{"id":8144,"date":"2016-11-10T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2016-11-10T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:44:21","slug":"scanning-my-pants-and-other-back-end-carrara-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/11\/10\/scanning-my-pants-and-other-back-end-carrara-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning my pants and other back-end Carrara prep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted to the Carrara forum on the Daz boards, though I doubt anyone finds the vicissitudes of my creative process that riveting:
\nAfter initial excitement<\/a> and installation of Carrara 8.5, I hit a wall last month when it seemed like someone’s materials weren’t applying correctly. Well, the materials were actually fine, though there were duplicate shaders. I was just looking at the scene in a view that was NOT texture shaded. Once I figured that out, everything looked much better!<\/p>\n

I haven’t been in Carrara much these days because I’ve been doing lots of back-end preparations.<\/p>\n

1) I reduced the size of the G2F file by removing unused morphs. It definitely loads faster now.<\/p>\n

2) I’m in the midst of modifying textures for my G2F versions of my characters so that they match the G3F base textures in tone and detail.<\/p>\n

3) I made some custom textures for Ravenhair’s G2F Casual Jeans and T-Shirt<\/a> for everyone to wear.<\/p>\n

4) I encountered poke-through and Carrara’s lack of smoothing modifiers.<\/p>\n

5) I added the ExpandAll morph to Casual Jeans and T-Shirts to override pokethrough.<\/p>\n

6) I decided to forego morph-based or plugin-based solutions to pokethrough in favor of a 100% reliable solution: second skin clothing. That’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while anyway.<\/p>\n

7) I discovered all of zero paid or freebie options for second skin clothing based on the V5 UVs [which all my characters are using], so, after a frustration digression with my V3[!]-based Clother<\/a> by Zew, Texture Converter 2<\/a> by 3DUniverse, and Daz Studio’s Map Transfer function, I realized that I wouldn’t get satisfactory results from either V3- or V4-based second skins. I had to make my own.<\/p>\n

8) I scanned my jeans, as well as my shirt, last night, downloaded SnowSultan’s V5 seam guides, and began filling in the maps with cut and pasted elements from the scans. I now have a waistline, fly, front and back pockets, and belt loops for the jeans, as well as a hemline for the shirt. The neckline is in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted to the Carrara forum on the Daz boards, though I doubt anyone finds the vicissitudes of my creative process that riveting: After initial excitement and installation of Carrara 8.5, I hit a wall last month when it seemed like someone’s materials weren’t applying correctly. Well, the materials were actually fine, though there were duplicate… Continue reading Scanning my pants and other back-end Carrara prep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[773],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carrara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8145,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}