hi all!

well here my question in regards to m3 and v3 figures. i want to apply tattoos but i don't want to apply a new maps to whole figure...yes, i just did it and some parts of the figures (eyebrows) are all funky...it's just getting really messy. i really want to stay with m3 because i have his body morph pack that i'm using with him.

soooooooo...here's the question: is it possible to somehow stay with the current map for m3/v3 (which really isn't a map but more of just a color) and just apply a tattoo map over a particular area??? more or less using all of the same ideas that we have been discussing in my previous posts but the only change is that we stay with the current default maps for m3/v3.

thanks!!

bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

let me answer my own question and possibly edumacate others as well. i put my tattoo image in a new image map node, plugged that into a new color math node set to multiply and plugged that into the root node diffuse color outlet...render...and whalaa! presto chango!

now my next mission is to try and figure out how to add multiple tattoos to just one section, like the torso for instance.

Check out this also.  Kinda the same thing.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2313758

I've got a character with 5 tattoos on the upper chest/collar region, and I used a color math node, with two more color math nodes attached, the skin texture attached to color math node 2's  first value, and one tattoo attached to value 2, color math nodes 3 & 4 have a tattoo attached to value 1, and the next color math attached to value 2, and color math node 5 has the last two tattoos attached to it.

Edumacate:  Could somebody PLEASE define this term, it's not in any of my dictionaries.   I did an online serch for it too, but came up with nothing.
David P. Hoadley

it's a colloquealism for educate started by an english comedian i think.  ( a liverpuddlian from knotty ash..ken something or other) though it is in common useage in parts of the uk it may not have reached the dictionary yet. i heard it many years ago and on numerous occassions since.

billy

Seeing as how I lived the first 20 years of my life in Florida, and the next 32 in Israel, I guess that would explain why I've never come across it before.  BTW (By The Way), I'm assuming that 'iverpuddlian' is slang for Liverpool; but I couldn't even begin to assume what 'knotty ash' might be a reference to.  As Professor Higgins said: 'You Brits really DO need to lear to speak English!' ;-D
Take care Billy, yours truly,
David P. Hoadley

Ken Dodd is a genius stand-up comedian (not something you hear too many people of my youthful age say), still touring incessantly after almost fifty years of doing the circuit. He is indeed, a Liverpudlian (native of Liverpool), and created the town of Knotty Ash, where the 'Diddy Men' live ( a collection of puppets he works with on occasion).

I once had the extreme honour of working on a Ken Dodd show when he came ot my local theatre, as did my partner. The guy started at 8pm, took the INTERVAL break at about 10, then came on for the second half and carried on till gone midnight! And there was material he didn't use! I know comedians who would consider his first half a full evening's entertainment (as several of the audience did - they left in the interval), so for a man of his age to continue delivering such a quantity and quality of entertainment is staggering.

OK, I'll get off my soap box and take off my hero-spectacles now... :)

jonthecelt

edumacate...

well, for me personally i got it from bugs bunny back in the 60's. thank the lord for looney tunes!!!