easy catchlights for eyes? - product names requested
SilverGirl
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Please throw at me some products that have an option included for making easy light reflections in a character's eyes. (As in, you click it and it's set up, no fuss needed.)
I know I either have or have wishlisted something that does that... but my brain is having a giant 'nope' moment right now and refusing to cough up where I can find the blasted thing. (And I can't find it in my inventory system, which means either it's still on my WL or it's still in the pile of stuff I haven't gotten to entering yet.)
Help?
ETA - G9, for any products where it would be relevant.
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Which generation(s)?
These should have some for G8:
Eye Twinkles for Genesis 8 - https://www.daz3d.com/eye-twinkles-for-genesis-8
Natural Eyes for Genesis 8 - https://www.daz3d.com/natural-eyes-for-genesis-8
Argh, should have specified, sorry. G9. (But hopefully your suggestions can help someone else!)
SY Eye Brightener solved my Genesis 9 eye highlights woes easily and simply.
That's the one I've been trying tonight, but I can't seem to get it to do the little reflections.
Could it be an issue with the eye materials? I'm using a 3rd party (Eyes by SirMaverick) so maybe it's not reflective enough, or something? They've always looked a little oddly... flat... and I was hoping maybe the lack of reflection was the issue. But maybe the issue is that they're just not reflecting at all...?
chevybabe25 also has a Genesis 9 version of Natural Eyes with three settings related to how the eyes are reflecting lights (but will not provide the lights like the product quoted by xyer0 does):
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/594581/released-natural-eyes-9-for-genesis-9-commercial/p1
There is also an older product by chevybabe25:
https://www.daz3d.com/perfect-portrait-lights
It's for Genesis 8 so they will likely be tweaking necessary to be sure the lights are correctly placed to be reflected by Genesis 9 eyes.
Many thanks to you both.
I've WL'ed both of those products, @Elor and I think they'll really help
In the meantime I played around with swapping out the one character's eyes that always seemed the most 'off' to me, and I found a CJ option that was close-ish to the right shade of green. It looked immediately better, so I think it really was something to do with the material I was using before.
Oddly enough I've been using from the same texture pack for my other main character, and I've never been unsettled with hers the same way. But hers are more of a brown/green than an intense green, so maybe something in the way the colors were painted on the green-green ones was tripping an uncanny valley thing in the back of my head? I might change hers out, too, but I don't seem to have anything that looks right. Maybe that Natural Eyes pack will do well by me.
This is the product I use for my G9s when my regular lights don't give enough eye reflections: EF Fast and Easy Eye Reflections for Genesis 9. They're really easy to use. Unfortunately, it's not on sale right now, but may be a wishlist candidate.
OH MY GOSH YES!!! I had no idea those existed, and they look like exactly what I need. Bonus points for the ease of use rec.
WL'ed, and hopefully just in time for some fabulous end-of-year sales, right?