Tried rendering a sweaty night ... did not look right. Any tips for rendering wet skin / drops / sweat from experienced artists? Any suggested assets? I used Drips and Drops for G3 from V3Digitimes.
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for wet looking skin I find the easiest thing to do is change the parameters of the skin surfaces, specifically lowering the Specular Roughness value. Sometimes there's 2 if it's Dual Lobe, I don't really understand the difference but experiment with lowering both of them. It just makes the specular highlights smoother and gives an instant wet look. It won't give you 'drips' though, just 'wet skin'
Regular skin on the left, lowered roughness on the right (only on the stomach, I didn't change all the skin surfaces)
And on an older render I used the same technique on