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No valid xgen node specified maya forum hair 2020 The radius, the circle when I'm selecting a brush won't show up. did you try to save the Xgen description as shown in the screenshot? You can save it manually: Looking forward to your reply, if this solves the issues. 53. Having the ability to for example output stray hairs as white and normal hairs as black through the HairSampler would be awesome. Now I manually update an . The step that is taking the longest to process is the actual alembic export of the hair. I’m still pretty new to Unreal so I was hoping I could get some help with a few questions. Hello! I recently purchased this model online with xgen hair, and for some reason when I open the project file, the hair is not loading properly. You can then sculpt the hairs and add modifiers to them. I would like to add spots to this Leopard. 151 Posts 11-26-2024 06:23 AM Forums Links All Forums AREA by Xgen hair are visible in Maya viewport but when I render in Arnold some descriptions aren’t visible. X (Twitter) Facebook. For the first 16 saves after this, everything saved correctly. I click the grab tool to edit the placed curve and Maya says the grab brush is activated but I keep receiving this error: (// Error: line 0: No After using Fibermesh on Zbrush, I realize that I cannot use it to create braided, ponytail hair and various other hairstyles. I am using Maya 2018 Apr 26, 2020 · Hi, as part of my dissertation, i am investigating the innovation of hair simulation for VFX, one of my investigation topics focuses on the Maya Xgen and Houdini's hair sim tools, to anyone who has used both software or just Xgen, id like to know how reliable is Xgen and is it still relevant as a Industry standard form of Hair simulation Jul 1, 2020 · Progressive sampling base buffer memory usage: 374. Only in scenes that already have been set up earlier. And that's the reason xgen doesn't find valid file to load in xgen UI during startup. With arnold using cpu, everything looks like it should. 6. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. I have also mask but still there is hair on unwanted area here is problem ; https://ibb. It basically wont generate primitives at all. I’ve checked the shaders. When I got it ready, I added hair. you can then rig the clip for some ambient movement and have it control the hair without dynamics as well but Xgen has a lot of flexibility and I have Hi, everyone I got a issue of Xgen mirror when i use maya 2020. I have read and excercised the following tutorials, and chaos docand they have not worked for me. The strange thing is that it saves the file after rendering, refreshes Nov 16, 2016 · Starting from Maya 2017, the Maya team introduced a great improvement to the XGen feature, called “Interactive hair and fur grooming with XGen”. I have attached screenshot for understanding the problem. However, I always get the following warning; OpenCL is disabled. exe -r vray), My slave machine is full of these errors: Sep 11, 2017 · The guides that seem not to be generating hair may be based on faces that are outside that view, though in saying that, the guides do not generate the hair, they control the shape and interpolation. I generally get 4 curves out of 20 - 20% - not following the head. Jan 22, 2017 · Hi, this is my first time posting. Adapter : AMD Radeon R7 M460Vendor ID: 4098. The collection file can be exported to a given location as a separate XGen file that can be imported back into Maya if needed. The creator of the model wrote this in the description of th At the attempt to set a key frame on any scene object in a Maya scene file that contains Xgen nodes, the following warning is displayed in the Maya terminal: Cached Playback: The presence of unsupported XGen node 'xgGuide20Shape' has triggered Safe Mode, and caching is disabled. You can do a absolute override for that visibility (pretty weak). Also, I've tried deleting all objects from the scene, not saving it, and creating a 3 days ago · Well, Xgen has been working, technically. Hi, i'm using Maya 2018 because i wanted to add hair with XGEN interactive groom to an old project. Below are my questions and problems i stepped onto. @Anonymous . I was testing it on a dog character and found a wall that seems that I can jump by myself. API : OpenGL V. See output window for more Jul 15, 2015 · Hello there everyone! I was trying to animate my hairstyle in the wind using the AnimWire modifier and the Wind modifier but there aren´t any tutorials for what I have in mind and the documentation page about the Apr 20, 2021 · Hi