Crocodile tears

trasgu

Hi everyone:

I've Crocodilia 2: gharial and crocodile. I've a stupid problem but I don't know how to resolve. I can mapping all textures over the model, but no eyes. I tried a lot of things for mapping the eyes. Texture for eyes is in the folder... Anybody has a solution?Anybody with the same problem?

Thanks.

trasgu

I forgot to tell you the problem is with tongue and teeth too.

Silent Winter

Are you using iray?  There's a similar problem with the 3dl shaders for the Daz Big Cat 2 - they don't autoconvert to iray for the inner-mouth (there's something special going on in the shader).

Try manually converting those surfaces to Daz Uber and then checking again that the maps are in place.

If you're already rendering in 3DL then I'm out of ideas ;)

 

Edit to ask:  Are you seeing the same thing in render or just in the preview?

trasgu

Thanks, Silent Winter.

Yes, you're right, I'm using Iray. 
I don't know how to convert to DAZ Uber... I'll looking for a tutorial for learning.

It's a very interesting model. It's a pity doesn't have bones for opening its mouth.  

Thanks again

 

MelanieL

trasgu said:

Thanks, Silent Winter.

Yes, you're right, I'm using Iray. 
I don't know how to convert to DAZ Uber... I'll looking for a tutorial for learning.

It's a very interesting model. It's a pity doesn't have bones for opening its mouth. 

Thanks again

 

Have you found the morph to open its mouth? It can be found by selecting the main crocodile figure in the scene, not the head node (where the shaping morphs can be found).

The body parts all use specially-made shaders for 3Delight. If you want to convert to Iray you need to do something like this:
1) Load the kind of crocodile you want from the Crocodilia product - there's a choice of green, grey or striped (note that the eyes and  mouth look plain grey until you render in 3Delight)
2) Select the crocodile in the scene, select all its surfaces in the Surfaces tab, then in Smart Content, Files tab navigate to Shaders - Iray - Uber and double click on "!Iray Uber Base".  This will set the shader to the Iray base, but you will find you lost the textures for all surfaces except the body.
3) Select each of the other surfaces in turn (claws, eyes, teeth, tongue) and for each one click on the little box with a downward arrow in Base Color, then select the same named file as the body section is using.

This will give you a basic conversion to Iray. It can be made to look much better by tweaking the surface settings, but this is a more complex process.

Fenris9

Thank you so much for you response MelanieL, I purchased Crocodilia 2 yesterday and was tearing my hair out try to get it to work in Iray! This has been a great find, and this technique will help me continue to use some of my other old Poser assets. Cheers!