How can I do a better render after export with mcjTeleBlender

sioc

hi,

First, thanks to Casual for the amazing script see http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/2877.

Secondly, i'd like some help below the same scene exported and rendered with Cycles under blender v2.71 and rendered with 3Delight.

How could I adjust the scene under blender so the skin will look less plastic ?

Thanks

mCasual

sioc said:

hi,

First, thanks to Casual for the amazing script see http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/2877.

Secondly, i'd like some help below the same scene exported and rendered with Cycles under blender v2.71 and rendered with 3Delight.

How could I adjust the scene under blender so the skin will look less plastic ?

Thanks

--- If you're in Daz Studio's Surfaces tab, , the brighness/lighness of the color applied to the Specular channel of the surface will decide how glossy it will be in Blender (and in Daz Studio )

also in Daz Studio, in the mcjTeleblender script itself, there's two settings named "gloss factor" and "roughness"
the values 0.05 and 0.3 work well for me, i think the default values are set too high

once you're in Blender you can select your figure using a right mouse click
then click on the little button that brings up the material editor
then in the list of materials, select a skin material

by changing the darkness/lighness for color of the BSDF Glossy section of this material you can control the strength
if the BSDF Glossy of the skin material type is set to "Sharp" the surface will be like a mirror, "Beckman" is more appropriate for skin
the roughness setting also influences the type of glossiness

sioc

I used your settings named “gloss factor” and “roughness”to values 0.05 and 0.3 and I replaced the Glossy Shader by a Subsurface Scattering, below the result, it's also interesting.

I have also to find why the bump maps didn't applied on the clothes and surely everywhere...

mCasual

sioc said:

I used your settings named “gloss factor” and “roughness”to values 0.05 and 0.3 and I replaced the Glossy Shader by a Subsurface Scattering, below the result, it's also interesting.

I have also to find why the bump maps didn't applied on the clothes and surely everywhere...

if the bump map succesfully reached Blender, there will be a "Displacement" section for that material
and adjusting the strength is very important
in the case here i had to increase it to 6 to get good wool bumps

sioc

Damn it it is a normal map... apparently not the same place / settings

mCasual

sioc said:

Damn it it is a normal map... apparently not the same place / settings

i almost never used normal maps so i overlooked this sorry

next teleblender update ( very soon ! ) will include normal maps

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to do it manually you have to add a Normal node to the BSDF-Diffuse "Normal" parameter

then you must add a "Texture Image" to the normal Map's "color" parameter

Note that i had to UV-map the default blender cube before doing my test else the cube came out black, but Daz Sctudio objects will have a good UV map to start with

mCasual

if the normal gives the inverse of the expected displacements ( holes instead of hills )

then one must add separateRGB/combineRGB nodes to invert the map

( i found the recipe here:

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?325149-Negative-Normal-in-Cycles&p=2564667&viewfull=1#post2564667 )

In the next version of mcjTeleblender, this will all be taken care of by mcjTeleblender / mcjBlendBot

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fig 2 shows a plane with a sand-dunes normal map

and a HDR World Environment sky using an equirectangular map from sibl archive

http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

sioc

Yes!! that worked! see below.

Thanks a lot.

Blender is a nice software.

andycrawford2003_0feb96262c

That seems to have worked for me as well thank !