amukherjee728, . Jul 13, 2019 · Solved: I can see xgen hair on my character in viewport ,but it's not showing in rendering, why is that? If I create a blank scene and reference this. Aug 8, 2016 · Hi everyone, To start I'm currently using Maya 2016 and I'm having an issue with getting XGen to reference into another Maya scene. I just got maya 2020. Yesterday I unchecked visibility on the guide hairs or groomable guides under the "grooming" tab as I was working on the interior of the mouth. I've tested more complex shading networks and with other interactive xgen modifiers inputs, and they all seem to have t Xgen to poly and export by mirekm in forum Maya Modeling replies 0 on 27-08-2020 Warning: Face X has coincident guides by Lazarus102 in forum Maya Basics & Newbie Lounge replies 1 on 22-05-2020 XGen not working anymore. It renders correct in Maya Redshift but I’m not 100% sure if this is a Maya export/xgen May 27, 2019 · I've tried: Setting the absolute file path No spaces or underscores in any file names applying a plain lambert to the geometry applying a smooth to the geometry Resetting Maya preferences Nothing seems to work. I already tried resetting my preferences, and turning off only primitives in view and neither have helped. Any way to make it pick up the UV set? Choosing the geo in the UV linking editor doesn't bring up the texture, and choosing the xgen scene description doesn't pop up the UV sets. by MilkyJoe in forum Maya Technical Issues replies 0 on 08-02-2017 Having problems using hair system by Valkyrian in forum Maya Hello! I've been using Maya for a few years now, but suddenly when I use xgen, I cannot preview my splines at all. xgen file saved underneath. Export Collections or Descriptions Opens the Export Collections or Descriptions window, which lets you save Collection (. Below is my output window from right after starting up Maya: Initialized VP2. But can't find what to select (node etc) to actually create a cache for my animation. The work around is the transform node for your xgen hair. I saved the scene and closed maya. xgen file there. Aug 14, 2021 · Hello. Next I would check out the new workflows for Maya 2017 update 4 for XGen and many things Xgen has many workflows but what I would do is have separate grooms where the hair clip is attached to a groom without dynamics, and have the hair clip as the source of the dynamic hair, as a hair clip shouldn't move with the hair. The attached video is a result of a render sequence and you can see that the hair dissapears from the geometry. After creating guide around mesh cap, generated hairs are also penetrating inside mesh cap. co/HTJMJ72 Feb 16, 2017 · Mesh cleaners in modo, max and maya have found no odd issues with the mesh - no co-incident points or faces, no non-manifold geometry, no 2-point polygons or n-gons - nothing weird. co/RYtGyjj here is mask if needed ; https://ibb. Through a lot of googling and testing things, I've found that applying a lambert material and moving the mesh's UV map to the 0-1 tile solves the issue. I'm not too well-versed with xgen, so maybe it's an easy fix and I'm just not realizing it. abc') file which can be imported into Unreal Engine. Mark as New; Bookmark; Subscribe; Mute; Permalink; Print; Report ‎05-25-2020 10:27 AM. Any input welcome. If I turn the clump off and on, it fixes it, but it always happens again, when there is a clump on. cancel. May 23, 2018 · 1_ I cant find xgen pref node in node editor (maya 2017 updat 5 )!!! 2_ How can i add $pref to noise modifier (using stray setting in this noise node). Controls what is simulated I had problems rendering animated Xgen generated hair using Arnold. You need to After linear wire is added the orange splines don’t follow the xgen hair they just go out to the sides in a linear fashion how do u fix that? I was watching this tutorial see above to my issue 🤔 https://youtu. Maya Community > Maya Forum > Clump ( Xgen Interactive Grooming ) weird behaviour when moving object; Options. xdsc) files. I also get this on starting the app. Apparently when Maya Increments and saves (ctrl+alt+s) it doesn't save You can use this workaround that I have found, You cannot directly connect the UserColor to the Dye Color, you need to do it through the RemapColor node or a similar node Hey everyone, I am having an issue with Xgen, trying to render a character turntable. However when I render as a batch (Render. I am having trouble with xgen hair. It still help helps a lot. 0 renderer { Version : 2016. Aug 24, 2017 · Hi I was rendering some hair through Xgen and Arnold and everything was working fine until I think it was after I resized the plane that the roots were attached to, which seemed to have caused this error: // Error: XGen: Clumping guide ID larger than number in xuv file (pPlane2): 172(guide ID) 0(xuv file size) May 13, 2020 · Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. 