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Character creator using a picture photo

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Is it possible with character creator, create a character from a photo?
I believe the reply is no..

But I will be happy to hear if someone has tricks or something to help!

Thanks


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Looking at the UV and diffuse for the head, I'd say "get photoshoppin'!".

Some will say adjust the UV to match the photo, but that is probably more than should be done here. Start by matching your photo to the existing UV, load it on the face as a decal in CC, and morph the head to resemble the photo's head shape.

UV and diffuse from CC (low resolution example, not for use Wink )
https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/d1fd1fc5-c6f5-440e-a883-9b7.jpeg

https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/04e0d6ca-dba2-4a40-9a7d-5be.jpeg

Couple important things:
You may want to only do defining things, like moles and eyebrows. Different wrinkles than CC has might be good. Remove as much "face shine" from your photo as possible, as you really only want lighting from how you set it in iClone. Notice how "flat" the diffuse image is. This is important for good results.
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Hopefully, RL will be adding the feature back in.  Looking at that UV and Diffuse Rampa shows as an example is far more work than I want to do to get a photo onto a character...
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Face creation from a photo using CC has been announced for Q4. This will probably mean around Xmas.




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This process looks promising. Sorry if it has already been posted.

3Dtest: iClone 6/ CC face texture and normal mapping tutorial



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Great video JimmyB7




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The part where you overlay the image on top of the model to tweak the morphs... How'd you do that? Is that inside the CC somewhere?
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Awsome result Jimmy!!!
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My claim to fame here is only discovering this tutorial from 3Dtest on YouTube.  The overlay software he describes is in the 3Dtest video, and can be downloaded from http://imageoverlayutility.bitbucket.org/  

I tried it, and it works as he describes.



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My claim to fame here is only discovering this tutorial from 3Dtest on YouTube.  The overlay software he describes is in the 3Dtest video, and can be downloaded from http://imageoverlayutility.bitbucket.org/  

I tried it, and it works as he describes.



Thanks for that! That's a fair bit easier than how I was setting up before. Wink 
I had made default scene with the overlay plain and image on it. This is so much easier!

If you want to stay in the CC environment, you can do the face as a decal.



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