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Description
This is the bot armor version of APC 15.

Alternate Versions

Mature Content

This effect was achieved through the addition of a geoshell with opacity maps to expose the circuit channels that exist on the main figure. It required adjusting various displacement maps to prevent parts from poking through the geoshell.

There are a few ways to solve the displacement issue:
1) Copy the Displacement Map, Minimum, and Maximum settings onto the Geoshell
2) Set Maximum Displacement on the underlying figure to 0
3) Remove displacement from the underlying figure
4) Adjust Minimum Displacement on the Geoshell to a value greater than the figure's Maximum Displacement

The first option is likely the best unless you want a different look for the shell than the figure. I went with the second option to start with, but later I wanted to redo the maps to add my logo anyways. To accomplish the look I was after, I had to recreate all the displacement maps to have Neutral Grey as the medium displacement value. So once those were created, I used the first option to duplicate the figure displacement for the geoshell.

I was ultimately more impressed with this version than I expected. Compared to the chrome gynoid version, it was far easier to work with the geoshell than mucking about modifying all of the textures and surface settings manually. I can also easily change looks with standard shaders as long as I preserve the opacity maps. This is a far less time-consuming process than the one used for the chrome gynoid and could accomplish the same effect by simply applying a different shader.

Software
Scene Composition: Daz Studio 4.9.3.166
Rendering: Iray in Daz Studio 4.9.3.166
Postwork: Photoshop CS4 (Texture Work, Resize)
All 3D assets licensed through Daz Productions, Inc. unless otherwise noted.

~Raxatech

Description
This is the bot armor version of APC 15.

Alternate Versions

Mature Content

This effect was achieved through the addition of a geoshell with opacity maps to expose the circuit channels that exist on the main figure. It required adjusting various displacement maps to prevent parts from poking through the geoshell.

There are a few ways to solve the displacement issue:
1) Copy the Displacement Map, Minimum, and Maximum settings onto the Geoshell
2) Set Maximum Displacement on the underlying figure to 0
3) Remove displacement from the underlying figure
4) Adjust Minimum Displacement on the Geoshell to a value greater than the figure's Maximum Displacement

The first option is likely the best unless you want a different look for the shell than the figure. I went with the second option to start with, but later I wanted to redo the maps to add my logo anyways. To accomplish the look I was after, I had to recreate all the displacement maps to have Neutral Grey as the medium displacement value. So once those were created, I used the first option to duplicate the figure displacement for the geoshell.

I was ultimately more impressed with this version than I expected. Compared to the chrome gynoid version, it was far easier to work with the geoshell than mucking about modifying all of the textures and surface settings manually. I can also easily change looks with standard shaders as long as I preserve the opacity maps. This is a far less time-consuming process than the one used for the chrome gynoid and could accomplish the same effect by simply applying a different shader.

Software
Scene Composition: Daz Studio 4.9.3.166
Rendering: Iray in Daz Studio 4.9.3.166
Postwork: Photoshop CS4 (Texture Work, Resize)
All 3D assets licensed through Daz Productions, Inc. unless otherwise noted.

~Raxatech