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Shader settings for ethnic skin colours?

AdrianSAdrianS Posts: 77
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I've got the ethnicity product for Genesis 2 and I just wondered if anyone has got any good 'recipes' for producing darker skin colours. I've fiddled with the subsurface, diffuse and specular colour and got presentable results, but I think it could be better - especially for really dark skin tones.

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  • patience55patience55 Posts: 7,006
    edited December 1969

    You can get a selection of skin tones Googling for skintone charts ... as not all shown are "family viewing", not providing links.

    I prefer working with a skin texture closer to the desired shade in the first place.

  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,488
    edited December 1969

    I would also remind that pretty much all people have the same color palms and soles; nothing ruins a picture like a dark skinned person with dark palms...

  • SiscaSisca Posts: 875
    edited December 1969

    nemesis10 said:
    I would also remind that pretty much all people have the same color palms and soles; nothing ruins a picture like a dark skinned person with dark palms...

    Yeah, I ran into that today. Tweaked the color settings and got an absolutely perfect face and torso tone for the character I was building. Started to pose him and realized that the hands looked "plastic", a closer look and I realized that his palms were the same color as the rest of him and it just didn't look right.

    If what you're doing can hide the fact that the hands/feet don't look right it's a quick and easy way to adjust the skin tone.

  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    nemesis10 said:
    I would also remind that pretty much all people have the same color palms and soles; nothing ruins a picture like a dark skinned person with dark palms...

    And is an absolute killer to do in photoshop on the flat texture, very hard to line up the seams! I guess its where painting directly on the 3d surface really comes in handy... I dont yet have a software that can do it. But do my best in photoshop.

    And yes, is very much best that the diffuse is or close to the desired skin tone, I find modifying it too much in the shader settings turns out rather bland and mannequin-like

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