G2 Skins too Dark?

[Spectralis]

I'm using v1.2. When I load certain skins on G2 figures the skins are too dark. I have to go into materials a reduce the RGB skin values which are set to a shade of gray or blue. I haven't seen this happen with Genesis skins. Any idea why the DAZ skins are being translated in this way?

[linvanchene]

I'm using v1.2. When I load certain skins on G2 figures the skins are too dark. I have to go into materials a reduce the RGB skin values which are set to a shade of gray or blue. I haven't seen this happen with Genesis skins. Any idea why the DAZ skins are being translated in this way?

I guess it depends on each and everyones taste how skins should look.
I prefer to simply ignore the colored map adjustment done for 3Delight and start from scratch in OCDS.

- > In the system tab Texture Settings remove the checkmark at " use RGB color" and now all maps are imported at a neutral value.

Texture Settings use RGB color - remove checkmark to ignore 3Delight map color tints

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Or manually alter the power settings to a default neutral white or gray color after importing.

adjust the Power setting to a default neutral white or gray color

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Side note:

Some texture artists are quite creative turning the same merchant resources into different skin tones while keeping the original maps the same.

Recently I discovered that a character advertised with pale skin textures had actually default tan textures that just had brightness and gama adjusted...

So be careful which texture artists you support. Some maps work better with OctaneRender than others...

[Hydra]

The V4 Tanline scripts on Renderosity do two things. One is to multiply (?) an original texture with a tanned color, and mask and merge in the original skin. However all the other skins are are just RGB color multiplied. This can cause confusing skin colors with external rendering engines (at the time, Reality for me).

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/d3d- ... -g4/74808/

In general I find it best to work with raw skin textures. Any coloring is also eating light which you may actually want.

[Spectralis]

Ok, thanks! I'll experiment with these suggestions. I'm planning on changing to REDSPEC shaders once a stable animation release of v2 is available.