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  • Jack238Jack238 Posts: 117
    timmins.william said:

    Here's a pro tip for using Mec4D's Iray hair shaders (Unshaven 2) with LAMH:

    Ctrl-apply the Snow White shader (preserve texture maps). Put the diffuse map in the translucency, too.

    Change the diffuse color to Value 220, the translucency color to Value 255.

    This brings over the fur/hair coloration really well.

    Examples:

    http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/Bot-woman-and-squirrel-591699664

    http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/Dragon-and-fox-591574063

    http://willbear.deviantart.com/art/Wolves-in-a-dungeon-591488339

     

    Thank you. Great looking examples

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933

    Hi everyone,

    So LAMH is known to crash with parented items, but should it crash when growing stuff on "oldschool" hair caps that are cr2 figures _conformed_ to V4?

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392

    Alessandro,

    Some more hard-core, bear cub action.

    http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#galleries/87030/

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,041

    Is there any way to apply the LAMH shaders directly to some other product, like Unshaven 2?

    It'd be nice if you could, so that there's some consistency of appearance.

     

  • lorraineopualorraineopua Posts: 643

    Hi there

    I've just started using the LAMH player with presets taken from the furry website. And I am having difficulties. Fatal error difficulties. The first thing is how it crashes just as you touch the load preset button. So I no longer do that in a full scene because...hello, hadn't saved it! Cursing ensued. The second thing is is trying to move an item witha preset attached. More cursing. Am I then to assume that one only applies a preset when you have just opened up DS, there is nothing else in the scene but the item you want furry, that the item is in exactly the place you want it in your scene and is posed to your requirements? Cos that's a bit harsh and not really workable. I started this process because I wanted to buy the full product but if I spend all my time swearing at the computer it's not going to be a good purchase. Some assistance would be appreciated. PS: Windows 7 Pro, DS 4.8.

    Lorraine

  • lorraineopualorraineopua Posts: 643

    Apropro of my previous post. After some faffing around I got a workable solution thogh I don't know whether it's the right one. I attached only the group obj to the item (it happens to be a rabbit) and deleted the rest of what LAMH imports in DS. I can now do rabbit somersaults and not crash DS.

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited February 2016
    lorraineopua_282f2aa302 said:

    Hi there

    I've just started using the LAMH player with presets taken from the furry website. And I am having difficulties. Fatal error difficulties. The first thing is how it crashes just as you touch the load preset button. So I no longer do that in a full scene because...hello, hadn't saved it! Cursing ensued. The second thing is is trying to move an item witha preset attached. More cursing. Am I then to assume that one only applies a preset when you have just opened up DS, there is nothing else in the scene but the item you want furry, that the item is in exactly the place you want it in your scene and is posed to your requirements? Cos that's a bit harsh and not really workable. I started this process because I wanted to buy the full product but if I spend all my time swearing at the computer it's not going to be a good purchase. Some assistance would be appreciated. PS: Windows 7 Pro, DS 4.8.

    Lorraine

    Do not parent the LAMH preset to the item.  It will follow on its own.  Leave the preset in the lowest level of the scene.  Also, the Player does not support rendering in Iray, only 3Delight.  To use Iray with the player requires more steps to output and OBJ and imprt that.

    Kendall

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  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    timmins.william said:

    Is there any way to apply the LAMH shaders directly to some other product, like Unshaven 2?

    It'd be nice if you could, so that there's some consistency of appearance.

    I'm not sure they would give the same results unfortunately - the fibermesh geometry is, well, mesh, but the LAMH Renderman hair is made out of "curve primitives".

    On a side note, is it possible to save a scene with a LAMH asset in it that has non-LAMH shaders applied, and have this scene later load with the custom non-LAMH shaders?

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    Mustakettu85 said:
    timmins.william said:

    Is there any way to apply the LAMH shaders directly to some other product, like Unshaven 2?

    It'd be nice if you could, so that there's some consistency of appearance.

    I'm not sure they would give the same results unfortunately - the fibermesh geometry is, well, mesh, but the LAMH Renderman hair is made out of "curve primitives".

    On a side note, is it possible to save a scene with a LAMH asset in it that has non-LAMH shaders applied, and have this scene later load with the custom non-LAMH shaders?

    In answer to both questions:

    1) the LAMH internal shaders are indeed internal, and apply to the splines and their properties.  They would not be of much help for geometry, IMO.  Alex may disagree.

    2) There is currently a bug that makes custom applied shaders saved via .duf "disappear".  It is long overdue (blame me), but there is an update for LAMH on the way.  One of the fixes is for this issue.

    Kendall

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933

    Great to hear a fix is planned, Kendall, thank you for replying.

