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Making a DX skin shader About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Making a DX skin shader // Tech Forum 1  2  |   Order by default Post by RAYMAN // Jan 26, 2009, 7:39am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Parva i believe everything you say just my eyes tell me there must be a bug in my puter..... I adjusted the colors on the skin shader and still get orange tint. And with the standard shader I get results miles away from a render. look at the skin tones.... same maps same everything... whats wrong that cant be DX9 ! Peter Post by RAYMAN // Jan 26, 2009, 8:05am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Plus heres the orange tint that i get when I use the skin shader and turn down (desaturate) the colors of the shader. Still orange like H*ll... What am I doing wrong. (for convenience I only use 1 single map this time because I dont want to swatch 25 of them for every bodypart.) Peter Post by parva // Jan 26, 2009, 8:33am parva Total Posts: 822 it's hard to tell with just a picture but I see that the diffuse texture is already very saturate. Another point is that the default workspace lighting doesn't work well with the shader. Lighting and Shading have to work together ;) There are too many bright lights. One or two lights are enough or your model looks really burned :D Here a model made from Heidi. She did the texturing as well. Unfortunatly the shading was too complex for sharedspace so this "result" was skipped. 17912 Tests without diffuse texture to see the effect from the shader. 17913 And another screeny with the skylight 17914 edit: here how the shader looks. Instead of a uniform hemoglobin color I used a texture (the reason why it's black and the Subs tex is shown). Post by RAYMAN // Jan 26, 2009, 8:49am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Parva thanks for the information ! i´m going to try to tune my results now..... Lets see what I come up with Peter Post by RAYMAN // Jan 26, 2009, 9:14am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 I get much better results now but I´m not there yet but i´m on my way thanks. this is what I´ve got so far Peter Edit : Its incredible how strongly a slight change of the initial texture can change the results from this shader... even more the the settings.. Post by kena // Jan 26, 2009, 10:46am kena Total Posts: 2321 Have you also checked the color of your lights? they can also affect the color you see. Post by RAYMAN // Jan 26, 2009, 11:14am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Kena the lights were white that wasnt the problem its the maps a little bit more sturated and it turns the results orange but I know that now.. Its easy to avoid.... Peter Post by kena // Jan 26, 2009, 2:05pm kena Total Posts: 2321 Glad you got it figured out.... Now that you know what it is, you could create different hued people :D Post by v3rd3 // Jan 26, 2009, 2:30pm v3rd3 Total Posts: 388 Terrific, now we can make those little green men I read so much about as a child..... :D Post by RichLevy // Jan 28, 2009, 4:51pm RichLevy Total Posts: 1140 After reading Marcel's post on the lighting, I got rid of all the lighting in my scene than started with new lighting (using his skin shader)... amazing the difference. I am going to put together the texture the next couple of days as free time allows and we'll see what the results bring. Thanks

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