I can't get the sun-sky light to produce a good glossy, shiny wet skin. (IRAY)

Flortale

I have Genesis 8 set to glossy wet skin.  When I use mesh lights, everything works fine and the skin looks nice, wet & glossy. But when I use the sun-sky light, I barely get a decent glossy wet skin effect. Anyone know what settings the sun-sky should be set so I can get good wet glossy skin? 

 

Fishtales

It will depend if the sun is actually shining on the skin and not from above or behind. By default the camera faces south so your figure is loaded with her back to the light. Turn the figure and the camera 180 on the Y axis so that the light is now coming from the front of your character. Now set the Lat/Longditude, time of day and date to get the sun in a position where it glances off the skin giving reflections that make it look wet. 

Flortale

It's not workign sadly.

• I made sure the light is shining directly on the character. 
• I rotated the character to be sure.
• I set Lat/Longditude to an area with extremly strong sun light. I played with the settings a lot, but can't find something that makes a good skin gloss.
• I set time & day to various times, but no luck.

If I put a mesh light shining on the figure, the wet & glossy effect looks awesome, but I can't get the sun-sky light to produce the same result.

Flortale

I FIGURED IT OUT. Finally.

I had to set the glossy roughness of the skin to around .25 to .4 for sun-sky light. 

 

nonesuch00

liplin901 said:

I FIGURED IT OUT. Finally.

I had to set the glossy roughness of the skin to around .25 to .4 for sun-sky light. 

 

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