freespark Posted September 7, 2002 Share Posted September 7, 2002 Hello all, Very quick question. I have a 2D character that I texture mapped the front of with a drawing that I did. But, now I want to texture map his backside but don't have primitives in the back of him to put the drawing of his backside texture map on. Is there a quick way to add the same amount of primitives that I have on his front side to his back side? Thanks in advance. Nevins Duret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danteA Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Not quite I understand there. Are you in SOPs? Assuming you have some 3D geometry that is simply flat on one plane, then you can try to Duplicate (SOP) the geometry and specify an output group. Then add a Reverse SOP on the output group to flip their normals. You might want to offset your Duplicate a teeny bit though so that the primitives don't overlap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Also not sure what you mean, but you could use the group sop and ground faces by normal direction and then create a front facing group - "Front". Use the "combine tab" and do "Back = ! Front". These 2 groups could be textured seperately using a Shader SOP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespark Posted September 16, 2002 Author Share Posted September 16, 2002 Hello Jason, I tried your approach, but had no success. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. Is there an example that you can show me to see how you resolved it. The duplicate SOP seems to do exactly what it says but it splits the two into seperate primitives. I think you are on the right track. Nevins Duret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betty Posted September 17, 2002 Share Posted September 17, 2002 freespark i've used dante's approach and it works quickly and easily - just offset as little as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespark Posted September 17, 2002 Author Share Posted September 17, 2002 Hello Betty, Yes, Dante's approach works really well. But, unfortunately it does exactly what the duplicate SOP is suppose to do; it seperates the new primitive from the old one. And, my problem is I want them to remain attached to one another. Any, suggestions? Nevins Duret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betty Posted September 18, 2002 Share Posted September 18, 2002 since it just a 2d surface why not simply extrude the surface just a little, then group the front and back primitives. then texture each group. this way it is all one object. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted September 18, 2002 Share Posted September 18, 2002 Nevins, this project sounds interesting! (Any chance we could see a render/(progression) screenshot? ) Also, I think betty made a good point here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespark Posted September 18, 2002 Author Share Posted September 18, 2002 Hello Guys, Yes, Betty's suggestion is really good. It was one of my first resolutions to this. But, because I bricker divided the 2D plane prior to extrusion, when I start to make my character's joint move and I render, you see the geometry below the texture map when it is rendered. And, I don't like that very much. Anyone, have any suggestions on how to smooth them out? Nevins Duret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danteA Posted September 20, 2002 Share Posted September 20, 2002 Nevins, A picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe it would help if you posted an image showing the problem. dante Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespark Posted September 20, 2002 Author Share Posted September 20, 2002 Hello Dante, Please, don't laugh this is a concept for a character that I'm doing for a friend of mine. The area in the circles indicate where I went wrong with the extrude sop. I used the facet sop and the smooth sop so far but none seems to get rid of the geometry's buckling. Nevins Duret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betty Posted September 24, 2002 Share Posted September 24, 2002 freespark maybe you should go with nurbs, this way you will avoid such a probelm. not too sure as to what exactly you seem to be doing, but i get the idea you want to have the model displace in 3D ( as in lose it's flatness - which seems to be the problem ). the other thing is the model looks simple enough so maybe you should just model it in 3D and texture it...but i guess this is exactly what you don't want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted September 24, 2002 Share Posted September 24, 2002 Nevins, I don't 100% exactly know what you're trying to achieve either. I will do my best in helping you out though! My suggestions: Firstly... 1) Have you used an EdgeCusp SOP? or did you turn off Shading > Smooth Shading? (in the OBJ level of that what you made so far). If this doesn't work out, you should maybe consider this: 2) You should try turning on the feature Rendering > Geometry: Polygons as Subdivision Surfaces (in the OBJ level). Like Betty said... 3) You could try using NURBS instead. For example, set up a (NURBS) grid. Then apply your texture (?) to it. Now, in order to get the shape, you can either trim it or alpha-map away what you won't be needing. I think alpha-mapping is better when you're going to animate it (especially when you're going to use more than one texture file). I hope this will work for you. Anyways, good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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