How to make hair ignore ears
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How to make hair ignore ears
Dkgoose
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How does one add hair to any of the Genesis 2 characters with elf ears and have the hair load normal? It always forms around the ears but I want he ears to stick out not be covered in hair, thanks on advance for any replies
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Select the hair and go to Parameters,, make sure "Show Hidden Morphs" is on, and look for the auto-generated morph for the ears.
Then turn those off. Note some times this just makes the hair poke OUT of the ears in odd places. But it is all we have. I often hunt hairs that show the ears to use on my figures just to avoid that problem.
Thanks this was awesomely helpful, I've been having this problem too, but I never knew there was a way to solve it :-)
Something that I just thought of a short time ago...
Once you have your figure morphed and set up as desired. Duplicate a copy of your figure. Turn off the elf ears morph and possibly even turn on a no ears morph. Fit the hair to the duplicate no ear copy of your figure.
Turn off the visibility of the duplicate figure and be sure that any posing/morph changes applied to one figure are also applied to the other figure to keep the alignment straight.
Depending upon the hair model you might want to add a morph to split the hair below and around the ear.
I had thought about exporting just the head and importing as an obj but I do not think the autofit feature of the hair will work after that.
Not perfect, but it is a workaround.
disable auto follow in the properties of your elf ear morphs. do this before conforming the hair.
I've attached an image that shows where to find this option on any morph.
So far as I can see the Auto Follow setting isn't saved when you save a scene or asset , you have to switch it off again every time you re-load it.
Or is there some way to make it save I'm missing?
You can save out the morph and replace the auto follow one.
You can save out the morph and replace the auto follow one.
I'm not sure what you mean:
Do you mean save a null morph that does nothing? Yeah I figured that out, but it wouldn't be much simpler if the Auto Follow setting was saved when you saved a scene or figure. To be honest I don't really see much point in having that setting if it doesn't save.
As a scene or subset..no I don't think it does. As a proper support asset or as a morph (or updated morph) it should. I'd probably save it as a different version...something like mygreathair_NO_AF.
In reality it is much more useful for content creators or at content creation time than it is afterwards.
did you?
Right, so save the morph with autofollow disabled. Click the little box to disable autofollow on the source figure, and then save the new changed morph.
Yeah I had tried that, but it didn't seem to work, when you loaded it back in Auto Follow was back on again. But I've been playing around with it and seem to have got it working now. The issue was that if you save the scene with a figure in it with 'Scene Asset(s)' you have to close it and load that version, then do the above. If you just carry on and do it in the original scene it doesn't work.
Thanks for the help.
The large version screenshot is too big for my monitor. Can you please make it smaller or crop the image? Firefox doesn't show any scroll bars that allow me to pan the image. My desktop is set to 1024x768. Thank you.
The large version screenshot is too big for my monitor. Can you please make it smaller or crop the image? Firefox doesn't show any scroll bars that allow me to pan the image. My desktop is set to 1024x768. Thank you.
Right click the picture, and choose "View Image". Then it'll autoscale to fit the window, and if you click it to bring it fullsize it'll have scroll bars.
can autofollow include the gn and g2m male gens in it's following?
Thanks. :)
if it can the result would look like a willy warmer built into your pants ;-P
Just wanted to add depending on the situation, I sometimes find it easier to not auto conform the hair to the figure. I just attach it to the head like a prop and then shape it manually through scale, morphs, d-formers, etc. Although I usually try to conform it first to see how well it works. I often use a ton of morphs on genesis and fit Gen 4 hair to it. The other techniques mentioned are very useful too, whatever works best for the situation.
Oh man, thanks so much for this! I just ran across this thread after some rather frustrating attempts to get the hair behind the elf ears. Now, I know how to shut off that pesky autofollow!
One of the reasons I use VWD; to dynamically pose the hair. It takes some time to learn the software though.