Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 9
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Oh snap. I didn't know that.
@cismic Very nice! I'm going out on a limb here (I don't think you'll mind though) to give a suggestion. Not a criticism- a suggestion. You might want to try lowering the lumens of some of the Ghost Lights so there's more drama, asymmetrical lighting. Right now my eye is pulled both directions with those honey-buns in the hair, as they look pretty symmetrical with the lighting. Having one side lessened with light and strong side lighting would make a big impact on that render. I also try to avoid lighting from directly overhead, over the shoulder and above adds more drama to rim lighting.
Here's the BOSS lights that show how a vendor sets up the lighting. Whenever I use lighting presets, I turn my figure so it's asymmetrically lit.BOSS lights are used in combination with each other or added lights, I think this one is good enough to be a stand alone. I would love to see your scene lit with BOSS. Sorry this is so small, it's the renders I did for the BOSS thread. And again, all this is just my opinion on the render, I love the energy and hair movement, colors, posing, etc. I just tend to favor side lighting and getting things a bit "uneven" in lighting. This is what I'd love to see on that one (and it's light number 10) Edit- if you mouse over the attached images, you'll see the BOSS light number.)
Was thinking it was something like that yes. Thanks!
Here is a test image with Kallisto and lighting entirely scene and surround by 6 ghost light panels. Top, bottom and all sides. Now, adjusting the lights little by little to see what can be done. The light behind was set at lums of 1M with the Backdrop a night spooky moon image. Was 56MB after 43 minutes. Will render this over the weekend.
Exposure Value 20.04,Shutter Speed 8000, F/Stop 10, ISO 135 Vignetting 2, Saturation 1.40, Gamma, 3.0
The hair was actually setup as all black, even with the philw hair shaders also using all black, This setup kind of gave the gray, white, black appearance. The dress would not work with Dforce at all. Crashed once, then when from base pose to this pose and blowups like a brain mushroom. After that just received error that says unable to load simulation. will try again another day. Nah, the last sentence is mine.
In the cart as it looks nice with all the extra props for use some place. :-) Thank you.
@cismic Very nice! I'm going out on a limb here (I don't think you'll mind though) to give a suggestion. Not a criticism- a suggestion. You might want to try lowering the lumens of some of the Ghost Lights so there's more drama, asymmetrical lighting. Right now my eye is pulled both directions with those honey-buns in the hair, as they look pretty symmetrical with the lighting. Having one side lessened with light and strong side lighting would make a big impact on that render. I also try to avoid lighting from directly overhead, over the shoulder and above adds more drama to rim lighting.
I really like the bosslight 10 image. Can see the coolness in the lights and could fit into many scenes. I even expanded the honeybun on the right side of her head. :-) Well, actualy that's because of the pose the fingers were growing hair! :-) I'll work with the lihgts in a similar fashion to the boss lights and see if I can get this more edgy. Thanks for the tip. I'll post an update to the image when render is complete. I think I it will be more dramatic.
do you mean the Winter Castle has 3dl shaders?,that set only has an Iray version and has a custom built Iray shader applied.
I think the Glitter Sweet Girls skin texture works well on young males. Here I used some morph dials to make a teen G8M (we need Growing Up to do a good job with that) and used the UV Swap to apply Glitter Sweet Girls skin to him. To me, the eyebrows look more at home on a male. In the kissing image, the girl is Monique 8 with Growing Up for G8F. The pose is from Tender Moments for Genesis 3, which I converted for Genesis 8.
Awww those are supe cute barbult.
Thanks, I thought I'd have a lot of trouble with the kissing pose, because the characters were morphed and scaled, but all I had to do was tweak the hand position of Monique and adjust the head very slightly. I was lucky!
In this evenings DIM there is a product update for Bend Control for Genesis 8 Female(s) and Kallisto for Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 Female.
Yeah poses with disparate height characters cause me trouble all the time.
@barbult Totally agree with SereneNight, that is just an adorable kissing scene! And yep, that skin totally works on him. Thanks for sharing how well that UV swap can be used to get more versatility from the skins.
Very nice. 2nd images remind me of the gkids asking to go play at the school park.
