Ask Snarly and ye shall receive...lol.

Ok Snarly...I'll stop now :P

Laurie

The xml works very well after fiddling with it adding the Nybras character from DAZ.  It did take me awhile to figure everything out, but it does an excellent job replacing all the nodes.  Need to tweak it a bit, but I am very satisfied.  Thanks again, Snarly.

The xml works! I added Apollo Maximus to test it and worked without problems :-) Thank you very much for this

@hborre and ima70: Thank you both very much for letting me know that it works. Unlike the rest of the scriptthe XML support was thrown together rather quickly and uploaded with only minimal testing, so it's good to hear that it's sufficiently functional to be of use!

And besides, I'm now far too drunk to test it properly myself :-)

Happy Christmas!!

I guess someone spiked the 'nog again.

Merry Christmas All!!!

Good to see you're enjoying yourself, SG - you definitely deserve an awesome Christmas, SnarlySanta!

When using the XML file to add a new figure, do we just make a completly new xml file or do we keep adding new figures to the one you included to the download?  I want to add Rosy cheeks Lina, but I'm not really sure what I am doing :(    Or where to add her into the xml file.  Also when I ran the py script to get the correct name and material zones for her, it had ignore on all the materials, is that the way it should be?  She is a really old figure and doesn't have bump maps on her skin.  Thanks :)

itwould be nice if all these changes could be merged into one file. It would prevent a lot of unnecessary/duplicated effort. That, or allow ezskin to read from multiple xml files.

But they are merged into this one xml file.   Snarly has stated,  "You can have multiple FIGURETYPES within the XML file, so add as many as you need. They must have different names, of course."  So I don't undestand what unnecessary or duplicated effort you mean.  You just add the figures you want into that one xml file.   Having multiple xml files would, on the other hand, be extraneous.

Quote - But they are merged into this one xml file.   Snarly has stated,  "You can have multiple FIGURETYPES within the XML file, so add as many as you need. They must have different names, of course."  So I don't undestand what unnecessary or duplicated effort you mean.  You just add the figures you want into that one xml file.   Having multiple xml files would, on the other hand, be extraneous.

Ok. I misread.

Thank you ! A picture is worth a 1000 words :)

Snarly loves the xml...lol. But once you get the code down, it's rather a good way to get it done. Cut and paste and then change works well for me...lol :).

Laurie

Cut & paste works very well.  Just watch the spelling, line indents, and case-sensitive zones and you're good to go.  I fumbled through this for a while until I got the right combination and format.  Now it works all the time.

Edit: What would be nice is a way to edit the script by adding your own custom shaders or an interface which could allow you to change particular shader settings for different body zones.  For example, the Nybras character has horns which I have instructed the XML to ignore.  But if I could attach the teeth shader to the horns and control the amount of specularity to just those parts, then I could designate specific individual settings across the whole body.  It's a bit much to ask, however.... 

Quote - But they are merged into this one xml file.   Snarly has stated,  "You can have multiple FIGURETYPES within the XML file, so add as many as you need. They must have different names, of course."  So I don't undestand what unnecessary or duplicated effort you mean.  You just add the figures you want into that one xml file.   Having multiple xml files would, on the other hand, be extraneous.

Hmmmm. Just thinking outloud... when I write skin-shader scripts, I use a different .py as a descriptor file for each figure. It just make editing easier, I think, even though you have all these little files in this folder. But Antonia in all her permutations is in one .py, V4 in her shocking mess in another, Mariko in another - and so forth. Dead easy to figure out which file to mess with.

So, yes, they could all be in one file. But what a nightmare to find stuff. I'm weird like that: I use the file system as part of my organisation. Yep, s'okay, you can all shoot me down.... :lol:

Quote - there is an IDL dome , just not visible to camera ( it has a cloudy blue material; applied) unfortunately, the forum requires a small file size, so detail is lost in the resizing/crunching down. original .jpg is 1600 wide by 1400 high. the difference is subtle, but it can be seen in the original.

On my monitor I can totally tell the difference with the three samples.  The fresnel example would look even better (more real) if her arms had a more natural bend to them.  The elbows and shoulders give away that she is CG.  But the fresnel skin looks great.

Quote - ...What would be nice is a way to edit the script by adding your own custom shaders or an interface which could allow you to change particular shader settings for different body zones.  For example, the Nybras character has horns which I have instructed the XML to ignore.  But if I could attach the teeth shader to the horns and control the amount of specularity to just those parts, then I could designate specific individual settings across the whole body.  It's a bit much to ask, however.... 

I have plans to enhance EZSkin.

Specifically, there will be more control over the parameters for the non-skin materials and more options for eyes, mouth etc.

I am also happy to add new shaders to those already available, so we could have a 'horns' shader built into EZSkin if we wanted one, for example.

As for different settings for different body parts, I have an idea about how that might work without compromising the vision I had for EZSkin as a simple tool. I'll give it some more thought ...

Thanks, Snarly.  I think this is snowballing into an awesome piece of script.  Thanks for all your time and effort.

It's going to snowball into VSS Pro grin

Quote - It's going to snowball into VSS Pro grin

 

That would be great!  Now what about some sort of BBshaders Pro? :D

Tapping fingers on table. Gets up and paces back and forth...wondering when the BB Gold shader and assorted other gems is going to show up in some marketplace.

BB you need to make a New Years Resolution to get it done! :laugh:

Thanks for all the effort into this script SG. Any advancements are much appreaciated!

No! No new years resolution! People never follow their resolutions and he'll never get them done. I don't know about you but I'd like to be able to buy them.

any rough dates for release of VSSpro BB?

Love esther

I tried adding Hiro 3, but it returns "unsupported figure" when the script is run on a H3.

To add it, just added the blHiro.obj to the existing DAZGEN3 figuretype.