agiel opened this issue on Aug 08, 2001 ยท 16 posts
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 2:33 PM
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 2:35 PM
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 2:38 PM
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 2:42 PM
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 2:44 PM
SAMS3D posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 2:47 PM
Thank you, I am going to go off and try this now. Sharen:)
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 2:50 PM
Notes: - Repeat this as many times as you need if you want to add other parts of the face - The material editor assigns the same name to the same materials when you import the same figure twice. You will have to play with material names in order to have multiple pieces of the same face. The easiest is to save the piece as a separate material as soon as you apply the transparency map. For my example, I had a 'skin' directory in my material files, with a copy of the original skin, and separate materials for each eye piece, for the mouth and for the forehead. - I noticed some artefacts in volumetric atmospheres. If you move the pieces too far apart, the 'transparent' part of the face may appear faintly like a ghost image. - If the objects overlap exactly, only one of them will be visible, no matter how your transparency maps are made. You will have to shift the objects a little in order to make them appear. I hope you have fun when trying this :)
MikeJ posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 4:15 PM
Wow, this is very intriguing. Thank you for sharing this technique! And up 'til now, I only ever have used transparencies in Vue for plant materials and glasss, etc.... Would you mind if I put a link to this page in the tutorials sction here? This is a really awesome technique, with alot of possibilities. :)
SAMS3D posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 4:42 PM
Yes, thank you for sharing this....this is fabulous. Can't wait to show you what I come up with, it won't be like yours but at least I will give it a try. Sharen:)
Axe555 posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 5:54 PM
This is good stuff! Thanks for sharing it with us. :D Rich
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 6:01 PM
Mike: I can make a version of this as a full html tutorial and put it on my site. That would make a more stable place to link to from the tutorial page.
bloodsong posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 6:48 PM
heyas; but when you're working on it, dont move the heads apart, import them on top of each other, just separate them on different layers. (you can turn one invisible if you need to). that should work better than trying to place two separated ones exactly on each other. very cool, thanks for showing us this :)
MikeJ posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 7:06 PM
OK, agiel. I don't have to do it, but if you're going to make this into a html page, please link to it in the tutoriasl section. This is great stuff! :)
riversedge posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 7:39 PM
Excellent, and thanks!
agiel posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 7:44 PM
Bloodsong: That's right. I separated themto make the tutorial more clear. It is better to leave them superimposed and separate them slightly at the end.
Varian posted Wed, 08 August 2001 at 11:12 PM
Very cool technique! :)