randym77 posted at 5:09 PM Sat, 5 February 2022 - #4434439

I mostly like how transmapped hair renders in Firefly. But I'm not going for a super realistic look. I also like the super-glossy, shampoo ad look you can get with dynamic hair in Firefly.

Dynamic hair doesn't look good at all in Superfly. Perhaps it's impossible to render it properly; if it's really going to do reflections, shadows, etc. on each strand, I could see that being too much. Does DS handle it better? I've seen some nice hair renders at DAZ's site, but I have no idea if they're strand hair or if they're rendered with iray or what.

Haven't gotten that far lol. It's been like a week ;) 

I will say that the Iray preview is pretty nice. So far I'm using DS to load, clothe, and pose Genesis and export as static props for Poser. Works like a charm. Plus can touch up in mudbox with beauty pass morphs. I'm still trying to get the interface situated more to my liking. It's really not that much different than Poser but more crowded feeling. Here's Genesis as RE: The Village's Lady Dimitrescu exported to Poser. Preview, no shadows or specular, just maps. No shaders. Still needs some fixing in Mudbox, expression touch ups and some work on the teeth, and some minor dress fixes (which must have been done in Marvelous Designer as it has thickness and all tris, it's obviously a straight game rip (hide back facing polys in Poser is helpful), a level of subdivision for the figure mesh (it's at base res) and shaders of course but it's a workable solution for me. There's just too many nice content options to ignore and it's easy to get it into Poser with a bit of post modeling and shader elbow grease...

Here's the export settings I've been using for the lot. No groups as I can separate everything in blender if I need to. I'm thinking a series of Game Character things in Poser, or at least setting up the models for that. Still hammering out the workflow in the midst of other strictly Poser figure stuff... sorry for the OT but it's the only way to answer the question...