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I Just Wanted to Post an Image Thread
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Hornet3d
Wise
Thanks, Hornet!
I'll leave that up to your imagination, VB
Probably just as well, I guess iRay might be quite good at portraying blood.
quietrob
Extraordinary
Ewwww! Let's see it, Daz Girl!
Hornet3d
Wise
I was playing with a few materials on Dawn's pilot suit and then came across a program I purchased some years ago but I can't ever remember using. The program is 2nd Skin 2 by Dimension3d and it said it would create a second skin for any character. So I tried it on Dawn and it works very well, so I had the opportunity to use some materials that were never really created to be used on clothes. Very basic at the moment, this is something I need to look into a lot more as it opens up some new avenues for kit bashing.
quietrob
Extraordinary
That's pretty nice! I had no idea D3D's program worked so well. I found the price a bit prohibitive back in the day but now I might have to rethink that. I personally love second skins in my sci-fi. It reduces the overall size of the render by reducing figures and props which means faster renders and is well suited for comics if that's what's your making. This is a page I made for my comic. Every character on the page is wearing second skins or feathers.
The host of a TV show in my series is narrating the end of the previous universe.
The host of a TV show in my series is narrating the end of the previous universe.
Mythocentric
Extraordinary
Domino. Police officer and Replicant hunter totally dedicated to her job. Sometimes it's safer not to go into the light!
Messing around reviving an old image with one of Lully's Volumetric light sets.
Messing around reviving an old image with one of Lully's Volumetric light sets.
Hornet3d
Wise
I love that, great use of second skins. Now I have used the program I am thinking it could also be useful to use on props for lighting effects with the prop having the colour and the second skin providing the glow. I have had so many ideas since discovering this and I really need to play a lot more
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Guest
I have always had this requirement to put second skins on a bodysuit or catsuit... not sure why. Doesn't feel right to me just putting them right on the figure. Then again, I am an odd one when it comes to certain things.
A Pilot suit for Dawn was mentioned in previous comments, was this a product I missed somewhere? I need more outfits for Dawn (and Dusk).
A Pilot suit for Dawn was mentioned in previous comments, was this a product I missed somewhere? I need more outfits for Dawn (and Dusk).
Hornet3d
Wise
The pilot suit has been mentioned before as I use it a lot, mainly as such outfits are rare. I often play with the materials so I can continue to use it but make it look a little different. The suit itself is the Sci-Fi pilot suit for Dawn by Simon 3d (which happens o be on sale at the other place for another few days). I use a lot of Simon-3D space craft and the pilot suit comes with a dozen or more poses for Dawn that can be used with the Simon's craft and a lot of other crafts with the few tweaks. I also have a the M4 and V4 versions (unfortunately no Dusk version) so I can come up with a flight crew at a push.
Hornet3d
Wise
So I have continued to play with second skins as they are so easy to create. A sci-fi raider outfit that is kit bashed with the use of a second skin and the a play with a cross bow. The furry cross bow is not what I expected but I can see the effect working on clothing. The upper bow sort of shows a force field that could be used on space ships and a number of other figures.
what is a second skin (I've heard of them but don't know what they are)
Hornet3d
Wise
They are basically a clone of the skin of a figure that effectively hovers just above the figure and has the same material sections of the figure. The program I use builds this from any figure chosen so effectively I have a second Dawn which is fractionally larger than the default Dawn. Where I do no want the skin to show, such as the face, I make it invisible in all other zones I can change the material in much the same way as I could in the figure itself, except I can revert to default by just deleting the second skin. The down side is that the second skin also shows things like toes and the navel but this can be catered for when fit bashing.
Hornet3d
Wise
The one I have used is here is '2nd Skin 2' by Dimension3d which can create a skin for any Poser figure. There may be other programs that do the same thing, I purchased this some time ago but only recently started using it. If you are using Dawn other figures there may be a second skin available for that figure but it will only work with the figure and it may be called something different like a skin suit. I know I had something for V4 that I used when I was working with V4.
VortigensBane
Busy Bee
"Second skins" are included for free with DAZ Studio... They are called geometry shells, and you can add them to anything. The have the same material zones as whatever they are added to. The offset distance from the base object can also be set to whatever you like. Parts of it can be hidden, either by material zone, or by part of the figure.
VortigensBane
Busy Bee
Or, you can cheat, and apply a geometry shell to a character with one UV set, and then change the UV set of the geometry shell to something else.
Did that here:
View media item 2794The crusty lava skin on his arm is made for the Genesis 3 Females, but with the help of the geo-shell, I was able to add it to a male character.
Did that here:
View media item 2794The crusty lava skin on his arm is made for the Genesis 3 Females, but with the help of the geo-shell, I was able to add it to a male character.
