Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 12
Novica
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Welcome to the 12th installment of the product showcase thread and helpful tips/tutorials!
The previous threads / views are shown below, let's see how we're doing. (This is a community effort.) When you show others the products, those renders get seen and you help a lot of people. The threads SIX YEARS AGO are still being surfed. These are the increase in views from May 11, 2018 to April 18, 2019.
Thread 1 83,347 Now 85,623 (+2276 new VIEWS!)
Thread 2 67,811 Now 69,802 (+1991)
Thread 3 78,578 Now 80,909 (+2331)
Thread 4 58,508 Now 60,828 (+2320)
Thread 5 52,482 Now 54,216 (+1734)
Thread 6 75,603 Now 81,998 (+6395)
Thread 7 54,879 Now 62,880 (+8001)
Thread 8 49,087 Now 56,300 (+7213)
Thread 9 51,435 Now 60,546 (+9111)
Thread 10 48,025 Now 56,904 (+8879)
Thread 11 52,652 as of April 18, 2019
Total views: Old: 618,581 New: 713,658 New views: 95,077 (without Thread 11, the old threads got 42,425 views in about a year)
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A few good links from previous threads:
*Boss Lights- I show you settings and how to get some nice portrait lights New Link
*XYZ Dome Orientation Lighting I showed the lighting when I tweaked the dome New Link
*Boo Presets for Ghost Light I did some light setups for Kindred Arts Ghost Lights
*If you want to back up your content, SereneNight gives you a step by step. It's in the second half of the post.
*RGcincy is the creator of Shape Magic, a very neat program and if you want to try modeling, take a look!
*To post your images in a thread and avoid attaching them below your post, here's where you can post them!
*Some threads I started which will help you:
ZBrush Silo Modeling Infinito How To Use GenX2 Applying Material Presets (Skin) for GenX2 Material Zones ~ Geometry Tool Tutorial
Free Portrait Backgrounds
Wanna Render? Iray Tutorial (one of my favorites, very detailed and goes step by step on setting up an Iray rendered scene.)
Some fun and useful threads:
Photoshop Playtime! Where we showed you some really neat plug-ins to get cartoon, oil, watercolor effects.
Scripts: A one click solution to put things on your ground plane, under things, etc
The References links have to be expanded to several pages, believe it or not there is a limit to a post size, and we passed it. I had to trim down descriptions of existing links to add new ones, so I am scattering the References to several pages because they are alphabetical and I can't just stick new ones at the end. Whenever I add a new Reference, I always mention it in the thread.
REFERENCES
**********References / Of Interest**********
Books, Digital: RScotJohns (Author) helped us with ebook (did a chat one evening)
Characters: I showcased Odelle, an older character from Rendo (that Daz rejected!):
Computer Research: What all those specifications mean, and what to look for in a computer
Expressions: Here's some with sliders that are really fluid and usable. And Poses (scroll for both of these, numerous posts)
Hair: One of the funniest things showcased- vendor's names in hair!
HDRIs: Fishtales showing you some HRDI's
Free Infinity Cove 3 sets
Mountain Valley: Take a tour of this product as we drive around town!
See Nath's Elegant Swan- the ACTUAL PHOTOS from the museum, and the render. This car spewed steam and pooped yogurt, and was banned from the streets due to being a nuisance. (Ya think?) Now at HiveWire.
Special Honor: Rabbicus fun with RGcincy. It all started with a cactus on a shelf and I said it looked like a rabbit.
