VaM 1.x Detail Skin and Norm section...

[virtamater]

How would you create an extra layer for the skin section to add nipple textures right on the skin shaders.. Ive made some really large detailed images, created n inspired by CuteSvetlana but they lose all the detail when added to the texture file..The cloth item is nice, but its hard to adjust exact skin colors and Ive been messing around with the actual DazModel and added a lot of subdivisions to the actual Mesh in that area..

How to add the extra subdivisions to the nipples and aerela back to the VaM model..
Or a better skin addon that doesn't have that gap and better alignment.
Or just make a slot to add higher detail images over the skin texture itself..

 

[hazmhox]

You want to add subdivision on the mesh? That's not possible. The whole system works ensuring you keep all the same vertices for being able to use blendshapes ( the morphs ), and thus, you need to have exactly the same topology.

The only way to add subdivision is through tesselation. And in VAM, it can't be localized, either you tesselate the whole mesh, or you don't.

For the texture, the only way you could have new slots, is if you'd write your own shader and use the custom shader loader plugin.

 

[Origin69]

This doesn't help with the geometry, but I have been playing around with decal maker to test some things.

When using a 4k texture, one nipple is only about 125 pixels square.

I just did an experiment to see how big the texture files would be if I isolated just the nipples to upscale them to a stupid size for decal and normal overlays to use with the decal maker plugin. They are actually a surprisingly reasonable file size.
Just the nipples on a blank png decal upscaled to 16k was 2mb, and the 16k normal map (nipples with a plain RED: 128 GREEN: 128 BLUE: 255 background) was just 1.5mb.

As I only scaled up the images for testing, the results were nothing special to look at, but the same principle could give you much more detailed results with good images. At 16k, the nipple area is effectively up to 500x500 pixels each.

 

[virtamater]

oh.. I didnt know you could do that with the decal plugin.. I'll give that a try then and thanks again!

The issue i might have is file size tho.. Ive been using a 100 inch monitor for everything so all my images are super huge.. I'll have to test sizes and those things too.