PhilW's Beanie Hair

nakamuram002

Can this hair be used without a beanie or hat?  If so, what does it look like?

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-beanie-hair-for-genesis-8-and-81-females

tsroemi

I don't think it can, it seems that the beanie doesn't morph an existing, complete hair, but is sort of a part of the hair really. The second set, with the hat, seems to have a morph as well, but that's explicitly for other hairs.

nakamuram002

Thanks tsroemi.  Too bad it can't be a "stand-alone" hair.

tsroemi

You might want to try this, it can be used with any dForce hair you have: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-hair-helper-and-knitted-hat.

PhilW

nakamuram002 said:

Can this hair be used without a beanie or hat?  If so, what does it look like?

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-beanie-hair-for-genesis-8-and-81-females

The whole point of this hair and the companion Brimmed Hats is that it is easy to use a hat without worrying about pokethrough or the fit of the hat with the hair, it is a very convenient way of using a hat with a character. The hair itself does not exist under the hats, it grows from a small gap between the edge of the hat and the head.

Having said that, I realised that some people may want to use Brimmed Hats with other dynamic hairs, I have therefore included morphs which raise and scale up the hat. This enables you to set up a simple animation with the hat either raised or scaled up in frame 1 and then lowered into place over the course of a short animation, compressing the dynamic hair under it. If you still get a little pokethrough after simulating, you can gently scale the hat back up to hide this, or there are other morphs in the hat which may help. If you get a really difficult hair, you could always do two renders, one with the hat and hair, one with just the hat and no hair, and composite the two renders together.

I hope that helps. If you want something with just the hair and no hat, maybe one of my other hairs would meet your needs better. 

nakamuram002

Thanks for your reply, PhilW!!