Strangetown: Ripp's new hair. I did it myself!

[strangetomato]

Thank you to everyone who offered suggestions to my hair mesh problem, and particularly those who gave me a nudge to open up Bodyshop and give it a whirl myself. music_simbol suggested this mesh, which was more or less the same basic shape as the Maxis ponytail, but about half as long. Then she insisted that switching up the textures would be super easy to do, and it really was! Recolouring isn't hard, especially when it is a basic cut and paste job like this one was (and changing the hue would be easy too, I imagine). I could do that again, no problem. Thanks, Music Simbol! You rock.

Want to see how it looks?

Ripp: Yessir! Looks about the same from the front, but how about the back?




Ripp: Yeah, that's more like it. Still slightly longer than it would be, but pretty darn close. (And it's longer than a fucking dork knob, thankyouverymuch!)




Ripp: Damn, I look good. Oh yeah... and the hair looks pretty fucking sweet too. If, you know, I actually wanted to tidy up for some reason. Pffft. Whatever.




As you can see, the mesh isn't perfect (some of the animation is a little wonky too - revealing other oddities), but I can easily work around that when taking the photos. I'm so pleased that this worked out.

But why would Ripp want or need to put his hair up? Hmmm... Is he trying to give off a good impression? But why?

The answer will be revealed in the next chapter.

Comments

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, you're saying it's serious. Buzz's memorial? That's the only other thing that comes to mind. If that's not it, I'll just shut up and wait for the update.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

No. They have no proof that The General is dead, so it wouldn't be that. I won't say anything else.

[sinderellah.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine him doing his hair this way for a Jill-thing. Hmmm! Besides the play I don't have any ideas.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

No, you're right. It doesn't have anything to do with Jill. There are only a couple of people that he'd be willing to make this much effort for, and it doesn't even include himself.

Oh, too many clues...

[ndainye.livejournal.com]

I'll bet on it having something to do with Phi, or possibly with Jenny Smith. I don't see him as willing to take much effort for a male, Buck might be able to convince Ripp to let him do something with it I doubt Ripp would keep it past the oh that looks great moment.

Congrats on your first re texture! It looks great! I haven't explored hair much yet though I've begun to venture into clothing a bit. That's scary enough for me :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I might have something to do with one of those people. It's not a permanent change either. Just something he's doing for one specific event.

I tried recolouring some clothing after I did this too, and it went pretty well. I just need to figure out how to change the hue in one area of the texture and not others. pretty simple stuff. I probably just need to look at a GIMP tutorial for that.