Experiments, discovery and experience

Vyusur

Ha-ha! Cute! It reminds me of some kind of shaman dance. Thank you for purchasing, Wendy!

WendyLuvsCatz

a walk cycle for Leon

I only tested it in DAZ studio so far

was a CMU mocap retargetted

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/33/c8896af7cab4f93befddbf384c6dba.zip

WendyLuvsCatz

more playing

Vyusur

Cute! Alas, I don't know how to use walk cycle in Carrara.

WendyLuvsCatz

Vyusur said:

Cute! Alas, I don't know how to use walk cycle in Carrara.

it works in Carrara too, just put it in your library to browse to in poses for example

Vyusur

Thank you!

Dartanbeck

Wow. What a nice thread! See what I miss out on in absence of my home?

Vyusur, I sure hope you and your hubby are doing and feeling well. A lot has gone on since those posts, but still. All the best 

Lots of wonders in this thread. Love the critter... then Dino!!! Wonderful lantern and other bits... so cool!

Vyusur

Dart, thank you som much for your kind words! I'm happy that you like my critters!

WendyLuvsCatz

I was playing around a bit

I made some Viseme morphs but damned if I can get mimic to use them, it sees them

or editing the dmc in notepad in lipsync either

I have them all listed but the figure doesn't talk

I am puzzled because I can edit a dmc file to use ANY morphs even a cube or sphere I deform

yet they are in Parameters and show in Carrara too

I have no idea why this figure won't talk for me with a dmc 

WendyLuvsCatz

for example

phonemedef 34

copyof 17

phonemedef 35

Hue 277.199982

ChannelDef

BODY:1

NG

1.000000

Collapsed 1

phonemedef 36

copyof 24

phonemedef 37

Hue 291.600006

ChannelDef

BODY:1

TLD

1.000000

Diomede

A lot of work must have gone into the joints.  Simple scene but a good test of bending the knees, shoulders, etc.  Really excellent rigging.

Do kids still play marbles?

Vyusur

Wendy_Carrara said:

I was playing around a bit

I made some Viseme morphs but damned if I can get mimic to use them, it sees them

or editing the dmc in notepad in lipsync either

I have them all listed but the figure doesn't talk

I am puzzled because I can edit a dmc file to use ANY morphs even a cube or sphere I deform

yet they are in Parameters and show in Carrara too

I have no idea why this figure won't talk for me with a dmc 

Wendy, I'm sorry, I don't have any skills in this kind of software. I only could teach my parrot to speak, but non of 3d models.

Vyusur

Diomede_Carrara said:

A lot of work must have gone into the joints.  Simple scene but a good test of bending the knees, shoulders, etc.  Really excellent rigging.

Do kids still play marbles?

Hi Ted! Thank you for purchase and for your nice comments. It took me 7 month to complete this model, of course, with breaks on other 3d projects. You have excellent skills of creating poses for 3d models. The only thing that distracts in your image is rough shaders. So I decided to share my own universal shaders for skin and hair that work fine to me for quick native renders in Carrara. Skin shader is based on default Bree face texture. You can change it to any texture map of your choice. Hair shader includes synthetic transmap in alpha channel. You can change this map and also you can put any hair texture map in the color channel for more impact.

Feel free everyone to use that shaders for non commercial use. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-oh9p0JWub_bK5ky16UM5cRibPPVhL3U

WendyLuvsCatz

Vyusur said:

Wendy_Carrara said:

I was playing around a bit

I made some Viseme morphs but damned if I can get mimic to use them, it sees them

or editing the dmc in notepad in lipsync either

I have them all listed but the figure doesn't talk

I am puzzled because I can edit a dmc file to use ANY morphs even a cube or sphere I deform

yet they are in Parameters and show in Carrara too

I have no idea why this figure won't talk for me with a dmc 

Wendy, I'm sorry, I don't have any skills in this kind of software. I only could teach my parrot to speak, but non of 3d models.

It’s ok it’s only really DAZ studio that is an issue 

I can make him talk fine in iClone and will do some NLA clips the same way with your existing poses and some facial bone movements to use in mimic for Carrara

he can talk in all the programs that matter 

Vyusur

Fine!

