dforce hair

VEGA

Hello, I have a question how to memorize after simulation dforce hair with figure pose. I can memorize figure pose for simulation but the hair seems to be reseted every time I hit simulate button. Any solution for this please? I want to simulate a hair and then continue simulation without the hair going again from default state.

Richard Haseltine

Simulations can't be paused, you can freeze a simulation (but then it won't repsond at all) or you can export as OBJ, import, rerig, and use thata s a starting point for a new simulation (but of course you will need tor eapply any weight maps or special material settings, which I think are likely to be required on the hair models that have been released for dForce).

DrNewcenstein

Select the hair, then in Parameters, there's a Simulation>Freeze on/off button. 

If you're trying to get the hair first then clothing, you may want to do the hair last if it lays on top of the clothing (unless the hair is supposed to be under the clothing, like an overcoat or hat).

VEGA

Thanks for the tips will try them. I tried to simulate the hair and after it's simulated try to memorize to frame 0 and continue from there but didn't work. But I noticed that making visible and not visible figure through timeline frames helped me, but I don't know how to make not visible whole figure in simulation.

DrNewcenstein

If you can toggle visibility with keyframes, then you have to set a keyframe for them to reappear.

Memorizing to Frame 0 means the hair will take the shape it had at Frame 0, if Timeline is used instead of Current Frame. 

However, you can freeze the simulation in the hair's Parameters pane, under Simulation. That will allow you to run simulations on other items in the scene without re-running it on the hair.

Click the options box in the Simulation Pane and select "Reset dForce Simulation for selected item" if you have to reset anything but don't want to reset the hair.