I was wondering what are the best ways to do some fairly basic hair. I was thinking about doing male and female characters with short hair. This would basically be on soldiers. I saw some examples of short male hair in Unreal Engine 3 and how it was done in the Samaritan demo. As for female characters, how would I go about making good looking hair tied up in a bun or ponytail military style or just kept at neck length like in Gears of War and Bullet Storm.
Hi illYay,
At the moment there are some different ways that you can go about doing this. Using meshes for your hair or if you’re doing a pony tail you can use bones rigged for movement.
Some users have posted somethings on the forums here and their efforts.
You can see in our rigging section of documentation how the rig for our Infiltrator character with the dreadlocks.
This link to Polycounts-HairTechnique wiki page has a lot of good information! 
If you have any questions feel free to ask!
Tim