37 MB Noise threshold goal lowered to 0. I see the collision tab under the groom Dec 17, 2019 · Self-explanatory title, I have worked with xgen countless times before , I just reinstalled it on my pc since I had to do a rewipe on it. Jul 5, 2020 · Maya Community > Maya Forum > XGen hair render, output settings; Maya. The xGen maya 2020 i have wont allow me to scale the hair curves or guides,upwards. Back to Topic Listing. Maya xGen hair goes trough mesh dodoo86. So, the hair tries to follow these curves that are not moving, yet the head is - I get strange results (what I noticed). It was rendering fine Sep 27, 2016 · Rendering hair or other fine primitives usually requires a lot more Max Sibdivs something, values between 24 and 50 are typical values for such scenes. First off all I would recommend you install the latest Update 4 for Maya 2017 and reset you preferences. If you need more complex shading with different colors at the root The third thing is more of a note, that my maya never saved a . Mar 21, 2020 · But If I try to apply a texture by the hair attributes node I doesn’t fit the hair, but technically the texture is working on the hair, just not the way it should be, so It seems the grooming has Uvs The other thing is when I try to export the hair with density maps from maya xgen, on UE seems not working and it shows hair where isn’t Jun 4, 2017 · Hi, I have a problem I created hair with XGen with guides and created hair system. XGen interactive grooming Clump modifier attributes Use a Clump modifier to globally Aug 24, 2017 · Hi I was rendering some hair through Xgen and Arnold and everything was working fine until I think it was after I resized the plane that the roots were attached to, which seemed to have caused this error: // Error: May 23, 2017 · Specify points is not relevant to the Interactive groom system, it's for core XGen (for primitives, but not guides) If you created guides from curves and deleted the curves, To Dec 17, 2024 · Hello, My XGen files won't save anymore. I'm not sure if an old bug has cropped back up (as it doesn't set Mar 3, 2023 · In a simple hair system, when I move the object, the "clump" node generates unwanted stretched hairs. Sep 4, 2018 · Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. Mesh is UV-ed and textured with tx format file. Simulation Method . We share and discuss topics regarding the world's leading 3D-modeling software. Thank you so much. be Select Generate > Import Collections or Descriptions to set Import Collections or Descriptions options. XGen Files and Folders Dec 11, 2019 · Hello all, So I tried this a couple of times and each time I can not get 3D Manipulation to work in Arnold 6 Maya 2020. Is there another easy solution? I don't need a Welcome to the Autodesk Maya Subreddit. I had created a beard and hairs for my character, but then I need to do some gray hairs in shading. I've been duplicating a "default" description for each hair card, so that each one can have different modifiers and masks but the same width ramp. I can see the render view of them just fine, but cannot see the previews that I was able to see only yesterday. This is when Arnold render view is open. This can be caused by unlocking the XGen container and rendering. The brush tool is partially functionalized. The modifier seems to be only evaluating the first node in the DAG. Please specify a writable Sep 7, 2017 · Hi, I have done several attempt to create xgen guide hair but facing a problem every time. Thanks for your attention. " The output window tells me: "Initialized VP2. Mark as New; Bookmark XGen Maya has so many bugs and random problems that it is impossible to work. Filling out density maps and region maps, manipulating the guides, however i'm still confused on how to create a new description for the same piece of Jul 16, 2020 · This page has been translated for your convenience with an automatic translation service. This will force xgen to rebuild the pref attribute at the larger May 22, 2017 · Hello I need somebody help me to fix this problem. SOLVED Back to Maya Category. Apr 10, 2018 · I don’t understand what exactly xgen updates when the file is saved. 4) crashes and I have no idea why. Share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular Maya topics. I'm open to other methods but can't find a recent workflow solution. 