Renderotica

To get a match on Dicktator with that character its going to take more work, you will need to use the Shell Choose Color fuction in the Dicktator material section. You will first slect the human color for the shell that looks closest to what you want then with the geo shell selected double click the color pallette and adjust the color (this will take trial and error) until you get it how you want.

Good luck.

If you have Photoshop or GIMP or something like that, you might try altering the hue of the dick texture to something more green, then loading it manually. Also try playing with the translucency levels in the surface tab, turning it down can make a drastic difference. Dicktator and Futalicious work great on human skin, but you'll need to get creative for anything else. All it takes is time. :)

Originally Posted by: choppski

THe problem is that the shaft and balls will look great, but where the shaft meets the base of the dick (surfaces torso front and torso middle) you can often see a line. part of it is my m4 displacements which I am having to adjust.

Can you post a picture of the problem?

Originally Posted by: c hoppski

I want to use the m8 gens in 3dl.

(...)The good news is that if my figure has textures that are 3dl then the scripts copy that. But the shell is preset for iray. I suppose I could convert that to 3dl first then run the copy scripts?

I'm not sure I understand you... you want to fully convert the M8 shell IRAY preset to 3DL or set a M8 preset of your own using the script? In the second case:

1- load a Dicktator 3dl preset from Dicktator v3/1_3dl v3 folder (it will be used for the anus)

2- From the Texture wizard 2_Genesis UV set/G8M Tools folder load the G8M ghost gen, and a 3Delight M8 texture on it

3- Execute the script. It will copy 3DL M8 textures on all surfaces except in the anus area

If you want to keep to 3DL, the vein displacements will have to be loaded manually from the Runtime\Textures\Meipex\M_Dicktalicious\Genitalia_v3\G8M\Displacement folder.

Originally Posted by: c hoppski

If there is information in the tutorial about what textures affect what, let me know.

If you import M4 or G8M textures they will be applied on the Glans, Shaft, Testicles, Torso Front and Torso Middle surfaces. For the Rectum and Torso_Back, you'll have to use one of my textures from the Genesis or M4 UV sets.

The Torso surfaces is where the blending happens (Back for the Rectum, Middle for the Testicles, Front for the Shaft), you need the trasparency maps there.

Shaft, Testicles and Glans areas are separated in order to allow using different displacement sets and amounts.

Originally Posted by: SnarltheWerewolf

If I can point something out that may help others. If you have the Texture Wizard expansion and you're NOT using displacement maps, you can forgo the shell entirely and just manually load the textures onto Dicktator itself. Or what I do is load up the gen that the material was designed for originally, load the genital material preset onto the original gen, and the copy/paste material settings onto Dicktator's surfaces. You'll have to adjust Dicktator's UV to match the source material's UV. That won't paste correctly.

The "only" thing this will not work with is Meipe's displacement maps, he uses the shell and an opacity map at the hips to get the displacement maps to work only on the genitals and not on the hip where you would see a huge disconnect between the seams of dicktator and the figure. Meipe, you may want to redo those displacement maps so instead of black as the neutral color, it has 50% gray. That would fix that.

But again (and this helped me out immensely) if you don't need Meipe's displacement map, you don't need to use the shell.

I will play with it some more, but I tried loading my m4 textures just to the dicktator. It worked in that the dick portion looked great, but the part that connects to the body and the rectum did not. At least with m4. I imagine for an M8 or m7 it would work fine.

I wonder though, if the issue I was having is that my m4 dick textures have displacements I created, and if I am applying that to the part connecting to the body that likely created the seam.

I also think I was not using texture wizard but the tools under G8m anatomy. I suspect that also might have been an issue.

Originally Posted by: SnarltheWerewolf

there's not enough polys in the shaft to do any type of hand made morphs for veins or other details. Since this product isn't on daz, it cannot have HD morphs. (...)

I would love it if you made a more hi rez version. You don't need the 27K of TAB (though I wouldn't say "no"), but even bumping it up to 10K and putting more polys in the shaft/foreskin/head would give us more room to work on it.

As you know, there is a logic in 3D sculpting (Zbrush, etc): you start with low-poly and define the general shape, then subdivide and add detail, etc. If you skip this workflow and start with high-poly, the general shape is much more difficult to control. I decided to keep to low-poly because I need easy control... not only for the actual content, but for many other morphs I have under cisels now, that would be hard to achieve with an highly-subdivided mesh.

So yes, I rely on displacement now... and I am aware of the limitations, especialy on the foreskin that would deserve more sculpting. I was planning to test a HD version of Dicktator with all morphs of the low-poly DCK transfering to it. As we can't rely on HD morphs, it's quite a hack ( my favourite ;) ), but as I'm not sure of the result I can't promise it for the moment.