Victoria 4 Wet Maps, how to make effect more pronounced

sriesch

I'm attempting to use "Victoria 4 Wet Maps" ( https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-wet-maps , on Genesis1), however as the render requires a full scene and isn't zoomed in, I can barely see any detail.  Suggestions for making the effect more visible?

 

sriesch

While I was able to raise the bump strength slightly on the leg as per above, when I do so on the arm it affects skin other than just the water droplets, so I wasn't able to even do that on the arm.  I also experimented with glossiness and specular strength, but that caused other problems so that was a no go.  Maybe I shouldn't even be attempting to adjust the parameters, maybe I should be going a completely different route?

sriesch

a fragment of the problem, there was an image in the specularity parameter that for some reason had the skin set entirely black, so specularity wasn't working at all.  That doesn't affect the water droplets and I haven't found the right values yet, but at least I've determied why the specular parameter wasn't doing anything.

 

duane_moody

You're wasting your time. This product was created when developers routinely baked speculars into the diffuse map instead of putting it in the specular map. Worse, the actual specular map for the product has no water droplets on it, and is obviously made for a different character (it has moles and pubic hair nowhere on the diffuse map). 

Get Universal Wet Maps and Orcamaid instead; besides the 2 existing textures that come with it, it also has scripts for directly applying its specular map to whatever textures your character's already using. Note to anyone using SuperFly in Poser: for some reason the specular is only visible in a SuperFly render if it's also plugged into the Alternate Specular nodes. 

sriesch

Ok, thanks for the info.