What I want to do is to reduce a 120-frame dynamic hair simulation down to a single frame - the last one.

Is it possible at all??

I can do it for dynamic cloth by saving the last frame (of the cloth sim) as a .obj file, key-framing the whole of the last frame, moving the last key-frame back to frame 1, deleting the cloth and reloading the saved obj. No problem.  (OK, I have to re-apply the textures if they involve transparancy etc, but that's easy, especially if I remember to save the material. setup in the library as a temp file..)

But I can't find a way to do the equivalent for dynamic hair.
I can save it as a .obj.
I can re-load it (and delete the original hair).

What I can't work out is how to convert it back into hair:-((
And what's more, I can't even render the imported hair (guide strands) in FireFly - they just don't show up. They do show up in preview mode and in the P4 renderer, but FireFly just renders them as invisible. What's up with that? - it's just a .obj file at that stage...

I know I could reduce the cloth-sim bit back to a single frame then load the hair and use the styling tools to create the same hair-flow I want, but I'm useless with the styling tools. The dynamic approach gets the job done in about 5 mins max; with me having to do it manually it'd probably take two or three days..

All and any help gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
Diolma

(PS - I can provide a few screen shots if they're needed to clarify anything - it's only for a personal pic, not for anything commercial..)