SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

We were finally able to get out and run errands today...and it was our typical Winter Olympic store stampede, or equal to a Blue Light special on the most needed items. After that experience, it makes one appreciate being house bound most of the time...haha.

Terre, sounds like you were about to blow away out there...tie a knot and hang on there girl

 

[skylab]

There are a number of free tutorials on Poser dynamic clothing at the link below. If I understand it correctly, there must be accompanying tutorial videos somewhere on Rendo also. Since I'm running late getting my afternoon nap, I'll pursue this later, but wanted to at least post the general link to the PDF's so that I wouldn't forget it.

FREQUENCY POSER DYNAMIC CLOTHING TUTORIALS

 

[Terre]

We were finally able to get out and run errands today...and it was our typical Winter Olympic store stampede, or equal to a Blue Light special on the most needed items. After that experience, it makes one appreciate being house bound most of the time...haha.

Terre, sounds like you were about to blow away out there...tie a knot and hang on there girl

Some of the gusts were over 50mph. Fortunately I didn't get blown away.
Glad you were able to get out and run errands. Sounds like other people were thinking the same thing.

 

[skylab]

Krita has recently updated to version 4.17, and apparently they have frequent revisions.

 

[skylab]

Irfanview has also updated to version 4.52, a great animated .gif viewer (and frame extractor).

 

[skylab]

Here's the Mil Cat, doing the "Carry Me" pose. I did a quick and dirty alteration on the tabby texture to be closer in appearance to Tiger Paws...he was sort of half and half...white on the bottom, orange on the top
This is the closest I could come to the extreme side-to-side bend in his body without breaking the mesh, since he was doing almost a 45 degree angle with his head and left hind leg...haha.

Some pics to show his coloring, and also his loving temperament. My cousin was fascinated with how submissive he was...he'd go almost limp for affection, and to avoid any aggression or scratching.

 

[Terre]

He was a nice looking cat.

 

[skylab]

Here we have Clay Carry Me Cat

 

[Terre]

Nice job there.

 

[skylab]

This morning's clay creation....the Nativity Might attempt the wise men and camels at a later time.

 

[Terre]

Looking good there.

 

[skylab]

As the holidays draw closer, my 3D projects are shrinking due to time limitations. Today's brief mini project was experimenting with superfly renders of a bowl of fruit I had modeled years ago. Interesting effect with one of Dimension3D's superfly mats turning a plain bowl into a basket.

 

[Miss B]

I like that basket look for the bowl in that first render. I have that set of shaders, so was wondering which one did you use to get that effect.

 

[skylab]

Hey Miss B It's under D3D Superfly Mats -> Texture -> Basket

Since you've had more than average experience, do you know anything about this tutorial on Rendo, about how to get Genesis 3 to work in Poser 11 without going into DAZ Studio ?
It's being advertised as a workflow path that has been discovered for Genesis 3 between DS4 and Poser 11.

 

[Miss B]

I'm aware of it, but I don't have anything past the original Genesis/V5/M5, so have not tried it. From what I understand, it's supposed to work nicely, but I don't have personal experience with it.

The only complaints I remember were folks having problems with DSON, but I'm not sure if it was just because they didn't have the most recent version of DSON, or some other issue.

 

[Miss B]

Hey Miss B It's under D3D Superfly Mats -> Texture -> Basket

Thanks for that.

 

[skylab]

I happen to have Genesis 3/Michael 7 that came free with an installation of DAZ Studio at the time (I think it's more like Michael 8 now), so was just wondering...it would be just enough to test the workflow path, perhaps with some freebie clothing.

 

[Terre]

That would be a good test.

 

[skylab]

I've been holding back this project that I'm saving for the winter, but I'll give just a sneak peek now. Back when Rendo was having big sales, Project Evolution joined my runtime. I have been totally impressed with the built in morphs, hair, textures and characters...I would without hesitation compare her to a female version of Apollo. Most of the clothing that has been created for her is Poser dynamic cloth, and Karanta has created some beautiful clothing not only for PE, but also fits for Dawn, V4 and Pauline (with tastefully done promos). I'm mentioning this now because some of the outfits are still reduced in price, though not as much as back in the fall. There is only one freebie conforming outfit so far (see below), so I'll have to use this when creating pose sets this winter, and there are a number of other freebie outfits and shoes on Rendo.

So here's a test render of a PE biking pose (below)...which will lead to horseback riding and driving poses later, and the usual musical stuff that I do, as well as possibly stretching toward new stuff since PE could use the support. I have in the past mostly done poses for male figures since there was such a lack of support for them...and I wanted to be careful to "stay in my lane" and not impose on anyone's already established turf...so we'll see how it goes with PE. I'll also be testing Scarlet by Sixus1, still half price for a few more days.

 

[skylab]

This was a quick test back in the fall of Project Evolution's built in facial morphs...I wanted to see if she could transform into an elderly character, either man or woman. The chest will dial back to flat and the hips can be narrowed, so I'm assuming if clothing allowed, it's possible to create a PE man. Also, I failed to mention that apparently Sixus1 is eventually planning on creating a male character called Jonathan to go with Scarlet.