Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Realistic skin

Qasar opened this issue on Jan 28, 2009 · 10 posts


Morkonan posted Wed, 28 January 2009 at 4:28 PM

Quote - Hi,
I would like to know what is the best realistic skin for V4 I can find or buy. I don't have a lot of time, so I prefer to concentrate on the picture composition and lightning than on texturing.
Thank you for any help Qasar

Some good recommendations in the posts above.  I'd also recommend the free VSS (See the thread in this forum.) even though I have some problems getting it to work for me.  (Probably my issue alone.)  BaginsBill knows his stuff.

I'd also recommend the Elite texture/shader packs over at Daz.  They're really good out of the box.  The V4 Realism kit is a good easy python settings-and-one-click shader solution as well.

IMO, as long as you have a "decent" skin texture, you can fiddle with it and do a good job on your lighting and it will be just fine.  IMO, the differences between "good" and "great" aren't really noticeable until you start doing close-up work.  If you're not doing a lot of close-ups, then your lighting is going to be much more important than the base texture.

NOTE: Just to add, a few vendors consistently seem to have excellent textures.  RebelMommy,   Thorne/Sarsa/et al., Danie/Morfino  .. I am sure there are others but these are the only ones I have experience with that really stick out in my mind.