Perfect Skin is a Poser Python script to create enhanced shaders for realistic renders of human figures. While gaining remarkable improvements, the shaders are kept simple enough to render quickly and to allow direct modifications easily.
The script is intended to improve material sets without complex shaders with diffuse maps and optionally with bump maps, but may be used also to replace overly complicated shaders. Still, the result will depend on the quality of the used texture maps. Perfect Skin improves all ethnic types of skin colors and works particularly well also for colored people.
The script has many options to enhance the skin material. The skin looks more natural by setting the correct surface properties like highlights and natural unevenness, with special bump maps for the lips and nipples. Optionally, it can add small spots and freckles to the skin or lipstick and gloss to the lips.
In addition, the materials for the nails, the inner mouth with teeth and tongue, and the eyes can be improved. The nails can be left natural or changed to polished. For the inner mouth, a wet look and the correct rough surface of the tongue are set. The eyes are improved by real and/or faked reflections.
All options can be activated seperately and are configured with simple sliders to control the amount of each effect. The script combines ease of use with a maximum of control. It can be used to create new complete shader settings and to modify single parameters of shaders created by the script. It remembers the last used setting and may be kept running while working in Poser, e.g. to do test renders. Also, you can save and load your own presets of favourite settings. The script supports the most common figure types and recognizes them automatically.
Note: This script implements the material techniques described in part 5 of my tutorial "The Poser Compendium: Materials for Human Characters".
See editorial section for detailed feature list, supported figures, and download link for manual.