Hello,

here are three images, with three different SuperFly Skin Shaders. Which one do you like most, or least, and why?

I personally like the second one. I am partial to pale skin with rosy pink tones.

2nd one.

2nd one looks better

Here are the same three skin shaders, with a different light. Same order.

Evennow the 2nd looks more realitic

Second is still my choice

2nd but with one major problem needing correction. It has too much Fresnel effect. Rough surface Fresnel means that the amount of reflection at grazing angles is much reduced from smooth surface Fresnel. I have noticed quite a few SuperFly skin shaders with this problem. It accidentally gives the illusion that the surface is velvet.

The outdoor comparison would be easier if #1 and #3 were not so overexposed. I'd either turn down the lighting or the shader. Being overexposed turns the skin more yellow, with a pink halo around the hot spots.

I've changed the shaders 1 and 3 a little bit, so that the image is about the same skin tone. No changes to shader 2 were made, I've seen the last comment too late for that. Different light again. Still Shader 2 for everyone?

bagginsbill posted at 11:10AM Sun, 24 January 2016 - #4251011

The outdoor comparison would be easier if #1 and #3 were not so overexposed. I'd either turn down the lighting or the shader. Being overexposed turns the skin more yellow, with a pink halo around the hot spots.

Would that need a new render or could i change the lighting by exporting an exr and turn the lighting down in Photoshop?

exr with post exposure control would work fine. (I think)

Come to think of it, I've not tried HDR exports from SuperFly. I don't know if its buffer is HDR or not.

We had to turn this on as a rendering option for FireFly because the original FireFly buffer was not HDR. So you had to tell it you wanted that effort applied.

Of course, the background is much darker. But it seems that SuperFly does HDR per default.

Hard to compare, at least for me. The background makes the comparison difficult. I will render the images again in a couple of hours, no time right now.

I will tell which shader is which later.