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Continuing on, I feel compelled to get each of my new free items into Carrara and get them saved to my browser and rendered into a scene and posted in here. Feel free to do that same if you wish ;)
I love The Tower Remains. Very cool little scene builder prop where our heroes can find something of interest. LaurieS was kind enough to offer her Mystic Towers expansion for it in this huge sale. The reason it's called "Towers" is because it has presets for two different plots of land which fit perfectly with two of the Millennium Environment scene setups.
For this, I was tempted to render it in the Painted Valley Millennium Environment scene. It's been years since I've used the ME, and I love the Painted Valley set for it.
Instead, I used one of the presets from my Woodlands kit and adjusted the tree groves around the tower a bit, even scaled the one in the left foreground down quite a bit. It's fun working with this kit for stuff like this.
One of the things I really like, however, is how well the shader presets work on ground bases of things like this. Woodlands Grassy and Forest shaders use tiled image maps. So I opened the ground shader for the Tower and dropped my Grassy Terrain shader onto it's top shader in the texture room. The I lowered the tiling to 2x2 for the grass low shader on all three maps.
Then I copied over the grass low shader from the Forest Terrain shader into the grass high shader of this one, and again, lowered the tiling to 2x2, then copied that whole shader to the Global Shader portion. Worked out really well! I'm working on some illustrates tutorial articles on doing this sort of thing - not just use EnvironKit shaders, but also building our own from scratch. I just mention using the EnvironKit shader set for the simplicity of it.
Since bigh is being so wonderful, keeping the title of the Post Your Renders thread updated for the seasons, I made this for that thread, but also want it in here since I just got the DM's Drake Tower (comes with a bunch of poses for the Dragon 3, including the one used here), the Dragon Trainer's Toolbox, Capsces Shapes, and Dragon 3 Fantasy Poses for Christmas from Daz3d, Danie and Morforno, Capsces, and Design Anvil
Thanks you all!!! Merry Christmas!
Wow. This is going to be a huge undertaking! :)
My whole first page in my Product Library is all Christmas Freebies - and they're all excellent!
Better than possible, it has a pose which opens the book. From that position we can chose either of the two facing pages and animate turning it in many ways! There may even be more than those two... I don't remember. All I need is one. Further turning of pages is simple from there. After all... this is CG!
Each of those individual page in the center have three bones - one closest to the spine, one on the outer edge, and the one in between, making it really neat how varied we can animate this whole turning thing. I think I remember there being mention of a page corner fold morph as well.
Very Cool! Yet another Amazing Present from Daz3d!!! Wow am I ever Merry!!!
I saw that there's a newer book model, but it doesn't look like it has all of this awesome functionality - but it does look cool!
Threw me for a loop when I saw Dorpodon in the list! I've been wanting this creature for a while! I also got some more HOT attire for Rosie G2F. Looks like I may be switching to the newer technology after all! ;) The first one (next to Dorpodon) also works with Genesis 3 Females.
And some fun stuff for Genesis 1 to help populate the world!
I already have Marauders for M4, but Genesis can give this suit a Lot more sizes and shapes ;)
I have a whole lot of SciFi vehicles, so I thought I should grab up these wonderful deals (Free?) on transportation for my Fantasy Folk!
Man, this is Awesome!
...and some scary moments for the heroes as well
This thing is Absolutely Stunning! Ravenheart makes some Really Awesome Stuff!!!
Speaking of Ravenheart, I also grabbed the expansion textures for inside my Marcoor FG Star Ship! ;)
...and earlier I mentioned the other cool Base Camp stuff I got from TheAntFarm. And there's still more to the list of goodies I got for Christmas from Daz3d and Friends!
* since Volume 2 isn't available individually, the cover image for Vol. 2 above leads to the Tech Tiles Twin Pack
Merry Christmas! The Victory is in dry dock in Portsmouth, so you can't sail on her, but you can look around everything. I've done it a couple of times. It's a great day out, they have what is left of the Mary Rose too, Henry VIII's flagship. All the artifacts that they salvaged from the wreck are amazing!
We'd LOVE doing that! :)
Whoa!!! I just got Belle 6 for Free!!! :)
Yes, thanks Daz. I picked up quite a few things in the recent sales and freebies. Both Dart and I liked the Dorpodon. I always said that you had good taste. Several of these I got so that I could take apart and see how they are put together, like Predatron's trees.
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I second that motion. I'm gonna need a bigger 3D element backup hard drive.
I second that motion, too, and hope some are having a white Christmas. Here in Houston, we are not close, 80 F and sunny. But the Texans are in the playoffs ...
WyVern for Free? What an amazing gift!! Enjoy it!
Agreed. He was a cool catch!
I don't know how I went past Predatron's Stone Pines without my grabbing them! Argh!
Full disclosure. The Predatron Stone Pine product was not one of the official giveaways. But Predatron was a featured artist when I got a new release, combined with the holiday discount was a good deal for me.
Ahhh... Gotcha. Yeah, I like Predatron's prices
Always a big bang for the buck.
As it turns out, Belle 6 (plus a few other morphs dialed in) makes for an excellent teenage Rosie, I think.
The Red Talon outfit isn't actually meant for Teenage Rosie.
I was having difficulty getting the boots to load into Carrara without being all deformed - even into an empty scene - it was driving me nuts!
I loaded them onto Belle 6 in DS and saved them as a Support Asset > Figure Asset into the same spot as the original, but added "Belle" into the name.
