One of the most easy things to do with FDM is … the barber shop. Let’s get the case of Lionel Messi, in FIFA 10 Messi has his own specific head but the hair are long as he wore a couple of years ago so ..let’s go to cut them!

First open FDM…

…and select Messi as the “Source Head”

Now create a new target head clicking on the button “New Model Type 2” this model will appear

Click on the “Merge Hair” button, then on the “Merge Face Model and Textures” button and select Light Brown as the ”eyes color”. Now you can see the face of Messi also in the Target Head

Now move back to the Source head and select a player with a generic face, it is a good idea to select a “ young player” so you don’t care if you change something, I used for example Hajdaraga Cer. Now change his hair selecting the button “Medium”, the model number “83” and the color “Dark Brown”

Now click on the Merge Hair button again. The target head will use the hair of the source head but, as you can see in the picture below, the hair position doesn’t fit well the Messi head because they are too high.

Click the blue arrow down more times (6 or 7) in order to adjust the position of the hair and, yes.. now he looks good.

Last step, select again Messi as the source head and click the button “Save”. This operation will replace the original head with long hair with the new “Target Head” with short hair. Now you can exit the program and play the game.