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I’m trying to make hair work for Poser using DSON. I have everything installed properly and up to date, Poser 2012 Pro with latest update.

I’m not having any luck. Is there a tutorial for doing this specifically?

Maybe you should be more specific and say which hair is giving you problems?

Well none, really. I was just looking for a tutorial in general. Sorry!

Hair should be no different from other props or figures.

Richard Haseltine - 02 November 2012 06:09 AM

Hair should be no different from other props or figures.

Hmm okay. I’m not having any luck with the hair working. I’m working with the Bubblegum hair right now. I’m not sure what to post info wise so you can help me, but nothing shows up and all of the scaling parameter dials are at 0. It doesn’t change anything if I set them to anything higher.

Did it come with companion files or is it something you’ve converted yourself?

Richard Haseltine - 03 November 2012 06:20 AM

Did it come with companion files or is it something you’ve converted yourself?

It’s one without companion files. I have saved it as a duf.

It has been updated for DSON, just reset your download.

Or you can use .duf you have created,

Right click Content Library tab and flyout comes, select “Create Poser companion files” and new box fly out
Check radio buttons for “selected *.duf files” and “use this library”—>HR2 (metadata not needed, but you can use if you have it)
Click “Accept” and is done, new hr2 will appear in Hair folder “DSON Conversions” by default in Poser.

Medzin - 03 November 2012 06:16 PM

It has been updated for DSON, just reset your download.

Or you can use .duf you have created,

Right click Content Library tab and flyout comes, select “Create Poser companion files” and new box fly out
Check radio buttons for “selected *.duf files” and “use this library”—>HR2 (metadata not needed, but you can use if you have it)
Click “Accept” and is done, new hr2 will appear in Hair folder “DSON Conversions” by default in Poser.

Okay I did exactly as you said and this is what happens. (Screenshot)

On this particular hair, I noticed that it does not bring over textures if you are saving the PCF as textured.
The transparency is set to 1.0 in Poser and the hair not seen.
If you had brought over the untextured model, it would appear as such.

You will have to save one or more of the hair shaders as material presets and bring those over as companion files and apply them

Apply the color you want, hit add button in lower left and save as “Material Preset” then make PCF .mc6 from those and apply in Poser

Medzin - 05 November 2012 08:06 PM

On this particular hair, I noticed that it does not bring over textures if you are saving the PCF as textured.
The transparency is set to 1.0 in Poser and the hair not seen.
If you had brought over the untextured model, it would appear as such.

You will have to save one or more of the hair shaders as material presets and bring those over as companion files and apply them

Apply the color you want, hit add button in lower left and save as “Material Preset” then make PCF .mc6 from those and apply in Poser

Okay hmm.. I did this, and the hair shows as having ‘None’ in the material room. I can’t add anything to it.

It’s completely invisible, even though I have tried parenting it to Genesis’s head.

If there aren’t any materials, is that why it’s not showing up? Or is it something else causing the dials to be all at 0, including scales?

If you switch to wireframe preview can you see the hair’s mesh?

Try to reload the material :
select the hair - click on the little triangle in the top right of the preview window - select “reload textures”

The problem you are having is related to the .duf file.
By way of background, the hair figure file only contains a command to execute the .py file in that folder.
The python script will process the .duf into what ever.
I would try resaving the original .dsf as .duf, but this time change change Vendor name to yourself (or anything).
That puts it in different chain in case it is overwriting something pertaining to original.
It may be necessary to reinstall the hair in case the conversion did overwrite something

Are you absolutely sure that \Data\Michelle\Hair\PH Bubblegum is in one of the folders you have selected as an external library folder in Poser?

Richard Haseltine - 06 November 2012 01:58 PM

Are you absolutely sure that \Data\Michelle\Hair\PH Bubblegum is in one of the folders you have selected as an external library folder in Poser?

OP is using PP2012, making library external is usually only necessary in Poser 9.
I believe the “\data…” files are not created to the first running of the figure file and should appear in the same runtime you are working in

I meant a library folder, not the library pane, when I wrote external library. I’m not sure what the current official term is - we always used to say Runtimes but that seems not to be used as often. Any way, the path i gave is the path for the actual “definition” files, placed by the core installers, and that is where the geometry, uv maps and morphs live so Poser needs access to it - either in the same library folder as the companion files or in another that is selected in Poser as an external library/Runtime folder.