Okay, as promised here is my (long) tutorial on how to create hair in Blender for use in Character Creator using the Hail Tool plugin.

Specifically this is for close cropped men's hair, although the steps used will apply no matter what type of hair you create (and the Hair Tool author has plenty of tutorials on using his other techniques for longer hair).  I'm sorry I was so long winded -- I may post a "Reader's Digest" summary of around 10 minutes with all the steps written out as sub-titles if anyone is interested.

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