Strand based hair. where to get guidebook? any ideas for realistic hair?

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• MelanieL Posts: 7,817

  March 2020

  Yes, SBH suffers from the usual DAZ "why no documentation?" problem. I believe that the Garibaldi docs are the best you can get (for now).

  There's also this forum thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/335676/strand-based-hair-mini-tutorial/p1 which may have some useful stuff to get started.

  This was the official thread which (despite it's title) is mostly about SBH: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/326996/dforce-hair-as-well-as-strand-based-hair-and-the-strand-based-hair-editor-in-public-beta/p1 - it is very long but there are some examples and helpful hints by general forum users too.
• daveso Posts: 7,961

  March 2020

  MelanieL said:

  Yes, SBH suffers from the usual DAZ "why no documentation?" problem. I believe that the Garibaldi docs are the best you can get (for now).

  There's also this forum thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/335676/strand-based-hair-mini-tutorial/p1 which may have some useful stuff to get started.

  This was the official thread which (despite it's title) is mostly about SBH: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/326996/dforce-hair-as-well-as-strand-based-hair-and-the-strand-based-hair-editor-in-public-beta/p1 - it is very long but there are some examples and helpful hints by general forum users too.

  thanks. I will check them out.

   
• lilweep Posts: 2,802

  March 2020

  SBH is basically the old garibaldi express plugin for daz, so any garibaldi literature or tutorial is mostly valid.  Obviously if they start going into 3dl shader properties in the garibaldi tutorial, you can just ignore that since you should probably use the sbh iray shader.
• Asari Posts: 703

  March 2020 edited March 2020

  In my experience 3D (long) hair tends to look most realistic if it's wavy but this is also the most difficult look to achieve. A lot of ultra-realistic hairs with all different hair creation systems tend to be hair with lots of waves or curves. My guesstimation would be that wavy hairs have the geometry structure to allow the transmission settings of hair shaders to truly shine. From what I see regarding DAZ SBH this seems no different. YMMV.

  Unfortunately wavy hair is way more difficult to create than straight hair, especially with the tools and the controls available in the SBH editor. If you get it 8tight you will be awarded with great looking hair, but it will take patience and exercise until you get there.

  Post edited by Asari on March 2020