********** Programs **********
Camtasia tip
dForce Start Here Thread
Special note: Script: David GB's G3 To G8 Pose Fixer To correct G3 Poses and get them to work with G8
Infinito: Infinito Experiments: If you have questions about Infinito, ask them here
iClone: iClone6 (I'll have to get back to it) Here's a nice video by Bigh and Bigh's thread on Iclone and Reallusions Thread The Path To iClone
Livebrush Pro (FREE) Livebrush Pro- link, it's now free
Mixamo How To Use (by Firewarden)
Motion Capture in general: Motion Capture products/ discussion linked from the Octane FaceShift question
Pattern Cooler (.com) for free seamless tiles
Senosoft: Convert .rsr file types to pngs (P3DO Explorer)
ShapeMagic 2 ShapeMagic 2 By our very own RGcincy
Silo: Silo Modeling
Zbrush For Beginners: Zbrush for Beginners
********** TIPS A-H **********
TIP: 360 degree Renders (RGcincy)
TIP: Adria How to do makeup, and see "Ears" for how to get rid of the fantasy ears. (Barbult)
Tip: Bloom Filter- Settings
Tip: Camera Lens How To Distort (Fishtales)
Tip: Categories / Products Options Missing From Content Library If you don't have these showing up at all, here's how to fix it.
Tip: Characters- Where To Load From Loading Characters- does it matter if you load it from icons, the Genesis figure + Character List, or the Figure (Aiko 7, Girl 7, etc) + the Character List? YES IT DOES.
Tip: Charlotte Hair Tweaks- Turn fluffy into sleek and modern!
Tip: Crashing / Clear Cache (Note: It will also show you where your temporary files are, slightly above that. Go to that folder and remove those also.)
Tip: Cursor- Turn Off Yellow Highlighting Default has it on, here's how to turn it off! EDIT: Here's how, it isn't explained in great detail in that post. Go up to top left in studio to Window>Draw Settings>Editor Tab>All>then Highlight Style will show up and you select Bounding Box Only.
Tip: Custom Categories for Sets Here's some suggestions and additions
Tip: DA Big Ocean How To Use
Tip: Delete Items in Scene: Grouped items giving you fits? How to delete those polygons!
Tip: Depth Canvas Adding Atmosphere (Such as a smoky room) (Tutorial by Chris-2599934)
Tip: dForce settings guide
Tip: DIM download problems? Try this. This works too. (when products will NOT install and stay in the "to be installed")
Tip: DIM downloading product to use with products from other sites
Tip: DIM Ready To Download nothing there- If you've checked and all paths are correct, it could be Google Chrome corruption or Chrome updates! Reinstall Chrome / updates and see if it shows up.
Tip: Dreamland Models in DS Learn how to work with Dreamland Models (Poser) in DS
Tip: Doors and windows that open, flat roof to add, pane of glass, good kit bashing items
Tip: Dome Orientation Results My experiments/settings for rotating the dome by changing the XYZ Dome Orientation. All settings given/ shown.
Tip: Ears: How To Remove Fantasy Ears Characters with fantasy ears may have them "built in." Here's how to dial them out. (Barbult)
Tip: FaceGen Tweaks
Tip: Fern Lake Instances and Water Instances in Fern Lake and Through The Woods And clearer water tip for it. My example.
Tip: Finding products in these threads, using Google
Tip: Finding Morphs/Products in a Scene Script
Tip: Focal Length
Tip: Furries: How To Find Files and Pose (Llynara) And Capsces posted this for a few tips.
Tip: Gemology Shaders for Iray: Settings for best results, by vendor
Tip: Generation Tools: List of products which help you cross generations
Tip: GenX2 My tutorial (and the post after that tells you how to do the materials)
Tip: Greek Houses: Fixing the water, landscape, and stone edge materials. All settings provided!
Tip: Ground: How to soften / blend where feet interact with the HDRI background
Tip: Growing Up: Making Chest look good
Tip: Hair: Different Settings To Increase Shine Also here
Tip: Hair Transparency: How to thicken hair when it's too transparent: Go to number 2
Tip: Hair: Using Genesis 3 Hair On Genesis 8 Easy! (By L'Adair)
Tip: Harpsburg Night Lights Best way to apply them
Tip: Hierarchial Poses L'Adair tests what hiding things in Scene Tab does and other options. Click here.
Tip: Hierarchial Presets for Materials- Applying Materials Only To One Item (By Aave Nainen)
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Tip: Images, Gallery How to hide them to use in threads New Oct 22 2019 (L'Adair)
Tip: Iray Organized References This thread links to the threads, but also categorized some of the topics within the thread so you can look things up quicker.