00:00:00 1126MB WARNING | [mtoa] [<built-in>] [node aov_write_vector] Assigning temporary node id 1138176 May 28, 2019 · Hello, I've gotten decent at understanding the pipeline to Xgen. Essentially I interpret the basic difference as being Dec 20, 2017 · Hello everybody, So I did some work in 3DS Max a while back and I used Hair and Fur Modifier with Vray to do some renders of a Fox I made. The arnold renderer renders it fine. Lets you convert hair and fur created by interactive grooming splines Apr 23, 2020 · Hello everyone, I modeled/rigged/animated a character in Maya and tried out the xgen hair experimental thing in Unreal. Sep 16, 2015 · But then you loose the flexibility of having stray hairs. e. I also can no longer see the areas A very simple approach, assuming you are using xgen_hair_physical is to attach an xgen_ptex_lookup node to the color attribute and enter the path to your ptex color file. Mar 1, 2017 · I am having major issues trying to render out xgen with vray. Subscribe to RSS Feed; Mark Topic as New; Mark Topic as Read; Float this Topic for Current Apr 3, 2023 · I was trying to use xgen but I got a warning saying OpenCL is disabled and to look at the Output Window for more details. I have tried several ways to avoid this but every time I can see hairs penetrating inside mesh cap. It showed up as an interactive groom and i was able to get the groom Dec 4, 2024 · The difference between subframe and frame sampled XGen patches can be seen below, all example images were rendered at the same frame number. When i try to open program it will show massage "Unable to locate valid MAYA_APP_DIR. I tries re-installing both Audio2Face and Maya, I get the same result. Xgen Hair Acting weird Hi , i am pretty new to xgen so im kinda experimenting with the options , but , i have a Mar 23, 2021 · I'm a real noob in Maya so I've been on google for days but I can't find any answers related to this. Brush can use only on eyelash. I'm at the end of my project and all I have left to do is add hair and fur, so I create my description add guides,clumps, noises, etcThen, when I'm happy with what I see in the viewport, I open the Redshift IPR (not having opened it before) to Mar 4, 2024 · Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. However when I attempt to create the region mask I receive the error: "No paintable surface found. Please note that it addresses normal Jun 24, 2018 · Forum; V-Ray for Maya; V-Ray for Maya :: General; If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. Well, I'm working in Maya 2018 now because I want to start rigging and animating the fox. You would need to change your description on 2 places everytime you change stuff. Maya out of memory I have 32gb of Nov 25, 2020 · hello there, I have a question about the interactive XGEN, I had created all my guides on my first descriptions by hand and to make the second layers of hair (like flyover) of these descriptions instead of redoing the guides Nov 15, 2017 · Maya Forum > Curly hair with xgen; Maya. Once with and once without Hello, I'm trying to learn how to use xgen hair but there is a massive viewport bug or something, where it very frequently doesn't display my xgen hair. Using the demo file does import a cache file just fine in Maya. 0 renderer {Version : 2016. Reply reply rhythm2403 • So i thought that there must be a problem with my Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. I am on Windows, now Maya 2023, I was using 2022, but get the same message. Cheers Dec 13, 2020 · Hello, I am fairly new to XGEN and I am trying to follow a couple of tutorials, but when trying to create a PTEX mask I have the problem that Maya is not creating the main XGEN folder within my project, or ane my folders with my descriptions I follow all the steps I've already seen. I hope you can help me cause want to use XGen and not ZBrush fibermesh for hair cause the The problem has persisted through different Maya versions (since Maya 2018), Files and projects. Contributor ‎03-02-2021 04:25 AM. Community Forums; Maya Forum Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. But when I play the simulation, the xgen hair doens't collide with the mesh. The XGen file, which contains all the descriptions in a collection, is saved with the Maya file it is associated with in the scenes folder. My project had been set beforehand. Start getting in the habit of using print to see what your commands are outputting. At the moment the rendering (Arnold) is unstable and the fur keeps glitching/inverting when I render a sequence. In the material graph, add a Hair Attributes expression and plug