Hair for 3D printing

mumia76

I'm looking for hair options for G8F that would be suitable to 3D printing. Any suggestions? Obviously strand based hair doesn't work.

Leana

I've never tried 3D printing but I'd suggest using toon/stylized hair, as they're usually more "solid" and would probably print better IMO.

A few examples:

• https://www.daz3d.com/toon-generations-hair-for-genesis-8-females
• https://www.daz3d.com/toon-generations-4-hair-for-genesis-8-females
• https://www.daz3d.com/sakura-anime-long-hair-for-genesis-3-and-8-female-s
• https://www.daz3d.com/violet-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s
• https://www.daz3d.com/d4m-charity-hair-lores-for-genesis-3-female-s
• https://www.daz3d.com/peggy-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s
• https://www.daz3d.com/jazz-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s
• https://www.daz3d.com/annie-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s
• https://www.daz3d.com/d4m-faith-hair-lo-res-for-genesis-3-female-s

richardandtracy

It depends on the type of printer you use.

I actually had a moderate amount of sucess with an Anycubic Photon LCD DLP/SLA printer and the hair in this product: https://www.daz3d.com/glamorous-vicki-set-for-victoria-3-0. Shame it has been retired now.

I think the reason why it worked was that the hair was modelled as tubes and the slicer solidified the tubes. If that was the case and you can get dForce hair to export as obj files, then I suspect it'll be exported as tubes, which would be perfect for a slicer like the one for the Anycubic - just need an obj to stl convertor (I wrote a windows program to do that for me, and it's available here: http://www.chestnutpens.co.uk/misc/objtostl.html The program does not check that it's a valid complete solid, just simply converting obj facets to stl triangles) . In fact, may even be good for a filament printer. I have tried exporting other hair, but never printed it as I found I was allergic to the solidified resin.

Regards,

Richard