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GRIM said:
The finished, raw render.
Saw this over at D/A. If I'd had socks on, they would have been knocked off. :)
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Thank you! :) Been working on a G2M with Jerrith's morphs in mind as well. I may just make him a different character, but Jerrith is coming along great too.So the big pic is the G2M, and the teeth of course is Jerrith's newest shaders for the teeth, mouth, tongue area.
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Here we go...Alex test driving Goth boots for M4. Tomorrow is his birthday! (Really. I put it in the book and everything.) And Wayii's textures for Prae's Fade, too. :)
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I do not wish to offend those who have actually made Studio and the various Genesis mutations work for them. I *do* wish to offend DAZ the company for their general business model and the way they make you re-buy everything every two years with this "Newest and best and we're retiring the rest!" bullshit.
I want Wayii to post her Daisy Rose pix on this forum to show what devotion to a decent character can achieve.
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GRIM said:
He's delish, Nan! Those boots... I adore, love those boots!
And QFE on G2M? O.o Whazzat?? o.O
If you actually had free time, I would ask you to beta test them.
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Oh, I agree...they have a nasty business sense and it pisses me off to no degree.Still, I wanted to branch out a bit for others- not them - and see if I can actually deal with the figure and it's issues. That, and perhaps make a bit more change to purchase a few things I need for my first used program! XD....Free time? *Snicker* If you need, I can make time. Truly. S'what we do for each other as fellow Noirists, right? I'm currently working on creating decent normal maps and editing them to get them to work without seams. I'm going to post the ones I did for Trystan as a freebie, but I want to get this process perfected for future products."I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain.
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and on that note- updates on the normal issues on Trystan.You will see some nasty seams that were created when the normals were done in ShaderMap Pro 3 first. Then the progress of me fixing them in the pictures. I'll post the "finals" in another post. Not FINAL, since I'm still experimenting, but you get the idear.
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Painted out seams: (just the limbs so far)
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You wouldn't usually want the normals up that high, so I think that the painted-smooth seams will be cool.
Jim noted to me that Poser has an ugly habit of needing its maps to be painted over the UV edges by at least 10 or 20 pixels. That may be some of the issue. Just FYI.
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Nanobot said:
You wouldn't usually want the normals up that high, so I think that the painted-smooth seams will be cool.
Jim noted to me that Poser has an ugly habit of needing its maps to be painted over the UV edges by at least 10 or 20 pixels. That may be some of the issue. Just FYI.
Ah- I hadn't realized, and in Poser I do turn the normals down to below .07 most times. With Studio, if the normal maps are in the dial- I can turn them down to freakin' 0 and they don't change. Why, I don't know yet.I had no idea on how to paint on normals anyway until two days ago to top it off. I found tips in an old gamer forum where they make props for Unity and had my ah-ha moment. lol"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. " Mark Twain. -
My proudest moment here was using Substance Painter to do the dirty texture maps (on either side of the violet boot). Of course, I now see where I could tweak...it'll never end...
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More boot porn! :D Testing out the promo design.
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None of the morphs for V4 on them, or the laces/swing morphs. Just the basics so far. V4, however, is ready to stomp weasels. And OMG I used rendered hair! The world will end soon.
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One hopes. They look reasonably good.
V4's feet twist a bit compared to M4's, so the fitting was a funky job. Modo was up to it, fortunately. I got a lot of use out of the radial (spherical) falloffs for moving, rotating, and scaling. Wasn't nearly as hard as I had feared.
Jim does all this in Poser...but I find it hard to see the results in Poser sometimes, between the camera and the lights (which you don't have to muck with in a modeler).
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BTW, that's "Perfect V4" with all of those mods on her. Bloats the file a bit, but she moves more smoothly.
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Re: rendered - just wanted it to be a quick proof-of-concept. Not caring about perfect hair. This time.
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Again. Rounder ladies also stomp weasels. Morphs transferred, laces morphs added.
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Heh. Sometimes I just don't want to spend the extra half-hour to paint.
Man, after many good suggestions, Das Booties are evolving in a positive fashion. They're so tightly modeled that now, without displacement on the uppers, there's a bit of poke-through. >_< So I'm including Hide/Show M4 Feet poses. Because I just don't have it in my to add fit JCMs unless someone squawks at me. Which they might, you never know.
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Just submitted Das Booties to the Rendo store. Now a *different* phase of hoop-jumping begins. :)
Heh. I liked it so much I framed it and hung it on the forum wall.
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Hey guys, I'm looking to get some input on painting hair in postwork from the talented people here. I worked from Mavrosh and Nan's hair painting tutorials for this, but it's still looking more painted in anime style instead of looking like it belongs. I wanted to get some more eyes to look at it and see if there are any pointers you can give me to get it where it needs to be.
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I hope you don't mind that I inserted the image into the post. :) I has mod skillz!
Anyhow. Hair! This is a good start, really. You blocked it in well, and have a pretty strong grasp of where the highlights fall and so forth. I wouldn't have necessarily put them all the way back or in that bit just below his ear, given that there is strong light in front of him.
