Adding some grey to hair?

Lossow

Hi,

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with a question about hair in Daz Studio.

Most hairs seem to have a selection of colours which often includes grey or white hair, but is there a way to add some grey to a coloured hair?   Streaks or a 'salt & pepper' look both work.   I'm looking to create older but not elderly characters who still have some/most of their hair colour but are starting to go grey.   Is there a (easy) way to do this in Daz Studio, or does it require new textures being made?

Thanks for any help you can give,

Lossow

Roman_K2

You could probably modify an existing texture to suit... I guess I would start by reducing the color saturation to be more gray. Probably take it down to almost white in 3 or 4 steps, then assemble a new texture from these variants - painting in some "streaks of gray" or whatever, salt and peppery. The benefit to this would be that your own private "grayer" texture is reusable.

Post-Studio would involve a similar process; you would paint in some gray. It's a one off - with postwork you would have to do this every time you wanted some gray - you'd have to dip your image editor's clone brush into a copy of the render that had the saturation reduced... some poses involve less additional work; for a figure in profile you'd only have to do it (the graying) on one side of the head.

Always back up your texture(s) before messing with them. I usually make a copy with the string "_original" in the filename to denote the factory or production version of the file, and I save my downstream files as "_my_version_modified" or something similar.

WendyLuvsCatz

editing the texture map probably the best way as they vary so much in UV layout

simple vertically mapped UV's you could possibly make a reusable LIE (layered image editor) overlay for some strands in the diffuse channel

Daventaki

If your willing to go a more commercial route check out Colorwerks Extreme by Sloshwerks.  Also allows for many other color options.  One of the promos shows grey hair.  Works with transmapped hair and so far I think most dforce hair also.  Theres also MMX Blended Dual Lobe which is made for strand based hair but Ive been able to successfully use it on some transmapped hair.  Theres some other great ones out there but I don't know if they will give the salt and pepper look (im not as familiar with them).