Hair Creation Suggestions?

[jujubee]

I'm looking for a realistic way to create highly realistic hair without too much fiddling. Don't have money for Shagfur (nor have I had the pleasure of using it.) But I do have Poser. Do you guys/gals have any great suggestions or links to accomplish this without any heavy render times??? i'm kinda tired of looking at bald poser characters...

-juju

[tammo]

poser is a nice way of getting realistic hair.
you can get some high quality third party hair for it.

renderorsity

daz3d

kozaburo
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[jujubee]

but what about importing it into Max??? I've always had issues with the results...

[Gastrok]

It does take some trial and error, but poser characters with hair can be used in max with pretty good results, for example:



This is a pretty low quality render done in vray...just to show that it's possible

[owiik]

hi, I tested som opacity mapped planes and I think it worked very well.
Higlights are still missing, I have not been able to get any good results yet. I am using vray material btw.






Ola

[jujubee]

Gastrok- what version of poser and max are you using? I've never been able to get those kind of results- my hair materials always end up importing with wrong UVs and the opacity is always messed up. Sometimes I get too many polygons with an export.

Your render may be low quality- but a really nice job on that one.

Owiik- vray material for the hair? I'm slightly confused by what you mean.

-jujubee

[owiik]

(vray material for the hair? I'm slightly confused by what you mean. )

well not much actually , just that I used vray material that comes with the advanced version of vray. Rendering opacity mapped "planes" with max standard material and Vray GI takes too long...but then again I am not sure how to achieve a good higlight effect with the vray material.