I've just finished the first tutorial in my comprehensive three-part series on Dynamic Hair. I'm officially calling it version 1.0.0.

Version 1 notes:

Skill Level: Beginner. The less you know the better.

Requirements: Poser 5, skull77.obj (avaiable for free download on-site), Vicky 2/3 (Available at www.daz3d.com)

Recommendations: A good hair material (One is available for free download on-site if needed)

Location: Here.

Overview:

*A comprehensive guide to creating dynamic hair from scratch in Poser 5. The tutorial will allow the use to create a "wedge" style haircut, consisting of a low population (20 - 30k verts).

More importantly, the tutorial provides all of the necessary knowledge in the form of tips and instruction for the user to immediately begin making original styles for their personal use, promotion, or as products for sale.

Version 1.0.1 (in progress) will expand on the coverage area of version 1.0.0 by providing detailed information on perfecting, testing, and optimizing the style, as well as how to package for distribution.*

Time to complete for a complete beginner: 1 - 2 hours

Time to master: 2 - 3 hours

Further notes/credits:

Thanks to Kiera and obm890 for the material and the skull cap (respectively). Thanks to OFL for allowing me to open the forum in advance for distributing this work. I know the commuity's been needing it for some time.

A special thanks to all of the users who have been suffering through version 0.9 for the last 36 hours and helping to provide quality feedback as the work took place. You are all very brave beta-testers. :)

Finally, after version 1.0.1 is complete, I'll be structuring this into a .pdf document and making it available for direct download for printing or offline access. Please be patient, as I cannot give an accurate ETA for the .pdf at this moment.

Cheers!
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Will try out. Thanks

Initial Reactions: The tutorial really blows away the misleading beliefs one can build on the Poser 5 manual and the Hair Room controls. I'd been getting very frustrated, but most of what I'd worked out about the structure of hair, echoing the work of a real-world hairdresser, was confirmed. The grouping, and the use of layers, to build up a hair style is fairly obvious. Controlling how the Poser hair falls to match real hair; that's the problem that this solves for me.

Me too - I have never mastered the hair room, in fact I go in there, then come screaming out a few minutes later tearing out my own hair ;-)

Looking forward to your Hair Tutorial for the Poser 4 hair Room! O.o I just found that secret place!

Very good and clear tutorial. I found out about lots of the hair room peculiarities mysef, but your tutorial really helps me understand how to put those peculiarities to work. Thanks!!!

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Ahhh!!! a tutorial on hair. I look forward to diving into that. Now maybe I can do things to make hair instead of tearing my own out by the clump.

Clearly you worked very hard on this. I've bookmarked it to read through when I can make time this weekend. Thanks very much for sharing and teaching!

Thank you so much. It is just what I was looking for. I have not read all of it but so far it is going to be a great start for me!

Fantastic tutorial 8-O Thanks for not only publishing the tutorial but for spending what must have been hundreds of hours researching and testing your observations before drawing conclusions. How rare it is to find a tutorial that is based on verifiable fact rather than speculation, supposition and guesswork. Someone should carve your name over the doorway of every temple that Vicky has visited (with or without the sword).