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How do you grow the hair again, in LAMH?

Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,275
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I seem to be stuck again, in "Look At My Hair" - http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair for those who aren't familiar with this product.

I've selected the surface polygons that I want covered (essentially the entire figure)... now what?

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  • ElliandraElliandra Posts: 642

    Have you checked out Alessandro's site? He has tutorials and presets on it that should help you get back in the game quickly!

    www.furrythings.com

    Elli

  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,652
    Roman_K2 said:

    I seem to be stuck again, in "Look At My Hair" - http://www.daz3d.com/look-at-my-hair for those who aren't familiar with this product.

    I've selected the surface polygons that I want covered (essentially the entire figure)... now what?

    Hi Roman, see the manual starting from page 11, it will show how to select follicles and grow the guide hair, and style them. Latest pdf can be downloaded here: http://www.furrythings.com/LAMH1.5/LAMH.manual.1.5.zip

     

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,275

    Ok, I did everything on p.11. It took me a while to find the "Grow Hair" button on p.13, thanks. Test render in progress, okay so the tail is a bit scruffy, what can I say, first attempt with LAMH 1.5.  Just a couple of iterations so far.

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  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,652
    Roman_K2 said:

    Ok, I did everything on p.11. It took me a while to find the "Grow Hair" button on p.13, thanks. Test render in progress, okay so the tail is a bit scruffy, what can I say, first attempt with LAMH 1.5.  Just a couple of iterations so far.

    Is this a 3DL render or you converted to OBJ and used Iray? To have a more diversified fur look, make sure to read further and 'randomize hair lenght': that will create a better variation of strands.

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,275

    Thanks, my scruffy "test" render was Iray. However I wasn't always able to do Iray so I'm glad this is coming along so to speak.

    I guess the secret was in the setup, and also I had no idea what I was doing, when I attempted to style the fur.

    **I think** in a DS 4.8 session the garbage collection may not be 100% if you have been using certain products, objects, shaders and settings, and then you close the scene and attempt to work on a completely different scene say, with different lights and shaders and so on, and you've switched rendering engines, AND you didn't such DS down completely prior to running it again. I may be wrong....

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,275
    Elliandra said:

    Have you checked out Alessandro's site? He has tutorials and presets on it that should help you get back in the game quickly!

    www.furrythings.com

    Oh yes, it's great. When I ran DIM recently it clearly had the LAMH update marked, and I got the new manual separately from the furry things web page. I also took some of the settings for the cat and dogs, and the Silverkey giraffe, and so on. smiley

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,830
    edited December 2016
    Roman_K2 said:

    Thanks, my scruffy "test" render was Iray. However I wasn't always able to do Iray so I'm glad this is coming along so to speak.

    I guess the secret was in the setup, and also I had no idea what I was doing, when I attempted to style the fur.

    **I think** in a DS 4.8 session the garbage collection may not be 100% if you have been using certain products, objects, shaders and settings, and then you close the scene and attempt to work on a completely different scene say, with different lights and shaders and so on, and you've switched rendering engines, AND you didn't such DS down completely prior to running it again. I may be wrong....

    It's like that even if you are just doing multiple renders consecutively in DAZ 4.9, even if it's the same scene.

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  • Alessandro MastronardiAlessandro Mastronardi Posts: 2,652

    If it may be of any help, here is a tutorial I did some time ago showing how to export and set things from LAMH to Iray. cheers

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