the Root UV into the UV input of the Texture Sample. In section II, it covers the process (and difficulties) of rebuilding XGen hair in other locations. Subscribe to RSS Feed 03-02-2021 04:25 AM LinkedIn. Ideally, I would like to use the vray hair material 3 and a custom ptex map to drive xgen. I tried animating the primitives directly and through a Lattice deformer but neither worked. The XGen patch, derived from the bound faces/geometry and any density maps are the basis of the hair generation. As the screenshot shows: Xgen mirror result is incorrect. The improvement provides a full range of tools, including sculpting Oct 31, 2018 · I would like to paint some maps to color an XGen groomable splines description and render it in Arnold with the aiStandard hair shader. Right now, the character is built to a scale of Oct 3, 2018 · I have a rigged character brought in from Character Generator, exported with blendshape facial expressions (not bones). As I said, the cut, and comb brushes work fine, it's just the density brush that doesn't register. It's just a little cross like a plus. I'm using regular Xgen NOT Xgen interactive groom. I don't know if this is usual or not, but I only had the . 4. You could also export the collection to an xgen file, then load the cached 1. Click a flair to sort by topic and find a wealth of information regarding the content you're looking for. Within the Maya UI, I can successfully render an image with DR slaves and everything is perfect. I creating new description, add new guide, but hair This message appears when you use an XGen file that needs to bind to data in the xgeom file but the geometry is missing. The tutorials on XGen hair all say you Jan 5, 2020 · I install maya 2020 but when i open it only opens the output window and does not start maya any solution? Maya Community > Maya Forum > Maya 2020 won't open; Options. Subscribe to RSS Feed; Mar 16, 2023 · Hi, Im trying to paint a region mask onto a head to be able to part the hair down the middle of the scalp. And every time i try to use the sculpt guides to manipulate In Maya, run the script with the changed values to generate a new Alembic ('. Apr 24, 2017 · I have spent the day evaluating XGen. 2w次，点赞19次，收藏14次。Elementplus报错 [ElOnlyChild] no valid child node found_[elonlychild] no valid child node found 报错描述：ElementPlusError: [ElOnlyChild] no valid child node found 问题复 Aug 18, 2017 · Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. Simulation Method. Forums Home > Maya Community > Maya Forum > xgen showing in the viewport but no in rendering; Options. Utilities. New! Aug 2, 2021 · When I create a density mask on my mesh in XGen, I get the following error: Maya then switches to the paint tool, but painting on the mesh does nothing. Jul 26, 2020 · I am trying to create hair card alphas in xgen. Subscribe to RSS Feed; Mark Topic as New; Mark Topic as Read; Float this Topic for Current User; [<built-in>] [node aov_write_vector] Assigning temporary node id Jun 22, 2016 · XGen builds a pref when binding to the surface so the density will not change if you increase the scale of the object. I'm trying to make my first hair and I can't make it work. ‎05-13-2020 07:12 PM. Have you set their shape nodes to be visible?" I have done a bit of research online before posting here and have considered it may be a UV issue as others have Jan 19, 2021 · Hi there, I hear it's possible to cache xgen fur. But instead of reimporting palettes in the file, you could add corresponding xgen file name in a mentioned attribute (eg: mayaSceneName__collectionName. So I have Aug 24, 2016 · Here is a link from LightCollab: Light Collab>>Help Documents>>XGen Hair . Next I go to file, set Aug 17, 2018 · Then if I save the file in the same OR a different location on my drive, the XGen fur will vanish from the RenderMan image. Share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular Maya May 23, 2017 · Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. Then you could cache out the XGen patches for batch rendering with the new animation. I've tried shrinking and moving all geometry aside, created the sphere with XGen fur and sometimes get fur in RenderMan, sometimes not. These are descriptions of the attributes in the hairSystemShape node (also hairSystem node). I'm trying to make it bigger but nothing happens and I got the same result when I'm trying to actually "brush". Attach Hair to Alembic Animated object. I tried fresh install and I still have the same problem. When you import this cache, Maya automatically creates the node networks for each Description. I Used MAYA 2017 student license