Hi Garry

Headshot only works with CC3 Base characters. You also can't convert CC3 back to CC1 so you won't be able to take a Headshot created head and use the Appearance Editor with it.

Once the HD Skin Generator (aka Appearance Editor 2) arrives in Q2 you will be able to work directly with CC3 Base characters. For now the only way to use the Appearance Editor to add decals is to start with a CC1 Base character and convert up to CC3. However, these restrictions only apply to skin textures. All clothing can be used with the  Appearance Editor to add decals etc so there should be no problems there.


                                                                

Peter
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Thanks Peter. I was having problems getting a decal onto cloth! Got it working but realise that as I am creating a head from Headshot and it needs tattoos, the base is, I guess by default, male CC3, so I have to put the head onto a base CC1? What is the head? CC3? So I have to convert the head to CC1? In fact I am now totally unsure of the whole procedure! I think at this rate it might be easier to add the tats using tracking in After Effects. Please tell me the whole thing is a lot easier than it seems! 

Decals will work in CC3 but as previously explained you will need to use a CC1 Base character from the "CC1_Base Substance" folder. The Appearance Editor does not work with CC3 Base characters.

Then when you use the Appearance Editor the decals can be loaded (see below). The decal textures you need are shown. You will need at a minimum the diffuse and the mask.

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Please Note: The CC1 Base character can be converted to CC3 and even use the Digital Human Shader if required.


                                                                

Peter
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www.reallusion.com

You are lucky you can even get a decal, grey or otherwise, onto the avatar! I get nothing, be in jpeg or png BUT have no problems in CC2. So, is there a bug of some sort in CC3? What is different? It looks pretty much like CC2 so cannot understand why I get nothing! 

this is ridicules to go through for a damn decal i should have stuck with free adobe fuse so much missing crap in this software and for the price.. i still cant put a simple decal on a character way to take my 1500 bucks
thanks for trying to help but i tried what you said i can't a get a apperence editor or find a asian character  i am done with this crap

It's the CC1 Substance version of the characters that cause trouble. I could repeat the issue by loading one of those characters. As soon as you select enable for the decal, you get a grey strip,

In my earlier example, I used one of the characters under Base/Essential Morphs. These are from the older CC1 Essential Morph pack. I selected the Asian Woman.

This version has no Enable checkbox for the decal. You can load in the maps directly, as shown in the screen capture in my previous post.

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i am useing the same files as the tutorial video the 3 files that are in the resource pack and nothing works to make the grey go away.as soon as i place a decal the grey box is there
when i put image to the base color the image does show up on model but the grey is still on the edges.. adding the alpha does not change this

i am useing the same files as the tutorial video the 3 files that are in the resource pack and nothing works to make the grey go away.as soon as i place a decal the grey box is there
when i put image to the base color the image does show up on model but the grey is still on the edges.. adding the alpha does not change this

If you are importing your own image, you may need to add a mask. A JPG will not have transparency, for instance.

i did it on a cc1 character and the decal is grey the decal is being applied but not displaying correctly