Create Hair in Unreal Engine 5 | Groom Tutorial (Works in UE5)

Is this tutorial still valid?
Because I applied the instructions to the letter, but on different versions of Blender (2.93LTS) and Unreal Engine (4.27.2).
For exporting and importing Alembic and creating Bininding there were no problems.
But when I enable physics (Enable Simulation in the Alembic asset) the hairs interpenetrates with each other and with the mannequin, stretching and losing their initial shape.
This only happens when the mannequin walks or runs.
Any ideas?

I found this thread where a guy has the same problem and I replied with a video to show my error


check on the unreal forum please: hair-physics-problem-4-27/271266


Thx for the help

not sure what i'm doing wrong, but when i go to select sections i want to spawn hair, it does not select most points. there are whole points on my scalp that the box tool or circle tool will not select. most of the head will not turn orange. what am i doing wrong here!!! haha so frustrating...

Kinda new to Unreal. Does the groom need a skeleton to work? I just need to create hair for a static mesh for archviz. thanks!

best of the best toturials... thanx alot.

Question..
Can we do this in UE 5 ?

so much Thank you!!! 😃🙂

thanks

My grooms act very weird with motion blur. Almost like they just take the motion vectors of the ground behind them. Anyone else have issue with this?

Awesome video. So well explained too. Can I ask, do u have any experience grooming feathers. I have a project that requires a bird in unreal and apart from the meerkat demo haven’t really seen much info on feathers. If u have any tips I’d much appreciate it

Cool tutorial, but the title should be "Create Hair in Blender for Unreal Engine", because you are not creating them inside the engine..

it seems this doesnt work in UE5.02, not sure its a bug or someting.

Awesome tutorial thank you very much, i have a question when binding the groom with the skeletal mesh the groom disappears, even though when i import the groom it is the same scale and position

very sorry I missed this tut when it came out. Keep coming back to it, cause it helped me a lot!
Does it still work in UE5 tho?

My hair seems to just be gigantic when I set the scale to 100. It looks normal when I set it to 1 but then it just glitches out and flies everywhere. What am i doing wrong?

This is awesome, groom disappears when i add the binding in the blueprint tho, I did just attach it to a bone so it works but id still like to get the binding working instead

I'm looking for a tutorial on the workflow of turning a groom (strands and curves) into cards with the procedural feature in UE, any ideas?

Love the tutorial! Gonna try this in the nearest future!

I really wanna cry. I spent all day to try do this in UE4 and UE5. Nothings work for me. I feel so upset even i need done my personal project using Blender hair in UE T_T When I exporting alembic in UE i see another window.

dont know what's the problem. hair isn't connected to head properly , hair is like a halo when moving around , connects only when staying still

The UE5 update automatically switched off the Alembic Groom Plugins

ты крутой мужик! рахмет

Hello dude :) Can u tell me please, how we can create hair from new Blender system hairs and export them for ue5 ? Brcouse i try everything and all the time i have erros :(

My hair particle systems do not get brought into Unreal when exporting with those settings. The character comes in but no hair

OMG this was the tutorial I needed so desperately!!! <3 thank youuuuu!

Thanks!

İ can't import " .abc file. Unknown file format: not a valid Alembic.. "That's error killing me btw

What do you do though if you set the binding asset and when you add it to the groom under the character bp the hair actually dissapears?

Hey following along and when I preview my hair it goes up by two units after I bind the hair to the mesh. How do I fix this?

You Best!!!!!!

Looks for video on Groom assets in UE5. Clicks on video for UE5. OK guys let's do this in UE4... FFS

Really good tuto. But I have a problem. When I attach the binding asset my fur vanishes. 1. I have only one skeleton in my project 2. I have double check the links and everything is good. Any solution ?

it's like attaching hair asset onto character. can you also make tutorial for character cover with fur or hair?

This guy is such a legend.

This was key to my workflow

im not getting the groom import only the regular alembic import, any idea how to fix this?

10/10. Though following along on UE5.2 (must have been some changes) I had to manually selected alembic hair file when i was importing under the types of files it's looking for to get the groom plugin to read it as hair, otherwise it was just importing the object.

Nice tutorial.... can u please learn how to bake hair simulation and about render setting which for the hair rendering....

how come my unity 5 does not have the plug in tab option?

is it good for performance ?

thank you for this amazing tutorial!!!

You saved me, I've been looking for hours but didn't realize you have to turn "show emitter" off. it would just import as alembics file, not as groom.

Thanks for the tutorial! Can you make a tutorial creating a hair rug in Blender and import it to UE5 with materials as well?

when ı use new Blender 4.02 hair groom and I export to UE5 as Alembic. My hair groom doesnt work and e recive Error. How ı solve this problem. Because ı want to use new Blenders hair features. Thanks.

Only problem is all the hairs are the same length giving it that spikey look. If your doing some long hair you want the front hair's going right over the head long and hairs at the back of the head to be shorter so they reach the same length. There seems no way to do this in blender. It needs custom guides as otherwise it looks more like fur than hair.

still relevant in 5.3, great work.

Hi when i play the animation groom is not sticking with mesh properly although i binded the groom with bone but when i enable collision groom not sticking properly... Plese help me

Best groom tutorial!!!