Attached Link: Minitut - Dramatic light and shadows for portraits - NO NOSTRIL GLOW

@**AtelierAriel**

Cool - looks good. You should definitely look into using AO, at least as one option. I offered that as one of the choices on Apollo and it is very convincing.

However, you may be missing out on regular shadows. Perhaps you have not used a sufficiently large shadow map size? Or decreased shadow min bias? Or manipulated your shadow cameras for maximum effect in a portrait? Have a look at the attached thread.

Regarding the lip mask - are you trying to do lipstick and such? I've done that - it can work pretty nicely to let you have lots of different looks without changing the color map image at all.

Check this out - all renders use the same V4 color texture:

I don't know what you're trying to do or what problem you've encountered. Perhaps you want to show me your shader and mask?

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