A decade ago, Paula Sanders wrote her “Creating Hair in Poser 5” tutorial. She investigated on the styling of medium to long hair, without using the Calculate Dynamics features.

This single webpage tutorial, plus four webpages with hints on creating such hair effectively, can be found here:

http://www.perpetualvisions.com/articles-and-graphics/tutorial-poser5-hair.htm

As Poser Hair Room is concerned, hair can be styled (turning you and me into a virtual hairdresser), or hair can suffer (or benefit) from dynamics like wind and fierce movements, or both. The latter has its issues, as most women do know from reality: severe dynamics can completely ruin the costly efforts of a talented hairdresser.

Before considering dynamics, it’s good to realize what can be done by styling alone. This is exactly what Paula presents in her perfect tutorial on this. I only could add value in two ways:

• Bundle the various webpages into one PDF
• Annotate her tutorial and hints, to give some extra depth and background information.

All with Paula’s consent, in case you wonder.

The result of these efforts, aka "The annotated Paula Sanders ..." can be downloaded from my Missing Manuals site: http://www.book.artbeeweb.nl/?p=853

At your service.

Thanks to Ms Sanders and you....

hi folks,

I just found out that my website's download manager plugin suffers from various issues, preventing it from delivering the downloaded files in a proper way.

I managed to get a work-around in, sorry for the inconvenience. Just check http://www.book.artbeeweb.nl/?p=862 for easy access.

So Paula's work, and everything else on my Missing Manuals site should be available again now. Enjoy.

Thank you for posting this.  She did a good job and turning it into a pdf was a great help. 

Thank you very much for posting this. And thanks to the creator. There really have been no significant changes in the hair room since Poser 5?

@nobodyinparticular: No changes in Hair Room that I'm aware of.

About the same for Cloth Room, except that in there the crashing sim /exploding vertices issue is detected now so you don't have to halt the calculations manually. Detected, not solved.

Thanks. With all the rapid changes in the last two versions, it's kind of surprising to find things untouched. Although I suspect the hair and cloth rooms are among the least used features of Poser.

Quote - Thanks. With all the rapid changes in the last two versions, it's kind of surprising to find things untouched. Although I suspect the hair and cloth rooms are among the least used features of Poser.

i think the same thing. They have so much potential but because they are difficult few people use them (especially the hair room) and since people don't use them much they don't get updated. That whole catch 22.

Thanks artbee for the tutorials.

I use both rooms almost every day. I just don't post a lot of my work because 99% of what I am doing in both rooms revolves around my workflow. I test, retest, test again, then junk it and start over.

I am going to download that tutorial though. I tried to style hair once and blew it. Ended up just doing dynamics and let it be.

The result of that is in my gallery. It's Sydney in a bedroom background...

Enhancing Hair and Cloth Room even further is a matter of

• direct user requests, so indeed when the functions are less used there might be less requirements. What kind of requirements and questions do we have on hair room anyway?

• indirect requirements, aka: what is the relevant competition doing? Well, concerning hair room functionality: not much. DS is considered competition, Max, Maya, C4D etc are not, Blender is not either I guess.

• development budgets given product pricing and customer base

• history. Both can still be considered as sort of legacy code modules, and are not the easiest ones to modify under the hood. See http://www.book.artbeeweb.nl/?p=526

But let's not derail this thread.

thanks! 

i mostly given up on simulations and manually try to drape with the guide hairs.

hi folks,

downloads from my site are back to normal (=working) again.

Some people managed to hack my complete collection (5x) of protected Wordpress websites, but finally re-uploading the WP-files and some plugin-files did the job, plus re-installing some corrupted files and banning all evil-do'ers. Mostly Chinese IP-addresses this time.

all the best.

PS: the short-cuts page mentioned above is hidden now. Don't use the link anymore please.