drive hair color and length with decal

[thefreshestever]

another hair problem:

 

i want to drive the color and the length of my hair system by 2 different decals, or one decal with 2 different images in it, seems to be no difference.

driving the color is no problem, works fine. but when i add the second image for the length, it affects the color of the hair too!!!??

 

i´ve done it all like in talbots hair-tutorial-video, but it won´t work... first i thought it might be a windows-version problem (sometimes i´ve some problems with images there, won´t be displayed etc...), so i tried it in the osx-version too, but same thing.

 

all i do is select "other" in the decal-images "type"-menue, then add a property and select length for my hair system... it doesn´t loose the color of the image that drives the color completely, but it get´s much brighter and a bit mixed up, and it doesnt drive the length!!!

 

couldn´t find any information about that special problem in the forum, searched for hours, would be nice if someone had an advice....

 

thanx...

[thefreshestever]

sorry, solved the problem all by myself

 

for those who are interested... my hair system earlier had two emitters, then i erased one. thing is that a:m didn´t seem to recognize that and mixed things up that weren´t any longer there.

i just deleted my hair system completely and created a new one, and tataaaaaa: works!!!

[HomeSlice]

There is a trick to that. Here's a tutorial that covers the nuances of using a decal to drive multiple properties for hair. Forgot what page addresses your issue but hopefully it won't be too hard to find. You didn't mention what version of AM you are using. The tutorial is for versions 13+

 

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29738

 

Oops, just read your last message. Glad you got it working.