Double Clipping/Draw Order/etc shenanegins

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hello!! I am trying to use double clipping or something adjacent or similar to it to layer my ears with my hair to place them more naturally on the head while still having pieces of hair in front of the face.

right now, I have it layered like:
front hair
head base copy (reverse clip for ears)
ears
fill hair
head

the problem I'm running into right now is that I'm trying something else out for my ears this go around, and have the front of the ear clipped to the base of the ear, so I can't simultaneously have that clipped and inverse clip it to the head base copy layer and the front of the ear is visible on the face. is there a way I can cover it up?

ofc at the end of the day I can just manually squish up the ear fronts for my XY movements under the hair so they're not visible anyway but that's very tedious so if there is another way I would love to add some more skills to my arsenal ❤️

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can you show how it looks, and just like, how you would like it to look?

the ears and hair should be inverted clipped to the head copy, and should no be any issue [you can have two head copies in case you want more control on the X]

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u can see the ear fronts poking onto the front of the face I ordered it this way so the two hair pieces behind the ear can still come in front of the face

wasn't like that originally, i drew the ears behind everything but it ended up looking like they were placed too far back u feel

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whar are you invert clipping them to?

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the ear fronts aren't invert clipped yet cause they are just regular clipped to the base of the ear

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can i ask why they are not behind skin face?
from even all movements, it looks like you could have
bangs
skin
ears
sidebangs

will look the same but you will not have the ears seen in the middle of the face

[or even skin can be at the back of the sidebangs]

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it's so the side bangs will come in front of the face

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🤔 does the ears have any toggle to rotate down?

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not rlly no

they have a slight rotate down for when my eyebrows go down

will grab screenshot

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soooo, what about pushing the mesh outside the middle of the face? 🤔 right now they look they go almost all the way to the middle, but you could push the mesh so its covered by the bangs

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yeye i was thinking i could manually squish the meshes back but I was wondering if there was a way to invert clip but also regular clip

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ngl they is a way but is gonna be a lot more work, would be basicaly double clipping method

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if manual squishing is the answer I shall manual squish

ik u have helped me with double clipping before I can go reference that and try to like

ig figure it out

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oh! asdasdasd double clipping really save lifes sometimes hahaha

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i will let you know if i can't figure it out i do be having the stupid a lot of the time