  • lorraineopualorraineopua Posts: 643
    Kendall Sears said:
    lorraineopua_282f2aa302 said:

    Hi there

    I've just started using the LAMH player with presets taken from the furry website. And I am having difficulties. Fatal error difficulties. The first thing is how it crashes just as you touch the load preset button. So I no longer do that in a full scene because...hello, hadn't saved it! Cursing ensued. The second thing is is trying to move an item witha preset attached. More cursing. Am I then to assume that one only applies a preset when you have just opened up DS, there is nothing else in the scene but the item you want furry, that the item is in exactly the place you want it in your scene and is posed to your requirements? Cos that's a bit harsh and not really workable. I started this process because I wanted to buy the full product but if I spend all my time swearing at the computer it's not going to be a good purchase. Some assistance would be appreciated. PS: Windows 7 Pro, DS 4.8.

    Lorraine

    Do not parent the LAMH preset to the item.  It will follow on its own.  Leave the preset in the lowest level of the scene.  Also, the Player does not support rendering in Iray, only 3Delight.  To use Iray with the player requires more steps to output and OBJ and imprt that.

    Kendall

    Hi Kendall

     

    Thank you for the advice, I will try it tomorrow. I did get a sort of fix by exporting the hair and parenting the obj only to the item. It worked for the Lyne's rabbit preset which turned into a were-rabbit if the rabbit was resized down and the preset applied. The obj resized properly and no were-rabbit ensued. I am using 3DL so the player will be fine until I get the full plugin. Once again, thanks for the advice,

    Lorraine

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    lorraineopua said:
    Kendall Sears said:
    lorraineopua_282f2aa302 said:

    Hi there

    I've just started using the LAMH player with presets taken from the furry website. And I am having difficulties. Fatal error difficulties. The first thing is how it crashes just as you touch the load preset button. So I no longer do that in a full scene because...hello, hadn't saved it! Cursing ensued. The second thing is is trying to move an item witha preset attached. More cursing. Am I then to assume that one only applies a preset when you have just opened up DS, there is nothing else in the scene but the item you want furry, that the item is in exactly the place you want it in your scene and is posed to your requirements? Cos that's a bit harsh and not really workable. I started this process because I wanted to buy the full product but if I spend all my time swearing at the computer it's not going to be a good purchase. Some assistance would be appreciated. PS: Windows 7 Pro, DS 4.8.

    Lorraine

    Do not parent the LAMH preset to the item.  It will follow on its own.  Leave the preset in the lowest level of the scene.  Also, the Player does not support rendering in Iray, only 3Delight.  To use Iray with the player requires more steps to output and OBJ and imprt that.

    Kendall

    Hi Kendall

     

    Thank you for the advice, I will try it tomorrow. I did get a sort of fix by exporting the hair and parenting the obj only to the item. It worked for the Lyne's rabbit preset which turned into a were-rabbit if the rabbit was resized down and the preset applied. The obj resized properly and no were-rabbit ensued. I am using 3DL so the player will be fine until I get the full plugin. Once again, thanks for the advice,

    Lorraine

    Scaling down dramatically after application of the preset can be a problem with some items.  There are technical issues involved, but your solution is sort of a solution.  The LAMH preset has a specific length set to the hairs by the person who created the preset. The Free Player does not give you the option to change the length to match like the full version does.

    Kendall

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392

    Alessandro,

    Captain Serena, of the Emperor's Elite Guard, with one of his pet kittens.

    http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/109219

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • sara.sunrose_fd126bed5esara.sunrose_fd126bed5e Posts: 5

    Hi!

    I recently downloaded the Look At My Hair Player to test out the presets for it, especially the millennium cat one thats available and ooks lovely in the presets page on the furrythings website. Unfortunately I don't have enough money to spend to get the actuall Look A My Hair plugin, but hope i will someday soon.

    Now as I downloaded the cat fur preset, found here: http://www.furrythings.com/presets/ and applied it to my cat model, i noticed it doesnt quite look the same as in the thumbnail, because the fur hairs were too few, but I managed to figure out how to solve it by adding more hair which was great. But another issue I haven't been able to fix is, that it leaves some patches on the face without fur, and it looks a little bit strange.

    I attached an image of a render I did to show what I mean.

    Is there anything I can do to make it look better without having the actual Look At My Hair plugin?

    Thanks for any help! :)

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  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,629
    sara.sunrose_fd126bed5e said:

    Hi!

    I recently downloaded the Look At My Hair Player to test out the presets for it, especially the millennium cat one thats available and ooks lovely in the presets page on the furrythings website. Unfortunately I don't have enough money to spend to get the actuall Look A My Hair plugin, but hope i will someday soon.

