SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

Hey Terre and Miss B Hope Wayii will come on over and join in the fun here on the forum...would love to see her, and maybe we could cheer things up for her. I know the feeling...while I was out with health issues, things were not so cheerful...and it's so good now to be out from under that, and not stuck in bed all the time.

Here's Wayii's latest texture work:

 

[skylab]

I forgot to post this link with the above textures.

WAYII ON SHARECG

 

[skylab]

Playing with video effects today This is a much reduced .gif of a large 240 frame video, but you get the idea.

 

[Terre]

Even the gif looks good.

 

[skylab]

Took time to check all the links on my Freeware Links page to make sure they were all still functional, so here's a link to that page, which has all the freeware software that I have used for years.

SKYLAB 3D LINKS

 

[skylab]

A couple more oldie attempts at an American Gothic theme, using Nursoda's Fon and Doc Pitterbill

 

[Terre]

I remember those.

 

[skylab]

Hey Terre If I remember correctly, Wayii did the textures on Fon's shirt

I'll be taking a break from playing for the next few days in order to get some real life stuff done. I'll still check in and say hi but won't be as active online. Hopefully I can resume to normal by the weekend. I've finally gotten a new large external archive, and need to back up my stuff. The old stuff was safely tucked away on a 4TB Seagate, but updates from 2016 until the present were scattered on smaller portable drives, so locating stuff was not easy. Now I can organize the more recent stuff on a decent backup drive...but it does require my attention in order to not mess anything up.

...and more playing with video effects, reduced from a large 300 frame .avi movie

 

[Terre]

I hope all goes well ma'am.

Had an amusing coincidence yesterday. The friend who's doing some landscape work for us asked if he could put in some flowering plants to add color. Right then is when my nose decided it was time to complain about the pollen levels in the air. I didn't even need to tell him "Sorry but I don't think that will work." as he quickly remembered my allergy problems. I did tell him that I've had clinical allergy testing and I have problems every time of the year that there is pollen in the air. I don't have seasonal hayfever. I have a season (winter) when there isn't pollen bothering me. Just dust and other airborne things.
As to "what is blooming in our front yard this time of year?" Desert Bird of Paradise. PlantFiles: Desert Bird of Paradise, Yellow Bird of Paradise

 

[skylab]

Quick test on a snowman model that I created in Anim8or (or Hexagon) and assembled in Poser. The mesh is dense enough to tolerate bends and twists very well. I have a feeling that low poly models break during rig posing partly for this reason. I tried rigging this in the setup room, using the bone method, rather than the UV Mapper and PHI Builder method. Here's the animation of the snowman looking himself over as he is coming to life

I used the method described in my beginner setup room PDF tutorial at the link below. I created this years ago as a way to show users how to get simple movements in props, and was not intended to be a full rigging tutorial. The tutorial was using my models of CHOCS, for chocolate lovers

SNOWMAN MODEL

POSER SETUP ROOM RIGGING TUTORIAL

CHOCS

 

[skylab]

I just discovered that an old flash program that I used years ago is still around, and the software's capabilities have been expanded to more than flash animation. KoolMoves will now import animated .gif, .swf, .flv, .mp4, .mov, and 3D objects in .3ds and .obj formats. It will export in .swf, and animated .gif, and in movie formats .avi and .mp4. This means all the experience I had with animated text won't be lost KoolMoves registration has been reduced to a very reasonable price, but I'm not sure for how long. It's supposed to work on Windows 7, 8 and 10.

 

[Terre]

Sounds like things are going well.

 

[skylab]

Hey Terre Yes, going very well. I've been searching animation software and found more good options. I never realized that GIMP would do basic animation, and, in addition to Kool Moves, there are two more freeware animation programs that are more like Anime Studio, called Synfig and Tupi. Each have an abundance of tutorials on YouTube.

SYNFIG

TUPI

KOOL MOVES

GIMP

 

[skylab]

Our internet connection has been in and out since yesterday, so I may only be online briefly until things become more stable. I'll use the time to catch some long naps, so everyone have a good evening

 

[Miss B]

Rest easy Sky.

 

[Terre]

Good evening, I hope things are more stable tomorrow.

 

[skylab]

Good morning everyone...just stopping by briefly. I did see the announcement that CP is shutting down in November, so I'm posting this tip that I saw recently, while it can still be downloaded from CP. It's probably one of those "new to me, but Miss B already knows about it from last year" deals...haha. It's a free utility that apparently makes clothes fitting easier. I'll just post the CP link, and then the link to the long version explanation on Sway. Apparently it's similar to XD, and they mention they will be working on a better conversion of shoes, which I remember Terre mentioned being an issue not long ago. Anyway, for what it's worth, here's the info and download...before CP shuts down.


PREFITTER CR2

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

 

[Miss B]

Yes, I grabbed Prefitter CR2 a while back, but haven't had a chance to play with it . . . yet.

 

[skylab]

Hurricane Florence has finally made landfall at 100 mph, and awhile ago I saw on the Weather Channel where they had just lost power in some of the impact areas. They are getting pounded tonight, but not as badly as if it had remained a Cat 4, and certainly not as bad as if the storm had followed along the east coast, gaining its strength from the warm water.

Couldn't help but remember this render that I did of Sarah when Hurricane Fay hit in 2008 which brought a lot of flooding. When I emailed her to find if she was doing okay, she was unaware that there had been flooding, she was so captivated with learning Poser, and collecting downloads for her projects. So, I did this two-step render as a joke for her...that is, I rendered the raft in Vue in order to get a well defined boat shadow on the water, then I imported the Vue render into Poser, and positioned the same raft "on top of" the Vue raft, and used Miki to create Sarah, floating along without a care in the world. Here's the original Vue render, if you'd like to try a similar project

 

[Janet]

Very funny image!

I'm so glad Florence has calmed down.

I always wondered when they would name a hurricane Janet. Well they did! It was a category 5 in 1955.