SKYLAB CHAT

[Terre]

More nice work from both of you.

 

[skylab]

Progressing toward a very dark background in order to use the lamp light or torches for a night scene

 

[Stezza]

No probs.. I fixed mine in Carrara

Also noticed some lost polygons up front in both models.. probably during the Boolean operation and transfer I’m guessing... it’s a great model, I’ve been working on my model of the Tom Thumb II on and off for the last couple of months in Carrara, you’ll have to google that for an Australian history lesson ( it is a boat )

Still have the texture/bump maps to adjust as they don’t transfer to Carrara might do that today sometime.

 

[skylab]

Hey Stezza Yeah, I sent Forester your information and told her that you had fixed your boat in Carrara, but that she might want to know for future downloads, especially on her site. She appreciates your help Yeah, it can get tricky when transferring from one 3D modeling software to another, and even trickier transferring to Poser. And the last time I tried to import the original converted boat by Clark into DAZ Studio, none of the materials showed at all....at least once I got past Poser 11 recognizing the .obj file, the textures showed fine. I should try that this evening probably, to see if Forester's boat will import into DAZ Studio, or if it's still rejecting the textures.

 

[skylab]

Well, that didn't take long...and it was a success! Forester was right, rebuilding the boat in order to be compatible with current software was the right decision. It imported into DAZ Studio 4.10 just fine, renders below. It has to be scaled down of course, but that's easy. It appears that all the textures are working fine....yay! I'll have to let Forester know about this. This is neat because I have some water animation capability in DAZ Studio that I've not yet tried....this could be cool, if I could get the boat to float Big learning curve...but strong incentive, so I'll try it

 

[skylab]

Stezza, I just remembered something. Lately I've been encountering models that import into Carrara with parts missing. A recent example that comes to mind was this toon tow truck. It showed like the first pic below in both Carrara and Poser...and I had to switch over to Hexagon in order to work with it. I'm so used to bouncing things back and forth between Carrara and Hexagon that I forget sometimes that I'm doing it.

 

[skylab]

Stezza, I think I found the Tom Thumb boat that you mentioned, picture at this site

 

[Stezza]

yep

do you have a link to the tow truck? I'll check it out

 

[skylab]

Here you go Stezza....the tow truck was created by Birdman eight years ago, at ShareCG, so here's the link, plus the link to his entire gallery, plus his Redneck Houseboat, which is a hoot

Birdman's Tow Truck

Birdman's Redneck Houseboat

Birdman's Gallery

 

[skylab]

Here's Birdman's Houseboat

 

[skylab]

Another famous boat...Meshbox Noah's Ark that was done many years ago and used to be at Content Paradise. I didn't have any water planes at the time, and you'd never believe where the stormy waters came from...haha....it came from AntFarm's Base Camp Vol. 1, scaled way up until it worked as an ocean Now I use Flink's Water 2 mostly, and sometimes Breaking Waves. When Forester does some water planes, I'll be stretching out a little in order to figure out the mats and reflection in Poser on my own

The animated water for DAZ Studio that I mentioned earlier is called iREAL Animated Ocean Water System. I caught it on sale, and thought I'd one day give it a try...so I guess one day has finally arrived

 

[Stezza]

Here you go Stezza....the tow truck was created by Birdman eight years ago, at ShareCG, so here's the link, plus the link to his entire gallery, plus his Redneck Houseboat, which is a hoot

Birdman's Tow Truck

Birdman's Redneck Houseboat

Birdman's Gallery

no probs loading into Carrara 8.5Pro..

 

[Miss B]

I didn't have any water planes at the time, and you'd never believe where the stormy waters came from...haha....it came from AntFarm's Base Camp Vol. 1, scaled way up until it worked as an ocean

Really?!?!? I have all of his Base Camp sets, and I would never have thought you could do that with one of them. Hmmmmm . . . . .

 

[skylab]

Hey Miss B Yeah, AntFarm would always have a sale when releasing something new, so I picked up the Base Camp set....and while playing with it, discovered that there was a mini ocean water plane option...so I just scaled it way up, and realized it would work to build scenes.

 

[skylab]

Stezza...looks good Birdman has a lot of stuff that you might like...a touch of humor in a lot of his models.

 

[Miss B]

Hey Miss B Yeah, AntFarm would always have a sale when releasing something new, so I picked up the Base Camp set....and while playing with it, discovered that there was a mini ocean water plane option...so I just scaled it way up, and realized it would work to build scenes.

Well I'm definitely going to have to check that out when I have a few free minutes.

 

[skylab]

The Base Camp water plane is found under Props -> Base Camp -> Water Topper as shown below. After loading the Water Topper, scale it way up...as you can see, it's over 800 in this screen capture. Then I rendered it in superfly just to see how it would look, so it does okay either with superfly or firefly renders.

 

[skylab]

Thought I'd share how I was getting the darker skies in Poser 11...I like to use materials for the construct dome. My favorites skies are by seachnasaigh called Construct skydome textures, 8192 x 2048, free on ShareCG. It's a large download, but worth the wait This is where the Red Glow II sky came from in the render below.

I've already mentioned that I use superfly materials for any fire glow or light emissions, and my favorite sets are VB SuperShaders for Poser 11 Superfly and also D3D Superfly Materials. Without these advanced shaders, it would unlikely be possible for me to do any special effects like fire flame in Poser, so just giving credit where it's due, while I've slowed down enough to find the links to this stuff

And remember to check Forester's website for the free nautical .obj models, and also her Rendo free stuff:

expandingwave.com/galilee

Forester free stuff at Renderosity

 

[Terre]

Good morning.

 

[skylab]

Good morning Terre

Running a few tests on the nautical add-on stuff that we have on the Galilee page so far. First we have three talipia fish and a basket of fish, works fine in Poser.