RV:

You're definately on the right track. Making a new template for the face+lips+nostril etc. is the right approach.

Saving the skin material to your library and then loading it into the new template is also correct. One step you did was not necessary - before saving a material, you do not need to select all the nodes. Regardless of which nodes are selected, when you save a material, all nodes in that material get written to the library. Another way is possible without using the library. Go to Template Skin. Right-click to Select All nodes. Right-click to Copy. Switch to Template Face. Paste. This would copy a specific set of nodes from one material to another. When you select multiple nodes and copy+paste, all that are already connected stay connected.

Either way works here.

Then your next step was also correct - you changed 3 rules to Copy from Template Face. I see that you added a Rule Template Face. Be careful. That establishes (potentially) a rule that says how to actually populate the Template Face material. I haven't taught anybody how to use that feature, but it is possible to automatically copy from one template to another every time you run Synchronize. This facility, in conjunction with another unreleased feature called an "effect shader" will let you create a template dynamically, by combining other templates. But that's a lesson for the future, as it is somewhat complicated to keep track of all the possibilities.

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