skin shader problem

Technobabel · Jan 2007

I'm a noob at using shaders, so I'm having some trouble with JStyles newest skin shader. Here's an image of the result I'm getting:

The lighting is on the opposite side the light is and is acting wierd in general. It's got all the standard settings, I'm not using a nomral map, just a brown colored diffuse map at the moment. I made sure I'm using Directx9c. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or is it a software problem?

low odor · Jan 2007

Looks like your normals are flipped...put a Normal modifier on the model, then check the unify normals box

Technobabel · Jan 2007

Thanks for the suggestion, but the models normals are correct. That's the first thing I checked when I started having problems. Any other ideas?

arshlevon · Jan 2007

put a map in every slot.
make sure there is a normal map even if it is not the one for the model, just use any one or flood fill a bitmap with r127 g127 b255 blue so it will be flat, for spec just use a black bitmap. i have had problems with other shaders when trying to view them with blank map channels.

Technobabel · Jan 2007

Good call Arsh! That seems to have done the trick:

Now, any idea why I'm getting some slight faceting? It's got a Meshsmooth with 2 iterations on it, and there's no faceting with a normal material applied.

Thanks again Arsh, you rock!

Eric Chadwick · Jan 2007

Try a Turn To Mesh modifier on top of the stack?

Technobabel · Jan 2007

No luck with the Turn to Mesh modifier. Thanks though!

skin shader problem

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