Second skin clothing

[DigiDotz]

Limited maybe, but with the demands of iray rendering, adding some second skin tops, skinny jeans, stockings etc using photoshop to skin textures will help people with 2gb videocard memory (erm...me) fit "clothed" figures in for gpu rendering in Daz Studio. I'm talking Dawn, Genesis 2&3 male and female

 

[Pendraia]

I was was thinking of doing some clothing using nodes or shells which also allow for them to be weight mapped. Not on the computer at the moment but I'll post an image of what it can do later.

 

[DigiDotz]

That would be good, wrinkles and edges could be on a separate bump that way.

 

[Pendraia]

This image was done using the techniques I was thinking of...still need to work out a few things but I was thinking it would make good clothing...

 

[DigiDotz]

looks great! is it the geometry shell method with mesh offset?
I wonder how you distribute geometry shell layers/presets

 

[Pendraia]

I did ask about that and still need to investigate this further. I'm thinking it might be as a DSON file as a scene subset.

 

[DigiDotz]

not 100% sure but i think -save as a wearables preset and distribute that and the textures maybe...

 

[Pendraia]

Possibly if I use the geometry shell version the one in the image is some kind of node iirc. Off to bed...night!

 

[Ken1171]

Just to be fair, geometry doesn't take as much memory footprint as textures, so if you have only 2GB to work with, texture sizes might end up being your main issue in the first place.

 

[glennf]

not 100% sure but i think -save as a wearables preset and distribute that and the textures maybe...

Yes save them as Wearable(s) Preset.I've done this for the tanline geoshells that I made.

 

[Pendraia]

Thanks Glennf...that's useful info!

 

[glennf]

Thanks Pen.

 

[Pendraia]

Been having a play with Geoshells...transferred a face paint texture I'd done for Dawn to a Geoshell I really like the effect as you get shadows.

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

Oooh, something new to learn...geoshells....off to YouTube.

 

[Pendraia]

There is a video by CGBytes that has some info on them iirc...saved the green leafs as a wearable preset and all you have to do is have the figure selected and click. It will automatically add the geoshell and the surface settings...very cool. I can't remember the settings I originally had the butterfly mask on and unfortunately doesn't look like I saved but I think I must have used some bump or displacement, maybe just using the transmap? Have to play some more anyway still very much in the testing phase of what's possible.

 

[glennf]

Looking good Pen

 

[glennf]

Milk Mustache made with a geo shell

 

[Dakorillon (IMArts)]

lol! Very funny.

 

[glennf]

Thanks

 

[Pendraia]

Very cute Glenn...so much that can be done with this.