Editing the Transparency of the Hair
After doing the head transparency maps, the hair is a snap. It's
the same procedure, so I'm going to skip a lot of the screenshots.
Click the material edit arrow for the first hair component. In
the material editor that opens, change Transparency from 'Widget'
to 'Texture'. In the new texture editor that opens, choose 'New
Texture' from the menu. Name this new texture "HAIR
transmap". Again, it will be important to have an obvious
name when it comes to adding the transparency map to any other
hair components.
Click the circle-T to enable the first texture leaf. Click it
again to open the kickstand. From bottom to top, set up the
kickstand as follows:
- Set Coordinates to UV Position
- Leave distortion set to None
- Change the fractal to 'Bitmap Node' - in the parameters
on the right, click the 'load from disk' icon at the end
of the 'filename' parameter and locate the hair transparency
map file.
- Output Controls - if the Transparency map was inverted
using an image editor before loading in to MojoWorld, the
Ouput Controls can be left alone. To invert the transparency
map within MojoWorld, open the Output Controls, select each
curve in turn and use the 'Flip Curve' tool.
Close this texture editor. Click the material edit arrow for
the second hair component. Change Transparency from 'Widget'
to 'Texture'. In the new texture editor that opens, simply
choose "HAIR transmap" off the drop-down list box
in the upper left corner of the editor. Close the texture
editor. Repeat for any other hair components the figure
may have.
A Note about Hair Color
Poser uses an ambient color to add coloring to hair.
MojoWorld assumes a global ambient color. Changing this
global ambient color to make the Poser figure's hair
the right color would really make a mess of the rest of
the planet. There are a couple things that can be done
to make the Poser figure's hair as vibrant in MojoWorld
as it is in Poser:
- Add color to the hair texture file in an image editing
program.
- Use a specular color in MojoWorld to add colored
highlights to the hair.
In the image on the first page of this tutorial, I only
used a specular highlight color to add color. The material
editor for the hair I used looked like this:
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