Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why so few P5 "Dynamic Hair models" in the marketplace?

farang opened this issue on Jun 28, 2003 ยท 18 posts


who3d posted Sat, 28 June 2003 at 5:36 PM

Partly the P4/transmapped lowest-common denominator is the reason, as mentioned above (why make something Poser-5 only when most punters are still using Poser 4?) and partly the overhead of Poser 5 hair - it's only worth usign dynamic hair (IMHO) where it offers distinct advantages over transmapped hair. I can't, for example, see me ever trying to reproduce my "fluffy chick" version of the DAZ Hatchling Phoenix with transmapped hair. On the other hand, many human head hair situations can be covered either by transmappd hair or - something I'm surprised to have noticed no examples of - transmapped Poser 5 "dynamic cloth" (which ought to offer, in theory, something of a halfway house between transmapped P4 hair and strand-based P5 hair). I keep meaning to try some transmapped cloth hair and never get around to it :( Cheers, Cliff Bowman