WOW, I would pay for that.  your long hair is the only one I have seen for V4 that actually looks good!

I haven't checked but I have a feeling it might need extra memory. The long hair I did for Miki was double what shorter hair needed. It also takes a while to drape.

One thing I have started doing is altering density after doing my draping. In other words, drape with a relatively little amount of hair and then up the density for the render.

It's not foolproof--you can end up with hair going astray a little (or a lot, YMMV), but it's well worth trying as an aid to your system. (Unlike changing hair length etc, altering density and hair thickness does not lose your styling and draping.)

I do that too Believable3D.

Oh, and please dont use the kink dials.  they are shocking additions to the hair room.  while they work ok for making TINY kinks in hair at a low scale, kink is not applied to the hair during dynamic calculations, meaning the end result will almost always have hair inside the object it draped onto thanks to kink been applied afterwards.

Use the twist styling tool thingy instead. then they are twisted during calculations too. Position Force will keep them swirly if set right

Quote - One thing I have started doing is altering density after doing my draping. In other words, drape with a relatively little amount of hair and then up the density for the render.

It's not foolproof--you can end up with hair going astray a little (or a lot, YMMV), but it's well worth trying as an aid to your system. (Unlike changing hair length etc, altering density and hair thickness does not lose your styling and draping.)

I do that, too.  All of the Styling Controls except Verts per hair can be adjusted after running a simulation.  If you don't like the effect, you can just change it back.  There's no need to run the sim again.

I hope no one minds if I bump this.

Wow, this is a blast from the past.

Did anyone ever make dynamic hair skullcaps?

I never did figure out how to get dynamic hair shaders to play nicely with EZSkin. Dynamic hair is easier if you can use textured skullcaps underneath, to hide the bald spots, but dynamic hair looks so different with Poser's advanced lighting. Skullcap textures that matched dynamic hair shaders in older versions of Poser don't look remotely the same color.

I know 3 Dream has made a number of skull caps over the years for several figures including V4 and the SM figures. Don't know what he has in his store right now.

This was a little something I did when having a play not long ago. Not really a showcase moment, but it served its purpose :)

I made these skullcaps for Dawn and Vicky. You can use them however you want, even if you want to sell or give away the hair you've made.

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/skullcap-for-genesis-2-and-vicky-6/74500

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/skull-caps-for-dawn/72208

October, 2017 ... any other dynamic hair work out there? Carodan, paging Carodan ...

Here's my contribution ... click the link for an animation --> V4 with golden hair ...

Here's an unfinished model I was working on a couple months ago, before I meandered off onto something else..... Frame-grab from head turn animation.

Only the pigtails are dynamic(calc time about 3seconds/frame each piece).

Jafo, are the 'tails separate mesh? Parented to head?

operaguy posted at 4:42PM Fri, 13 October 2017 - #4315985

Jafo, are the 'tails separate mesh? Parented to head?

Yes, there's a medium rez disc at the end of the rubber bands, the model is a conforming figure. The other parts of the 'head hair' model began as dynamic but I converted it to geometry with a hair-to-mesh utility I downloaded a few years ago, its pretty high-rez but my 6yr old system doesn't have a problem with it.

(too late to edit post) I still have the model before conversion, this pic shows how it was constructed.

Did you model that? Available?

operaguy posted at 5:47PM Fri, 13 October 2017 - #4315993

Did you model that? Available?

Yes I modeled it a few months ago(except the rubber bands, they're a stand in I 'borrowed' from another model) its a WIP ,if you're interested I can finish it up with some improvements( dynamic bangs and flys maybe) and make it available.

JAFO, I'd just like the pony tail model. Is that possible?

operaguy posted at 7:52PM Fri, 13 October 2017 - #4315999

JAFO, I'd just like the pony tail model. Is that possible?

I'll see about uploading it to sharecg. Link shortly

They really should allow more time for edits... https://www.sharecg.com/get_file.php?upload_file_id=60095

Got it! Thanks JAFO, very generous.

I worked with it a little tonight, will continue to explore use, shaders, animation.

Gratitude ...

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Never got things quite the way I wanted, but here are a couple of semi-failed efforts from a few months ago.

Here's a men's style I worked on a couple years ago.

This is also from a couple years ago.

And here's one from last year, going for a bit of medieval look with grey hair and beard. The last one has postwork.

Here's a scene from that last one, which I uploaded to the Rendo gallery.

This was part of character development for my novel, The Legend of the Dagger Prince.