Is there a 'Glowing Horns' Add-on for Tara 9 Succubus

AbrahamRockwell

I recently picked up "Tara 9 Succubus Add-on", due to the HUGE discount ^_^: https://www.daz3d.com/tara-9-hd-succubus-add-on

I noticed that the first examaple image for the add on seems to show the horns glowing, but I don't see this material in the product itself.

Is this something I'm missing from the 'base' Tara 9 (which I don't have, but it seems to only have the 'human' textures, not the Succubus one)?

Is there another product that provides this? (almost looks like something FenixPhoenix would make, but I don't see anything in that store)

Elor

I don't see any presets related to the succubus addon in Tara 9, so I don't think you're missing something here.

There is a Metalicity map on the horn (Tara9_Horns_M_1001.jpg), so what appears as glowing could be the metalic part reflecting light.

You can also use that metalicity map as an emission map, then you set the emission color as you want as a starting point. It looks like that (the horns are the only emitting elements and I pushed the luminance value a lot, but you'll have to tune the emission color and the luminance value for your scene, it's just a proof of concept):

Another alternative is what I did when I wanted to have glowing horn with Tara 2: I created an emission map from the base color map. With the level tool in Affinity Photo, I set the black level to 12, the white level to 21 and ended with something nice (it was pure luck). You can see the result in this render, So far, so good….

In the case of Tara 9, I think using the metalicity map will likely provide a cleaner starting point, on top of being easier (no need to play with another software).

AbrahamRockwell

Now that I look more carefully, I think you're right.  That's the 'gold' on the horns reflecting light (and probably some 'bloom' as well).

Thanks for the point in making an emission map, though ^_^