Looking for a Clues on meshing eyelashes??? lol >.<

Delure · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 850 Location: USA - OR

Iv got an awesome idea for eyelashes, but Id like them to blink with the eye. Is that possible? Does anyone know of a tutorial for it? Im prob thinking its something to do with morphs? LOL >.< IDK. Any info would be awesome!! <3
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Delure · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 850 Location: USA - OR

No one has any ideas? Sad

well Ill try and figure it out.
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twistednanny · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 2680

Yes it is a product with morph targets (the blink ones), you'd just have to create the eyelashes mesh with blink morphs named exactly like the ones in the example head file. If you made them correctly they should blink automatically...

Now this item is very sensitive in terms of eye sizes, for IMVU standard heads, you will have to get the head you want eyelashes made for, then fit them in accordingly (each IMVU's standard head has different eye shapes and sizes) and to get the IMVU standard head mesh file, look at tutorial #3 on my HP.

If you want to make eyelashes for very specific custom heads, it will be difficult to get it to fit right if you don't have that head mesh fie...
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Delure · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 850 Location: USA - OR

TYVM for the reply!! ^_^ Ill give it a shot and see if I can't get it to work.
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Delure · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 850 Location: USA - OR

Is this even still possible. I tried, and I couldn't get it to work at all!

What I did was make the mesh, then tried a complete copy of the morph modifier (from the head file), that didn't work. So I tried just the blink morph names copied on a totally new morph modifier, that didn't work.

I tried exporting with skinning to avatar attachment. I tried skining to the head. I tried exporting with the Female04_Anime01_SkeletonMASTER.xsf from the head file, as well as the PoseMaster file for modeling clothing.

Am I missing a step or something?
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Delure · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 850 Location: USA - OR

Ok so Im deff doing something wrong. Are you talking about putting the morph names in the .xmf file? I looked in mine and it is completely empty of morph code. Soooo thats prob it eh?

EDIT: Well I edited my .xmf made it look like this:

Delure · Joined: 07 Jan 2011 Posts: 850 Location: USA - OR

lololol I feel kinda stupid. >.< So I figured it out. Guess I just needed to sleep on it.

So you have actually make the morph, like from scratch (copy your mesh, move in vertex mode, link, ect.) and match it up with the blink morphs in the head file, and name it the same as them. ^_^ You don't have to export any morph animations though, just the mesh with the morph modifier on. It will just match up in create mode.

I kept thinking to myself, how could this be done with just naming the channels, there isn't any morph information there. lolololol >.<
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twistednanny · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 2680

Some things are not written anywhere.

The lashes 'blink' automatically when you made them right because of the built in avatar idle animation. Make sure you use Mesh ID 14 as this is what other eyelash mesh makers use.
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