MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on Jan 22, 2013 · 259 posts
JoePublic posted Fri, 01 February 2013 at 5:25 AM
Everybody has a different monitor setup so what looks good on one person's screen might look too dark, bright, washed out or colorful on someone else's.
This is V2 and the EZSkin generated skin looks pretty much perfect to me on the ancient CRT I use as my main monitor.
It uses all the default settings except that I set "saturation" to 1.05 for a little more "pop".
Light is a single infinite light for shadows and specularity plus a white IBL without a texture linked to it as a "filler"so that I don't have to use full on IDL in every render.
Gamma is 2.20, of course.
Eye and teeth shaders are tweaked a bit by me to better match the textures I use.
Basically, EZSkin isn't "a" skin shader but just a way to get the SSS functionality into the skin shader you want. (Plus some added enhancements for body hair.)
The default settings are quite good, but not perfect for every texture. And some textures are just beyond help because they tried to fake an SSS "look" for older versions of Poser without actual SSS functionality.
In short, the more "neutral" the texture without painted on highlights, shadows and fake SSS, the better.