    Now as I downloaded the cat fur preset, found here: http://www.furrythings.com/presets/ and applied it to my cat model, i noticed it doesnt quite look the same as in the thumbnail, because the fur hairs were too few, but I managed to figure out how to solve it by adding more hair which was great. But another issue I haven't been able to fix is, that it leaves some patches on the face without fur, and it looks a little bit strange.

    I attached an image of a render I did to show what I mean.

    Is there anything I can do to make it look better without having the actual Look At My Hair plugin?

    Thanks for any help! :)

    I assume that is an Iray render?

  • sara.sunrose_fd126bed5esara.sunrose_fd126bed5e Posts: 5

    No thats actually 3Delight as the fur wouldn't render in Iray for some reason, I think I just don't know what settings I should tinker with in order to make it work in the iray renderer. :)

  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,629
    sara.sunrose_fd126bed5e said:

    No thats actually 3Delight as the fur wouldn't render in Iray for some reason, I think I just don't know what settings I should tinker with in order to make it work in the iray renderer. :)

    Ok! To render in Iray you first have to convert the LAMH hair to .OBJ (there is a button to click for that, in the LAMH pane). About the specific issue on the cat preset you are using, I'd try to increase the hair count and use a better lighting, with some Ambient Occlusion, so that hair roots blend better with the underlying model geometry and show less discontinuity between areas with and without hair. There where you see no hair, it's because the preset is using a density map that is blank on areas around the nose etc.

  • sara.sunrose_fd126bed5esara.sunrose_fd126bed5e Posts: 5

    Okay, thank you for your help! I will test your tips and see how it goes.

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 563

    I had LAMH on my computer and it was working fine. I recently ended up Erasing/uninstalling everything, re-installing DAZ and now I can't find my LAMH. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several times, and no tab shows up in Create or in the Window Panes. I even re-installed it from my product page. My serial number shows up on DAZ3D.com, but the reinstall doesn't ask for it and it doesn't show up in plug-ins, so, apparently it's not ACTUALLY installing.  Win10/64. Thanks!

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

    I had LAMH on my computer and it was working fine. I recently ended up Erasing/uninstalling everything, re-installing DAZ and now I can't find my LAMH. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several times, and no tab shows up in Create or in the Window Panes. I even re-installed it from my product page. My serial number shows up on DAZ3D.com, but the reinstall doesn't ask for it and it doesn't show up in plug-ins, so, apparently it's not ACTUALLY installing.  Win10/64. Thanks!

    Look in "c:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/plugins".  You should see both a lamhPlugin.64.dll file as well as a folder called lookatmyhairAM.  If these aren't there, then it didn't get installed.  If they are, then there is likely a problem with your DAZ Studio environment.  In that case, try reselecting your "style" in the WIndow->Style menu. That may reset the menus for your DS and make it appear.

    Kendall

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 563

    There are both there in the place you specified. I'll try the change style.

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 563
    Kendall Sears said:

    Look in "c:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/plugins".  You should see both a lamhPlugin.64.dll file as well as a folder called lookatmyhairAM.  If these aren't there, then it didn't get installed.  If they are, then there is likely a problem with your DAZ Studio environment.  In that case, try reselecting your "style" in the WIndow->Style menu. That may reset the menus for your DS and make it appear.

    Kendall

    Okay, changed the style and the workspace, still nothing. I added a directory path in the database manager to point to that folder to see if that would help, nothing. And as I said, both the folder and the .dll are in the right place.

    Thanks.

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:
    Kendall Sears said:

    Look in "c:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/plugins".  You should see both a lamhPlugin.64.dll file as well as a folder called lookatmyhairAM.  If these aren't there, then it didn't get installed.  If they are, then there is likely a problem with your DAZ Studio environment.  In that case, try reselecting your "style" in the WIndow->Style menu. That may reset the menus for your DS and make it appear.

    Kendall

    Okay, changed the style and the workspace, still nothing. I added a directory path in the database manager to point to that folder to see if that would help, nothing. And as I said, both the folder and the .dll are in the right place.

    Thanks.

    go to Help->About Installed Plugins... and see if Look at my hair is listed as installed properly.

    Kendall

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 563
    Kendall Sears said:
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:
    Kendall Sears said:

    Look in "c:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/plugins".  You should see both a lamhPlugin.64.dll file as well as a folder called lookatmyhairAM.  If these aren't there, then it didn't get installed.  If they are, then there is likely a problem with your DAZ Studio environment.  In that case, try reselecting your "style" in the WIndow->Style menu. That may reset the menus for your DS and make it appear.

    Kendall

    Okay, changed the style and the workspace, still nothing. I added a directory path in the database manager to point to that folder to see if that would help, nothing. And as I said, both the folder and the .dll are in the right place.

    Thanks.

    go to Help->About Installed Plugins... and see if Look at my hair is listed as installed properly.

