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Cannot use D-former with Xandria hair - Solved (kind of...)

HeraHera Posts: 1,957
edited June 2014 in The Commons

Hello!

I put the Xandria hair http://www.daz3d.com/xandria-hair on a V6. But she's sitting down/leaning backwards so I need to adjust the braids or they pierce her shoulders. And since they are not bones and the morphs are not enough to bend them adequately, I tried to apply a D-former to the hair. Only that when I work the D-former the hair does not respond. I have noted that with certain products, either very old ones or those for G6 people. Now, why is that and is there a way around it?

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  • KaribouKaribou Posts: 1,325
    edited December 1969

    Hmm. I don't have that hair, or I'd check it out for you. If you offer another example, I'd be happy to try. (I didn't think there WAS hair in the Daz store that I didn't own, lol...) I've never experienced this in DS before. Happens in Poser a lot when I'm trying to adjust the tops of thighs on conforming clothes, but D-Formers have never failed me. So, nothing moves at all when you apply the D-former?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,765
    edited December 1969

    Are you seeing the green to red highlighting of vertices on the hair? if not the field that controls the DForm is in the wrong place - DForms work on the zeroed state of the mesh, so that's quite likely here. You could try reposition the field, or if you could try using the Node Weight Brush to assign a weight map to the DForm and edit that (which is more controllable, but fiddlier).

  • KaribouKaribou Posts: 1,325
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    DForms work on the zeroed state of the mesh
    Okay, I'm not the OP, but I didn't know that! That's good info to have...
    You could try reposition the field, or if you could try using the Node Weight Brush to assign a weight map to the DForm and edit that (which is more controllable, but fiddlier).

    Didn't know you could do this in DS, either! (Poser has that with weight-mapped magnets.) Any chance you could point me at a tutorial of some kind?
  • HeraHera Posts: 1,957
    edited December 1969

    I found a way around the problem after a bit of experimenting. What I needed to do was to unfit the hair from Victoria and then add the D-former. Then it became a working D-former again. Then I could fit the hair back to her, and the D-former was still working and alive. And I could even add more D-formers. Don't know why it's like this, it's a bit confusing. Perhaps someone knows more about this peculiarity.

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