in windows 10 . The groom_root_uv attribute specifies per hair the underlying Aug 24, 2020 · Hi,I'm a student who uses Redshift and I've encountered a very annoying problem when it comes to using the IPR and XGen. I'd like to use Xgen hair sculpt to apply facial hair around the mouth/chin and eyebrows that moves when animating the face. However, to save myself from having to re-groom the fox in Xgen I wanted to import the splines ;created from hair and fur modifier in Max May 3, 2019 · Hi, Let me start by say that I'm pretty noob at Xgen. That is, my scene saved in the scene folder and the . I'm trying to use a procedural texture with a cut modifier and its not working as expected (see attach picture). When i render, I only get the xgen fur on a lambert, and no color information. It seems you need to go to Generate --> Convert to interactive groom. Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti with Max I'm working on some fur with XGen in Maya 2018 and I'm looking to add some gradation to the color shifts in my fur. Asking for help. The hair will Continue to render until I try to edit the hair in any way, or if I close the Arnold renderview and open it Again, which both cause Mar 11, 2020 · I have the same probleme here, the grooming guides visible but not the preview. Share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular Unreal Live Link topics. Reply. Aug 11, 2020 · When I try to change my density, region and all the other maps, xgen displays an orange border around my mesh and pink points. Every, single , time. Oct 5, 2018 · I have 3 UV sets on this model, and the hair needs to reference the second and third set, so I can't just take the 'main' set and make it as a subset. Share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular Maya dynamics topics. Here's an example of what I've got currently, and this is roughly the transition I'm trying to get, maybe a bit less than that image. 12. Edited: After restarting Maya, turns out it doesn't always fix it. I got the fur system set up in maya 2017. In shading with Arnold I use an attribute from XGen, Jun 14, 2019 · An xdsc file is only created when you export a description. delete interactive xgen guide hair. The mesh will subdivide properly in all of those apps Sep 29, 2019 · Please help me. - request for rotation brush- request for inclination brush- I'm working in Maya 2019 and beginning to start my project in xgen with placed curves. When modifying these attributes they affect the entire hair system. It seems random, because after I have had a scene open which previously worked with xgen, where the groom is setup, I can shortly after generate primitives and new descriptions Mar 2, 2021 · Maya Community > Maya Forum > Maya xGen hair goes trough mesh; Options. xgen file. The problem now is that whenever I select the comb grooming tool Maya (2020. The first image illustrates the reference location of a single strand of XGen hair without motion blur and the remaining two images show a composite example of the reference image comparing subframe and frame Mar 12, 2018 · Hi! I have a troubles with understanding how primitives ID works. I have been trying to create a texture sheet for hair cards but all the tutorials I have come across keep skipping the part I Feb 7, 2024 · 文章浏览阅读1. -> I have "update preview automatically" enabled so it should work -> Reseting maya preferences doesn't work So, I investigated and I found that when I clicked the create Hair system button in XGen, not all my curves were being attached to the XGen surface that the guide curves are attached to. See output window for more details. Feature Level 5. I am a 3d student and have a deadline pretty soon and can't do the hair I Dec 3, 2020 · Is it possible to export hair made with XGEN to other applications such as Blender, UE? If it is, using which method? Also what is the best workflow for the goal if I have 2 descriptions of different XGEN grooming Jun 22, 2020 · I'm trying to generate fur using the interactive grooming interface in Xgen. Max texture size : Jan 23, 2020 · Hello! I am back again with another XGen question. See also Export and import XGen Collections and Descriptions. I've checked settings In the output panel, primitive shader settings and tick everything. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. 