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Any substitute hairs I can use for Blender?

cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259
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I’m trying to learn Blender, but I’ve heard it’s difficult to import DAZ hair. Does anyone know a good solution or another marketplace where I can get hair for characters? I also need the hair to work with the physics system

 

thanks 

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  • PadonePadone Posts: 4,069
    edited December 2025

    https://bartoszstyperek.gumroad.com/l/hairtool

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  • cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259

    @Padone, thanks for the reply. Do these hairs work with the new physics system? 

  • LiliumVALiliumVA Posts: 26

    This one just came out, and I'm having a lot of fun with it for stills. Not tried it for animation yet, but using something like hairflow would work if you needed it. 

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

  • takezo_3001takezo_3001 Posts: 2,037
    edited December 2025

    LiliumVA said:

    This one just came out, and I'm having a lot of fun with it for stills. Not tried it for animation yet, but using something like hairflow would work if you needed it. 

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

    Thanks for posting this!yes

    I have the linked tab pinned in my browser! 

    This will come in very handy for my eventual transition to blender, though, I still have to get used to using blender's UI/menus/lingo let alone importing gen9 characters with full JCM support, so it's a tricky beast as it's not really intuitive; I can only speak for myself though…

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  • cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259

    Thanks for the reply I have successfully imported hair using Diffomorphic, but it doesn't look as nice as it does in DAZ? Does anyone know a fix around? 

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  • PadonePadone Posts: 4,069

    You have to tweak the material yourself, eventually, as SHB materials are approximated. There's no fix.

  • cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259

    Padone said:

    You have to tweak the material yourself, eventually, as SHB materials are approximated. There's no fix.

    I see is there any shaders or materials I can buy through a Blender add-ons to make them nicer looking? Or will it not work because it's a DAZ asset? 

  • PadonePadone Posts: 4,069

    The "make hair" tool already allows you to choose specialized shaders for hair, namely "hair bsdf" and "hair principled", then you can tweak them.

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

  • cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259
    edited December 2025

    Padone said:

    The "make hair" tool already allows you to choose specialized shaders for hair, namely "hair bsdf" and "hair principled", then you can tweak them.

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

    ohh ok ill check it out thank you for the help :)

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  • DrGonzo62DrGonzo62 Posts: 385
    edited December 2025

    Hi,
    After a lot of trial and error, I was able to get DAZ hair looking good enough in Blender for my taste.
    You'll have to dig into the Diffeo created shader to learn where to tweak. But once you understand the effect of certain shader nodes, you'll know what to do.
    Start by setting shininess very high in DAZ and then look at the resulting Diffeo shader to find out where to tweak it.
    I don't think it is currently possible to make the hair look as nice in Blender as it does in DAZ, but you can get it close.
    Building brand new hair just for Blender is way more work as far as I'm concerned.

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  • cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259
    edited December 2025

    DrGonzo62 said:

    Hi,
    After a lot of trial and error, I was able to get DAZ hair looking good enough in Blender for my taste.
    You'll have to dig into the Diffeo created shader to learn where to tweak. But once you understand the effect of certain shader nodes, you'll know what to do.
    Start by setting shininess very high in DAZ and then look at the resulting Diffeo shader to find out where to tweak it.
    I don't think it is currently possible to make the hair look as nice in Blender as it does in DAZ, but you can get it close.
    Building brand new hair just for Blender is way more work as far as I'm concerned.

    awesome thanks for this :) how do I change the shine in daz? glossiness? or somthing else? i never really edited sufaces in Daz xD

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • DrGonzo62DrGonzo62 Posts: 385

    Hi,
    You'll have to experiment with that. No way around it.
    Some hair assets let you adjust their shininess with material presets. See what changes are being made to the shaders in DAZ.

  • cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259

    I'll have a play around I'm still new to Blender but i think it's worth learning in the end thank you for the help :) 

  • DrGonzo62DrGonzo62 Posts: 385

    You're welcome!
    I've converted to Blender less than a year ago, and while it is a pretty brutal uphill climb, it is also very rewarding.
    Since just a few weeks ago, I'm finally able to create renders in Blender that are comparable to DAZ.
    And setting up scenes can be so much faster than it is in DAZ! But, a lot of learning went into that as well.

    Enjoy! yes
     

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  • cosmicdawnseriescosmicdawnseries Posts: 259
    edited December 2025

    Thanks for your help oh she looks amazing! ill try and have a play around, i hope in the future someone can make Blender shaders for hair or something similar 

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