I'm going to use long hair evolution as an example, since what I'm talking about is obvious on it. When using some hairs, I notice the texture ends up really well bad, and instead of normal strands, I get what look like a sharp line that should be a strand but then a faint box around it. It does this even when I switch to the higher render setting. Am I missing an option I need to check or something or am I just doing it wrong?

please post an image, state what version of Poser and render settings if you can. ::::: Opera :::::

Poser 5
Render Options, default draft (for this one)

see the blocks around the hair?

Looks like your transparency settings are wrong. Notice the skullcap showing across the top of the forehead, too. Is your transparency falloff set to 0?

no, it's set to 0.6 which is the default for that hair (which I got from here: http://digitalbabes2.com/dload1.html )

The hair is designed for Poser 4, and the transparency settings sometimes don't work correctly. Try setting it to zero.

I have, and still no go. Is there any known way to either convert them or at least muck with the settings to achive the same effect?

you're sure it's not a shadow? you move the light around and/or went in for a close up? ::::: Opera :::::

Set Transparency Edge to 1.

i can tell by looking at pic, it is a problem with transperency, not the shadows :) can you show a screenshot of material settings for the hair? and nice blue eyes, im in love!

transparancy edge IS 1 (getting screenshot now)

Message edited on: 02/15/2005 17:08

But I think it's transparency. I tried this hair in P5, and it worked fine for me. (It came in with transparency falloff 0, but with P5, sometimes it comes in at 0.6. This is wrong for hair. Transparency falloff is for things like glass, where you want something only partly transparent at the edges. For most transparency maps, you want falloff to be zero.)

Make sure you have transparency falloff set to zero for all parts of the hair. (See my settings, above.) If it still doesn't work, save your file, close Poser, and then get back in, open the file, and try again. (P5 has a tendency to keep old settings in memory, even when you change them.)

oh, wait, I never tried for all parts, that's probably what I missed, lemme check

thanks, it was falloff on all the parts. I didn't do it for all of them. thanks :)

You're welcome. :-)

Another tip for making this hair look its best in P5: lower the shading rate. I usually go to about 0.05. You have to change it in both the hair properties, and in the render options. It will look a lot nicer, but it's also slower, so save it for your final render.

You should not render with texture filter on just to fix the noisy hair. You'll have that seam problem. And it makes everything look fuzzy. Change the shading rate instead!

k this was with Shading rate @ 0.03 and pixels samples at 8

dumb question: where do you change pixel samples?

Render Options panel, center section, blue slider up near the top.

thanks :)
BTW I like the lighting on yours, Dave8, what settings do you use (or did you make your own?)

Message edited on: 02/15/2005 19:54

free lights from dna with some tweaks winter lights i think it was

cool. I gotta check those out. Here's what I got out of this session lol http://www.krahs-emag.com/images/vicky_nice_suit.jpg

is that the cat suit if so u need to turn up the trans on it some more as i can see the outline on her legs and the skin does not look as it should

yes, and I wish I knew how. is it those settings in the material tab, or is it different for after you apply the MATs?

Message edited on: 02/16/2005 05:13