Tip: Iray Section Plane TabascoJack shows you how to use the Iray Section Plane
Tip: Lighting: When you have the end of the room open, and stuck with three walls, how to get even lighting with HDRI and avoid that obvious light pouring in from one end of the room.
Tip: Lighting: Lampshades TobascoJack shows you how to prevent losing detail when lighting lampshades
Tip: Madelyn Ears- How to remove those elf ears.
Tip: Manual Downloads in Product Library How to find them ultra-quick
Tip:/Info: Materials and Shaders: Difference in Materials and Shaders (from Commons)
Tip: Mermaid Top Family friendly suggestion.
Tip: Metallicity and Metallic Flakes Add More Sheen to your characters
Tip: Millenium Cat- Free Persian Head
Tip: Mocap Animations FREE Here (Mixamo)
Tip: Multiplane Cyclorama Use Modern Museum Lighting for realistic results!
Tip: Nobiax Free Iray Daz Textures
Tip: OOT Hair Steps
Tip: Photoshop Postwork Postwork Photoshop Tips (Laticis) and my example
Tip: Photoshop Plugins From Thread 6: Examples
Tip: Portrait Lighting Novica's XYZ Dome Orientation Quick Guide (Portrait Tweaks)
Tip: Pose Converter (Genesis 2 to Genesis 3) Where to find files (Scroll for discussion)
Tip: Combining Poses by locking body parts
TIP: Poser CF and Studio CF Explained (Richard Haseltine)
Tip: Postwork The Postwork thread has a lot of good information!
Tip: Putting Prop On Top Of Prop (Align Pane)
Tip: Checking your available RAM
Tip: RDNA How to find your purchases
Tip: Render Settings In Script Menu at top of Studio (L'Adair)
Tip: Rigging How to import OBJ and rig in Daz Studio
Tip: Rigging Basic Rigging Preparation then Adding Bones for Rigging
Tip: Section Planes How To Use (by TabascoJack)
Tip: Signatures- how to put a banner and do a clickable link
Tip: Skies of iRadiance Which are for high / low altitudes? Answer
Tip: So Wet Bundle Examples
Tip: Spectural Rendering tests for the studio
Tip: Spotlights: (Iray) How to Hide Them and Still Emit Light
Tip: Studio Crashing: Script by Taoz to save last render
Tip: SubD: How To Add It (Darwins Mishap)
Tip: Texturing With DestinysGarden (DestinysGarden)
Tip: The Briefing Room Lighting with Iray (V3Digitimes)
Tip: Ultragenesis: Faces of G has a variety of older faces.
Tip: Weight Maps: How To Remove or Change (Thomas Windar)
Tip: White Point Changing it- Examples
Tip: Walls- Sets Which Are Easier To Use- or Not. Sets that don't have separate walls and handy notes on a few sets
********** TUTORIALS**********
Tutorial: Bus, Noggins- Converting from Bryce to Daz Studio (RGcincy) Here
Tutorial: Breast Gone- In Hexagon (Smoothing Zev0s Grow Up product even more)
Tutorial: Clothing, Making in Blender SickleYield's tutorial on Deviant Art.
Tutorial: Content Package Assist Added May 2019
Tutorial: Converting G3 and G8 Clothing by SickleYield on Deviant Art
Tutorial: Create Categories Using Gen2F, I showed how to Create Categories and Export to save your custom categories. (Here's WHY you may want to do that with your characters.)
Tutorial: Custom Actions In Toolbar How to Create Custom Actions In Toolbar
Tutorial: Customizing Morphs Using Morph Loader Pro
Tutorial: D Former D Former Tutorial D Former tutorial and links
Tutorial: Depth of Field Flipmode provides a good depth of field tutorial for you.
Tutorial: Fisty's Shaders & Getting Rid of Gooey Lips This one shows you Fisty's shaders. Get rid of the overly gooey lips.
