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EP, you are absolutely smoking it!
Thanks Vyusur, have had the dreaded "end of file error again" so will redo the scene with the rim light !!!!!
Thanks EP, I reduced my light to about 30% with the shadow intensity to about 35%, have had the dreaded "end of file error" again so will redo the scene with Vyusurs and your comments to improve the scene.
Love your femme fatale/car/bridge scene !!!!!
that's no good bunyip... eof errors seem to be popping up regular for you...
great image .. will be even better with the rim lighting adjustments .. keep at it
Oh no - so sorry for you, Bunyip02. EOF errors seem pretty frequent. Hope you get it sorted out soon.
Great WIPs all around. I still have to ration my internet time until the techies get it sorted out,so no time to comment on all. I do want to give a special shoutout to @Selina and @EviProducer for their detailed explanations. Very informative and much appreciated.
Bunyip02, I'm so sorry you are having problems! Do you have any plugins installed that may be causing the problem? Especially plugins that may be for an earlier version of Carrara?
Here is my lastest WIP. I still want to do some lighting work to simulate reflected light from the roadbed. I have also adjusted the pose for the left hand. I'll post my lighting set up soon. I'm still testing my idea for the shaders. I may leave that for a scene where it will be more visible.
Oh, if anybody wants to use the bridge that I built, I've uploaded it to ShareCG. Feel free to use it wherever you want. Even in this challenge if you think it will work for you.
https://sharecg.com/v/91494/gallery/5/3D-Model/Gilman-Bridge
welcome back evil, nice render you havent lost your evil touch :)
hya sorry you have that. my most consistant cause was running out of disc space , or being close to the edge and maybe having eg photoshop elements eating up the available spavce short term as a swap drive - so I was consistently getting end of file errors - you think carrara cwould have been made to tell you when a file doesnt save properly
wonderful stuff Varsel, I've been using a lot of your sharecg stuff lately - thanks for the kindness
wonderful, I have that on my board in the art work,
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
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All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
loving the video, they are good tips too thak you
that's a classic image Ted, he could be out of a classic movie, the Guns Of Navarone
this is a selfie I take it? HGreat to see your experiments - what an inquiring mind you have!
haha Stezza, I laughed out loud so hard my false teeth nearly fell out... then I remembered I'd lent them to the lady next door because she was on a hot date
heyDesrtdude, thanks. These building and the lego chap are just wonderful. The Lego feel has been captured to a tee !
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Hi Selina, did you mean to thank 3Dage? I know he mentioned the curve filter in relation to shaders on the last page. He is truly a great font of Carrara knowledge and wisdom. Also a really nice person and a patient teacher.
So, I've been going back and forth with my Nior Fetale picture. I really like the warmth and the way the colors pop in the Technicolor style transfer version, but this black and white with only the bra and panties having color is striking. I also added a vignette and gave it a bit of a sepia tint. Which do you all think is better?
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Gotta love senior moments. I'll be hitting the big 5-0 towards the end of July.
I'm used to senior moments :)
no worries selina :)
the BW version with the red. EP,. thats the one.
Cake noir., ...and something for the romantic cubist
Great cake. Now I'm hungry!
We'll see how this goes.
Click the imges below to see the full sized and bigly versions.
The bridge scene I'm working on makes heavy use of light linking to get the effects I want. Below is the render out of Carrara.
I was getting an okay rim light on one side of my female figure, but it just didn't give it enough seperation. So I set up a spotlight, with Point At modifier to point at her chest. I set up the color, intensity, range, the position, etc. to get the look I wanted. Then I duplicated the light and moved it to her other side and tweaked the postion slightly. The two light emphasize the rim light I wanted to give her from the headlights behind her. To eliminate the lights shining on objects I didn't want (and thus ruining the effect), I set the light to only light the figure, her clothes, and her hair.
I used a home rolled light dome/rig for the night lighting. I built a slightly more than half shere in the VM, hid it, and replicated a distance light 75 times on the surface. I set the light at 3.5% (shows as 4%) as the light is cumulative. After some experimentation, I excluded the volumetric cloud that I use for fog from that light, as it was too bright looking.
I used a shape light under the bridge that was set to only illuminate the bridge model. I wanted an indirect light effect for the under side of the bridge railings from the reflected headlight beams hitting the road bed. I played with a spot light a bit, and instead opted to use a shape light. I set the range short and the falloff high. I also use distance squared. I set it to use soft shadows, and I set the shadow intensity to 60% and the light intensity to 60%. I figured (perhaps wrongly) that I would then get at least 30% of the light passing through the solid bridge pieces. It seemed to work and provided the effect I was looking for.
The lights on the car are all white with the exception of the headlights which have a slight yellow tint. The color for the running lights is achieved purely through the translucency in the light lenses on the model car. Those lights are simple bulb lights. The headlights are spotlights.
To get the fabric on the dress I wanted (which by default used an alpha channel for the effect), I ditched the alpha and used a tiny amount of refraction, a 1% transparency and a 1% Freznel in the transparency shader. I added the color image map to the translucency channel and dialed down the map intensity to 60%. I should also note, that by default, I always change any image maps I am using from the default mip-map to sample. I just think it looks better.
I wanted to try an effect, but I think I will need to see how effective it is in a different scene that is set up to highlight the effect. First a little preamble. I bought the Reby Sky Elite character some time ago. The character comes with very high resolution optimized Carrara and Poser/Studio image maps for their respective shaders. As most of you are aware, Carrara can't use image maps in the SS channel. Well, digging around the included image maps I found two image maps for each shading domain that didn't load in the Carrara optimized shaders. Looking at the maps, they looked like they were meant to define SS in Studio and/or Poser. One map was in color, and the other grayscale. With my old computer, SS took an extremely long time to calculate, so what I did was to multuply those two maps in the Glow channel, adjusting the brightness of each map to fit the scene. The effect was pretty good, but it was faked. The advantage was that it rendered stupid-fast. See the example below.
My recent idea was to try the multiplication trick with those two maps in the Translucency channel to see if it would react well to lighting. I think I see a little of what I am looking for, but I think another scene may give me better answers and allow me to tweak the effect.
A couple versions of the scene with different post work.
Black and white:
Color:
I really like this one!
That looks great. Nice lighting on the man's face as he lights his cancer stick.
Really great stuff!
Evilproducer, thank you!
This is cropped from my scene which I hope to finish soon so posting this to keep you ----- posted
and thanks to Evil for the bridge !
it looks the darkness of the blinds gel is lightened by the shadow intensity of the lightbulb
wip2
the flow force was a lill too forceful, next challenge i''ll try a different force
the gif zipped is 12mb, i'll load it to stash after the challenge over, iffn anyone wants to see it
took about 20 renders to line her up with the blinds bars
scene stuff:
Janette in V4's heaven sent
water is from the Hemloch Folly pond
stone wall from old english village, i changed the tiling, original looks much better