{"id":18911,"date":"2022-05-25T05:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T05:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=18911"},"modified":"2022-05-26T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:13:03","slug":"fiber-shop-2-now-perpetual-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2022\/05\/25\/fiber-shop-2-now-perpetual-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber Shop 2, now perpetual-licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cgpal.com\/fibershop\/\">Fiber Shop 2<\/a> is a standalone real-time 3D hair creator, with export to .FBX as strands or &#8216;cards&#8217;. Version 2.2 is now available on a perpetual licence (it had been subscription) and at a reasonable $120 at present. There is a free non-commercial version which restricts the resolution of the texture-map exports and you don&#8217;t get things like the gradiated root-to-tip textures. Windows only.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fshop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fshop2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"588\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fshop2.jpg 310w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fshop2-158x300.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What you don&#8217;t appear to get is a real-time &#8220;on the head&#8217; view on a showroom-dummy head, it&#8217;s just the hair-cards that are previewing in real-time. You need to be able to round-trip to some 3D software that has actually built the hair mesh, so far as I can tell.  I&#8217;m not sure if such round-tripping is possible with DAZ or Poser. Though it is with ZBrush and suchlike.<\/p>\n<p>As for an art-AI to &#8216;add hair to a bald 2D render&#8217; from DAZ or Poser, that&#8217;s still at the level of academic research papers so far as I can tell. But it&#8217;s doubtless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YNY_ZEuDncM\">coming soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiber Shop 2 is a standalone real-time 3D hair creator, with export to .FBX as strands or &#8216;cards&#8217;. Version 2.2 is now available on a perpetual licence (it had been subscription) and at a reasonable $120 at present. There is a free non-commercial version which restricts the resolution of the texture-map exports and you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18921,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions\/18921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}