I think I may have narrowed down some of the paint problem.
If you use a textured character where the texture has more than one UV map applied, then the paint does not work. For example, I used the Dryden textures and paint did not work. Dryden uses the M4 UV map. Other M4 textures did work however. When I checked all the surfaces in the Dryden set, it turns out that Dryden uses the V4 map for the tear material zone. I changed this to M4 and paint worked just fine. I tested this idea with a number of texture sets and, in every case, if I changed even one material zone to a different map then paint would not work but did work if all the material zones used the same UV map.
On the other hand, if I change the character pose and update it in Garibaldi using the "update surfacees" button, then any existing nodes will no longer paint properly but new nodes will.
what about dynamic hair with gravity and collisions?
that's what we need...
but, it's a start.
it actually almost look the same as the other LAHM plugin.
the first one that can give me real good dynamics is sold.
what about dynamic hair with gravity and collisions?
that's what we need...
but, it's a start.
it actually almost look the same as the other LAHM plugin.
the first one that can give me real good dynamics is sold.
With curve based hair, dynamics/gravity aren't as difficult to get as with object based hair...but you still need a worklng physics engine to do it, so I say that's what's needed, first.
You have to set the brush to zero and paint those parts (yes, ears are difficult!) black.
Sometimes it's useful to do a headover and go at them from the inside of the head.
Right, I have done the erasing with the brush at zero. I've also tried to paint inside the head, that didn't seem to work.
I'll try it again to see if I was just too impatient. Thanks Kerya.
Edit:
Hmmm I must be doing something wrong, I can't erase the paint from inside the head.
When you work on it, is there a way to be able to access the paint that gets into the "creases" like inside the ears,
That's where a lot of my wild hairs are coming from. I can see the paint, but no matter how close I get to it, I can't
erase it. Maybe, I'm not getting a setting right?
Try turning off the following switches:
Backface Culling (Do not paint on reverse side of the surface).
Occlusion Culling (Do not paint on surface overlaped by other surface).
Hope that helps...
I think I may have narrowed down some of the paint problem.
If you use a textured character where the texture has more than one UV map applied, then the paint does not work. For example, I used the Dryden textures and paint did not work. Dryden uses the M4 UV map. Other M4 textures did work however. When I checked all the surfaces in the Dryden set, it turns out that Dryden uses the V4 map for the tear material zone. I changed this to M4 and paint worked just fine. I tested this idea with a number of texture sets and, in every case, if I changed even one material zone to a different map then paint would not work but did work if all the material zones used the same UV map.
On the other hand, if I change the character pose and update it in Garibaldi using the "update surfacees" button, then any existing nodes will no longer paint properly but new nodes will.
Hmm... I think I know whats going on here... I'll look into fixing it to support using multiple UV sets on the same figure.
what about dynamic hair with gravity and collisions?
To do hair dynamics 'well' it's a big project... arguably more complex than cloth simulation.
Garibaldi Express version 1 is all about concentrating about building a foundation of all the tools you need style and render realistic hair in daz studio.
If you wish to animate your character then currently the hair will 'stick' to your characters surface.
The output will render stable and flicker free.
Make sure you check out the introduction tutorial. It goes through all the basics of creating a hair render from scratch. Or use one of the provided examples as a base to work on, if you get suck on how to do things.
what about dynamic hair with gravity and collisions?
To do hair dynamics 'well' it's a big project... arguably more complex than cloth simulation.
Garibaldi Express version 1 is all about concentrating about building a foundation of all the tools you need to style and render realistic hair in daz studio.
If you wish to animate your character then currently the hair will 'stick' to your characters surface.
The output will render stable and flicker free.
I have tried a BUNCH of times to render the second image, and there are ALWAYS the same 2-4 squares (depending on the method - sprial, circular, horizontal, etc) that just will NOT render. It gets to 99% and won't finish, so I can't save as a png or anything else. Haven't a clue why this is happening or if it has ANYTHING to do with the plugin or if it's my computer. It's weird that it is the same squares every time. Tried cutting out some of the hairs in that section but it doesn't matter. I can't get these squares to render ARRRGH!!
So I did some touchup in Photoshop with the clone tool, to try to hide them
Anyway, here are my 2 attempts at the hair. Really loving it!!
[ Edited: 13 November 2012 01:42 PM by Alisa Uh-Lisa ]
I think I may have narrowed down some of the paint problem.
If you use a textured character where the texture has more than one UV map applied, then the paint does not work. For example, I used the Dryden textures and paint did not work. Dryden uses the M4 UV map. Other M4 textures did work however. When I checked all the surfaces in the Dryden set, it turns out that Dryden uses the V4 map for the tear material zone. I changed this to M4 and paint worked just fine. I tested this idea with a number of texture sets and, in every case, if I changed even one material zone to a different map then paint would not work but did work if all the material zones used the same UV map.
On the other hand, if I change the character pose and update it in Garibaldi using the "update surfacees" button, then any existing nodes will no longer paint properly but new nodes will.
That may have been my problem. Most of my characters are all using M4 and V4 UV's except for the eyes. All of them use M5 eyes. It sucks about the UV issue. :( All my custom textures have been made for those UV's lol I never thought that the eyes would cause this problem
