Water to Ink?

Aloreea

I have a character of mine have an ink tattoo. Right now she has an emissive tattoo that I created using the emissive shader and cutout map settng on a geoshell. I need a shader for iray that looks like ink, so is there one out there? or is there anyway I can change the settings of the water iray shader to look like ink?

 

I also attached a render of her emissive tattoo.

 

agent unawares

Wouldn't you get an ink-like shader simply by changing diffuse color to near-black?

Aloreea

agent unawares said:

Wouldn't you get an ink-like shader simply by changing diffuse color to near-black?

No, if I change the diffuse color of the water shader, it would still be translucent and look just like water but with a slightly darker tint.

Thanks for the suggestion though

Linwelly

I'm not sure why you used a water shader when you could have used the emissive, you probabyl had your reasons. When you convert to a different shader and keep the control key pressed a popup will appear where you change from replace to ignore, that will keep the maps in place.  That aside when I use something as a "normal" tatoo I have the image prepared and add it to the right body parts using the Layered image editor. Neat trick there is to put the percentage to 90 or 80 % so it looks really like inside the skin instead of painted on.

AndyS

Hm,

if you only need the color on the skin, you can use the "Diffuse Overlay" as demonstrated here.

https://pre15.deviantart.net/bd2f/th/pre/f/2017/140/2/b/tattoos_by_overlay_by_andysanderson-db9teg8.jpg

Otherwise you may try "Top Coat". Here you can apply glossy effects, too.

scorpio

Aloreea said:

agent unawares said:

Wouldn't you get an ink-like shader simply by changing diffuse color to near-black?

No, if I change the diffuse color of the water shader, it would still be translucent and look just like water but with a slightly darker tint.

Thanks for the suggestion though

If you just turn the emissive channel black on the emisive shader preset  that will remove the light properties from the preset.

If you use the water preset then lowering the refraction setting makes it less transparent.

fastbike1

Why not try any of the paint shaders?

agent unawares

Aloreea said:

agent unawares said:

Wouldn't you get an ink-like shader simply by changing diffuse color to near-black?

No, if I change the diffuse color of the water shader, it would still be translucent and look just like water but with a slightly darker tint.

Thanks for the suggestion though

So kill the transparency. Why are you using a water shader to begin with when ink is opaque?

Aloreea

Linwelly said:

I'm not sure why you used a water shader when you could have used the emissive, you probabyl had your reasons. When you convert to a different shader and keep the control key pressed a popup will appear where you change from replace to ignore, that will keep the maps in place.  That aside when I use something as a "normal" tatoo I have the image prepared and add it to the right body parts using the Layered image editor. Neat trick there is to put the percentage to 90 or 80 % so it looks really like inside the skin instead of painted on.

 

I'm using the water shader because her tattoo is supposed to be wet and have a look like it's running. (almost like water) It's for a story, XD that's why. 

 

Aloreea

scorpio said:

Aloreea said:

agent unawares said:

Wouldn't you get an ink-like shader simply by changing diffuse color to near-black?

No, if I change the diffuse color of the water shader, it would still be translucent and look just like water but with a slightly darker tint.

Thanks for the suggestion though

If you just turn the emissive channel black on the emisive shader preset  that will remove the light properties from the preset.

If you use the water preset then lowering the refraction setting makes it less transparent.

Refraction makes it less transparent? Thanks!  that's exactly what I needed 

Aloreea

agent unawares said:

Aloreea said:

agent unawares said:

Wouldn't you get an ink-like shader simply by changing diffuse color to near-black?

No, if I change the diffuse color of the water shader, it would still be translucent and look just like water but with a slightly darker tint.

Thanks for the suggestion though

So kill the transparency. Why are you using a water shader to begin with when ink is opaque?

I was trying to make the water shader less transparent, but couldn't figure it out. XD

Also her tattoo isn't supposed to be exactly like a normal one. I need it to look like it's flowing sort of like water, but not as transparent.

AllenArt

Adding roughness to refraction will also make the material "cloudier" and  therefore less transparent and more translucent.

Laurie

Aloreea

AllenArt said:

Adding roughness to refraction will also make the material "cloudier" and  therefore less transparent and more translucent.

Laurie

Ok, thanks for the help!

mindsong

I'd like to see what finally happened, and know more about your project (website?/amazon link?).

looks very cool and intriguing!

cheers,

--ms

Aloreea

mindsong said:

I'd like to see what finally happened, and know more about your project (website?/amazon link?).

looks very cool and intriguing!

cheers,

--ms

Really? Ok, I'll post the render as soon as I'm done. 

Aloreea

Well here's the result > https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/419601/

It's acceptable for now, later I'll make it look a litte more water like.

Aloreea

Here's a closeup, I made it look like a somewhat normal tattoo for the moment. Still going to adjust things later

 

Thanks again for the help everyone!

 

agent unawares

Looks great to me.