Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 12
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Earth Elemental
Came across this in my Runtime. It comes as a PP4 and PP load. I ran the Iray Uber Shader on it and tweaked the shader settings and it looks not bad for its age
Background is an HDRI.
2020-03-04 17:37:19.685 Total Rendering Time: 15.1 seconds
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Another old one with tweaked surfaces.
The Gremlin
2020-03-05 09:41:56.467 Total Rendering Time: 48.63 seconds
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OK, now I think I know how straight guys feel when they render beautiful female characters lol.
I think Kai is really hot! I did change the lower part of his nose a bit. And the eyes are very deep set which is something the base Johnathan brings to the gene pool. Although the deal wasn't great, I'm glad I got him!
There is also an upgraded Gremlin in the same product from 2005 which has changes to the skin, still Poser though, so had to redo the surfaces.
Gremlin 2005
2020-03-05 10:36:01.280 Total Rendering Time: 35.71 seconds
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He is a nice character and great lighting on his face! Nice expression as well, usually I find that smiles tend to look creepy on Daz characters after very little, I'm glad to see they can look normal as well.
Is this his default skin, because I know you sometimes add your own SSS maps. It looks very realistic, especially the forehead area.
Also, is this the first male character you think is good looking :) ?
Yes, it's his default skin but I did a small amount of post just in an iPad app to make the details pop more. And yeah, it's the first male that I've rendered that I found really attractive. Although I do own other Hinkypunk males that I like that I haven't rendered yet. A lot of the male characters in the store to me look either too feminine or too buff with huge muscles and thick torsos... Kai seems just right and has a good masculine jaw. I've remorphed other characters trying to get them to look the way I wanted but Kai attracted me in promos from his default look.
Yours looks better than the main promo. Nicely done!
Please can someone show me what Kai looks like on the default Genesis 8 male without using Jonathan? I can't justify buying both and would like to try combining him with some of the DarwinMishap Males I have which |I really like.
@sueya, I loaded Kai, dialed out Jonathan 8 and did a simple render for you to look at. And I had a serious Justin Timberlake vibe without trying for it!
Mary
I can see some resemblance, and he looks ok but, at least for me, without the Jonathan morph he is not the handsome spy anymore.
On another note, I noticed that even not the best of morphs, can look awesome combined with others at different percentages.
So I think Kai + someone with a strong jaw could look really good even without Jonathan.
I have had a lot of fun combining characters made for one figure with other figures. If I can find it, I'll get you the link of a post I did a while back doing just that. (But I will have to remember which character it was. I think it was a male…)
ETA: Okay, @alex86fire, here are two posts Google found for me:
Landon 8 and Lycan
CJ8 and Michaela
Here he is without Jonathan,still looks great to me! (There are some minor expressions used in this though.) I think if you squint his eyes a bit more, you'll almost have Kai with Jonathan...
I added a second one with a little more eye squint. The main difference I think is he looks younger and a bit more vulnerable without Johnathan dialed in.
And he renders MUCH faster than the girls!
Here is Dior by Mousso https://www.daz3d.com/dior-hd-for-genesis-8-female with Pop Cut Hair https://www.daz3d.com/pop-cut-hair-for-genesis-3-and-8-females The only thing I changed was making her eyelashes longer.
I like her quirky look!
@Wonderland: I am really loving the hair! Is it corporate hair?
@ L'Adair: very nice, especially the lycan. There are a few combinations that I like more than the original, for sure.
I picked up the Classics Bundle for Genesis yesterday and decided to try out the Fantasy Wrap for Genesis and Mitsu hair for Genesis from it on Tsukiko from the Aiko 5 Pro Bundle.
Flight of the Sylph
Bugsy had a grooming appointment today. He was not amused. Went to it, paws dragging, head down. As I left, a piteous plea for mercy was heard.
I almost didn't recognize him when he walked out into the lobby, headed for the front door. Didn't care if I was coming or not.
Now won't talk to me.
No one bit, no blood was shed. Improvement.
Awwww. Pupperoni snacks work great with all mine. Really smells like pepperoni and it's moist. Try a bribe!
Yeah my Miss Emerald loves her Pupperoni snacks only problem is Miss Nudge the cat tries to take them away from her
Thanks for posting those great renders of Kai @memcneil70 and @Wonderland - I will be buying him now. Dior is going on my wishlist too!
When I get some time, I will try combining him with Salvatore or Danior and let you see the results.
