Daz Are there skin assets?

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There are many assets like that can change the shape of the characters, but are there assets that contain skin materials, other than character assets? Each character asset usually has only one skin material and sometimes it doesn't really work well with another face or body other than the one it is designed for.
 

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I see, thank you. A few more questions actually. The ones that only have .tif files in them. They are not meant to be used directly in Daz, is that right? I can only find ones with only .tif files for male skins.

It is quite a lot of clicks to map every individual texture to the body. How do I convert them to a single button or a few buttons like the character assets?
 

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I'm pretty sure Daz makes use of png files. Not sure if tiff files are recognized by Daz or not.


That I dont know. Still learning myself...
 

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Ok, thank you regardless. I'll see if I can figure something out. I wish there were something like the skin presets in character assets.
 

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Np. Yeah. The links above have some one click solutions like that, but when it comes to males it seems like the resources dwindle down to almost nothing...
 

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Np. Yeah. The links above have some one click solutions like that, but when it comes to males it seems like the resources dwindle down to almost nothing...
Wait, the first and second one don't. But yeah, males. It's lacking a lot really. I mean, like, many male pornstars are handsome. It's an important part of the porn too.
 

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Some of them have one click solutions. Some. I'm pretty sure the imperfect skins have one click solutions.
 

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But yeah, males. It's lacking a lot really.
Daz in a nutshell. Male figures, clothes, and hair just don't sell nearly as well as female assets do, thus a lot less of them. It's gotten a bit better recently, especially with clothes and figures, but it's still not very diverse.
 

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Daz in a nutshell. Male figures, clothes, and hair just don't sell nearly as well as female assets do, thus a lot less of them. It's gotten a bit better recently, especially with clothes and figures, but it's still not very diverse.
I mean I get it. Most of the customers or audience are probably male, so they like to fantasise about girls, but don't they fantasise about themselves too?
 

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I mean I get it. Most of the customers or audience are probably male, so they like to fantasise about girls, but don't they fantasise about themselves too?
Despite Daz's aversion to acknowledging what is likely a dominantly adult-themed market (they know it but won't move into the adult side of things due to partnerships, processors, etc.), it's still a business. They're going to make and promote what sells the most, and the PAs/Creators are spending a lot of time making these figures, so they're naturally going to lean toward the best mitigation of their time. Which, in this case, would be profits. It's also why a majority of the female models are the 'ideal woman' in regard to appearance, health/teeth/eyes, etc.
 

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Despite Daz's aversion to acknowledging what is likely a dominantly adult-themed market (they know it but won't move into the adult side of things due to partnerships, processors, etc.), it's still a business. They're going to make and promote what sells the most, and the PAs/Creators are spending a lot of time making these figures, so they're naturally going to lean toward the best mitigation of their time. Which, in this case, would be profits. It's also why a majority of the female models are the 'ideal woman' in regard to appearance, health/teeth/eyes, etc.
Well yeah, I understand they would make whatever is the most profitable. What I mean is, don't the male customers like to fantasise about themselves and so would buy male products as well, although not as much as female products? Strangely enough, lots of games actually feature women with very weird body or facial proportions, which I can't understand. Like, I would even argue I have seen more less-than-ideal women here than in real life, as love interest I mean. Here you could make any ideal characters you want, yet quite a lot of people actually go for what I would consider as off-putting. Personal preference, of course, but I thought I was pretty normal.