SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

Adding the hair and beard now...I'm so excited about the hair

 

[skylab]

Here's a quick Firefly render of the hair and beard added...now I'll try a Superfly, which will take longer.

 

[skylab]

I definitely think I'm having lighting issues, especially after rendering the beard. So far the Superfly render is showing more vivid colors.

 

[Maja]

Well done, skylab. I'm so happy it works. I noticed that the tunic does not stick out at the bottom. Actually the tunic ist longer than the robe. Did you check "Collision Friction" for the tunic in the sim dialogue?

 

[skylab]

While I'm waiting for that to render....last night I located in my archives something that Pappy sent to me...a 3D Hebrew alphabet for Poser...it was good timing. I've been studying, learning to read Hebrew during my break from 3D so that I'd be ready when the time came to use it. So far so good...it's becoming more familiar to me now.

 

[skylab]

I noticed that too, that the tunic appears shorter, but I know that it isn't. I figured I'd have tweaks to work out. But considering it's a first run, it's coming together pretty quickly The Superfly render is still running.

 

[Maja]

It's better not so put light directly in front of the scene. With SF use a maximum of two lights (one area light, one spot light) from top and/or side. Only one light should cast shadows.

 

[Maja]

Does the tunic also appears shorter before sim calculation?

 

[skylab]

No, before sim the tunic is the right length. It might be my fault. I was trying to lessen the crumpling at the arm pits, so I increased the fold resistence and increased the cloth density...and sometimes that causes a garment to stretch downward, like a heavy drape...and that would be enough to cause it to appear longer. That would be my first suspicion. And you're right about the lighting....I've got the lights way too hot for Superfly....but even so, the test render is an improvement over the Firefly. Superfly rendering is really growing on me...I like the crispness, clarity, and vivid colors.

 

[skylab]

The gems in the breast plate are more visible...the details of this project are really nicely done.

 

[skylab]

Yep, definitely need to change the lights...so that the crown is more visible...but you can see already the improvement.

 

[Maja]

It's not about fault but about cause.

I gave up to mess around with settings in Poser to get rid of minor crumpling or poke thru, cause most of the time that leads to more worse unwanted results. It's much easier to use an image processing program to fix such things on renders.

 

[Maja]

Hm, the crown should be white with both CPU and CPU mode. Something goes weird. But what?

 

[skylab]

That's the truth...a little post work can take a lot less time than overdoing the tinkering. Because I'm a relative novice with the cloth room, I always wonder if I adjust this or that, will it correct...I had one surprise good result with the good shepherd sim run, but most of the time otherwise it doesn't work so well.

 

[skylab]

Yeah that was a surprise...I'll go back and check the directions...I tend to fly by the seat of my pants, so it could be something I'm failing to do.

 

[skylab]

Bear in mind, I'm even more of a novice with Superfly clothing renders. Most of the experimenting I've done has been with metals and glassy objects.

 

[skylab]

Actually I think the first Superfly clothing that I rendered was your medieval outfit for Paul, with the gold and silver trim.

 

[skylab]

By the way, in the render that's running now, I decreased the cloth density, and it corrected the hem length problem.

 

[skylab]

Well the hem length has improved, but the crown is still dark. Let me check the render settings.

 

[Maja]

Nevertheless colors must get rendered according to the material settings. Unless the user changed them, what you apparently did not do. FF rendered the crown as it should. SF not. The question is why. Is that CPU oder GPU mode?