Anyone have any ideas ?

I'm trying to use the same interactive skin capsules for multiple characters. Because the characters have different geometry I can't simply copy the weights. Is there some way to copy the capsules...

Unfortunately this is the only way the game engine (Second Life) will handle alphas so planes are not ideal. There is no way to choose the levels of alpha sorting so cylinder shaped hair is almost...

the problem is that I am making several hairs that need to use this same vertical texture for all.. so I need to rely on the geometry to provide the twist in the hair

Here you go.. thanks for taking a look

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49906657/maya/hair004jagged.mb
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/49906657/maya/cyanhair.tga

really I think the UV doesn't need to move as it's just a twisted cylinder and I want the texture to follow the vertical edges.. it is just going jagged against the lines I drew in the above...

http://i.imgur.com/U1A1tMU.jpg

I converted from NURBs to polys to make this geometry.. maybe some setting there that's causing it?

the texture seems to be following the angle of the tris and not the quads which are the actual edges of my geometry.. I will check out a few more unfold tutorials but nothing seems to clean this up...

I must be doing something wrong. I tried selecting the UVs at the twist and unfolding, first just in the circled area, then the entire area of the twist. Both resulted in even worse texture:
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Noob here. I can't seem to find any solution to this, or most likely I'm just searching the wrong terms.

I'm making hair curls and my UVs start to "zig zag" at the twists and don't seem to follow...