2. Share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular Maya materials topics. you can just delete the curve from the curve list on the xgmCurveToSpline node or delete the curve directly. Convert Interactive Groom to Polygons. I found "the solution" on the forums yet So, I need to create couple last descriptions for individual strands and flyaways, but on that stage XGen decides he will not work anymore. Jun 3, 2022 · Hey everyone! I’m following this tutorial on getting Xgen alembic files added into UE5 (How to Make Custom Hair in UNREAL ENGINE 5 - YouTube) and I keep running into this issue where my fur has these strange different colored patches instead of all being a nice uniform color. I am expanding prodecurals. And I make the mesh a passive collider. It still convert to curves even after turning on the. XGen interactive grooming Curve to Spline modifier attributes Lets you convert a series of curves in the scene or from an Alembic cache file to interactive groom hairs, guides, and wires. xgc file and the paintmaps saved. Hey, May 12, 2020 · Hi guys, Im a bit stuck on a particular workflow section I would like some clarification or insight on. The render layers only works in geometry shape, nodes transform, lights, cameras, and shaders etc, not so much xgen. I already tried to assign Lamber, doesn't work. First I cant get the hair to interact with the mesh, so in most animations it starts cutting into the character’s back. 10 Subdivsions are usually not enough to generate a smooth animation but like always everything depends from the scene that's why there aren't a universal settings. Select this new node, then try I've checked using the Arnold renderview and it works only if I update the Xgen simulation each time. I can get XGen to reference properly if Oct 31, 2024 · There is no utilities at all but it still convert to curves. If I render a frame Hello, I'm trying to learn how to use xgen hair but there is a massive viewport bug or something, where it very frequently doesn't display my xgen hair. I ended up creating an ASCII Maya file from the groom and then imported it directly from the File > Import option in Maya. All we need is to grab/select the Interactive Groom node from the outliner and then apply Octane Material or the Been working on an furred character for awhile now. And deleted the collection folder in xgen manually, which wasn't the correct way Hello! I've been using Maya for a few years now, but suddenly when I use xgen, I cannot preview my splines at all. But I It's been working fine for days, yet the 3rd day I open the file and regenerate the hair and this happens. Mark as New; Bookmark; Subscribe; Mute; Subscribe to RSS Feed; Jun 19, 2022 · Remove animation from ‘y_derger_1_polySurface3_resultCache1’, or delete the node entirely, to resume caching. Feb 5, 2021 · Anytime I renderer xgen hair with Arnold, the hair disappears from the viewport. 4 REPLIES 4. xgen) or Description (. . I already put the Collision Modifier, exported the mesh in alembic's file and imported it in the modifier but is not working, even I put two Collision Modifier. Feb 10, 2022 · Hi, I'm a complete newbie to Xgen and am having trouble figuring this out. xgen file and description files by exporting them from the menu, in case anything would crash and disappear again. # Warning: No valid mesh found for the given description node. I have followed lots of very complicated tutorials - the Arvid Schnieder video on youtube and the Arnold help guide Oct 9, 2018 · @Chris Meyers I got it to work but I'm not sure why you need the xgen hair not to be visible. i. Unreal Live Link for Maya Forum Welcome to Autodesk’s Maya Forums. Ended up figuring out some of this thing out after few days of Then I imported only some mesh from other Maya scene, then Xgen showing bug appeared. This should create a new node with "_splineDescription" suffix for you. Nov 15, 2023 · Topics in this section. It fixed after I turn on the "Curves to Guides" utilities. So long as the topology has not changed, just the animation, you could just use a blendshape on the geo to a cache of the new animation. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. 00:00:00 1126MB WARNING | [mtoa] [<buil I would like to paint some maps to color an XGen groomable splines description and render it in Arnold with the aiStandard hair shader. This is not an official translation and may contain errors and inaccurate translations. I created a groom in the regular xGen and then recreated it in XGen Interactive. I have followed lots of very complicated tu Jun 14, 2019 · An xdsc file is only created when you export a description. Turn on suggestions. I have attached 2 pictures displaying the problem. Aug 25, 2021 · Hello, I have a character model of a monkey with about 8500 faces unsmoothed which is rigged (with advanced skeleton) and I subsequently added interactive grooming splines to