Thanks alot for the tips, loving your work, may I ask how about the micro texture/bump maps skin details, do you create them in blender or add them from Daz?
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only certain skins do that, not always the case.
very often, the problem you get is that your character will look like it's made of wax, it's often the subsurface that needs tweaking. if you don't have a map, just put some light red color, and tweak it up a little.
This though looks like too much of something, not sure what, but often it's the subsurface (I don't think so here, but give it a try anyway)
You also have a menu on the right in the diffeo window (the one that opens when you import a scene) that lets you change the material settings. sometimes swapping it to something else gives you better results, or at least easier to fix.
Best thing to do would be to use the extended principal option (it should give you all the maps and stuff you need, with the least amount of junk to delete) and remake the shader yourself. The BSDF option looks good sometimes, but it's pretty hit or miss, and it's also slower to render since it uses volume stuff for the sss.
The main thing is the daz diffuse maps are wayyy light in Blender, so you need to darken them up. You can get most of the way there with a gamma node, then make tweaks with HSV and brightness/contrast. Lately I've been using a mix color set to multiply with a fleshy color too, put before the other nodes.
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Thank you for the response and advice for tweaking the skin materials at blender,
May I ask also ask......is there a way to import to Blender from Daz using Diffeo to make the model as a static mesh combined?
Lets just I already got the pose, expression I want in Daz already, I just want to import to Blender as a static all merged tohether mesh without the armature and materials only so that save me sometimes to import to blender, is it possible?
May I ask also ask......is there a way to import to Blender from Daz using Diffeo to make the model as a static mesh combined?
Lets just I already got the pose, expression I want in Daz already, I just want to import to Blender as a static all merged tohether mesh without the armature and materials only so that save me sometimes to import to blender, is it possible?
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WIP - Walk animation blocking phase.
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I started learning Blender about 5 days ago. I followed the donut tutorial that is on YouTube and here is my donut renders.
W.I.P Version:
Finished/Complete Version:
Also here are some follow-up pinup renders I made days after I started learning:
There is definitely a lot of things I still got to learn with this program, but thanks to my knowledge I gain from using Daz studio, it was a bit more easy to understand how these things go. I look forward to learning more and sharing some art with Blender! I'd love to hear any advice you might have!
W.I.P Version:
Finished/Complete Version:
Also here are some follow-up pinup renders I made days after I started learning:
There is definitely a lot of things I still got to learn with this program, but thanks to my knowledge I gain from using Daz studio, it was a bit more easy to understand how these things go. I look forward to learning more and sharing some art with Blender! I'd love to hear any advice you might have!
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Hey if you don't mind me asking, what nodes do you use for your background city image to have a better control for the lighting? Cause the strength alone makes the image really bright, even when I tweak it a little.
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