Problem with sf-beautiful-skin-iray-genesis-8-male

Tav

Hi,

I bought this product https://www.daz3d.com/sf-beautiful-skin-iray-genesis-8-male a while ago and just started using it today and something seems to be off. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or if that's what the product is and I made a bad purchase.

I bought it as I wanted a broad pack of skins of different races, but didn't really need character-specific morphs - I prefer to save some money on those and do the morphs myself with the head and body morph packages.

I'm applying the skin to a base genesis 8 male and from all the skins I've used, all of them with the exception of maybe 3, look kind of sickly. Like the character is sick with Jaundice or something. Does anyone have experience with this product? Maybe I'm using it wrong? I couldn't find a readme. I don't want to jump to conclusions and dismiss it as bad. The promo images look way better than what I'm getting and that's not usually true for the skins I've used for g8f (bundled with characters).

vwrangler

It's not actually a pack of skins at all. It's a shader setup. BSI creates a different shader setup for existing textures.

One thing that it does is to shift the extremely orange/tan undertones of the bases to something that's much less so, which means that characters will generally appear more pale.

Beyond that ... without seeing the results you're getting, all I can say is that how things look depend very much on the light setup you're working with.

 

Tav

Thanks for the response.

So it's more and add-on rather than a standalone product, it only enhances the skins you already have? Damnit. I guess that's on me for not understanding how the skin works, but I'm new at this. I thought I was getting "just the skin" rather than full characters. I can see how the product can be a useful tool if you have a lot of skins and want to tweak them, but I only have the base gen8 and I've blown my budget already :) I got a Michael 7 pro bundle for a fraction of the price at the christmas sale, I guess I'll just try using those gen3 skins on gen8, any tips on that? I tried it for the Sapphire skin from gen3 used on gen8, works well if I stick to RSL rather than the usual MDL material. Maybe it will work here too.

Tav

Update for anyone interested - The gen3 skins didn't work that well, but I was able to get good results applying base gen8, presets from this product and later overlaying them with "specular low" and "translucency low" preset from female characters by Silver. Not sure how it all works internally, more trial and error really, but it looks realistic now. Thanks for the help in understanding the product. Translucency and specular options would be a nice addition to it.