All images from Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide by Kelly L. Murdock.

This is the next in a new series of excerpts from the Thomson Course Technology book Poser 7 Revealed: The e frontier Official Guide. In the next few months, VFXWorld readers will develop the skills needed to create, render and animate scenes and projects using the amazing tools offered by Poser 7. We will offer step-by-step tutorials for each task, followed by projects that allow readers to apply each new skill.

What You'll Do

In this lesson, you learn how to grow guide hairs and set the hair's length and initial position.

After you define a hair growth group, the buttons in the Growth Controls become active. These buttons let you grow guide hairs and define the hair's initial parameters.

Growing Guide Hairs
Clicking the Grow Guide Hairs button will add hairs to the selected hair group and these hairs become visible in the Document Window, as shown in Figure 1. Don't be alarmed if the new hairs stick straight out or if they appear to be too thin; you can relax and thicken them during the styling phase.

[Figure 1] Guide hairs. 

Setting Hair Length
Once the guide hairs are visible (or even before they are visible), you can change their length using the Hair Length parameter. If you change the Hair Length parameter after the guide hairs have been created, the hairs displayed in the Document Window will change as the parameter is changed.