Now they load and conform beautifully onto Belle 6 and my other Rosie G2F as well! :)
I really like this extra textures pack I got in the Christmas giveaway for Red Talon. There's five really nice texture setups to choose from - so, of course, we can mix and match.
In Carrara, we can actually mix and match on the same piece - just load the various textures onto different domains.
I only mention that because I'm going to try that with this one ;)
Chears, and I hope everyone is having safe, warm, and Happy Holidays! :)
That render has a brilliant meld of sci-fi and the traditional Dutch Master painter's flavor to it. Absolutely gorgeous work, let alone the beauty of your Rosie character herself.
bravo.
--ms
I forgot to mention that, as soon as I loaded in the Belle 6 Character Preset I loaded in two of the individual EYEDeas 3+ figures, one for each eye, and parented them accordingly. I found that if I set the Genesis 2 Female eyes to invisible before I parented, I didn't lose visiblity of the new eyes.
This time I didn't use the Remapped version, so I got to use Arki's own custom eye maps. Something I was dying to do before, and didn't get around to. Glad I did.
I really like these anatomically correct eye figures!
As before, I'm having a little difficulty with Genesis 2 stuff using my laptop. This thing wasn't meant for this kind of computing anyways, so I'm not bummed. I just work differently, consolidating and optimizing each step of the way, and saving my progress. I've forgotten that people were having issues with Compressed Carrara files with Genesis 2, and have been compressing all the while. I hope that doesn't bite me in the end.
Anyways, I think I'm going to completely switch to using this figure. Still don't like the hair and will look to getting to fixing that ASAP, but Belle 6 makes a great Rosie Character in my current opinion. I like the morphs and the joints setup. No morphs for getting concave irises which really surprises me from someone like Daz3d, being that this is such a commonly sought-after shape for CG VFX folks. Oh well. Arki to the rescue, right? :)
I picked up Belle 6 too today, along with the G2M construction worker outfit (any new kit for Genesis 2 has to be encouraged IMHO
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Agreed. Though I got that cool new hair. Now I want to see if I can make it work with G2M or if I'll have to get that clone - which I'll likely need.
I got to spend some time today playing with my new toys I got for Christmas from Daz3d! :)
I was mentioning earlier how I grabbed the SS Fluke as a means to add a cockpit onto a space craft I have. Here is the result.
This one is Before adding the SS Fluke
This one is After
It works perfectly for my needs! :)
Very Happy = Me!
One through the RuntimeDNA Christmas giveaway, and the other through the Daz3d Christmas giveaway, I got both Project Xion Vol. 2 and Project Xion Vol. 3, and was going to come back and get Vol.1 the next day, but it was removed from the list - which is fine. I'm happy to pay for one after seeing how nicely these things can work.
Here I just threw in my new Belle 6 Rosie Character sporting the V5 Shirt by HongYu, which I remodeled to fit Genesis 2 Male (since Genesis 1 Base figure is Male shaped) and then converted it from that into a Genesis 2 Female item. Still a bit of work to do to make it work with this character and the pants. Time consuming, but I like the shirt.
The cityscape is from those Xion packs. This scene is the result of my loading in every one of the pieces, consolidating and optimizing all of the shaders, and saving the complete scene - which is very light-weight. These buildings load in very small.
So now I can open this scene and copy buildings - or groups of buildings - and paste them into another scene since they're all Prop items without rigging - which is nice. I think they look fantastic and we're only seeing a fraction of them here.
I played around with my new Abominable for Genesis and put him in a world of trouble with the Troglodytes.
Oh... right. The above scene is Shroom Castle in my Woodlands EnvironKit setting.
Here's what Abominable looks like (Store image)
When I messed with him I used Michael 5 character preset and then dialed up the Abominable morph. He doesn't come with Textures or custom UVs.
...and the Wyvern 2.0
LOL!
I also got this for Christmas from Daz3d. I'll have to see if it'll fit Abominable, whom is really quite a big fellow! :)
This one is my older version of G2F Rosie sporting the new Grecian Goddess I got for Christmas along with the Nybras demon seen behind her
Carrara-Optimized shaders of the Nybras Expansion Texture sets
I really like the Nybras demon figure!
I was leery of getting him for years. Seeing him as a gift... I had to check him out. Oh Wow!!!
This figure, when combined with the expansion pack, has SO Many Morphs! Nybras can be a Demon child (really nasty looking!) Dragon Faced Monster, many styles of Demon creature and even a bunch of additional tweaks for the dragon configuration. Female morphs, bulging gut morphs, we can get rid of the wings and/or tail and/or horns, which all have additional morphs, and a whole slew of excellent posing morphs.
I haven't tried rendering the original texture. I'm sure it's decent - but the ones that come in the expansion, shown above, are excellent!
Oh... right. I got this one for my V4 Rosie
See, I don't play many computer games but there are a few that I really enjoy, like Shadowrun (all three), Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale/Neverwinter Nights games, Witcher games and also DragonAge. I just started playing Dragon Age again - not very often... just here and there. But this is one of the characters in that game, named Morrigan.
Wizards and the like are known to require lighter clothing (as opposed to wearing armor) to allow for better conductivity with the Winds of Magic (the Force), which is why Rosie always wore the loose kimono she's most often been seen wearing.
Excellent!
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Here's how I saved my Abonimable character
Thanks Stonemason! I love it!