Multipurpose textures
Mendoman
Posts: 401
Hi, I've been wondering for quite a long time why current textures for clothes and characters are so limited. They look really good in portrait shots, but that's about it. Everything looks nice and shiny, but if you want to use them in comics or anything, you have to make your own shaders. I mean dirty, bloody and wet textures are pretty much non-existent in current products. Very good example for what I hope to see more is http://www.daz3d.com/neo-ayane-for-genesis-3-female-s. It's just amazing in how many situation you could use that outfit, but since my comic is going to be fantasy, I really don't have use for it currently. Other than that, absolutely amazing work. On the other hand, I bought http://www.daz3d.com/mrl-eden-32657 as soon as I saw her skin options....and she doesn't even have gen mats, which usually means no purchase for me ( btw, you PAs lose money if you skip those anatomical elements. I believe I'm not the only one who refuses to buy those products ). For armors and weapons situation is bit better, and shaders kits already have rusty etc. shaders available, but I'd still would like to see that option in original product too.
So I'd like to suggest, that PAs please, give us textures we could use in different situations. In longer adventures characters tend to get dirty and wet, they might get into fights and their armors and weapons wore out, so my characters shouldn't look like they just got out of the shower, did makeup, and bought a new outfit from the local smithy/tailor. This far I have pretty much skipped texture add-ons, but if PA's would start providing some quality addons ( even better if it's included in the original product like in Neo Ayane ) that would add wet, bloody, dirty and torn textures for the clothes ( and pretty please, give me more Eden-like skin options ), at least I would be extremely interested.
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As you said, some vendors do take the time to do these things (there was a skin set for Genesis 2 Female by Aeon-Soul that had scars, I believe), but most don't for whatever reason. I may do this with one of the texture sets I plan to do for the characters I'm working on.
Check out the various products (rag-erator, etc.) within in the Hybrid Grunge Bundles:
Hybrid Grunge Bundle for DAZ Studio: https://www.daz3d.com/hybrid-grunge-bundle-for-daz-studio
Hybrid Grunge Bundle for Poser: https://www.daz3d.com/hybrid-grunge-bundle-for-poser
And A Touch of Dirt for Iray.
And my Fabric Basics for Iray has several dirt overlays that will go on any surface that uses Iray Uber shader.