Asking for help/experiences concerning FeSoul hair products

maikdecker

I recently bought FE Long Hair Vol 01 for G8F and experienced several problems (see below) and would now like to ask other people here on the forum about their own experiences and possible solutions/workarounds for my problems, as I have two more FeSoul hair products in my wishlist (FE Young Girl Vol 2 for G8F and FE Short Hair Vol 4 for Genesis 8) and I would of course love to know what to expect from these products before shelling out any money for them (and maybe encountering similiar problems as now).

So.. here's my experiences with the Long Hair Vol 1 product:

• when loading the hair on the basic G8F a message says "Building Projection Map", with the whole process taking ~5 minutes. Okay, G8F isn't mentioned as a supported figure, so I tried it with Alexandra 8, which is supposed to be (and the hair even offers a morph slider for her). Alas, the result is the same: Building Projection Map for 5 minutes again...
• when reading the description, I was happy to see that the product comes with 20 styles and 6 adjustment morphs. I overlooked the fact, that - except for morphs to fit the hair to some figures - there's no other morphs available and also no bones used for the braids/long hair on the front side, while also all the styles are binary (on/off) which allows only a very, very limited control about the looks of the hair
• when trying to find a solution to the "missing bones/morphs" problem, I tried two options: dForcing the hair, with painting a dForce weight map after applying the dForce modifier and using Mesh Grabber to move the inmobile parts of the hair. DForce might have worked, but as I failed to see a result after several minutes of the dForce modifier being applied and then another 5 minutes passing to see the counter reaching the "1% finished" mark, I just gave up... The same happened with Mesh Grabber, as even a small change took several minutes to show any effect. So no solution for my problem here...

So now the questions I have to users of other FeSoul hair products (especially the other two mentioned above)

1. do these two products offer morph sliders for the morphs mentioned in the description, or are there only the same binary on/off morphs I already encountered?
2. are the load times decent or could I again expect 5+ minutes before the hair is fit to a figure?

 

Taoz

FE Long Hair loads (from Content Library) in about 15 seconds here on both G8F base and a random G8F character I've tried.  And that's on 10+ year old hardware, not a super computer.

If you look under Parameters there are some more morphs, they're greyed out but they seem to work anyway, see screenshot.  There are also dials for applying the style morphs gradually.

 

maikdecker

Taoz said:

FE Long Hair loads (from Content Library) in about 15 seconds here on both G8F base and a random G8F character I've tried.  And that's on 10+ year old hardware, not a super computer.

If you look under Parameters there are some more morphs, they're greyed out but they seem to work anyway, see screenshot.  There are also dials for applying the style morphs gradually.

Thanks for Your answer

With Your help I found the greyed-out dials and tried them. The pJCM.. ones seem only have little effect (at least when applied at 100%) but at least offer some help in the shoulders/neck area. The gradual style morphs are a bit more helpful, even when they tend to see mis-positioning of the bow(knot)s, which seem to get transferred from braid to another during the transformation, and therefor end up floating in the air inbetween.

The hair does LOAD very fast on my computer, too, but then follows a phase of Projection Map Building, in which it is accessible, as it seems, but which makes me hesitant to work with it. Probably only a personal thing...

In the end, I got the product for $ 1.99 from the PC+ Sale, so even it's - for me! - not fully operational, I will keep it.

Still the questions about the other hair products stand... any info about them?

Taoz

OK, I see what you mean by Building Projection Maps now, hadn't noticed the message on the Status bar.

I have two other FE hairs:

https://www.daz3d.com/fe-short-hair-vol-3-for-genesis-8-male-and-female   which has 20 different Expand All morphs, but nothing else.

https://www.daz3d.com/fe-fantasy-hair-vol-1-for-genesis-8-females   which also has the Building Projection Maps delay (1:15 on my system), 6 Expansion morphs, and 12 working pJCM style morphs.  The tail also has some Expansion and style morphs.

maikdecker

Taoz said:

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I have two other FE hairs:

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Thanks again for Your help. 

It's now easier for me to decide if I will buy further hair products by this PA