DAZ Studio 4.9 SSS Skin Fix Partial Shader for Iray

[Dawn]

Just put a partial shader in freebie resources.

It corrects the SSS reflective tint to a pale yellow. not all old and new skins will require it, depends on how the vendor made them.

If you find your skins now look like they are freezing cold and turned blue, then add a bit of sunshine

see below for before and after pics

 

[Miss B]

Boy, I would sure like something like that for Poser. I often find SSS skins make the character look as if she's never seen the light of day. Well, maybe not that bad, but except for DawnSE's SSS_MedSkin, I've not seen a vendor create SSS character skins that didn't make the character look sickly.

I wish I knew more about Poser skin shaders to make one that's somewhere between DawnSE's SSS_MedSkin and her SSS_PaleSkin. I've used EZSkin2 on V4 a couple of times, and have EZSkin3 for PP11, but other than using the default settings, I haven't a clue how to get the effect I want. ~sigh~

 

[Alisa]

Thanks, Dawn!

 

[Pendraia]

Thank Dawn...I haven't upgraded yet but it will be useful when I do.

@MissB, maybe we should have a thread on how to use EZSkin either version as I can't use 3 yet.

 

[Miss B]

Not a bad idea Pen, and with Snarly a registered member here, that would be good, because he'll be able to give folks insight.

 

[Pendraia]

Cool...When I get a free moment I'll try and start it off.

 

[glennf]

Where can we download the shader ?

 

[Dawn]

Glenn, it is in the HW resources section
Daz Studio - DAZ 4.9 SSS Skin Fix Partial Shader | HiveWire 3D Community

MissB, you can alter the scatter node within the material room,

there is a colour option you can change on the scatter node, but be very delicate in your colour options, it doesn't take much, probably an off white with a cream/yellow base would be best (as in the example) also if you are getting that purple blue tones around the mouth and eyes, you need to change the scatter group to another number, any number will do so long as its not used before or in an area where the mats will overlap/collide (i.e. inner mouth and lips will be bad but lips and toes wont unless she sucks her toes, so no doing that on Luna as I'm sure she suckles on her tootsies when we are not looking

Pen, beware, 4.9 overrides 4.8 so you will lose 4.8. I am not sure if you don't mind this but think some are a bit knarked about it (I can imagine you would need multiple options for testing purposes)

 

[glennf]

Thanks Dawn

 

[glennf]

I installed 4.9 yesterday and so far it has worked great.

 

[Miss B]

MissB, you can alter the scatter node within the material room, there is a colour option you can change on the scatter node, but be very delicate in your colour options, it doesn't take much, probably an off white with a cream/yellow base would be best (as in the example) also if you are getting that purple blue tones around the mouth and eyes, you need to change the scatter group to another number, any number will do so long as its not used before or in an area where the mats will overlap/collide (i.e. inner mouth and lips will be bad but lips and toes wont unless she sucks her toes, so no doing that on Luna as I'm sure she suckles on her tootsies when we are not looking

Thanks for the screenshot Dawn. I'm going to try that out.

 

[Pendraia]

Thanks for mentioning that Dawn...I was aware of it and have already copied the files to another spot so I can go back if I choose to. I'm not upgrading until I'm sure my categories are safe. A few people have had problems even having exported their user data and reimporting it. So I'm playing it safe...

 

[nakamuram]

Is this for 3DeLight or IRay?

 

[Alisa]

Welcome to the Hive, nakamuram!
edited to say that it's for both - see comments later in the thread

Will change the title

 

[Dawn]

It does work in 3delight but does not have the desired effect on testing, lol. below are two more render tests,
it puts an SSS reflectance tint of pale cream onto the skin to correct the coolness,

 

[Alisa]

Ok...color me confused. It's for Iray AND 3Delight.

I thought it was specific to Iray because that's what you showed.

You say it's for DS 4.9 - why is it for that specific version of DS? Wouldn't it work in any version for the 3Delight and in DS 4.8 (first version with Iray) and up for the Iray?

 

[Pendraia]

They changed something in the shaders with 4.9 that affects skin in particular Alisa.
Welcome to the hive Nakamuram

 

[Alisa]

Ah, ok - gotcha!! I'll edit that thread topic and my post

Haven't installed 4.9 and will only do so on a second computer.

 

[Dragonsegg]

I am kind of bitter that I bought Iray shaders for G3 and G2 for DAZ 4.8 and now it messes up in 4.9. Do you think they knew those shaders were going to be obsolete after they updated the Iray engine? I haven't bought any DAZ content in like 4 months and I guess most of the reason is I am annoyed that I can't use G3 in Poser plus recent content is meh. But now I am really bummed out as Stonemason made a beautiful environment that is only usable in DAZ studio. He is one of my favorite artists and I love his work so I really wonder why he doesn't support Poser anymore.

 

[Dawn]

It is for iray, but does load in 3delight but doesn't have the desired effect. Just thought id mention it does load but not what it was intended, sorry for confusing. tests showed it has a lighter appearance, maybe its the SSS reflectiveness that does that,

DAZ 4.9 had an update on the iray render engine, which was an nvidia issue, I think NVidia fixed it so DAZ did the update to their fix in 4.9.

Vendors who did skins for 4.8 and before compensated the skin textures/shader settings to make it look
more realistic, now that 4.9 has fixed the issue the old skins have a bluish tone, so using the partial shader on those couteracts the correction.

It wont be needed if you still have 4.8 as that does not have the fix.

I just altered the title back to iray alone as that is what it was intended, its late and my brain is cafuddled lol.