http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2839086&page=1

I've been lurking on this post for a while... I'm trying to make a hair that's a sort of transmap-dynamic hybrid, and this post has been really helpful :)

And of course, almost any post from bb. It's nice to understand WHY what I'm doing is or isn't working, and I think knowing a bit of the science behind it all really goes a long way. I don't feel cripplingly dependant on others for shaders or textures like when I first started poser :)

Just wanting to keep this thread alive, I'd really love to see more advancement in poser hair :)

This is the luck I've gotten out of it so far:

Does anyone have general styling tips? So far my best results have come from a layering technique, where I do the bottom layers first, almost like styling a wig. I've yet to try the styling script I heard about a while back....

I didn't specify much because I can really do with any hair (I'm used to re-texturing hair and making morphs to fit other characters). I've seen lots of free hair that's just as good as commercial hair, and lots of commercial hair that's not all that great. As far as dynamic vs transmapped go, transmapped is easier and more convenient to handle... but I can never get it to look quite right. However because I'm on a linux pc when I try to run dynamic simulations sometimes it freezes... I really wish there would be improvements for poser hair... hope they get to that in poser 11...

When I say short I mean no longer than shoulder-length, and short boyish hair is good.  I'm open to trying lots of different styles on the render I'm working on now, and besides it's good to have some feedback on people's favorites right? ^^

The Rei hair looks really good, thank you RedPhantom :) I know Koz has a lot of really nice free hair, but I never noticed that one somehow... there's a good set of colors for it up on sharecg too it seems. I'll download that and eventually get to work making morphs for it :)

I tried setting the library to external, and after that the library dissapeared altogether.... Not sure what this means really, I don't mess with flash or air very often for anything besides watching videos.

A lot of times when I use vss the eyes on a character go black. Why is this? Is there a quick way to fix it that I'm too dense to figure out on my own, or is it better just to not include it in the vss altogether?

It seems that most of the links here are down... including the very beginning files. I was wanting to do a render with electric cables wraped around a figure and have looked forever for a script like this... does anyone know where I can still download the first file (or how to use it)?

Hmmn so here's a random thing I rendered, just playing with vss. Can't remember which light I used but I'm pretty sure it was one of the vss outdoor ones. Wish I could just switch to pp2012 instead of being stuck back here with poser 7....

@ ThunderStone Yeah thanks it worked!

How do you keep vss from changing nodes on clothing that has parts named similar to human characters? It won't let me re-load the materials from the materials tab...

I'm setting everything up in poser 7, maybe I'll move to pp2012 for the final render. I've never had a problem with glass or reflections before though... do reflections work normally with hdri lighting?

Oh and also, I got the transparency working fine by deleting the alternate diffuse nodes. I guess I'm just working on reflections now, and maybe refraction.

For some reason for me these aren't rendering right- I think I'm having problems rendering glassy shaders at all for some reason. It just renders grey with no transparency or reflection, almost like a toon shader. I've got raytracing on, but I have a feeling it's a problem with my render settings. Any clue what's going on?