Wet hair day

Dazzle

So, I've crafted a G8F character, and she is a little bit gorgeous in my opinion. Her Prae-Nixie hair is the icing on the cake.

But problem... she took a shower. How to handle wet hair? Prae does 'Actual Wet Hair', and it's about the right length, but I didn't notice until now that it's only for V4 & La Femme.

Should I/can I:
- buy Prae's wet-hair product and adapt it to G8F? Is that possible?
- impose a wet look on the Prae-Nixie hair product I just bought? How would I do that?
- hide the problem by wrapping a towel around G8F's head? But I can't find one, or a prop that I can adapt, or figure out if dForce can help me drop one into place
- persuade Prae that she need to update her invaluable product :)

Logically, I'm probably going to have to think about wet skin after this. Suggestions on that would also be welcome.

Steam can wait until next month.

felis

I don't know what hair you are talking about, but I don't think that you just can apply a wet look to that, as wet hair looks very different from dry hair in terms of shape.

If the wet hair for V4 is in a format you can use in Daz Studio, you can parent the hair to the character.

Edit to add: wet body should most likely be added as a geoshell with a droplet or wet shader.

FSMCDesigns

There is this https://www.daz3d.com/long-wet-hair-with-dforce-for-genesis-8

Dazzle

Thnakd fo the quick reply - the product is this one

I understand your comment about shape. I just wondered if I could make it lose shape using dForce or some other technique.

On droplet/wet shaders, do you have a suggestion? I'm using Daz, btw.

barbult

Then Linday's short Wet Hair is portably appropriate. It also includes wet skin geometry shell presets.

Dazzle

Thanks for that link. It's a little on the expensive side for me, but if it has wet skin effects then maybe it will be the better value for me. I'll examine it more closely :)

RobotHeadArt

If you want to keep the same hairstyle here's what you could do.

Select all of the hair's surfaces except the Cap, change the Cutout Opacity to no limits and set the value from 1 to 25.
On the selected surfaces, give Top Coat a value of 1, Top Coat Roughness .35, and Top Coat IOR 1.35.  You will need to play with the settings a bit based on the light setup of your scene.
Apply a very small amount of Dforce to the hair surfaces beside the cap to cause the volume to shrink and "stick" to the skin more.

Dazzle

Thank you for the suggestion - I will give that a try.

I did try dForcing the hair a few days ago, and all the strands fell out, but your post gives me confidence that there there a 'right' way to attempt that operation. I still have a lot to learn.

EDIT: for the benefit of anyone searching for solutions to similar problems, zoro_d's (free) Everyday Style Hair for G8M includes 'wet hair' morphs, and may be useful if a G8F short hairstyle gets wet. Adamthwaites also has a wet hair product