Old Diver (was "Something different ") 2004-04-28 - By Spencer Britton
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Stan, thanks for the link to the hair.tsx.
It may just be my computer, but the interface of the tsx was completely black
except for the value boxes and check boxes. So I had to toy with numbers to try
and figure out what box does what.
Does it look that way on your machine?
Thanks,
Spencer
> (Third try at sending this)
>
> Thanks everyone,
>
> It's still a WIP, but I think I'm almost done with it. I used the
> "Cooter"
> model from Facial Animator as the basic model.
>
> I used Facial Animator to make one image out of a front and side photo,
> then I
> edited the resulting texture in photoshop, smoothing things out,
> enhancing
> bits, etc.. I then played with some bump maps and reflectance shaders
> (still
> not quite satisfied with the reflectance yet)
>
> For those who don't know about it yet, there is a great site where you
> can get
> human textures for reference material http://www.3d.sk/ . There are
> several
> hi-rez (1,300 x 1,600) front and side head photos available. There are
> also
> several full body scans (male/female nude/clothed). They aren't free,
> but for
> only $20 you can download all of them (and there are 100's) for a month.
>
> Here's an example of the image resolution on the old man texture I used:
> http://www.stansight.com/tmp/tmpoldman.jpg
>
> The hair was made with a TSX that I got from someone (Jonathan G. Koehn)
> who
> posted a link on the Forum about 3 or 4 months ago:
> http://forum.caligari.com/discus/messages/1583/14139.html?1070267627
>
> The trick to making decent hair with it is to have 5 or segments in each
> hair
> and to have an insane amount of strands (5,000 - 20,000) generated from
> the
> object.
>
> P.S. Funny note: I just noticed that a testimonial by Peter Plantec
> (author of
> the trueSpace 2 Bible) is listed on the 3D.SK link
>
> Stan
>
> Quoting Tony Owen <aowen@(protected)>:
>
> > Best yet, Stan! Hopefully, you might discuss your workflow and other
> > methodologies used to achieve this kind of result.
> >
> > Tony O
> >
> > -- -- Original Message -- --
> > From: Slaughter, Stan <mailto:Stan.Slaughter@(protected)>
> > To: truespace@(protected) <mailto:truespace@(protected)>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 9:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TSML] Something different
> >
> >
> > For those who don't visit the Forums. Here is an Old Diver I'm
> working
> > on:
> > http://www.stansight.com/tmp/OldDiver4.jpg
> > <http://www.stansight.com/tmp/OldDiver4.jpg>
> >
> > Stan
> >
> >
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