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Thanks, Melanie!
The drive-in theater (or would that be 'theatre'?) was a uniquely American phenomenon (well, there are still a handful of them in Canada), so it doesn't surprise that you've never been to one.
The scene harkens back to the hey-day of the drive-in, in the Fifties and early Sixties. Originally, admission was priced by the car-load. Then, they started moving toward a price-per-person. The scene depicts an old high-school prank, when the kids would go to the local drive-in for their Friday-night date night (it was the make-out spot of choice for high-schoolers from coast to coast - dark, secluded, sodas and munchies a short stroll away); since the drive-in charged by the person, the more adventurous would load a couple of friends into the trunk (boot) of the car, and let them out once they were inside, and away from the prying eyes of the staff and management.
There was a similar vignette in the movie American Grafitti (I think - I dimly recall it, although I never actually saw the film in its entirety; can't stand Ron Howard, and to me, the Fifties were the most boring decade in the history of boredom!), thus the 'Apologies to George Lucas' (he directed it).
I couldn't initially work out how to fit the Cyclorama and the King's Pass together as they are at vastly different scales, but then I discovered an Ancient Egyptian Cyclorama texture in my Runtime, which gave me this idea ...
TAG:MelanieL#4
Title: Mission Impossible
This one is great. You made wonderful use of your pulled items and added the perfect accessories. It looks like you found some great free stuff to complement your theme, too. It is definitely on my short list for "best". I can even imagine that it is even true - anything for the tourist buck! Have you been to the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo? It is an awesome place. I was there in 2002. You have captured the feel of it and of the painted walls of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens.
A rather weak ending, I must say....
The Drama Queen Drama pose worked on Genesis, too - after I un-twisted his thighs! (And you just know getting him into that pose had to hurt like hell!)
And I was actually able to get that Underground King piece of crap to work - on Genesis, letting auto-fit do all the heavy lifting. (I loaded a Michael 4 figure into DS and tried the shirt - it turned up invisible; showed up in the scene hierarchy view, but not in the viewport. And it flatly refused to render. Getting it to work in any version of Poser that I use, though, just was not going to happen! Oh, well, it's a ridiculous-looking outfit, anyway!)
Also used:
Fairy Goth Mother (textures for Goth as Fashion)
Erin Hair (V3)
Mark Hair ("Flaming" Genesis)
Ronin Texture (with tats) for Genesis
Pure Hair Messy (Genesis/M5)
Lynette (V4 morphs, texture, & make-up)
Lynette's Dark Nights
TAG: obanion#07
Title: No Thanks, I'll Take the Stairs
Victoria was starting to wonder if this April Fool's day rave was such a good idea, after all - especially if the words 'body count' might figure in the press coverage.
"Oh, no! No way! This thing looks like it has only one trip left in it, and that's down! I saw that segment of Mythbusters! I'll take the stairs, thank you very much!"
In an effort to redeem myself after that last, seriously lame entry, I'm going to toss out a non-compete. (Like none of you saw that coming, right?)
Here's the pull:
1584 - Light the Way
847 - CS Snaggletooth Caverns
444 - Hot Tub Pergola
1727 - Fantasy Camp III
Okay, this isn't funny!
I bet it will be when you're done!
...Stick pins in Ken's doll.... :coolgrin:
Again!
Pins? More like sharp poles!
Great posts in this thread btw, what a great contest this time!
TAG:MelanieL#5
Title: Bathtime Bliss
After a long day at work, Addie was enjoying a relaxing bath: immersed in foam, surrounded by scented candles and with her favourite music playing, what bliss!
So when Cal decided to surprise her, bringing the dogs with him was not his smartest idea ...
Also Used:
Addie = Genesis with Addison morph and texture
Cal = Genesis with Caleb texture, K-Nicky hair and Towel Set for Genesis
CD Player
Dream Home Bathroom and Bathroom Fixtures
Thanks for the comments barbult - no, never been to Cairo (never been further east than Crete) but I used to be keen on Ancient Egyptian stuff as a kid :)
Thanks for the info, Ken - I'd seen plenty of drive-ins on film, but not come across the one you mention, nor the cheapskate's method of entry!
Next pull:
282 = House of Mog Ruith - Interior
397 = Cista Sanctus
11 = Classic Casual for V4
334 = Divinity Skies Oracle
Oh no, another excess of environments!
