Question about character making for G8F
TSasha Smith
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What resources are out for G8F? I am trying to create a character to be the mummy of a pair of twins in a story I am trying to write. I do not have skin builder yet but that is also not for G8F.
the twins both have black hair but one is fair skinned like their father but the other twin has mocha brown skin. I have not yet decided on looks for the mother but know that it is not likely the darker skin color did not come from the father.
i will try to figure out the father character later but would like to work on the mother. I want to use resources will let me sell the character set if she turns out decent.
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From what I understand, G3F resources work on G8F
Yes, G8F uses G3F UV's, IIRC I read somewhere in the forums that the UV mapping for the eyes is slightly different, but I haven't noticed any issues with them. You would just need to ensure that the G3F MR used is for any character using G3F uv's, You can not use Skin Builder for G3F as a MR with G8F, but there are others here that I believe are allowing it (there are also a few at Rendo that specify they are for G3F or G8F by 3Dream).
While a Genesis 3 female set might work on Genesis 8 Female that doesn't mean the license permits it to be used - you would need to check with the vendor/Sales support on that.
I want to use some Morris merchant resources but can I? Or do I need to find a way to ask Morris?
If you want to use them as Merchnat resources, yes you need to ask - if you just want to use them as textures in your renders then that's fine.
How do I contact Morris?
I am guessing that if one daughter has light brown skin but the father has fair skin the mother has to have darker skin than the father. I am guessing two porcelain skinned parents cannot have a dark skin baby. Or am I wrong?
Yes, you are wrong.
Don't get me wrong. Everything you learned about mendelian heredity in school is true, as far as it goes. It's just melanin abundance in skin is not strictly mendelian.
That is, Gene A says light. Gene B says dark. If Gene B is present, then dark. That's mendelian. You can make neet boxes of 4 squares and predict the results.
Skin tone is dominant to dark. So that's one thing to keep in mind. But it's controlled by more than one gene. SO!
If Both parents have a gene that says dark, bt also have a copy of a gene that says "sorry, kids, you have albinism. Don't stand in direct sun light" you can end up with some very pale people (I one met a Black Albino. He just look like a white guy from a distance). Now these two pale folks get together, have a kid and by luck neither parent passes on the Albino trait. So the kid just has genes that say dark.
Common? No. This would be an extremely unlikely scenario. But it could happen. I'm somewhat assuming you're inspired by the fraternal twin pair who are a light skinned black girl and a ginger. Their parents are one pale and one dark. so this is the most likely circumstance. But other cases are not impossible. I also met a woman wo was pretty much the whitest of white girls but both her daughter were Black. Not kinda black. Not brown. Black. We Black folk come in lots of colors, but some of us are, in fact, Black. These girls were, which cause all sorts of trouble for their mother because people would not be believe she was their mother.
Skin is weird.
So mummy could be blond and fair skin and daddy could be fair and have black hair. They could have fraternal twins one fair skin with black hair and the other light brown skin with black hair.
icould make mummy a red head with freckles?
i do do not know the ancestry of the parents at the time. Mummy is what I call a Torithan which is an ancient race of people who apparently are practically long extinct. Well at least pure Torithans are so rare that there is only about two of them. The mixed race children of Torithans are called Norithans. Both are human like in outer appearance but their internal organs are let's say different.
still trying to decide on father of the twins. He is not human either.
Well it all depends on genetics: you have 3 genes which control the melanin amount (ie skin color), with a "dark" and "light" allele for each gene. Basically, the more "dark" alleles you have, the darker your skin is (it's a bit more complicated than that since all 3 genes don't have exactly the same effect, and there's also things like albinism, but it's a good approximatrion).
You can have a light skin and still a few "dark" alleles in your genome.
If both parents only have "light" alleles then the child will only have light ones too. But if both parents have at least 1 dark allele then the child could inherit all the dark alleles, and so have a darker skin than either parent.
Of course if both parents have only a few dark alleles the child will probably not have "mega-dark" skin (at least unless there's also some other factors), but for example both my aunt and uncle have rather fair skin and their youngest son has a really nice "light caramel" skin tone.