transferring hair between characters 2005-06-16 - By kim aldis
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> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Oz Adi
> Sent: 16 June 2005 15:04
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: transferring hair between characters
>
> 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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