Karina responded about this in messages, but I'm posting it now so everyone can learn and contribute ... here's the thread so far:

operaguy Wrote:
Hi Karina,
I downloaded Sasha and am very impressed with the morphs and the ease of posing! The morphs for her intimate parts are working fine, but there does not seem to be a texture map. The hip simply has the sasha torso map, with no sexual detail.
Am I doing something wrong?
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Karina Wrote:
Hello opera,
No, you aren't doing anything wrong.
You don't need an extra map because the "sexual detail" is in the geometry.
Just read chapter 8.1 and 8.2 in the SASHA manual. It's all explained there.
I'm sure that once you know SASHA better - you never want to use the original V4 any more.
Happy playtime K

operaguy Wrote:
Hi Karina,
I figured out what you mean by "in the geometry," so okay on that ... now
she wants to have sex with either Sasha-with-male-body, or with M4.
I like your male body morph for Sasha. This is Sasha with your male morph, and an M4 texture called “Bruno.” I'm calling him "Pasha."



"But what about the manly parts?" Sasha says.

Should I go to Renderotica and get detail-textured morphing male function for M4, or do you have a solution that works with Sasha/malebody?
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Karina Wrote:
Hello opera,
Opera, generally you can use almost any male gen with SASHA, no matter what figure it was made for.
Just DON'T CONFORM the gen. Simply parent it to the hip instead and then adjust the gen's "body" actor until it fits.
Texturing is a bit of a problem and you probably have to fiddle with the maps in photoshop until the skin tones match.
Using the same shader node setup as in SASHA's hip texture helps in making a more seamless border:
Delete everything in the gen's shader except for the texture maps, transparency (where applicable), and the bump/displacement and specular maps (if provided).
Then reconnect those to the SASHA shader, replacing the maps in the SASHA shader.
It will be a bit of trial and error, but once you have your first working shader you can always re-use it with other textures.
Hope that helped for now.
-K-

I obtained "TaB" by Erogenesis from Renderotica. [TaB Poser v1.02 Core Pack (SKU# 56191) $16]

It will not "parent" to any part of Sasha/Pasha. You have to conform it. So far, that is working well.

The morphing is spectacular with this product. Everything a guy could want!

Now on to figuring out the texture-matching issues. Karina, I'll take your shader advice posted above, but first I have to fiddle with the skin image file.

::::: Opera :::::

It took two hours to normalize the texture maps, but much of that was learning curve for a subskill new to me.

"That's better," said Sasha.

::::: Opera :::::

Thanks Karina!

M4 textures on Sasha: they don't all work right out of the gate. I had to try on 10 or more, including the original Daz M4 skins (see attached below), before I found this "Bruno" skin in my Runtime. It is old, but there were no seam problems. It is not really advanced enough (compare the quality in the above render to the Lana skin on Sasha), so I am still searching for my Pasha skin, or for what it takes to convert advanced hi-res M4 skin to Sasha.

The only other issue with the Bruno map is: stretches somewhat where his breasts ... are repressed! I used the morph brush tool to help with that.

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Daz M4 maps on Sasha-16 with male morph:

I sent RAMWolf a private message on Renderosity with a link to this thread. He is the vendor of the Bruno character. It is from 2007. If he visits, I/we may get hints and advise how to bring M4 materials onto Sasha-male.

My suspicion is that his Bruno is not an M4-based skin map at all, but a modified V4 set with male texturing.

[RAMWolf, if you see this, please excuse my characterization of Bruno not being up to the resolution (etc) of the Lana Elite Maps. I just now read your ReadMe for Bruno, and I'm going to follow your hints for using the materials.]

:: og ::

Ha ha ha!

I found a "V4Male" bundle in an old Daz Runtime. I bought it in Feb, 2008. Here's my runtime library for the four sets ...



It's still available at Daz.
https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-gw1-4-male-bundle

Of course the maps go right onto Sasha-16. Rendering now ....

:: og ::

Well, he's got chest hair!

These four sets of maps from Daz for V4 with male morph are "okay." Good, not great. Not like the Daz Elite maps.

More and more, I'm thinking of converting one or more of the Daz Elite maps into a male skin, adding hair. I have to open any torso map I use anyway, to match with the TaB gen model.

So, here's the render ...

::::: Opera :::::

I simply use Texture Convertor2 (3d Universe/Daz3D) and convet any M4 textures I have (a bunch!)to V4 and apply them. Works great and any genital maps that came with the original texture set work flawlessly.

Sasha is the BEST!!

Happy rendering!

Well, I am an idiot!!!

I had TC2 bundle, and the M4, A4, V4 plugins already. Bought 'em in 2008.

It works.

This is a render of Sasha-16 with the Daz M4 hi-res maps!

::::: Opera :::::

Awesome! And yeah I noticed the chest thing as well. But overall this I think is the way to go!!

Happy Rendering!

Well, Karina, considering the huge advantages this provided by your double approach -- Sasha and Sasha/male for V4 -- gives me, this small issue is trivial for my purposes.

Thank you for the Sasha-16 project.

::::: Opera :::::