And further progress:  Fixed mouth problems, playing with makeup and eyes

Trying to decide if she needs to be darker or go with a more nordic look

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Some Progress.  Still need to do fingers and toes, so worked on Eyes and some simple makeup

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Since I tested for shaderworks, I have every product he released and there is no replacement for them.  LM2 and Advanced IDL studio are used with every project I work on.

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Image with no Fill Light:

specular  in the body is from EZskine

@DCArt: BS3d has most (maybe all?) of the options of photoshop, but applied in 3D, along with brushes to paint over seams, add noise.  I have found a problem with the reference photos, since they are by design flat lighting, the contours tend to darken on the edges where the skin falls away.  Some of the problems I have seem to be with the lighting.  I like a backlit image, and if using Rembrant lighting, there is no or little direct light on the eyes.

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Eye textures have NO built in specular.  What are seeing is specular from a Fill Light.  And at this point, the eye texture is is default LaFemme, not one that I created.

Please read my sig line.

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Basic Texture finished except finger and toe details, going to take a break and do a set of eye colors before I do that :D

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Thank You :D

That looks like a nice package, and does not have the usual restriction to not use for any other figure, and I will probably get it :D

But the object of this exercise is to develop a complete character from scratch.  The only MRs I am using is LaFemme and a photo reference set.

The rest must (for my purpose) needs to be the software I have and my skills (which I expect to improve in the process)

I have no idea if the result will be a commercial product, as I stated this is for my development :D

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LOL, that is the first time I have ever tried to do makup on my own.  Just did it to get down the mechanics of layers in BS3d.  I have no expectations that I will even be able to start makeup for weeks.  doing a skin texture from photo reverences will take a while since I have  never done it before.  Not looking forward to fingers and toes.

Skinhead is done and that took a week to get to the point I like it, ears are fun :D

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youtube has some tuts, search blacksmiith3d

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Using Blacksmith3d, which I can not  find in the store now.  That and some of the morph kits.  Blacksmith has some really nice morphing tools like temp welding so it easy to morph across seams, and temp supdivision :D

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Boni, it requires either texture transformer or blacksmith3d pro plus modules for V4 to LaFemme and M4 to L'Homme

I have developed  what I consider lite versions of the modules for my own use.  They are not perfect, and only do head, torso and limbs.

I am to lazy to do body internals, eyes or nails so I us an mc6 file that applies LH textures to those parts.

My understanding is that Renderosity (who own Blacksmith) are in the process of developing full versions

doing the transfer with TT or BS3d is documented

Part of the process of developing the modules requires extnsive morphing of the destination to the source, which gave me a lot of experience of morphing and is what I am now doing with the Head Morphs for LF and LH

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Here is the frown morph in use :D

https://www.renderosity.com/gallery/items/3095110/american-indian-for-lhomme

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:D  If I do put  it in the store, it will be more like HeadA or HeadC with an Icon rendered from it.  It also functions well as an American Indian female with thethe expression zeroed out.  It does not quite work as well with LH because of the lip morphs, but it may still be funtional

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Been away from this thread for a while and looks like there are sollutons.  I have found another one also but it requires Blacksmith3D

I have not tried it myself, so buyer beware :D

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