Thank you Kurzal for the path. :) . And Zuijlin, you are correct, using a diffuse map of an older person in combination of a greyscale or normal map of that same person will give you the best results. Why? because the diffuse map will have some shading embeded in the texture(by this i mean little shadows inbetween the wrinkles) and when you add the bump map to it, it will be that much more accentuated from shadows coming from your lightsource and shading. ;)

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In addition to using bump maps, you can also do a lot with using an image of an elderly person's face as a face map.  I believe if you search for "face" on the forum you will find references to sites and programs that allow you to create an "aged" face.

EDIT: One program I have used is called FACEGEN, which allows you to model a face and even create a face based on a mapping from an existing photo. You cannot use the model directly, but you can capture an image to use in iClone.  There are also web sites that allow you to upload one or more photos and apply transformations.  I don't have the info of the one I have used available right now, but here is another: http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/.

I found that faces that have gone through some CG transformation process are often easier to map in iClone.  It's a lot of fun and sometimes a challenge to create the right face for your characters, but I find it very rewarding.

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Hi Marc,
the way you add wrinklles is by adding a bump map which could be a grayscale image or a normal map which is a more elaborate version of a greyscale image. Iclone does provide a few for you, i cant remember in which folder , but you have a few there to start with. Benny is a good example, he uses a bump/normal map for wrinkles.

Hope this helped,

Stuckon3d

PS: go in here http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/help/iclone4/PRO/ and do a search for "normal" you will find a tutorial there on wrinkles. ;)



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Hi,

I've been wandering around the tutorials and think I'm getting hang of the basics.

What I really want to do is make an old woman with grey hair. How do you age a character? Let's say I start with one of the characters out of the box (Jana) - how do I go about adding wrinkles, and generally make an old face?

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