Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread

[Sunfire]

Well clearly you're not one to work at a snails pace.

You make wonderful models, I love them.

 

[MEC4D]

Here's a few more Iray beetle renders... Click(er) Beetle, the Colorado Potato Beetle and the German cockroach

Colorado potato beetle aka Stonka from my childhood memories of the 70's , I have to hand clean the potatoes leaves from the beetle in our home vegetable garden to get some pocket money lol

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Colorado potato beetle aka Stonka from my childhood memories of the 70's , I have to hand clean the potatoes leaves from the beetle in our home vegetable garden to get some pocket money lol

I understand that beetle is quite a crop pest... I did it simply because it's a handsome-looking beetle. My childhood memory beetle in this set is the click beetle. I can still remember that distinctive click as it leaped into the air. The set came into existence because I had several requests for cockroaches and I really wanted to do a lightning bug/firefly.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

I guess I'm not working at a snail's pace... here's a sneak preview of two new sets I'll have for January... Nature's Wonders Slugs & Snails (modeling pretty close to done)

and Songbird ReMix Parrots v7: Parrotlets of the World (now in beta testing). This set is a monster with all 19 Parrotlet species with m/f versions (38 birds in all x4 renderer formats=152). Since DAZ Studio is discontinuing the 3Delight renderer starting in 2026, this will probably be my last set with a 3Delight version (unless there's an outcry from those still want to use it).

 

[Sunfire]

Little parrots... for little pirates? More birds, and some slimy snails too. If there's slugs... will you include some Morton salt?

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Little parrots... for little pirates? More birds, and some slimy snails too. If there's slugs... will you include some Morton salt?

I'll probably include the amazing slug I saw at Mt. Rainier NP... the Banana Slug... they grow up to 10" long so you'll probably need a lot of salt

 

[Sunfire]

That's longer than the slugs on Grandma's patio... at least as far as I can recall, they never got that big.

 

[Riccardo]

Even though I stick with Carrara and rarely use Daz Studio, I am sad that Daz is phasing out the 3DLight rendering engine.
I rendered all my DS stuff with it in the past, and never really used Iray. Of course Iray is much better, but also soooooo slow. Will people use Iray from now? Filament?
In any case, if I got it right, there will be another, last DS4 release on december 29 that will include 3DLight. After that, you won't have it anymore...
Daz 3D
I'll definitely keep the backup of older copies of the app!
Another way to download it offline, is going to your Daz account >> product library and then filter for "Daz Studio 4.x". You should be able to backup the current copy of Daz Studio.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

The reason why DAZ is phasing out 3Delight is that they would have continue paying licensing fees to include it in DAZ Studio. Given that an overwhelming majority of Studio users use Iray, that makes sense. While I do all my rigging and character creation in Poser, the main promo renders I do for my products is in Iray. Iray has the best and most natural-looking outdoor lighting of any of our renderer engines (in my opinion). Yes, it takes a little longer, but the results are clearly worth it. I should add that while my art and main image renders are done in Iray, all of "what's included" promo images are still done in Poser Firefly (and occasionally in Iray). I like to show my products work well in both poser and Studio.

 

[Pendraia]

I only use Iray these days I haven't used 3delight in a long, long time. That said I'm sad to hear that they will be phasing it out.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

I started to play around a little with textures... here's a first test for my Pacific Banana Slug...

 

[Sunfire]

Needs a little more... ooze.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

I might add a little more gloss to the body (it's a Firefly render) and some translucency to the eye and nose stalks. I'll probably add a separate prop (transparency plane) that creates a slime trail.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Here's 240-frame animation clip using my slug/snail "movement" dial. The dial spins from 0 to 3 and allows a series of sequential morphs that give the slug/snail movement. The animation uses the dial twice; 0->3 then 3->0. The animation sequence shown will be a pose in the set.

https://youtu.be/Rnw9t4wKmZU

 

[MEC4D]

Here's 240-frame animation clip using my slug/snail "movement" dial. The dial spins from 0 to 3 and allows a series of sequential morphs that give the slug/snail movement. The animation uses the dial twice; 0->3 then 3->0. The animation sequence shown will be a pose in the set.

https://youtu.be/Rnw9t4wKmZU

That's actually a very natural movement you got there Ken, nicely done

 

[Ken Gilliland]

That's actually a very natural movement you got there Ken, nicely done

thank-you... my "Movement" uses 6 morphs sequentially that lift portions of the "foot" from front to back every 0.5 on that 0 to 3 dial. In addition, there's 4 length morphs (head/neck, fore-foot, hind-foot and tail) that are stretched and reduced over the length of the dial. On the Snail version of the animation, there's also a gentle rocking side to side motion on the snail shell-- that really adds to the look of that animation.

I also have a slime trail in that animation. I placed the slime trail under the slug entirely and it moves slow enough that it gets to the edge of the prop by the end of the animation. I'm trying to figure if there's a reasonable way to extend the trail so that it continues for longer animations.

 

[MEC4D]

thank-you... my "Movement" uses 6 morphs sequentially that lift portions of the "foot" from front to back every 0.5 on that 0 to 3 dial. In addition, there's 4 length morphs (head/neck, fore-foot, hind-foot and tail) that are stretched and reduced over the length of the dial. On the Snail version of the animation, there's also a gentle rocking side to side motion on the snail shell-- that really adds to the look of that animation.

I also have a slime trail in that animation. I placed the slime trail under the slug entirely and it moves slow enough that it gets to the edge of the prop by the end of the animation. I'm trying to figure if there's a reasonable way to extend the trail so that it continues for longer animations.

I watched again , wow big props for the trail , I did not noticed it the first time as I focused on the movements . Great idea and execution!

 

[Ken Gilliland]

Still have some minor touch-up to do on the textures, but here's my Common Garden Snail model in a Firefly render

 

[Flint_Hawk]

The animation & the textures are so lifelike!

 

[KageRyu]

thank-you... my "Movement" uses 6 morphs sequentially that lift portions of the "foot" from front to back every 0.5 on that 0 to 3 dial. In addition, there's 4 length morphs (head/neck, fore-foot, hind-foot and tail) that are stretched and reduced over the length of the dial. On the Snail version of the animation, there's also a gentle rocking side to side motion on the snail shell-- that really adds to the look of that animation.

I also have a slime trail in that animation. I placed the slime trail under the slug entirely and it moves slow enough that it gets to the edge of the prop by the end of the animation. I'm trying to figure if there's a reasonable way to extend the trail so that it continues for longer animations.

Geometry Swap + Scaling maybe?