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Marcel

07-22-2003, 03:32 PM

Somehow I cannot control the 'baldness' attribute of a fur descriptor with a texture map. When I connect the texture map to the attribute the fur isn't visible at all when rendering.

Maya is calculating a long time before the render so I guess it is still doing something with the fur.
I've tried using a RGB texture and a grayscale version, with both the TGA and TIFF format. No luck there.
The object does have good UV coordinates, when I map the texture it is displayed correctly.

I know it is possible, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Matt Leishman

07-22-2003, 03:59 PM

you are baking the texture into the baldness channel after you plug your image into it right?

Marcel

07-22-2003, 04:55 PM

Brilliant, pressing the 'bake' button made it work! Thanks for the tip, I would have never found that sneaky button without you :)

Matt Leishman

07-22-2003, 05:21 PM

yep, make sure that any time you are plugging a custom texture into any of those fur attribute channels, you "bake" them in, otherwise life becomes oh so frustrating. Glad I could help. Good luck with the fur stuff man (or woman, whichever may apply . . . :) )

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