    Kendall

    It wasn't. Allessandro has been helping too. I think I fixed it now. He had a question about whether I installed to the normal paths. I checked and I had a Studio and a Studio4, so I copied the files from the Studio4 plugin area and pasted them to the Studio plugin area (Which also had the Look at me Hair folder, but not IN the plugin folder itself) Now, it is coming up and i just have to re-register it to activate.  Thank you!

  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:
    Kendall Sears said:
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:
    Kendall Sears said:

    Look in "c:/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/plugins".  You should see both a lamhPlugin.64.dll file as well as a folder called lookatmyhairAM.  If these aren't there, then it didn't get installed.  If they are, then there is likely a problem with your DAZ Studio environment.  In that case, try reselecting your "style" in the WIndow->Style menu. That may reset the menus for your DS and make it appear.

    Kendall

    Okay, changed the style and the workspace, still nothing. I added a directory path in the database manager to point to that folder to see if that would help, nothing. And as I said, both the folder and the .dll are in the right place.

    Thanks.

    go to Help->About Installed Plugins... and see if Look at my hair is listed as installed properly.

    Kendall

    It wasn't. Allessandro has been helping too. I think I fixed it now. He had a question about whether I installed to the normal paths. I checked and I had a Studio and a Studio4, so I copied the files from the Studio4 plugin area and pasted them to the Studio plugin area (Which also had the Look at me Hair folder, but not IN the plugin folder itself) Now, it is coming up and i just have to re-register it to activate.  Thank you!

    Glad to hear you got it fixed.

    Kendall

  • Tiger Lee ArtsTiger Lee Arts Posts: 41

    i am unable to get to the create new Look at my hair interface in daz 4.8 or 4.9 please help. i uninstalled and reinstalled. still didnt come up.

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  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    edited March 2016
    Tiger Lee Arts said:

    i am unable to get to the create new Look at my hair interface in daz 4.8 or 4.9 please help. i uninstalled and reinstalled. still didnt come up.

    Which version are you trying to use (Free player or the full plugin)?  If you had the player installed and want to install the full version, you must first uninstall the player.  Then you can install the full plugin.

    Kendall

    Post edited by Kendall Sears on
  • Tiger Lee ArtsTiger Lee Arts Posts: 41
    edited March 2016
    Kendall Sears said:
    Tiger Lee Arts said:

    i am unable to get to the create new Look at my hair interface in daz 4.8 or 4.9 please help. i uninstalled and reinstalled. still didnt come up.

    Which version are you trying to use (Free player or the full plugin)?  If you had the player installed and want to install the full version, you must first uninstall the player.  Then you can install the full plugin.

    Kendall

     

    i have full version and have had it for a while it worked in 4.6 where i made my perset for daz dragon 3. but i need to make a change to the perset for smaller dragons. when i got i unistalled the free player and then installed full. here is how i used my daz dragon 3 preset i made.

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  • Kendall SearsKendall Sears Posts: 2,995
    Tiger Lee Arts said:
    Kendall Sears said:
    Tiger Lee Arts said:

    i am unable to get to the create new Look at my hair interface in daz 4.8 or 4.9 please help. i uninstalled and reinstalled. still didnt come up.

    Which version are you trying to use (Free player or the full plugin)?  If you had the player installed and want to install the full version, you must first uninstall the player.  Then you can install the full plugin.

    Kendall

     

    i have full version and have had it for a while it worked in 4.6 where i made my perset for daz dragon 3. but i need to make a change to the perset for smaller dragons. when i got i unistalled the free player and then installed full. here is how i used my daz dragon 3 preset i made.

    The menu in screenshot that you have above is showing the free player.  So that is showing that the free player dll is in the plugins folder for that install of DS.  Delete the player dll and then install the full again.

    Kendall

  • Tiger Lee ArtsTiger Lee Arts Posts: 41

     

     

    Kendall Sears said:
    Tiger Lee Arts said:
    Kendall Sears said:
    Tiger Lee Arts said:

    i am unable to get to the create new Look at my hair interface in daz 4.8 or 4.9 please help. i uninstalled and reinstalled. still didnt come up.

    Which version are you trying to use (Free player or the full plugin)?  If you had the player installed and want to install the full version, you must first uninstall the player.  Then you can install the full plugin.

    Kendall

     

    i have full version and have had it for a while it worked in 4.6 where i made my perset for daz dragon 3. but i need to make a change to the perset for smaller dragons. when i got i unistalled the free player and then installed full. here is how i used my daz dragon 3 preset i made.

    The menu in screenshot that you have above is showing the free player.  So that is showing that the free player dll is in the plugins folder for that install of DS.  Delete the player dll and then install the full again.

    Kendall

    ok that worked thank you

     

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