Here's a link --> 3Dconnexion : SpaceNavigator
It works with all my 3D programs, except for ZBrush, and not for lack of requests. ^^
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Show Us Your Dawn Renders!
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Here's a link --> 3Dconnexion : SpaceNavigator
It works with all my 3D programs, except for ZBrush, and not for lack of requests. ^^
Hornet3d
Wise
I use the same mouse and have done for a few years now and like you I find it a definite improvement and once set to your own particular needs such as speed and sensitivity it becomes instinctive to use. On the odd occasion I move to a backup machine to do Poser work I miss it immediately.
I am surprised it does not work in ZBrush, not that I use it but, as you say, it works in almost everything else.
Wow! That is very cool!
You mean it doesn't work in Poser for you? I have been using this 3D mouse with Poser since version 7. The way it works is different in some programs, though. Poser requires the 3DConnexion applet to work, but Modo has it built-in. You know the applet is running if you see the 3DConnexion icon on your system tray. I think both Poser and DS require it. In DS I have to reduce sensitivity to almost zero, or else things FLY with the slightest touch. ;p
I started with the older model, the SpacePilot, which is much bigger, has an LCD display and tons of useful buttons. But 3DConnexion quit supporting it in Windows 10, so I was forced to buy a new one (SpaceNavigator). Microsoft did the same with their ENTIRE LINE of awesome game controllers - they quit supporting them in Windows 10, forcing me to buy an XBOX controller.
My old SpacePilot still works nicely (these never break), but there is no driver for it on Windows 10. At least I could buy the SpaceNavigator for half the price at a Smith Micro's Poser + 3D Mouse promo. Normal price is around $110, and I've paid only $49. The old SpacePilot is better than this new SpaceNavigator, but lack of divers can keep us from using stuff we already have. It's their way to force us to buy new stuff. ;p
I have Win7 on my desktop, I'll have to keep a lookout for used ones, that people are getting rid of.
One of may biggest grumphs about Maya is that my plain Apple mouse doesn't appear to work with it. No matter how I adjust the settings, it won't accept the scroll button as a middle mouse button. So I have to downgrade to an old MS mouse which a friend let me use.
I guess Mac users have been conditioned to refuse multi-buttons mice for so many years, that maybe applications refuse them too. My sis is a Mac user, and she always said Macs don't need more buttons. That's a PC thing because in the PC culture we like to customize things and have many hardware options and models to choose from. That used to be taboo in Mac culture. Maybe it still is.
Mythocentric
Extraordinary
Thank you everyone! The reflections are purely due to Lully's hard work which is why her Dome Prop Set is one of my favourite environments (apart from it's surreal aspects). I'm hoping we will see further expansions in the future to an already fine set. I can imagine that dome with glorious sweeping starfields like the images from the Hubble Telescope! (Drool! 
). Lighting comes from a basic IBL, specular and sun set up with the sun set high at 70% intensity to highlight the reflections. To my delight (and surprise) postwork consisted of minor adjustments to the shadows. 
). Lighting comes from a basic IBL, specular and sun set up with the sun set high at 70% intensity to highlight the reflections. To my delight (and surprise) postwork consisted of minor adjustments to the shadows.
I postwork everything I make, and I am perfectly OK with that (except for promos). Renders are not supposed to be perfect. In addition, postwork adds to the artistic side of the composition, so I make it integral part of the piece and have a lot of fun with it.
WIP- Carousel Poles.
Hornet3d
Wise
Hornet3d
Wise
I postwork everything I make, and I am perfectly OK with that (except for promos). Renders are not supposed to be perfect. In addition, postwork adds to the artistic side of the composition, so I make it integral part of the piece and have a lot of fun with it.
Like you, I postwork almost every thing I do and I love playing with layers and masks it can really change the nature of a render and mine need all the help they can get. Where I use Particleshop the post work is often very obvious but in a lot of the renders the postwork is often hard to spot. I agree with you that postwork in promos would be unfair but otherwise it is part of the creative process.
Me195
Extraordinary
Thank you I'll check those out.
Me195
Extraordinary
Thank you Miss B. The secret is to up the texture quality in your preview render settings and that you can control the geometric edge by material as well as the normal comic filter options. It's better explained here if you're interested
Me195
Extraordinary
I see. It's very clever.
Credit for that goes to you, Chris, and his team. The well made geometry, morphs, and textures help a LOT. It's made me want your universal anime head even more. Once I get it I might get back into animating again since comic renders are pretty much instantaneous.
I've played around with the comic book renders in the past, but was never able to get a good handle on them and just went forward with the regular rendering styles. Of course, this is going back to around Poser 5, and then again in Poser 7 and pretty much I never toyed with them much after that. By the time Poser 8 came out, I had converted 100% to Studio for my own artwork rendering. I may have to give it another play now that I've got PP11 on here.
