First step is determining how well "clothing" works as a second skin. It works very well with one caveat. It will not move with the viseme morphs for speech. I had discovered this previously when I figured out how to make beards in CC.
Anyway, here is a test of a second skin for the body only. This has implications for varying mesh resolution, UV mapping, and so on. It also behaves exactly like the original skin.
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So I'm finding it's better to use an IK chain for the mer-tail. That makes it not CC compatible, but all my ideas work well in 3DXchange as well. It is recognized, and gets all the CC visemes automatically applied.
I am using a trick of "clothing" as a second skin, while hiding the original skin. It's a way to get non-bipedal bodies while maintaining all the face puppet/viseme goodies.
Been researching a bit more, I'm about to get started. I'll be posting videos of my work real soon. I have two characters planned at the moment. We'll see how it goes. We can submit up to three.
My basic guide for the mermaid is this. She may get a more "fish-like" (dorsally oriented), rather than mammalian tail.
Having done some research and a whole lot of testing of ideas, it is now time to start the actual model that I will use for the mermaid.
My objective is to maintain as much of the iClone/CC compatibility as possible. Being that I am adding bones to the skeleton, the avatar will no longer import into CC, but it will retain the visemes and facial muscle morphs of a standard CC character.
I am using a "second skin" approach so that I can retain compatibility and also have a significantly different body mesh. The second skin is actually clothing that has no offset from the body mesh. I then hide the original body mesh.
Here goes the basic concept for the hands......or rather, fins. I figured that being a sea creature, she maybe didn't really need hands at all. By using the existing hands as the basis for her fins, I can use the hand animation controls in the motion layer in iClone. This is sticking to my idea of staying as iClone compatible as possible. The leg bones may end up being re-purposed as fluke fins as well.
These "hand fins" have a kind of Asian fan feel to them that I really like. I had thought earlier of having her use fans as such and have fins to match. I thought it might be more interesting to actually have her hands be the fans....err....fins.
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Anyway, here is a test of a second skin for the body only. This has implications for varying mesh resolution, UV mapping, and so on. It also behaves exactly like the original skin.
Any reference --------> How to upload picture on this forum
Thanks
I am using a trick of "clothing" as a second skin, while hiding the original skin. It's a way to get non-bipedal bodies while maintaining all the face puppet/viseme goodies.
My basic guide for the mermaid is this. She may get a more "fish-like" (dorsally oriented), rather than mammalian tail.
My objective is to maintain as much of the iClone/CC compatibility as possible. Being that I am adding bones to the skeleton, the avatar will no longer import into CC, but it will retain the visemes and facial muscle morphs of a standard CC character.
I am using a "second skin" approach so that I can retain compatibility and also have a significantly different body mesh. The second skin is actually clothing that has no offset from the body mesh. I then hide the original body mesh.
Please enjoy part one of my mermaid modeling!
These "hand fins" have a kind of Asian fan feel to them that I really like. I had thought earlier of having her use fans as such and have fins to match. I thought it might be more interesting to actually have her hands be the fans....err....fins.
-Alex