XGen

[Mgsmigel]

I'm having issues with xgen, Specifically with all the files. I cannot seem to create a map for anything, in the right folder, is there anything Yall know that could help? I'm sorry I know is is pretty basic, thanks for your help!

Ok so I recently started a character and Now I'm working on giving him hair, a beard, mustache and eyebrows all from xgen(at least thats the plan). I finally got the mustache how I would like it but when I started on the eyebrows using groom able splines and I got the splines how I would like them but when I hit preview i got multiple error messages telling me that Maya couldn't reference the Ptex maps, I had a similar problem with the mustache in making a couple of maps but i manage to work around them (I'm saying that so yall know it wasn't just the eyebrows). so after it couldn't reference the files I went over to my finder in the xgen folder of my project to look so see if anything was there, but it wasn't:/ so i don't know if the created files would be somewhere else or if im supposed to make them somehow?

(For my attempt at making masks  I created a mask suing the arrow next to the equation button, then painted it and hit the save button, but when I hit save I got an error I discovered that if I went into my directory I could choose somewhere for it to go and I could save the map, but them when I would but preview i would get another error message)

my second isssue was when i tried to start the beard I selected my seperated bear geometry and created a new discription but when I went to add splines it told be there was "no bound geometry" this happened multiple times.

I hope that all made sense and i hope yall can help:) again I appologize im very new to maya and even newer to xgen.

here are some screenshts that might be able to help

here are the error for the eyebrows:

here is for the beard:

[Anifex09]

have you tried deleting the UVs - creating new uvs (planer for example) - then apply xgen

[Mgsmigel]

No, I haven't, but I do have proper Uv's I had to create them for the separate geometry. When I was learning about XGen I learned that all the maps are transferred from UV maps to ptex maps. I could be totally wrong but I beleive that its more of a problem with the saving process or directory

[Mgsmigel]

No, I haven't But I did create a new planar map for my eyebrow geometry and it still wont preveiw

[Mgsmigel]

sorry, I didn't mean I post twice. But I did Fix the issue with the beard geometry