HiveWire3D opened this issue on Jun 19, 2013 · 4422 posts
randym77 posted Sat, 29 June 2013 at 2:11 PM
Skullcaps...
I would definitely want one that could be re-distributed. I'm sure someone will make one if Dawn doesn't come with one. Some suggestions...
If you model the skullcap tilted back 30 degrees, Poser's dynamic hair will naturally fall back, away from the face. This can greatly simplify styling.
The skullcap should fit just inside Dawn's head. Poser ignores the first part of the hair strand for dynamic calculations, and having the skullcap inside the head makes the hair appear to be growing naturally out of the scalp. You can use a painted skullcap as well, if you wish.
Dynamic hair skullcaps should be relatively low-res. I think the original Poser 5 skullcaps were something like 2000 polys, and some skullcaps out there are two or three times that. That was way too much. Poser choked trying to run the sims.
Poser 6, they went down to 200 polys per skullcap, and that worked a lot better. There have been some changes in the Hair Room since then, and there should probably be more than 200 polys now. But I'd guess skullcaps should still be less than 1000 polys.
I'd like a band of higher density mesh along the hairline: along the forehead and temples. The part of the hair where you see the roots. That way, you could have higher density hair where it counts. Avoid that "doll hair" look without having to increase hair density all over the scalp.
Other ideas: groups to make it easy to style hair (though people disagree about how many and what groups are best), separate skullcaps for hair that will be styled vs. hair that will be all dynamic simulation, maybe the option of two or three skullcaps that can be used together, one inside the other (because you might need more hair density for some situations than others).
I would be willing to pay for an item like this.