Daz hair imported to blender question

olleahlstrom

Hi all

I am fairly new to both daz and blender and I have been trying to import a figure from daz to Blender using the Diffeomorphic addon. I have understood that the hair I use is a dForce hair and I have made some ajdustments I found online to give it some sort of color instead of pitch black as it was at first. However, as you can see in the image below, the Daz version has a lot of depth to the colours while the hair look weird in Blender and has a uniform colour. I think the color map difference has to do with that in Daz there are 6 different surfaces that although they use the same texture images, have slightly shifting values on properties like "PS hair" etc.. when the surfaces are expanded. Does anyone know if their is a way to fix this or should I just admit defeat and move on? Imo, the shifted look on the hair make a world of difference in the feel of realism.

Padone

Hair conversion is approximated for dforce hair, especially if you use the principled option for materials as the principled shader is limited compared to iray. You can try to use the BSDF option for materials instead, which will convert better to Hair BSDF, then you can tweak there.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/shader/hair.html

Non-dforce hair, aka transmapped or ribbon or geometry hair, are converted the same as iray, always if you use BSDF materials. So approximation is limited to dforce or SBH. Be aware that there is some confusion in terminology, as some PAs use dforce to mean dforce applied to geometry hair, so the only way to know is to read carefully the description and look at the preview images, or ask in the forum before purchase if in doubt.

https://github.com/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Material_Methods

It is also possible to avoid the hassle and use native blender hairs instead, that is probably the best choice also considering most daz hairs are extremely heavy.

https://superhivemarket.com/products/global-hair

olleahlstrom

Padone said:

Hair conversion is approximated for dforce hair, especially if you use the principled option for materials as the principled shader is limited compared to iray. You can try to use the BSDF option for materials instead, which will convert better to Hair BSDF, then you can tweak there.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/shader/hair.html

Non-dforce hair, aka transmapped or ribbon or geometry hair, are converted the same as iray, always if you use BSDF materials. So approximation is limited to dforce or SBH. Be aware that there is some confusion in terminology, as some PAs use dforce to mean dforce applied to geometry hair, so the only way to know is to read carefully the description and look at the preview images, or ask in the forum before purchase if in doubt.

https://github.com/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Material_Methods

It is also possible to avoid the hassle and use native blender hairs instead, that is probably the best choice also considering most daz hairs are extremely heavy.

https://superhivemarket.com/products/global-hair

Ok, sorry bout a late reply and thank you for your feedback on this. I will probably go for a native Blender hair as I'm not familiar with the technicalities of this stuff.