Sorry. My text formated wrong when I pasted. hehehe Just wanted to share this idea I pitched back in 2002. Daz wasn't interested but I am wondering if it might fly as a stand alone apllication. This was my original vision for the Poser HairRoom, but P5 was locked so I pitched it to Daz. But since 2002 there was no interest. If anyone knows of any programmers with enough experience to be interested in this, please let me know. Regards, Anton antonkisiel@verizon.net Copyright:Anton Kisiel PS: FOrgive the outdated mockups. They were done in photoshop many moons ago with V2 and are pure fiction. They don't represent anything that ever existed as a code. The window is cluttered with expanded tabs. Notice the way each tab unfolds in the diagram. --------------------------------------------------------- Wig Salon TERMS Texture: Refers to the type of hairs that are being drawn have no reference to colors or maps. Kinky hair, for instance, is a hair texture. Blonde is a hair color and not a texture. Hair Pieces: Pre-modeled geometry Wig Salon uses as the "skeleton" to render along. Control Strand: These are the articulated geometric representation of a lock of hair. A Control Strand has three parts being the Root, Texture Spine (unseen by user), and the Pose Spline. Root: The selection of geometry between the base of the Pose Spline and the scalp of the Hair Piece. This is the slanting root-like hair that fan out from its center to cover the scalp avoiding skin exposure. Texture Spine: This is the defined design the renderer draws to simulate degrees of straight, wavy, curly, and kinky hairs. These splines are drawn along the Pose Splines. A library of patterns and properties preset to ready-perfect values determines the way the hair is drawn along the Texture Spline. Pose Spine: Pose Splines are the largest part of "Control Strand". The Pose Spline begins at the end of the Root and is the part of the Control Strand the user can directly translate, rotate and deform. INTERFACE Palettes are collapsed and expanded by clicking on their palette title. Texture Palette: This palette changes the way the hairs are drawn along the Texture Spline. The texture palette consists of three tabs being Treatments, Tools, and Products. Each tab contains a selection of ranged dials set to re-defined property settings to achieve the described surface texture. The exact property values these dials are accessing are not visible to the user. Fixed settings assure the result always looks like human hair. Texture Dials can be used in combination with each other creating various transitions in texture along the Texture Spline. Some affect change starting from the roots and transitioning towards the ends. Others begin their effect at the ends and transition towards the root. Hair Color Palette: This palette determines three base colors being Root Color, Shaft Color and a color for the ends. The Range Location and Range Blend sliders determine the distance the color occupies along the Control Strands and the smoothness in which they blend together. Three Additional colors may be used defines as Fashion Streaks. Fashion Streaks travel the entire length of the Texture Spline and are mixed is only as defined by the Variation Chunkiness and Variation Frequency sliders. The three colors that can be used are defined as Lowlight (Multiplied through underlying), Midtone (overwrites and replaces color), and Highlight (Dodges underlying color). Hair Pieces Palette: ------------------------------ This palette is a changeable library of pre-set Hair Pieces (see Hair Pieces) that can be loaded, edited, styles and saved back into the Palette. Wig Salon can also load multiple Hair Pieces that can be save back into the palette as what will be recognized Poser as on Hair Piece. Individually loaded and assembled Hair Pieces many be added and deleted. Control Strands of a complete pre-modeled Hair Piece may be hidden but cannot be deleted. Styling Palette: The Styling Palette is used for manipulating and deforming only the Pose Spline of a Control Strand and not the root. The tabs located in this palette together provide the user the ability to select, translate, pose, deform, gather, and anchor Pose Spline entirely or in part. The first two tabs, Selection/Translation and Selection Falloff, are used to define and then manipulate individual points or groups of points along the Pose Spline on single or multiple Control Strands. The next four tabs, Rotate Section, Roller Set, Pin Curl, and Elastic Band: Theseare deformation controls that change the shape of the Pose Splines on single or multiple Control Strands. All, except Elastic Band, begin their posing action at the end of the Pose Spline with the effect transitioning towards the root. Elastic Band gathers together a defined point on two or more Pose Splines creating a ponytail effect. The Bobby Pin Tab : This is used to anchor a point along a Pose Spline locking the length of the Pose Spline between the root and the marked Bobby Pin. Bobby Pins and Elastic Bands are listed in the Properties tab's Group hierarchy list for each Control Strand they affect. Bobby Pins and Elastic bands are also visible along the Pose Spline in the main display window, visible as icons marking their presence and location. If removed or deleted the Pose Splines return to their previous positions though other styling deformations are not removed. By clicking the "Convert to pose" button the Bobby Pin or Elastic Band is removed applying it's effect to the Pose Spline it occupied. Properties Palette: -------------------- This palette is used for translating, scaling and rotating individually loaded Hair Pieces from the Hair Pieces Palette. If a complete wig preset is loaded, only the entire Hair Piece is affected by the Translate, Scale, and Rotation dials, as well as the Render Tab. The Control Strands of the preset are still listed in the Properties Group tab's hierarchy list. However the Control Strands listed may only be hidden and not deleted. Only Elastic Bands, Bobby Pins or the entire loaded Hair Piece may be deleted. If the user is assembling a complete wig out of smaller Hair Pieces or Individual Control Strand presets, then these items may be deleted individually.

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