Duplicating an item under skin in the Materials tab

[blindsaypatten]

If I want to duplicate and modify one of the skins in the Materials tab, specifically the Young caucasian special suit, and have it show up as another item in that tab, what are the steps I have to take?

Thanks!

[joepal]

Copy the mhmat file, copy the texture file referred to in the mhmat file, edit the new mhmat file to point the "diffuseTexture" at the copy of the image. Edit the image.

The mhmat file is just a plain text file, which should be reasonably easy to understand.

Take a look at this mhmat file for example: http://www.makehumancommunity.org/sites ... tals.mhmat

You might want to change the "name" and "tag" entries too. They are arbitrary strings, but make it easier to sort the skins in MH.

[Nick_Angel]

Today I tried something like this with the "high res suit". In ver 1.1.1, it is titled "male_elegantsuit01" (@Joe, Brian set the laptop up with newest version on another drive partition, just because I asked.) Now when I made a copy of the entire folder makehuman/data/clothes/male_elegantsuit01/ and renamed it makehuman/data/clothes/male_elegantsuit02 then I changed the line #30, of the mhmat from; diffuseColor 1.0 1.0 1.0 to diffuseColor 0.0 0.3 1.0 to make the suit blue. It failed to work, I directly opened the PNG in Gimp and changed it with a blue filter and that worked.

This information is just to better understand and acknowledge the workings of the program, and has no bearing on the company project. They have all the mesh skins running through yet another process, go figure. Would all that I did above, really be needed, or could I just duplicate the PNG or the mhmat file alone under the materials for "Blue Suit"? As to my grasp of how the materials file is handling the PNG, it is setting the filter over a neutral grey image. But this doesn't seem to be the case for the black suit.

[punkduck]

Hi

This is happening, when a litsphere is used, in case of the suit it is used. I'm also often using it to make the normalmap visible in MH.

For the suit:

Use Utilities/Material Editor (you must activate the editor in Settings/Plugins if not allready done).

Select clothes, male_elegantsuit01 and set the shader to none. Now you can change material diffuse settings. Save the .mhmat-file. Of course you can also do it by changing only the mhmat file (by deleting the line with litsphere I guess). But I prefer this method to see the result at least once.

[blindsaypatten]

Copy the mhmat file, copy the texture file referred to in the mhmat file, edit the new mhmat file to point the "diffuseTexture" at the copy of the image. Edit the image.

Sorry I didn't say thanks for this earlier, thanks!

Just to make sure I could do this I created a white image which I have added as a "plaster" skin I've got bigger plans but for now I do like to be able to view the models in white.

[Nick_Angel]

Thanks a bunch punkduck! Worked like a charm...