I'm working on a handpainted texture for Stephanie, using the upper eyebrow region with a transparency map for the eyebrows, rather than painting the eyebrow on the skin. Above the one eyebrow there is a little line that I can't get rid of. It is not on the transparency map or the skin, the transparency min and max are set at 100%, and the falloff at 0%. What am I missing!

Thanks Mada

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The problem area, gets worse when I use darker colours for the eyebrows. Mada

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Poser uses some pixels outside of the template so the pixels showing might be placed just above the transmap.

It is a problem with the transmap, but I can't find anything that might cause it. I have looked at every pixel above the eyebrows, this is stumping me.

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Did you zoom in close to see if maybe there's a tiny little line in the transparency map? Is this the "UpperEyebrows"? How about the "Eyebrows"? Could there be a line there in the transmap? To me it seems like it's the edge of the eyebrow area showing for some reason.

Like Sue said, my only guess is that maybe you're not applying the right transmap to both sets of eyebrows, upper and lower. Or maybe even that you've changed the transmap at some point but don't have the most recent transmap loaded into Poser??? Grasping at straws here.

Hmmm ... looks like the dial to hide the eyebrow might be a bit off.

Dunno, I checked mine out and can't see it. Try travellers thin brow morph.

If you examine the lower edge iof the eyebrow directly under the "anomaly" you will see that the anomaly is a repeat of that lower edge. It's like someone rubber-stamped that lower edge of the eyebrow to a position above it. What would cause that aside from being on the texture somewhere, I have no idea. Weird.

You can also see a distinct stright edge on the top part of the brow just below the anomolly. Looks almost like it's trying to vertically tile it. If you send me the trans map I can probably get a better understanding as to what is causing it.

Thanks, will be in contact. Mada

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Figured it out. Your problem isn't in the transmap, it's in the material settings. This is your transmap, with the correct material setings. You have to have the material texture for the eyebrows and UpperEyebrows set to your head texture. That is where the flesh tone and colors are going to come from. The upperbrow isn't as important, because you can alsway just use a colour there instead of a texture. I'm guessing that the texture onyours is set for upper brow, or eyebrows.

I'll have to play around tonight, thank you very much for your reply. :) I'll let you know how it comes out.

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That did it thank you, I had the transparency map loaded into the eyebrow section as well. That's what happens when you work late at night. :)

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Okay, now I'm confused. This evening I was working on an eyebrow transmap for Stephanie myself, and I ran into the same problem. It seems that if I have a transmap for both the UpperEyebrows and the Eyebrows, there is that line above the right eyebrow. If I don't have a transmap for the Eyebrows (only for the Upper Eyebrows), there's no problem, no line. But we should be able to use a transmap for the Eyebrows, too - that's what helps the eyebrow have dimensions to it. And this problem does not happen with Mike, only with Stephanie. Could this be a problem with Stephanie's mapping? Or am I missing something? But how come it does not happen with Mike?

That is what I thought too, which is why I had the transmap loaded into the eyebrows as well. I haven't tried the maps for Mike on Steph yet, will give that a go tonight and see if the same thing happens. Mada

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Well, I've tried several things and the result is always the same. I think there's a problem with Stephanie's right Eyebrow map. I wonder if anybody else besides us has had this problem?

Sue88: I found the problem with Mada's transmap, there isn't anythinfg wrong with the geometry. If you like I could look at yours and try to figure it out.

ElectricAardvark, Thank you. :) I'll get the map together and send it to you as soon as I can. (I'm just about to leave somewhere so I'll have to do it later.) I appreciate your offer. :)

ElectricAardvark, I didn't want to send you a crappy transmap so I worked on it a little more (yesterday I just did a very rough thing) and I actually managed to solve the problem. It had to do with the positioning of the Eyebrow transmap. But I do appreciate your kind offer and I thank you. :)

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