I got the facial decals done. The clothing is just a base so far. Haven’t added wrinkles or materials as of yet. My real problem is the hair.
As you can see my material is picking up on the color of the patches beneath it. I am using a diffuse color and length decal for the hair, but it is still showing the underlying patch colored hair instead of just the decal diffuse color.
I really need an answer to this. Otherwise I have no clue how to continue. Please help with this.
Thanks.
Zaryin, Does your hair diffuse decal have areas of solid black? When I import a new image to use for a decal, A:M always assigns black as the key color, so any black in your decal won’t be applied to your model. If this is what’s happening in your case, expand the image triangle and right-click/control-click on key color and choose “not set”.
This is the first thing I can think of that may be the problem.
Jim
I actually have an Alpha channel on the color decal, but it is all black. Maybe it’s the alpha that’s screwing it up.
I’ll try it out.
Jim: If I set it to “not set” all the white areas in the hair beard of mine go black. What I am looking for is a way to get rid of the white area. I don’t want any hair in that area.
Is this not possible? How did you get you beard and eyebrows? I’m assuming you used a decal…?
Zaryin,
You should not be using alpha channels with hair decals. You should make the decal image large enough to cover the group of patches that contain the hair emitter. Your image should be black wher you don’t want hair and white where you do and shades of gray where you want shorter hair. Losing the alpha channel should do it.
Jim
Hey Jim for some reason this isn’t working for me. I tried it on a simple 4 patch square and it’s like a certain area just wont pick up my length map.
I found a crappy workaround right now by building patches underneath the skin and having the hair on that. I must be doing something wrong in placing it or something.
I will post again if I actually get it working correctly for me.
Jeff B.
too funny!
I’ve seen that face before walking into our finance office!
wonderful expression!
Thanks hoochoochoochoo, I’m hopeing to be able to work on him more later today.
Jim: It seems to be working now, but now i have to redo some of my maps sigh. At least it’s working now. I don’t know what was worng. Thanks for the help Jim.
Zaryin - I do still tend to try economise where I can with patches or splinage.
Not ALL the wrinkles are complete spline rings - some end in hooked joints to smooth out the flow of the “cloth”
Ah, thanks for that :). I was never good with clothing. Even when drawing I suck at clothing. I think clothing is the hardest thing to do, in any medium.
I got it working. Done with the hair (except for maybe some hair guide stuff for hair coming out from beneath his hat.
Time to start working on those creases and folds in the clothing ;).
Thanks for viewing. Comments about it so far are appreciated.
Jeff B.
Thanks for the comments so far, guys.
I did notice that some of my hair is going through the top of my ears, so I will need a little tweaking still :).
Ok, I changed the body shape to get him to look more dwarfish, but still give him that “skinny” dwarfish look. Gave him pants to his chest and highwaters. Droopy socks. Pointy elf like shoes, which I always found nerdy. And also a big belt with the end sticking out.
I would like to know if anyone thinks I should add more details for the belt (ie: notches in belt, belt straps for the pants, little poiny thing for the buckle to go into the belt)? I don’t know If these things are necessary for this cartoony character, but he might be realistic enough to require them. Please let me know.
Also, any other comments are alway appreciated.
Very very good. Great design and it is very readable as a nerd. I like the pants much better and love how they’re too high. hehe
Mayber the shoes should/could be black. Ya know like how guys used to wear them, white socks and black shoes.
I think the belt needs holes. And something about the beard is too uniform I think. Other than he is swell. Oh he might need hands. 
Hands! 
I was just using base colors now, but the black is a good idea for the shoes. If I put holes in the belts (I don’t know how I will do that) I might as well add the belt straps and pointy thing. I’ve had the comment from a friend that the beard was to uniform. I will probably add some turb to my length map to make it look more messy.
Thanks for the comments. Anyone else?
Ok, I’m about as done as I’m getting. RIght now my temp is 100.6 and rising so I won’t be able to do anymore.
Eggington 2001 rig placed in him. Might be a little off, because I don’t know how to rig at all :S. Hands might also be a little off, but I’m not used to building hands. Thanks to Colin Freeman’s Tut for that, even though mine aren’t that good. No Smartskinning or Fan Bones applied
I got rid of the beard, because he looks more nerdy without it. Besides Dopey didn’t have a beard, and he was a dwarf.
Made a pocket protecter and the Abacus 3000 for him. Neither are rigged.
Now all I have to do is wait for that set of Wegg’s.
Let me know what you think. I’ll be in bed for a while
