How can I change AoA RSL eyelashes to Iray?

cheardcheard Posts: 129

I am working with a character (PHX Nasiri) that ships with AoA RSL eyelashes. Is there a way to convert these to Iray? Simply selecting the surface and applying the Iray Uber Shader (which is what I usually do with assets that ship with RSL surfaces) doesn't work in this case.

Additional note: I have https://www.daz3d.com/ab-natural-eyebrows-and-eyelashes but that's for Genesis 9 and Nasiri is Genesis 8. I know that https://www.daz3d.com/lashes-utilities-for-genesis-2-3-and-8 exists but I don't own it. Is that the best path?

Another additional note: I got around this just by applying a different character's eyelash material. Still curious as to the underlying principles.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,285

    You could use another character's eyelashes. You could also do that to get the settings, then switch the opacity map back to the one used in the RSL shader to keep the shape the same (Surfaces pane>Editor tab>type Opacity in the filter box, note which map is applied, then select it from the list when you click on the nano-thumbnail after switching materials).

  • felisfelis Posts: 6,323

    I don't have the character.

    It says the character has Iray materials.

    When you say Iray Uber doesn't work, what do you the mean? Does it not apply or just look odd?

    What kind of geometry is the eyebrows? Polygons with oppacity map, fibermesh or something else?

  • cheardcheard Posts: 129

    @Richard Haseltine Using another character's eyelashes is exactly what I did, and that worked fine.

    @felis By "doesn't work" I mean there was no change. The eyelashes did not change from RSL to MDL. And yes, the character has Iray materials ... but for some reason not the eyelashes. Polygons with opacity map.

    By using another character's eyelashes, everything is fine. I just remain curious about the inner workings. 

  • BejaymacBejaymac Posts: 1,980
    edited June 1

    Odds are that the vendor did a copy/paste of the eyelash settings from another product, and didn't realise that it was RSL.

    Not sure why Iray Uber wont apply, might have something to do with AOA's RSL shaders being ShaderMixer shaders but that's just a wild guess.

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