# Skin Fix

Character Creator outfits don't always sit perfectly on every body, so you'll sometimes see a sleeve, collar, or boot poking through the skin. **Skin Fix** gives you a small, editable workspace to nudge the mesh and clean those intersections up before the character is skinned, so the fix carries all the way through to the animated, rendered result.

It's built for **quick body and clothing fixes**, not full mesh sculpting — you move points, you don't change the mesh.

The **Skin-Fix** folder is on the Reallusion Rigger node, in the **Character** tab — not on the lookdev controller.

![](../static/skinfix_folder.png)

## How it works

Press **Create Skin-Fix Setup** and the asset builds a small container node (muted gold) just to the left of the Rigger node. Inside, the character's rest mesh splits into two streams for you:

* the **editable skin** — the polygons you actually fix, wired through a green **Sculpt** node and a green **Soft Edit** node, ready to use;
* the **blendshape data** — packed primitives carrying the character's facial morph targets, routed around your edits and merged back automatically.

You only ever touch the **green** nodes. The red nodes are the plumbing that separates and rejoins the blendshape data — leave them alone.

## Using it

* Press **Create Skin-Fix Setup**. (Pressing it again just jumps you back to the subnetwork.)
* Double-click into the gold container and select the green **Sculpt** node. Brush the surface to push the body in (or a garment out) where they intersect. The **Soft Edit** node is there too, for grabbing a cluster of points with a soft falloff.

![](../static/inside_skinfix.png)

* **Use Skin-Fix Mesh** switches the character onto your edited mesh. Pressing **Create Skin-Fix Setup** turns it on for you; turning it off puts the character back on the original mesh.

That's it — the edit flows downstream through skinning, animation, and rendering.

!!!danger Move points only
Do **not** add, delete, or otherwise change the point count of the mesh — the character depends on fixed topology downstream and will break if it changes. Don't delete or unpack the blendshape data, and don't touch the red plumbing nodes. Stick to the green Sculpt / Soft Edit nodes and just nudge points around.
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!!!info
**Use Skin-Fix Mesh** is safe to toggle at any time. If it's on before you've created a setup, or after you delete one, the character just falls back to the original, unedited mesh — no error.
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!!!success Best for body & clothing
Because the blendshape targets are defined against the original rest shape, edits in areas driven by facial morphs can be partially overridden when those morphs fire. For body and clothing intersections — which have no morphs — it works cleanly. For anything beyond quick fixes, do the work back in Character Creator/ZBrush and re-export.
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## With a rig

The rig's skin is built from the Rigger's rest mesh, Skin Fix included. With [**Stash Rig**](rig-settings.md) on (the default), the rig reads a stored copy of that mesh, so a Skin Fix edit — or switching **Use Skin-Fix Mesh** on or off — reaches the rig only when you press **Update Motion Clips** on the rig node, which stores the rig again. With **Stash Rig** off, the rig picks the change up straight away. Neither case needs the rig to be rebuilt.