When ever i put longer hair on V3 there are hairs that go through the shoulders and neck. Is there any fix for this? I tried turning on all the collisions options to no avail. Thanks, -mofo

I don't much about Dynamic Hair but since no one has, I'll chime in with my experience. I've found that dynamic hair will intersect the body every chance it gets. The only way I've found to keep it from happening is by styling it manually. Not fun, but hopefully someone with more experience may have a better way. I've tried collision detection and all with the same results, intersection. Dynamic hair it appears was designed more for movement with atmospheric effects more than for stationary posing. I could be wrong and have been doing it incorrectly but that's my experience. LOL

i was hoping that someone will design a dynamic cloth with transmap as hair. That would be a lot better.

At one time, I had the same problem of hair intersecting the body. But I soon determined that most dynamic hair was designed for still poses and not animation. By that I mean, either the hair already intersected the body at zero pose, or that there were too many hairs and vertices in its makeup. So I made my own hair, making sure that it did not intersect the body at zero pose. I also made it in layers, using half the amount of hairs and vertices that seems to be the norm. I deliberately made the hair waist-length and ran the simulation with collision detection on for the appropriate body parts, and it worked---no hair intersected the body in my dance sequence-animation. I wish I had some way to show you my little animation. Renderosity does not have a place for animators to show their work, and I don't have my own web site. But I give you my word that it does work and it works quite well.

Unless I need thin hair strands for a particular reason i always use half the number of strands needed and double the thickness of each hair. Same look but less intersections and half the resources needed to render. You are right kirwyb about the design process if you style the hair so it doesn't intersect you stand a better chance of not having problems later.

Basically the way it was explained to me by CL is that the head and neck are the only body parts you can use collision options with. Marque

thanks, i'll try less vertices and hairs. I am very bad on styling hair, is there a good tutorial? I cant find that one where the guy tells you how to make a skullcap for v3.

PhilC has free skullcaps for V3 and other characters on his site, get 'em! And at Curious Labs there are a few tutorials on creating dynamic hair.

Make sure the "do collisions" box is checked when you run your hair sim. It takes longer to calculate, but should solve your problem.

If everything fails, just use magnets to style the dynamic hair.

I've been playing around with dynamic hair, and got totally frustrated that the hair was going thru V3's nose.....until I realised that you need to not only check the Do Collision's box, but also the Collision Detection for the head, neck etc - as kirwyn said above. Works ok now!