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Questions About Urban Future 4 Psy District

CathyMCathyM Posts: 261
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Hi! I am really tempted to buy this but I have a few questions for anyone who already owns this set:

1) Does it work in DS 4.5 (latest version)? I noticed the requirements said version 3 and up, but it also said it was based on Light Dome Pro, which sadly DOESN'T work in DS 4+.

2) I am also wondering - I have no experience with making rain/water effects and have been unsuccessful finding any tutorials that could help me, which is why I am considering this - whether the effects (rain/fog/wet flooded streets) could be used with other sets, or whether it HAS to be used with Urban Future 4 street level - thanks for any help anyone can offer! -Cathy

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  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,902
    edited December 1969

    The model will work just fine in DS45

    I dont do whether effects so I cannot advise on teh second question

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    The set works well in DS 4.5.

    For rain effects I don't know how easy it is to load the rain props separately. I've have personally been using the rain props from FM prison in several renders and just added some reflection to the ground, works well.

  • CathyMCathyM Posts: 261
    edited December 1969

    Thanks Mattymanx and Totte! I was wondering about the lights working in DS 4.5 - I LOVE Light Dome Pro and was really sorry it didn't get updated.

    Totte I appreciate your input on the rain effects - (I haven't got the FM Prison, and it's kind of expensive for my budget :down:) I've tried putting reflection on a ground before without any noticeable effect - can you give any advice as to how this works? Do I need to add a plane over the actual ground plane? Or do I add reflection to the ground plane itself - and if so, do I need to add a picture/special color/setting in order to make it work? Sorry for all the questions, thanks for your answers so far! -Cathy

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,639
    edited December 1969

    I am not an expert with daz, however I had psy district on my wishlist, and bought it today.picture 1 is a default render with nada changed. I think it looks pretty good, with the exception of the lighting and perhaps the angle of the rain. The lighting at default is over-exposed and the rain, I would like to be able to adjust to the angle.

    The second picture I applied the light, fog, and rain effect to the hilly surround prop, and took the default lighting out, and replaced with predatron lights. I think the effect looks good. The default lighting on this scene looked awful with this prop. This is just an example of something you can do with this product.

    rainy-sky.jpg
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    rainy-scki.jpg
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  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    Great (I couldn't test yesterday, had a render cooking. And about reflective, I just set reflection 15%-20% on the material, but use raytracing and lights that are getting reflected, but different materials require different settings, here is one with PSY district and one using FM rain and reflective grounds.

    Old renders btw (one from the RRRR contest)

    record-hat-or-bot.jpg
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    bladerunning_s.jpg
    1200 x 960 - 215K
  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited March 2013

    It says "Based of the LDP2 technology" meaning the plug-in side has been left out so only the lights remain.

    The rain effects are just a series of planes with Rain texture maps and opacity maps applied giving you the illusion of depth.

    Searching Google will show how to make your own. Basically it just a case of adding "Noise" and "Motion Blur" to the noise, adjust "Levels" so you get more light and dark contrast. When happy duplicate the layer and adjust to get more Black and White contrast for the Opacity Map, or overlay this duplicate over a black layer. The end result should be very black and where the rain is white or white grey. Apply these two maps to a Daz Studio Primitive plane, repeat until you have a number of them and parent to the Camera. No it isn't easy but with practice it is doable. Rain map go in to Diffuse and Opacity map in Opacity strength.

    http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/rain/

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  • IppotamusIppotamus Posts: 1,579
    edited March 2013

    Quite a few of the recent Dreamlight sets seem way over exposed to me as well.
    The metal works set was set to searing eyeball levels.
    Not quite sure what is up with that, but easy enough to fix. :)

    Been working with a lot of the light sets (not Light Dome).
    They have all worked in 4.5 :)

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  • HeraHera Posts: 1,957
    edited December 1969

    @Totte - Absolutely love that Michael Jackson cover thingie!!!

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    Herakleia said:
    @Totte - Absolutely love that Michael Jackson cover thingie!!!

    Thanks!
    DzFire enjoyed his wife with it he told me (printed it as a CD cover I think)
  • CathyMCathyM Posts: 261
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for your replies guys, especially thanks for the advice Szark and SereneNight, thanks for making the renders - I'm going to try to create this effect myself I think. Totte wow fantastic pictures! Love the dancing robots :-) -Cathy

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