Adjusting clothes size and changing colors?

funwrestling

I used the Genesis 2 Male Character.

I was looking for nice, sporty short and I found the Genesis 3 Male > Clothing > Basic Wear > Basic Wear Briefs.

Two questions:

1 - Will I have issue in using a G3M brief on a G2M character?
​2 - I wouold like to get that brief in neon blue, neon yellow and red. How can I do that? What is I want to add a logo on the brief?

Thank you

 

barbult

1) Yes, you will have trouble unless you own this product.

2) If it comes in white, you may be able to just change the diffuse/base color in the Surfaces pane. Otherwise, you can download the template and create your own texture or apply a shader in the Surfaces pane.

3) If you are rendering in Iray, you can try a decal. Or you can open the texture file in a photo editor and add your logo to the texture file.

sriesch

2)

You can also modify the material in photoshop to adjust the colors if it is image-based. 

Also, depening on how much detail is in the image, it might be possible to simply not use the diffuse image at all and just apply a diffuse color.  Probably this is not something you would usually do as the image typically does have a lot of detail, but for small or far away objects or in specialized situations this method can be used.

funwrestling

barbult said:

12) Otherwise, you can download the template and create your own texture or apply a shader in the Surfaces pane

Sorry to ask for precisions, but how do I download the template? What does it mean?
​How do I apply a Shader?

@sriesch: How do you modify the material in Photoshop? Where do you finsd the material?

Detailed instructional steps would be helpful to all beginners. If you could give an example on how to do all that, ideally importing your logo on top of the basic wear shown in my screenshot (first message above) while changing the color of the undedrwear.

Thanks so much.

 

sriesch

If you are using DAZ Studio, in the surfaces pane look at the diffuse parameter.  There should be a thumbnail image on it.  You should be able to I think right-click, then you can browse to the image location so you know where it is.  Then you can make a copy and open it with photoshop, make whatver changes you want.  Then save it somewhere within a mapped DAZ Studio folder and browse to the new file location from the Diffuse thumbnail.

(Important: the subfolder and filename combination must be uniquely named between every single runtime or mapped content folder you have, or Studio will open the wrong image file later.  So if you have mapped C:\whatever1 and C:\whatever2, then have two different images both named FileX in both, that won't work.  So either make a FileX in one and FileY in the other, or maybe add another subfolder like C:\whatever1\whatever1 and C:\whatever2\whatever2 .)

As for what changes you want to make in Photoshop, you will actually need to ask a photoshop expert.  I acutally use gimp myself, I just mentioned photoshop since it's something people are more likely to have.  But presumably there are options somewhere to allow you to adjust the colors, either overall or by changing just certain colors, and you could also possibly convert to grescale THEN colorize if you only needed a basic color, although that might not look too good for most materials (but might be fine for something basic such as your clothing item).

sriesch

Texture templates are just basic images that show something like the outline or a grid pattern that you would paint over (or use as a layer background to paint over on a 2nd canvas.)  , and/or help you line up seams on the edges.  There are a few included on the downloads page in your account for some products, and other people make their own and share with the community.  For example check out Snow Sultan's stuff, http://www.snowsultan.com/seam-guides/ .

If you don't have one and can't find one, you can of course just use any existing image in the same way, although it might be harder depending on how the image was designed.