Settings in Appearance Editor - Body Hair

There are two more sub-sections in the Pore sub-section.

• Texture Settings: This section contains the Pore Range texture channel which defines the region for having the pore effect. The textures can be edited if you have purchased and installed SkinGen Plugin.
  
• Material: There are numerous settings for the material of the pores.
  
  Color and Opacity

  The Color and Opacity can be used to define the appearance of the pores on the face.

  Color = #502204 Opacity = 1.00	Color = #502204 Opacity = 0.55

  Pore

  The settings in this group are used to define the looks of the pores.

  • Tile: This setting determines the size of the pores by different tiling times.

    Tile = 202	Tile = 100

  • Position Disorder:

    Position Disorder = 0.50	Position Disorder = 1.00

  • Scale Variation: This setting can randomly set different sizes for each pores.

    Scale Variation = 0.50	Scale Variation = 1.00

  • Blur:

    Blur = 0.00	Position Disorder = 0.15

  • Expansion:

    Blur = -0.50	Blur = 0.50

  • Expansion Contrast: This settings determines the sharpness for the edges of each pore.

    Expansion Contrast = 0.00	Expansion Contrast = 1.00

  Range

  The settings in the Range group are used to define the mask forming the pores.

  • Blur: This setting smooths or sharpens the edges of the mask.

    Blur = 0.00	Blur = 5.00

  • Expansion: This setting scales up or down the region for adding pores.

    Expansion = -1.00	Expansion = 0.50

  Normal

  These two settings raise up or indent the pores; and also the strength for doing so.

  • Invert Check-box:

    Invert = On (default)	Invert = Off

  • Strength:

    Strength = 0.25	Strength = 2.00

  Roughness and Metallic

  There are still three more sub-sections in the Hair sub-section.

  Roughness = 0.50 Metallic = 0.00	Roughness = 0.00 Metallic = 1.00

There are three more sub-sections in the Hair sub-section.

• Texture Settings: This section contains the Hair Pattern and Hair Range texture channels which define the shape of the hair and the region for planting the hair. The textures can be edited if you have purchased and installed the SkinGen Plugin.
  
• Material:
  
  A hair is composed of the primary and secondary colors, illustrated below:
  
  
  Primary Color

  There settings define the color, size and the opacity of each hair.

  • Color:

    Color = #76533C (Light brown)	Color = #39271D (Dark brown)

  • Expansion: Use this setting to determine the thickness of each hair.

    Expansion = 0.00	Expansion = 1.00

  • Opacity:
    

    Opacity = 1.00	Opacity = 0.50

  Secondary Color

  You can layer another color on top of each hair with the settings in this group.
  

  • Color:

    Color = #917056 (Light brown)	Color = #888888 (Gray)

  • Expansion: Use this setting to determine the thickness of each hair.

    Expansion = 0.00	Expansion = 0.60

  • Blur:
    

    Blur = 0.00	Blur = 1.00

  • Strength:
    

    Strength = 1.00	Strength = 0.50

  
  
  Range

  In this group, you can adjust the sharpness of the hair, and also the size of the region to grow hair on the skin.

  • Hair Blur and Hair Sharpen
    

    Hair Blur = 0.00 Hair Sharpen = 0.00	Hair Blur = 0.00	Hair Sharpen = 0.00

  • Range Blur and Range Expansion
    

    Range Blur = 0.00 Range Expansion = -1.00	Range Blur = 1.00 (The edges of the range mask is smoothed more)	Range Expansion = 1.00

  Normal

  You can use the normal settings to adjust the thickness of each hair.

  • Invert Normal: It is not recommended to activate this checkbox because the hair is always above instead of embedded into the skin.
  • Strength and Expansion: Use this setting to adjust the thickness of the hair.

    Strength = 0.25 Expansion = 0.50	Range = 2.00	Range = 0.95

  
  Roughness

  There are two setting to determine the roughness of each hair, Roughness and Roughness Contrast.
  

  Roughness = 0.00 Roughness Contrast = -0.10	Roughness = 0.10 Roughness Contrast = -0.10

  Metallic

  Use this slider to set the reflectivity of the hair.
  

  Metallic = 0.50	Metallic = 1.00

  Micro Normal

  The micro normal settings, Strength, Blur and Expansion can be used to determine the effect of the micro normal (mask) covered on the hair.

  • Strength:

    Strength = 0.00	Strength = 1.00

  • Expansion: This setting can be used to shrink or expand the micro normal mask.

    Expansion = 0.00	Expansion = -0.25

  • Blur: This setting blurs the edges of the micro normal mask.
    

    Blur = 0.00	Blur = 0.15

• Transform: This settings is used to scale up or down the entire hair mask.
  

  Scale = 100.00	Scale = 50.00

Shaving Pattern: This channel can be used to load mask for shaving the hair. The textures can be edited if you have purchased and installed SkinGen Plugin.

Shaving Pattern = None	Shaving Pattern = Custom Mask

• Pore Range: The Shaving Pattern mentioned in the previous section is used to shave the hair. However, the Pore Range setting can also shave the pore with a mask.
  

  Body Hair 1 = Activated Body Hair 2 = Deactivated Body Hair 3 = Deactivated Pore Range = Pore 2 Off or Pore 3 Off	Pore Range = Pore 1 Off or Pore All Off

• Replace: If the Replace settings are activated, then this drop down list can be used to mask out the result with the Shaving Pattern texture.
  

  Replace = Off	Replace = On

• Strength:

  Strength = 1.00	Strength = 0.70

• Blur:

  Blur = 0.00	Blur = 1.00

• Expansion:

  Strength = 1.00	Strength = -2.00

Replace Type and Replace Range: Choose the Custom item from the Replace Type drop-down list and load a custom texture into the Replace Range channel to determine the region on the original skin to be replaced. The textures can be edited if you have purchased and installed SkinGen Plugin.

Replace Range = Default	Replace Range = Custom

The settings in this section are used to define the skin material for replacing the original one in the masked region. However, you must choose Default in the previous section to activate the settings in this section.

• Color: Set the Brightness, Hue, Saturation and Opacity for the replacing color.

  Color = #EF9774 (Bright orange) Brightness = 0.00	Color = #4C6A5D (Olive Green) Brightness = -0.50

• Range: Adjust the Replace Range mask.

  Expansion = 0.00 Blur = 0.00	Expansion = 0.70	Blur = 30.00

• Normal Strength:

  Normal Strength = 0.00	Normal Strength = 0.70

• Roughness and Metallic:

  Roughness = 0.50 Metallic = 0.00	Roughness = 0.30 Metallic = 0.50

The settings in the Noise section can be used to add noise to the region masked by the Replace Range texture.

Transform

This section contains a setting for scaling up or down the size of the noises. As for the material of the noises, refer to the next section for more information.

Scale = 50.00	Scale = 10.00

Material

The settings in the Material section can be used to change the color, tone, roughness or metallic for the noises.

• Color: The Color group contains settings for changing the color, brightness, hue, saturation and opacity of the noise color.

  Color = #D58E71 (Orange) Brightness = -0.10 Opacity = 0.70	Color = #211000 Brightness = -0.10 Opacity = 0.50

• Blur: This setting blurs out the noise.

  Blur = 0.10	Blur = 2.00

• Normal Strength:

  Normal Strength = 1.00	Normal Strength = 0.70

• Roughness:

  Roughness = 0.50	Roughness = 0.15