Kristi, you summed it up perfectly, Joanna was one of the nicest and thoughtful peoples I met around here. When we had sparetime Joanna and me enjoyed a little chit chat over the Rendo Messenger and shared our daily life. I knew that her health was not the best, but this is shocking and leaves me speachless and said. What a loss!

Amazing work, so natural!! I am waiting patiently - but definitly interested!!

Just popping in as I have the same issue with dissapearing thumbnails (while the content itself can be loaded). I can only get rid of this issue when starting Poser again. As others stated this happens after working for an hour and so and trying out different things. My computer is set to run at least for one more hour when there's no activity  - as I found that he is interpreting a render as no activity and falls asleep when it should work.

Hopefully this problem will be adressed as it's really annoying!

Thanks a lot!!

I am glad that you like the idea! May save me from many forum searches

Everything is okay - I merrily downloading while I type!

That was my intention as the skin that ships with Dawn is already pretty tanned. So I thought variety was what people need. By the way: Except of tweaking out some effects caused by the flashlight the skin is left as is. The model on my photoset had this fair, bright skin. I really like what you did.

By the way, I found this thread about setting up EZ skin with Dawn's eyes:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=4095153&ebot_calc_page#message_4095153

maybe helpful for all you do-it-yourself fans!

After the long break we had to take out of several reasons (caring for family members and our own health) it feels a bit like getting a new pet (pet used to avoid the term baby ).

She just left the band conveyor and jumped into the store

She's in the queue since some minutes, sitting there patiently on the Renderosity band conveyor that brings her to the review team

...and may I add that any kind of shine is always stronger if the surface is dark. You may know the effect from blonde hair: Regardless how hard you try - you'll never get the mirror-shine you have on very dark to black hair - as long as we talk about straight hair or compare blonde and black curly hair.

So if there's shine we simply have a better contrast the darker the skin is.

The luminiscence is done by EZSkin, I have added additional comments to the images that where rendered with it. But EZSkin is free and so it's no problem to recreate the effect.

The lights I've used are pretty simplistic - I am planning on a set made especially to work with EZskin.

The main problem when tanning light skin to a darker tone by using material settings is that dark skin is (like pale skin) not uniformly tannedin reality. The most obvious spots are the inner sides of the hands and fingers and the footsoles and toes. The fingernails and toenails are as various in color like they are on white people. Same goes for the eyewhite.

The big color variation on white people is the difference between legs and chest. I found that the legs and the buttocks are always more rosy in color than the upper torso is. If this is permanent or caused by standing for a longer while - not sure. However: I never saw this difference (paler torso, rosier/darker legs) on photos of black people. But often you see the same more rosy tone on the ears of both, lighter and darker tanned people.

So if you are after reality you may need a texture that is not color shifted (either by photoshopping or by material settings) but a texture that was made by using photos made from people that have the desired skintone or that was handpainted by someone who knows what he does.

Off of that the light may need some tweaking as well to get out the most of the textures.

Thanks a lot! Your opinion means a lot to me as more as you wok with Dawn as well!

These renders are both made with EZSkin - of course there is a three side view provided with just bump and texture. But as it's nude and I want to keep this thread open for everybody I save it for the product pages

By the way: You may like the lash resource. I added different sets that can be combined (and, of course, combined with your own ideas).

I saw that you discussed cool ideas like green skin and so on. I can not guarantee that this will end up without seams. Just for the case...