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A Marschner melanin based hair shader for 3Delight in DAZ Studio 4.7 onwards. Works best with AWE Shading Kit and the included 3Delight scripted renderer …

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A Marschner melanin based hair shader for 3Delight in DAZ Studio 4.7 onwards. Works best with AWE Shading Kit and the included 3Delight scripted renderer option available in the kit. Packaged as a DIM compatible installer. If you want a manual install, you will need to extract the files and place them manually inside both your runtime folders (presets) and DAZ studio 'Program Files' folder (support files).

Apply presets to any hair surface, adjust parameters and render.

To use the melanin and red melanin parameters as primariy inputs, set the 'Override Hair Color' parameter to 100%. A value below 100% means a blend between the melaninn / red melanin values and diffuse color and texture in the Hair Color slot.

The 1st specular sets the white highlights, the 2nd the colored specular. When enabled, translucency will be handled automatically between dark/light hair. If your specular strength maps are too dim, you might have to remove them completely.

Other options control variations of roughness/melanin values of the hair, including the option to have a ramp between the hair root and tip. Ramp is based off v coordinates of UVs. Also includes an opacity optimization with texture maps and gamma/saturation controls for diffuse/color maps. « Less