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Still pinched for time (story of my life)...but it seems as though, any time I set up even a simple render, I spend a LOT of time trying to squeeze more realism out of skin textures. It varies a lot depending on the light used, but the "magic" formula - at least for me - seems to be setting the Ambient Specular color (thanks ~flyashy ) a bit brighter than default (141/149/151 on this one), and setting the Glossiness strength between 6000-7000, depending on the lighting. The lips texture was obviously set at a higher Glossiness (8634), and required a little Photoshop TLC to smooth out the transition.

This one rendered for about 36 hours on my 3Ghz i7 iMac to get to 1.2k s/p. I've no idea what caused the little colored light orbs, but I wish I did; they're a nice effect. LOL

Many thanks to ~GodinProductions for the utterly beautiful VH Serena character that looks enough like Evangeline Lilly that I was perfectly content having her on my screen for a day and a half. Also thanks to *AlfaSeed for the amazing Desir Hair that I'm extremely self-conscious about overusing.

If anyone has any suggestions for improving the realism on skin textures using DAZ Studio / Reality / LuxRender, by all means share them with me!

Thanks for viewing!

Description
Still pinched for time (story of my life)...but it seems as though, any time I set up even a simple render, I spend a LOT of time trying to squeeze more realism out of skin textures. It varies a lot depending on the light used, but the "magic" formula - at least for me - seems to be setting the Ambient Specular color (thanks ~flyashy ) a bit brighter than default (141/149/151 on this one), and setting the Glossiness strength between 6000-7000, depending on the lighting. The lips texture was obviously set at a higher Glossiness (8634), and required a little Photoshop TLC to smooth out the transition.

This one rendered for about 36 hours on my 3Ghz i7 iMac to get to 1.2k s/p. I've no idea what caused the little colored light orbs, but I wish I did; they're a nice effect. LOL

Many thanks to ~GodinProductions for the utterly beautiful VH Serena character that looks enough like Evangeline Lilly that I was perfectly content having her on my screen for a day and a half. Also thanks to *AlfaSeed for the amazing Desir Hair that I'm extremely self-conscious about overusing.

If anyone has any suggestions for improving the realism on skin textures using DAZ Studio / Reality / LuxRender, by all means share them with me!

Thanks for viewing!