When you make a character their skin gives them a breath of life. Moreover, a material can make or break your model, and for this reason I spent utmost care in bringing life to these many shades of real and fictional skintones. In the creation process I used many refferences from photography, as well as my own imagination. The aim of this product is simple - to bridge the gap between realism and your imagination!
PERFORMANCE AND VOLUME MAPS.
Each texture in the pack has been fully optimized, to reduce the memory usage and acheve faster render times. In the process of making these skin tones I also noticed that the darker shades perform the best. Yet, perhaps the biggest contributor to the light intensity of these materials are the volume maps.
The volume maps eliminate one need and that is the need for individual transparency maps that would normally add 1/3 of memory load. So what are they and what do they do? To put it simply, these maps tell your render engine to make the transparency more intense on the thinner parts of the body, and subtler on thicker parts, thus achieving more realistic results. Moreover these maps don't require high detail so they are much smaller and thus don't take up much render time.
As a creator I know how valuable time is, and know that everyone appreciates high quality results in shorter ammount of time, but the people who will benefit from this the most are those running Daz software on older or less powerful hardware.
IS THIS A MERCHANT RESORCE?
Yes. Indeed the aim of this product is to not only provide the regular user with more variety of choices, but also to speed up the workflow of product creators. If you end up altering the textures and selling them, it would only make me happier.
OK, BUT HOW TO USE IT?
You have two ways of using this product - either install it into your smart content library or use it by navigating to "people/genesis9/materials/undeadcrabstick/earthy hues/" in your daz library.
Each preset contains materials for both your figure and genitals of choice. If you choose to use the figure with genitals, load these before selecting your figure and finding the material preset you like.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
In this package I've included 71 materal presets each of which has masculine and feminine versions. They come with individual diffuse/albedo textures, and shared voume, normal, specular, and roughness maps.
WHAT WAS USED IN THE PROMO IMAGES?
The promo images were done in Daz3D without any postwork. The products I used were my own In Depth Anatomy Body Morphs, the Elf Kit, as well as Sheer Fantasies outfit by Lishking3d.
