed, I've been working on this poll hair for the past 12 (?) days. I kinda lose track of time when I work on bigger projects.

- Anyway, completed textures and the first hair layer. Also build a quick blockout (img1). It was helpful the last time I made the bun and it has been very helpful now to check overall volume, hairline and flow as I go.

- Textures I had to bake twice, first time the hairs were too thin for the scale I wanted (technically "photorealistic-sized", but that doesn't work well in practice for games). Quite annoying as it takes 5-6 hours to bake a set on my potato machine, so 10+hours were spent just waiting around. They're probably going to have to be baked again for FO4, I have my doubts that that engine will handle the current thickness well. That is going to happen at the end though, for now they're good enough to model with.

- So far, I'd say the model is looking good. The back especially, I'm really happy with how it looks, at this stage at least, before thinner cards come in. It's definitely challenging to twist and curve the hair cards to create the wavy look, but I think I managed to create accurate clumps, it's pretty much exactly how I wanted it. Once thinner cards come in and start filling in some of the gaps and density increases it should look very nice.

- The front, I'm still figuring out. I've started layering thinner cards up front as I want an airy look, so technically the front isn't part of the first layer. The images are also outdated at this point as some changes already occurred there, but yeah that area still needs to be sorted out as of yet.

- I'll also take this opportunity to rant about the FO4 headmesh and call it crap. I think I've done it every time I do WIP posts for hairs, so it's tradition at this point xD. God damn if it doesn't make everything much more difficult than it needs to be, I hate working with it :(

- Anyway, I'd say this is about 30-35% complete. Things should be a lot easier once the second layer is done and most of the hair is figured out. I'm not sure as of now how far I'm going to take it. Last style I made (the bun) had 4 layers, it had a shit ton of detail stacked but it took a lot of time in return. This one I'd really like to hopefully get done in 3, but I guess we'll see, hard to say at this point.