BD Oshun
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Has anyone bought that product yet? The morph looks interesting but I'm uncertain about the maps. The pore structure and colour variation just seems too uniform, like the skin of the cheek has been cloned all over the face with little regard for the different skin structure. Also the lips seem to have been hit with a random noise layer.
Or is it just the promo images?
https://www.daz3d.com/bd-oshun-and-her-outfit-for-genesis-8-female
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You'd probably need to fiddle with the SSS quite a bit too. In some of those pics, she looks like a blob of molasses.
Point. Lighting her might be a nightmare.
I think she's fine. You might want to add some HD details from another character, and you need to light her well, but generally she looks good to me.
BTW, does she conflict with the other Oshun?
the promos look like there is far too much translucency (the hands looking reddish) and the palms are not really a brighter colour, Those are the odd things. the skin looks nice in some shots and horrible in others, not sure if the renders save it or the other way round. I really would like to see some users renders of her
Looking at the file list, she shouldn't conflict at that level, and if everything is carried through, it looks like her internal labeling should all be for "BD Oshun". But of course, no way to tell for sure without buying her.
I keep going back and forth on her. In general, I like her morph and I generally like the way she looks, but I think it's safe to say that almost all of her promo images are kind of terrible. Dark skin against dark gray background isn't the best choice. And the image where the PA was trying to show the different eyebrow colors also shows the detail of the skin on her forehead, and it frankly looks kind of awful. No forehead lines at all -- which, admittedly, isn't at all unusual -- and very very bumpy skin. It's impossible to tell if that's a diffuse texture issue or a "set the bump and normal WAY too high" issue.
She comes with three translucency presets, according to the product information. I'm guessing that one of the lower translucency settings is seen in the image where her different texture options (makeup, lips, nails) are listed -- it's pretty much the only image where she's not basically glowing.. Everything else looks like it was done with astonishingly high translucency -- probably 0.9 or above.
I have the other Oshun, by Chevybabe25, so it's not as though I desperately need another one. I just kind of like this one as well. Except that the promos really are terrible.
For anyone who might be wondering, lo all these many months later, and just to make things all complete and stuff:
1) BD Oshun's promos on her page are terrible. I don't know why she was lit that way or why they had her bump/normal cranked so incredibly high as to make her look bad, but her default settings are very nice.
2) She does not conflict with Oshun by Chevybabe. They install to different directories, and BD Oshun's sliders are clearly labeled as such; Chevybabe25's Oshun is just labeled as "Oshun" or "Oshun HD", so there's no conflict at all.
3) As nice as she is, the skirt of her included outfit actually is quite quite terrible in anything but a very simple pose. I think it probably needs dForce added, along with a weightmap at the top so it doesn't fall off her hips.
Test render of her head below, with a simple 3-point light setup.