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Bot Genesis Question

Fragg1960Fragg1960 Posts: 356
edited December 1969 in The Commons

This is for anyone that has Bot Genesis.

I'm thinking of purchasing that item, but by looking at the promos, it's not clear how customizable it is--specifically the head. It does look like you can apply the bot head and then a texture over it (which is the effect I'm after), but those round ear things are what concern me. Is there a way to use the Bot head without the round ear discs? Can they be made invisible via lowering opacity? All the renders show them, which mean it may not be possible.

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  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    Fragg1960 said:
    This is for anyone that has Bot Genesis.

    I'm thinking of purchasing that item, but by looking at the promos, it's not clear how customizable it is--specifically the head. It does look like you can apply the bot head and then a texture over it (which is the effect I'm after), but those round ear things are what concern me. Is there a way to use the Bot head without the round ear discs? Can they be made invisible via lowering opacity? All the renders show them, which mean it may not be possible.

    Bot Genesis

    Promo image seems to indicate that no, you don't have to use the hearing devices.

  • jerriecanjerriecan Posts: 470
    edited December 1969

    The ear covers are a totally separate prop. You don't even need to load them if you don't want to.

  • cwichuracwichura Posts: 1,042
    edited December 1969

    The circular ears are part of the Bot Genesis head geograft. Also in that geograft are some of the indentation lines in the face and head to give the face a more robotic shape. if you don't mind a strictly human face, then you can simply skip loading the head geograft and have regular human ears. The ears are not something you can just hide via opacity, since the geograft actually replaces the regular Genesis ears mesh.

    Of my Bot Genesis renders, Cryo Cargo Inspection - Caretaker Closeup 2 has the closest view of the face where you can see the lines I am talking about (at least if you view the zoomed in or full resolution versions on dA).

  • jerriecanjerriecan Posts: 470
    edited December 1969

    cwichura said:
    The circular ears are part of the Bot Genesis head geograft. Also in that geograft are some of the indentation lines in the face and head to give the face a more robotic shape. if you don't mind a strictly human face, then you can simply skip loading the head geograft and have regular human ears. The ears are not something you can just hide via opacity, since the geograft actually replaces the regular Genesis ears mesh.

    Of my Bot Genesis renders, Cryo Cargo Inspection - Caretaker Closeup 2 has the closest view of the face where you can see the lines I am talking about (at least if you view the zoomed in or full resolution versions on dA).

    I didn't realize that. Maybe I was thinking of another figure. :( Thanks for the correct info. :)

  • Fragg1960Fragg1960 Posts: 356
    edited December 2013

    Dang--I was hoping to be able to avoid loading the round ears. I wanted a more human looking android with the face lines but normal ears. Don't know why the vendor didn't make it possible to customize what loads just a bit more. If it's part of the geograft then you can't even hide the darn things without the entire bot prop disappearing. Wish there was a way to get the face lines alone. I guess I'll have to drop my planned Bot Genesis purchase and use the Genesis SuperSuit which I already have and mess with the face/head sections to add some robotic lines that way.

    The Bot Genesis does look in the renders like it takes skin textures well--does the SuperSuit take skin textures equally well? For some reason I remember trying to apply a skin texture over the SuperSuit at some point and not having it work (but maybe I'm not remembering correctly--it was a while ago). Thanks all.

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  • cwichuracwichura Posts: 1,042
    edited December 1969

    The SuperSuit's UVs do not match up with skin textures at all. Now, it has an epic number of mat zones, so you might get away with hiding the areas of the SuperSuit that you want to look humanoid and allow the skin of the underlying Genesis figure to show through. Bot Genesis was specifically designed with taking V4 skin textures in mind, and has mat zones named for the standard V4 skin surfaces so you can apply regular character settings files to it.

  • Fragg1960Fragg1960 Posts: 356
    edited December 1969

    So I wasn't hallucinating (LOL). Yes, that SuperSuit texture experiment did not turn out well. Thanks for the info.

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