The Daz Tiger Man has poor face hair. Anybody here ever imported hair from the Daz "Look At My Hair (LAMH)" plugin?




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Tried but it's not really designed for iClone rendering.

In general hair for animation programs is VERY different than hair for stills - and in general, Daz has a lot of hair for stills (particular the fibermesh system, which is useless in iClone).  What is REALLY needed is a native hair shader, which is how ALL decent animation programs do it, but we don't have one and guess on the timetable for it?  (A clue - I'll be long dead.  Yeah, that's not a lot of help because I won't be around much longer but it will be a while, if ever, that it comes because we've been requesting it for over a decade now).

Best bet is just to ramp up those bump and displacement maps as much as you can.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Thanks, that thing costs 50$.


"Less clicks good, more clicks bad."

Yes, displacement... Might give you some impression of fur volume. But not for the closeup and it's sensitive to lighting.

I used this map:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lkM0Hrat6Eavamx8mwTM2qqoJqSFgDQy/view?usp=drive_link





Slightly improved the height pattern and boosted it to 8K
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PELdST2som8RsEGmDvT7xa1Nx8u1-VY4/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for your time and effort. It's noticeably better, but the pic on the wall shows it up. I can leave the tiger as is, and change the pic on the wall (heh heh). I'm not sure the average viewer would notice the missing face hair. Anyhow, I was taught "The drawing can never BE the object." It will be used as a cartoon, after all. This approach has a certain appeal to me. You know, quit when I'm winning.

- I can change him to a female lion.

- I can change him to a Leopard.

The male lion has a huge mane, and would likely have the same hair issue. This hair doesn't even look good in Daz. There is something about this character's hair, too, that has been making RL crash on import. The Daz LAMH plugin appears to be very character specific, and leaves off at G3. Too bad. I'm going to take a copy of your map (it is an improvement) and fool with it, but I may have to be (ugh) more flexible.
I'll be back.



"Less clicks good, more clicks bad."

Here is a possible alternative to the Daz fiber mesh lion mane.
it's a simple conforming mesh with trans maps
on sale for half price
https://www.daz3d.com/panthera-mane-whiskers-and-eyebrows-for-genesis-9

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Looks great. Definitely worth trying.

Be aware this is VERY unlikely to be usable in CC4, let alone iClone (animating this is going to be a bitch).

It took my VERY fast (well, a bit old 3090 with 24GB) almost five minutes just to export from Daz. It came in fairly nice with Transformer, but the hair itself is over a million polys (so almost unusable as is).

I tried decimating it to see if it kept its looks.  Here it is at the recommended settings:


 which is STILL nearly 300K (hair alone - I didn't do the beard or sideburns).

Honestly I don't think I'd try it unless strictly for stills.  But it's up to you.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Yeah, I spotted that mane. It's a bit too stylized for me, but yes, at least we imported some hair.

Now and then I see a picture of a Bengal female with little or no face hair. I went that way for now.



"Less clicks good, more clicks bad."

RAG DOLL COLLISION ANIMATIONS FOR ICLONE 8 & 7
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Ghost Origins

My latest Feature length film created with Iclone.

My Sci- Fi Graphic Novel on Amazon: https://a.co/d/9k3cwoY

My IMDB listing
Anabran Abdhul Quarnain - IMDb