Eyelashes

[womball]

How would you approach making alpha eyelashes, if you can only use a small portion of the UVs for teh eyelashes? Or are eyelashes usually not modeled or textured?

[poopinmymouth]

It depends on view distance. Unless you're going to have the entire head filling the screen for talking scenes, it's a waist of triangles and texture, just put a black outline around the eyes like eyeliner. If you are going to have that large, you can almost always find extra space to squeeze the eyelash texture.

I do them like this. You can see some UV distortion in the extreme closeup, but it's barely noticeable in the normal view.

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/process/tips/examples/next-gen_eyes.jpg

[Lamont]

I assume that the reddish tint around the sclera is so it looks awesome as the eye itself rotates?

[womball]

So you use extra geometry for the cornea of the eye? I am making the eyelashes for a character for my portfolio. Very flamboyant with dark eyelashes. They are seperated from the main mesh but I assume I can merge them to it after all of the normals, cavity and ambient occlusion maps are created.