I downloaded a character that loaded with blackened skins an was able to go in to the Overlay menu and set it to default skin type, but now the skin is normal but is "wet and dirty". did i miss a setting here?
The skin being wet and dirty is inevitable process from changing shader. Just save the change and reload it.
If the card looks like the example below, probably bcs that card is using Hanmen's next gen skin shader and Graphic Mod.
All of my cards that using Hanmen's next gen skin shader using brighter color in the color pallet, so in the basic graphic configuration, they looks almost like shining.
So you might need to configure the graphic setting using Graphic Mod or DHH, depending your preference.
One of the costumes of a downloaded card is WAY TOO BRIGHT. it's white, but REALLY bright. I tried messing with the color/texture/shine sliders but it doesn't fix it.
what's up with some of the room lighting being WAY TOO bright?
Unfortunately I'm not really playing the main game and lacking in knowledge of clothing modification/manipulation, I'm more into studio so I cant help you in this matter.
FYI, Hanmen's next gen skin shader
requires Graphic Mod and it taxes your graphic card quite alot. So if you dont need or cant use it, use DHH and change the body shader at Material Editor.