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Forgot to mention, there's a lot of troubleshooting notes in the documents folder of the .zip file, I included everything I could think of to make it easier to use :)

Thank you so much for running those tests. When developing USM I never thought about ghost lights, but it makes sense they would react that way since the lights are not meant to be seen in the render, therefore they don't cast hard reflections which doesn't give the USM materials anything to reflect. Great job :)

FYI, my favorite light kit is "JM Proper Emissive Lights" at DAZ. A little pricey off sale, but it comes with a huge array of actual studio light shapes and tons of color and brightness adjustments. They can even be reshaped on the fly in the parameters tab. I've been using this kit for every render I've done for the last 5-6 years and it's never let me down. :)

JM Proper Emissive Lights are on sale here.

Fine set of lights. I'm having a great time with these. Thanks again for the tip.

Edited by user Saturday, December 16, 2023 4:26:57 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Here you go.

I'm assuming the figure has its male genitals with materials on it.

Give the G9 its USM 2 Pro shell as usual. Give it the material you'd prefer. You can change this later but it requires a repeat of two steps below. Once you'd done this once or twice, it takes less than a minute.

Select the Ultimate Moisture Shell in your scene tab.

Go to the Surface tab.

Select the "Legs" entry in the Surfaces tab. Right-click and left-click on "Copy selected surface(s)".

Now select the offending surfaces you wish to fix. For the G9 Male genital that's "Genesis9MaleGenitalia_Genitalia". For other genital figures, they're easy to find by name just like this one is. Remember that you can apply changes to all selected surfaces at once.

In the Content tab, from the "USM 2 for G9" folder, open the "Shell Toolkit" folder, then the "Graft Helper" folder.

Double-click on the "USM Shader fix For Grafts" entry. This will apply a shader to the selected surface,i.e. our male genital surface, in the "Surfaces" tab.

In the Surfaces tab right-click on the selected offending surface entry, right-click and left-click on "Paste to Selected Surface(s)".


Now it all depends on what kinds of materials you had put on the USM 2 Pro shell. Anything with droplets will need to have its tiling changed, which means that we need to change how large the texture appears on the surface. Right now it will apply the texture to a very small area, and any drops will appear very small.

To fix that, select that offending surface once again if it isn't, and enter "Tiles" in the search bar on the top right of the Surface tab. This will isolate the parameters we'll tinker with, though you can find these parameters without isolating them by scrolling almost to the bottom of the surface parameters and looking around a bit.

I recommend you use "Texture Shaded" view for this. It displays the materials fairly well for drop-related stuff.

For "Horizontal Tiles" and "Vertical Tiles", start by entering values like 0.2. The texture will appear larger. If you need to change the location of where the texture is applied, change the "Horizontal Offset" and "Vertical Offset" values until you like what you see.


If you change materials, you'll need to:
Copy the material from the "Legs" surface of the "Ultimate Moisture Shell" again, and paste it to the offending surfaces. Then you'll need to reapply any necessary tiling and offset changes to the offensing surfaces.

Edited by user Thursday, January 4, 2024 12:37:03 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Originally Posted by: kcam001

Hi. I'm needing a bit of help with the decal system that's setup with the new USM v2. I'm trying to attach the USM as a decal to the double danglers attached to a G9 but no matter what I do it doesn't seem to want to display. I know its probably something I'm doing wrong or something I'm missing and I've tried both wet decal systems from both yourself and kinderedarts and nothing seems to work. Even tried placing the decal material from the surfaces tab as well as applying the decal to a shell and nothing seems to work

For the decals, you only need to attach the decal applicator to the figure itself, all grafts will be covered as long as they're correctly attached to the figure.

If using the shell with grafts that weren't supported at the time of release, there are detailed instructions in the documents folder as well as a few tools in the toolkit to help out :)

Sorry for the delayed reply and glad to hear you figured out what was going wrong, if you have any other questions please shoot me an email, I'm always happy to help :)