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Strand based dForce hair ?

Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,639
in Daz Studio Discussion

This has appeared in the store today but I'm not exactly sure what it is. Do you get a strand based hair system built into Studio 4.11 without buying Look at my Hair or the other one ?  If it is, can you make your own hair in Studio by placing and styling the strands or do you have to create it in a modelling application, or in some specialised dForce hair creator ? Is there any documentation on this ?

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,816

    Yes, DS 4.11 included a new feature allowing you to create strand-based hair inside DS. It’s an evolution of the Garibaldi hair system which used to be available as a plugin (rewritten and enhanced by DS team).

  • TomCatOliverTomCatOliver Posts: 195

    There's a thread about it here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/326996/dforce-hair-as-well-as-strand-based-hair-and-the-strand-based-hair-editor-in-public-beta/

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,639
    Leana said:

    Yes, DS 4.11 included a new feature allowing you to create strand-based hair inside DS. It’s an evolution of the Garibaldi hair system which used to be available as a plugin (rewritten and enhanced by DS team).

    Thank you for the clarification. I've got the 4.11 beta installed, I'll have a look and see if I can work out how to use it.

  • PsyckosamaPsyckosama Posts: 495
    Peter Wade said:
    Leana said:

    Yes, DS 4.11 included a new feature allowing you to create strand-based hair inside DS. It’s an evolution of the Garibaldi hair system which used to be available as a plugin (rewritten and enhanced by DS team).

    Thank you for the clarification. I've got the 4.11 beta installed, I'll have a look and see if I can work out how to use it.

    Hair physics is a PA only feature. Because reasons.

     

  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,639
    Psyckosama said:
    Peter Wade said:
    Leana said:

    Yes, DS 4.11 included a new feature allowing you to create strand-based hair inside DS. It’s an evolution of the Garibaldi hair system which used to be available as a plugin (rewritten and enhanced by DS team).

    Thank you for the clarification. I've got the 4.11 beta installed, I'll have a look and see if I can work out how to use it.

    Hair physics is a PA only feature. Because reasons.

     

    Thank you for clearing that up. I've started experimenting with strand based hair. This explains why everytime I try to add a dForce modifier it says the hair doesn't have a valid mesh. I won't waste any more time trying to fix this.

    Does anyone know if there are plans to make dForce strand based hair creation available to us lesser mortals? Maybe for a small fee?

  • TheKDTheKD Posts: 2,696

    Doubt it, they didn't with the HD tool only daz vendors can get.

  • lflpereira001lflpereira001 Posts: 3
    edited June 2019

    Greetings laugh

     

    I have been experimenting with the new Strand Hair, and I'm running into a relatively big problem: While making straight hair and naturally curly hair is pretty easy, I can't find a way reasonable way to make curled hair with it.

     

    The only way I can see is to manually curve the control splines into a spiral point by point for each curve. And honestly, that's a bit insane. Not to mention any attempt to comb it afterwards will lead to the curls being unmade.

     

    This is the hairstyle I was attempting to reproduce:

    https://i.imgur.com/Axf8Ow0.png

    Is there a practical way to do this or is it a hopeless situation? sad

     

    I apologize if I'm hard to understand. English isn't my first language.

     

    EDIT: Another question: Is there a way to comb the curves with X axis symmetry?

    Post edited by lflpereira001 on
  • nicholassbishopnicholassbishop Posts: 0
    lflpereira001 said:

    Greetings laugh

     

    I have been experimenting with the new Strand Hair, and I'm running into a relatively big problem: While making straight hair and naturally curly hair is pretty easy, I can't find a way reasonable way to make curled hair with it.

     

    The only way I can see is to manually curve the control splines into a spiral point by point for each curve. And honestly, that's a bit insane. Not to mention any attempt to comb it afterwards will lead to the curls being unmade.

     

    This is the hairstyle I was attempting to reproduce:

    https://i.imgur.com/Axf8Ow0.png

    Is there a practical way to do this or is it a hopeless situation? sad

     

    I apologize if I'm hard to understand. English isn't my first language.

     

    EDIT: Another question: Is there a way to comb the curves with X axis symmetry?

    Did you ever find out if there are symmetry options for the strange based hair editor? I'm particularly interested for side-burns, as they should ideally have perfect symmetry. 

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