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Daz3D Change Skin Color [2022]

This Daz3D Change Skin Color tutorial shows you step by step how to modify your genesis skin color. Default Genesis figures all have pretty similar skin and its color.

If you prefer watching a video see below, or continue reading.

Even most of the figures you can get on the Daz3D Shop have similar skin types. But in reality people are a lot more diverse than that. They have the most different skin colors and details. So How can you represent that in the Daz Studio? How can you make someone look really pale or make them darker? There are ways and we are going to introduce them.

daz change skin color

Daz3D How to Change Skin Color Manually

There are two main ways that you can change the settings of your character’s skin. One is a simpler way and another is more advanced that proposes more variety but harder to utilize.

Simple Skin Color Change

To utilize this method we will need to go to the Skin settings that can be found in the “Editor” of the “Surface” tab.

daz3d simple skin color change

Here we are interested in the “Translucency Weight” settings. By default it is set to the value of 0.5

daz studio translucency weight

Working with this setting is really simple. Higher you set the value – the darker skin will look.

daz darker skin

Translucency Weight set to 0.85

In the similar way – the lower you will set the value – paler your figure will look.

daz3d pale skin

Translucent Weight set to 0.15

So this allows for quite some experimenting. You can easily make your characters look more unique. Though there is a problem that you should have noticed – nails and lips. In both examples they stand out a lot and look out of place.

This can be fixed without really being a problem. All you need is to find the both Nails and Lips settings under the “Surfaces” still in the same window. 

daz studio nails and lips color

And change the value of “Translucency Weight” so it would be similar to the value you set for the skin.

daz change nails color

Easier way is that at the very beginning you could have selected the “Skin-Lips-Nails” option to select them all. This is useful when you want all of them to have exactly the same values.

daz3d skin lips nails

Advanced Skin Color Change

If you go back to the “Skin”/“Skin-Lips-Nails” settings, where we changed the “Translucency Weight” – right beneath it you can find the “Translucency Color” and the “SSS Reflectance Tint”.

daz studio translucency color

They work in combination with the “Translucency Weight”. The higher its value – the closer skin looks to the colors you set. You can see this if you set it to 1.0, the character will definitely have a red tint that is there by default.

Changing these values can change how your character looks. You can make so “Translucency Weight” will not make your character look darker, but something else.

daz studio skin translucency

For example values above change it so it looks more like tan, than dark skin.

daz tan skin

Also this allows for easy creation of outwardly looking characters, such as this:

daz3d change skin color

But you need to be careful with these settings as changing them even slightly can and will change how your character looks by a lot. 

Making Skin Glossy and Reflective

Skin Color is not the only thing that differs one person from another. People have really different skin glossiness and reflectiveness too. Meaning that someone’s skin can be naturally really glossy and vice versa. The default characters skin settings in Daz Studio do not really show that.

To change the look of the skin in this way you will need to find the “Dual Lobe Specular” option and change the “Dual Lobe Specular Weight” there from 0 to something bigger.

daz studio dual lobe specular

Even something as low as 0.2 can change the look of your character dramatically. They will look as glossy as if they are wet.

daz reflective skin

Or if you change the “Dual Lobe Specular Reflectivity” to something lower their skin will become really specular but not reflective. So the feeling of wetness would be gone.

daz3d glossy skin

In the neighbouring “Glossy” settings you can change the reflectivity, roughness and even color of the skin glossiness. 

daz studio skin glossiness

So if I, for example, up the “Dual Lobe Weight” a bit, make glossiness reflective and change
“Glossy Color” to blue – I can achieve a really wet look, like if my character just were in water.

daz wet skin

Daz3D Products to Change Skin

Yes, you can manually change the skin by changing settings like we showed. But there are products on the Daz3D Shop that can and will make your life significantly easier. There is the Ultimate PBRSkin Manager that makes it easy to customize skin color quickly.

Source Ultimate PBRSkin Manager by V3Digitimes

Another example is SF Beautiful Skin Iray Genesis 8 Female by Fuseling & Sickleyield. It is the Iray Shaders presets. They include basic presets to apply the shader and normal maps and detailed presets to apply many tints and shades of skin, whether light or dark or alien.

daz3d sf beautiful skin iray

Source SF Beautiful Skin Iray Genesis 8 Female by Fuseling & Sickleyield

Another similar item is the Altern8 – Skin Shader System for Genesis 8 by 3Diva. It is a Skin Shader system. Meaning that it also includes shader presets. But furthermore you can do a lot of additional settings such as skin translucency strength, eye enhancement, SSS tint and more.

daz3d altern8 skin shader system

Altern8 – Skin Shader System for Genesis 8 by 3Diva

Last but not least is the Skin Builder 8 for Genesis 8 available only for Females by Discobob & Zev0. It is not a Shader Preset it is a full all in one skin creation and skin modification system. Meaning that it allows you to customise skin in a lot of different and better than default ways. For example it can go as far as add tan lines and freckles.

daz studio skin builder 8

Source Skin Builder 8 for Genesis 8 by Discobob & Zev0

Conclusion

There are a lot of different people living in the world and all of them have different skin and now with this Daz3D Change Skin Color tutorial you should be ready to represent all of them. Check out our Daz3D Texture Tutorial: All about Textures, Materials and Shaders to learn about other kinds of textures and shaders and how to customize them. 

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