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Sweaty Skin in Poser 7
Where: Poser -> Materials

Author: kfox
Created: 1/5/2010
Last Revision: 1/5/2010
Skill Level: Intermediate
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Kfox Sweaty Skin Tutorial

Posting this for those who requested.

This is all in Poser 7, so adjust for your own set up.
    1. Go into Material Room, select a skin material (I.E. Torso) and disconnect what ever is attached to Specular Color.
    2. Add New Node, 3D Texture, Spots.
    3. Change Base Color to black, Spot Size to .038, Softness to .4, and Threshold to .55
    4. Change the Specular Color to a light grey or blue, Specular Value to 1, Highlight to .03333
    5. Repeat for every skin surface. Don't forget lips and nipples!

    Yeah, tedious, but it's worth it. You can make it easier by copying the Spots Node after step 3 and pasting it into all the following skin materials. That eliminates steps 2 and 3, so all you need to do is connect the pasted node make the adjustments in step 4.
Experiment by fiddling with the values until you get the look you want. Make sure you've got a good strong light source to show off the wetness.

First image is the before sample for the the technique. Second image is the after image. Straight out of Poser 7 with zero post work. Don't want to hear about arm folds etc - this is just to show you the results of the node tweeks!






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Comments

by Killebrew on Jan 18, 2010 9:29:40 pm [homepage]

I love this! It's easy to do, and the renders I've used it on have generated more comments than any of my others. It works perfectly.
by infinity10 on Jan 25, 2010 3:30:48 am [homepage]

Relatively painless instructions. Thanks for sharing !
by Indoda on Jan 25, 2010 10:49:18 am [homepage]

Great job - thank you for sharing!
by already_taken on Jan 26, 2010 9:19:37 pm [homepage]

Thanks Kfox. This is easy as pie and will have me fiddling with the material room for sure.
by Roxam on Jan 26, 2010 11:39:18 pm [homepage]

wonderful of you to share this with us, and thank you extra so very much for the detailed step by step (easy to understand) instructions
by flibbits on Jan 26, 2010 11:56:13 pm [homepage]

This is nice. Thanks. How about hair, is there a way to make hair look sweaty or wet? Can this be toned back a bit, because on some skins (like Hiro 3 mats) it looks more like fully wet as if coming out of a pool.
by kfox on Jan 27, 2010 7:16:42 pm [homepage]

Fibbits - the easiest way to reduce the shine is to change the Specular value. Try making it .5 instead of 1.0 and see if that helps. This works fine on Hiro 3, by the way, even for those characters with nothing but a texture map. Your lights might be causing the excessive highlights. Try moving your brightest light and see if that works better.
by matt1 on Jan 28, 2010 8:15:04 pm [homepage]

This works well in Poser 6 also!! Thanks!
by hrivera on Jan 29, 2010 10:37:17 am [homepage]

Thanks !!
by myaleigh on Jan 30, 2010 4:06:09 pm [homepage]

Awesome tutorial. Glad I saw this! Thanks!
by DemStar on Jan 30, 2010 5:08:05 pm [homepage]

I am fairly new to the Poser world and I have been searching for tutorials on Poser and have found some good ones. It so funny that I was just thinking of buying a plugin for wet skin.

You just saved me some money. Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us.
I will try it out now.

Thanks
by npauling on Feb 7, 2010 7:26:39 pm [homepage]

Wow, this really does make a great difference to the skin. Thank you so much and now I'm off to try it.
by shorterbus on Apr 8, 2010 4:16:04 pm [homepage]

Thanks! Works great!
by Phoenix1966 on Apr 26, 2010 4:46:53 pm [homepage]

Thank you!
by nucks (online now) on May 19, 2010 3:08:40 pm [homepage]

THANK YOU !
This works brilliantly ... now a question...
This looks perfect for sweaty skin, what would you do differently for the more streaky smooth OILY skin (as in sunscreen oily)?
by gemimz28 on Jun 15, 2010 5:22:52 pm [homepage]

So why does it look great BEFORE I render it then it looks like burnt toast? New to this but it sure looks great b4 render...;p
by SpookieLilOne on Jun 24, 2010 6:08:28 pm [homepage]

This tut is awesome on pale pale skin it also makes a nice glimmery look. I can see this coming in handy ALOT!!
Thank you soooo much!
by Fenix11 on Sep 6, 2010 1:31:23 am [homepage]

Thank you!
by Netrunner on Feb 28, 2011 9:36:25 am [homepage]

Very nice and easy. Thank you!
by Grum on May 5, 2011 1:17:31 am [homepage]

Works great as everyone says! However, I after just a wet fingertip, I'm not going into explanations, use your imagination. Although I select just the tip, I see the map for the whole hand comes up, and of course the whole hand looks wet. Anyway of isolating just the tip?
by celticfire on Jan 6, 2012 11:28:50 pm [homepage]

Guh, Poser is so much more detailed and realistic than DAZ, are there any good DAZ tutorials for this same effect?
by remo on Mar 4, 2013 2:50:04 am [homepage]

This is a great tutorial! I have been using it quite a bit. Many thanks!!!

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