Summary

Title:Hair map doesn't appear in the right place / not showing up
Category:Crash/Critical
Status:Closed
Posted By:antonalfy ( Anton )
Date Created:21 December 2021

Problem

Description:

Hey, for some reason the hair map doesn't work, and the hairs appear everywhere on the body.

 

Jeordanis, tried downscaling textures as you suggested in the other thread, but no luck. I've attached the test file to this. 

Steps to Reproduce:
 

Attached Files:

>eyebrows.zip (3226730 bytes),

Hi,

I can reproduce the issue, the team is looking into it. Meanwhile, as a workaround, you can select the area of the eyebrows where you want to grow the hair, create a selection tag and use it in Hair from Guides, then enable "Use Face Includes".

 

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hi,

The team implemented a solution in the next nightly build. The problem is how C4D evaluates bitmaps (JPG) in recent versions. Even as the map is black, it evaluates the values as very small double values (e.g. 0.003). The new parameter "Distribution Map Zero Value" parameter in HFG will allow you to specify the minimum/black value, which is zero by default. To fix it in your scene set the value to something like 0.01.

 

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hi Jeordanis, thank you so much for promt fix, just downloaded the latest built that was released today (stable, as nightly isn't availiable for windows) and unfortunately the issue remains. Should I wait for the next nighly windows release? 

 

Thanks! 

Hi Jeordanis,

 

Just wanted to chase this up as it's still not working and haven't heard back since.


Thank you!

Hi,

Sorry I didn't update you. We are taking another look into this. I will keep you posted.

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Thanks Jeordanis! 

Fixed for the next nightly build. Here is the distribution map working in Guides from Mesh and Hair from Guides:

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hi Jeordanis,

Thank you! Looking forward to the release.

Thanks