OK - what's the secret to good looking dynamic hair ? - just doesn't seem to quite right to me - has anyone come up with a shader from within Carrara to give hair a bit of oomph - I'm certain it's an issue with the shader import from Poser......

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I dunno but I'd love to know what technique you used to get the hair both straight as well as curly like that! Very cool!

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One thing I've been doing is dialing up the number of hairs (a lot) and decreasing the thickness in Carrara. Seems that FirePlug renders the hair nice and soft, but when it gets into Carrara it looks like a wire-bristle brush. Of course I have yet to work with a render engine that will natively get that lovely backlit look. In real hair it happens because light actually bends around fine hairs, creating a sort of SSS effect in the outer layers (and real hair is also slightly translucent anyhow). By the by, I'm pretty sure there is a "delay" setting for the "wriggle" element. I know I've seen it -- shouldn't be too hard for you to find.

nomuse is correct - to get the straight then curly look use the delay on the kink function.

I will experiment some more and let you know if I come up with any alternatives to shading the hair.....

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