attachments....adding anatomy type stuff to models

Deamonox

[attachments....adding anatomy type stuff to models] In this case the Daz3 dragon, and the item in question is a tailhole most cuase someone asked me to do a image of a dragons butt and you never know how useful knowing how to add handmade stuff to models is going to be.

Now I have made the item but I don't know how to make it attach to the model like the gens do to the human models, IE how they auto hide the part they are resting on to remove clipping

Richard Haseltine

To have the mesh AutoHide the item needs to be a geoGraft - and you need to make sure that the ring of vertices around the ouside of the attachment is the same as the ring of vertices around the hole it is going to create, so that they can be welded together.

Deamonox

Richard Haseltine said:

To have the mesh AutoHide the item needs to be a geoGraft - and you need to make sure that the ring of vertices around the ouside of the attachment is the same as the ring of vertices around the hole it is going to create, so that they can be welded together.

hmm ok, is there an example video or tutorial to help show the steps involved. Though it might help that I extracted some of the plains around the location when making the item so it should have the correct ring it needs, though i wish i could remember how to add vertices to the planes so i can improve the item in question

Richard Haseltine

Deamonox

Richard Haseltine said:

ok for some odd reason it links to the tail and not the hips where it is suppose to be

 

Richard Haseltine

The grafting or the bones it is given?

Deamonox

the bones it is given, which distorts the model when the grafting is completed

Richard Haseltine

You probnably need to adjust the weight maps, which will prevent the unwanted bones from having an influence - though the GeoGraft does need to follow the underlying mesh. The hip bone itself seems not to be given any weight in recent Daz figures.

Deamonox

Richard Haseltine said:

You probnably need to adjust the weight maps, which will prevent the unwanted bones from having an influence - though the GeoGraft does need to follow the underlying mesh. The hip bone itself seems not to be given any weight in recent Daz figures.

hmm I might need an video or tutorial explaining this, but I'll try to see about altering the weight maps

Richard Haseltine

Both SickleYield and DAZ_Josh have videos on thsoe topics, I think, so just click their names under the above videos (on a YouTube page).

Deamonox

Richard Haseltine said:

Both SickleYield and DAZ_Josh have videos on thsoe topics, I think, so just click their names under the above videos (on a YouTube page).

I couldn't find anything but I'll try having another look, but the daz3 dragon has got a pelvis bone but it still puts it on tail 5

Richard Haseltine

It does line up correctly as loaded, with no need to move or scale it or the dragon?

Deamonox

when loaded it lines up though I have to set the import scale to 1000% or it comes in rather tiny

Richard Haseltine

Setting the scale in the import dialogue is fine, as long as it fits at 100% in the scene. Is the dragon at 100% scale and zero translation/rotation?

Deamonox

the dragon is as it loads in which is 275% and zero translation/rotation

Richard Haseltine

That's the issue then, the geoGraft needs to fit when both it and the base figure are zeroed. if you import the OBJ at 1000/2.75% = 363.63636363% it should line up correctly, but the slight rounding may be enough to stop it welding as it should.

Deamonox

In that case I'll just remake it with the dragon at 100% normal size and bind it straight from hex onto it

Deamonox

yay My Idea worked and it has grafted onto the model properly, now to figure out how to texture it to match the dragon

Deamonox

ok Scratch my earlier cheering, even though it fitted perfectly when I first did it now it's mis aligned and there is a gap around it