Thanks for the advice hborre and ghostships much appreciated, it is always fascinating trying to model how light works :) 

you could try this

This was found to be confirmed with the PhysicalSurface node.  I haven't seen this behavior on the PrincipledBdsf node, the primary driver of SSS is the Subsurface channel, the higher the value the more prominent the translucency.  Go too high and you will introduce firefly artifacts.

I'm working on something that might look better than the mat I posted.

OK, what I got uses transmission instead of SSS. This cuts out the glowing effect but still gives some depth to the ivory and keeps it from looking like plastic. I rendered with caustics on and 16 bounces for glossy and transmission. 

still experimenting

I think adding a bit more color to the ivory (more yellow) and then setting the transmission to .5 looks better

P13 PrincipledBsdf node?  It doesn't exist in P12, it has additional channels.

Not using anything that ain't in P12.

Thank you sooooo much, Ghostship2... Wow
Here, I used Sasha's default teeth diffuse map and daz milwom V4AmyTeethB map.

Beside's Ghosthip2 Ivory material, I've found on Rendo's market a Knee collection for Vic4, and Sasha, of course. Something that was missing, IMO.

ghostship2 posted at 1:37 PM Sat, 24 December 2022 - #4452449

@Y-Phil Those look great! Going back to saying that .4 transmission looks better but you can use whatever you think looks best.

Indeed: I prefer 0.4:

Something worth experimenting with.  Thank you GS.

@hborre Welcome!

Just some doodles with La Femme. 

She has... "strong arguments" 

Gorgeous picture

Victoria 4 and a lot of texture fiddling.

Gorgeous

Black and white render of Arya for antonia 1.3

Incredible texturing and detail.

I agree with hborre: that's awesome

I agree with hborre: that's awesome

Thank you, everything is handmade, the eyebrows are cones placed one by one, took ages.

Y-Phil posted at 1:35 AM Fri, 24 February 2023 - #4456765

I agree with hborre: that's awesome

Thank you, everything is handmade, the eyebrows are cones placed one by one, took ages.

Not bad for a 10 years old character, isn't it? 

It's a Sahsa-16 character, with a second layer, anisotropy-based, for the skin, and Ghostship's Hair shader system on Afrodite's Kalla hair 🥰

Not bad for a 10 years old character, isn't it? 

It's a Sahsa-16 character, with a second layer, anisotropy-based, for the skin, and Ghostship's Hair shader system on Afrodite's Kalla hair 🥰

hornet3d posted at 5:48 AM Mon, 13 March 2023 - #4458279

Y-Phil posted at 6:11 PM Sun, 12 March 2023 - #4458242

Not Bad - great looking irrespective of the age of the figure.   

I decided to dust off Sash-16 also after a long absence from rendering and posting.  The character is sporting Cycles Skin shaders built from the ground up.  The hair uses a modified Ghostship's, Hair Shader, with one of Ali's V4 hair models.  The background Japanese Bathhouse was completely retextured with PBR material because the originals were low-resolution diffuse-only images.  I added luminous lighting from a modified HDRI and one Sun infinite light with a Blackbody node attached set at 5600 degrees Kelvin; this constituted a more realistic lighting situation for the scene.  Depth of field was applied to give the scene more interest.

hborre posted at 10:45 AM Wed, 15 March 2023 - #4458507

I decided to dust off Sash-16 also after a long absence from rendering and posting.  The character is sporting Cycles Skin shaders built from the ground up.  The hair uses a modified Ghostship's, Hair Shader, with one of Ali's V4 hair models.  The background Japanese Bathhouse was completely retextured with PBR material because the originals were low-resolution diffuse-only images.  I added luminous lighting from a modified HDRI and one Sun infinite light with a Blackbody node attached set at 5600 degrees Kelvin; this constituted a more realistic lighting situation for the scene.  Depth of field was applied to give the scene more interest.

exzazxe posted at 12:29 PM Sat, 12 November 2022 - #4449023

Liquid_Ice posted at 12:06 PM Sat, 12 November 2022 - #4449022

exzazxe posted at 2:02 PM Wed, 9 November 2022 - #4448809

Anyone knows of any teeth fixes for LF and LH?

What would you like to have changed?

Thanks for responding, I suppose what I should have asked after were teeth or mouth internal morphs rather than 'fixes'. They seem to be very spaced widely apart and the scale transforms don't seem to affect the spaces, I find the tongue very hard to pose. 

I realise that the most likely solution is to export and model them and edit externally but it sure would be handy if someone already did that. 

BTW sorry if interrupted the previous conversation on lighting technique

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