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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298
    statistx_42556c1853 said:

    @mab since I can't make it myself (tried several methods, but am I noob) I want to ask you here: Is it possible to get some kind of utility thing for the ear patches to use with regular textures, like it has for the tailcore and the catear surroundings?

    I mean I want to use the catears with human skin and you provide the utility to do that, but then they still also have the human ears and using the patches only works with the patches textures, except if I missed something.

    Do you want it to work with any skin textures? Or just "regular" human skin textures that come with an addon for the set?

  • statistx_42556c1853statistx_42556c1853 Posts: 89
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    statistx_42556c1853 said:

    @mab since I can't make it myself (tried several methods, but am I noob) I want to ask you here: Is it possible to get some kind of utility thing for the ear patches to use with regular textures, like it has for the tailcore and the catear surroundings?

    I mean I want to use the catears with human skin and you provide the utility to do that, but then they still also have the human ears and using the patches only works with the patches textures, except if I missed something.

    Do you want it to work with any skin textures? Or just "regular" human skin textures that come with an addon for the set?

    Any skin texture. Just like the tail and the catears have a utility function to make it work with any skin, it would be helpful if the patches also have that. My amateurish guess would be that it would be like some skin transfer script

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298
    statistx_42556c1853 said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    statistx_42556c1853 said:

    @mab since I can't make it myself (tried several methods, but am I noob) I want to ask you here: Is it possible to get some kind of utility thing for the ear patches to use with regular textures, like it has for the tailcore and the catear surroundings?

    I mean I want to use the catears with human skin and you provide the utility to do that, but then they still also have the human ears and using the patches only works with the patches textures, except if I missed something.

    Do you want it to work with any skin textures? Or just "regular" human skin textures that come with an addon for the set?

    Any skin texture. Just like the tail and the catears have a utility function to make it work with any skin, it would be helpful if the patches also have that. My amateurish guess would be that it would be like some skin transfer script

    Now I understand something for the no ear patches.  I am not sure how to do a script to anything with textures which include making that no ear patch match the rest of the skin.  I misunderstood you.

  • MABMAB Posts: 148

    Sadly, there's no practical way to make scripts that apply a skin matching texture on the ear patches, at least not on the actual ear part. The ear patches use the same UV map areas as the G8F ears UVs.  So, if scripts put the human skin on there, they'd be putting little pictures of ear textures in that spot.  You might look into some of the morph packs and characters available that have no ears morphs.  These stretch the surrounding area and pinch the circumference into a vertex dot while stuffing the ear mesh into the head out of sight.  It can cause some mild texture stretching and distortion but it's probably preferable to having a little picture of an ear on the side of the head.  The scripts included with Catgirl were intended for cosplaying characters type scenerios.  

  • statistx_42556c1853statistx_42556c1853 Posts: 89
    MAB said:

    Sadly, there's no practical way to make scripts that apply a skin matching texture on the ear patches, at least not on the actual ear part. The ear patches use the same UV map areas as the G8F ears UVs.  So, if scripts put the human skin on there, they'd be putting little pictures of ear textures in that spot.  You might look into some of the morph packs and characters available that have no ears morphs.  These stretch the surrounding area and pinch the circumference into a vertex dot while stuffing the ear mesh into the head out of sight.  It can cause some mild texture stretching and distortion but it's probably preferable to having a little picture of an ear on the side of the head.  The scripts included with Catgirl were intended for cosplaying characters type scenerios.  

    I did get the ear picture off by basically making a blank skin texture over the part where the ear would be (as the patches use the same texture template as a head) but some other settings don't match up, not sure if it's bump, glossiness, specularity, transparency or whatever.

    I am not sure if it would be the same technique, but certain 3rd party genitalia, which names I probably am not allowed to mention, have skin matching functions included, but again, I am too much of a noob to know if it's the same principle.

  • felisfelis Posts: 5,857
    edited July 2019

    The ear patch is a geocraft.

    In order to match the texture, my way of do it would be:

    1) Copy the surface settings from the face to the ear patch (that will copy all settings and maps)

    2) Replace the Base Color texture to one where the ear area has been replaced to an "average head" (i.e. without the specific ear texture)
    Ideally you should merge "average head" with the original along the edges for smooth transformation, so the edge won't stick out.
    In principal you should do this to all the textures, but I would expect it is sufficient just replacing Base Color.

    Post edited by felis on
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