Blenworth castle summer 2016 [Was re: Non-Genesis Content with Metadata]

Roman_K2

Aha, I've been having some sort of trouble with the "Blenworth" prop. Give me a bit of slack if I'm off-base on some of this, but most recently it seems the scene was no longer in Smart Content my DS 4.8 installation under Win7. Looking around, I found the castle grounds under "Products" and the .OBJ file could definitely be imported from the hard drive, but I couldn't texture it for some reason - no materials files for the stone walls etc.

Looking at an earlier version of DS under WinXP, I believe I found a folder named "Tx_Lib" (or something similar) instead of "Textures", which made me think there may have been a sort of "product update" at some point, or the latest DIM's were installing things differently, or...??? Not sure.

Bingo, in the message thread at http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/48139/ ("Non-Genesis Content with Metadata")  it says that Blenworth was updated or something to that effect... what's up with that I wonder/not sure I understand.

Anyway I uninstalled the Blenworth product from DIM, under Win7 and DS 4.8, and downloaded it and re-installed it. Much better! Still a bit hard to find in the content library but I love the shadows that the light set gives! See attached screen shot of the doorway being rendered. Still have to adjust the gloss on the various surfaces in 3DL but overall = big improvement.

In my test scene I have the "Prince" limousine by Petipet parked in the driveway. I think I messed up the materials on the car because I'm getting a strange display in the preview, in DS 4.8 here (see screen shot). Checking the actual render (screen shot) I see the roof of the car is fine although I got some purple paint on the wheels and spokes! Will fix later and hopefully I can make the roof of the car more glossy.