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@3feetwolf - thanks!

@BrotherHades - No worries with how you came across, but the issue only appears after adding the HD Nipples, prior to that it's not there. No other settings are touched.

Yes I can work around it with lighting and/or post work in a 2D graphics program... but that's extra work I'd rather not have to do for every render. My current work around is to leave them as stock and not add HD Nipples to them, which is a shame as I like the look of 3feetwolf's HD Nipples much better than the stock ones.

Originally Posted by: lurkb

@3feetwolf

From a fresh start of Daz 4.21:

Genesis 9 - Characters - double click and load either of the mentioned.

Select them, do the three step process for the HD Nipples leaving everything as default.

Zoom in a little and it shows up in the top part of the chest above the armpit level in NVIDIA Iray view mode or render.

Note, I'm also using New Gen for G9 and it's working perfectly and not showing any issues on the same characters.

Hi, I've tested IST Elilandra and found that her material setup is a bit peculiar, which may be causing compatibility issues with HD Nipples. 
The following two steps will allow you to manually fix this issue in your DS. 
1. Go to 'Runtime > textures > 3feetwolf > HDNipplesforGenesis9 > Textures > Ist elilandra > IST Elilandra Body > Backup' to find IST Elilandra Body AO.png, then copy and paste this image to the upper level folder, 'IST Elilandra Body'. 
2. Open DS, load IST Elilandra, and apply HD Nipples to this character. Next, select HD Nipples in the Scene panel, go to the Surfaces panel, and select 'Breast L' and 'Breast R' of HD Nipples at the same time. Find 'Specular Lobe 1 Roughness' in the parameter list on the right, and set the texture of this parameter to None. 
Render again and the problem should have disappeared. 
I haven't had time to test another character yet (maybe tomorrow), you can try using the above steps on her if you have time and see if they work. 

Originally Posted by: jimbojones

I tried using HD Nipple on MSO Christina G9 also MSO Danielle G9 along with Golden Palace G9. First I added golden palace and copy material. Then I added HD Nipple by going through the steps by step 3 applying it. Usually it works by that point and matches the figure but the base turns gray with MSO figures. The whole chest area. If I click 04 up date the materials, when I render it, the base color is just pink - white overall doesn't match.. when I look at it in the surface tab shows white color? I checked any shells and didn't see anything that needed a fix. I haven't had this issue with other figures. Is it because the mso skin mat's uber and pbr ? I can't update the base color in surface because the textures don't match.

Hi, please try the following method: 
Select the geo shell node of GP in the Scene pane, then go to the Parameters pane, select this shell node. Find the parameters related to HD Nipples in the parameter list on the right, HD Nipples for Genesis 9_1737_Breast L, HD Nipples for Genesis 9_1737_Breast R , HD Nipples for Genesis 9_1737_Chest, set their visibility to Off. This should be able to resolve the problem. 

Originally Posted by: 3feetwolf

Originally Posted by: jimbojones

I tried using HD Nipple on MSO Christina G9 also MSO Danielle G9 along with Golden Palace G9. First I added golden palace and copy material. Then I added HD Nipple by going through the steps by step 3 applying it. Usually it works by that point and matches the figure but the base turns gray with MSO figures. The whole chest area. If I click 04 up date the materials, when I render it, the base color is just pink - white overall doesn't match.. when I look at it in the surface tab shows white color? I checked any shells and didn't see anything that needed a fix. I haven't had this issue with other figures. Is it because the mso skin mat's uber and pbr ? I can't update the base color in surface because the textures don't match.

Hi, please try the following method: 
Select the geo shell node of GP in the Scene pane, then go to the Parameters pane, select this shell node. Find the parameters related to HD Nipples in the parameter list on the right, HD Nipples for Genesis 9_1737_Breast L, HD Nipples for Genesis 9_1737_Breast R , HD Nipples for Genesis 9_1737_Chest, set their visibility to Off. This should be able to resolve the problem. 

Thank you for the suggestions. It still had the gray shade on the base when i turned off the those 3 in the parameters list. So I deleted the GP in the scene and the HD Nipples loaded. I had to go back to the figure and run the base mats again for the figure. Then loaded HD Nipple first instead of GP. I only had to start at step 2 with HD Nipple since it already had the preprocess loaded. Then loaded GP and geo shells. The shell fix then worked to clear any coloration. It seems when I loaded with GP first then HD I was getting the problem..