Help With Toning Down Skin and Lip Texture

red-bones

Hey there, i'm pretty new to Daz and still learning, i tried to search around for a solution to this issue i'm having but i haven't been successful, so i thought i'd ask here

i'm doing a story and have already set up all my scenes, i did very quick test renders and now i'm going back to do the final renders and noticed one of the main characters i'm using has very wrinkly, dry looking lips and some wrinkles/textures under his eyes that i would like to remove or tone down, but i'm not having any luck

i tried some things, but i'm not sure i was doing it right as there never seemed to be any changes. i also tried to add other character skins but it just changed the way his face looked too much. i was hoping for an easy fix since i already set up 100+ scenes with him

any help would be appreciated, thank you

 

Richard Haseltine

The detail may come from bump, normal, or displacement - or from an HD morph. All of those can have their strength reduced (through the Surfaces pane for the first three, through Shaping or Parameters panes for an HD morph). You will need to look to see which of those are even in use and try reducing those thata re (of coruse this will have knock-on effects on the rest of the skin).

The red is most likely in some of he settings related to transluceny or scattering in the Surfaces pane - again, altering them will have a knock-on effect.

Where it is surface settings one option might be a mask for the lips and under the eyes (white where you want to weaken the effect, black elsewhere, with a soft transition) - if you open the image menu for the affected property (the nano-thumbnail on the left) and select Layered Image Editor you can add a new layer with a neutralising colour (usually mid gery for bump or displacement, pure blue for normals) and then add the mask to that to limit the areas that are toned down.

red-bones

Richard Haseltine said:

The detail may come from bump, normal, or displacement - or from an HD morph. All of those can have their strength reduced (through the Surfaces pane for the first three, through Shaping or Parameters panes for an HD morph). You will need to look to see which of those are even in use and try reducing those thata re (of coruse this will have knock-on effects on the rest of the skin).

The red is most likely in some of he settings related to transluceny or scattering in the Surfaces pane - again, altering them will have a knock-on effect.

Where it is surface settings one option might be a mask for the lips and under the eyes (white where you want to weaken the effect, black elsewhere, with a soft transition) - if you open the image menu for the affected property (the nano-thumbnail on the left) and select Layered Image Editor you can add a new layer with a neutralising colour (usually mid gery for bump or displacement, pure blue for normals) and then add the mask to that to limit the areas that are toned down.

thank you so much for the help Richard, i did try some of those settings before and wasn't getting any results, but i tried all three that you suggested together, bump/normal/displacement and i got the lips to tone down alot, and i'm very happy with it, so much so that now the face issues don't bother me as much, as i did change those 3 settings as well and didn't see a difference, but i think i'll just leave them as is for now.

thanks again for taking the time to help me out, i appreciate it