Thanks,

Myst

Have your tried reloading the zip file?  Maybe something got corrupted.

hmm.. no, its not unusal for hair files to need a little adjusting to hide the part thats showing... I'll try that thought, thanks.

Myst

Looks like a transparency problem in the scalp material.

I can't reproduce this problem.
What version of poser are you using? What render settings?
Also which version of the hair are you using - hair prop (from the hair library) or conforming (from the figure library)?

Hi Karen,

Thanks for looking into this. I am using Poser 5, the hair is from the figure library. I rendered it with

Smooth polygons, remove backfacing polygons and use texture filtering all checked.

Myst

Looks like the setting for transparency falloff is non-zero

• Roni

I'm not sure I understand, Roni..  Do you mean it should be zero or that the correct setting is other than zero?  I tried setting  it to 1 and it did not seem to help.

Myst

transmap where the black areas are not (0,0,0) (rgb)?

most hair should have a transparency falloff setting of Zero.

As a test, I used that hair and set falloff to 0.600 and got something similar to what you have.

• Roni

Do you have the update for P5? I had the same problem before the update.

I tried it with transparency falloff set to 0.. its still the same. Not sure about the update though, I'll figure that out next.

myst

Uncheck remove backface polygons. That's the problem.

Sebastian

Thanks, but unchecking remove back facing polygons was not the solution. I'm truly baffled at this point.

@Mystmaiden
I am sure you need the update. Just give a try.

well, anyway, I hope myst gets it fixed. I was gonna say it reminds me of how it would have looked in poser 4 with non-zero ambient or non-zero hilite (which is why kozaburo-san became so skilled at painting fake hilites on his hair), but of course this is P5 and that couldn't happen.

Can you do a screenshot of the material settings?

I don't remember if it was Kyoko hair, but I had a similar looking problem with one of Kozaburo's hairs and a free texture which simply used the wrong transparency map. Changing that solved the problem.

I used to have that problem with Koz's hair in P5 all the time.  Adjusting the transparency settings of the skullcap usually fixed it. 

Another thing it might be is the skullcap casting a shadow on the forehead.  Make sure "cast shadows" is unchecked for the skullcap.