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Help! How to make hair colour from one side blonde and from the other side dark in a symmetric way

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I was trying changing with photoshop on the difuse map. But It doesn't work. I was thinking it must be something linked to the uv maps  and id colour.. But I don't really know how to do this. Is there someone who can help me? Thankshttps://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/1b4d18ab-65fe-4055-8bfb-988f.png
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Hair is usually comprised of multiple UV maps, have you made sure that you've changed all of the maps and not jut one of them? Could you post a picture of the maps before and after yoour changes, so we can get a better idea of what you did and why it might not have worked?


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Yeah, this may well be impossible unless you change the UV maps.  And if you don't know how to do it -- way above my pay grade to show you (search for some web tutorials.  It ain't easy by any means and may be impossible depending on how the hair was designed).

Here's a video that at least shows you how to identify what is what:



If someone put a gun to my head to do this I'd take the hair into Blender, split the mesh in half, and create two separate pieces to bring back into CC3 (might not be difficult at all).



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This one is again a 5 min job (well in Blender) - no UV mod though.

Export OBJ from CC
Open in Blender, switch to Edit mode, switch to face selection mode
(Optional - If there is a separate scalp material, you may want to select all faces for that material and hit H tool to hide them)
Select ALL faces for one side of the hair with B tool
Create a new material and hit Assign to a newly created material
Export from Blender (only hair), Import to CC as an accessory
Paint Bucket from one side to another (or rather from the original hair to both sides of imported accessory type hair). Unlink Diffuse/Color map.
Customize/colorize Diffuse/Base Color texture for any side in Photoshop separately.
Transfer skin weight.
Move to iClone and replicate physics for both sides from the original hair (if hair has physics)

https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/3366cd38-2476-4688-b6c1-dd2c.jpg


https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/125529e0-64cf-4aa6-b818-1ce2.jpg



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Yeah, that's what I said I'd do if I had to do it -- glad to know it's easy.



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Thank you so much for your message. But no idea how to use blender. As you mentioned it is very easy job for you only 5 minutes. Maybe if you have some minutes. This is the hair for blender. I know how to do the rest in character creator. I was thinking on id maps to change that and maybe that works using only character creator but not sure how to do well either. Here it is on obj https://wetransfer.com/downloads/c259337722fd247492df5081111c05af20200414081820/4cc50f
.Here on character creator format https://wetransfer.com/downloads/c259337722fd247492df5081111c05af20200414081820/dd4e2009dcc4306f69ad1a1a83d63d5c20200414082216/7d6b03 
I understand if you say no. I dont want to abuse of your time.
Thanks a lot and lot of success of success on your projects.

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I understand if you say no. I dont want to abuse of your time.
Thanks a lot and lot of success of success on your projects.


Well, that was a clever move with avatar change. How can I refuse now? Wink
But seriously, I have added 4 more materials for hair, pony and 2 for bands (material for bands was hidden for some reason)
You can now tweak right and left sides separately. Good luck.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w2zjrxzc06k64z7/LongPigTails.zip?dl=0

https://forum.reallusion.com/uploads/images/e11319d7-9030-457a-ad06-e878.jpg

Nice hair BTW, but I would go a little easy on opacity for pigtails. 60% strength would be about right to my liking.




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Many thanks for your help!!! It was really amazing!!! I wish you the best on your projects. etc!!! I don't know how to say thanks!!!
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You are very welcome!







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