Thanks guys!
x'il said:
you seem to be on a 'bald' guys roll
Because bald-ies are faster to do?
x'il said:
Like
this, Kojak women?
x'il said:
now seriously, why not put some hair on the guy? (just curious).
Short: laziness.
Long: normally I'd use a hair system, but unfortunately problems with anti-aliasing will occur, when I'll use default, buffer option - they're not actually created while rendering, but they're added as post effect (only shadows are created during render). Switching to mental ray to use its hair primitives isn't a solution too - option to disable anti aliasing on outer edges is totally ignored. Not to mention that render times could become a real killer - mr prim is much more slower than buffer. Also, I prefer to use Default Scanline for Fallout purposes.
Here's a result after switching to rendering hair as geometry:
If you think that quality of the hair (not the super-duper afro style!) is good enough for Fallout purposes then some hair can be attached to the head.
Using opacity based hair (mesh + transparency map) isn't an option too - you'll get anti-aliasing, even if it's disabled.
Of course, you could render the head together with specific background to solve lack of anti-aliasing support.
The only option would be to make some mesh only based hair (with textures, of course) to eliminate all problems mentioned above. Seems like some of hair (or even all?) on original THs are done in this way (I must investigate them closely
). But long hairs could look really bad - so you'll need to make workarounds to eliminate transparency from opacity map in background <--> head areas, which could be pretty stupid work, especially when head is animated.
That's why bald-ies are faster/easier to create - you don't need to waste a time for texturing/modeling hair, since few clicks solutions are not going to work. Of course, animation of hair is another problem to talk. Did I say that hair systems got its own dynamics, which could be really helpful in animating long hair? Of course, using hair system allows to quickly set up different hair styles - long, short, kink, frizz, etc., which is very flexible.
, now seriously, why not put some hair on the guy? (just curious).
buffer > geometry 
Guy we're talking about lately is a side effect of the remake - I made him from this mesh.
Wicked! 
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