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As this render shows M4 hair is sticking through his hat. How do I keep this from happening? I’m working on a Mac Pro 8 core in OSX 10.6.8 with Daz4 4.0.3.47. Any help?

I usually use Dforms, and a bit of post work to cover any little bits that are left.

You can also render just the hat, then layer that over the full render and erase it as needed to only mask out the unwanted hair. Lyrra has a set of magnets to help with fitting hair under hats.

Add to above it also depends on what the material zones are like as I have had some sucess in taking out the trans maps for certian zones and use 0% Opacity making certain parts of the hair invisible

Richard mentioned Lyrra’s magnet / deformer set. It can be found here http://www.daz3d.com/shop/deformers-plus-hat-head/

You can also use the “Polygon Group Editor” tool to select the hair polys that are poking thru and make them invisible.

Kendall

Kendall Sears - 13 July 2012 06:21 AM

You can also use the “Polygon Group Editor” tool to select the hair polys that are poking thru and make them invisible.

Kendall

Oh yeah I use that and never thought of doing that for hair Kendall. I am going now before I look more stupid….what you say too late. LOL

Kendall Sears - 13 July 2012 06:21 AM

You can also use the “Polygon Group Editor” tool to select the hair polys that are poking thru and make them invisible.

Kendall

I need to make a note here.  If using the PGE and you need to save the results, don’t use “Polygon Visibility -> Hide Selected” as this will not be retained across DS4 sessions.  If you need the “hides” to be persistent then use “Polygon Assignment -> Create Surface from Selected…”  to create a new Material Group.  Then you can assign all of the other polys to this same group.  From the surfaces tab, set the Opacity to 0% and you’ve now permanently set those polys invisible for that scene.

Kendall

Kendall Sears - 13 July 2012 07:49 AM

Kendall Sears - 13 July 2012 06:21 AM

You can also use the “Polygon Group Editor” tool to select the hair polys that are poking thru and make them invisible.

Kendall

I need to make a note here.  If using the PGE and you need to save the results, don’t use “Polygon Visibility -> Hide Selected” as this will not be retained across DS4 sessions.  If you need the “hides” to be persistent then use “Polygon Assignment -> Create Surface from Selected…”  to create a new Material Group.  Then you can assign all of the other polys to this same group.  From the surfaces tab, set the Opacity to 0% and you’ve now permanently set those polys invisible for that scene.

Kendall

Thanks so much for this, I just happened to need this today and it works like a charm. I actually never used the PGE until today but I was able to find it in the menu and follow your steps quickly.

Thanks again.