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CyberW01f said:
no seriously, Thank you! I like technical. So I guess two parts of that.

I never heard of TexturingXYZ before. I def check it out. I have been using the textures that come with different models in Daz Store and Renderosity. I have no background in 3d model or rendering, just messing about. Sounds like i need to learn about the UV maps, what PBR in G8.1 is and how it compares to Irayskins in G8. Do u recommend any tutorials or guides to get better with the skin? Or just alot of googleing shit?

I recall learning that Daz's F/Stop in render settings is like a 3rd of what an eye can precieve. I always dial up that setting to 24-25 but then i have to re-adjust the exposure to 13ish so that scene isnt so dark. I wasnt sure if I was negating the effects when doing that. I will def checkout of IDG Tool box.

When you refer to mesh lights, is that a primative object that is emissive or is it something else? I recently did a tutorial on lighting from Daz (killer lighting), the spot light has a number of settings, like lighting Geometry, height, width, etc which help with better defusing and softer shadow edges. Idk if that is comparable to what you were describing.

I can't really go into detail about what UV is and how it's used without derailing the thread here. But imagine your 3d model projected in 2d space so you can texture it. If you open up a character texture from Daz, that weird island shapes you see, are the UVs. For my comment above, I'd need to take those shapes, upres them to whatever resolution I want (say 8k or 16k) and then paint the textures on them. (Or clone from TexturingXYZ provided photoscanned real skin textures.)

It is a lot of googling sadly and following tutorials on YouTube, not a process I can easily explain in a paragraph or two.

As for the lights, you are correct that changing the size and the falloff softens the lighting. But that's not what I'm talking about here. A diffuser is an object that when light passes through it gets diffused in the material, which can be accomplished by a simple plain and specific shader values to simulate the material it's made out of. Besides making the shadows softer, it also has the effect of flattening the image (which a simple size change won't do). And yes, the lights I used are all emmisive meshes, then the light passes through a diffuser. A reflector is a simple either white material with no metallicity and high roughness, or a metallic material with high reflection and low roughness depending on the look you're going for. One will have soft light as a result, the other will be a lot more focused and sharp (or to be more precise, similar to the light you are reflecting with it.)

Lastly, the grids. These are used to focus the lights. But not like lowering the spread, more like..directing the light rays to specific directions/angles. Usually directing it forward without letting it split to the sides..But other effects can be achieved too if you really want to.

As for the plugins, besides the toolbox, also get his lights. Will give you all of the above light modifiers and a couple more too, like a beauty dish or an umbrella. For how to use them and what each does, look for portrait photography tutorials.