No Brain Tools
  • HOME
  • GET IT
  • Maya Curve Tools
    • Curve From Tube/Card
    • Curve Fill From Center Curve
    • Curve Trim From Mesh
    • Curve Smart Flip
    • Curve CV Rebuild Tool
    • Curve Snap Tool
    • Curve Cut Tool
    • PaintFX to Curves
    • Curve Clump/Repel
    • Curve Manipulators
    • Curve to Proxy Tubes
    • Curve to Proxy Cards
    • Curve To Twists
    • Curve To Curls
    • Curve To Braids
    • Curve From Path
    • Curve Copy/Paste
    • Curve Pivot To Root
    • Curve Add Tool
    • Curve Sculpt Tool
  • XGen Utility Tools
    • Guide Color Tool
    • Guide Toggle
    • Multi Description Preview
    • Remove Shading Attributes
    • Global Expression Sort
    • Multi Clump Bake
    • Guide Cut
    • Guide Check
    • Guide Snap
    • Guides To Curves
    • XGen PTEX Tool
    • XGen PTEX Shortcuts
    • XGen Blendshape Tool
    • XGen Spline Transfer
    • XGen IG Guides To Curves
    • XGen Rename Guide Collection
    • XGen Rename Guide Description
    • XGen Rename Guide Scalp Geo
    • XGen Modifier Rename
    • XGen Deep Backup
  • Installation
    • System Requirement
    • Installation Guide
    • Getting An Update
    • Installation Q/A
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Version Logs
  • Contact
XGEN BLENDSHAPE TOOL
Picture
This tool allows transferring XGen from one geo to another. You will need:
  1. The original base mesh (Old Base)
  2. The new base mesh that you want to transfer XGen guide description over to (New Base)
  3. The scalp mesh (Gro Mesh)
  4. The Old Base and New Base meshes must have the same topology.
If you do not have a separate scalp mesh, you will have to duplicate the "Gro Mesh" geometry and use that as the "Old Base" instead.

Picture
Let’s say we want to transfer from the Old base to the New Base.
Picture
1. Select your growth mesh / scalp and set it to the GroMesh slot. You can do multiple ones if they were extracted from the same body base geo and are in the same Xgen collection.
Picture
2. Put old base to Old Base slot and new base to New Base slot
Picture
3. Click Blend, Xgen will now transfer over to the new base.
Picture
4. ​You will see the old base is now blendshapped to the new base. Unhiding Xgen will give me this result. (The Xgen Guides will ‘rotate’ base off the face normals’, as my new base has a lump on his head, the guides will rotate up. This is normal behavior).
Picture
5. IMPORTANT: click on ‘Clean Up’ To finalize Xgen. This step is quite important. It needs to be done every time you do a blendshape to clean out the unnecessary nodes in the back end.
Picture
6. We just have one more step to do. If you go into any of the Clumping modifiers and click on ‘guide’ or ‘generate’ button in the setup maps, you will see that the point display is actually still in the old position. 
Picture
7. ​Simply Save your Maya scene and reopen it and you will see the clump points are correct now.
Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • HOME
  • GET IT
  • Maya Curve Tools
    • Curve From Tube/Card
    • Curve Fill From Center Curve
    • Curve Trim From Mesh
    • Curve Smart Flip
    • Curve CV Rebuild Tool
    • Curve Snap Tool
    • Curve Cut Tool
    • PaintFX to Curves
    • Curve Clump/Repel
    • Curve Manipulators
    • Curve to Proxy Tubes
    • Curve to Proxy Cards
    • Curve To Twists
    • Curve To Curls
    • Curve To Braids
    • Curve From Path
    • Curve Copy/Paste
    • Curve Pivot To Root
    • Curve Add Tool
    • Curve Sculpt Tool
  • XGen Utility Tools
    • Guide Color Tool
    • Guide Toggle
    • Multi Description Preview
    • Remove Shading Attributes
    • Global Expression Sort
    • Multi Clump Bake
    • Guide Cut
    • Guide Check
    • Guide Snap
    • Guides To Curves
    • XGen PTEX Tool
    • XGen PTEX Shortcuts
    • XGen Blendshape Tool
    • XGen Spline Transfer
    • XGen IG Guides To Curves
    • XGen Rename Guide Collection
    • XGen Rename Guide Description
    • XGen Rename Guide Scalp Geo
    • XGen Modifier Rename
    • XGen Deep Backup
  • Installation
    • System Requirement
    • Installation Guide
    • Getting An Update
    • Installation Q/A
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Version Logs
  • Contact