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How to make skin a bit more tan?

HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,664
edited March 2019 in New Users

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162

    Change the RGB colours for the skin. Here is a list of different skin tones.

     

    https://izzies.wordpress.com/rgb-values-of-izzies-skintones/

  • HorusRaHorusRa Posts: 1,664
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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162

    Do what I do, try them in each, do a spot render and if it doesn't look right Ctrl z to go back to the previous setting and move to the next parameter.

    Base is the base colour of the skin.

    Subsurface is the colour below the base colour that 'shines through' and changes the tone of the skin colour.

    As it is a tanning effect I wonder if that would be the place to put it as a tan is actually the layer below the surface layer.

     

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    Are you using 3Delight or Iray?There's different approaches for each.

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  • ToborTobor Posts: 2,300

    If using Iray, and assuming you're starting from the Optimized Iray MAT shader, you can play with the Transluscency Weight and Transluscency Color to make skin darker. But beware: the effects are multiplicative, and small changes can make a big difference. 

    There are other ways to do it (some better than others), but as noted above, skin tone comes from the epidermis, which is the layer under the very thin "top coat" that gives skin its gloss or sheen. So avoid putting color into these top-most layers.

    You could also change the Base color to arrive at different shades, but the way I prefer is to load the textures into Photoshop, and apply a consistent layer adjustment. It gives you a little more control over things like saturation, rather than just changing hue. Save the texture set as new files, and you can load them whenever you want a darker skin.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    In iray, you can achieve a tanned look by adding color to the diffuse channel.

    I start out with applying the G2 Iray base shader. For a slight tanned look, try these settings as a base:

    Red 196

    Green 175

    Blue 155

    You can vary from there, getting darker, lighter or slightly different in hue. That depends on your base skin, and the desired degree of tanning.

    Good luck. :-)

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