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Diffuse and Spectral Colouring

Thrasher1970Thrasher1970 Posts: 34
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

I'm working on a character who has white skin on her left side and black skin on her right side. Just wondering if there is any possible way to set diffuse and spectral settings based on sides rather than a whole area.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    Thrasher1970 said:
    I'm working on a character who has white skin on her left side and black skin on her right side. Just wondering if there is any possible way to set diffuse and spectral settings based on sides rather than a whole area.


    Short of creating new surface zones, no...

    You can assign geometry to a new surface using the Geometry Editor tool.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,730
    edited December 1969

    Depending on render engine and shader you might be able to use a mask to control the shader, or in any engine and shader combo you could use a mask in the Layered Image Editor to combine two textures for each channel you want to vary (you might want to affect the SSS too, since in humans darker skins block more light). Are you going Star Trekking?

  • Thrasher1970Thrasher1970 Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    I'm in way over my head. Typically, I use Luxrender, though have been playing with Iray. I see I'm way in over my head, could either of you please give a direction to look. I'm not sure what you mean by going Star Trekking. I'm working on one of several descriptions of Hel from Norse Mythology.

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  • Thrasher1970Thrasher1970 Posts: 34
    edited December 1969

    I've started playing with the geometry editor. I can create a new surface (i.e. Black Chest), but is SkinTorso going to override the settings? I prefer to render using Reality, but the new surface does not transfer over. Any ideas?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,730
    edited December 1969

    New surfaces should transfer, since they are part of the geometry. You do however need to be careful to split existing surfaces, the head and body and limbs still need their own surfaces as before for each half as they take different maps (assuming you are using maps and not just flat colour).

    The Star Trek comment was because I thought perhaps you were creating the look of a pair of aliens from the original series.

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