Ariannatheprincess Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hi all, Im having some issues with texturing my mesh hair, I have two photos here to show you my problem Basically when it's rezzed on the ground you can see the 'hair wisps' which is obviously an alpha image, set to alpha blending, however, when I wear the build, as you can see from the image, that 'hair wisp' layer just vanishes. I have ruled out an issue with my avi by wearing other hairs with these 'wisps' on them, and they all work fine. I'm not sure what the problem is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirly Fizzle Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Which viewer are you using & do you have Advanced Lighting Model enabled or disabled in graphics preferences? Can you go to Help -> About Second Life/Viewer name & copy all your system information from there & paste it into a comment here. Ta! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariannatheprincess Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 Im using Firestorm, and everything runs at max, unless I'm in a heavily populated sim, or I'm running numerous programs, then its just one notch down from max. So I'm not sure it's a graphical error, here are the details Firestorm 4.7.3 (47323) Aug 18 2015 03:46:39 (Firestorm-Releasex64) with OpenSimulator support Release Notes CPU: Intel® Core i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz (3292.56 MHz) Memory: 8124 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 64-bit (Build 7601) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2 Windows Graphics Driver Version: 9.18.0013.4752 OpenGL Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 347.52 RestrainedLove API: (disabled) libcurl Version: libcurl/7.38.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1i zlib/1.2.8 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v7.6 Audio Driver Version: FMOD Ex 4.44.56 Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded) Voice Server Version: Not Connected Settings mode: Phoenix Viewer Skin: Latency (beta) (Extra Plain) Font Used: Deja Vu (96 dpi) Font Size Adjustment: 0 pt UI Scaling: 1 Draw distance: 256 m Bandwidth: 550 kbit/s LOD factor: 3 Render quality: Ultra (7/7) Advanced Lighting Model: Yes Texture memory: 1024 MB (1) VFS (cache) creation time (UTC): 2015-10-19T1:14:58 Built with MSVC version 1800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 I've seen this too. I can edit hair while worn, set it to alpha blending and it will work. Detach and wear again and it has reverted. I gave up in the end and just ignored it as I couldn't figure out what was tripping it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirly Fizzle Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 We worked out inworld what was causing it in Arianna's case. She was rezzing her rigged hair, shift copying it, resizing the copy to be slightly larger & texturing the smaller copy with the non-alpha texture and texturing the larger copy with the alpha texture. Then linking both meshes with the smaller solid textured mesh inside the larger alpha textured mesh. Of course the hair is rigged so when worn, both meshes snapped to the same size & goodbye wispy bits. We both kinda facepalmed :smileywink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariannatheprincess Posted October 24, 2015 Author Share Posted October 24, 2015 Id still like to know how to fix this though As awesome it was to figure out why it was doing this. Doesn't quite fix my predicament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChinRey Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Ariannatheprincess wrote: Id still like to know how to fix this though As awesome it was to figure out why it was doing this. Doesn't quite fix my predicament The only answer I'm afraid is to make and import the larger alpha and the smaller non alpha version separately with different rigging. (Edit) On second thought, you may be able to do something with alpha masking to cout off the unwanted parts of the "non alpha" hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariannatheprincess Posted October 25, 2015 Author Share Posted October 25, 2015 I'll try out different rigging with them see if that helps. Whirly Fizzle and I tried a lot of different things with the alpha mapping of it nothing seemed to work so i doubt that messing about with the texturing inworld will help, must be in the rigging as you say, one thing i noticed through this, is on inspection of hairs that i have bought from the MP, is that, many hair designers seem to upload their mesh strand by strand. Tbh I'm far to impatient, lazy and under educated in 3d modelling to do this, but, if the different rigging approach as you have suggested does not work I will try that. I tell you, if I figure this out, I am totally uploading tutorials for people, there doesnt really seem to be any decent ones! thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 You can be sure that they don't upload strand by strand. Multiple objects can be uploaded at once and will appear as a linkset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariannatheprincess Posted October 25, 2015 Author Share Posted October 25, 2015 I was only assuming thats what they done. So I rigged each bit differently and imported them into world, and again, the same thing happens when they snap to the same size when worn, but seem fine rezzed on the ground. This is really starting to annoy me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy Romano Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I'm not convinced that you're doing anything wrong. As I said, i've seen it before and I suspect it's a bug. You can set alpha blending all day long but teleport or relog and it has reverted again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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