TAG:MelanieL#5
Title: Bathtime Bliss
After a long day at work, Addie was enjoying a relaxing bath: immersed in foam, surrounded by scented candles and with her favourite music playing, what bliss!
So when Cal decided to surprise her, bringing the dogs with him was not his smartest idea ...
Also Used:
Addie = Genesis with Addison morph and texture
Cal = Genesis with Caleb texture, K-Nicky hair and Towel Set for Genesis
CD Player
Dream Home Bathroom and Bathroom Fixtures
ROFL - That was too close my reality, but I don't need to bring the dogs, they run into the bathroom all by them self if someone is in the bath, to save them from the evil water!
Great one!
The Snookification of Nevertown
Tag: Luci45#6
Every year on the first day of April the Gods of Random dispatch a new resident to Nevertown. The eager citizens, who so far have lived in harmony in spite of cultural differences, await the appearance of the new arrival in a sparkling cyan cloud under the white arches .
Moroccan Dreams for Victoria 4
Never Square
Audacious for Defiant
East Park High Hallways
Little Miss Maggie
Also used:
Loretta, Lorenzo Lorez and LoRez Monk and Arab Male
PH Sleek Hair
Ron's Fog and Fairy Dust brushes
Jepe's Elements
NeverHome
Angela for V4
Christina hair
Champaigne bottle Rendo Freebee (by feliz84)
Axel m5
Duke Hair
V4 Bikini
Free Hotub from most-digital-creations
PH Charming
V5 Olivia
Genesis, Kids4 and V4
Ooh Luci - I love your weird brain! Love this render and the idea!
Ooh Luci - I love your weird brain! Love this render and the idea!
Thanks, Totte! That is a truly great compliment coming from your wonderfully weird brain. :cheese:
...haven't forgotten.
Been working on my first (and most likely only) submission.
Reposting the items drawn:
640 RM Melancholy Baby (Rendo)
263 Feeling SIck Cold Stuff
322 Gramps Mad Scientist
59 Atmospheric Effects Cameras
Tag: Karibousboutique #4
Also used: V4A4 Bun Hair (3D Universe), Anais Summer (4blueyes), M4 Casual Wear Surf (Lobo75), Terradome (Colm), FR-Leonora (Freja), Jepe's Sang (Jepe), Fantasy Warrior Hair (Pretty3D), Gaia for Victoria 4 (Ravenhair), DM Mixed Fantasy (Danie, marforno), Sheer Terror (blondie9999).
I had absolutely no inspiration for this whatsoever. Meh. The randomizer is fickle...
Title: Annual Spring Fling Gone Awry
Posting an Annual Spring Fling invite on the "Water Deities and Minions" Facebook page had SEEMED like a harmless April Fool's Day prank...
obanion#06 -- As a former member of my drama club... yes. A fine lesson to learn!
emsim #1 -- Love the expressions!!
Totte#05 -- This is SO fantastic!! Best idea ever. Seamless and witty trick for putting all that stuff together!
warmblood#1 -- Adorable AND clever. Love the sheep. :)
gopherus#3 -- LOL! NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!! Love the reference!
Luci45#5 -- It's like college all over again. tee-hee!
MelanieL#4 -- the scale model idea is awesome!
obanion#07 -- LOL. I saw that segment of Mythbusters, too!
MelanieL#5 -- Oh.... no. That would be wretched! I had my cat fall in the bath with me once. NOT fun!
Luci45#6 -- Love "The Gods of Random" and the number of figures in this is amazing!!
And, now for my next pull... Again, challenging myself with 5 items.
KaribousBoutique #5
739 DM Kerricks Throne
2264 RM Dioni A4/V4
3191 Winter Wonder 2006 -- Snow Lake
795 Dragons Rest
2219 Red Sands Temple
Like Luci45#5 -- FOUR environments! Ack... I hope I can be as creative as she was!
Luci45 that one made me crack up.
And KaribousBoutique, I like the way the hydroexplosions turned out, pretty funny!
@MelanieL thanks for your comments.. clever! the morphing python would have been perfect
#4 nice one! Wonder if whoever claimed that there was an Atlantian archive under the paw of the sphinx was doing a prank
#5 lol. Sometimes it s the only way to give a german shepherd a bath. just pull him in with you.
@Ken following a cold basement with a fantasy hot tub. you certainly are drawing the extremes.
