transferring hair between characters 2005-06-16 - By benp
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providing there has been no vert reordering somewhere along the way on
either geometries.
Oz Adi wrote:
> 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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