Daz [Genesis 9] Looking for High quality skin materials

[Ashbash]

Hi all!

I'm writing today to see if anyone has any links to characters or skin materials for Genesis 9 female characters? I saw the skin quality on the character for this outfit and it's phenomenal! Or even better if you can tell me the skin it is!

https://f95zone.to/threads/ajc-senshi-legacy-outfit-adeilsonjc.217299/

Any recommendations for really nice, high-quality skins are much appreciated!

 

[Midzay]

I made my skin recipe and recorded a YouTube video (

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). Here is an example of my recipe:



Of the finished recipes, I was pleasantly surprised by Frida_8_F's skin. I tweaked the cards a bit, but for the most part it's close to my result.

 

[MissFortune]

AJC uses custom models (and likely custom textures), so I can't really help you. Though, if you message them through the Daz forums, I'm sure they'll help. They were super nice when I tried asking about their model(s), even if they couldn't give me the recipe for them.

Any of the Daz Originals are going to be pretty good, though. I'm personally a fan of Julia 9 for less detail (e.g. younger characters, though it's still perfectly usable for older characters as I've used it for that.) and Van Helsing 9 for young adult (20 y/o+ characters). That being said, good/great lighting can make any render look good.

Van Helsing 9:

Ignore the hair in left render. Was having some issues with it that have since been fixed.

Julia 9:

 

[Turning Tricks]

Hi all!

I'm writing today to see if anyone has any links to characters or skin materials for Genesis 9 female characters? I saw the skin quality on the character for this outfit and it's phenomenal! Or even better if you can tell me the skin it is!

https://f95zone.to/threads/ajc-senshi-legacy-outfit-adeilsonjc.217299/

Any recommendations for really nice, high-quality skins are much appreciated!

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has always been one of the better character creators out there, IMO, with some of the best skins. They do a lot of G9's now as well. One issue I noticed with their G9 skins is that some of them have the Transparency Weight setting a little too high. When they have features like a vein map, this can make them a little too obvious. I changed the TW setting to 0.50 from the stock 0.75 it shipped with.

I 100% agree with MissFortune about Van Helsing 9's skin. It's very nice and I use it on a GILF in one of my VN's.

Finally, if you are interested in a skin for a black/mixed character, Olivia 9's skin is also very nice and there's an alternate shapes package with YA versions of the skin too.



GILF with Van Helsing 9's skin...




Olivia 9 skin (YA version) - I added a couple of shades darker effect

 

[Ashbash]

Thank you both, I will take a look into those ones and experiment! I appreciate it.

 

[no_more_name]

One issue I noticed with their G9 skins is that some of them have the Transparency Weight setting a little too high. When they have features like a vein map, this can make them a little too obvious. I changed the TW setting to 0.50 from the stock 0.75 it shipped with.

You shouldn't do that.
The main point of Daz/Iray skin is translucency, despite its (huge) compute cost.
A bad texture doesn't mean a bad setting.

 

[Turning Tricks]

You shouldn't do that.
The main point of Daz/Iray skin is translucency, despite its (huge) compute cost.
A bad texture doesn't mean a bad setting.

umm.. ya, I did need to do this.

At the stock TW, her veins were way way too visible. It's not a bad texture... Mousso makes some of the best skin textures around. But his default TW setting on this particular model was just ... off a bit. Maybe his monitor was dark or something ... /shrug.

Translucency Weight is not some magical setting we are not supposed to touch. And this isn't my first day on the job either, lol. Of course you play with the settings. Especially when you are customizing characters like I do.

BTW, the stock TW settings used by various Genesis characters are all over the place. The creator decides what works. For example a G8 stock model is set at 0.50 while a G9 with base maps is 0.85.

And on my system, the model skin has almost no bearing on compute power or rendering time needed. I can pump out 4k G9's in under a min, by themselves. It's the complex environmental scenes with like a hundred 4K texture maps that slow me down sometimes. Or scenes with complex lighting. I usually run all characters at subD 3 for any middle or far shots and for close ups I run them at SubD 4.

 

[no_more_name]

oh god it's completly stupid.
You just don't get it.

Yes, transluceny weight is daz bacbone.
Call it whatever it is.

 

[VivelaFrance]

The default translucency settings on nearly all Daz skins is awful. I dont know whats going on with their creators and their monitor color-settings, but for some odd reason always make and set skins far too red.
Fixing them to a normal point like 0.5 is always the first step.
Step 2 would be lowering the colors of SSS at the bottom.
Then sometimes you need to photoshop the textures themselves to add some detail or fix color issues.
4th step is changing the reflection value in some situations; make it a bit more dry unless it's a wet or sweat scene
5th step upping the Bump or Normal or SubD value for wrinkels, but those do ask more from the computer during rendering

 

[no_more_name]

What?
Jesus