Well, that's the rub. The first thing I dove into with P5 to any depth was the face room, then material room, then it was hair, and then cloth. Of all of them the weakest is really the hair, and that's becuase the algorithms aren't really the best they could be. Which isn't a knock -- not by a long shot. Those things are INCREDIBLY hard to get right. Some folks spend lifetimes working on single ones. 1 - Don't expect perfection. I piddled around with the early maya hair stuff, and it wasn't much better (IMNSHO, it was actually worse. Now that isn't the case, but that was then). If you are trying to get Scully from Monster's Inc in the hair room, you're on the wrong platform. Going for a nice style, though, you can do it. 2 - Work in chunks with the hair. All by itself, it's a gigantic file. Takes up a lot of your system's power to deal with. 3 - Use the dynamics ONLY in animations, and then as sparingly as possible. Otherwise style it. 4 - Learn to use the style tools -- this is, more than anything else, the real secret to using the hair room. Everyone tends to think backwards with the hair room: dynamic stuff first, style second. Sorta like "grow it, let dynamics drape it around the head for me, and then style it from there". That's the biggest error. It workflow is actually Grow it, style it, and then use the dynamics in animations with the prinicpal feature that the hair is designed to be used with: the wind force. The "dynamic" aspect of the hair was never supposed to be used to style the hair, only to alter the styled hair's appearance under some form of dynamic modifier. (and I never get into the bitch sessions about dynamic hair because telling someone they're thinking wrong when they are upset is akin to dousing yourself with gasoline while barbequing...) 5 - go to a salon and talk to a stylist about how they cut hair. Heck -- most folks see one at least once every couple months. And us girls usually more often than that. So ask about how hair is styled. The info is VERY applicable to working in Poser's hair room. The rest of the "tricks", well, lol I gotta save SOMETHING for the book!

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)