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I'm a newbie and have not even purchased Dawn as of yet. Your Character looks good at least on my monitor. Eye reflection looked at little intense but that could be my TV/ monitor. (Have to use TV as I am going slowly blind). It would ne nice if the lips and teeth could look moist (reflection). Please pardon me as this maybe inherit in the Dawn character herself. Like I said I am brand new here. I have fiddled with Poser since #5, but am new to the DAZ also. I do not know if this helps hurts or makes you mad. Please this is not my intent. I am just looking for really good items and a chance to create something I can take pride in. You should be proud in your creation as it is certainly more than I can do
LadyRaine
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LOL no it does not make me mad and I'll keep your suggestions for the lips and teeth in mind . The eye reflections I use are reflection of the actual lights used to light the scene not a texture on the cornea they will vary from light set to light set depending on the lights intensity and the placement and shape of them hope that helps and thank you for the suggestions.
LadyRaine
Admirable
LadyRaine
Admirable
Just a quick list of suggestions I have received and will be implementing on future characters
- separate ff and sf shaders
- glossier lips and teeth
- mapped reflection option for the eyes
- ds compatibility (please be patient just learning ds)
I see no reason for creating separate materials for FF and SF. Poser switches automatically when you combine both, so it renders seamlessly no matter what renderer people use. Why would people want them split and separated? For the lips and teeth, I usually make special shaders to make them look more natural and shiny. Those are usually the part I always pay more attention to. As for eye reflections, those should be provided separately because they are useful in FF, but will conflict with PBR in SF, iRay and Octane. 
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My understanding is that Superfly is similar to Iray? (real based lighting). I find that if the spec maps are good it will work for both 3Delight and Iray its more the actual settings that changes things (the uber base shader is your friend ). Looking up the refraction index for items help to give a realistic effect (sometimes needs a little tweaking but is a great starting point).
I was having a problem with the trans map in SF for one of my textures (I don't have Poser, someone was testing for me) turns out it wasn't my issue but in my reading to see if I could find out what it was, it said something about the trans map working different from FF to SF (it works the opposite?) that would be the only thing I'd be looking at if I was to supply both.
). Looking up the refraction index for items help to give a realistic effect (sometimes needs a little tweaking but is a great starting point).I was having a problem with the trans map in SF for one of my textures (I don't have Poser, someone was testing for me) turns out it wasn't my issue but in my reading to see if I could find out what it was, it said something about the trans map working different from FF to SF (it works the opposite?) that would be the only thing I'd be looking at if I was to supply both.
Use two separate base nodes in the same shader. Have one be the Superfly settings, the other be the Firefly settings. You can do that just check one for Superfly and the other for Firefly. They can even be connected to the same nodes. This way you can fine tune each one for optimum performance. And still only have one material for both.
LadyRaine
Admirable
that makes sense rather trying to get it to work with both lol you know what I mean lol