I think hair is the one kind of texture where fake highlights usually look better.

Of course you could always make one with and one without for different situations. ^_-

Nice idea, but I can't offer two variations for my tex on my web site. Now I have a download traffic of 35 GB (new provider) and some textur packs have 20 MB.

I don't like fake highlights on lips, eyes or hair. I can add my own to match my lighting much more readily if I don't have to remove the flagrantly false bits first. Carolly

Sometimes the highlights are nice but other times they just don't match the natural lighting. It's hard to say...

fake highlights make the hair a little too much the same between colors (different colors but same highlights) and look very fake as soon as you morph (such as applying OOBetty's morphs to Koz's original ponytail). allowing people to put in their own as they choose sets things up to be more flexible.

I would prefer no painted highlights except for the most subtle. Stronger highlights may look fine in the one pose they were created for, but usually look very bad in other poses. I would prefer to see more hair strand variation - few people have hair of just a single color - each strand can be a range of colors in the general tone (brunette redhead, blond, gray etc) and a few should be considerably brighter/darker than the general tone. I think that is why most of the hair "tint-jobs" look so fake even with painted highlights - they just apply a single hue to the overall hair and that is unnatural except in dimestore wigs.

O.k. all good points, so I try to paint my hair textures with more color variations and without highlights. Thank you all for your suggestions. ;o)