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RingzTerritory
21st Dec 2009, 06:31 PM
I was wondering, I don't know where to ask this since it's not really a tech. issue I think. But I was wondering is there anyway for me to recolor/retexture hair and just use an already made color/texture from someone else? without having to paint anything myself?

Like say I wanted to retexture and recolor a peggy mesh with ...pooklet colors/textures, would the colors and textures just fall into place or do I have to actually paint and edit them to fit..?

HystericalParoxysm
21st Dec 2009, 06:35 PM
You'd have to edit them to fit. The way individual hair meshes translate a flat 2 dimensional image to 3 dimensions varies - that's called the UV map. You'd have to modify the textures you want to use to fit the UV mapping of a different hairstyle (cutting out pieces, rotating, and bending them). Certain hairs have UV maps that don't really work well for converting textures from one to another - just depends on which ones you choose.