Hello all.

I am looking for hair of the sort that Poser 4 figures shipped with. It used to be called "playdoh hair" if I remember correctly. I find it to be the best alternative for for cartoonish renders and anime style images. Does anyone know of products and/or free stuff like that? I'd prefer it to be compatible with Genesis, but I can always just use it as a smart prop if it isn't.

Thanks in advance.

Try some of the Anime/toon style hair props created by such Japanese artists as Futepen or Casiopea. Many of these Hair Props are rather beautiful so I'm not sure that they could be categorized as Play Dough Hair.

...and free.

Have you looked at 3DUniverse's hairs? or Lady Littlefox's things?

Quote - Have you looked at 3DUniverse's hairs? or Lady Littlefox's things?

Nope. Are they in the marketplace here?

Sorry, no... www.3duniverse.co.za or Daz.

www.ladylittlefox.com/ or RDNA and Daz.

Think you'll need to visit the marketplace's of said sites to find Ladylittlefox's items.

Finding poorly made hair props (if that is what you seek) is going to be met with much frustration if you choose to use the above sited artist's work, though.

Come to think of it I probably shouldn't have even considered those hairs for your search... nevermind.

Old freebies?

Using some of the anime-style hair sold at DAZ might get the effect you want, if you remove the textures.  It was the lack of textures and transmaps, more than the modeling, that made old hair look like Play-Do.

If you have Poser, you can probably find the old hair in there somewhere.  I think all the old content is included, though a lot of people don't bother to download or install it.

You could try turning off the transparency map and see what the hair looks like. 

I've since made a newer version with a Better UV map and less polys (plus a little more layered so it's not so 'Helmet Hair'). I imported this model into UVMapper and stripped away the original lousy mapping and saved it back into Poser 8 as a prop file. simply color it as you wish in the material room. This original version has no nape hair but I imagine that you could find a way around that, It's intended for toon style renders after all. Anyway you're welcome to add it to your collection if you like. It fits Deco perfectly but as with most prop hair models is easily adjusted to other figures.

Sadly, one of the O-Riginal (As in the O-Riginal Hawaii Five O) Poser sites seems to have passed away. BUT, thanks to the Wayback Machine, the helmet hairstyle that Jack Lord made famous even before Posette copped it still lives - Yes, Greylight.com

Here's a link to the hair page (via the Internet Atchive) that features 19 Old Skool hairstyles. All but two of them are in 3ds format and definitely none of them are Genesis compatible, but with some moving and scaling etc. hopefully they will work.

Greylight's Hair

Note: I only checked one of the links (kirby2). It still works, hopefully the others are good as well.  

Thanks for that link, lmckenzie... I for one think all of that old poser stuff is terrific in a post-modernist(?) kinda way...

Edit- Superior helmets hairs, those!

The 2 downloads for .hr2 files are a little better... In my screen cap the top 2 models are a couple that were in .3ds format after much tedious rotating and scaling, the bottom model is the Beehive hair-do that's a .hr2 file.

Disappointing.

Attached Link: http://www.sharecg.com/v/56121/view/11/Poser/aNimEA-4-Nea-Hair

There's also a short version in .hr2 format (long version, a figure, pictured). Both are very nice, free toon hair models courtesy of Mask-da Mask and Batlab.

From the Readme- There is no restriction to use, but there is no support.

You don't need to obtain permission in any use. (Commercials or Non-Commercials)

EXCEPT  Notify me, if you want to re-distribution, including OBJfiles.

If you can figure out how to register (hint; use IE) and your web browser has a decent translation utility you might want to also register @ www.poserclub.net/ where you can find some great anime style freebies. look for hair models for Kururu by Mato and things intended for Near_Me by aio.

Hmmm, the OP is a responsive one, huh?... ah, well. (scratches head).

Yeah, I didn't look at them. After some fiddling, it's still better than what I could model though, being limited to lathe tool toys for Vickie :-)

Maybe some of this?

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=56293

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=50985

It seems I'm probably more excited about these kinds of models than the original OP ;)... Thanks for those links ima70! DL'ing now. Unusual props, tentacles, creatures/monsters, and toon stuff are definitely weaknesses as a collector of poser bric-a-brac... Not only for potential Poser renders but I enjoy looking at the .obj's in wings and analyzing their craft. Have a real fascination for folksy, outsider, kitsch, and misfits in all mediums... Poser is particularly ripe with this, and that's not a slight.

Attached Link: http://support.contentparadise.com/updates/index.html

Playdoh hair!? I always thought if it as "Plastic Helmet Hair." Ah the Good Ole Days of Poser 2 and 3!

Still works as well for some things - need some nylon slimy like hair for a political character render in a new freebie and tutorial, one P4 hair imported out as .OBJ and back in, worked perfectly! :)

Actually, a lot of the more modern hairs can look like that if you get rid of the transmaps and apply flat shaders to them. (Or, for similar looks, just get rid of the transmaps.) You can also run the transmaps through some math nodes until they become just black and white (I think the exponent node with a small exponent?) would also work.

Quote - If you have Poser, you can probably find the old hair in there somewhere.  I think all the old content is included, though a lot of people don't bother to download or install it.

The old hair is there in Poser 9, but none of Posette's conforming clothing figures were included.  The lack of some things might make a user think the rest was not included and just not look.

Quote - The old hair is there in Poser 9, but none of Posette's conforming clothing figures were included.  The lack of some things might make a user think the rest was not included and just not look.

I don't know about Poser 9, but in Poser Pro 2012 the P4 men's and women's clothes are included. They are in the props library though, in Props:Clothing:Poser Originals:Clothing - P4 Female / Clothing- P4 Male.

Quote - > Quote - The old hair is there in Poser 9, but none of Posette's conforming clothing figures were included.  The lack of some things might make a user think the rest was not included and just not look.

I don't know about Poser 9, but in Poser Pro 2012 the P4 men's and women's clothes are included. They are in the props library though, in Props:Clothing:Poser Originals:Clothing - P4 Female / Clothing- P4 Male.

Oops.  They are there in P9 after all.  What was it I said about assuming and not looking further? :p