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Makeup for the Makeupless

ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
edited December 1969 in New Users

So you have a character with morphs and a skin, but no "makeup"/material options..

How would you add them? Using other characters' would but they're skin over the original figure, no?

Changing diffuse color settings seems imprecise.

Would you make your own, altering the original skins in like photoshop?

Are there..makeup packs?

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    There are makeup packs around. I have this one http://www.daz3d.com/artmakeover-merchant-resource-for-v4-and-genesis but there are others

  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
    edited December 1969

    That appears to be the Photoshop option I mentioned above...is there someway inside DS to do things, or is it the things I said above?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,770
    edited November 2014

    You can use the Layered Image Editor to do the combinations instead of PS, as long as you make a separate mask image (white fading to black for the makeup, black where there's no makeup). That set does have pngs as well as the combined .psd files.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited November 2014

    The set I linked to is set up to be able to use the Layered image editor in DS.


    The set includes .PSD files in separate formats for Photoshop Elements and Creative Suite in addition to a complete set of .PNG files for use in the Layered Image Editor and 2D Art Programs!
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  • ScavengerScavenger Posts: 2,674
    edited December 1969

    I'm not trying to be obtuse, but it sounds like the answer to my question is "No, there actually isn't a way to simply do it. You need to create new material files, including bump and opacity maps using Photoshop."


    (If the repeated mentions above about Layered Image Editor are to fulfill the "within Daz" part of my question, that really should never be an answer. The impression I've gotten on LIE from the forum it's an attempt to have a photoshop like thing in the program, but it's not very good, and has no advantage over photoshop other than "it's within". Does it do something like auto generate the needed maps?)

  • KhoryKhory Posts: 3,854
    edited December 1969

    (If the repeated mentions above about Layered Image Editor are to fulfill the “within Daz” part of my question, that really should never be an answer. The impression I’ve gotten on LIE from the forum it’s an attempt to have a photoshop like thing in the program, but it’s not very good, and has no advantage over photoshop other than “it’s within”. Does it do something like auto generate the needed maps?)

    Then you have been given a false impression. LIE is a super simply way to layer over any map in studio. So yes.. it is withing studio and it is easy so it is the perfect solution to overlay makeup on already existing characters without using a program like photoshop or PSP. Now if your issue is that you don't want to create or locate makeup to use then that is a whole different ball of wax. Your not going to be able to steal the makeup off of one face to use on another with any sort of ease even if your a master in photoshop. There are products and freebies out there that are just the makeup that can go over the texture but that is pretty much the only realistic way to do it. Either adding them in LIE and fine tuning it there or in a graphics program and then saving the combined files as a new texture.

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