Believable3D opened this issue on Dec 21, 2009 · 80 posts
Believable3D posted Sat, 20 March 2010 at 12:08 PM
Glad you posted here, Carodan. I saw that note you made about root and tip widths in your gallery and more people should know.
I doubt it can end up as a sticky here, but as I continue to learn I may put up a page of dynamic hair tips on my web site.
BTW, I know it seems there are not a lot of dynamic hairstyles available, but there are more than you might readily find. Not only Dixie (which of course is explicitly advertised as such) and the ones by KaiZ (which you can only discover by actually looking at the product page - I don't think it comes up in search); a number of Adam Thwaites (MostDigitalCreations) characters also come with basic dynamic hairstyles, and his characters prices are very good value.
A tip for you if you use Adam's hairstyles: his as-is material settings will not get you good results, as the hair is far too thick. (I think that's why pretty much all his renders are of black hair, which is easier to make look reasonable.) You will need to either take Carodan's advice above and reduce root and tip widths, or else reduce density by a lot (in my renders, I've cut the density of his hairstyles to about a third of what he had).
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