Stezza

Diomede_Carrara said:

A lot of work must have gone into the joints.  Simple scene but a good test of bending the knees, shoulders, etc.  Really excellent rigging.

Do kids still play marbles?

 

nothing like a good game of dibs 

Vyusur

Cool, Dave! I see, it was not a problem for you to fit nice clothing to the boy.

WendyLuvsCatz

here is a Genesis 8 male pose for clothing conversions in DAZ studio, 

convert to prop sadly fails for the transfer utility as it scales back  to G8M size though keeping the pose, an obj export and reimport is needed in place with rest of scene hidden

remember to convert to blended weight for Carrara after running transfer utility

Bunyip02

Wendy_Carrara said:

here is a Genesis 8 male pose for clothing conversions in DAZ studio, 

convert to prop sadly fails for the transfer utility as it scales back  to G8M size though keeping the pose, an obj export and reimport is needed in place with rest of scene hidden

remember to convert to blended weight for Carrara after running transfer utility

Thanks Wendy

WendyLuvsCatz

its a bit rough so add a smoothing modifier to the clothes if it hasn't got one and collide it against a hidden Leon before exporting obj's too

Stezza

Wendy_Carrara said:

here is a Genesis 8 male pose for clothing conversions in DAZ studio, 

convert to prop sadly fails for the transfer utility as it scales back  to G8M size though keeping the pose, an obj export and reimport is needed in place with rest of scene hidden

remember to convert to blended weight for Carrara after running transfer utility

have you a G or G2 one?

I don't have any clothing for g8 mate 

Stezza

Vyusur said:

Cool, Dave! I see, it was not a problem for you to fit nice clothing to the boy.

I quickly modeled the tee and shorts in the first one and converted the clothes in the second one by deboning and refitting using carrara then DS transfer.. took a bit for that one... had to fudge the weight painting a bit  

WendyLuvsCatz

Stezza_Carrara9 said:

Wendy_Carrara said:

here is a Genesis 8 male pose for clothing conversions in DAZ studio, 

convert to prop sadly fails for the transfer utility as it scales back  to G8M size though keeping the pose, an obj export and reimport is needed in place with rest of scene hidden

remember to convert to blended weight for Carrara after running transfer utility

have you a G or G2 one?

I don't have any clothing for g8 mate 

will get around to it but rendering something at the moment

it only was a 5 minute job posing and scaling in that plugin DS we need then saving the pose if you want to try

Bunyip02

Wendy_Carrara said:

its a bit rough so add a smoothing modifier to the clothes if it hasn't got one and collide it against a hidden Leon before exporting obj's too

Just went with your pose, a bit of pokethrough in places but it turned out well overall. A Genesis & Genesis 2 pose would be nice !!!!!

Bunyip02

Just found the transmaps for the hair - looks very nice with them applied !

PS I also saved the Blended weight as a character preset, none of the parameters were working. So saved the Blended weight as a scene subset then everything worked fine.

Diomede

Veronika, thank you for the shaders!  And for the comments.  Love your kid figure.  

WendyLuvsCatz

not terribly happy with this one

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/23/c0326316014e437b1738778b28d508.duf

this is just it applied to the clothes not fitted

 

a smoothing modifier helps a bit but exporting the obj it still will need smoothing on the imported result and making body invisible in Carrara as I mostly do

Vyusur

Bunyip02_Carrara said:

Just found the transmaps for the hair - looks very nice with them applied !

PS I also saved the Blended weight as a character preset, none of the parameters were working. So saved the Blended weight as a scene subset then everything worked fine.

The best way is to save as a new figure with a new name in a different folder.

 

Vyusur

Wendy_Carrara said:

not terribly happy with this one

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/23/c0326316014e437b1738778b28d508.duf

this is just it applied to the clothes not fitted

I was messing with different clones and I found out that G3M clone works better than G8M. But is not perfect any way.

 

Vyusur

Diomede_Carrara said:

Veronika, thank you for the shaders!  And for the comments.  Love your kid figure. 

Ted, you are very welcome!