WandW opened this issue on Jan 24, 2012 · 11 posts
WandW posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 2:38 PM
Hi Gang,
I just got around to trying EZSkin-what a great utility!!
However, I applied it to a V4 figure with red fingernails, and they render white. The diffuse colour is still set as red, and they are red in the preview. The tonails, which were left natural, render fine. I'm not sure which node to add the nail colour to to fix the fingernails.
Thanx in advance. 
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The Wisdom of bagginsbill:
"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
hborre posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 3:11 PM
You could set alt_diffuse to red in the meantime. I am not at my own computer to analyse the node structure at the moment.
WandW posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 3:16 PM
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The Wisdom of bagginsbill:
"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
hborre posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 3:24 PM
HSV node, change the white chip to red.
WandW posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 3:31 PM
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The Wisdom of bagginsbill:
"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
hborre posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 3:33 PM
The only other place would be around the reflection node.
bagginsbill posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 4:02 PM
Use my car paint shader on the nails. Painted nails are not a variation on skin. It's a completely different substance.
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lululee posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 4:02 PM
I have the same problem with nails and some of my glossy lips.
After I apply EZ-Skin, I simply reapply nails and lips mats.
cheerio
lululee
hborre posted Tue, 24 January 2012 at 6:38 PM
I was going to reply to that fact, BB. Unfortunately, it was time to jump into the car and head home.
WandW posted Wed, 25 January 2012 at 8:18 AM
Quote - Use my car paint shader on the nails. Painted nails are not a variation on skin. It's a completely different substance.
DOH!! :blushing: I'd wondered about removing the skin map, but presumed that it was there for some improtant reason. The car shader was easy, as there is a car in the scene. I'm still not sure why the nails ended up white...
Thanx, All.
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The Wisdom of bagginsbill:
"Oh - the manual says that? I have never read the manual - this must be why."
hborre posted Wed, 25 January 2012 at 10:36 AM
In most cases, nails are colored procedurally through the Mat Room. The EZShaper script does not take that into account, so it will ignore original setups and replace it with it's new set. And the EZShader set only uses clear nail polish settings. If you are using the XML to define which shaders to apply, then you can set ignore for the nails within the file for your particular character, and just use whatever other node structure relevant for your needs.