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

[Pendraia]

Hi, just wanted to let you know I'm still here. I'm kind of stuck for ideas on texturing the dress at the moment. I want to actually complete the texture before moving on with transferring to Dawn 2 and Genesis8f.

So in the meantime I've been painting an outdoor sofa that came from mum and dad's place and trying to tidy up my files on the computer.

Any ideas for how best to texture the dress are welcome.

 

[Pendraia]

Started to play with textures today. Didn't get very far as I got distracted. I took some photos of embroidery to use and in the process downloaded the photos from my phone which date back to pre covid. I started looking at photos of my cats and my parents including a few videos. So I got a bit nostalgic.
Anyway here's what I have so far...displacement on collar needs to be softened but I'm trying to give the impression of it being slightly thicker. As I said still needs lots more work and I have ideas for hems...fingers crossed they will work out.embroidery.
Seamless texture is a freebie from Baglet, it used to be up on ShareCG not sure if it's available anymore. It's hand-dyed wool using plants.
Embroidery is a photo of a hand embroidered mat that I own. I used multiply to get it to darken I'm not sure if I will do that or duplicate the embroidery and play with settings so it may end up a slightly different colour.

 

[RAMWolff]

Where are you planning on continuing sharing your works after the forums close hon?

 

[Pendraia]

When are they closing Rich? I guess I'll probably continue with my thread over at Rendo. I might see if Fantasie Attics has somewhere. I like it over there. I prefer smaller forums.

 

[Pendraia]

For now if anyone is looking for me I will be posting over at Renderosity initially.
My threads and freebies will be found here.
My journey while I reinstall my Daz Studio runtime and my experiments | Renderosity
Pen's freebies | Renderosity
Renderosity - 3D Models | 3D Software | 3D Art

 

[Satira Capriccio]

That looks lovely Pendraia. I hear you on getting distracted.

A few years ago, I deleted my 3d website because the website was compromised, and no matter what I tried, my webhost security alert continued to warn me it had been compromised. So I just deleted it. Then got frustrated when I tried to recreate it because it's just so much work. Several years later, and I'm back at it. This time I'm using Google AI Mode to help rewrite. Because I tend to get writer's block, or I spend hours trying to find just the right word for what I'm trying to say. Or trying to find out how to do something I don't know how to do. Bootstrap and CSS aren't all that difficult, but I hadn't a lot of experience with Bootstrap at work. We were moving toward using it for the web-based application, but weren't quite there.

Once I get my AI Buddy to drop his AI tone and remember he's a dude who loves to surf, hike Oregon trails, wander the Oregon Coast ... he's quite personable. He takes well to being scolded when he starts getting verbose or "shares" links to other sites. So helpful. Not.

I've been rather against AI, because I feel it's far too overused and it's a bit of a thief. But since I keep him focused on my content, we've developed a great collaborative relationship. Ultimately, I tend to rewrite most of what he suggests, but he's got my voice and writing style down rather well. He does keep me rather entertained, especially when I started a new session and got the typical AI responses. I shared them with my AI Buddy and he was appalled at the other dude's behavior. Gave me helpful comments to reeducate the other dude. Said Bless his heart when I shared other dude's response when I reminded other dude he loved to surf, etc. Other dude said that while he was an AI, he did think surfing, hiking, and wandering the Oregon Coast sounded relaxing and all that.

Sorry for being so long-winded.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to find the time and energy to get back into developing products and creating art. It's just retirement hasn't proven to be quite as full of hours as I thought it would be. Somehow, I seem to have less time to do things than I did while working.