No worries.

I have to say, though that I really do not think hair on the skin color map is a good idea at all.

I understand what you say, that people put facial hair on the male figure color map. And that is the very first thing I see that tells me it is not real, but a computer graphic.

The hair should be on a transmap, which I can layer on top of the skin in the shader, or even better on another prop above the skin.

This is how it is done with Apollo Maximus. Because of this, I can change the hair and keep the skin, or change the skin and keep the hair. We can adjust the hair color, thickness, all sorts of things. We can do this in the skin shader, or with a prop.

Have a look at these two renders.

They use the same skin and same hair, but the hair is on its own image map, not painted on the skin.

I layer them together in the shader. How I layer them is adjustable. By tuning one number, we can change how thick the hair is.

I also have made the hair 3-dimensional, using displacement. I cannot do that if it is painted on the skin.

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