will victoria 4 HAIR work with Genesis or Genesis2Female

winberry

I am trying to find Betty Paige Hair and all I find is a Victoria 4...will that work with Genesis2Female? thanks!

Jotaerre

It depends of what you want to do, if you want to fit the hair, possibly you'll need this product: http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female but on the other hand you can use non compatible hairs parented to the figure's head, just need some small adjust in scale and position to use them, I do it a lot due to the lack of stuff I have, even with hairs that are not native to Daz Studio/Poser.

JQP

winberry said:

I am trying to find Betty Paige Hair and all I find is a Victoria 4...will that work with Genesis2Female? thanks!

Autofit gives its best results with hair, IMO. Because hair is so thick compared to clothing, "poke through" or its opposite aren't very apparent. Adding a smoothing modifier is sometimes a good idea, too. Autofit has made all the hair conversions I painstakingly made over the years obsolete. But almost all of the hairs in my library are for V3 and V4, and autofit is designed to convert V3/v4 conforming figures to Genesis, you will have different results if you use hair designed to conform to characters auto-fit doesn't recognize.

Smoothing modifiers also work for getting a tight fit with prop hairs, which is good because autofit only works with figure hairs. I like to add the prop hair to the scene, translate and scale it until it's as close as I can get it, then add a smoothing modifier, tweak, and done. Also, in my experience, most prop hairs have a "scalp" surface, or the like. In that case, it's very helpful to go into the surfaces tab and turn down the opacity in all of the hair's other surfaces to 0, so only the "scalp" surface is visible. Then you can get a much better idea of how the hair is actually fitting. Then turn the opacity back up when you're done.