How to add dforce to polygon hair?

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• rosseliani Posts: 506

  August 14 edited August 15

  Basically you add Dforce Dynamic Surface to your hair
  Create new dForce Modifier Weight Node
  With Node Weight map Brush, Add a new map
  Select the "roots" polygons and Cap Surface, fill with 0% value
  Invert Selection, fill with 100%
  Smooth as you like
  Try Simulate

  Good luck!

  https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/user/5207251866353664#gallery=newest&page=1&image=1376030

  Post edited by rosseliani on August 15
• kpr Posts: 291

  August 14 edited August 14

  • Wait for an appropriate sale
  • Buy this: https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-archmage

  Great one-click helper included to apply dForce nodes to non-dforce things (have used on a couple of poly-hairs with great results). Highly recommended

  Post edited by kpr on August 14
• Masterstroke Posts: 2,300

  August 15 edited August 15

  Thank you both. That will take a while. There is obviously no easy way. The archmage script might work great on clothes, but not for hair.
  Doing it by hand is a piece of work, in order to catch every hair bone or material patch in order to avoide major hair loss.
  At least I know, why that hair didn't come "dforced" in the first place.
  
  https://www.daz3d.com/hs-haruko-dual-length-hair-for-genesis-9-8-and-81-females
  
  So out of all the DAZ hairs availeble, only two remain usable for my project.
  This mentioned hair would look perfect, but it comes without dforce, strand based hair is a memory hog. 

  Post edited by Masterstroke on August 15
• Masterstroke Posts: 2,300

  August 15

  Forget it guys. The hair layers are too messy. There is no way of a proper weight mapping.
  Thank you so much for your help.
  I do need a huge break from all this.