Akuba's Salon - Black Hair for Conan Exiles Part 4

This is part 4 of the series of 10 hairstyles for the Akuba's Salon mod I was commissioned for by Terrornaut of the Deadlands server community. The mod can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1938818750

This is a simple High-Top Fade. Fortunately, no physics were required for this. I experimented with creating a hair patch and reapplied the patch along a sculpted hair shape in Zbrush. The original was simply a single patch sculpted along the same shape, but the texture stretched too much and lost some realism. In this one, It seemed promising in the Zbrush preview, but when it met the material in Unreal Engine, It developed some strange shimmering chunks. So I do plan to update this hairstyle (and this post) in the future by reorganizing the opaque patches. The hair in-game is setup to use the compliment stubble hairline.

The patch itself consists of three hair layers made with fibermesh and baked with xNormal. It includes an opaque bottom layer, a middle breakup layer, and the sparse top layer for further breakup. UV organization was done in Maya.