transferring hair between characters 2005-06-16 - By Oz Adi
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not on the hair itself.. on the hair emitter..
Matt said, the geometry is identical, just proportions are different..
wouldnt it work if you duplicate the character with the hair, and morph it's
geomtery
into the other one?
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "kim aldis" <kim@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:28 PM
Subject: RE: transferring hair between characters
>
> No shape animation on hair.
>
>> -- --Original Message-- --
>> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
>> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Oz Adi
>> Sent: 16 June 2005 14:16
>> To: XSI@(protected)
>> Subject: Re: transferring hair between characters
>>
>> an idea...
>>
>> if both has the same geometry, why not use the "other" mesh,
>> as a shape, and "morph" a copy of the Hairy one, to the one
>> with different proportions, then freeze the stack...
>> ? :)
>>
>> Oz.
>>
>> -- -- Original Message -- --
>> From: "Matt Morris" <matt@(protected)>
>> To: <XSI@(protected)>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:37 PM
>> 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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