bagginsbill opened this issue on Apr 23, 2008 · 2832 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 06 September 2008 at 3:41 PM
Hi LL,
The VSS shader is going to respond very differently to lights than your existing shaders. So, yes, lights are going to matter. You're used to something that misbehaves a certain way, and you've come to expect and deal with that. You need to unlearn those things.
Because I'm a moderator at RuntimeDNA, I have free access to many artists stuff, including Rebelmommy. RM is one of the GREATEST vendors out there. Beautiful stuff.
I don't see the particular set of textures you mentioned in your posting, but here is one I happen to have from RM. It is the Mandira character. (so lovely - yum)
On the left is Mandira as RM sent her. On the right is Mandira with VSS. I rendered both in the same render so there'd be no monkey business with lighting. :)
Very different, right? Is the VSS better? NO. Just different. What style do you want? Make it! VSS is about making quick changes. It is not a shader. It is a shader SYSTEM.
You should make the skin shader be what you want it to be. Want the vargas shader I posted 2 years ago? Load it in the template. It will then apply to any figure!!
That's the point.
I'm trying so hard to finish the new user interface. You guys will love it. Then we can play with KNOBS instead of having to go into the shader/material room. I mean real f'ing knobs!
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