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Drawing tattoos on base texture?

Philippi_ChildPhilippi_Child Posts: 658
edited January 2019 in The Commons

I know there are products like inked and a way to use the texture edit feature in Daz Studio to place tats on figure skins.

but I like to draw my own designs and in the case of V4 I’d draw the tat right on the skin texture in photoshop.

 I want to do this with the G3 and G8 figures but on some of the figures there are two texture maps one the base map and the I think the other being the normal map? Which would be better the base or normal maps or both?

Thanks

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,843

    You will probably need to use L.I.E. since the many different parameters of the new Iray shaders will make the colors and clarity of the image on the actual diffuse texture look off, at least this has been my experienc adding tats directly to the textures

  • scorpioscorpio Posts: 8,533
    PaganArtist said:

    I know there are products like inked and a way to use the texture edit feature in Daz Studio to place tats on figure skins.

    but I like to draw my own designs and in the case of V4 I’d draw the tat right on the skin texture in photoshop.

     I want to do this with the G3 and G8 figures but on some of the figures there are two texture maps one the base map and the I think the other being the normal map? Which would be better the base or normal maps or both?

    Thanks

    The 'base' map ie the map that goes in the Diffuse channel in the surfaces tab.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    You're likely to need the tatoo on more than the diffuse map; the SSS, or whatever is in that channel (called Translucency Color); Specular may also need the tatoo too.

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,223

    You should draw your tattoos on the base map and the translucency map.

    I've made the tattoos on this render that way.

  • RawArtRawArt Posts: 6,070

    You will need it on the diffuse and translucency in Iray...and this tut may help with the general look  https://www.deviantart.com/rawart3d/art/Tattoo-on-skin-texturing-329660194

     

     

  • Philippi_ChildPhilippi_Child Posts: 658
    Hylas said:

    You should draw your tattoos on the base map and the translucency map.

    I've made the tattoos on this render that way.

    Thanks  Hylas oh BTW love the render being an old school sailor myself.

  • Philippi_ChildPhilippi_Child Posts: 658
    RawArt said:

    You will need it on the diffuse and translucency in Iray...and this tut may help with the general look  https://www.deviantart.com/rawart3d/art/Tattoo-on-skin-texturing-329660194

     

     

    Thanks RawArt I’ll log into Deviant to take a look at this later.

     

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,942
    RawArt said:

    You will need it on the diffuse and translucency in Iray...and this tut may help with the general look  https://www.deviantart.com/rawart3d/art/Tattoo-on-skin-texturing-329660194

     

     

    And it will work for wounds, gashes and bullet holes. Yes I just watched Bird Box.

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