applying Misss Fast Skin to selected faces ???

[djx]

Is it possible that the surface normals are going the wrong way for the parts that are not working? They must all face out.

[Timefly]

sure your lightmap is still connected to the SG? also make sure you have an actual lightsource in the scene, not just the default light.

cheers

C

(otherwise the lightlinking mode like you mentioned, try 0,1 and 2 if you havnt tried each one allready)

[amannin]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c236/amannin/Akai_02.jpg

okay, aparently the normals werent all facing out for the chest -- so i conformed, then reversed, and that seemed to work, however, the head did not seem to be affected O_o

considering the head is apart of the upper torso, when i conformed then reversed all the normals, they should all be facing outward (or at the very least inward), but only the chest/arms seem to work.

if you notice before, parts of the ears were working, but now, none of the head is working... i'm not sure what is going on, but i think the normals are the problem. though, what else can i really do to the face normals other than conform / reverse ???

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c236/amannin/Akai_hypershade.jpg

My connections seem fine. And i've tried changing the light link mode, but it either made no difference, made my geometry dark grey, or omitted my geometry from rendering.

I can upload the scene file if anyone is interested in looking at it -- otherwise, I appreciate the help. Thanks for the input so far :)

ps. I'm using 3 directional lights

[amannin]

here's a close up of the low-res --- i even duplicated the head faces and tried adjusting it like that, but i keep getting the same thing :(

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c236/amannin/Akai_03.jpg

[chronic]

i think sss shaders dont work well with objects that have open geometry, or holes. im pretty sure this is a known issue. i would seperate the peices you want to be skin and fill / bridge all the geometry gaps and holes.

[amannin]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c236/amannin/Akai_04.jpg

okay, i opened the scene fresh, then remade the shader -- applied it, and voila. I did this already once before and it work too, but then i tried it one more time, and I got the same problem as before. So I figured something is wrong with my connections or faces.

anywho, this time around, i filled in the faces of the duplicated head and applied the new miss fast skin shader -- and it worked. i then applied it to the original head, with holes, and it worked also O_o

the only thing weird at this point was having to reverse the normals of the ears as opposed to the rest of the head in-order for the shader to work properly (i guess conforming wasnt doing the trick?)

i'm not really sure what the problem was -- prolly importing the shader rather than making it, and the face normals of my model not all pointing consistently outward (well, the ears at least). assuming importing was a part of the problem, would something like this happen when i import my character into another scene???

anyone else experience problems importing characters with the misss fast skin shader?

---seems to be hit and miss for me so far :shrug:

ps. thanks for all the useful tips everyone

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