Trams mapped hair

[pete1144]

The hair is called "Jamie_V4 Hair". Here are the shots....I hope they help.

[face_off]

Pete, can you try right clicking Hair_1, Hair_2, etc and select "Reconvert from Poser" for each? Its possible the scene has just been saved with the blank material conversion.

Also, if oyu load the hair prop into a blank, new Poser scene and render in Octane, does it work correctly?

Paul

[pete1144]

I'll try both tomorrow.

[Erick]

It looks like the image maps for diffuse and opacity didn't find their way into the Octane scene.
Can you try put them in by hand?
(changing the diffuse node to "image", put in the missing diffuse map of the hair part and changing the opacity node to "floatimage" and put in the trans.map of the hair part)

[pete1144]

Success, at last. I don't know what happened exactly. Somehow the image maps in my V4 hair folder became unlinked to my materials....even in Poser renders. I decided to "pull the plug" (Poser/Octane) and reinstall it. It is working fine, now. Must have been a corrupted file or some such. I'll send the render, later.

[pete1144]

Hair is working now.

[xxdanbrowne]

That looks really awesome!

I'm having problems getting hair to render in Octane too.

Would you mind posting a screen shot of your node settings in Octane?

[xxdanbrowne]

Never mind: through reading a ton of posts and trying things I figured it out.

For those who are still clueless - in order to render hair from e.g. daz studio or poser, it comes with mesh (an .obj file), color maps and transparency maps.

What you do is this:
export the obj file from daz (or poser) and include all the materials.
When you import the .obj into octane your mesh has input nodes for the various materials which correspond to the layers of hair strips. Each of the hair strips has an associated color map and transparency map. Go through them one by one, assigning a glossy material to each one. For the color texture set the texture to image and choose the corresponding color map. Additionally in each glossy texture for each layer assign the transparency maps as images to both the bump and the opacity slots. Also set the normal to 0.14.

The settings are by no means perfect but at least they render in something like a semblance of hair instead of solid wood.

[bpzen]

Are there plans to have the plug in do this type of conversion its getting tedious to make all these changes to hair and skin.. :0/

[face_off]

Are there plans to have the plug in do this type of conversion its getting tedious to make all these changes to hair and skin.. :0/

The plugin should be doing this automatically. I haven't had any reports that it's not!