Suggestions?

[missbonbon]

So I noticed my game severely lacked decent curly hair. I mean not everyone has perfect wavy hair, or straight as a pole hair. So I took a shot alpha editing Cazy's converted Myos hair. I need some feedback please!

Here's my issues:

1. Curls look great in a light color as you can see, but kinda blend in together on darker colors. Minor enough to leave it or is there a way around it without losing the shading for the curls? Examples:

2. It's not very noticeable in this picture, but the straight part doesn't line up along the top of the head. I've tested for about an hour now different sizes/locations of the curls and straight parts to line it up. I conclude that the way the hair is UV mapped, it will probably be next to impossible.Example:

3. I just now noticed it's a bit wide the head. It's near impossible to get it "flatter" by alpha editing it. Is there directions somewhere on how to break a package apart and just make the hair slimmer? Or someone nice enough to help me out?
4. Do the bangs look weird? They seem to be UV mapped to the same portion of one of the curls, but mapped at the end of the texture.  So again, probably impossible to get it to line up correctly. Bothersome?

 

Comments

I LOVE YOU!

[jordy]

OH MY FCKING GOD.
THIS IS AWESOMEEEEEE!!!!!
is that a curled pooklet texture?!
can you PLEASE share it?! i can help a friend out when i get that curly texture =O
oh man, i love you! =O

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[missbonbon]

:) It's not a curled Pooklet texture actually. It's a S2H texture that Aelia made "Pooklet ready." I believe it's on Aelia's dreamwidth somewhere? I've had it stashed for a while, and the texture I use can only work if you have photoshop.

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[jordy]

I have photoshop! Can't find it on her site. Can you give me it? gotta sleep soon.

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[jordy]

http://aelia.dreamwidth.org/13394.html nVm =) i found it. if yours is different i'd stille like it =D

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[missbonbon]

Nope same thing. :)

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[jordy]

Ok then. Thank you. I hope you fix the issues, because it's awesome!

Answers.

[jordy]

1. iDk of a way yet. maybe post a picture of a darker color?
2. Can't see it.
3. Hmm, it's not that wide! It's delicious!
4. No, they don't look weird to me.

(L) LOVE IT! (L)

[jordy]

Lovely! Check your mail. XD

[jordy]

I don't understand 1. It looks good!
2 might be a bit annoying, but still not bad bad.

[ghanima_atreides]

That's...simply gorgeous. The little flaws you mentioned are barely noticeable, and one I can't see at all! What a great revival of that mesh too!

This brings me to a little question...would you mind terribly if I attempted this for TS2? I'll give you credit for the original idea of course :)

[missbonbon]

I would mind so much! XD No not really. I was actually surprised no one thought of using Aelia's S2H textures earlier. If you want I can see if I still have the .psd's (if you have photoshop) and send them to you. Because I also edited the alpha. If you look at the original mesh, it has weird bumpy bits on the top, and the hair is actually longer. Well with these textures, it looks funny like that.

[ghanima_atreides]

The .psd would be all kinds of awesome, if you still have it! If not, an alpha+texture file would also be helpful. I was bracing myself to tackle the alpha and textures, which look pretty complicated, so it would make my task a lot easier. To be honest, I'd forgotten all about this mesh, but seeing your work on it gives me an urge to plonk it on my TS2 ladies' heads ASAP.

ghanimaxatreides@gmail.com <---for sending purposes. :)

[missbonbon]

It's been sent. :) Unfortunately the only .psd I had was before I colored it, but all the editing has been done. I kinda gave a brief explanation as to how to edit them further to get them back to an "editable" point. They could still be run through Pooklet's actions the way they are though.

[ghanima_atreides]

Woot, thanks so much! They're perfect the way they are, getting them to the proper shades should be easy enough. :D *goes to mess around in PS*

[6akalaka1]

I think this looks really, really cute and i don't really see a problem with the darker colors, but... those bangs are kinda awkward. Cause the rest of the hair starts off straight at the top of the head and then curls up and the bangs are curly right away. Does that make sense? But if it's not fixable, it's not fixable. It's still really cute and the curls look much better than the original.

[missbonbon]

Yes, it does look odd. The curly days bring me back to the days of when this one hair stylist promised me a perm and game me a Jheri curl.

So I will try later moving the curls up and getting rid of the straight bits and see how that fares...

[(Anonymous)]

This is beautiful, I love it. I can barely/can't notice the problems mentioned. You put so much care into your work. <3
I do think the bangs are a little strange. Maybe if they were straighter at the roots like the rest of the hair? I'm not really sure, my hair is quite straight so I probably wouldn't give the best advice.
Regardless, it's gorgeous.

[missbonbon]

Thank you.

I would love for the bangs to start off like the rest of the hair, but the way it's mapped it doesn't work like that. :( I know it sucks. So I'm thinking I should just get rid of the straight bits and make it all over curly.

[(Anonymous)]

It's great, where can I get it?. Curly hair is always naturally wider than straight hair, it looks real.