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Your model needs a lot of work.
1) Face taken from an uncropped render.
2) Face taken from in-game cutscene(color corrected to remove the excess green color)
3) Your model's face.
FWIW, if you're playing around with the morphs to find the proper proportions, it might be useful to add an image panel to the scene for comparisons. Also, I'm not sure where you got that texture on the face but it looks... very blotchy.
1) Face taken from an uncropped render.
2) Face taken from in-game cutscene(color corrected to remove the excess green color)
3) Your model's face.
FWIW, if you're playing around with the morphs to find the proper proportions, it might be useful to add an image panel to the scene for comparisons. Also, I'm not sure where you got that texture on the face but it looks... very blotchy.
You clearly put a lot of time into this. I'd like to suggest a few specific things you could improve:
1) Looks like you're starting to try direct face texture editing? If so, I recommend looking into learning FaceGen to help make custom faces (though it really is just a starting point for making bases for custom textures). It's very very difficult to take textures from a photo and directly edit them onto a VAM face texture and have it look good (if that's what you did here).
I strongly support the use of blemishes and textural elements for realism, but this takes them very far; and, she's a pretty youthful and pure-complexioned character to begin with.
2) I wouldn't mess with eyeball morphs! (Unless you really know what you're doing.) If I had to pick one thing to fix in the morph, it's that the eyeballs are stretched vertically - that would turn any human face, however gorgeous, into something at least a bit grotesque!
3) you've got two different hairstyles on top of each other that don't match at all, either with color or texture. It's clever to combine them to get closer to the look you want, but if they don't fit, they don't help!
VAM is overwhelming, and there are a lot of skillsets needed to make a good look. It will be a long journey! But you have a lot of help available; please don't ignore the guides, and if you have any questions about where to start, what to learn first, please don't hesitate to ask.
And lastly, ignore the unhelpful reviews! These critics either have no idea how hard it is, or they've been creating for long enough that they forget how hard it was to start out. Dont' let it get in your way.
1) Looks like you're starting to try direct face texture editing? If so, I recommend looking into learning FaceGen to help make custom faces (though it really is just a starting point for making bases for custom textures). It's very very difficult to take textures from a photo and directly edit them onto a VAM face texture and have it look good (if that's what you did here).
I strongly support the use of blemishes and textural elements for realism, but this takes them very far; and, she's a pretty youthful and pure-complexioned character to begin with.
2) I wouldn't mess with eyeball morphs! (Unless you really know what you're doing.) If I had to pick one thing to fix in the morph, it's that the eyeballs are stretched vertically - that would turn any human face, however gorgeous, into something at least a bit grotesque!
3) you've got two different hairstyles on top of each other that don't match at all, either with color or texture. It's clever to combine them to get closer to the look you want, but if they don't fit, they don't help!
VAM is overwhelming, and there are a lot of skillsets needed to make a good look. It will be a long journey! But you have a lot of help available; please don't ignore the guides, and if you have any questions about where to start, what to learn first, please don't hesitate to ask.
And lastly, ignore the unhelpful reviews! These critics either have no idea how hard it is, or they've been creating for long enough that they forget how hard it was to start out. Dont' let it get in your way.
One useful plugin to shortcut mixing and matching hair is this one:
Hair Color Changer - Plugins -
Customise the Lighting/Colour options on several hair and scalp options at once Transfer Lighting/Colour options from one hair to another Load Lighting/Colour presets from any hair and apply it to another Reset customised options back to the hair...
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For what it's worth, I think maybe you missed a step in the conversion tutorial? I've never actually tried to convert DAZ to VAM myself, but this rather looks like you weren't starting for 0.
I think you are right, something has messed up in the conversion progress. I am still learning to use it properly. I feel the Jessica one actually worked well. I'm going to either A find a better model or B start again on it. Conversion from DAZ to VAM can have seriously mixed results from what I've read from people and from what you can already see with this model.One useful plugin to shortcut mixing and matching hair is this one:
Hair Color Changer - Plugins -
Customise the Lighting/Colour options on several hair and scalp options at once Transfer Lighting/Colour options from one hair to another Load Lighting/Colour presets from any hair and apply it to another Reset customised options back to the hair...
For what it's worth, I think maybe you missed a step in the conversion tutorial? I've never actually tried to convert DAZ to VAM myself, but this rather looks like you weren't starting for 0.
