"Zelda The Wind Waker" Style Eyes and Brows?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Zelda the windwaker is a beautiful game and i want to know how to do some of it’s visual effects in Blender (realtime and render).

My question is 2-fold:
1.) How do you make the eyes and brows “only” render above the hair (and nothing else) like in the game? How can you do this in Blender_Internal_Render/Blender_Cycles and Blender Game Engine?
In first image below I selected the eyes and eyebrows and turned on X-ray in the viewport in Blender to show what I mean.

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2.) How do you let the eyes follow a target for example the camera? I know it has to do with transforming UV’s of first texture (pupil/iris) but don’t know how to link it to follow a target. Also want to limit it so when target is to the side or back the eyes don’t disappear.

Thanks in advance.

PS: No copyright infringement intended, just showing for educational purposes (I have a Gamecube and the game).:smiley:

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you need some type of occlusion hierarchy that I don’t know, so if head is in front of eyes, block out eyes, if hair is in front of eyes, move eyes to top of Z buffer …

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I’m not sure about rendering, but as for the game engine:

  1. Try adjusting the Z-offset of the eyes in the material options. It could also be a custom GLSL shader to render them on top of the hair.

  2. I would imagine you would use a bone on the eyes (perhaps one on each eye) and use a Track To constraint / Run Armature actuator to move the eyes around. You could probably then use Python to make sure the eyes don’t go too far.

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Hard challenge… I’ll look into it.

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You can try to Flip the Direction off the Hair in a certain way. In Edit Mode