How to "Pose" hair, not create it!

shanemofojackson

Hello again friends, I just need someone to point me in the right direction.

I'm not trying to "create hair" from scratch using Poser's hair room.

I just want to "pose" hair correctly.

For instance, I have long hair on one of my characters. Every time her head and neck is cocked back, it makes her long hair want to poke through her torso, and poke out her chest etc.

Is there any way I can cause her hair to fall naturally down to Earth, as well as over and off her shoulders, instead of it just poking down through her shoulders and popping through her chest from the back when her head is back?

I guess I'm kind of thinking along the lines of a fall, as happens in a cloth simulator? What am I looking to do? How do you pros do it?

If someone can just get me started in the right direction because every time I try looking it up, I get a tutorial trying to teach me how to create hair from scratch lol

Thanks much!

shanemofojackson

Oh I forgot to mention, that this particular hair-piece, (Fancy Long Hair) from Renderosity, does have it's own dials. But none of them just bring the hair back, so that when Vic's head is back, it's pointing down. They have a "wind-back" dial, but it scatters the hair and makes it look unnatural and messy for the pose I want to create!

shanemofojackson

ISSUE RESOLVED, HERE'S THE ANSWER FOR ANYONE DEALING WITH THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE!

Finally!

After hours, (plus many times before) of frustration.

This particular hair pack "Fancy Long Hair" comes with a prop I had been missing called "hair movement helper"

You have to select the hair prop itself (Fancy Long Hair from item selection dropdown, or the same place you select whatever character or model you're working with),

then go to library under props, and load it. - I'm going off memory but I believe it's WHATEVER YOUR CUSTOM RUNTIME FOR DOWNLOADED CONTENT FOLDER > PROPS > PRETTY3D > HAIR MOVEMENT HELPER

*Again, before you load the Hair Movement Helper, make sure FANCY LONG HAIR > BODY IS ALREADY SELECTED*

Then, then, after loading the Helper, make sure "Fancy Long Hair" is still selected, and go to the sub-drop down and go "props". If you are currently selected on something like Victoria 4, you might not see the Helper when looking in the Sub-drop-down, "Props" menu. At least I didn't both times I checked.

Select the hair movement helper, and mess around with the translation!

It works!

Still though, and for future reference, is there a simple way to style hair, without having to create it from scratch, similar to what I described in my initial help request? I'd like to know if I and many others have beenmissing something.