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I Just Wanted to Post an Image Thread
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seachnasaigh
Energetic
Amongst the files I recovered from a deceased workstation, I found the Silo build file of this elven grey ship. I've begun working on it again.
Sirius's trial results in an acquittal, of course, but also in an involuntary commitment to St Mungo's for medical treatment and evaluation on whether he is sufficiently sane to be allowed out on his own.
He is not at all pleased with yet another imprisonment.
In 2011,
And in 2020.
He is not at all pleased with yet another imprisonment.
In 2011,
And in 2020.
Carey
Extraordinary
Autumn huh? i think you just plain goofy...lolAutumn is coming in Carrara
Mustakettu85
Motivated
You don't need the transfer utility to make a clone. A clone is a morph technically. The simplest (not the most accurate, of course) clone can be made right there in DS by using transforms/scales/rotations on bones of the new figure to match the shape of the old figure; then you just export the base res geometry of this new figure "kicked into shape" of the old one, and re-import it as a morph that you set up to be used as a clone.
This type of clone can fit clothing more or less okay (though in the age of dForce most conformers are obsolete by definition), but for replicating, say, face morphs with reasonable accuracy, you'd need to match the head shapes either in a modelling app, or in DS via deformers or that little mesh manip plugin (forgot the name, sorry; I'm bad at names).
You can always see if your existing clones have the right face shape if you enable displaying hidden params and simply dial them in as any other morph.
Yes, and backwards as well. Once you have a clone, your characters can "travel" between generations. If you have a, say, G3 clone for G8 (which everyone does), it's easy to make a G8 clone for G3 (using the Valzheimer method), and then you can go back in steps as far as the original Genesis.
If the body shape of your character deviates significantly from your new figure, you might need to mess around with rigging, but there are already scripts out there aimed at those who create custom full body morphs, and these scripts automate a lot of that.
Rob Wh. is one of the best assets that DAZ has as a 3D business. And yet most people worship various vendors but his name is virtually unknown. Shame.
I disagree with a lot of decisions DAZ make, but - we don't really know what they could or could not afford to. And there actually was an official manual for new users written for DS4.something several years ago. You can find it via the link below.
User Guide [Documentation Center]
yup... only one day left of summer downunder
Isn't it still about 3 weeks away? :/
I was referring to content creation documentation. It was rather painful for me to get started. If not for the kindness of Paul and Mec4D, I wouldn't had managed on my own, because many parts of the process are unintuitive, and could not be guessed based on past experience in other software. Just a few days ago, we were still mentioning how many of us still have no idea how to properly use the many parameters in the Transfer Utility here in this forum. We can make some guesses, and luckily get some positive results, but do you know what the parameters mean and in what circumstances they should be used? What are the best values? That is just an example.
Carey
Extraordinary
Maybe I could be accused of picking on you, but life is full of punch lines, you do wonderful work, but it requires immense concentration, I know..The fun part is when we get to show it off, I like to share in that fun and to reward folks with more ten just a thumbs up. I'd love to bake you a cake, but , well, I am cheap and what I'd really like to do is put a bunch of stamps on my forehead and mail me to you....lolyup... only one day left of summer downunder
Stezza
Dances with Bees
Thanks...I have created clones a long time ago. So I'm sort of familiar with the process. 3DOutlaw iirc did a tutorial for V4 and Dawn years back. Much appreciate the detailed explanation...I agree wholeheartedly about Rob. I got to know him a little when shadermixer first came out and he was one of the best sources of information along with one or two others.
Out of the blue, Professor Snape receives a letter from a Gordianus Prince, who claims to be his uncle. With the recent death of his father, Severus's grandfather, Gordianus wishes to attempt to heal the breech between their batches of the family. It was Severus's grandfather who disowned Severus's mother upon her marriage, and forbade all contact or assistance to them.
Between the lines, it is clear the part of his motivation is the fact that his eldest granddaughter is due to start Hogwarts the following year, and he does not want one of her instructors to be holding a grudge.
Severus and Charity are invited to dinner to meet the rest of the family. Among them Severus's cousin and his wife and children. The most memorable of which is the eight-year-old Marygold.
In 2011,
And in 2020.
Between the lines, it is clear the part of his motivation is the fact that his eldest granddaughter is due to start Hogwarts the following year, and he does not want one of her instructors to be holding a grudge.
Severus and Charity are invited to dinner to meet the rest of the family. Among them Severus's cousin and his wife and children. The most memorable of which is the eight-year-old Marygold.
In 2011,
And in 2020.
Mustakettu85
Motivated
I'd say the DAZ wiki does provide the necessary basics about content creation tools. But when it comes to the scripting API and the plugin SDK, now that's actually where the gaps are. Rob Wh. will often come and help out with the most cryptic bits if one asks in the respective subforums, but, well, it's impractical to count on that 24/7.
In case you missed them, there are these useful pages on transfer utility; determining the exact values is left to the user, but there may be no universal solutions at all...
Transfer Utility... [Documentation Center]
Basic Rigging with the Transfer Utility * [Documentation Center]
Now, what DAZ does not provide at all is educating the userbase on the foundations of rendering properly. The nonlinearity of our light perception, basic physics of light transfer, things like that. Realistic albedo values? Making full use of the physical camera model in Iray? No, the DS crowd has no need for that. It's so much simpler to clamp the sunsky output to 10% of its actual intensity than to actually explain stuff to people.
But then again - they likely simply do not have anyone on board who is qualified enough to explain that. Think: even their QA is currently a joke (say, the topology you can sell in the DAZ store can be literally entry-level modelling, you just need to ensure your promos are good).
You're welcome!
seachnasaigh
Energetic
Elven grey ship...
"I see white shores ahead!"
Checking the reaction of the water materials to night light conditions...
The globe on the stern spiral isn't (just) a lamp; it's a starmap, to aid the pilot in navigation.
I may yet make further attempts to adjust the water (the wake will be in the zip), but the grey ship is pretty well finished. It will be uploaded as a freebie to R'osity and ShareCG when finalized.
It will have dynamic sail and pennant, plus (for those averse to dynamics) both "underway" and "slack" pre-shaped versions of the sail and pennant. There is a boarding gate in the railing on each side.
"I see white shores ahead!"
Checking the reaction of the water materials to night light conditions...
The globe on the stern spiral isn't (just) a lamp; it's a starmap, to aid the pilot in navigation.
I may yet make further attempts to adjust the water (the wake will be in the zip), but the grey ship is pretty well finished. It will be uploaded as a freebie to R'osity and ShareCG when finalized.
It will have dynamic sail and pennant, plus (for those averse to dynamics) both "underway" and "slack" pre-shaped versions of the sail and pennant. There is a boarding gate in the railing on each side.
Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
Good job Carey!
Carey
Extraordinary
I went a bit too far I think...The bolts are even threaded...It was as close as I could get to be on the farm again..Couldn't fix one thing, she still starts hard.....
After meeting the Princes, the next thing on the agenda was for Snape to meet the Burbages, who had portkeyed from New Zealand for the wedding.
Indeed, wedding preparations seem to have taken over all of their lives by this point.
Charity's sister Hope's baby Fiona seems not to have taken with her prospective uncle. The feeling was mutual.
Hope didn't make a good impression, either.
This is a new illustration with no 2011 counterpart.
Indeed, wedding preparations seem to have taken over all of their lives by this point.
Charity's sister Hope's baby Fiona seems not to have taken with her prospective uncle. The feeling was mutual.
Hope didn't make a good impression, either.
This is a new illustration with no 2011 counterpart.