Wounds Visiblity with decals

Loony

Hoi!

I found this:

https://www.daz3d.com/wound-makeup-artist-for-genesis-8

and it say:

 

That it use decals.

But... so far I learned it, is a decal... just in iray visible and... does not fit to a body? So when I add the wound I have to add it again and reaarange it again, when I change the scene? I mean, it would look weird when the wound is moving during a comic O_o

 

lilweep

Iray decal nodes are only visible in iray preview and render (i believe).  In order to add/make a decal, the decal node must be parented to something (i.e., figure, figure bone, or object).

Because the node can be parented to a bone of the figure, the decal should follow the parent bone moderately but only to a certain extent so i think you may need to manually adjust between poses.

Loony

Hmm okay, thanks for your Feedback, I will think about it, if I get it, with my actual PC are decals/iray live views a slow process... so placing a decal is very ... annoying^^

Matt_Castle

If you need the wounds to be consistent between pictures, then you may want to use the L.I.E. functionality instead (not having it, I don't know how the LIE functionality is set up, but LIE certainly isn't inherently a 3DL only feature, so it may work fine with Iray), as this will apply it on a UV level rather than projecting it based on the geometry.

Decals certainly have their uses, but as with all things when it comes to CG rendering, they also have some limitations.

Loony

I used the Layered editor sometimes and that is not bad (I wish it would have some Gimp features like drawing, an eraser and other basic paint tools...)