Adding dForce to Non dForce Hair..

Ghosty12

A little while ago I came across this little gem of a tutorial video by Parmy Baddhan on how to add, dforce to non dforce hair and it works a treat to a point.. As I have found that certain hair types such as those that use wide strip polys for the hair, tend not to look so well when they are simulated.. 

The hair that Parmy uses for this tutorial is the Voss hair that comes with Vicky 8 as it has smaller strands of polys, so any hair like that works better with dForce..  One big thing that is mentioned in the video, is that this method does not work to well with hair that does not have a hair cap/scalp..

He also has a link in the video to another great bit of information on the recommended dForce settings too..

FSMCDesigns

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-master-hair-simulation-presets-for-dforce-cloth-engine

none give great results in my expreince, so I just stick with hair designed for dforce

Ghosty12

FSMCDesigns said:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-master-hair-simulation-presets-for-dforce-cloth-engine

none give great results in my expreince, so I just stick with hair designed for dforce

Ahh doh I knew there was a reason I never posted about this before, I completely forgot about that product, and true dforce specific hair does work better to a point.. Problem is that I have had a couple of dforce hair products, that take forever to start rendering due to the amount of geometry data they use..

On all of this, in forgetting that the product linked existed, if the information in my OP encroaches on said product, I will be totally fine if a forum mod to removes this thread.. :)

nicstt

FSMCDesigns said:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-master-hair-simulation-presets-for-dforce-cloth-engine

none give great results in my expreince, so I just stick with hair designed for dforce

I find dforce hair quick to render; simulating can be time-consuming for some of them, but then lots of gravity can help. Gravity is a quickfix that often works, and when it doesn't getting creative with settings works.

... I just prefer Blender, much more versatile, but sometimes also as frustrating and time-consuming.

Ghosty12

nicstt said:

FSMCDesigns said:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-master-hair-simulation-presets-for-dforce-cloth-engine

none give great results in my expreince, so I just stick with hair designed for dforce

I find dforce hair quick to render; simulating can be time-consuming for some of them, but then lots of gravity can help. Gravity is a quickfix that often works, and when it doesn't getting creative with settings works.

... I just prefer Blender, much more versatile, but sometimes also as frustrating and time-consuming.

I suppose it could be the type as I do have some dforce hair products that do render fast.. It is just these few hair products that for reasons I don't know they take ages to initialize, and start rendering and when they do render just the hair itself will take up to nearly 7GB of vram..