And while having it stream straight back is cool...that's a strong wind. and the willow tree behind him is looking perfectly still. I would suggest backing off on having the bulk of it whirling behind him for a fairly realistic picture. Unless he's *supposed* to be facing into a super strong wind?
What makes it anime-like is that it's still in chunks all the way down to the ends--and big chunks. but they're moving as if they weigh nothing. The thing to do is to Google "men with long hair" and then analyze what turns up.
Mainly, I would have said (if I were watching over your shoulder while you painted) to keep the outlines of the whole shape but not fill it in solidly all the way to the ends away from the scalp. It just doesn't stick together like that unless it's, er, really greasy and dirty. And then it would be stringy. The strands get fluffier the farther from the head you go, and they spread out and behave more chaotically.
Here's a Native American fellow with gorgeous hair and a bit of a breeze.
To analyze: It's all pretty much the same length, so you wouldn't get the short chunks near his head. Also, it's very heavy and doesn't lift quite as much as the fellow you have depicted in a bit of a hair hurricane. It stays together, mostly, and the flutters only in a few outer strand and at the very ends. Where the anime-likeness has BIG chunks of flyaway, this guy has only tiny strands. Also, his hair has a subtle variety of shades of brown, even though he clearly has very dark Native American hair,. The highlights do have a blueish color, but that's blended with the rest a bit more and are relatively small.
Block in the hair with a hard round brush. Then to fill in and progressively detail, if you are hopefully painting with a tablet, the soft round brush would not only be about 70% opacity and 70% flow, but also has a dynamic transfer, opacity jitter, and size jitter. If you can use Photoshop .abr files, I've attached a set of two in a zip file, below.
With about a 2400x2400 sized picture, you would lay out the basic shapes close to his head with around a 13 pixel harder brush, and then go progressively smaller. Use about a 4 or 5-pixel softer detail brush once you get the colors in to make progressively smaller shapes.
Thing is, you stopped after you got the large shapes down, and needed to also create the medium and smaller and tiny shapes, working your way down to the highlights last.
I could probably go on all night...but let's stop here for now.
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I went back and mucked up his lovely countenance to point out some of the shapes I see. Mostly it's defined by (a) scale relative to the figure and (b) contrast of light and dark. It's this general replication of the fractal nature of something this organic that makes it look "real". :)
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No problem! And thank you for the input, Nan! I will continue to work at it and let you know when it's finished or I need more help. hahaI am going for a stronger wind, at least that's what I had in mind, and thought about the trees after it rendered. I'm going to have to go back and see what I can do with the willow especially, it's a plane so it maybe deformers? All else fails, I'll do it on it's own layer and go from there. There's another tree on the same level as my character that I need to replace already since I'm not happy with it, and I have to rerender the sword with the background to get the reflections back. This would be so much easier if my PC didn't need an upgrade. XD
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I feel ya on the upgrade. Having the poor thing act like it's anemic and asthmatic is just awful.
I've had my computer woes for the year.
I went to upgrade my C: drive (only the OS is on the C: drive, plus whatever garbage programs insist upon) to a larger SSD about 3 weeks ago. Tried to clone the drive and it apparently had bricked itself. Utterly. Could not boot in any fashion. But! I haz a Maingear! So I called customer service and after diagnostics juju, they avowed that the motherboard might have a problem. Cost to me: just shipping her up to New Jersey and the cost of a new motherboard, if necessary.
What happened: Windows had just...dissolved or something. Motherboard was fine. They installed Win 10 (after consulting with me) on the new larger Samsung SSD, popped the old SSD in as a spare drive slot, upgraded some BIOS stuff, and sent her back. No further cost to me. Whoah. I seriously puffy-heart MainGear. It's a boutique hardware integration outfit; they make wonderful boxes of all sorts. And the customer service is just outstanding. <3 <3 <3
Anyhow...I'm reinstalling programs. Such a bore, but hey, my baby's back! and I still have all my data.
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That is some great customer service! I may have to keep MainGear in mind when purchasing my next computer.It seems Studio is using 99% of my CPU while rendering, so I can't just slap a few sticks of RAM or a new video card in to fix it anymore. :\
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That's a lot of usage.
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Good lord. Studio is hogging that much processing power?
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So strange about that CPU hogging. Studio, arrgh.
And yes, Maingear has been a lot of bang for the buck. That and customizing your build online is nice--even nicer to call them up and discuss what you're trying to build for. The reps will talk and make unbiased recommendations. They are SUCH gearheads, and real sweeties.
I chatted with their sales manager during my last build--for my desktop that they just fixed up. (Runs great now.) Told him about needing not-so-much GPU muscle as crunching ability for rendering for 3d apps and Photoshop. He said they were getting a lot of similar requests from CGI industry customers--and now they have a three levels of CGI-purposed monster machine.
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With the recent furor at Rendo about G3 freebie, some of us were wondering if there's a bit of community die-off in progress?
Personally, I've found the re-buy churning from DAZ since the Genesis introduction particularly unattractive. Never mind how hard they're trying to shut out Poser. :(
Jeez. And all software seems to be going subscription. (Damn you, Adobe!) How long before Studio goes subscription?
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