Hi, Has anyone had any good tips on how to fix daz hair using hair physics? My problem is when I apply hair physics onto daz hair, the hair keeps stretching and falling down and doesn't stop. I've played around with the weight map and hair settings
but not much luck. This example shot is using Vertigo Hair for Genesis 8 female and I'm using a section of the pony hair (FullPonyHair) to move around freely.
Any ideas? 
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I'm going to reply to you publicly so that others might benefit (but I'll also send you my email addy so you can more effectively communicate with me - PMs here and email through this forum is tedious and tricky at best).

I played around with this hair.  There are a couple of things you need to be aware of - first and foremost is the hair is VERY dense in polys.  So you MUST reduce it to use in iClone.  Good news is that the default settings get it down from around 500K to 80K (which is at the edge of usable - I like my hair to be no more than 50K polys IF it needs to work with physics.  If not you can definitely use denser hair).  Second is that bringing this hair in through CC you should use accessory, and then adjust the width so the cap covers the head.  THEN turn it into hair.  Both of those things are pretty standard for almost any Daz hair.

Now as to the physics issue - this hair isn't constructed well for physics.  First it has three layers for the ponytail, and all of them use different UV maps.  And the UVs are not very good themselves - they are actually "broken" in the middle.  This is hard to see unless you bring in the object via something like 3D Coat (which I always recommend for such things, although there are other programs out there).  

I tried remapping it - but that's way beyond my pay grade.  Folks better able to do so could give it a try.  But - some Daz hair isn't worth using in iClone.  As always, I tell folks if they have ANY question before buying, just ask me and I'll be glad to check it out.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Thanks Mike! I really appreciate you replying. Yeah you're right this hair is a mess to work with especially the uv maps. I'm probably not going to use it which is sad because I really love this hair and it really suits my character for my Youtube Series. 
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I'm going to look around and see what other hairs I can come up with or just stick with it and wait if I can figure it out. 

Thanks for your help! Really love your tutorials!