Facial A-Hairness 2B. Thank you for downloading Facial A-Hairness 2B. We hope you enjoy this freestuff, and appreciate any feedback you may have. This pack is intended for use with Poser8 and newer, though we would recommend Poser9 and newer for best results. For the purposes of this guide, we'll be using PoserPro 2014, but there is nothing we'll be doing that can't be done in Poser 8 and above.  And initially, pretty much everything is in default, except Render settings. Once you've installed the product, your new Facial A-Hairness2B items will be in: Runtime:Libraries:Hair:MortemVetus:FacialA-Hairness2B   This pack can be used to apply moustaches and muttonchops to any character for Michael4, but for best results, we would recommend using Michael4 characters by Mortem Vetus, as these items have been designed to work best with those. These items include fits for many of our more rugged men. In this guide, we're going to turn plain Michael4 into the muttonchopped Pirate quartermaster pictured in the top image. To get started, we'll need to load Michael4, and we'll dress him, but we're not going to put a character on him just yet.

Image 1: Michael4 loaded and dressed

So we've got Michael loaded and dressed, as seen in image 1 above, and we've put the First Mate outfit on him. Next, we want to put some face-fur on him. Go to your Hair library and select an item to put on. We're going to use Muttonchops01. Select the thumbnail of the required item, and apply it to Michael4, by either doule clicking the thumbnail, or clicking 'Apply Library Preset', the single tick symbol. NOTE: Make sure Michael4 is selected before applying one of these items. These are essentially parented props, and loading them parented to another figure in scene may cause unexpected results.

Image2: Load a beard from the Hair library.

We've found the preview representation of the beards to be sometimes mis-leading, and the best way to see the beards is rendered, as we can see below in image 3, and we've pulled the camera in closer, so we can get a better look at what's going on. That's straight out of the tin, on a default Michael, using PoserPro 2014 default lighting. Not bad, he's looking a lot more 'yarr' already.

Image3: Everything in default - character, outfit, beard, lights

You remember we said, back at the start, that these props were designed to work best with our characters, so we'll take a look at that. We've applied Godwins morph and materials to Michael. Next we need to select the prop 'M4-Muttonchops01' and we can see in the parameters tab, a dial group called 'Mortem Character Fits'. Find the dial named 'Godwin' and dial it to 1. This just lines the prop up better for the morph. All our more rugged men to date are included in the fits.

Image4: Godwin character applied to Michael, and corresponding morph applied to his muttonchops.

In addition to the fits for our characters, there's also a group node called 'Style'. This contains a small selection of morphs to change a few things up. As these are just small clumps of furry-face, there are not as many as are found in the full beards and goatees in Facial-AHairness and Facial-AHairness2. But there are a few small changes that can be made with these dials.

Image 5: Materials (in Facial AHairness and Facial-AHairness2)

All the material options in both Facial-AHairness packs can be used on these items. In image5 above, we've used 'White'. As always, either highlight the thumb and click 'Apply library preset' (the single tick) or double click the item. IMPORTANT; Make sure the hair is selected before applying the material. All that's left to do now is add a scene around him, and our Quartermaster is good to go, as we can see in the large image below. For the final image, we changed the colour of his shirt, and replaced the bandana with Old And Wild hair.

We hope you enjoy using this product and we look forward to seeing what images you make with it. Happy Rendering Andrew and Tracey (Mortem Vetus) :)

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