I was inspired by a thread about 2 weeks ago, about using the material room to reverse-engineer a body texture. Although the goal of that tutorial was to avoid processor meltdown of using HyperReal on 3-4 characters, I decided to try to use it to make a base texture for V3. What I did was load V3, and use Anton's skin color chart to pick out different skin tones. I then used the material room skin shader, and some bump mapping to come up with a decent looking skin base, which I plan to doctor up in PS. So far, I have just tweaked a few settings in the material room to get a feel for the skin tone. What I am going for here, is a pale blonde (Nordic/Irish) complection with just enough punch so she doesn't look like an albino. I do plan to add facial features and other skin parts from photos. Please C&C my base so far. As a note, the standard DAZ Barbie Pink color is on her arms in the second photo, with my base tone on her torso, neck, and head. -The Starkdog

Here is a farther out shot. I feel that it is time for a variety of different tones. Not everybody has a deep Amazon rainforest suntan, like a lot of characters I see. -The Starkdog

Sorry to say... on my monitor it looks pretty smooth. I can't realy see the texture if it is there. The base tone looks still too pink to me... I do pale nordic types with a bluish or slight greenish cast, sometimes as a low ambient color that serves a duel purpose as giving fill in the shadows. Before I had good comercial textures I used add plain old noise to my maps to give the sense of blue blood vessles beneath the skin... the trick was scaling properly... it did not render well so I would anti-alias the preview and composit that to a non-noise texture render. I had a thread up a few weeks ago about doing procedural only skin textures. This was before I had purchased Realskin Shader. I can't rember what my thread was called but you could search on my name and see if you can find it. Face_off and other responded. What thread are you refering to about making fixed textures from Hyper-real? I would like to see it but don't know what to search on.

Looks very plain to me. No freckles, bumps, nothing. You could add some variety to it. Especially face looks like it's covered using paint bucket. Nice for a starter, but it needs lots of work. Sorry for being picky, but that's how I see it. Good luck :)