Crewcut haircut

How would I do this?
I'd like to make an avatar with a military style high and tight haircut, does anyone have one or know how to make one???

You can create the illusion of a very short haircut on the skin of an avatar. This can look quite nice. If you're looking for some dimension off of the skull then you'll need to use primitives (regular or scuplted) to get the desired result. The default hair that is molded over the avatar head is not worth working with for a short crew cut unless you are pairing it with primitives.

how would you do that?

I do it this way:

http://www.secondskinlabs.com/Skins/zhan.html

The hair on the head of that avatar in the foreground of that image is painted directly onto the skin texture for the avatar's head.

That link didn't seem to show any tutorials.

It shouldnt.. its an image showing the style of how theyh do short, crew cut style hair, with it painted onto the skin.

hmm didn't even show me images of their products either must be something on my end.

It's a javascripted navigational menu at the bottom of the window. If you have java disabled in your browser, you're probably not seeing it.

Anyways, the link was simply to show the results of applying hair texture to a skin. I wasn't offering a hair creation tutorial. It all boils down to how well you can texture an avatar. These are the same skills used for doing skins or clothing.

For last week I have been trying to make crew cut hair style and I am getting bit grumpy with it. I have tried prims, even did template wig it looks like really bad James Brown blonde hair style. In order to do the prims with crew cut it would take more prims then my land holds. LOL
This is best I have able to pull off with a prim and texture and it looks still bit off.

FD, I hate to tell you this, man, but your hair is one of the least of your problems. You look like you should be pointing at the sky, yelling, "DE PLANE!! DE PLANE!!"



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The key i think here is alpha channeled textures AND the skin that needs to coorporate (i have seen tons of hair, even my own avatar has that kind of hair and skin) You might wanna check out male hair stores or skin stores who sell with their skins, also hair, so you can figure out how they did it, buy yourself a set, and look at it.

lol what does my height have to do with anything? you tinyphobic you!! lol

Yeah the thing is the person wants a new hairstyle, not new skin. And I thought it be easier to do the hair then entire body right now cause I am still learning.
The template looks really great it looks like my baby brothers hair before it got darker very white blonde with tint of light brown.
On prim it looks like above but it really hard to get exactly as close to the head.
Another problem is get the hair texture to match and look exactly the way I want it.
Every tutorial for hair says use torus but when you're doing crew cut you want points and I would need a whole heck of lot to have that 1 to 2 inch hair growth.
Things are really weird these days if you get two or more transparency to close not sure how that effects transparent hair.

Here's my try on a crew cut. It's three spheres for the base and textured to look like tapered hair. It uses transparency. As you can see the hair for some reason is slightly transparent all over and you can see the overlap above the ear. Maybe that can be fixed with better texturing. Spheres may not be the best way to make a base as they change when the camera is moved further away and bald spots start appearing. Maybe toruses are better.

Anyways,I added three toruses to make the top of the crew cut. All using a solid texture. I think for an overgrown crewcut like what Steve wanted, you just use the regular tapered torus method to make the top hair. FD, if you want my samples I'll send them to you.

Thank you Bree. I love to see them. I am trying to figure out how to draw on templates.
The above image I did is on sphere too. Only one and I noticed it sometimes looks like I have bald spots and I have no clue why until you mentioned you had it.
What I am sort of concerned is if I use transparent hair and matching strands to do different textured heights that it will do that weird transparency glitch where one prim looks closer and bigger then it is or worse.
Your textured crew cut is very nice. Good Job.

Most likely the reason your seeing bald spots occasionally is the LOD dropping the draw quality as you cam away .. One thing you could try is to place your "Object Mesh/Avatar Mesh Detail" sliders over to the far right .. it may help your view but anyone else would also need their graphics setting raising also.

I am sorry if I haven't contacted you in game Bree been tired and distracted in RL and SL lives...Thank you for sending your crew cut hair for me to study

Your welcome FD! I tried adding some 'grown out' hair to the top of the head and it looked really bad. I am terrible at making hair. If anyone else wants the crewcut base just IM me. Maybe we can start having some nice short-haired guys walking around now.

I wonder about that if you could add bangs.
The texturing looks really really good from the photos.
How did you do it was it dot technique or something else?
By way I am sorry to say I have been so distracted I wanted to rez the hair you made and sent but things keep happening....
Anyway now I have forgotten the file names.
What are names again please?

Main issue I am having I do another style bit longer, is one its lots and lots of prims and the connection issue and limit that I had no awareness of til I reached it.
And my textures look one way in Adobe, but inworld they looked washed out.
I need to figure out how to draw the strands of hair so they look like hair.
I am similar issues when I draw on templates too.
I don't want to use lot of alpha textures like the tutorials say because of the glitch.
Which I never noticed until now.
Person who I want to make it for doesn't want a new skin or I try that with a skin.
But issues with skin is getting the skin also to look right.