Dawn 2.0 Underway

[Aylaaenas_Evenwing]

The naturelabs one would make an excellent light source for promos. If you put on some dof you have a great promo picture

 

[DanaTA]

I'm not a milk drinker, unless it's chocolate.

@DanaTA You ever have Molasses milk? It was a thing in this corner of Massachusetts I grew up in.

No, I've never tried that. I used to just have a teaspoon or two of it right out of the jar though!

Dana

 

[DanaTA]

Ha, no kidding, yeah I appreciate that.
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Sorry about that. I think I created a monster by posting about your love of Oreos as witnessed on Facebook.

Dana

 

[RAMWolff]

OH, I've gotten HDR's from this site many times. I keep forgetting they are out there. LOL

 

[Aylaaenas_Evenwing]

In studio I use the refl files. In poser you can use the sibl files

 

[Miss B]

If you put on some dof you have a great promo picture

I don't do promo renders, but I often use the smaller sized HDRi images for just that reason. They are slightly softer/blurred, which gives them a DOF look, which makes the main object in the render stand out more. For promos, that's always a good idea.

 

[RAMWolff]

In studio I use the refl files. In poser you can use the sibl files

I'm only seeing ibl files in most of the zips I've downloaded. In Poser the ibl would be brought in how? Through a light source or through the Poser Material room through a node. If a node which one would I choose and where do I hook it up to in the main root node?

 

[Aylaaenas_Evenwing]

Yes, I'm on my phone. But the best ones are the skeletonroom and the nature lab. And in Daz studio I use the refl env.exr or hdr. Don't know the extension. In poser you can use two files if you use ezdome one for sunlight and other for envirement

 

[Aylaaenas_Evenwing]

Okay i have opened a thread for promo rendering and also just to make better renders. Dive all in to help each other

Want to improve your rendering? Promos? Come join in and let's help each other out

I made an easy hdri front light tutorial which is not that hard. Gives a bit of a dramatic effect.

 

[Art_of_Mind]

You all don't need a secret tool to make high resolution morphs. It's highly probably that all they did was drag the bump and displace brushes over from Hexagon into DS. You should be able to do this with any modeler. I used for this example Hexagon, bridged it to and from DS.
I chopped off Dawn 2's foot and did some quick work. I'm spending more time on writing these post/examples and saving the images than I did with the modeler.
So I sent the foot to Hexagon, and used the smooth brush to first get rid of the sharp points on the quads.

 

[Art_of_Mind]

Up the smoothing and add your details/morphs. All I'm doing for this example is adding in some foot bones that go to the toes and adjusting the shape of the toes a bit.
Important! when you are finished, lower the smoothing back down.
After you lower your smoothing back down then you can send it back to DS with the bridge or if you are using another modeler, lower it and save out the new obj.

 

[Art_of_Mind]

From DS
Load your original .obj

 

[Art_of_Mind]

With your .obj selected go, Edit > Object > Convert to SubD
Load in your morph with morph loader or using the Hexagon bridge like I did.
In the Parameters Tab go to Mesh Resolution, Select High Resolution, View SubD level 2
now view the morph you just made

 

[Art_of_Mind]

Before and after

 

[Art_of_Mind]

Had I bumped the smoothing up to 3 in Hexagon and spent more time sculpting morphs, then went with SubD level 3 in DS it would have been even better.

 

[Miss B]

I'm only seeing ibl files in most of the zips I've downloaded. In Poser the ibl would be brought in how? Through a light source or through the Poser Material room through a node. If a node which one would I choose and where do I hook it up to in the main root node?

This is a good reason for using Snarly's EZDome, as his included tutorial explains all that.

 

[Pendraia]

Yes but displacement maps are not a good idea if you don't make a complete character plus clothing and hair. Because it well let the mesh grow a bit.

I agree, displacement can cause poke through problems when used on the skin of a character.

In Australia they are not called flip flops, they are thongs

Very true...but I didn't want to confuse everyone.

 

[Aylaaenas_Evenwing]

Pendraia(beautiful nick btw) if you make everything yourself, then displacement maps are not the problem. The only problem that is left are the render times. Personally I don't think it is worth it. Hopefully p12 will be faster at rendering.

 

[Aylaaenas_Evenwing]

I don't

This is a good reason for using Snarly's EZDome, as his included tutorial explains all that.

Yes to that. But in studio, I believe Richard uses that too I advice to use the ev... Ref. It renders the reflection pretty well.

 

[Aylaaenas_Evenwing]

I looked again at Dawn 2 and I see how much improved the polygon flow is. This makes morphing alot easier and result in much better expressions.