Dynamic hair helps provide exceptional realistic movement in animation (that much is a given), but more times than not it's rather difficult to get it to do "exactly" what you need. While working on an animtion today, I needed to achieve a specific result in how the hair reacted in the scene. Experimenting endlessly with parameter dials in the hair room yielded fair results, but it had occured to me that I could easily and convincingly get what I needed by simply keyframe animating a particular hair group that was not doing what I wanted during the simulation. I tried manually shaping the splines using the styling tools, but the progressive results were seemingly not able to be recorded on the timeline (keyframed). Is there a way to somehow keyframe animate the splines of certain hair groups in the hair room, while letting others run by simulation? More specifically, is there a way to keyframe animate the dynamic hair AT ALL in Poser? Anyone know? Of course, the obvious alternative is just to animate a hair figure/prop, but I need the strand-based dynamics to achieve the level of realism I'm looking for with this project.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.