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#1 Old 18th Feb 2006 at 10:52 PM
Ok, I AM confused (hair, meshes, alpha channels and textures?)
Heya

I'm currently working on my first mesh project that I'm actually going to finish haha.

Well well... So I started creating this hair mesh and all... And maybe I shouldn't read all kinda tutorials while doing this, because now I'm pretty confused.
I'm using the newest milkshape, plugins, but an older version of simpe.

So my hair has got about ~6 layers. I cloned it from the simplelonghair maxis mesh...(which only has 2 alphas!!!)

well, my problem is, I read that you can't create some more alphas, but I think I need some more because I simply need more textures for all the layers. What's up with that? Am I not getting anything here?

Because, if I have everything in just 2 groups (1 for the front, 1 for the back faces) how can I texture the gaps & overlays properly? And even if that worked, there's just not enough space on the texture map....

Secondly, what about the alpha opacity rules? I know that they need to be sorted from inner layers to the top layers... But I don't get how they are named... there's alpha3, then 5... etc.... why aren't there alpha 1, 2,4,6 etc?

Thank you guys,

-Julia
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#2 Old 20th Feb 2006 at 8:39 AM
Yes you can create more "alpha" layers.

I have done it and it does work.

I use the method explained in this thread by Sunair:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=75793

As for the naming, that's just the way Maxis did it - and if you look at several different Maxis meshs you will find they didn't always do it the same way.

For example, some meshes skip 3 and go right to 5, 7, 9, etc.

What they did do is to name the groups the same as their opacity setting, for example hair_alpha5 will have an opacity setting of 5.

This isn't strictly necessary, but it will help to avoid un-necessary confusion so I would follow their method at least that much.

There is no restriction on the numbers, having a "hair_alpha1" is perfectly OK.
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#3 Old 20th Feb 2006 at 2:44 PM
can you make spiky hair going up in this game? cause all I see is hair going down.
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#4 Old 21st Feb 2006 at 2:10 AM
Cloud, really you should have asked this in... requests... but just for the record, meshes can go whatever way people want.... look at 'downloads/bodyshop/hair/male' for instance....
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=123940
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=110774
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=110161
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=108343
and kavar has done some pretty wild hair
(gonna stop now)
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