wolf359 opened this issue on Jul 18, 2015 · 6 posts
wolf359 posted Sat, 18 July 2015 at 10:27 AM
...or "The sorry State of Poser/Daz Hair Shaders"
Hi
I was wondering of there were any projects in the works for improving poser/DAZ hair here in the age of free PBR engines that now rival Mental Ray & Vray.
While it seems to ,me at least, that the prevailing obsession is joint bending realism
I am at a loss that there is not more vocal demand for hair shading system that does NOT remain firmly frozen in the vestigial Era of Curious Labs Poser4.
And Please... This is not a Poser VS DAZ issue as the majority of the Hair Sets Sold at Daz Still use that same basic transmap system pioneered by the venerable "Kozboro" you know..back when my , now teenage, daughter was born and ,many are not even as good as his was.
(Notable mention to Mindvision GDS& Aeory Soul whose "Actual hair" &"Ony braids"
look quite real in A physically correct engine like cycles& Iray)
Bagginsbill recently posted some images of a blond haired figure in his "Smart IBL" thread and the hair utterly murdered any chance of realism.
While we seem able to keep up with advances in rendering on the matter of Skin textures Hair has been left woefully behind IMHO.