@Luci45 #6 Shades of Brigadoon. a good one!
@KaribousBoutique thanks for your comments.
#4 love the water effects. seems like a good water ride would be perfect for a spring fling.
...OK have a general question.
As we've just seen, Daz had changed the format of our order history once again. This has thrown a major spanner in the works as Taozen's History Manager no longer works to generate the spreadsheet for randomising purposes.
I attempted to use the DIM, but for one, I notice a number of items are still not "set up" for the new Library format, and next, It results in a lot of duplicate product lines. Even filtering down to just Daz 3 and 4.5, still captures "Legacy" "StudioCF" and some "Ps" (Poser) listings. including the Daz "<3.0" filter also captures a lot of Poser listings.</p>
As there is no simple way to capture just the product name list anymore, this means having to do a tonne of manual editing to delete all the duplicate entries line by line, a real pain if, like many of us, you have a lot of items.
The other option is to go through page by page of the product list on the sidebar of the Content Library screen, still a tedious process and not a very good solution when updating the list for new purchases (like after March Madness).
I think you can use the quite extensive regex search field in DIM to get what you want, combine it with a hide.
Otherwise, no clue.
...what is the "regex" search field? Don't see any option/setting named this.
if you check the manual page Advanced Filtering , you'll see ;-)
...looked at it and unfortunately that goes way over my head.
OK, this is my final one, really... :lol:
April Foolishness
Every April the Wizzard Zaphire invades the Mog Ruith Tavern with a band of dwarfs. The extra bonus and the big tips help Nenok's patience hold out until the end of their foolishness (It usually lasts three or four days. Poor girl.)
Tag: Luci45#7
Used
House of Mog Ruith - Interior
Maya V4
Teen Swag
Elements hair for Genesis
Dream Home: Kitchen Appliances - V4 Poses
Also used
Lorenzo LoRez, LoRez Arab and LoRez Monk and Varsel free pants for L LoRez
Medieval Tavern table stuff
Jepe's Elements and other stuff
GOM Dwarf
Ron's Angel Dust
Filter Forge
I want to squeeze in one more, but I'll be gone most of tomorrow, so that doesn't leave me much time. This is what I got:
1151 Pimp My Prop
5 Victoria 4.2
117 Sushi Time 1
31 Road Roller
203 Diner Tableware
...OK finally. This has been been a project of epic level (particularly since I was still setting things up on the new machine while working on it).
TAG Kyoto Kid #1
The four items drawn
640 Melancholy Baby by Rebelmommy
263 Feeling SIck Cold Stuff by Valandar (the Soon-A-Fed pack in Aiko's hand)
322 Gramps Mad Scientist by 3DUniverse
59 Atmospheric Effects Cameras by Age of Armour (Smog Preset at 225m)
The scene has a tonne of individual props in it, so much so, that it kept crashing 4.5 on the new workstation while working on the scene itself. Even with all the "clutter", the rendering took just over 22 min total
Other content included (pull up a chair):
-Toon Gramps by 3DUniverse
-Aiko3
-Goth Dollz vol. 2 for Aiko3 by Ryverthorn
-Posh Hair by by Bobbie25
-A Curious Pub by Jack Tomalin
-Floor from Silence by Laurie S.
