drifterlee opened this issue on Jun 08, 2006 ยท 38 posts
Silke posted Tue, 13 June 2006 at 5:20 AM
While I like Koz's hair, I often don't like the style. For textures and transparencies and realism... I love them. Another hair I use a LOT and that I have never regretted buying is Danae's Bliss Vision Hair. [url=http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=33363]Bliss Vision Hair[/url] What I don't like, and what puts me off a LOT of the hair I see, is the "fatness" of it. The lack of realism. There is a lot of hair that I like the look of style wise over at Daz - but I loathe the textures. Then there are the morphs.... What I don't like is if I have a character that leans back, the damned hair tucks in at the neck. That often I cannot get the hair to fall down straight (gravity yanno) at the back. Sure, dynamic hair would do this, but I detest dynamic hair because I have never seen dynamic hair that didn't look like the character just stuck his/her fingers into an electrical socket. It's always slightly frizzed. Yes, HMann's dynamic hair is pretty darn good - but it's still frizzed slightly in every render I've seen. I think I got one or two of them myself and I never use them. The biggest killer on hair (for me) is the hairline. Actually not just the hairline, but the continuity of hairline/scalp. Usually I like the hairline, and then I got this flap up top that looks so darn unrealistic that it puts me off using it. This is in NO way meant as a slight to the hair modelers out there. I couldn't even begin to create something like that and my hat off to you guys who can. I'm just saying what puts me off a hair figure. What attracts me to a hair figure are: Outstanding textures / transparency Nice hairline that doesn't sit half way up the scalp Good, usable morphs that let you actually do something. I have the 3Dream Ponytail thingy. While I like the way it looks and the textures etc... there is this "propellor" fluff at the top that I cannot get rid of, disguise, bend out of the way, make invisible... you name it. I actually hate it so much - I gave up using the hair. It annoys the crap out of me. It's little things like that which kill a hair model for me. So lets look at the RDNA hair. In the beginning, I thought oh nice... I don't like them now, because the transparency and morphs and textures are so.. yuck (to me) that I can't stand using them. The Sapphire Fox hair is ok - but I don't like hair that has a side part. If that had a middle part in the fringe - gimme! The male hairs leave a LOT to be desired too. I still want a simple long hair ala the M2 Long Hair, but if possible with a fringe. It has always been my favorite male long hair, because it's just pretty darn simple. Ok, that's about all I can whine about in one shot lol!
Silke