Okay, I'm asking something, now. I need to learn to make good hair. Not postwork hair, I can do and teach that. Not P5 chia hair. Not plastic hair. I mean real transmapped P4 hair. I have hair in my Elf Mage Vicki set, but I'd like to improve it, and I have a lot of hairstyle ideas I'd like to make. If anyone can point me to a tutorial or even a really good example of hair in the RMP that's not expensive, I'd appreciate it. BTW, if it makes any difference, my arsenal of poser-making stuff consists of 3DSMax 4, Poser 4.0.3, UVMapper free, Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator, and vim.

Attached Link: http://www.digitalbabes2.com

heyas; kozaburo has a tutorial on how he makes his trans-mapped hair. and you KNOW you can't get any better than kozaburo hair. the thing is, the tutorial is fairly simple. but no matter how many times i try to paint hair like that, or model hair in layers.... mine looks like crap. :/ it's a mystery to me.

I wish the Kozaburo tutorial showed the entire procedure, from modeling the shape of the hair object to the texturing. He already has the model created and pretty much concentrates on teaching how he textures and transmaps it. I can't even begin to figure out how to shape the object into a hair shape in the first place. I'd love to make hair, too, but I haven't a clue how to even start. Melanie Doger, "chia hair" that's a good one! That's exactly what it looks like. LOL

'and you KNOW you can't get any better than kozaburo hair.' Not yet B^) Thanks for the link, I shall follow it. Mel: I wish someone would do a P5 render with the hair really short and green and thick, and the heasd in that orange-clay type material, just for fun, and post it. If the images show the hair in enough detail (since I myself prefer painting the hair in, I've bought very little and not usually been impressed, thus my preference for painting it.)

Oh, his stuff is free? cool! I'd hear people mention it and assumed it was some expensive stuff somewhere.

Go to PoserPros, they have a hair modeling forum. Badger them to get some tutorials up again. You have some really top hair makers over there-- DW, Jim Burton and now Dave71. You can start something there and get feedback all the way along the process. Emily

It's not green and Chia-fied, but it is short and thick:

P5 Hair Test (MPEG format, 345KB)

Visit StudioMaya for more free examples of high-quality transmapped hairstyles. Dreadlocks were just added to the collection.