I need help creating a humanoid species

TomViola

I write and illustrate graphic novels. I have three currently available at Amazon.com, as paperbacks and as Kindle books. I am working on my fourth. In my work-in-progress, I have a situation where a race of people have been living underground for more than 300 years. I would expect that the people in such a race would have larger than normal eyes (I can handle that with morphs) to accommodate the darkness. They would also have ashy colored, perhaps even lighter, skin-tone since they would not have access to sunlight. Any ideas on creating such skin tone? I would need to have this workable for Michael, Victoria (any generation) and The Kids.

The plot of the story has them living in fear of what is outside their cave. So they do not venture out in the daylight. They have an underground source of water. While forbidden by the elders, occasionally, some brave ones venture out at night in search of food, and other commodities rare to their community, ie, cloth, tools, etc. Their stealth at night has kept them hidden from those who live in the daylight.

TomViola

"Tribal Evolution" for V4 seems to fit the bill. But, while workable, still only solves one-third of my need. I would need a similar look for Michael and The Kids or Teens. While I say "any generation" I would prefer not to have to work in Genesis yet. I am a bit slow in learning adequate proficencies in DAZ 4.5. I am still using 3.2 until I improve my knowledge navigating 4.5.

Szark

Can't you take the texture maps in to Photoshop/GIMP and adjust the skin tone, making it lighter. Or you could try fiddling with the Diffuse colour in Daz Studio itself. You could add Uber Surface (which comes with Daz Studio) and try playing with SSS and Transluceny and adjusting the diffuse colour. There are a few Pale skin sets on Rendo I believe, sorry can't provide links.

Szark

I will add using Genesis will allow to to use M4, V4 and K4 mats on the same mesh.

Szark

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/18417/ are also talking about pale skin

mjc1016

There's many goth/vampire skins in the various stores that should work for what you want...

In the DAZ store for K4 this is probably the closest you'll get...

http://www.daz3d.com/people/children/rm-esmeray-gothic

TomViola

Thank you all for your time and suggestions. They were a big help.

RawArt

I had some characters specifically designed for like that many years ago, but they were so old I had to retire them.
I do have a character coming in april where the texture would probably be perfect for you. But short of that you can also look at these:

http://www.daz3d.com/the-blood-beast
http://www.daz3d.com/the-slim-man
http://www.daz3d.com/dusk
http://www.daz3d.com/princess-ali
http://www.daz3d.com/prince-albane
http://www.daz3d.com/v4-tribal-evolution
http://www.daz3d.com/brute-aberration

Plus my store is currently on sale..if that helps

Rawn

Kattey

You can use V4 skins on M4 and Kids
To use V4 skins with M4 you'd need either Mina for M4
(http://www.daz3d.com/m4-enhanced-mina-for-m4)
(http://www.daz3d.com/vittorio-4-2 is for V4 using M4 mapping)

or some manual remapping (load M4, open Surface tab, select all surfaces, click on top left small rectangular, select Load UVs, navigate to where V4 obj is (usually Runtime\Geometries\DAZPeople\bilMilWom_v4b.obj), select that obj and name the set something like "V4 UVs set" once transfer is done. If loaded V4 texture switches mapping back to M4 mapping, again, just select all surfaces and use "UV set" selector on the bottom of the Surface tab.
This way you can use V4 textures on M4 (or M4 textures on V4) without much problem.

I did a remapped version for Kids4
http://www.sharecg.com/v/40857/view/11/Poser/Kids-4-M4V4Textures-Remap
because DS3 had some problems with automatic procedure above

GhostofMacbeth

Pale and ashy for Genesis might include http://www.daz3d.com/creatures-goblin-horde-genesis

Tercel

What about the tones from this package over your existing textures?

http://www.daz3d.com/you-choose-2