How to Create Hair in Unreal Engine 5 - Groom Tutorial

ran into this error and can't find a solution.... "atleast one group contains more control points per curve than allowed limit max 255 control points beyond that limit will be Trimmed " now the hair I spent a while working on doesn't work because software says so...

"Unknown file format: not a valid Alembic" activate all the corresponding plugins and settings, the same as at the beginning of the video... I don't know why it doesn't work :(

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Thanks, this is exactly what I've been looking for!

Great tutorial, Thank you for sharing !!

in 5.4 when i import it its imported as alambic not groom how do i fix this

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Thank you very much!

Awesome tutorial. Thank you so much!

I need a better explanation on why I wouldn't want to use a socket for the hair. I'm planning on building a character creation menu to allow potential players of UE 5 creations to customize their character. When building selectable hair assets I was planning on making them attach to a socket in order for the hair to be displayed in game in a realistic manner. Why exactly is using a socket for hair a bad idea?

This is a great tutorial, thanks helped me out !!

gorka, this seems to only work for a manniquin or metahuman, because after doing everything just like you, I also tried it in several ways and when it came to creating the groombinding it gave me an error, with roots very far from the skeleton and as if the skeleton has no UVs therefore my skeleton does have UVs and I did the hair exactly the same as in your video, could you tell me how to solve this error?

I assume you make 1 binding per character that uses it?

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Great tutorial, iconic hairstyle :D

If Unreal wants to import your Alembic (.abc) file as static/skeletal mesh, make sure to select proper extension (Alembic hair strands instead of all files).

Groom hair doesn't seem to be able to preview on mobile devices. Help me out

Love this tutorial! Step by step and that helps a lot. Thank you! :)

Doesnt seem to work in UE5, I get an error failed to import.

Tutorial Perfeito!!! Obrigado!!

saw this thing in every gorka tutorial thought i might as well cop that

The x-ray button next to wireframe to select through the mesh. Shortcut: Alt + Z.

heyy there, really great tut, tanks therefore. I was hoping you guys and maybe you @GorkaGames too, could help me. When applyling physics too my Hair, my model beneath it and the structure of my Hair collapses. Did someone know why? Thanks guys

Aye bro do yk how to make it wet like when it rains so it could appear like wet can u make a tutorial

Thanks for the tut!

I managed to get this working by putting hair on the top of a icosphere and the exported Alembic file was 600kB. But when I tried adding hair to my own 40k triangle mesh the exported Alembic file was only 600 bytes. The small file imported in Unreal but nothing showed up. If I import it back into Blender nothing shows. Is there a bug in Blender where this export doesn't work for large meshes?

It does not work for me. Instead of Groom import options, I have Alembic Cache options when I import the file in. I installed the plugins and enabled the skin cache. I am however using a custom character, not the mannaquin from UE5. However I feel like that should not be a problem. Would you have an idea for a solution?

edit: I think I found the problem, I did not use the hair particle system, as I made a model hair. I think that is why it did not import as groom. I guess you have the use the blender hair

hey! your video is great thank you for your step by step :) however was i import into ue5 it seems to not show my hair ;( do you happen to know why?

how come I dont have the plug in tab under edit?

Thanks a lot !! How can i add a wind force on my hair ?

I did not succeed on my side, the assignment of the vertex group did not work as in the tutorial with the same parameters but I still continued but the import in alembic did not work with Ue5 ( failed to import )

Nice! Very nice! It`s works for me!

You can create up to hair, but even if you export, only hair will not be exported. Importing in UE only imports the skeletal mesh.

So it is working in Editor but when I package the game, the hair starts to behave strangely. It seems the physics no longer work, and the binding asset does not keep the hair attached to the head. Did someone has similar problem?

Thanks a lot!!! it's informative and very easy to follow with each step!))

I saw fur and the others prefabs in maya xgen or arnold ai shaders... but I've lost the place, maybe you can point where I can find those prefabs to make my fur ect.?

If it doesn't work in UE5.1 -> Plugins -> Activate Groom + Alembic Groom Importer

I can't open the hair, when i open it, it is a dark screen whith no hair

Couldn't get this working for blender 3.5 > UE 5.1 - the alembic importer in UE just thinks its a normal mesh alembic, so the groom importer doesn't show up

What if you created a custom hair asset with Reality capture of your character how do you get Unreal to accept this as groom asset

Can you do update on this ? The new hair system in blender 3.5 doesn’t seem to have emitter. How would you export to ue5.1 I can’t seem to get it to work using alembic it won’t load.

Was looking for the way to make hair cards but this looks simple.

I cant import the hair. It says Unknown format alembic

Has anyone tried the Hair modeling toolset plugin for UE5? I see no documentation or videos on it.

how can you change the color of the hair?

finally I tried this tutorial, followed step by step and it worked yeaaah😍👍👍👍

can I customize the hair physics such that I want only some parts of the hair to move, not all?