VirtualWorldDynamics opened this issue on Jun 14, 2015 ยท 787 posts
Morkonan posted Sun, 21 June 2015 at 11:18 AM
@Morkonan : Excuse me, i didn't answer to your question, No I don't use the wind generator in Poser: I never use it and I don' know what are its capabilities. By against, I have my own wind generator, It can be use or modify during the simulation. For now, I only has a strength, a random strength based on vertices and 3 directions values. I want to include a squall system based on the time.
Thank you very much for this followup reply!
A question: Given the capabilities of this stand-alone simulation and your general knowledge, could this engine be used to better simulate hair models and to "create" them? As you know, realistic hair is very difficult to do in any 3D render and, with Poser, it's... absurdly difficult. Certainly, it's very difficult to do with Poser's somewhat antiquated hair tools and polygon hair, while very lightweight, is not realistic. (The skill of those who create polygon hair and especially their texturing, transmap and materials skills can offset some of this problem.)
Working with Poser's strand hair is next to impossible. Outside of Poser, I think it's practically impossible to manipulate or work with it. (I don't think it's accessible.) That's actually good, in some respects, since it's terrible to begin with. BUT, you have what appears to be a fairly decent physicality simulator that interfaces with Poser. Would it be possible, perhaps in a future version, to include some sort of "hair generator" that had access to the simulation, for appropriate hair draping, styling, that would yield some sort of model that could then be imported into Poser to serve as a somewhat more realistic hair model than what Poser has currently?
Poser does a good job with organic rendering and materials. But, in regards to hair models and rendering, it's just... very bad. Any avenue that possibly leads to Poser having increased abilities in regards to helping to create more realistic hair models is an avenue that I want to walk down! :)
PS - Thanks for what you're doing! This product looks like it could be very successful and could open up some more powerful options for Poser users!