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mcjNewCastle - The long awaited final version of the Castle prop

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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    RAMWolff said:
    Like that allot better B! :-)

    Yes, I think M'Lady will be able to navigate the cobblestones better than the gravel. ~ROFL~
  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited December 1969

    started flipping the surfaces that were inside out - which made them look invisible in poser and made them look black when using cartoon and certain other shaders in Daz Studio ---- note that if you use teleblender/blender for your poser/daz renders it doesnt matter

    i use DS software-cartoon renders to detect problem surfaces

    plus it's a reminder that there's eclipses coming up this spring !!

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited December 1969

    Tugpsx said:
    Sweet, here are a few quick renders in octane.

    wow looks great for a whole 5 seconds i thought it was a photo i wonder what made me detect it was not .... maybe the roof

    so far the octane renders i saw look better than my renders -- though i started improving by using the sun-lights - ialso may need to put more effort on materials

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  • jeeperzjeeperz Posts: 1,102
    edited December 1969

    Casual said:
    jeeperz said:
    this building is so cool Casual, Will you be doing it for us Poser users too??? i hope I hope... I don't use DS :(

    it's a Poser prop actually

    though i didn't try it yet in poser .... lets see ... i have a plain vanilla poser 9 .... i suspect many parts will be invisible because they are inside out ... not bad !

    next version wont have invisible walls

    well guess i'll make a second beta version that addresses the main issues ... notably the openability of the doors


    cool, I wasn't sure if it was compatible so I didn't download it, now I will.thanks for this cool chateau.

  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    Casual said:
    ialso may need to put more effort on materials

    I'm assuming that's a photo of a real wall. Are you planning on making textures that elaborate? That's going to be a lot of work if you are.
  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited March 2014

    Miss B said:
    Casual said:
    ialso may need to put more effort on materials

    I'm assuming that's a photo of a real wall. Are you planning on making textures that elaborate? That's going to be a lot of work if you are.

    well it was a photo of a Versailles wall, not by me, just to decorate my reply :)

    i will keep the wall ornament texture simple , the one included with the prop

    just now i was re-creating the panels texture
    i'll probably post the real 3d panel object, 20000 polygons instead of 1 polygon for "textured panels"
    and i'll create a bump/displacement map of it

    didn't realize the walls were so tall
    ( and i got to use the shoes-on-floor script!, saved a whole minute of work! )

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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    Ohhhhh, looks nice as a mirror. :coolsmile:

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited March 2014

    you can grab this color map and this displacement map
    they will be used to create the new wall panel materials, but you could make your own

    ( daz studio soft renders bump map and fosplacement ,map applied to a 1x6 plane

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited December 1969

    and the normal map
    which i generated from the bump map using freeware found here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssbumpgenerator/?source=dlp

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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    Thank you sir. :coolsmile:

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited March 2014

    Miss B said:
    Thank you sir. :coolsmile:

    welcome !

    and here's 4 replacement textures that are clean and easy to recolorize

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited March 2014

    and this replacement texture, although kind of teal is called Topaz and it goes with this song which i (re?) discovered recently
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ny4XvhoMMc

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  • caravellecaravelle Posts: 2,456
    edited December 1969

    The mirrors look great. Thank you for the maps!

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited March 2014

    the new priorities are

    - publish a castle prop that renders well in poser and fixes some problems - and has animatable door/windows

    - finish and publish the ramp/frame/moldings generator .... which was used to add baseboard and crown moldings to the walls and make the wall panel ornaments

    - staircase construction kit

    - the pose/animation script that lets you have a character's upper body rotate around its ankles or its knees or thighs ( which gave rise to the need for a balcony, which gave rise to this castle )

    -- return to the physics simulation engine
    - probably the kinect-to-daz-studio interface
    - arduino etc interface to daz studio
    - 3d printing things
    - cage deformers
    - 3d painting
    -water, grass, mirrors ... ... ... ... ...

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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the additional textures. :coolsmile:

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited April 2014

    Now that mcjBuilder is in Beta, i can resume fixing the stairs and things

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  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    Sorry Jacques, in my very posh Chateautel, no stairs; my guests would not accept that.
    Only elevators & escalators connecting the floors.

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited April 2014

    tjeb said:
    Sorry Jacques, in my very posh Chateautel, no stairs; my guests would not accept that.
    Only elevators & escalators connecting the floors.

    womder if some castles had human or horse powered elevators way back when :)

    i'll try to remember to make each floor and ceiling removable for things like that !

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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    tjeb said:
    Sorry Jacques, in my very posh Chateautel, no stairs; my guests would not accept that.
    Only elevators & escalators connecting the floors.

    ~ROFL~ Now that's the kind of chateau I can relate to. :coolsmirk:
  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    womder if some castles had human or horse powered elevators way back when

    Dear Jacques,
    I went into the archives, left by one of the previous owners of the chateau and found this amazing footage.
    So it looks like the movement of the elevator was human powered.
    Although not found in writing, rumours are that guests who could not pay their bill, were forced to operate the wheel on the roof.

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited April 2014

    tjeb said:
    womder if some castles had human or horse powered elevators way back when

    Dear Jacques,
    I went into the archives, left by one of the previous owners of the chateau and found this amazing footage.
    So it looks like the movement of the elevator was human powered.
    Although not found in writing, rumours are that guests who could not pay their bill, were forced to operate the wheel on the roof.

    i forget if Howl's moving castle is steam powered - it has a much more organic look

    a cyberpunk version could be a ship , something between the matrix and tron's ships ... and captain Haddock's Moulinsart

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited December 1969

    quick stair usability test
    ( i did a better stair climbing animation once )

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  • TjebTjeb Posts: 507
    edited December 1969

    i forget if Howl’s moving castle is steam powered

    Something like this?
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  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited December 1969

    Talk about a "mobile" home!! :coolsmirk:

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited December 1969

    tjeb said:
    i forget if Howl’s moving castle is steam powered

    Something like this?

    that 'll work [ if the furniture is properly secured ]

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  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214
    edited December 1969

    This is amazing work! I can't believe you are giving this away for free, so much time and effort...it's fantastic! Did I miss the download link somewhere tho in the thread?

  • Miss BMiss B Posts: 3,071
    edited April 2014

    Kharma said:
    This is amazing work! I can't believe you are giving this away for free, so much time and effort...it's fantastic! Did I miss the download link somewhere tho in the thread?

    Here you go Kharma.   --> https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts3/mcjcas

    The download link is in the bottom right corner of that page. Be sure to get the castle and the grounds, as he made a separate update of the grounds portion of the castle.

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  • ElowanElowan Posts: 388
    edited December 1969

    Beauty!

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    Lost my subscription... always happens at DAZ forums.

  • cecilia.robinsoncecilia.robinson Posts: 2,208
    edited December 1969

    Thank you, the castle is lovely.

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