...well, almost ;o). I'm about the enter the frustrating tweaking stage and then on to the maddening morphing stage...hehe.

What I need to know is, does anyone know of any good tutes on making the hair transmaps? After all the years I've been texturing, I still suck at those...lol. I looked in the the tutorials section of the site and all I can seem to find is how to paint the hair on the figure post-render. That's not what I need. I need to know how to make a good transmap.

Please help. If the hair turns out it will be free ;o). I can't promise I won't trash it though since I'm so anal about everything, including freebies...lol.

Laurie

good going, like it

David J Harmon
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That looks good, Laurie.

It'll look better with a decent transmap ;o). I can't find a thing on how to make a good one...

Laurie

 Looks really cute!

I haven't made any (not completed any, have tried tons) hairs yet, but from what I've noticed, hair textures and transmaps do really well in high resolution, to give you more strands to work with. :)

Quote -  Looks really cute!

I haven't made any (not completed any, have tried tons) hairs yet, but from what I've noticed, hair textures and transmaps do really well in high resolution, to give you more strands to work with. :)

Well, I normally start large with everything and then shrink, but that won't help me much with a transmap I don't think :o(

I guess I'm gonna have to wing this...

Laurie

 I would check some commercial hairs that you've got, and check the texture maps and what they look like. It helps.

The great, now invisible Kozaburo wrote a hair transmap tutorial some time back,which I "translated" into readable English - his version was a bit whimsical. (Wonder where I put that? )
Anyway, here's the link to the original.

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Quote - The great, now invisible Kozaburo wrote a hair transmap tutorial some time back,which I "translated" into readable English - his version was a bit whimsical. (Wonder where I put that? )
Anyway, here's the link to the original.

Thanks ma'am :o)

Laurie

Attached Link: Varga Hair Tutorial

Excellent looking hair Laurie!!  Have you taken a look at this tutorial - maybe tht will help on the transmap thingee :)

:)

oh my that is such cute hair!! definitely a keeper I think :)

Quote - Excellent looking hair Laurie!!  Have you taken a look at this tutorial - maybe tht will help on the transmap thingee :)

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Thanks Irish. I'll be checking that one out! (and bookmarked)

:o)

Laurie

Your hair model looks very good, nice modeling.  My first, and last, hair model i made anime style so no texture map needed lol :p

 

Eternal Hobbyist

 

BTW, I was so intent on helping, I forgot to say: excellent modelling, Laurie!! I'm so impressed: you undertake and achieve some of the hardest modelling in Poserdom. Dynamic clothing, and now hair... wow! Elegantly done...

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Attached Link: http://natukin.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kami.html

You may want to try out Natukin's Kami hair texture maker, at least to give you a start. It's in Japanese but you can operate it by the good old "press a button and see what happens" method quite successfully. It does make transmaps as well as textures.

And, yay indeed. The hair looks good. :-) 

Very impressive! A lot of hair has started looking the same to me but this one has some unique, whimsical flair. I especially like the curved parts on the sides. The only thing I find a tiny bit odd is the little parts sticking out just above the tips of her ears, but it's hard to tell from only the front view. Great work and I'm sure your transmap will make it even better. It really fits the figure/character (who is?). 

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Quote - ...It really fits the figure/character (who is?). 

Mavka by smay in the MP. And you'll have to forgive the oddities ;o) - not only is it my first hair, it's the first time I've ever used Hexagon (have had it for over a year and never learned to use it....lol). For the most part I'm a Wings3D user, but it's limited with some things.

Laurie

I like that!!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

I think I'm nearly there ;o) Maybe some more tweaking in the front....

The back will have a bow, provided I can make one...lol.

Laurie

Wow, that is elegant work, Laurie! Can't wait to see the transmapped version.

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Quote - Wow, that is elegant work, Laurie! Can't wait to see the transmapped version.

Thank Valea....her/his tute helped a lot as far as the modeling goes....lolol. Obviously I'm not nearly as refined as Valea...hehe.

Laurie

beautiful work laurie, this is such an absolutely gorgeous hairstyle - I hope to see more!

wow looks great laurie! :)

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That really does look outstanding! Even without transmaps it would be great for toonish stuff. 

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Laurie, this is excellent!  Glad you found the Valea tutorial helpful.

:)

Quote - > Quote - Wow, that is elegant work, Laurie! Can't wait to see the transmapped version.

Thank Valea....her/his tute helped a lot as far as the modeling goes....lolol. Obviously I'm not nearly as refined as Valea...hehe.

Laurie

You have a distinctly LaurieA style... this is a good thing.

Regarding the Kozaburo tute: once you sort-of get your head around his instructions in terms of how he went about doing the transmaps, the fact that - to me - really stuck out (and gave me pause) was that the really awesome bits, that which made his hair as incredible as it is, was his final drawing. Those bits that really show, he drew. I'm pretty sure he's a really good artist, our Kozaburo Takahashi.

Is that the impression you got? Open to corrected views, here...

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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
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Metaphor of Chooks

Laurie that looks fantastic! You go girl! hugz

Quote - Laurie that looks fantastic! You go girl! hugz

waves  Hey LilWolf!!!! And thanks...lol. I might be starting over ;o).

Laurie