Glad to see people are signing up! Good to have you here. And welcome!

Morning! And welcome to the newcomers. Nice to have you with us.

Goldenthrush said:

Portable Sensory deprivation with porthole for optional thumb sucking?

LOL!

We have another fresh face! When Leander signs in, y'all say hello! *waves in anticipation*

Nice and sunny here. Was curling up and basking in it for a spell. Not sure what the rest of the day holds yet. :)

Me, I'm working on my this interminable re-write, having gotten to a really old bit of text. Man, this is not easy, keeping all the threads together and moving in a new direction.

Also: Assam Golden Rain tea. Which sounds sort of dirty, but it's not.

I just came back from a baby shower. Was surprised since it was one of the doctors I work with. Pleasantly surprised that she took the time to invite me, :) 

Hmm, nice to see stuff for Anastasia, though I haven't bought her yet. I'm toying with a render now; I'll post a WIP later. :D

Thanks for the welcome, everyone! :D

Hey Valis, good to have you here.

Apropos of nothing...formatting a volume on a 2 TB hard drive takes a LONG time...but I have my fingers crossed that this new Synology NAS enclosure will work out. Please, oh divine Computa, goddess of electronics!

Says a prayer for nano's NAS


< waves to everybody showing up here >

Heloooo!

mylemonblue said:

Says a prayer for nano's NAS


< waves to everybody showing up here >

Thank you, thank you.

Tea! Yum! Thankies much, Nan, :)

Nanobot said:

Valis44 said:

Oh and Nano? I swear to you, that I will lay off the blur filters.....this time. ^_~

Promises, promises. *hugs and cookie-snatch*

*hugs back* 

PS. More people have been invited. Just waiting for them to show up. ;)

Good Evening. Question to Mr GOM( but everybody is welcome to help me out of my ignorance): if you want to create a facial scar that is old and behaves more like a deep slash, would you make a morph target for that or do it with the texture? If the latter, would you have to use a grey scaled disp map rather than black and white? ( I.e. in poser most displacement maps are mainly black to indicate the a sense of displacement. in this case the area of the scar is supposed to go inwards, while veins and so on stay proud of the face surface.)

Example:

The picture above is what's called a hypertrophic scar, because it's had plenty of time to build up collagen and rise from the skin surface.  Scars that go inwards are called atrophic scars, and they're usually caused because the site of the wound became badly infected, and the layers of skin beneath the surface experienced further damage, preventing fat cells from moving in.  They're actually somewhat rare nowadays, as we have antibiotics.  In the Bad Old Days before antibiotics, however, their commonality depended upon where you were injured, and what wound treatment method was used (if any).   Hollywood has made them appear very common, because there's a product called Rigid Colloidium™ that's used to make "pucker" scars by painting a chemical on the skin.  When it dries, it draws the skin inwards, making it look like a scar.  Example:



Though that looks real, it's not - it's makeup called Rigid Colloidium™.  Generally speaking, this kind of scar is rather rare prior to the 19th century, as most people who got wounds that became that badly infected simply died of gangrene.

The third major type of scar is called keloid scars.  The darker your skin, the more likely you are to get them when you have an injury.  A keloid scar is one that is formed mostly out of keloid tissue - they're darker than the surrounding skin, and raised up like a welt.  And, as the years pass, they get bigger (both wider and longer), darker, and more raised from the skin, often developing small benign nodules you can feel when you press on them.

A surgical keloid scar.  It's raised up quite a bit from the skin, and spread wider and longer than the original wound.  And, as this person gets older, it will only get darker, wider, longer and bigger.

Oh, oh! *takes notes* I actually want to add a scar to one of my characters too. So, displacement map. Got it. Is there a best way to "paint" the scar itself or are there brushes, pngs, etc that can be used?

AngelusPrime said:

Oh, oh! *takes notes* I actually want to add a scar to one of my characters too. So, displacement map. Got it. Is there a best way to "paint" the scar itself or are there brushes, pngs, etc that can be used?

That part, I can't help with, I'm not great at making textures.

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