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What's the best lip shader/material for Genesis 8F using IRAY?

FlortaleFlortale Posts: 611
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I'm looking for the best lip shader/material system for Genesis 8F.

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  • FlortaleFlortale Posts: 611

    I haven't found any dedicated systems for lips.  I'll just look for the best ones that come bundled with a character set.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,224

    The lips in Genesis 8 are not sharply separated from the rest of the face, as they are in older figures, so in many cases lip materials will include a bit of face skin and will not blend with other characters. The exceptions would be those using Layered Images or Diffuse Overlay properties, though even there there may be clashes between other properties.

  • FlortaleFlortale Posts: 611
    edited July 2018
    Richard Haseltine said:

    The lips in Genesis 8 are not sharply separated from the rest of the face, as they are in older figures, so in many cases lip materials will include a bit of face skin and will not blend with other characters. The exceptions would be those using Layered Images or Diffuse Overlay properties, though even there there may be clashes between other properties.

    Damn, this sucks.

    I have a figure that looks great, awesome textures, but the lip detail & lip textures are not that great.

    This means if I want to transfer lips from one figure to another, I have to modify the base color map, translucuency map, specular, bump & normal. Awwwwwww LORD WHY

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  • FlortaleFlortale Posts: 611
    edited July 2018

    Okay, to anyone who reads this. This is what I did.

    I wanted to transfer Victoria 8's default lip textures to a new Victoria 8 character.

    I opened up the Base map, translucent map, spec, bump and normal map in photoshop. I just cut and pasted the mouth area over each texture. Of course I had to do some color matching, erasing and stuff, but the result came out good.  This process took 15 minutes.  If you're wondering about the normal map, it came out fine. I was able to cut and paste the normal map lip area from Victoria 8 and use it on the normal map of the new victoria 8 character I got.

    So if you want to trasnfer the lip textures from one victoria 8 character to another, you just have to do photoshop work and trasnfer the detail over.

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