Eyes Sclera And Moisture

lucartl

Hi there. I need some help, please. I'm quite happy with the look of the skin and so on. Of course it can be better, will see. What I would like to get, and I've been trying to do it for the last week, is to see some little blood vessels of the sclera and some moisture in the eyes. I have tried all the settings that I could find, but . . nothing. How do you do that? Thanks. I'm rendering in DAZ with iRay.

nemesis10

I would suggest off the top of my head is to draw some faint red lines in an image editor and apply them as L.I.E. overlays to eye surface and add a geometry shell to the eye with the thin wall water iray preset for the moisture?

mjc1016

Which character?

The sclera texture isn't 'set in stone'...look through the eye textures from any/all characters you have for the particular base figure you are using.  Some of them do have more visible veins than others.  And then just manually swap it out.

For the moisture...what shader preset are you using for it?

 

lucartl

nemesis10 said:

"I would suggest off the top of my head is to draw some faint red lines in an image editor and apply them as L.I.E. overlays to eye surface and add a geometry shell to the eye with the thin wall water iray preset for the moisture?"

Thanks. Ok. Well . . I  can probably do that and insert them in the diffuse channel of the sclera right? Or am I wrong? I am not sure, sorry. About the moisture, I have to learn about geometry shell, but I'll try.

 

 

mjc1016 said:

Which character?

The sclera texture isn't 'set in stone'...look through the eye textures from any/all characters you have for the particular base figure you are using.  Some of them do have more visible veins than others.  And then just manually swap it out.

For the moisture...what shader preset are you using for it?

Hi. It's a G3 called Kitana from Devious Doll. So you are saying tbat the sclera texture is that round white circle that is present already with the irises image, ok? If I am right, it seems quite visible in the image but not showing in the render. I'll see if I can find others to do the swap. And then I put them in the diffuse channel or the base channel of the sclera? For the moisture I am using iray water thin, and I tried different settings taken from various posts, but I am probably missing something. Thamks.

 

mjc1016

Yep...base/diffuse depending on the renderer (base is Iray/Diffuse is 3Delight).  Basically any G3F eye texture will work.

And Water-thin should be fine, you just may not have anything to actually reflect...and without that theres not all that much that will show up (Oh, and making sure the camera headlamp is off will help, too).

lucartl

mjc1016 said:

Yep...base/diffuse depending on the renderer (base is Iray/Diffuse is 3Delight).  Basically any G3F eye texture will work.

And Water-thin should be fine, you just may not have anything to actually reflect...and without that theres not all that much that will show up (Oh, and making sure the camera headlamp is off will help, too).

                  Thanks mjc1016. I didn't know that, see? So . . base it is. I'll try. I did try different lights, and the camera on or off. In this render is off and I tried to simulate reflections with a cone emitting.

                  It does not look like a reflections actually. I have some reflections that I can apply, Is that the kind of freflections you're talking about? Or . . how can I produce a reflections to show the

                  moisture? Those in the pictures are the eyes that I'm trying to use, and the reflection. What do you think?

                

 

mjc1016

For Iray (and reallly 3DL, too) you can ditch that 'eye reflection' map and have something off camera...like a simple white plane with Iray Uber applied to it and angled to reflect some light back toward the figure...or 'draw dome:ON'...or 'something'. 

lucartl

mjc1016 said:

"For Iray (and reallly 3DL, too) you can ditch that 'eye reflection' map and have something off camera...like a simple white plane with Iray Uber applied to it and angled to reflect some light back toward the figure...or 'draw dome:ON'...or 'something'."

 Ok, thanks. I have found a set of eyes textures that is actually showing a little more of sclera under the right lighting. So, I'm happy with that. And this set of eyes is all in Iray, but they have coosed to use a water thin shader non iray, but it works. Let see what I can come up with. Thanks everybody for the help.