How to use any hair on any Daz figure (CLOSED)

This example uses a Daz G9 hair and a G8F figure
1 Load you G8 figure
2 Unclick the G8 figure...make sure you have nothing in the scene selected

3 Find your G9 hair

4- With nothing selected, load your hair

5- You will get something like this

6-With only the hair selected goto the Parameters tab

You have translate and scale sliders for the hair
You will need to scale the hair up for most G8 characters (I start at 103% or so)
Slide and scale the hair so that it looks right and is positioned correctly

In order to position a G9 hair correctly you'll probably need to change the 'Nudge' setting
All the G9 comes with the Nudge setting to high by default
Each slider has it's own parameters you can change and 'Nudge' is one of them
I prefer a nudge of 0.1 for adjustment



8 - Once you have your hair scaled and in place where you want it, now you parent it (NOT Fit it)
Click on the Hair and right click on Change "name of hair" Parent

9 A menu will pop up
Select G8's head in the menu
Click 'Accept'

Your G9 hair is now it's own entity in the scene and is parented to the G8 character, so it shows up where it is parented

Since it hasn't been messed with it can be adjusted with it's ordinary sliders

You now have a G9 hair on a G8 character that is fully functional
I have had hairs in the past that don't work well by simple scaling and parenting....but that was back when I was using Poser 10
I suspect that most G9 hairs should work well for this
I currently use this method to put V4 hair that does not convert well to G8 on G8 characters
I hope this helps
1 Load you G8 figure

2 Unclick the G8 figure...make sure you have nothing in the scene selected

3 Find your G9 hair

4- With nothing selected, load your hair

5- You will get something like this

6-With only the hair selected goto the Parameters tab

You have translate and scale sliders for the hair
You will need to scale the hair up for most G8 characters (I start at 103% or so)
Slide and scale the hair so that it looks right and is positioned correctly

In order to position a G9 hair correctly you'll probably need to change the 'Nudge' setting
All the G9 comes with the Nudge setting to high by default
Each slider has it's own parameters you can change and 'Nudge' is one of them
I prefer a nudge of 0.1 for adjustment



8 - Once you have your hair scaled and in place where you want it, now you parent it (NOT Fit it)
Click on the Hair and right click on Change "name of hair" Parent

9 A menu will pop up
Select G8's head in the menu
Click 'Accept'

Your G9 hair is now it's own entity in the scene and is parented to the G8 character, so it shows up where it is parented

Since it hasn't been messed with it can be adjusted with it's ordinary sliders

You now have a G9 hair on a G8 character that is fully functional

I have had hairs in the past that don't work well by simple scaling and parenting....but that was back when I was using Poser 10
I suspect that most G9 hairs should work well for this
I currently use this method to put V4 hair that does not convert well to G8 on G8 characters
I hope this helps
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Thank you for this tutorial, which allows you to downgrade a hair.
I can add that it is possible to save this version to use it later on a morphed genesis.
1) export in obj format (File / Export menu)
2) import the obj file (File / Import menu)
3) use Transfer Utility (Edit / Figure / Transfer Utility menu)
Source: Genesis
Target: Hair
Show Options to chose the Projection Template : Follower/Hair

Save as a new hair in your Library folder
I can add that it is possible to save this version to use it later on a morphed genesis.
1) export in obj format (File / Export menu)
2) import the obj file (File / Import menu)
3) use Transfer Utility (Edit / Figure / Transfer Utility menu)
Source: Genesis
Target: Hair
Show Options to chose the Projection Template : Follower/Hair

Save as a new hair in your Library folder
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guy91600
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Fri, Aug 25, 2023Almost 2 years ago I wrote a tutorial in French explaining the transfer of hair from G8F to Antonia.
I explain all the phases, with screenshots, until the backup in "duf" format that dorothee237 explains succinctly.
As it is free and in doc and pdf format, it is easily translated by copying and pasting with a translator.
https://www.renderhub.com/forum/4763/how-to-use-any-hair-on-any-daz-figure
I explain all the phases, with screenshots, until the backup in "duf" format that dorothee237 explains succinctly.
As it is free and in doc and pdf format, it is easily translated by copying and pasting with a translator.
https://www.renderhub.com/forum/4763/how-to-use-any-hair-on-any-daz-figure
Some hairs work better than others for that (from my experience). The good thing is that the top of the head is a fixed entity (no movable joints) allowing for hair and headwear to be placed with relative ease.
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PDF of my Tutorial in the well hidden Tutorial section
https://www.renderhub.com/bikdingle/how-to-use-any-hair-on-a-daz-figure
https://www.renderhub.com/bikdingle/how-to-use-any-hair-on-a-daz-figure
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Oh thanks. I didn't know about the Nudge setting yet. There's hope for my G9 yet 

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