Hair Clipping Through Hats
Two different systems. Do not delete one file hoping it fixes the other.
Difficulty: Intermediate · Affects: both
INFO
Search: hair through hat, hair through mask, MH_Hair_Scale, pedalternatevariations, creaturemetadata.
Hats / helmets (props)
Ped expression / hair scale.
Needs creaturemetadata and hair authored with MH_Hair_Scale.
Most store hair is not weight-painted for this. Vanilla hairs before drawable 36 are documented as patched / not working with expression flags.
Masks / some hoods (components)
Alternate hair models.
Needs pedalternatevariations.meta.
Without it, hair stays full. Deleting the meta “to stop crashes” causes this visual bug.
Specialist: Cutting Hairs.
Hair through a hat
expression / creaturemetadata · Intermediate
Cause
Missing extra YMT, extra YMT never loaded, or hair that was never painted for MH_Hair_Scale.
Confirm
Is mp_creaturemetadata_*.ymt started? Do vanilla hats cut vanilla hair on this ped?
Fix: Keep creaturemetadata. Leave a free slot. Addon hair that was not authored for scale will not respond — that is authoring, not a server.cfg line.
Hair through a mask
pedalternatevariations.meta · Intermediate
Cause
No alternate-variation entries, or the meta was deleted after an ERR_MEM scare.
Confirm
Is the meta in a started resource with a data_file line?
Fix: Restore the meta. If spawn crashes, read ERR_MEM — do not leave the file deleted.
What not to do
WARNING
Delete the meta to “fix ERR_MEM”
You get this visual bug. Read what you lose first.
WARNING
One YMT fixes hats and masks
Hats use creaturemetadata. Masks use alternate variations.
Related
- High Heels (same extra YMT)
- ERR_MEM_MULTI_ALLOC_FREE