Vanessa New Hair Rig - 2/4
Added 2020-05-19 03:26:18 +0000 UTCSo it looks like Vanessa's hair rig is finally working.
I really wish this didn't take as long as it did to figure out, but the entire setup required no less than two new plugins and a rewritten third one just to work around some of the more esoteric design decisions in C4D (actually, I'm being polite here, this was one of the most painful processes I've ever put myself through and I can't wait to get away from C4D ASAP because of dumb stuff like this).
In any case, everything seems to be working fine. This particular setup doesn't have any of the deformation issues that the old one did at any of the extreme neck angles, and even if it did fixing those would just be a matter of spending a minute or two tweaking the viewport controls to push it back into alignment. Likewise, the flexibility of this new rig means that fully inverted hair styles can now be implemented through the rig alone, so hopefully this means I won't have to deal with the C4D hair tools anymore when posing stuff.
I still have a few more things to cleanup and the default style itself needs some tweaking, but I don't think that will take too long to sort out since the most complicated parts are definitely behind me.