Tutorial: Fur Brushes Download and Video (Kathryn Loch)
Tutorial: Garibaldi Hair Doing a cat with Garibaldi Hair- Tutorial
Tutorial: GenX links on "how to use."
Tutorial: Generation 4 Materials on Genesis 2 This one put Generation 4 materials on Genesis 2 using Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female.
Tutorial: Geometry Shells How to do Geometry Shells (video tutorial the3dwizard) and doing makeup for different characters
Tutorial: Hair Shaders (Slosh, his product) explaining how to use them.
Tutorial: Iclone Iclone videos
Tutorial: Images- How To Put Them In Forum Posts Here's Putting Images in Posts
Tutorial: Instances: Using Ultrascatter
***** Tutorials Iray- S *******
Iray Canvases- How To Do Lighting
Iray Ghost Lights 2: Portrait Setup in 13 Steps, All Settings Given
Tutorial: Iray Light Manager Pro Step by step screenshots
Tutorial: Iray For Beginners- Do A Scene Step By Step The Wanna Render? Iray tutorial walks you through Iray lighting for total newbies- including Crush Blacks, Burn Highlights, how the sliders work together and why in Tone Mapping, and Environment Intensity.
Tutorial: Iray Lighting- A Night Lantern Doing a night time lantern with Emissive Lighting.
Tutorial: Iray- Portrait Light Setup With Point Lights Portrait Lights: 3 Point Lights and a Spotlight- Settings Provided
Tutorial: Iray Skydome Super Pak The Explanation to use (magix101)
Tutorial: Iray Worlds Skydome Explanation on using it (rgcincy)
Tutorial: Maps for Iray and 3DL / Albedo Explanation Texture Maps: (Saba Taru) ALBEDO explanation, and where to put the maps for Iray and 3DL
Tutorial: Material Zones
Tutorial: Metadata- How To Make It Video Here (Slosh) and Here (3D Almanc)
Tutorial: Rigging and Weight Mapping- Beginners Through Advanced
Tutorial: Rigging Static Doors So They Open (RGcincy) How To Rig A Prop
Tutorial: Shaders- Mec4D's PBR Shaders Mec4D's PBR shaders: How to use
***** Tutorials T through W ******
Tutorial: Tears by SereneNight
Tutorial: Teeth, Getting Realistic Shapes Getting realistic teeth shapes was here and slight tweaks here.
Tutorial: Texturing Texturing With DestinysGarden is a good thread- let a pro show you how!
Tutorial: UltraScatter Advanced Instancing UltraScatter Advanced Instancing: RGcincy's handy notes, how-to.
Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female: How to use the product.
Tutorial: Weight Mapping: How To Smooth All Face Groups At Once (By SickleYield)
Tutorial: Windows, Making Them From Planes And Cubes Realistically Making Windows using planes and cubes, with glass panes and images!
Saoirse HD (Gen8F) Caleela Hair (Gen3/8F) Body Chains 2 (Gen3/8F) Ceramics for Iray
dForce Modern Romantique Outfit (Gen3/8F)
First, those lips are not the default. I changed a lot of things as I would like to see more lines in the lips and couldn't quite get there, even increasing bump. As usual, I added metallic flakes (weight .025 density 1.39 and color 195/183/163)
Caleela Hair looks different in various lights, and some lighting I did not care for the transparency. I did some postwork and I will show you. The first render, it looks okay. This is again using Mitchell instead of Gaussian for the filter.
As I mentioned in Thread 11, the Body Chains 2 torso chains (I used two) had ZERO pokethrough and were a breeze to use with the Modern Romantique outfit. I love @khory Ceramics for Iray, I did all the chains and around the beads using her great product.
Lighting is my usual- the PRO-Studio HDR Lighting System. If you are a new user, I'd recommend you start with that product for portraits.
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Many thanks to Novica and the others who regularly post here. You've given me a lot of ideas and the honest comments about productes are extremely useful!
