transferring hair between characters 2005-06-16 - By kim aldis
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It should be possible to do it, Matt, I've done it in the past but, from
memory, the geometry needs to be the same.
There's also issues with copy style where the hair is on clusters.
Basically, it doesn't work.
If you're working with hair you should make sure to get at least QFE 4 on
4.2. There's a good few fixes there.
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Matt Morris
> Sent: 16 June 2005 12:38
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: RE: transferring hair between characters
>
> Hi Oz and Adam, thanks for the quick replies,
>
> The character was being worked on by two people, one focusing
> on the hair, one making changes to the proportions requested
> by the director, so no chance of doing one procedure after
> the other unfortunately. the scripting is a bit beyond me
> still, and in this instance there aren't going to be many
> times that I need to transfer the hair over, so it looks like
> the best way to continue is just to do it the ol' fashioned
> way by hand... Still a bit confused as to why I can't save
> out the hair parameters as a preset (it creates a preset file
> that's the dreaded 14.1kb large and doesn't load onto the new
> hair) and need to bring up the two ppgs to eyeball them
> over... Is this a bug that anyone has come across?
>
> Cheers again,
> Matt
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf Of Adam Ferrall
> Sent: 16 June 2005 10:35
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: transferring hair between characters
>
>
> What are the other kind of hair settings you're looking to bring over?
> With the material duplication and the copy style you should
> get your guide hairs in generally the right places, but a
> major shortcoming of the CopyStyle function lies in the fact
> that it doesn't (if I am remembering correctly) bring over
> the connection information, etc for hair parameters driven by
> texture / weightmaps. There's not a real clean way to access
> them, but by finding MapCompOp operators in your scene you
> can track down which parameters are being driven in this
> manner, as hair parameters sometimes have a way of not
> showing up when you iterate through the param collection if
> they are being driven by a map. You can get all your hair
> specific parameter values like this, but it takes a fair bit
> of scripting to store out all this information and recreate
> on the new hair object. If you're mainly looking at this for
> a one time kind of thing it's probably too much work, but for
> transferring hair on a large scale with a number of
> characters it might be worth the effort.
>
> Cheers,
> -Adam
> R&D Omation
>
> Matt Morris wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I'm transferring some hair between two similar characters (same
> > topology, slightly different proportions) and am trying to save the
> > hair out as a preset, but it doesn't seem to save properly,
> and won't
> > let me apply it to the new hair.
> >
> > Workflow so far is to copy clusters from one mesh to the
> next, use the
> > correct clusters to generate hair from selection, copy
> style, and drag
> > and drop materials from one to the other, only thing left
> is the hair
> > settings, which I can't get to work. Any ideas?
> >
> > Also is there a simpler way to do this? Its a bit
> long-winded... Am I
> > missing something obvious?
> >
> > Cheers chaps!
> > Matt
>
>
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