How To Make Daz3d Hair For Genesis

santabante

Hi i want to create my own hair for daz model
i try to find tutorial but google didnt show any good result about this topic.
can any one tell me in details how to do that form 1st to last.
i am new to daz3d
i can use 3d max, zbrush, poser,
Thanks for the help in advance :)

wancow

there's always Hexagon.

One thing, creating hair requires a very good understanding of UVS. I started with UVMapper http://www.uvmapper.com

Building hair is, IMHO, the single most difficult thing to model well for a human figure. clothing is easier.

Kerya

There are some hair tutorials at the end of this message:
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/447/#2963

Herald of Fire

wancow said:

there's always Hexagon.

One thing, creating hair requires a very good understanding of UVS. I started with UVMapper http://www.uvmapper.com

Building hair is, IMHO, the single most difficult thing to model well for a human figure. clothing is easier.

Actually, I find hair slightly easier to model, since alpha maps can do a lot of the hard work for you. The hard part isn't the modelling but the texturing. Getting the right looking texture and alpha's in the right place makes all the difference, and when it works well, the effect can be stunning. When it doesn't, it's VERY noticeable.

wancow

How I model hair, I find it more difficult because I have to plan for the UVS before I ever create a polygon. It always works better if I do...

Clothing is mostly just shape matching and adding detail... hair involves layering, and then you have to create morphs... uhg...

Plexx

Why is it I cannot export poser 7 hair into Daz3d? I would really like to use dynamic hair for a model I am working on.

Kerya

Poser Dynamic Hair depends on the render engine of Poser - DazStudio uses another render engine.

There are plugins that you can use to create similar hair for DazStudio's render engine (but these hairs don't work easily in Poser):
http://www.daz3d.com/garibaldi-express-hair-system-for-daz-studio
http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair
Comparison thread for the two different plugins: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/17345/

Chohole

Poser dynamic hair is dependent upon the Poser hair room, so export is not possible.

There are a couple of hair plug-ins that do work with DS

http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair

http://www.daz3d.com/garibaldi-express-hair-system-for-daz-studio

Plexx

chohole said:

Poser dynamic hair is dependent upon the Poser hair room, so export is not possible.

There are a couple of hair plug-ins that do work with DS

http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair

http://www.daz3d.com/garibaldi-express-hair-system-for-daz-studio

That is what I thought. Thank you.