Skins - G3 vs G8
alienarea
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I am reworking some older scenes, and I'm also doing postwork with DxO on all of my pictures.
Looking at the (female) skins, it appears that G3 skins with the NGS2 shader (Kelly, Gwennili, ...) look better than G8 skins (RY Caprice, Michelle, ...).
What is your opinion?
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Huh?? confused. there are 2 kellys for GF3, by Raiya and GDN Valery3D and not sure what NGS2 means (unless you mean N.G.S. Anagenessis which I never really used because i didn't like the way it looked) or what it has to do with the kelly textures. Also unsure what DxO means.
personally I swap out G3 and G8 skins between both figures all the time. the look of the textures really depends on the PA not the figure in my experience.
I'm not 100% sure (and too lazy to check) but I think G3 skins tend to have Translucency at 50% while G8 skins tend to have it around 70-90%.
Also I think G3 skins don't use Dual Lobe Specular (because it was introduced later?) but again, not entirely sure.
At the end of the day there are fantastic skins (as well as mediocre skins) in both generations.
G3 skins use mono SSS while G8 skins use chromatic SSS.
I use NGS2 of G3 and G8. I prefer the look; I also customise them all as a rule and keep them the same to get a fairly close look to under identical conditions. I also use NGS2 for any textures I convert to G3/8.
You are just noticing a tonal shift that makes it look as if the skin were more translucent.
My opinion is the skins lack that soft translucent glowing quality of film and in person but darn if I could tell them how to get iRay to impart that onto iRay renders of DAZ models.
Absent any personal adjustment I make or have applied via 3rd party products I think starting about a year ago and a year and half ago that Genesis 8 skin in iRay is much improved then prior iterations but still renders too dark or rather, renders not looking translucent enough (as I would like personally perhaps but it is much improved though).
Also keep in mind that this can be a bit subjective, like FSMCDesigns not preferring Anagenessis. Personally, I like/liked Anagenessis... also I prefer Anagenessis 1 over Anagenessis 2 - although Anagenessis 2 worked well on some older non-Iray skins. And I think I prefer the newer Dual Lobe Iray skin settings introduced with Genesis 8. You can get it to work in Genesis 7 but have to manually convert it.