Just checking in
That is a great image @Novica
Already? Time flies! Haha I remember I was terrified to post here when I first started and you made me feel so welcome! I can't believe its been 3 1/2 years. These threads are truly priceless.
Yay, new thread!!!!
I love these threads :) The first thing I do when buying an older product is check out to see if anyone has reviewed it here.
Very cool on a new thread!!!! Lots of help and socializing. ;)
On the babies, I've actually placed two orders... one with the bundle; one without. I like Ella and wish more like her. Trying to decide what I'd actually use and which order to delete or to do another. I was in such a rush, I just went ahead and did it both ways and figured I straighten it out later.
My first thought on the babies was Chubblies followed by Lil Monsters and Ghoulies
So far as the baby, SereneNight and Wonderland and Worlds_Edge have some renders worth taking a peek at. SereneNight even shares the settings
Ugh, we have tornadoes and severe weather coming in fast. In case we lose internet, I want to get these uploaded. It's Saoirse HD (Gen8F) again, and this is the lighting I really didn't like the hair. So what you can do to see the various postwork-
The first image is the default lighting from Orestes Iray HDRI Skydomes- Radiathane and the second is postwork, removing saturation so the green is dimmer. TIP: That HDRI Skydome gives you a really nice portrait background if you were to just render it and then insert it as a backdrop.
Next you have the face, then note the postwork on the eyes to remove the lighting glare. Last, I then added hair strands, as I said, I didn't like the transparency but wanted to show it out of the box.
And note again the body chains, as I mentioned previously- there was NO POKETHROUGH. Just applied them and done.
Stay safe Mississippi, more tornadoes spinning up now in the upper part of the state. It's also now right at Mobile, AL but no tornadoes yet.
Click to enlarge, then click those back and forth to see the changes.
I want to show off some items I recently purchased in the sales.
Gallery link
That's why it says "and Poses" ...
Thanks for picking it up.
As a buyer I also don't like products that much that are split into product and a texture pack.
Maybe not the best choice as a seller, don't know. But I hope it pays off at the end and there are people that think the same.
Kind regards, Eagle99
wow new thread - you all are cooking
Happy Easter
I am far more likely to buy something like this to be honest. If I'm waffling about buying something the extras like you included would definitely push me to the buy button.
I have the City Bike product, too. It is also great. I was thrilled to discover the Road Bike when scanning through recent sale items. I couldn't understand why I didn't already have it. It didn't even look familiar. I looked up the readme, and I see it was released while I was traveling in Alaska last summer. I didn't have internet most of that time, so I guess I completely missed it. I greatly appreciate products that come complete with materials and poses. It makes them so much more useful. When I saw everything that comes with the bike, I bought it immediately. It was a breeze to set up in my scene with G8M. The included bike morphs let me adjust bike parts to fit the G8M morph and clothing I used. Road Bike and Poses for Genesis 3 and 8 is a 5 star product (if we had a product rating system).
Stunning image barbult. I really like the way the outfit looks and how well it all goes together!
Since buying the first bicycle, I am inclined to buy anything from you when it's released, or wishlist it if I haven't the funds.There are only a handful of PAs whose releases are an instant "must have" for me. Trust me, you are in very good company.
I have all but two of your products and those (Bass Guitar and Dolly heels) are wishlisted
The quality of your work is excellent and the value is high. The bike poses are great ... they're very hard to get right and you give good starting points for variations. Please keep going-)
I've love to see a family cargo bike like you see everywhere in the Netherlands and Denmark ...
+1
Another product I recently purchased is Bokeh Studio HDR. It has a lot of different bokeh HDRI render presets, some additional lights, and some cameras. So far, I've had pleasing results with it. I did find one bug, though (one brightness preset changes the render aspect ratio and size) and I submitted a help request about that.
@barbult I love it when I see something and immediately say, "Gosh, great product!" and then the next second, "Uh...oh yeah, I have that." I don't think I've ever used the Bokeh Studio, thanks for pointing it out. And the bike and pose look really, really good :)
BTW folks, again it's a great time to put four of the new products in your cart. (or more.)