I've been pulling out my hair for the last few weeks trying to customize existing male hair by burying it in the head and trying everything I could, but nothing works! I've been all through the free sites I could find and still no luck. Does anyone have or know where to find a free Caesar-like hairstyle so I can make a likeness of my husband above. Or is there some kind soul who has the expertise to make this hairstyle mesh/obj for me? I already have total head pictures to make the texture. Aeriol

The best way to accomplish the above would be to use transparency mapping on one of the default P4 male hair pieces. Balding male hair would be a good thing to add to the bestiary! BTW, I would not recommend using Poser hair as a wig. :) Someone please tell us both where the trans-mapped hair tutorials are... I don't remember....

Because it is such a short hair style, have you considered painting it on the skin texture map?

You can find a transmapped hair tutorial at Digital Babes (on the sidebar under top 15 links) .. look in the downloads section there.. =) Rosh

Do you have a modeling program, such as RDS? If so, cut the scalp out from the male head and use it as a prop. Making 2 or 3 layers from it and making a good transmap (looks like you have the makings of a good texture already) should work nicely. Jaager

Thanks everyone for your comments. Nance: I already tried putting the hair on the texmap but it looks so flat - it looks like a bathing cap! Jaager: I have RDS but I don't know how to use it yet; it looks sooooo complicated. I thought Poser 4 would be a better one to start with. I do have a few of the hair tutorials but they don't say how to "cut the scalp out". I am using a Mac and I do have UVMapper but I need an obj first. Cage: Don't I make a transmap from the texture map? And don't I need to have a mesh/obj before I make the texture?

There's a Caesar type hairstyle in the Zygote Costume Shop CD. It's not transmapped, but someone who has the talent probably could do that. Melanie

It doesn't matter really what the hairstyle is on the mesh if you're using a transparency map; use any of the kind of blah, bowl-shaped hairs that are out there (you could even use the bottom layer of Nene's hairstyle, probably), and apply a texture and transparency map to it. It'd be a good first approximation, anyway.

Melanie: Yes I saw that one also but I'd have to buy the whole CD and all I really want is just the hair. And of course there's the Canadian exchange - makes it too expensive for me. And I just shelled out about $90 Cdn. for Vickie and ordered Steve's new CD. But thanks anyway. James: I have tried a transmap on male hair #93 already. I have extensive pics of his head which I made a texture with and then upped the contrast and reversed it for the transmap. All of the head was ok except for the forefront where the hairline is - it was still elevated (ridge) but there was no texture on it. (I don't know if I'm explaining this correctly) That was when I tried to bury the hairline in the head.