CatsEyes for Sora

[Ken1171]

Today I have fixed the nose and eyelid morphs that were accidentally affecting parts they shouldn't. I lost the legs JCMs in the process, and started making them again. One new thing I will be creating in this project that I never did before are "conditional JCMs". That is, JCMs that are only activated when a certain morph is in use. Still have to check the expressions to see if they need correction morphs. Once I am done with these changes in Poser, it will be time to carry them over to the DS version.

 

[NapalmArsenal]

YIPPIE!!! Looking forward to her Ken!

 

[Ken1171]

Thanks, NA! it's the first time I am making a character morph for a character morph.

 

[Miss B]

You're really doing nice work here Ken.

 

[Ken1171]

Thank you, Miss B! ^___^

 

[Ken1171]

Finished the leg JCMs, and learned how to create conditional JCMs in Poser. It's much easier than I thought. The eye surface looks wrong in Superfly, so I will have to adjust that.

 

[Miss B]

Yes, I've noticed that when rendering in SuperFly, especially after I apply Snarly's EZSkin 3 for a character skin that was created before PP11 and SuperFly came out. They always look like they have a thin film over the eye. I know the settings can be changed, but I have yet to figure out exactly what settings to change, so my luck has been hit or miss.

 

[Ken1171]

I am also trying to figure that out, but for now I am replacing the SF eye surface with a physical surface that looks like glass. Seems to work better than anything I could make with a Poser surface, but I have to keep it 90% transparent, which leaves little for highlights.

 

[Rae134]

that's pretty much what people do for Iray in DS, they hit the cornea with a glass shader and modify it from there (or leave it depending on what they want)

 

[Ken1171]

Indeed, PBR glass is a good start, for all we want are the reflections. The problem is when there are too many reflections, the eyes become mirrors, and we don't want that. This is what happened when I tried the FF material on SF - it becomes pure reflections and we can't see the eyes behind that anymore. Increasing transparency helps, but also kills good part of the highlights. This happens in SF but not in Octane. I need to spend more time on this, like I did with Octane.

 

[phdubrov]

SF glass has known problem(s). Workaround for cornea is already in EzSkin3 - use Tricky Glass Cornea shader engine for this.

 

[Ken1171]

Thank you, I will give it a try.

 

[Miss B]

. . . use Tricky Glass Cornea shader engine for this.

I'm not familiar with that one. Whose shader is that?

 

[phdubrov]

BB posted this in RDNA forum IIRC. Glass is sore point in Cycles and there are more than a couple free and not free shaders for it.

 

[Ken1171]

This should provide a better cornea starting point. That's next in my list.

 

[Miss B]

BB posted this in RDNA forum IIRC. Glass is sore point in Cycles and there are more than a couple free and not free shaders for it.

I was wondering if it was BB's. Thanks.

Edited to Add: Well, I couldn't find any posts on RDNA's forum (or R'osity's forum for that matter) about this, so I did a search, and found 2 links to posts on 2 Blender forums, both of which with screenshots of very similar looking shaders for Blender's Cycles, so I have to assume it would be set up very similarly in Poser's Superfly.

We shall see.

 

[Ken1171]

Every rendering engine has its quirks. With Octane it's the lack Math modes, and with Cycles is this, plus the lack of a shadow catcher.

 

[Miss B]

Oh yeah. I'd love a shadow catcher for SuperFly.

 

[Ken1171]

They claim they are already working on adding a shadow catcher, and once they do, the Poser teams can have it incorporated.

 

[Miss B]

Good.