Thanks all. Bugsy finally came alive for sausage gravey and biscuits. Otherwise known as the 'Bugsy Diet Plan for Mary'. He stares me down as I try to eat, until I give up and put the plate down on the floor mat for him. Good walk afterwards outside.
@sueya, I think all the characters that were released with Janathan 8 are great for mixing. I am not going to have much time today, as I have to do editing today.
I do want to point out the new male character by Sayianess, https://www.daz3d.com/cato-for-genesis-8-male. He is waiting for me to download him. Sayianess does such fantastic characters.
Mary
... and onto my wishlist he goes. Great render!
I really don't understand when PAs don't include a "without base" render in the promos if the bare character looks this good. Surely it would make the sales go up a little? I only bought Tyrone because the promos show how good he looked without Darius.
I finally pulled the trigger on Jonathan Pro buble as well.
These are a few renders of him, Kai and Gordon combined with my custom character morph.
All rendered with just one of the Bonus item portrait presets, nothing else done (I like the new light setup).
What a delightful typo.
Oh dear.
This hasn't hit the news yet. A patient at a local hospital here was diagnosed with the flu. But it wasn't. It was that coronavirus. So 40 people came in to extremely close contact, including two pulmonologists. The owner of the stables is a surgeon and was interviewed today, you know, as they do the "who did you come into contact with?" feelers out in the community. This of course means if that person did spread the virus, ALL of those at the hospital area, PLUS all the pulmonologists' patients are at risk. (And we're talking for the past week or MORE.) Unfortunately, you know what the main complications are from this virus- sadly it's pulmonary- pneumonia / lung issues. So we're really hoping those pulmonologists don't have the virus. It's THE worst case scenario so far as susceptible people getting exposed.
So I'm waiting to see how long before this hits the news, that person is a "presumptive positive" so it may take a day or two to be affirmed. We're hoping it's negative but the symptoms are really strong. And no, I haven't been out to the barn in three weeks, both the surgeon and his wife have had the flu (he brought it home to her.) I said, "No offense, but I'm steering clear of you," and she laughed (well, croaked into the phone) and said she would do the same thing if she were me. She's over it as of last week, but I'm still avoiding people.
Sadly a Marine in Virginia has just come down with it so hope it doesn't spread here on the East Coast in the military. Several military have it overseas already.
Maybe it has been in the news, unless this is a different case
I pray everyone will be ok and that thier exposure is minimal and they do not get the virus. I am a RN and it worries me that someone could come in exposed and we never know, of course that is part of the risk of the business but I hate to think of the sick people who we expose in the process.
A couple of us are over in SereneNight's thread reviewing the Iron Wasp outfit in the Jonathan 8 bundle. There is severe poke through in the armpit areas of the outfit. I tried then outfit in several different poses and it was still there in various degrees. In some I could tweak included morphs to fix the issues but it others it was to great for the morphs to even help much. I tried with Jonathan, Darius and G8M all have the same issue (all listed as supported figures). First image is Darius, second is G8M. (I didn't change the texture)
Why don't you just turn off the render visibility of his shoulder bones? Then only the garment will be rendered and not his upper arms.
Oh I know I can do that but its the point of the matter. Why would this not be fixed before it reached the store? And will it ever be fixed? Its a shame I think. I checked some of thier other clothing and they didnt have this issue, it just makes me wonder how it got though testing like that because its obvious in most poses. Of course I do know "most" people dont render back shots either.......
I understand.
:)), Somehow it is better than the correct name.
Wow, that looks terrible.
I decided to try a few other characters (smaller ones mostly) to see how the suit holds.
Gunner was ok in A pose but a simple fighting stance revealed pokethroughs both front and back.
Nathaniel was not even ok in A pose. I could alsmot fix his arms with the morphs, but those would add a lot of volume on both sides of the arm so they would make his arms a lot more muscular than they really are.
Same problems with Shane as with Nathaniel.
Mr Woo was ok in A pose but as soon as I started poseing him in more interesting poses, it all went to hell as well.
Funny thing is I bought the textures for Wasp suit as one of the add-ons to activate the Jonathan offer and now the suit looks unusable to me.
My only hope is that until I need it they will issue a fix for it. This is for me at the same quality as the Dain8 clothing items. (that I didn't even install yet because they are unusable).
What do you think? Do we have any chances of fixed being issued for this?