it and created guide curves. Also changed the We would add the Xgen and Ornatrix workflow in a few day's time but the Xgen workflow is extremely straight forward. XGen Files and Folders Oct 15, 2012 · Hi, Currently having problems with a scene. After messing around and looking at the xgen error log, the problem is that there's no . paint some leopard spots or zebra stripes on a map in photoshop and have the hairs take on the different colors. ‎02-13-2020 08:37 AM. For some reason, the xgen files stopped saving when I save my scene. The two guides towards to the right side of this picture is the the guides needs to Hi everyone, I'm using Maya 2020 and tried to apply xgen to my model, but it didn't work out, because I didn't really know much about Xgen. See XGen Caching submenu. The documentation is actually very good, so check it out to see what parameters you can use to filter out the results 3. 166667 Setting up denoiser GPAPI: [pickBestOpenCLDevices] No OpenCL devices found Failed finding OpenCL Apr 24, 2021 · Hi this is my first time using xgen , my model has no issue with symmetry , i'm trying to make eyebrows ,when i mirror it everythings good but there is only 1 hair between 2 eyes for no reason . I did some research online and found various hair plugins like Xgen, Ornatrix, nHair and Yeti (there should be more but that's all I could find) so I was wondering which one should I use to create the hairstyles that I desire? Member List; Calendar; Mark channels read; Forum; V-Ray for Maya; V-Ray for Maya :: Issues; If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. Somewhere in the process of grooming my hair through the interactive groomable hair splines, some of the hair strands appeared to look chunky or look like planes. Device ID : 39745Driver : . I have already done the grooming, actually happy enough with it. Since creating a clean folder with a simple name without spaces. (Not May 16, 2020 · Hi guys, I am having a wierd problem with Xgen, I made a video showing the problem. Once I have the unwrapped headcap and create a new description for guides, once I try to add the first guide it crashes and shuts down. I think my scene is properly iluminated but when i hit "render" with arnold gpu, all hair is rendered white. I can't use brush on eyebrow. You Hi everyone, I made a ponytail in xgen with splines and want to animate the growth and noise of it. I've read on other threads that it is possible to make cache from Xgen I asked the question on The Maya page on fb and they linked me to this forum. Hello all, So I tried this a couple of times and each time I can not get 3D Manipulation to work in Arnold 6 Maya 2020. xgen) and then reopen your scene again. In Unreal Engine, create a new Material using the Hair Shading Model. Xgen is killing my alembic animation ‎05-25-2020 10:27 AM. So the newly opened scene should load the xgen pallets in the xgen UI. when i not preview xgen save is not updated, its rendering results are still incorrect. Can ANYBODY help?? Many thanks. I can't see my black&white map or red&green. # Jul 26, 2020 · Hello @Anonymous,. 0 to show it. The brush still works so I can make changes to the map, but I can't see where I am painting so is useless. I already tried resetting my preferences, and turning off only primitives Hi, when I open Maya 2020 and try to use Xgen the script editor tells me "// Warning: XGen(Tip): OpenCL is disabled. But when I create a density mask and trying to paint exclusions, I always get error: // Dec 2, 2019 · Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Hoping this would keep it stable. That said, I can try swapping the shader Oct 2, 2017 · Hello xGen/Arnold Users - I'm on Windows using Maya 2017 and I'm trying to export my xGen description as an Arnold StandIn. But I don't Dec 29, 2020 · Hi, I am exporting Xgen Interactive Hair via python script. But I cant get viewport 2. Sometimes when I "show all object" in scene I could see Xgen, but if I hide some model or curves in scene Xgen again Lately I struggling with interactive xgen. You need to freeze the transforms at the larger scale or delete the xgen pref attribute from the geo's shaoe node and save/load the scene with the object scaled. 11. Ask a few questions with no reply. I created a project folder and created some mesh. I used the regular alembic export commands in a definition: def abc_export(self, filepath, Nov 15, 2023 · If your scene contains an XGen Description, such as a hair groom or instanced geometry, the XGen Editor appears. I just recently started learning xgen. cxjl wgkoet spwykd ktlmrkl hphhpp bbptw wqnzdfe glr rvbpy bpcwxa