Daz Blender Daz to Blender skin problem.

[Honengen]

Hello!
Help me please, I've been racking my brains for several days.
I created a scene in a blender, transferred a character from a daz studio into it. When rendering in cycles, the scene is rendered normally, but the character's skin is a problem. Looks like plastic. In daz, it looks much more realistic.

Can anyone advise on how to properly handle the character's skin after importing from daz to blender (which nodes to use?) To make it look realistic? Or do you use third-party software to create skin textures?

Below is an example of what happened. Looks good, but not very realistic.
Thank you!

 

[DoubleLust]

You need to recreate skin effects in blender to match the ones built into the iray settings, in your case you need a sub surface scattering, bump maps, gloss maps.

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basic tutorial on sub surface, you can also google around and might get lucky and find a premade skin shader

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

SSS seems off and denoiser doesn't help at all.

Havn't used Cycles for ages but I think it's a solid simple setup for a start :



From the exellent

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As said in the post, consider using

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export for a simili dual-lobe setup (which lot of Daz skin relies on) instead of gloss/clearcoat one imo.

 

[Honengen]

You need to recreate skin effects in blender to match the ones built into the iray settings, in your case you need a sub surface scattering, bump maps, gloss maps.

You must be registered to see the links

basic tutorial on sub surface, you can also google around and might get lucky and find a premade skin shader

SSS seems off and denoiser doesn't help at all.

Havn't used Cycles for ages but I think it's a solid simple setup for a start :

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From the exellent

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(scroll down)
As said in the post, consider using

You must be registered to see the links

export for a simili dual-lobe setup (which lot of Daz skin relies on) instead of gloss/clearcoat one imo.

Thank you, guys! I tried to apply the texture as shown in the image and the result turned out to be quite close to what I wanted. Thanks again!

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

Sad true is Iray shader will do a better job 99% of the time tho.

 

[Deleted member 2007156]

Use Eevee engine, full pbr mat, indirect lighting and engine settings(ao, ssr etc.)

Images, videos Eevee engine, everything is the daz model.
One image(4k) render time: max 1 minute

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

Use Eevee engine, full pbr mat, indirect lighting and engine settings(ao, ssr etc.)

Images, videos Eevee engine, everything is the daz model.
One image(4k) render time: max 1 minute

Problem with Eevee always been scattering surfaces for skin (and others parts but that one a big one).
Imho UE5 (and HDRP to some extent) offer better alternative than Eevee, in RT.

 

[Deleted member 2007156]

Problem with Eevee always been scattering surfaces for skin (and others parts but that one a big one).
Imho UE5 (and HDRP to some extent) offer better alternative than Eevee, in RT.

I've never used a UE5 before, so I can't answer. I use Eevee because my computer has low features

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

I've never used a UE5 before, so I can't answer. I use Eevee because my computer has low features

Ah yeah indeed.
I'm not sure what the minimum specs for using Lumen, I don't think they are that high... But not potato card either.

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

Bumped into that

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for Eevee, couldn't help but to try it. Tested with 8 samples (for SSS too), refraction disabled and half trace enabled. So very low (artefact in shadows and SSS). Took me around ~5min for 250 frames on a 3090.



Shader itself is quite simple. I only used diffuse map, roughness/specular one, and the normal micro tile. Skin is Victoria 8.1.



Didn't bother with eyes and eyelashes. Specularity is a bit off as well as skin pores are too harsh, but nothing that can't be fixed. Adding a real normal map should be possible with an overlay & normal map nodes.

Spoiler: edit normal+micro-tile :

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[Deleted member 1121028]

Allright calling it a day before it consumes all my time (goddam)

 

[Deleted member 2007156]

Eevee

 

[Deleted member 2007156]

animation- 1 frame is rendered in a minute and a half, eevee too.
4K

 

[UncleNanard]

animation- 1 frame is rendered in a minute and a half, eevee too.
4K

Hello, can you explain me how to export from Daz to eevee or Blender please ? Because that's look very good.

 

[Deleted member 2007156]

Hello, can you explain me how to export from Daz to eevee or Blender please ? Because that's look very good.

I use the 'Daz importer' plugin then edit/make the character's nodes more realistic in blender.
Then I set up a realistic lighting system for the scene and make special adjustments for the render (fine tunes).
Actually, this whole process is easy for me because I've done tests on this subject for months and improved myself. But it is difficult for someone new. A guide is required.
If you want, I can make you guide videos for a small amount. From the very beginning to the very end.
If you are interested, just send a message and we can negotiate.
I don't use iray render because it is very long and tedious. I am using 'Eevee' which is the bad render engine in Blender. It's incredibly fast (real time) and easy.
Also remember, my computer specs are very bad. If you have a powerful computer, you can render a 4K image in 30 seconds at most