Need help with Skin Effects: Grease

vonHobo

Skin Effects: Grease for Genesis 9 Female and Male | Daz 3D

I've tried everything with this product, but no matter what I do, it creates a see-thru figure.

I can apply the materials, or the attachments, and then the materials. It doesn't seem to matter. They all create an invisible figure. 

What am I doing wrong???

 

vonHobo

Here is an example.

nonesuch00

Are you rendering in Filament or iRay? 

Richard Haseltine

So you create the Geeomtry Shell, then seelct it, then apply the materials?

franky85

Like Richard said, this looks very much like you are applying the materials to the character directly instead of on the geometry shell.

vonHobo

I applied the Geometry Shell I thought. I will check again.

The shell is what caused the transparency. But there are like 25 wearables, so maybe I'm not applying the correct one to the figure first.

 

vonHobo

nonesuch00 said:

Are you rendering in Filament or iRay? 

Iray 

vonHobo

Here are two more examples. One with a wearable, one without.

As you can see the background objects are showing through.

I've looked through the entire product. I don't see a geoshell item, just wearables and materials.

All the wearables produce transulcent skin.

I'll probably return this product if there is no solution.

 

franky85

Which version of Daz Studio are you using? In 4.23, it works on the first attempt for me on the same character as you, using the first wearable (all of which are geoshells).

//edit: just noticed I applied the female version of the grease on Rupert, but it works with the Male version as well.

 

nemesis10

I believe there is a typo in the instructions:  

what I do is create a geoshell of the figure
add the textures and hair that you would to the figure
apply the attachment to the geoshell and not the figure
apply the appropriate greasy mat to the geoshell

I used the product here:

 

vonHobo

nemesis10 said:

I believe there is a typo in the instructions:  

what I do is create a geoshell of the figure
add the textures and hair that you would to the figure
apply the attachment to the geoshell and not the figure
apply the appropriate greasy mat to the geoshell

I used the product here:

 

Do I need to create my own Geoshell since there isn't one included with the product?

 

vonHobo

franky85 said:

Which version of Daz Studio are you using? In 4.23, it works on the first attempt for me on the same character as you, using the first wearable (all of which are geoshells).

//edit: just noticed I applied the female version of the grease on Rupert, but it works with the Male version as well.

 

Thank you so much! I got it to work.

I had not realized that the "Attachments" are not all geoshells. Only the ones labeled as "layers" are the true geoshells.

It would have helped if the artist had differentiated the attachments into "geoshells" (layers) and materials.

 

maikdecker

vonHobo said:

I'll probably return this product if there is no solution.

As it seems to be a geoshell-based material, you need make a geoshell for the figure you want to use first. Select the G9 figure you want to use it on. Go to the "create"  dropdown menu. Select "create geoshell". And then apply the material to the geoshell that gets created.

As a result, the material will be applied to a geoshell that sits slightly above the figure itself. The figure keeps it's material and the grease effect sits on the geo shell layer slightly above of the figure's skin.