Skin and Hair Mini Tut by toadz

Hey no worries. I do have interjection myself but I've not tried those mats with my settings as personaly I don't like the effects the mats give when in use, I prefer to use a recoloured version of my diffuse mats if I am going to use any. None the less I took a peek at the image you linked me to and compared it to some of your older ones with the same character and I think she looks much better. I am glad you have found the tutorial usefull, just make sure you go and have some fun messing with a few settings to find your perfect set up

Thanks hun! My pleasure

Hehe, yup, you allready did! lol

That's cool, each to their own buddy you use what works best for you but there are times when you don't want characters to look oily in there skin(and lets be honest, most vendors don't even put that effect into their spec maps and just opted for a darkened and desaturated version of their diffuse maps at best) and time's where spec maps are absoloutley needed for things like wet effects.

Like I said in the tutorial this is just how I work and do things, people should always work with what feels best for them from their own experimenting.

The mouth SSS thing is realy handy and helps your characters looks much better when they are smiling etc. Just remember not to use too much strength for them though or they can begin to look like they have a glowing mouth.

Hmm, first I would advise playing with the strength a little, and maybe consider changing colour a little to more of an off white if you want a 'milky' white look to them. Just try a few things and see how it comes out, but stick away from the ambient channel unless you want night glow teeth, lol

No worries, my plasure! Thanks for the saves

Hehehe, have fun getting through the stash, lol!

You are welcome hun! There are a couple of others that I uploaded after this one too, I hope they are usefull!

Thank you. There is more detail info about clothing in the two new ones I uploaded yesterday. I hope they come in handy

No worries my friend! Part two is here [link] and I have part 3 rendered and just writting it up now. There is also a much more indepth look at skin shaders I did here [link] and here [link] For the last two links, I would advise reading through the tuts first before deciding to follow along as they are quite long so you can first pick and choose which stages you will do. I did them step by step to try and explain different functions and pitfalls to avoid by deliberatly making a few mistakes along the way.

You get it included with DS4 Pro which is still free over at DAZ

Thanks Neil, I hope it can be made use of, although I doubt it with the quality of your work. *jealous*

You are welcome! I hope it comes in handy!

Thanks hun. It pretty much summarises everything I did in the previous two tuts with a few changes to things like SSS for beter refraction settings etc. I know what you mean about having to look back at previous scenes for settings that have worked before. This is just as much for me as it is for anyone else, hahaha

This is for DAZ as I dont have Poser I am afraid

My pleasure, good sir