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G8 glow

starkadhstarkadh Posts: 52
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Hi to everyone.

Why every model of G8M I have, some G8F and some location seems to have an heavy glow all around? How can I remove this effect?
Renders looks like when I take a picture with my smartphone with the lens all dirty!

It's a light thing or - as I suspect - a shader thing? I think I have to change something in the skin surface, but I don't understand what...

P.S. why, with regular hdri light and default settings the face is different from the body?

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 23,939

    The face seems to have different settings applied than the torso settings.  The character should not load like this (with different settings on face and body). Have you applied any materials or shaders after loading the character?

  • starkadhstarkadh Posts: 52
    edited November 2017
    barbult said:

    The face seems to have different settings applied than the torso settings.  The character should not load like this (with different settings on face and body). Have you applied any materials or shaders after loading the character?

    I tried, but it doesn't work :(
    And for the glow?

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 23,939

    I think first we have to figure out why you are getting a two-toned figure. That is just not right. That might be caused be incorrect materials or shaders causing what you see as glow. You might also have a mismatch of materials for the render engine (like 3Delight materials rendered in Iray or vice versa).

    1. What characters are loading with the different colors on face and back of head for you? If I have the character, I can try it.
    2. What lights are you using. if any?
    3. Are you rendering in Iray or 3Delight or something else? 
    4. What are your render settings? Sun-Sky or HDRI or scene only,etc. What is your tone mapping EV?
  • starkadhstarkadh Posts: 52
    edited November 2017

     

    barbult said:
    1. What characters are loading with the different colors on face and back of head for you? If I have the character, I can try it.
    2. What lights are you using. if any?
    3. Are you rendering in Iray or 3Delight or something else? 
    4. What are your render settings? Sun-Sky or HDRI or scene only,etc. What is your tone mapping EV?

     

    Ok... I made another pic, so I can show you. As you can see the effect is pretty visible on the ear, but it depend from the shot.
     

    1. the model is Zander, for G8M. I have Quinton and Michael 8 too, but Zander is the one with whom the effect is more evident and I had loaded it with his own skin, both for the body and the face.
    2. I didn't use a light for this example.
    3. I used Iray, as often I do (poor my GPU...)
    4. Render setting, in this example are all settled on default, Dome+scene light and with camera headlamp off. For the light I used the default HDRI, but with the sun the glow effect is much more evident.

      I think it is a shader setting that makes the glow effect: with G3M I hadn't any problem like this. It's good to have a bright skin, but these g8m guys reflect light as a snowdrift!

      as an alternative, is there a way to convert g3m's skin into g8m?
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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,018
    edited November 2017

    Can you post a screen shot of the beginnings of the face and the head surface setting? Just to make sure that you have Iray used in both.

    And you can use G3 skin on G8 without conversion.

    EDIT: You are rendering using DS 4.10?

    EDIT 2: I can recreate the effect when I try to render Zander in DS 4.8. I don't have DS 4.9, but the effects doesn't happen in DS 4.10 BETA, so it shouldn't happen in the current version DS 4.10.

    I assume that the skin settings are not compatible downwards due to the new dual lobe surface settings they introduced, and that all or most of the G8 character will suffer from this problem.

    Post edited by BeeMKay on
  • starkadhstarkadh Posts: 52
    edited November 2017
    BeeMKay said:

    Can you post a screen shot of the beginnings of the face and the head surface setting? Just to make sure that you have Iray used in both.

    And you can use G3 skin on G8 without conversion.

    EDIT: You are rendering using DS 4.10?

    EDIT 2: I can recreate the effect when I try to render Zander in DS 4.8. I don't have DS 4.9, but the effects doesn't happen in DS 4.10 BETA, so it shouldn't happen in the current version DS 4.10.

    I assume that the skin settings are not compatible downwards due to the new dual lobe surface settings they introduced, and that all or most of the G8 character will suffer from this problem.

    I have Daz 4.9.1.30 pro... I don't know how uploading to the version 4.10
    And if I can use g3's skin on G8 - I didn't know this!!! -  the problem doesn't exist anymore, thank you very much :)

    But just to curiosity i post the pics you asked, because this thing is so strange...

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,018

    Are you using DIM to download content?

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 23,939
    starkadh said:
    BeeMKay said:

    Can you post a screen shot of the beginnings of the face and the head surface setting? Just to make sure that you have Iray used in both.

    And you can use G3 skin on G8 without conversion.

    EDIT: You are rendering using DS 4.10?

    EDIT 2: I can recreate the effect when I try to render Zander in DS 4.8. I don't have DS 4.9, but the effects doesn't happen in DS 4.10 BETA, so it shouldn't happen in the current version DS 4.10.

    I assume that the skin settings are not compatible downwards due to the new dual lobe surface settings they introduced, and that all or most of the G8 character will suffer from this problem.

    I have Daz 4.9.1.30 pro... I don't know how uploading to the version 4.10
    And if I can use g3's skin on G8 - I didn't know this!!! -  the problem doesn't exist anymore, thank you very much :)

    But just to curiosity i post the pics you asked, because this thing is so strange...

    According to the change log, I believe Dual Lobe Specular feature was added in 4.9.4.113. That would explain why Zander's settings are not working properly in 4.9.1.30. I am running 4.10, and I do not see any color difference between the face and head and I do not see any glow. I think updating to 4.10 is your best  option to resolve these problems with Zander. I believe the easiest way to update to 4.10 is with the Daz Install Manager (DIM), especially if you have been using that method to install content.

    Here is a 4.10 render of Zander with the default HDR and default render settings, headlamp is turned off.

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  • dracorndracorn Posts: 2,333
    edited November 2017

    I would like to expand on what barbult said about the headlamp.  While this may not specifcally address your glowing issue, it's good to know.

    First of all, my version of Zander in Perspective view with default lighting shows no problem with the surfaces, but it is very bright.  Maybe uninstall and reinstall him?

    If you add a camera you will notice the brightness becomes extreme.  That's because the headlamp and the default lighting is too much. 

    Select your camera and turn the headlamp off.

    Now your whole scene turns black.

    No problem, just press CTRL-L and it lights up your scene without turning the headlamp back on.

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