I messed up my skin and I don't know how to fix it

josiahmora20

I've been building my first character in Daz and tried moving it over to diffeomorphic for the first time to find that the skin looked really strange and plasticy (see first picture). I've been at this now for 6 hours. I originally though it was an issue with Diffeo but I created a new basic gen 9 female with the same skin and upon import to blender it looks correct and the same as Daz (see second picture). I snooped around the sufface editors and the node trees look the same. I can't figure out what I did to my character that could have caused this or how to undo it. the whites of my characters eyes are also not right, they seem to be grey-ish, and her hair is suppost to be brown not black (see third picture for how she is supposed to look).

I've ensured the enviroment settings are the same between my test character and real character (so my eyes arent just playing tricks on me). I've tried re-applying the Victoria 9 skin (which should undo any makeup). I had played around with Skin Effects Adventure acouple days ago and had applied Daz Uber Base to get it to work over my other geoshell/graffs (stx navel/nipples and Golden Palace) as per the recomendation of a tutorial i watched on the matter. I thought maybe THAT could have been what messed it up, but after applying dzDefault shader it didn't fix it. Not sure what else to do. Please help! thank you

 

 

Padone

If you can reference the figure and hair you're using may be I can give her a look. In general though, materials are influenced by lights and tone mapping, that means the HDRI environment, the scene lights, and the color management settings in blender. In your picture it seems the lighting is not the same, in blender you get a blue fill light with a strong backlight, while in daz studio the backlight is missing amd the fill light appears white.

In essence, to compare materials you need the same lights and camera angle, and a similar tone mapping.

josiahmora20

Padone said:

If you can reference the figure and hair you're using may be I can give her a look. In general though, materials are influenced by lights and tone mapping, that means the HDRI environment, the scene lights, and the color management settings in blender. In your picture it seems the lighting is not the same, in blender you get a blue fill light with a strong backlight, while in daz studio the backlight is missing amd the fill light appears white.

In essence, to compare materials you need the same lights and camera angle, and a similar tone mapping.

No really, I made sure both are the same in both blender and daz! Environment, tone mapping, render settings reset to default. There's no light set up in either software except hdri, both using the same hdri with strength set the same. It's like there's something covering every material on my character to my their skin respond incorrectly to light. I've even tried loading both in the same blender project and get this issue

Padone

Then nothing more I can think of. Again if you can reference I could give a look.

josiahmora20

Padone said:

Then nothing more I can think of. Again if you can reference I could give a look.

Welp, I fixed it. I started by creating a new project and erc freezing every parameter that made up my character body, created a new project and reapplied the skin, imported to Daz and materials are correct. Added the ponytail and re-imported and all materials go back to being messed up. So heads up, "Out of Touch, Sports Ponytail" breaks diffeomorphic.

Padone

Custom shaders created by PAs are not supported, including OOT's.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Material Methods

josiahmora20

Padone said:

Custom shaders created by PAs are not supported, including OOT's.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import_daz/wiki/Material Methods

Ah thank you! Missed that