Reinstalling DS, converting things to Dawn and Diva and my experiments along the way

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Luna this time. I'm not sure if I ever posted this one. Such a beautiful model Chris made...

 

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Seems like poses from Dawn 2 work on Dawn SE. I have found some of the original poses for Dawn are too extreme for Dawn 2 and require some adjustment though.
Haigan's chemis on Dawn with Dawn 2 pose applied. I do really like this pose.

 

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Three of the four ear mophs I did yesterday. I got rid of the second one I did as I decided I didn't like it. Very simple as I just need some basic shapes at the moment.

 

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So my willpower didn't last long. I bought wolfies dress and two pose packs. Pommerlis and Ram's.
I really love the artistic1 pose Ram!

 

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I've been sorting my runtime out so not much in the way of a renders but here's a quick test of some conversions I originally did for Dawn.
Alexios hair and florabelle...sase promo lights
Truly a beautiful model. I haven't found any expressions for her at Rendo though but maybe there are some in the shapes pack from Hivewire that I haven't got yet.

 

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So I'm a bit obsessive at the moment...Willow's dress and sneakers. It all converted nicely using the loader. Ram's pose. SASE promo lights for Iray.

 

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Last one as the current simulation is likely to come unstuck. What is really needed is characters and expressions...everything else I can convert.

 

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Checked out Render Hub earlier today...nothing that I coudl see for Dawn 2 in the Freebies section. Has anyone put freebies up on there? What do you think of the site? Attempting to create some basic expressions but it's really not my thing...

 

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So let's start at the beginning and go back to my shorts. I played some more with it in Zbrush, threw it into ds and added weightmapping. Very quickly took it into UVLayout and did a very basic map. Still needs lots of work. Not least that it's currently over 2 images rather than one. Still trying to remember how to use uv layout but we'll sort that out eventually. You can see from the checker that I haven't straightened out the waistband yet but overall squares are relatively undistorted.

 

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So checking how it works with the base poses. As there is not template it's not working too badly.
Kneeling pose back, front and with smoothing modifier.

 

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So most poses work without smoothing except for the sitting poses which is to be expected.

Next to work on dforce and see how that runs.

 

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What happens when you get bored with testing...That's right it's back into zbrush for a quick play. Doesn't she look gorgeous with Swam's charlotte hair. I don't know who did the texture and shaders for the skin but they did a lovely job

 

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So I spent lots of time yesterday starting to relocate my notes from Onenote to Obsidian. Of course microsoft is being difficult so despite an importer I'm doing it manually. Had a break fro that today to look at the uv map on the short shorts.

I've straightend the waistband and flattened the front and back. Not sure if I should straighten the front and back at the bottom edge where the hem is?

Or am I simply overthinking what will be a freebie when done?

I can't do custom morph as I don't have the shapes set from Rendo yet.

 

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So thought I'd straighten the edges at the hem but when I took it into ds I struck problems. Decided to come back to it tomorrow and made a top to go with the shorts. I'll post more tomorrow. I'm also investigating how to create uv sets for Dawn 2 to allow us to use Dawnse textures.

 

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So I posted a few images thinking it was here but it was the christmas thread for Fantasy Attic.
Thanks to Dawn for helping me work out the uv map.

 

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Both uv's now done. Onward to setting up surfaces and testing conforming and dynamic usage.

 

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I had a day off from DS and zbrush today or so I thought.
Settlement on the sale of Dad's house today and I'm feeling a bit low.

Went into DS for a quick play. I wasn't even going to touch Dawn2 but ended up in zbrush with her somehow. She's going to end up with a nice wardrobe in DS eventually.

Any suggestions for good sites to put freebies now Share CG is gone or if not a site a free web host. I wouldn't need lots of bandwidth I don't think.

Portrait of a faun was yesterday. My morphs, one to prove I did play with Genesis 9 I just came back to Dawn2. Top falls off the shoulder in dforce as it's low on the back as well as the front.