I recently acquired the Daz anime hair. I love it, except... Does anyone have, or can anyone make a trans map for this hairstyle?? I tried my hand at it for DAYS with no sucessful luck. I'm not real familiar with the whole process, but I gave it a whirl. The result? Well, nevermind. It looks like crap. Anywho, there are SO many great trans maps out there for other hairstyles to make them look more natural. Can anyone fix this one? Thanks!

The problem with the Anime hair is the same as the Poser4 default hair... it's not built to be transmapped... most (if not all) transmapped hair is really simple planes curved and shaped into the basic hair shape... this means that when you apply the transmap to it you'll see through it like you're supposed to... the anime hair isn't built the same way... it has a front back and sides, instead of just a front and back... it's hard to explain... if you load a good transmap hair prop and set it's color to white, make it not transparent anymore, and remove the texture from it, look at it, you'll see what I mean about the planes... I doubt that I'm making any sense... but hopefully that was a little helpful... :

So in other words, there really isn't alot that can be done about it? Poo. It's such a cool hairstyle, such a shame it has to look like plastic Halloween costume hair. sigh.

I'm trying to learn to model some stuff... hair is one of the things I'd like to eventually try to do... now I have zero/zilch/nil/no talent, but I do have a lot of determination... so maybe I'll try to make a hairstyle similar to that as my first hair project... but that's probably a way off still... so don't get your hopes up or anything! ;)

That would be spiffy! Thanks for all your help!