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speed sculpt - alien bust

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#41

THanks guys!

piz - thanks for the comments! glad i could help.

smeagol - thanks man! glad you like! the blue texture map i have assigned into the secondary specular attribute in the MiSSS shader, it controls the tight, controled specular ie. lips, eyes, ears etc.

MikePoretti - thanks! i will try post a bigger one soon, its a rather big network to try take a screen of.

alancamara - glad you like! thanks!

nightwoodwolf - cheers mate!

vexona - thanks to you too!! it is amazing how complex skin is!

also thanks to the pixologic crew for making such an amazing piece of software!! as a full time artist! i could not ask for a better tool :slight_smile:

#42

MikePoretti - here’s a bigger image of the shading network.

i’ve decided to make this more of a finished image, and have started building armor for him… will hopefully be able to post more updates soonish, im having to move… got a job at weta starting this week!! :slight_smile: so i hope to have a little spare time soon.

oh yea… and for some reason, my mental ray isn’t previewing the shader right?? so thats why its black… not from mapping :slight_smile:

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#43

wow, very good, the skin is looking great!!!
let me ask u this…I am trying to do the same setting with my model but when I connect the displacement map, everything gets to a dark brow color…before the dispacement the maps had a great color when rendering but after I connect the displace, everything gets brow(the displace works thou)…maybe I am connecting in the wrong place…in sss shading is right? but where in it? when I use a blin everything looks good…thank u…

#44

you should connect your displacement utility into the shading group, there is a node called displacement shader… you can drop and drag it in there. hope that helps? otherwise im not too sure why it would be turning that color :slight_smile:

#45

hi Baker, thanks a lot for answering…I was connecting the displace map to
“displacement mat”, but when I connect in mental ray displace shader nothing happens and I get this: "misss_fast_skin_maya1SG: invalid connection to mental ray material slot: displacementShader2, use regular Maya slots for Maya nodes "!!! I am using the displace shader from maya, isnt that right? oh sorry, this is not the place for this but I am getting nuts with this, thanks

#46

i can only reccomend watching this video by scott spencer… thats the way i go about setting it up… just play around with your displacement approximation settings to speed up render time :slight_smile:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=25540

#47

thanks, but Scott never uses the fast skin shader in his videos. Everything works fine with a blinn shader. But I dont know how to use the displace with fast skin. You said that u connect to displace shader in fast skin shader, but when I do that I get that error that I wrote you. the only that thing works is when I connect to displace mat up above, but I get funny colors. Sorry, I just took the time to ask u this because u are getting wonderful results with displace and fast skin…

#48

Amazing. It looks real almost! What program do you use to set up the shading network?

#49

Looks amazing with the SSS

#50

Man I love this alien - the renders look great btw : )
Great stuff!
S

#51

Did yo get all that detail with just a displacement map, or are you using a bump as well? I 've tried that also, but I’ve found that a normal map works a little better than a bump.

#52

savagliani - sorry i can’t be of more help my friend… :frowning:
seb casthilo - thanks man! the network was done in maya for mental ray.
jesse graffam - thanks man! glad you like! i used a displacement and a bump… i origonally set this up in maya 7 where rendering normals wasn’t as good as 8.5… but im happy with the bump results :slight_smile:

Scott! - glad you like man! love the halloween sculpt! look forward to having you down this way in november!