Does anyone use Everyday Labels & Signs?

bschollnick

I'm trying to make some jacket patches, and I'm having difficulty using iray decals for this...
I'm considering Everyday Labels & Signs, but it looks like it shouldn't be iray ready?

http://www.daz3d.com/everyday-labels-and-signs

Has anyone used with Daz 4.9?  And if so, does anyone know if I would have a problem using it with iray?  It wouldn't be an iray element, but can it work in a mixed environment?

    - Ben

maclean

There's no reason at all why it wouldn't work in an Iray scene. Although it was made before Iray came along, like any older content, the Iray material conversion is done automatically when you load and render. Alternately, you can apply the Iray base to materials, but you really only need to do that if you want to tweak the materials.

I think the main difficulty would be that the cloth patches are flat, so it might be tricky to lay them on an outfiit.

If you still aren't sure, you could always buy it, try it, and if it's not suitable, use the 30-day return policy.

bschollnick

Thanks.  I'll give it a try, it's on sale for $6, so it's not too much of a gamble...  

I just wish there was an easy way to do this.  It shouldn't be that hard.  I had it working by altering the texture, but for some reason, it broke when I changed computers...  Weird, and I haven't been able to get this working again via texture...  So obviously I'm doing something wrong...

Hopefully this will work reasonably...

Serene Night

I bought it. The challenge with jacket patches or tags is the curvature of the figure and poses will make even the best placed tag go wrong

Roman_K2

I like the pinback buttons in that set, but it's hard to say how the "yacht club" jacket patch looks without zooming in and trying it with various lighting setups and/or BUMP maps and/or shading or textures. I wonder if you could post more information about the way you want this to go?

If you are doing like a NASA or NASCAR patch, eg. something with lots of typography and graphics and colors it might be tricky... if it's something simple like the words "Grumpy's Garage" in an oval on a mechanic's coveralls say, it might be easier.

Btw I'm not up on the word "decal" when it is used this way. I recently saw something that was like rust and dirt smears on a transparent background (like in a TIFF file) and it was called "decals".