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You are a good scultptor.
can that dfur hairy chest convert to mesh hair somehow?
I believe if you hide everything else, you can export SBH as an OBJ. It might be possible with dForce Hair, if you set up the parameters to show 3 sides in the viewport. However, I'm pretty sure it's not possible to convert either SBH or dForce Hair to fibermesh.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix the creases on the Dain skin under the pecs?
Normally it would not be a problem to fix them in Gimp but because of the hair chest I don't think I could fix them without messing it.
Looking at Dain's HD morphs, there are creases under the pecs. Did you render with those morphs?
Unfortunately it is part of the map.
I did have the HD morph turned on to 50% but even at 0% it still shows. Especially since it is also part of normal map, bump map and so on.
This image is with 0% HD morph.
With that detail so deeply ingrained in the character (all texture maps and HD add-on morphs), I think your options are limited to: trying to fix it yourself (which I understand you would rather not attempt), submitting a ticket asking for all textures and morphs to be changed (which I don't see Daz doing), living with it (and fixing it in postwork) or returning the purchases.
Sorry for just stating what you probably already knew.
While I don't like the crease so much, the rest of the skin is amazing.
In my opinion, by far the best skin male or female I own in Daz and I own quite a few of the Pro Bundles.
There are 2 problems I see with the maps that I don't understand:
1. They don't have a no crease version if they really wanted to have it more visible with the maps. It makes the skin not usable for a lot of character types.
2. They don't have a no hair on the chest version. Even though they have an option to have hair chest as geometry, the one on the chest will still be there from the maps as well.
I don't understand this decision. I will submit a ticket asking them for clean map versions as well. I won't have high hopes for it, but if there's a chance why not.
Either way, this is still a great skin for the characters that it fits, too bad that with the mentioned shortcomings it doesn't fit a whole lot of characters.
i happy with the creases
in carrara i lower the ambient occlusion distance to get more shadow contouring.
does iray hav an occlusion setting you could do the opposite? it should decrease the shadow gathering
Those creases are not modeled in. I checked. And I verified the HD morphs are not adding in any creases, as well.
What you are seeing is from the Normal Maps. The creases are the same with and without the veins. As far as I know, there are only two "easy" options to remove those: 1) Use the preset to remove the normals altogether, or 2) modify the normal maps to reduce/remove the creases. How easy the second option is depends on your experience with an image editor. (You could also reduce the strength of the normals in the material zone, but you'd need to do it for all of the skin materials.)
Maybe someone with more experience with Daz Studio will know of another option.
That's an awful lot of hair to try to remove digitally without ruining the textures.
One of the problems with male figures/characters is getting materials for them. A real person has to be willing to shed their inhibitions along with their clothing to be photographed in minute detail. Apparently women are more willing. Anyway, the man who allowed himself to be photographed for the resources the artist purchased to create Dain's materials was apparently unwilling to do a full body wax, too. (Can't say that I blame him.)
And as I mentioned above, the creases can be essentially eliminated with a bit of work on the normal maps. Or by just turning those off.
I don't know what else to call them but "creases". This is the default G8M with a simple grey surface. Dain HD morphs at 100%, subD at 3.
That darned subD gets me every time. I forget you have to really crank it up to see it in the viewport, even in Iray preview mode. I did a side-by-side comparison render with the dev G8M.
Left to right: Base G8M, Base G8M with Dain 8 Normals w/Veins applied, Base G8M with Dain 8 HD at 100% & Render subD at 5
And here's the same scene with the torso normal map modified to minimize the creases. With more time, I expect I could minimize the creases and keep more of the skin detail.
Less cynically: Dain's's pretty clearly meant to be an older guy, albeit one in phenomenal shape. That's apparent when you look at the clay render of his HD vs non-HD face. (As I said elsewhere, I've never seen a difference that stark between HD and non-HD before.)
And, well ... older guys sag. Even when they're in truly spectacular physical shape, as he would seem to be.
I would imagine that the person who was the photographic source for the texture was (a) lightly hairy and (b) lightly sagging. So to speak.
Who knows? Maybe this is one of those things like Reby Sky, and they just stuck the guy in a really big 360-degree scanner, and what you see is what he was, texture, body shape and all. (Granting that Reby Sky was a special case.)
Thank you all for your suggestions. Special thanks to @L'Adair for showing me how important normal maps are.
These are the results in order:
Before, modified just normal map, modified both normal and diffuse.
The results are already pretty good. I'll go down the list and modify the rest of the maps and clean a little more but I'm already happy. A subtle mark is decent compared to the original scars.
I loooooooooove Dain 8's skin!!!!! Now to try to recreate its type on some of the other Core skins. First up, I'll try Tristan.
This is a mix of Dain 8 and Manu morphs. The skin is Dain's. I went to considerable trouble to isolate the geometry sections of that Bouncer Suit so I could create new surfaces so I could apply shaders. I also used Mesh Grabber quite a bit to reduce mesh distortions around the collar, lapels, buttons, and pocket square. The pants of this suit are particularly awful in the crotch area when posed. I used Mesh Grabber and a lot of smoothing on them.
Wow! Thanks for the inspiration. That looks pretty decent. Maybe I'll spend a few hours with the Geometry Editor to do the same. Great job with the Mesh Grabber. I need to practice!
You have way more patience than I would! Great image, though, the bright colors on the door and wall give it kind of a sixties spy-fi vibe, more the comic-booky Italian stuff than the British James Bond wannabes.
I'm still floored that DAZ allowed such a mess of a suit to be released in the first place. YIKES! Looks very good with your improvements!
Dain posing for his new movie promos.
I can't see what you're talking about. Also the Dain 8 page is Blank to me.