Well, that's truly embarrassing. I took the time to look at the shaders in depth, and I was most defintely wrong. I think it was that most of the properties used gray backgrounds, when I'm used to seeing colors for Iray and gray for 3DL. My apologies. I shall go correct my post now.
I'm sorry, and I'll pay closer attention next time.
And I love the set. That snow really does look amazing.
Me neither. Wow, what a good idea, I must try that - thanks Taoz
He looks great, Barbult - nice renders too.
Did anyone happen to purchase the Desert Mage, who can say whether the shoulder armour is separated (the metalic looking pieces from the promo pics)? The description shows Cape and Coat, so I'm thinking they may be together with either the cape or coat.
Desert Mage Outfit laid out. The shoulder armour isn't removable.
Ahh that's too bad. Thanks so much for the screenshots though, this was very helpful :)
But it's quite possible that you can make it invisible using Opacity. Question is though how things look underneath, if it's not meant to be removed.
I removed them using the Geometry Editing Tool. Those black marks are on the coat and not shadows as I moved the dome about but they never moved or went away.
Catching up! This is an older render of Trousseau, which is new to PC+ and was in the offerings within the past week. I draped it with VWD but Charlie tried it in dForce with good results. (I don't think I posted it here already, but can't remember.)
The healing tool in Photoshop will take that right out of a render. If it's baked into the texture, you could spiff that up in Photoshop. I don't own that one yet or I'd play with it.
Thanks again @Fishtales & @Taoz, yea I will probably end up buying it today to trigger another round of free props - the shoulder pieces and staff were the only things I really wanted out of there, but the price is so low that I can't really complain! That is strange about the dark spots though.
@Llynara This is beautiful!!
LOL don't take this wrong, but I got the giggles. You always know everything (well, 99.97%) and help me everytime I get stuck (which is often, of course) so when Stefan came on the thread (which we're honored) with that, I actually laughed and thought, "Okay, she's NOT a robot. She actually is human!" You've seen me do so many DUHs it's nice to have another member of the club. (We all belong, actually.)
@cismic That's coming right along!
Sometimes I hate Ati's app. You know, when you have that price chart showing that you could pick something up for 53 cents a month or so ago? Grrrrr. Anyway, there's not much in the Freebie section that want/need/don't have already, (only 43 things) but this little cutie struck my fancy. Armillary Sundial. It's Poser and an obj so no DS materials (assuming I can just shader it.) Also wanted to point out the tools, because if you do barns/farm/country the variety of shovels would come in handy. Square Shovels Round Shovels and there's other tools too such as rakes, anvils, etc.
Here's the others, for fast reference. Picking them up as my second group of freebies
Leaf, Rake, Pitchfork
Pick, Sledgehammer
Axes
Going to start rendering for you again today while doing housework, so pop back in. Keep the renders coming, loving what I'm seeing! @llynara That's a beautiful dress, love the flow. I don't think you'd shared that before.
EEEEEK. We're on page 99! (FYI, yesterday morning the thread was 46,089 view/posts, today we were at 46,654 at 11am my time (565 views/posts for 1 day) so it's rewarding to know people are seeing the renders and getting some good tips. (Thanks Taoz, that memory tip is awesome!)
Oh, my dear @Novica, giggle away. And if I come across as a know-it-all, I do apologize. I'm just real good at keeping quiet when I don't know something.
Trust me, there is a lot about Daz Studio I don't know... Like most of Daz Studio. Same with Photoshop and any number of other things. I'm adept at many of the features I use frequently and pretty much clueless about those I don't.
I am curious, and I love puzzles, so there are times when someone will ask a question that makes me want to find the answer. If I "solve the puzzle," I'll share. If I couldn't figure it out, I keep my virtual mouth shut!
Hugs.
You never come across as a know-it-all. EVER. You just seem to know it all! (You and @barbult @knittingmommy @serenenight @llynara @toyen @icedragonart @rgcincy @fishtales ...the list goes on.)
You've never come across as a know-it-all to me either, but one thing you come across to me as when you do know something is as a very good teacher. If ever I see a guide or explanation to something that's written by you, I know it's likely to be thorough yet accessible, and I'll understand the process when I'm done reading. Thanks for sharing the wisdom :)