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Wanting to paint fingernails seperatly.

BoorsmanBoorsman Posts: 265
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I would like to show one of my characters painting her fingernails.  WhatI would like to do is show the progression throughout the renders.  What I find challengng is tryingto figure out what fingernail on the texture map is what.  I tried figuring it out myself, but got these results.  Image 1 is when I painted what I thought were the index finger, but image 2 shows different.  Image 3 is when I tried to fix it, but I'm confussed as to what is going on here.  Anyone have any suggestions?

 

fingernail attempt1b.jpg
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fingernail attempt2b.jpg
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  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,029

    @Boorsman which figure are you working on?

  • BoorsmanBoorsman Posts: 265

    Im working on G3F with a G3M texture.

     

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,029
    edited May 2021

    okay so this might help ,it will show which color goes to which finger ,either place it over your fingernail  texture in the surface tab,then in your paint program on a seperate layer do your polish ,I hope that makes sense ... oh and the reason your second try didn't work is you polished the hidden portion of the nail I'm not sure why the first try acted up though...

    G3M Fingernailguide_1004.png
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  • ecks201ecks201 Posts: 446

    As Carrie said. Create an extra layer and just put different numbers or letters over each nail, then render it and you have a reference image of what goes where and what doesn't show etc. Then do the actual colours that you want.

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    ps201 said:

    As Carrie said. Create an extra layer and just put different numbers or letters over each nail, then render it and you have a reference image of what goes where and what doesn't show etc. Then do the actual colours that you want.

    Or, instead of numbers, you could mark them

    • Went to market
    • Stayed home
    • Had roast beef
    • Had none
    • Went wee, wee, wee all the way home

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,730

    Please don't post textures, unless theya re all your own work (which doesn't appear to eb the case here).

  • PixelSploitingPixelSploiting Posts: 898
    edited May 2021

     I'd rather use geometry editor to create separate surface for each fingernail then swap shaders on the nails. No texture tracking or editing needed, you could use any G8 nail material this way.

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  • LucielLuciel Posts: 475

    PixelSploiting said:

     I'd rather use geometry editor to create separate surface for each fingernail then swap shaders on the nails. No texture tracking or editing needed, you could use any G8 nail material this way.

    That would be an option too. You would get ease of use, but you'll be using more textures/VRAM.

    I'm kind of sure there's a product that has nails being painted...

  • lou_harperlou_harper Posts: 1,163

    If you were working with G8 you could use this. https://www.daz3d.com/ab-single-nails-for-genesis-8-female

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,840

    lou_harper said:

    If you were working with G8 you could use this. https://www.daz3d.com/ab-single-nails-for-genesis-8-female

    Those appear to be shape morphs, not textures. 

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,029

    @Boorsman feel free to down load the guide I made , @ps201 only problem with that is the letters or numbers don't show up legible until you render doing just the colors does show up in the view port clearly.

  • BoorsmanBoorsman Posts: 265

    First, I'm sorry for posting the textures.  I should have known not to.  Second, Thank you, Carrie58.  Your guide is greatly appeciated.  Third, thank you everyone else for your help.

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