Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 7
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Very nice! We had that product featured awhile ago and I still haven't tried it, I also read people were combining that with the Randomizer. (Which I haven't had time to try either. Geez.) How would those two work together? Anyone done it?
Yes 2 young girls, one was the 16 year old daughter of the Deputy fire chief and the other was her 19 year old cousin, so sad that they lost their lives trying to escape the fires.
Thanks it was quite fun to play with, I have randomizer too but haven't tried it out yet
Seeing the cars driving down roads with massive fires alongside and embers falling in the road - that must be quite terrifying, especially if your family is with you. Last summer my wife and I drove by a grass fire alongside I-5 in Washington state. The fire was only a few feet high but right along the guardrail - that was close enough for me. Can't imagine doing it with flames tens of feet high.
Yes, they work well together. Just type 200 in the filter and it will bring up the 8 morph groups. Check all but the last one. Also check the Zero before Randomizing; otherwise they build up and you get really weird shapes (that's true of most morph groups).
Another 100,000 acres in the Canadian fire. This has video of the airport, a time lapse, and is a good summary article of what went on today.
This is just so awful....
There are some bargains today in the Mother's Day sale.
Sexy Open Side Tank Outfit
Sexy Open Side Tank Outfit Looks
I bought this outfit and texture expansion for Genesis. It autofits well to this morphed Genesis 3 Male. There are quite a few morphs for adjusting fit. I changed the pants to High Resolution with Edit>Geometry>Convert to SubD and increased the smoothing a little to improve the crotch fit. I used included adjustment morphs to prevent the dog tags from embedding in the shirt and to move the MP3 player to correctly fit in the back pocket. I was quite impressed with how well this autofit and adjusted.
I converted all surfaces to Iray Uber Shader. One surprise was that the top used subsurface refraction and refraction was on in the converted texture. The shirt rendered pretty see-through, not at all like the promo images. It is kind of neat, though. I turned refraction off and then it rendered like the promos. Some details are hard to see in these renders, because the product textures are pretty dark.
The additional textures in the "Looks" product contain some lighter colored textures.
That looks really good Barbult- going onto a Gen3Male from Genesis! The crotch adjustments worked well (as did autofit.) LOL, I bet the see-through was a surprise, you're right, it's not like the promos! You got a good deal, thanks for showing us!
Has anyone of you bought one of the Chars from SecondCircle on Rendo and could post some renders.
The Promos look really really nice
I haven't.
Okay, looking at a few props (doing a Nathy feature, two different products.)
CyberBox I only posted a few of them, there are several not shown. I like that the lid on the box is lowered. Great for weathered containers.
These go well with CyberInterface which has some neat sci-fi options for you and I can only imagine if you use Ron's brushes or other effects, what you can do with these.
I used the lights from OOT's Environments Space. Dome Orientation Y 280. Environment Intensity 1.50 Exposure Value 13.47, Film ISO 135.
I have MaryJane and Ayako. Gimme a minute and I'll find the renders I did of them.
Great! Looking forward to them!
Oooops sorry, I totally forgot!
This one is MaryJane. I used one of Colm's Iray Render Studio scenes here - a quick setup and render so I could just play with her. Outfit is the Trendsetter Outfit (believe it or not, that is actually my all time fave G3 outfit right now, especially weird coming from someone who's not interested at all in contemporary clothes). Hair is Edit hair, I believe? Pose is from DM's Sheer Class. Image is postworked also.
This one is Ayako. Wearing Ghost Suit by SynfulMindz (at their site) and the Tulip Hair for G3F by Aeon Soul here at DAZ. Lighting is agan from Colm's Iray Render Studio Scenes. I did do another Ayako one, but I don't particularly like it. It's a bit...gammin.
Don't really wanna show that one. LOL. This one I was way more happy with.
Also, AJ (SecondCircle) has a wonderful Iray light at his DA account for free, that is really good. I think it's also at Rendo's freestuff too.
His characters are fantastic. I really adore them. They are a little bit more petite than I usually like (Olympia 7 is still my #1 all time favourite figure), but I think they are fantastic. And apparently, he's coming to the DAZ store here too at some stage :)
Btw, I believe his promos of MaryJane and Ayako use his light set that I mentioned - I've used it a few times and think it's excellent. :)
And in case I've forgotten or mixed up the credits here, the correct credits of what I've used are in my Iray Portraits gallery here at DAZ:
http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#galleries/475291
Very nice renders jakiblue! I especially like your Ayako one.
I finally had a chance to do some renders yesterday. Our oldest daughter was celebrating her 10th anniversary in Florida so we were watching our 2, 5 and 7 year old grandchildren for four days. Whew! Lots of fun but I can see why you want to have children when you're young.
The products I used for these renders are older ones that I bought recently and first time I've given them a try. The scene is a kitbash of FirstBastion's Ridge Walk Mountains and Ansiko's Salem Church and Cemetery. The first render is 3DL using the skydome, lights, and fog camera from FirstBastion's set. I always like his sets as they give you a complete environment with good detail and in 3DL are fast rendering.
The second render is Iray. I wanted to see how easy or hard it would be to recreate the foggy scene. I used the camera and lights from AtmoCam for Iray and changed color and density to try to get a similar scene. It took a while to find the fog prop - it's attached to the camera, you have to use Hidden Line DrawStyle to see it, but since it covers the entire scene, you don't really see it unless you move it. Once you do, you'll see elements of the scene coming into view:
If you leave some of the scene outside the prop, those parts will render very differently than the rest of the scene, so best to enclose all. You can change the color and density of the prop separately, but I found they are not entirely independent - darker colors seem to render denser than lighter colors. If I left the prop at 100% scale, the church in the background was entirely hidden from view. I tried different scales until I found one that would be similar to the 3DL render (800%). I also found that I had to increase the light proportionally, otherwise the scene gets darker as the prop gets bigger. So I bumped the lights up 8x over the default. I did two renders, one at one hour and one at 3 hours (shown). The longer render was a little less grainy but still has more grain than I like. I may get better result once I have more experience using this camera/prop system.
Overall, for this set, I would stick with 3DL. It renders fast right out of the box and has a nice transition in textures from the foreground to the church, with some details still visible in the church.
I like Ayako's eyebrows!
Thanks for the tips Rich- that looks good with the fogginess.
did anyone notice that the freebie from daz was the stephanie 6 pro bundle? I didn't have stephanie 6 so I snatched it up as soon as I saw it in case it was a mistake lol
Love all of his stuff. This looks great!
I saw that and snatched as well...and for the same reason!
Except...wasn't it the starter bundle?
Wait! I just went and looked. It was the Stephanie 5 Starter bundle I got
Did I miss an earlier freebie?
Maybe it was the starter bundle but I swear it said pro. I was totally shocked. It is stephanie 5 my apologies I was just looking at 6 so typed the wrong one. Let me go see how many items were in that bundle..
6 items all together, I think
Yes that's right 6 items. Must be the starter bundle. I swear it said pro when I put it in my cart though. (I know I'm probably just crazy but I'm sticking to it)
Here is my new Stephanie 5, rendered using Iray, (which I am very average with...)
I think she's a doll! The dress came in the starter bundle.
Not exactly a new product, but new to me! I just picked it up today!
I have one cooking too! She looks great! I love how you used the scattering of leaves to pick up the colors of the dress...
I think she converts very well to Iray...
That looks really good!
Thank you! I didn't convert the eyes as I don't have a handle on those setting very well yet. And I think a lot of it has to do with Colm's lighting set ups lol but I am very pleased..