Hook5-Extended smooth and yet sharp/detailed skin

[CpC9]

Hi,

i was lurking through the gallery and came across  Pilgrim55. If you look at his pictures the models skin appears smooth and the image itself (room, everything else) is sharp.

Example: 

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I tried to replicate this effect but could not match it (using different  Hook5-settings, level-definitions and reshade).

Any idea how he did it? He might used PhotoShop and did some edits, although i have seen other images from different people having the same/similar effect.

[HDiddy]

Most likely 4X Skin using tessellation.  The other thing he could be using is a custom High Poly Body. In the end it could simply be he has a high powered graphics card doing a better job with Anti Aliasing.

That said just ask him...

@Pilgrim55 how do you get your images so smoooooth?? LOL

[Pilgrim55]

well, to be fair I DO use Reshade but only for added colors and maybe some sharpness to my shots, other than that its a little DOF magic from hook settings,

and multi layers of norms/spec to help make the skin look more "real" and smooth. Lighting positions in a room also helps significantly, too much or too

little in the right areas can "make or break" a screenshot

[Dheru Zen]

It could be layers. Take a green screen image of just the model with a FOV (and others already mentioned) adjustment to bring out the custom skin detail you want. Then take a room screen image with invisible model to get the sharpness you desire with different settings then combine them.

 

Only Pilgrim55 knows the truth

Edited: Just noticed Pilgrim55 had already responded, sorry for any confusion!

Edited July 31, 2021 by Dheru Zen
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[loki1968]

On 7/4/2021 at 6:49 PM, CpC9 said:

Hi,

i was lurking through the gallery and came across  Pilgrim55. If you look at his pictures the models skin appears smooth and the image itself (room, everything else) is sharp.

Example: 

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I tried to replicate this effect but could not match it (using different  Hook5-settings, level-definitions and reshade).

Any idea how he did it? He might used PhotoShop and did some edits, although i have seen other images from different people having the same/similar effect.

you can also if using Hook 5 customisable skins turn down the normals scale for each body part(base layer) through Hook GUI,makes the skin look smoother