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Dforce sidelayed messy hair Help please

prinzeugenprinzeugen Posts: 39
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I use Daz 4.12   Just downloaded this hair... Wow 1GB ...files are getting big folks.. I cannot get this hair to work... I add to the  figure and the hair is all over .. I make sure the hair is Highlighted and click on one of the hair poses ..Hair moves but does not look like the pose... In d force cloths it will not reconize the hair.... I cannot get the tutorial movie files to load as I do not have direct connect .. What a mess , paid what I think is a lot for this and cannot get it to work

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  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,006
    You shouldn't need DAZ connect to view the videos, if you downloaded them just access them outside of DAZ Studio. When you say it won't recognize the hair when you try to dforce it, what do you mean? Is there an error? Have you been able to use dforce on any other items? And are you up to date on the DAZ Studio version? It won't look like the promos if you don't dforce it, unlike some clothes the dforce isn't optional for this.
  • jardinejardine Posts: 1,217

    there's a .pdf guide to using the hair that you should be able to find in your product library, in the base folder for the sidelayered messy hair.  just click on it.  :)

    the hair poses are for simulating in dForce.  the icons show where the hair will have fallen after you run the simulation.

    apply the hair to your figure.   then pose your figure.

    select the hair in the scene that, then select the pre-simulation shape for the hair by clicking your icon of choice and apply it.

    make sure that you also apply the two presets that don't have picture icons to the hair while you have the hair selected.  one tells the dForce tab not to start the simulation from the base pose.  the other one specifies that the dForce simulation will run for 60 frames.

    go your dForce simulation panel, and click 'similate' or 'run similation,' whatever the button is.

    the hair will gradually fall into shape.

    good luck!

  • prinzeugenprinzeugen Posts: 39
    edited January 2020
    jardine said:

    there's a .pdf guide to using the hair that you should be able to find in your product library, in the base folder for the sidelayered messy hair.  just click on it.  :)

    the hair poses are for simulating in dForce.  the icons show where the hair will have fallen after you run the simulation.

    apply the hair to your figure.   then pose your figure.

    select the hair in the scene that, then select the pre-simulation shape for the hair by clicking your icon of choice and apply it.

    make sure that you also apply the two presets that don't have picture icons to the hair while you have the hair selected.  one tells the dForce tab not to start the simulation from the base pose.  the other one specifies that the dForce simulation will run for 60 frames.

    go your dForce simulation panel, and click 'similate' or 'run similation,' whatever the button is.

    the hair will gradually fall into shape.

    good luck! 

    thank you for the tips  It works but my old quad core only gets to about 20% and then daz stops working... looks like d-force hair is to much for this old machine... 

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,228

    I have that dForce hair and no other, and an old quad core PC too. When just running in CPU it wouldn't really touch it, things improved when I got a GTX1060 card which would do it. Most of the time, provided I set the simulation setting 'Start from memorized pose'  to 'off', it works well. Otherwise it crashes.

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

  • ThyranqThyranq Posts: 589

    You can try some things like removing the textures from the hair, that will lighten the load on the scene. There's an option in the dforce settings for the quality of the drape. It's set to "Best" by default, you can set it to "Better" with pretty much no loss of quality, that'll help too (Simulation Settings Panel, click on "Simulation", and it's on the bottom tagged "Collision Mode" with a dropdown menu.

     

    Linday, the vendor, also recommends turning off visibility on fibremesh eyelashes and eyebrows, as they slow it down considerably. Anything else in the scene that the hair won't touch can also be hidden to help out.

     

    I really hope you can get it working - it's my absolute favourite hair that I have. It looks amazing once it's draped. Good luck!

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