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Welcome to the mesh creation portion of making a hair mod. For an overview of all the steps, see [[Modding:Creating Hair Mods]].
Welcome to the mesh creation portion of making a hair mod. For an overview of all the steps, see [[Modding:Creating Hair Mods]].


<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.
<div class="noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable" style="text-align:center"><span class="nodesktop"> [[Modding:Index|Modding index]] </span></div>So, you wanna make a mesh for 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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