How can I make smooth long hair that falls naturally on the shoulders in Poser 5s hairroom? I believe it's a matter of getting those settings right but so far I've only been able to make messy hair that looks ugly and doesn't follow the law of gravity. Has anybody any experience with this matter?

Yeah, play with the settings starting on the left. length, pulling back and to the side, etc. If you are getting wavy hair, reduce the kink strength etc. But the row of sliders to the far left are the most important for what you are describing. Pull down helps a lot with the law of gravity.

So you have had some succes. Do you have an example of what you have been doing?

i called it ShoulderLayers! well, i used hman's skull cap in the poser5 library and made 7 groups and grew this hair as a simple test :) it was quite simple afterall... it's doing more complex styles that will get me thinking. and it just took long to render the 4th time, there's a memory leak going on. :/ follow the manual instructions and you'll do fine. :)

Also...use the styling tools... You can pull the hair all the way from the roots..using the tip to root slider....experiment with that. I set the slider all the way to root...then stroke the selected guide hairs, starting trom the root straight out...you can rotate the head to get the direction of the pull correct...you can make the hairs pretty much straight this way...then slide the slifder toward the tip setting..you can twist, curve, pull, and so forth and make the hair do just about anything...but save when you get to a good looking point prior to tweaking, because it sometimes goes haywire :) Be careful

I know I can style me through the problems. I've tried that myself. But I want to be able to let the hair fall, using the dynamic collision-detection to get a natural-looking result where hair is lying on the shoulder, not penetrating the geometry. Thanks for your replies though.