-Hanging Wires from Above the Cyberpunk Streets by Coflek-Gnorg
-Pull String Lights from Light The Way by ARTCollaborations
-Fire Cabinet, Fire Extinguisher, and Filter Unit from Section 18 by 3Dage/Age of Armour
-Gas cylinders, containers and Jerrycan from Real Tanks and Containers by DZFire
-Work Tables and metal Shelves from The Armory by DZFire
-Chair from Interrogation Room by 2dFXman
-Old Stool from Industrial Room by 3-D-C
-Push Broom and Pail from Janitor Gear by Valandar
-Sci Fi Cylinder (on upper shelf) from SciFi Crates & Containers by Stonemason
-Coffee Maker and Blender from Countertop Appliances by Valandar
-Coffee Cup from Diner Tableware 1 by Blondie9999
-Toolbox, Duct Tape, and Wrench from Tools & Toolbox by Valandar
-Wine bottle and glass from Le Village Bundle by Faveral
-Jepe's SteamZ (2)
-Jepe's FlameZ (2)
-Golf bag and Clubs by Valandar
-Book from The Library by Jack Tomalin
-Candle from Candle Collection by ARTCollaborations
-Wall Clock from Classic Furniture Assortment by by Serrge
-Amphora from Magic Jars and Containers by Valandar
-Dice from Board Games by Valandar
-Crate from Army Truck 1930 Plus by Serrge
For Doc Brown's Dinner:
-Plate and flatware from Diner Tableware by Blondie9999
-Bacon potatoes and muffin from Diner Food 1 by Blondie9999
For the fairy music box on the upper shelf:
-Sadie by 3DUniverse
-Sadie Fae by Thorne/Sarsa
-Lisa's Botanicals (Cinnamon Fern, Day Lilies, Tall Grass, Petunias)
-Lily Patch from Le Village Bundle by Faveral
-Base Camp (Base, Glass Dome and Music Box Key) by TheAntFarm
Freebie items
-Zenith 500 Radio from the old Daz Freebie Vault
-Spam (5) by TrekkieGrrrl
-Exploder (old time detonator) by D. Bell
-Science Bench by DryJack (Note: all of the flasks jars and other apparatus are separate props that load parented to the bench, 29 individual items total)
-Sonic Screwdriver by JHoagland (every eccentric scientist needs one of these)
-Funnel Prop by Ajax (used as shades for hanging lights)
..(*whew*) and Bob's Your Uncle.
The final optimisation count indicated the scene contained a total of 162 individual items.
Now after all that, Now the story (this took a bit of thought to work into the theme)...
Title; Lost in Translation...
While on an early spring Holiday across the pond, Emily had run out of allergy meds. Not completely familiar with the town she was at, she stopped a couple young yanks outside the hotel and inquired of them as to where the nearest "Chemist's shop" was where she could procure the medication she needed. The two lads smiled, whispered something to each other, then "very politely" pointed her in the "proper" direction.
She remembered hearing them giggling as they quickly scampered off but thought little of it...
...that was until she entered the small stone shop with the the Name "Dr Brown - Chemist" on the worn sign outside. It then became all to clear (more so than the acrid air inside) that those "friendly and helpful" lads had thoroughly snookered her.
...that was a workout.
...time for bed now..
Wow, KK, is there anything left in your runtime that got left out??! This is a great one!
Well, finally did something with this, though I'm not particularly happy with the results, but here goes...
TAG:MelanieL#6
Title: Surprise Package
April was annoyed because Jim seemed to have forgotten that April 1st was her birthday: in fact he'd disappeared after breakfast with never a word. But then she discovered a rather strange object in the hall. When she approached to see what it was, out popped a gift-wrapped Jim yelling "April Fool: Surprise!"
Used:
HoMR-Interior - Table, chairs, candelabras, wall-lights and staircase
DS-Oracle - Much shrunken and slightly wrecked!
Also Used:
Jim = Genesis with Axel M5 skin and shape and Pure Hair Cool, wearing a bow tie (from 3 piece suit for M3), shorts (from Wilmap's freebie Genesis Underwear), ribbons (from Happily Ever After for V4) and Balloons
April = Genesis with Tori skin and Orion hair
Well, I'm so glad I did draw number 7 (sarcasm):
1017 = Perfect Jewelry Boxes
93 = Safari Starter
626 = Ye Olde Clothe Bundle (shaders)
606 = Jeweled Finery
By the time I've figured something out and done it there's a good chance I'll have missed the deadline, but I suppose I'd better give it a shot!
Another catchup:
Ken OBanion "No Thanks, I'll Take the Stairs" - yes, I love elderly lifts too! (or rather elevators on your side of the pond)
Luci45 "The Snookification of Nevertown" - I may be missing something here (like what is Snookification???) but it's a beautiful render, I love the misty atmosphere.
"April Foolishness" - another lovely one, funny and pretty - her hair won't last the visit!?
KaribousBoutique "Annual Spring Fling Gone Awry" - another beauty! I love the effects and the colours.
Kyoto Kid "Lost in Translation" - nice idea, and so much detail! Good one.
Thanks to Totte, KaribousBoutique and gopherus for the comments on my #'s 4&5 - my grandmother used to have labradors and they always went for water in any form. We had an alsatian (aka German Shepherd) when I was a child and when he was a puppy he used to follow Gran's dogs everywhere until the day they jumped into a beck (small river) - so did he, but the look on his face! He never jumped in again (he hated baths too).