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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,549
    edited December 1969

    LOL!
    Grazzi! Is that how Thank you is spelled?
    Prego. That's about all I know... so... Ciao for now! lol

    Yeah... what I mean by 'ribbons' are the meshes that we usually see when we have conforming hair. Ribbon meshes with alpha maps. Works great, really - but as the figures continue to evolve into their ultra-realism, the hair technology is still the way it has been. Mec4d was working on some brand new steps towards another solution - I believe, from what it looked like, that she was actually modeling strands of hair that follow because they're conformed. Not sure why she left DAZ. She has Carrara though! :) She's a relatively new Carrara user.

  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    edited December 1969

    here they are 2 other guys, more to come..
    DB, would you please upload a shot of Rosie curly hair mesh so I can figure out how they are shaped? grazie

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  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    edited December 1969

    wip - Hi everyone
    only to point out I imported successfully in Carrara Nigel, Asian face, Riley, Michael and Tyrese (first shot) and Kyo, Deborah, Hayden, Jessie and Lian (second shot). Carrara 8.5 is a great piece of software, I'm very pleased with it
    more to come...

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  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    edited December 1969

    hi,
    any hints to make hair more realistic without using carrara dynamic hair? thanks in advance

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  • tsaristtsarist Posts: 1,614
    edited July 2013

    magaremoto said:
    hi,
    any hints to make hair more realistic without using carrara dynamic hair? thanks in advance

    Without dynamic hair?
    Wow. The best thing I can suggest is using very high quality hair. Preferably from a vendor that specialises in hair.
    http://www.daz3d.com/aprilysh
    http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=Mairy
    http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=outoftouch&TopID=268277

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,549
    edited December 1969

    magaremoto said:
    hi,
    any hints to make hair more realistic without using carrara dynamic hair? thanks in advance
    Although I'm not doing still work - which would be far more difficult to pull off - I have found some success (I think) with using multiple figure of the hair I want to use - scaling and shaping each successive conformed figure different enough to add to the realism. Using this method for the hair in your example would conceivably work even better - since it's mostly straight. You can, therefore, add a few more dark strokes to the alpha map using a paint brush, to make the outer layers less and less visible.

    In hindsight, I redid my Rosie hair - adding motion morphs to the main figure first - before creating the successive figures - so that I have the morphs available on all copies. Then I can tweak the morphs later - according to the new mesh shape.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,549
    edited December 1969

    magaremoto said:
    here they are 2 other guys, more to come..
    DB, would you please upload a shot of Rosie curly hair mesh so I can figure out how they are shaped? grazie
    Wow! I have not been notified of many posts - and now I'm just finding out that I have to catch up in many threads! So sorry, Sir!
    I have to go play my drums now - but I'll upload that shot for you later or, more likely, tomorrow.
    If it helps, I'm using Angelina Hair, by Goldtassel.
    The mesh moves and morphs very easily using soft selection in the model room. Crank the number up high to move an entire lock of hair mesh, or down lower to shape the curls.
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  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    edited December 1969

    thank you both, I'm gonna do my homework

  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    edited December 1969

    w.i.p. Hayden
    many changes to the default skin but it's really funny in carrara

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  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    edited December 1969

    test on hair shaders and morphs

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,549
    edited December 1969

    Very cool!
    Project Dogwaffle Pro: Howler 9 is nearing release - I've been a part of the beta team and it's looking amazing. My time has, unfortunately, been way too limited lately for any of my digital fun. Part of my up and coming "Hair in Carrara" effort will also include using Howler 9 - because it includes more abilities for animated selection via avi or image sequences, plus I asked if he could consider 'oilify' artistic filter being added to the timeline features, which allows for keyframed changes like all timeline filters - he added it the next day!

    So I'm hoping to create a realistic and/or toonish consistently reproducible method of making animated hair in Carrara. I plan to get really hard-core into the subject for hair that gets conformed to the figure as well, but mostly Carrara dynamic hair and attempts at using soft body bullet physics engine with various techniques for that. I am completely untrained in the use of Bullet so I'm not sure if I'll make any headway there - but it's one of my main areas of interest.

    Anyways - I really like your shaders and shaping. Looks Great!
    Question is: Are you happy with it?

    I think the characters (including their hair) look great!

  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    edited December 1969

    Hi DB,
    I'm very glad to read you're taking part on the development as beta t. of that great piece of software, can't wait to seeing your achievements in dw as well as in carrara too. As for my works, you know I randomly publish some images to show what is remarkable and/or noteworthy for novices because I find superb many carrara features, so my exploration into carrara secrets is going onwards more and more. As I have already pointed out in this forum, the very bottleneck in carrara is facial animation and lipsync, my hope is a fully integration/interchange with ds and some plugins to solve this issue

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