How do you go about making braids or curly/wavy hair with hair particles in Blender 3.4?

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I’d like to make braids as mesh strips using Blender 3.4’s hair particles system, as can be seen here in this gif (https://imgur.com/jqriBjk), as well as curly/wavy hair as mesh strips so I can apply shaders to them and for realtime applications, though I’m not sure where to start.

I’m still relatively new to Blender, so apologies for my incompetence :sweat_smile:

Here’s a link to the .blend file containing the braid if it would help! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GOxMV6B6Zjlgu-4na4JPQdL48oauewwJ/view?usp=share_link
.blend file credit goes to @Spaceboy64 :slight_smile:

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Watch this and download the free GN-Nodes…

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There are a quite a few threads on braids if you do a search, this one looks particularly good:

Edit.
OHHH I just found another really good one