I need some good leather shaders.

The ones I currently use [because they're free] don't have any texture, bump or displacement maps. I also think they're too shiny. I'd really like a set that includes polished and unpolished, new and creased, rawhide, etc., etc.

Recent significant developments in the digital realm!

In no particular order:

• Underwear. Using Daz' Map Transfer Utility, I down-converted my standard texture from V5 to V4, then stuck some of Lululee's Lacey [sic] Lingerie on various parts so my digital dolls are always wearing underwear, especially under short skirts. Happily I have learned that multiple UV sets can coexist on a single figure, thus allowing me to maintain the V5 UVs for Jareth's makeup, for example, but use the V4 UVs to give him some underwear. Thank God...I hate it when they go commando. :p 
• Lighting. I'm slowly figuring out how to light my scenes to give them more realism and sense of dimension. I refuse, however, to do shadows, as they take too damn long. So my people look like they're hovering above the floor, but at least they don't look like paper dolls anymore.
• Finally some good basics. LilFlame, one of my preferred vendors of kinky stuff, is having a 40% off sale at Renderotica, which I am not linking to because I dislike their landing page. I took advantage of it to purchase the cuffs, collar and corset shown below.
• Advances in hair texturing. I figured out how to put stripes and patterns in hair! Mwah hah hah hah!

Just to illustrate my stupendous accomplishments, here's Jareth, being a gleeful dork as usual. ^_^( Read more... )