Hair for Low Poly Game Character - methods?

[Morne]

Hi all

So its been 10 years since I last had to worry about "low poly" and undoubtedly things have changed a bit since then.
If I have a low poly character ready for realtime, how do you deal with hair for the little guy? Can I just stick a Max Hair and Fur modifier on him, or would you just model fake "cartoony" hair?

[joconnell]

Depends on the style of the haircut. Max hair and fur won't export so if you're doing long / soft hair it'll have to be alpha mapped planes, if it's something more solid and cartoony like johnny bravo maybe model it and use some bump / texture mapping for the lines of the strands?

[Morne]

Jip, think I'll go for the bump/texture solution. Thanks John

In terms of rigging, will CAT work or does that also not export?