I am SO glad you're back!

[Lorraine]

Learning by doing is the best, if the most frustrating, way.

 

[quietrob]

Thanks rokket! 16 bucks is a bit much to get that hair even though Dawn comes with it. They do sell Super Hero hair for Dusk but somehow it's missing the cuteness of Dawn's.

As to the skirt length, I always say women known women best and would know how a Supergirl with a Super personality would dress. I'd listen to Lorraine and save yourself the hassle of hemming that skirt.

 

[eclark1894]

This is just another case where I can honestly advice people who are learning this craft: UV map your outfit before you take it into Poser/DS and drape it. Now I have added a ton of unwanted albeit necessary work to my already bloated but self inflicted project list.

I usually do.

 

[eclark1894]

Thanks rokket! 16 bucks is a bit much to get that hair even though Dawn comes with it. They do sell Super Hero hair for Dusk but somehow it's missing the cuteness of Dawn's.

As to the skirt length, I always say women known women best and would know how a Supergirl with a Super personality would dress. I'd listen to Lorraine and save yourself the hassle of hemming that skirt.

I'm not going to lie, Rob. It's a good deal. You're saving almost 13 dollars on the deal from original cost of Dawn. I think the makeover and textures are worth it. I don't even touch the other Dawn anymore, except for the one in my House prop I've already got loaded. You're going to save another 3 bucks after you deduct your reward points and you'll probably get 160 of those back. To me, the hair was just to sweeten the deal. And she looks beautiful when she renders. Heck, even my raytrace previews are astounding me.

 

[Lorraine]

Grab that DawnSE, Rob, you will never regret it. Her new mats, and shapes are GORGEOUS!!! And as Rokket says, you get the hair as a bonus.

 

[Rokket]

That's exactly how I've been feeling lately with a project I've started over several times. I'm learning along the way.

Sometimes, though, telling myself that isn't enough. That's when I take a break and go throw water balloons at the kids.

 

[Lorraine]

That's when I take a break and go throw water balloons at the kids

That would be FUN! Or blast them with a water soaker...ah, memories

 

[Rokket]

I usually do.

I haven't been, but lately my models have become a bit more complex than before. So now I have adjusted my workflow for that (I also learned that I can UV map before I subdivide. I wish I'd known that one too). Sigh...

 

[Rokket]

That would be FUN! Or blast them with a water soaker...ah, memories

I like to spray them with the water hose too. My dog loves to try to bite the water. It's a blast.

 

[Rokket]

Uh oh... back to the grind....

 

[eclark1894]

Speaking of UVmapping, I know you're talking about clothes, but I have an issue with some props I'm making. Do I even NEED to uV map a referigerator or oven or washing machine. They're basically either going to be white and shiny or some other color and shiny.

All they really need is a diffuse color, so why UV map them?

 

[Miss B]

Hmmm, that's a good queston Earl. I'm not sure, as I can't really see anyone wanting to "texture" it as it were, so some procedural settings should do the trick I'd think.

 

[Lorraine]

I like to spray them with the water hose too. My dog loves to try to bite the water. It's a blast.

That's one thing we couldn't do back in the old days when my kids were young, all our water was rain water and really precious so super soakers were the bomb!

 

[Rokket]

Speaking of UVmapping, I know you're talking about clothes, but I have an issue with some props I'm making. Do I even NEED to uV map a referigerator or oven or washing machine. They're basically either going to be white and shiny or some other color and shiny.

All they really need is a diffuse color, so why UV map them?

No, especially in Poser. Procedurals are enough. I am not sure about DS, but believe their shaders are procedural too.

 

[eclark1894]

Hmmm, that's a good queston Earl. I'm not sure, as I can't really see anyone wanting to "texture" it as it were, so some procedural settings should do the trick I'd think.

Heh, wonder who would bother to get the add-on pack for the Dawn House washing machine, with 12 extra texture sets?

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Hmmm, that's a good queston Earl. I'm not sure, as I can't really see anyone wanting to "texture" it as it were, so some procedural settings should do the trick I'd think.

I'm guilty........ but then when I'm retexturing appliances, it's usually to make them dirty and grimy or splattered with something or other.... which I can also do in postwork if I need to or want to.

I just had to mention that "there's always one nut..." well, I'm the nut on this one!

In all honestly, Earl - I can't see the point of you driving yourself batty UVmapping stuff that MOST people would just slap a diffuse color or a procedural shader on. If the nuts like me really want a UVmap, we can always map it ourselves.

 

[Rokket]

That's one thing we couldn't do back in the old days when my kids were young, all our water was rain water and really precious so super soakers were the bomb!

I don't think I have ever lived anywhere I couldn't do that. We even lived without electricity for years growing up, but we always had plenty of water.

 

[eclark1894]

I'm guilty........ but then when I'm retexturing appliances, it's usually to make them dirty and grimy or splattered with something or other.... which I can also do in postwork if I need to or want to.

I just had to mention that "there's always one nut..." well, I'm the nut on this one!

In all honestly, Earl - I can't see the point of you driving yourself batty UVmapping stuff that MOST people would just slap a diffuse color or a procedural shader on. If the nuts like me really want a UVmap, we can always map it ourselves.

Thanks, Seliah. I did map the Refrigerator and the Wall oven though, but mainly because I have some controls on those.

 

[Lorraine]

I grew up like that, on bore water, leaving the tap running when brushing my teeth, peeling spuds etc. But when I moved to Northland that all had to stop. When all one has is a 5000 litre rain water tank, one makes it last. And then there are the droughts which can last for months. Bath water is used to flush the toilet, all the washing machine water is saved for watering the garden, and no one leaves the tap running. It was actually good training for living on a boat

 

[Terre]

Meanwhile I'm used to towns with water systems and people nearby said towns having wells on their property. Not enough rain to get by on JUST captured water from the sky.
The longest I've been without electricity when NOT having gone on a trip to a place without it is three days. That was when the Toke plant in Muleshoe Tx. went down. If you search online the reports you can find easily all claim that power was restored within 12 hours but that wasn't true if you lived within 50 miles of Muleshoe. I guess the reporters don't consider less than 100,000 people being without power for two and a half more days to be important.