Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
The only suggestion I have, if you can, turn off Cast Shadows on the eyelashes. They sometimes put a really heavy shadow under the eyes.
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The only suggestion I have, if you can, turn off Cast Shadows on the eyelashes. They sometimes put a really heavy shadow under the eyes.
Hornet3d
Wise
I hadn't noticed but looking back at the render I can see what you mean. I will see if I can do it.
These hybrids you make look really cool, Lyne. ^_____^
Hornet3d
Wise
Thanks, the bird pendant is from Fabi as well, it is included in Zoobling II collection but I have played with the textures a little.
oh I have those, didn't realize (or remember) that one was included.
Hornet3d
Wise
oh I have those, didn't realize (or remember) that one was included.
I am fairly certain few of us know exactly what we have in our runtime and the change in texture would be confusing.
I did use the Courageous Sash for my Dusk Centaur (Xdressed it TO Dusk for that),
copied all morphs from original clothes to Dawn/Dusk stuff...also used morph tool
because the bottom front of the gown bulged out for some reason. I'm pretty pleased
with today's work!
Hornet3d
Wise
I am still playing with ideas, looking at what is in my runtime and trying to understand superfly a little more. I have a vast collection of hairstyles for V4 that I have collected over the years and I have been trying them out to see how they work on Dawn, and my character in particular, and how they work in superfly. One discovery I have made is that, when I created my main character I inadvertently gave her a long face. I know a few years ago I created quite a discussion as some thought her head was out of proportion with her body, bit like me she had a big head. I played around for some weeks to reduce the size and got to a point where I was happy. I now think this was due in part to her long face. I believe this has two side effects, one it means default expressions do not work and hairstyles don't always work either. I knew the hairstyle I have been using (HR-099 by Ali) has a lot of volume on the top of her head and now I find without that volume she looks weird, again like me but then I am losing mine and sadly I cannot dial it back in.
Another discovery I have made is that a lot of the old hair products used a glossy and a few other nodes plugged into the alternate specular. I am not knowledgeable enough to know why this is the case but it appears to be a common approach to a lot of the products in my runtime. What I do know is that superfly does not like this and the end result is always a hair colour that is ghostly white, irrespective of any other colour plugged into the defused. I guess this is due to the reflection being blown out in superfly. I have also found a lot of the hair styles have hair strands with very abrupt kinks in the stands and it does not look particularly realistic. In products that have small amount I have managed to correct this by smoothing with the morph brush but on some styles it is too widespread for this to be practical. I would be interested in why this happens and possible cures.
This is All Time Hair by 3Dream and Mairy which I purchased in 2010 and it has this the alternate specular problem that I have tried to correct. I notice that the hair is still on sale and it clearly can be used with a few adjustments although I am not sure I have it right here but at least it has colour even if the reflection is off.
Another discovery I have made is that a lot of the old hair products used a glossy and a few other nodes plugged into the alternate specular. I am not knowledgeable enough to know why this is the case but it appears to be a common approach to a lot of the products in my runtime. What I do know is that superfly does not like this and the end result is always a hair colour that is ghostly white, irrespective of any other colour plugged into the defused. I guess this is due to the reflection being blown out in superfly. I have also found a lot of the hair styles have hair strands with very abrupt kinks in the stands and it does not look particularly realistic. In products that have small amount I have managed to correct this by smoothing with the morph brush but on some styles it is too widespread for this to be practical. I would be interested in why this happens and possible cures.
This is All Time Hair by 3Dream and Mairy which I purchased in 2010 and it has this the alternate specular problem that I have tried to correct. I notice that the hair is still on sale and it clearly can be used with a few adjustments although I am not sure I have it right here but at least it has colour even if the reflection is off.
thank you! i used a bit of your body type 3 on Diva and the narrow shoulders too!
thank you! i used a bit of your body type 3 on Diva and the narrow shoulders too!
Good idea! Narrow shoulders should work especially well with kids and petite characters. ^__^
Hornet3d
Wise
I am just about coming to an end of my experiments with woodland renders, superfly and character changes. The character changes are subtle and probably not noticeable other than in a side to side comparison with the exception of the hair. In addition to the colour change I have added the hair shader from Bagginsbill which, I cannot begin to understand, but found easy to use and tweek. Although not shown to the full effect here, due to the subdued nature of the setting and render, the shader can give a lovely sheen to the hair. This is probably not the best hair to use the shader on if you are looking for a photorealistic effect but I have no doubt with the right hair it photorealistic is possible. For me the aim was not photorealistic but more believable and I wanted limit the changes I made to the character. Even with this hair the shader does reflect (excuse the pun) the environment so much better and make changes to colour and specular so much easier. I now have two more hair styles, also using the shader, that are consistent with her short hair so I can drift from one to another as the mood takes. Of course along the way I have picked up the 'narrow shoulders' from Ken 1171 Designs so although not used here, as it is a portrait, that will be used along with the other changes to Caoimhe. Just one or two renders to complete and a clean up my WIP folders and back to some sci fi renders, well that's the plan at the moment.
She looks fantastic !
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Hornet, with the glossy hair. Yes, on most of the older hair styles the AltSpecular really blows out the hair. What I do is I use EZSkin3 Hair on the hair. Not the scalp, as that really blows out, but all the hair "parts" get EZSkin3 hair settings.
It's fast and easy to do.
With the hair selected, bring up EZSkin3. The hair won't have a default setting so you need to go into the Editor mode.
In the editor select the hair parts you want to EZSkin.
And, for the final step, ensure the All Others option is checked and click Apply at the EZSkin main menu.
I find that the hair renders much faster and looks much better in Superfly when doing this. Sometimes, the AltSpec is still so high that I go into the advanced material setup and simply disconnect AltSpec completely. You will get specular on the hair because Superfly does specular by default.
It's fast and easy to do.
With the hair selected, bring up EZSkin3. The hair won't have a default setting so you need to go into the Editor mode.
In the editor select the hair parts you want to EZSkin.
And, for the final step, ensure the All Others option is checked and click Apply at the EZSkin main menu.
I find that the hair renders much faster and looks much better in Superfly when doing this. Sometimes, the AltSpec is still so high that I go into the advanced material setup and simply disconnect AltSpec completely. You will get specular on the hair because Superfly does specular by default.
Hornet3d
Wise
Thank you for that, and the step by step process which is what I need. In one sense it is not really fair on the vendor to expect any hair to work with a Poser render engine that was not even thought of let alone in existence at the time the hair was created. On the flip side some of these styles were really good and if they can be given a second life with the little bit of extra work as you have laid out then why ever not.
Thanks again for the information my knowledge of superfly continues to grow thanks to you and the many others here at Hive that have guided me through some of the hard bits. I am very grateful for all the help.
Glitterati3D
Dances with Bees
Just adding a hair where I used EZSkin. Pardon the grain, I stopped the render pretty early.
