Does anyone know how to make sweaty skin? I know how to create a glossy sheen on skin (using ambient light values), but I want to be able to show actual droplets and rivulets of sweat (or tears) streaming on the skin - all over the skin, and not just localized in a single area. I want to create an effect akin to what someone's skin looks like coming out of a shower/bath. I've seen tutorials showing how to create single teardrops, but the time it'll take me to draw all over an entire body is prohibitive. Any clues, anyone?

Use Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop. Create the water droplet and save it as a psd or Paint Shop tube, then in in one of the programs open the skin texture, place the water droplets on the skin texture where ever you want them and then save the new texture.

Run up and down a few flights of stairs?

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On a more serious note, to add to what Mystic-Nights said, i would recommend "Real Tears" which could perfectly be adapted as additional sweat drops for closeups if you need...

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I have done this, and furthermore I have done it so that the character can look progressively more sweaty. I was going to make a tutorial on this but I never got round to it. So here is the bare bones. First, let someone else do the hard work. Purchase one of the "wet" skin textures available, like Miss April here or Beach Baby at RDNA. Now, if you want to use that skin texture, you're done. But most likely you want another character to look wet, so you need some way of transferring the droplets from one texture to another. This is quite possible. Load the wet texture into Photoshop or PSP. Desaturate. Now play around with brightness and contrast etc until the water drops stand out in white/grey and everything else is black. Save to a new file. Load the skin texture you want to use. Paste in the droplet image as a new layer. Set the layer mode to Screen, and the white will come through but not the black. Adjust the opacity of the layer to get a heavier/lighter amount of moisture. Save your new "wet" texture as a jpg and use in Poser.

Or if you have the Eyecandy plugin you can add droplets to the texture!

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I think you would find it difficult to get a satisfactory whole-body texture using the Eyecandy droplets. That will not take account of how moisture runs down the body. The vendors who have made good commercial wet-skin textures have taken a lot of care to make sure the whole body effect is realistic. Probably they worked from photos. You will get the best results by taking advantage of that, even if you do have to spend $20. It's worth it.