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  • mori_mannmori_mann Posts: 1,152
    edited December 1969

    Ah, my guilty pleasure is using a male charecter to test out dresses for me. So yes, dressing guys in female clothes is totally cool.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    Hi mori_mann, thanks for looking. I'm going to take a break from dressing Justin in female clothes.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    Comparison of Julie and Laura. I can dial breast morphs for Genesis unlike Laura. This simple scene uses 930 MB of memory Wow.

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  • TrishTrish Posts: 2,625
    edited December 1969

    What are you up to ...Granite shaders I see...those are cool...never thought about a whole character though ...neat idea...might use less megs if you tried a simple backdrop instead of a brick wall.....Trish

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    bullit35744 said:
    What are you up to ...Granite shaders I see...those are cool...never thought about a whole character though ...neat idea...might use less megs if you tried a simple backdrop instead of a brick wall.....Trish
    LOL, Trish my dear, I know that WALL and you really can not get much lower render wise and have a good wall.
  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    The wall is part of Backdrops Made Easy.

    Justin in 17 Chic without the skirt. This scene uses 1.1 GB. :ohh: I'm going to switch Justin's outfit. I used to snow tool to create the snow.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    This scene uses 1.1 GB of memory. I'm going to fix this scene and then I will render one more scene with Justin.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 2013

    One more render of Justin in female style clothing. I finally found a decent light setup for the dream home bedroom.

    edit: I uploaded the wrong file because I was distracted.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    Rock Demon uses a lot of memory.

    Daz Studio memory usage: 900 MB (program + 3D models)

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I am uploading this render before I forget.

    Memory usage: 248 MB.

    Dawn and Genesis 2 female don't come with many morphs. Dawn doesn't come with visemes.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 2013

    pwCatch isn't working correctly in Daz Studio 4. I will try applying pwCatch again after dinner.

    I did apply the base shader and backdrop + catch shadows.

    edit: I think I need to move the camera too.

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  • TrishTrish Posts: 2,625
    edited December 2013

    LOL how funny it looked like a real brickwall to me...like something I would build in Bryce...I am going to check those backdrops out...Trish

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 2013

    I finally found the error message. I'll reinstall pwCatch tomorrow.

    CODE Snip removed for Breaking the Forum Formatting.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I do see pwCatchDef.dsb in d:\program files\Daz Studio 4\script\support\PoseWorks\shaderDefinitions\surface

    How strange.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    When I tried the shadow catcher brick in shader builder, Dawn casts a grey shadow.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I am trying to create a plane that can receive images that are projected. I am followin this tutorial: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/447294/

    The image map brick that I have doesn't have inputs for S or P.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 97,093
    edited January 2014

    Click the menu button at the brick's top-right and enable Advanced controls. By default the brick just uses the regular u and v as s and t, the inputs are needed only for modifying the coordinates.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the Richard Haseltine. Unfortunately, that tutorial and shader didn't work at all for me. I ended up using Carnite's tutorial and then I changed the color of the plane to black.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited January 2014

    I bought some new underwear. The bra opens from the front instead of the back.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I lowed the glossy strength of the bra and I changed the lighting model to matte. I also changed the shadow type from mapped to ray-traced.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited January 2014

    This scene needs more shadow samples.

    Laura 3 with Nova skin for Victoria 3. Old skin textures may need adjusting in Daz Studio.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I ran the luxrender benchmark by following the instructions at: http://www.luxrender.net/wiki/Benchmarks

    AMD 1.8 GHz.
    ~20 kC/s

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited January 2014

    I finally had a chance to use the Pentium dual-core G630 running at 2.7 GHz.

    ~137.15 kC/S

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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Hmm... looks as if it could get very REAL. But you will need your time peace to render for a much longer TIME before the image clears up. That is the one reason I do not use LUX. The time to render a clear image that it requires.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    The directions say to run the benchmark for 2 minutes. Later I will run Luxrender for more than 10 minutes.

    Here is a closeup of Laura with Nova skin. I won't do many fancy renders with shadows until I have my new computer.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    Update: I'm in the process of copying 500 GB worth of stuff onto an external hard drive at 10 megabytes per second. I'll play with Daz Studio some more after I move the runtime folder to the external drive.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I am almost finished copying my files. I need another external drive to copy my games because my current USB drive is almost full. I didn't realize that some MMORPGs are 20 gigabytes in size. So, if five games are 20 GB in size, then I have at least 100 GB worth of games. Wow. I know some of the games are less than 10 GB in size. Ok, I'm going to reboot the computer and uninstall more programs.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    wow, my computer took about two hours and 45 minutes to copy 300 GB of files?? I used one of the partition managers to copy one partition to another SATA internal drive. I found a spare drive lying around. No, there are no bad sectors on either drive. I didn't know that copying sectors instead of files is so slow.

    Now I will uninstall some software programs like Daz Studio, Bryce Luxus, Reality and Gimp.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I wonder if I can make Disk 0, drive G a bootable system drive using system recovery tools. The recovery partition doesn't work beacuse the copy software couldn't copy the corrupted files from the corrupted drive a few months ago.

    I want to take disk 1 out and leave disk 2 in. Yes, I know I have unallocated space on disk 1.

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,666
    edited December 1969

    I was finally able to install windows on drive 0 and boot from it. Tomorrow I will need to reinstall OpenOffice.org, VLC Player, Divx, Gimp, Corel Paint Shop Pro X and other software that I forgot. I will also look for some backup programs that can save the master boot record and system files.

    I won't be posting any more renders until I get the new dual-core computer.

    ok, good night all.

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