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Subject: V4 Elite Marie Skin: Too Light?

anupaum opened this issue on Jun 05, 2013 · 10 posts
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anupaum ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 2:49 PM · edited Mon, 22 July 2024 at 4:20 AM

file_495010.jpg

This image shows a character wearing the "dark" version of the Elite Marie skin from DAZ. It's a lovely skin texture, but it's not dark enough. I'd like this figure to look like she's from East Africa. Any ideas on how I might do that?

I've tried lowering the Value parameter in EZ Skin, but that doesn't work so well.

JoePublic ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 2:56 PM

Crank up texture strenght in the HSV node to 1.1 or more and add some blue-ish diffuse color tint.

Or open the texture in Photoshop, Gimp or even IrfanView and adjust it to your liking.  :-)

JimTS ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 3:08 PM

Or a rich honey to brown in the diffuse channels

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JoePublic ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 3:13 PM · edited Wed, 05 June 2013 at 3:16 PM

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Here's a quick demo:

Same texture on both figures. I raised texture strenght to 1.4 and added a green-brown-ish color to the diffuse channel of the scatter node.

Of course starting with an actual AA-texture so you only have to adjust it slightly gives much more realistic results.

This is just an example of what shaders can do.

LaurieA ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 3:51 PM

Quote - Crank up texture strenght in the HSV node to 1.1 or more and add some blue-ish diffuse color tint.

Or open the texture in Photoshop, Gimp or even IrfanView and adjust it to your liking.  :-)

This. It's how I made Kelvin darker :).

Laurie


anupaum ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 5:14 PM · edited Wed, 05 June 2013 at 5:15 PM

I'm still experimenting, but thus far, cranking DOWN the VALUE on HSV seems to be approaching what I'm trying to achieve.

Thank you for your help thus far!

anupaum ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 5:43 PM

file_495015.jpg

This is pretty close to what I had in mind. I achieved the effect by dropping the Value to 35 in EZ Skin. Thanks for your help!

ghostship2 ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 7:00 PM

@ anupaum

that is very handy! thanks.

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ghonma ( ) posted Wed, 05 June 2013 at 11:50 PM

@ anupaum: that looks really good, nice work !

NanetteTredoux ( ) posted Thu, 06 June 2013 at 1:01 AM

Anupaum- well done - you judged it very effectively and avoided the painted look that sometimes comes from darkening the texture with a shader.

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