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Welcome to the mesh creation portion of making a hair mod. For | Welcome to the mesh creation portion of making a hair mod. For the file setup portion, see [[Guide:Hair Mod File Setup]].<div class="noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable" style="text-align:center"><span class="nodesktop"> [[Modding:Index|Modding index]] </span></div>So, you wanna make a hair mod for Baldur’s Gate 3. How do you do that, though? This guide will show you how. | ||
===Essential Tools=== | |||
First off, get yourself these tools. | |||
*[https://www.blender.org/download/lts/3-6/ Blender] (version 3.6 recommended) | |||
**For importing, editing, and exporting the hair mesh itself | |||
* [https://github.com/Norbyte/lslib Lslib] by Norbyte | |||
** For conforming your custom hair to a vanilla hair (more on that later) | |||
*[https://github.com/ShinyHobo/BG3-Modders-Multitool BG3 Multi-Tool] by ShinyHobo | |||
**For searching the game files | |||
*[https://github.com/Norbyte/dos2de_collada_exporter Collada/GR2 import/export Blender plugin] by Norbyte | |||
**For importing/exporting .GR2 files, which BG3 uses | |||
Because we’ll be using Blender to make the mesh for our hair mod, we recommend at least having a cursory knowledge of how to use Blender before attempting to follow this guide. If you don’t have that, we recommend [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z&si=GqdmSXxoU6_-RorW Blender Guru’s Donut tutorial series]. But any tutorial that teaches you the basics of how to move around, shape the mesh, create objects, etc, should be fine. | Because we’ll be using Blender to make the mesh for our hair mod, we recommend at least having a cursory knowledge of how to use Blender before attempting to follow this guide. If you don’t have that, we recommend [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z&si=GqdmSXxoU6_-RorW Blender Guru’s Donut tutorial series]. But any tutorial that teaches you the basics of how to move around, shape the mesh, create objects, etc, should be fine. | ||
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Now comes the fun part—playing with the hair in Blender. Make it longer or shorter, remove some parts, add some parts. There’s a lot you can do even without making any custom hair parts from scratch, so get creative! | Now comes the fun part—playing with the hair in Blender. Make it longer or shorter, remove some parts, add some parts. There’s a lot you can do even without making any custom hair parts from scratch, so get creative! | ||
=== Mesh Editing FAQ === | ====Mesh Editing FAQ==== | ||
Here are some common issues you might run into while editing the hair in Blender: | Here are some common issues you might run into while editing the hair in Blender: | ||