HITTERMAN’S OEDIT TUTORIAL – CHAPTER 1

So here we are at hitty’s tutorials. For making hair styles you shouldhave basic knowledge about using o-edit and vertex moving. For thebasic tutorials go to tutorials thread in Cricket 2005 downloadsforum. Hair style tutorial cannot be expressed very correctly but Ihave tried to do this. If you don’t understand any part of this tutorialjust post in the thread or pm me.

Tools required:O-editFace texture bmp fileHair texture bmp file

Steps:

1. Open a o.model having a hair part. Open the face you want to have ahairstyle. Load the texture correctly in all three parts. (You will need facetexture and hair texture bmp files).

2. Deselect the third part which is generally hair o model . Now in Front viewPress cntrl+W to zoom it. Now let us correct gul’s chin shape. Click onselect in action section and select the Chin’s vertex from the front view omodel. Note that the model in Front View, in inverted that of theperspective view model. If you want to edit right chin select the left vertexfrom front view. Now click on MOVE and using arrow drag the vertex toright very-very slowly. Do the same for correcting Left chin. Your

3. Now select all the parts. Let us come to the hair style part. For hairstyleshaping click only on the third part. Zoom the side view model.

4. Now let us shape the side hairs. Select the vertex from side view and dragit little bit upwards. Now let us correct that spike on hairs. To do this justselect the spike part from Front view as shown below. Now move thevertex little bit down. Do the vertex moving until you get a leveled hair

5. Now move the vertex little bit down. Do the vertex moving until you get aleveled hair.

6. Now by same method give a cool shape to the side hairs by selecting sidehair’s vertexes.

7. Now we will edit back side hairs. Let us shorten the hairs from the backside.

8. Just select the last vertexes from the front view and drag it upwards. Youshould get the shape like the below one.

9. As we edited the side, back and front hairs the back hairs are un-leveled.So we will correct it. To correct it just select the vertex of the un-leveledhair part as in the image below there are some extra spikes. So we haveselected the vertex. Now drag to opposite direction where the side youare editing. You should get a leveled hairs like the below image one.

10. Just like this level the hairs from all the sides to get a good hair style.11. In the end just save the o.model file for your use.12.See the difference after editing the o.model with the original.

I made this hair style in 2 minutes as I was not having time so it is not goodas I can make. Example see my Ishi’s face ;).Just practice this and you will get it better than me. GOOD LUCK!

Chapter 2 – PreviewChapter 2 will contain a tutorial on how to Edit a o model when the facelooks weird like sunken eyes ;) etc. The chapter will be about UV Mapping,face shape etc.

This tutorial is only written for Planetcricket.net. Please don’t post thisanywhere else. © hitterman 2008.