Childe Of Fyre Freebies

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Pen,

No, I don't have any clones for them... all I can do at the moment is try to autofit with "unsupported." (And we know how that goes, eh? LOL)

I may end up scrapping it on this one for the moment. I am working on a bunch of different things at the same time here, and some of that is HW clothing items, so it's not the end of the world, I suppose. I was just trying to support as many figures as I could with it at the moment is all.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

thnk u hun x

You're welcome. I hope they help!

 

[Lorraine]

Thank you, these will be really useful

Apropos of your discussion with Pen, I made a projection template for Dusk using his clothing resource base from HW.

 

[Pendraia]

Congrats Lorraine on getting it to work. : )

 

[Lorraine]

Must admit, I was quite chuffed with myself

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

And thanks to @skylab and @sanbie for their efforts in converting my message board dribbles to PDF and Word .doc formats, I have now gotten my website updated with two of the tutorials from the forums here. This is the first one, that covered the basics of dynamic cloth simulations using the DynCreator script.

Included is the following :
-- Converting a conforming item to dynamic cloth.
-- Converting a static prop to dynamic cloth.
-- Basic step-by-step for performing a first cloth simulation.

The tutorial is a zipped .pdf file.

Usage Rights :
-- Please don't claim the writing as your own work, and do NOT attempt to sell it. That's all I ask.

Website :
Dynamic Cloth in Daz Studio 4

DeviantArt :
Dynamic Cloth Basics in Daz Studio 4

ShareCG :
Dynamic Cloth Basics in Daz Studio 4

 

[Miss B]

Great news for DS users Seliah.

 

[Lorraine]

Nice one, Seliah!

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

And this is the basic lighting tutorial from the DS software forum. Credit goes to both SkyLab and Sanbie for the help with converting to .pdf and .doc formats with this one as well. Thank you, ladies.

I still have to update for the posing tutorial, but I will do that later on.

Included :
-- Introduction to using the default Distant Lights in the 3Delight engine.
-- Introduction to using the default Spotlights in the 3Delight engine.

The tutorial is a zip that contains both a .pdf and a .doc format. Pick your poison.

Usage Rights :
-- Please don't claim the writing as your own work, and do NOT attempt to sell it. That's all I ask.

Website :
Basic Lighting in Daz Studio 4.x

Deviant Art :
Basic Lighting in Daz Studio 4.x

ShareCG :
Basic Lighting in Daz Studio 4.x

 

[Miss B]

Congrats on getting this one on your site too. I love this render of the different types of lights.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Congrats on getting this one on your site too. I love this render of the different types of lights.

It's so hard for me to do anything that even remotely resembles a still-life render. LOL I actually *mostly* like the way this one came out, too... except for the lantern which insisted on either looking like it was floating, or else so closely sitting on the table that it wouldn't cast any shadows around itself. I've gotten to used to the ambient occlusion in things like AOA and UE2 lights.

 

[Miss B]

Oh, I hadn't even noticed that, especially since everything else is casting a shadow. Even so, I like the way it came out.

 

[JOdel]

I've had that happen. And the kind of glitch where it casts a shadow, but not a complete one. Just a ring of shadow that clearly doesn't quite touch the object. Nothing you can do but adjust and re=render, because somehow it's a knock-down, drag-out fight to fix it in post.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

I've had that happen. And the kind of glitch where it casts a shadow, but not a complete one. Just a ring of shadow that clearly doesn't quite touch the object. Nothing you can do but adjust and re=render, because somehow it's a knock-down, drag-out fight to fix it in post.

Yep. If it were a serious render for posting to a gallery as an art piece, you can bet I would have kept re-rendering over and over. But for just a quickie picture to post the tutorial, I really wasn't too worried about it. It is quite annoying, though, when it happens.

 

[FairyFantastic]

thnks for the tuts hun the lighting will be very handy for me as i have no clue on lighing x

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

thnks for the tuts hun the lighting will be very handy for me as i have no clue on lighing x

You're welcome!

 

[JOdel]

I flail at lighting. But I'm getting better at it.

I tend to try to find a good prefab light set and then add whatever accent lights I want to affect things (usually linear point lights or a spotlight outside the window). Right now I'm using Khory's Caressed by Light package. They give a rather "grainy" texture to things, which makes me wonder whether they are actually Iray lights (although it doesn't say so). But I like the rather vintage look that gives things for the project I'm working with now. And one of the things I like the best about them is that you can swap them out and they don't wipe out your accent lights, which applying most packaged lights seems to do.

And you can always adjust the intensity of both the lights and the environment if you want to change the amount of light.

The down side is that you can't actually *see* the amount of light you've got in the viewport. So you are always doing spot renders to check whethere a part of the scene is getting lit adequately.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Does that package use AOA's lights? I don't have it; I don't ever buy or download prefab lights as I just always set up my own rigs in Studio. Poser lighting, oh yeah I snap up every freebie prefab set I can find because I'm SO dang horrible at it. But DS lights are in that category of "Sheesh, I can do this myself... next!" LOL

If the package uses AOA's lights (Advanced Ambient), those can sometimes give a grainy effect to a render. Best way to combat it in the case of the AOA lights is to reduce the "Shadow Softness" which is found on the AOA Advanced Distant Lights, and AOA Advanced Spotlights.

I noticed a while ago that UE2 lights seem to render a lot cleaner as far as grain, though they take much longer to render than the AOA's do.

 

[Pendraia]

Thanks for the tutorials...

 

[JOdel]

No idea. There doesn't seem to be any shadow softness setting in 4.8. Only shadow bias (which I have no idea what it is) and shadow intensity. But there are no ambient lights in any of the sets in this package. Only an uberEnvironment+sphere, a front light, and usually either 1 or 2 back lights (which are spots, not distants). I would expect that they are designed for portraits, but I'm using them for scenes.