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Volta Hair and Beard for Genesis 8

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Product Name: Volta Hair and Beard for Genesis 8
Product ID: 69599
Published Artist(s): Daz Originals
Created By: AprilYSH, Laticis Imagery
Release Date: 2020-05-06

Product Information

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dForce Volta Hair and Beard for Genesis 8 is a wonderful and stylized hair for your characters!

dForce Volta Hair is a rigged and morphing dForce strands model of a messy, layered, long hair, which comes with the Volta Hat, a parented prop model of a tricorn hat. The hair's bangs(fringe) and shoulder sections have an articulate rig consisting of 5 custom bones, and the hair conforms to the character's neck and collar movements.

The Volta Beard includes 6 morph settings for different beard lengths, plus wearable matchsticks with lit and unlit settings to give your character an extra fearsome look.

Get the dForce Volta Hair and Beard for Genesis 8 for your next sailing, pirate, or adventure scene! Notes:

ERC dial sliders help fit your figure poses beyond the 16 sample hair poses provided. The dForce hair is grown on a skull cap which is fitted for Genesis 8 Male(s) & Female(s) (.DUF) and auto-follows most character head shapes.

Iray and 3Delight diffuse color presets are included. You can modify the tints by changing the diffuse color of the hair.

Characters, clothing, and environment not included. Please see notes below for “Additional Products used in Promo Images.”

Product Notes

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Volta Hair and Beard for Genesis 8 (Core)

  • You can find new icons for loading this product in the following DAZ Studio Folders:
    • “People:Genesis 8 Female:Hair:dForce Volta Hair”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Female:Hair:dForce Volta Hair:Materials 3Delight”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Female:Hair:dForce Volta Hair:Materials Iray”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Female:Hair:dForce Volta Hair:Style and Poses”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:Volta Beard”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:Volta Beard:Materials Beard:3Delight”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:Volta Beard:Materials Beard:Iray Expansion”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:Volta Beard:Materials Beard:Iray”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:Volta Beard:Materials Matchstick”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:Volta Beard:Shape Presets”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:dForce Volta Hair”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:dForce Volta Hair:Materials 3Delight”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:dForce Volta Hair:Materials Iray”
    • “People:Genesis 8 Male:Hair:dForce Volta Hair:Style and Poses”
  • You can find new icons for this product in the following DAZ Studio Categories:
    • “Accessories:Hair”
    • “Documents”
    • “Hair:Face”
    • “Hair:Long”
    • “Materials:Hair:Hair Colors”
    • “Materials:Iray:Hair:Hair Colors”
    • “Materials:Iray:Hair:Settings”
    • “Materials:Iray:Props”
    • “Materials:Iray:Wardrobe”
    • “Materials:Wardrobe”
    • “Poses:Hair”
    • “Props:Tools”
    • “Shaping:Apply”
    • “Simulation-Settings”
    • “Wardrobe:Headwear”

Additional Details

  • To use the hair:
  • Single frame method:
    • 1. Apply Simulation Preset Provided: “Simulate Single Frame”
    • 2. Load Genesis
    • 3. Load Hair and apply material and style presets
    • 4. Apply a pose to the figure, and (if required) apply a starting hair pose to make sure the hair is not intersecting shoulders or other bodyparts.
    • 5. [Optionally] click “Simulate” to drape dForce Hair
    • 6. [Optionally] and/or use hair morphs/poses to enhance final drape movement
  • Timeline method:
    • 1. Apply Simulation Preset Provided: “Simulate Timeline”
    • 2. Load Genesis
    • 3. Load Hair and apply material and style presets
    • 4. Go to frame 15 and apply a pose to the figure, and (if required) apply a hair pose to the hair. (Make sure hair doesn't pass through the body between frame 1 and your applied poses in frame 15 or else add intermediate poses in between those two frames to make sure the hair is not intersecting shoulders or other bodyparts.)
    • 5. [Optionally] click “Simulate” to drape dForce Hair (You may need to extend total frames to 90 or longer to give hair time to settle depending on the pose.)
    • 6. [Optionally] and/or use hair morphs/poses to enhance final drape movement
  • dForce Hair render checklist:
    • 1. Daz Studio must be version 4.11 or later.
    • 2. Nvidia driver is 430.86 or later.
    • 3. dForce Starter Essentials content is installed and up to date.
    • 4. Make sure you haven't currently got a geometry editing tool selected, select the pointer tool (Node Selection Tool) instead and then try to render again.
    • 5. If you are doing viewport renders instead of final (new window or direct to file) renders, apply my “Preview Render On” preset (sets “Viewport Tesselation” 2+ and “PR Preview” on.)
    • 6. System check by loading the free simple mohawk in a new empty scene and test if that renders for you. (Installed with dForce Starter Essentials and found in Content LIbrary > [your library] > People > Genesis 8 Male > Hair > Strand-Based Hair Samples - and also in the Genesis 8 Female folder.)
  • Useage Tips:
    • Fit the hat to the character and apply the “Hat On” preset to the hair.
    • Use the dForce hair bones or ERC sliders to pose with or without dForce simulation.
    • Use dForce wind node to create further movement in the hair.
    • You can easily modify hair colors by selecting your own diffuse color settings for the hair.
    • After posing, use the style and movement morph dials to match you figure's pose and also ensure fitting.
    • You need at least one light in the scene that will provide the specular highlighting!

Resolved Issues

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Known Issues

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The contents of this package are in DAZ Studio Native formats