SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

Hey Terre I may have the Genesis in Studio 3 part wrong....on my kitchen offline workstation, it was showing up in the content folder because I had multiple DAZ Studio versions installed, but I notice here on my bedside workstation, it's not showing Genesis in the content folder....it looks more like when it was compatible with Poser, with M4 and V4 showing...so that may have been a mix up due to my crossed up content folders. They are still separate directories, but older versions of Studio would "search" the drive to find anything related to Poser or Studio. I guess perhaps Studio 4 was the intro to Genesis. It's important for anyone wanting cross over compatibility with iClone to remember that it requires Genesis 3 or 8, which is somewhere around Studio 4.9 when Genesis 8 began, along with Iray.

Hopefully it folks can customize their UI, it can help with the transition to newer versions of Studio. I'm not sure who thought that the idea of gray text on a charcoal background would be easy on the eyes...but to me it's a muddy blur. I liked the Carrara-appearing UI the best, but that was only available in Studio 3.

Anyway, thanks for catching that Genesis mix-up Terre

 

[Terre]

That makes sense. You have a lot of stuff and so do we. When I open poser (I may do so again soooon.) I have to remember that only the P7 and earlier stuff will definitely work.

 

[skylab]

The biggest difference in Poser is I have to remember that Paul will only work in Poser 11, and much of the stuff in my Materials runtime won't work in other versions.

Spent this afternoon working on a little pose set for you all...it's of Doc Barney, hanging out of the TV set, doing his "nip in the bud" routine, while Doc Bean is relaxed on the sofa. I managed to get this set done despite how many times we lost power during the storm...haha....I lost count of how many times it went off, but I was saving my work as I went, so nothing was lost

I used the free 1950 TV, the DAZ Couch Potato sofa and tables, and Ockham's 1940 Table Lamp at Rendo free stuff, but most any props would work with some pose adjustments. Doc Barney has to have his legs and feet made invisible, since he is stuck through the TV

The set is zipped in a runtime folder and attached to this post.

 

[skylab]

More Beatles

 

[skylab]

I liked Hope of Deliverance by Paul so much, I thought it deserved a lyric display

 

[Dani Foster Herring]

LOL I love it!! That is so cute, Sky.

I think I used Predatron's Beyond the Sea and one of Flink's skies. I'll open Poser to see how I did it. Be back in a bit.

 

[skylab]

Hey Dani Appreciate your taking time to look that up....and meanwhile I checked my DAZ account, and I do have Beyond the Sea. So....that was the clever, artful use of the camera angle in order to create the illusion that there was lots of land behind the character....ahhhh, how about that I'll be playing with that today, for sure. I also like the bright colors in your renders

And...I thought Paul's song Hope of Deliverance was a great candidate for a partial re-write of lyrics for ministry use.

 

[skylab]

Paul's album from his live tour in 1993...called ironically, Paul is Live

 

[skylab]

Well, Beyond the Sea is as cute a trick as using AntFarm's Base Camp to simulate an ocean I don't have the lights right of course, but it's getting there. I used Breaking Waves for the water, just to be different, and I toned it down a little so that the waves weren't so high, and xScaled to stretch it to full width of the scene.

Thank you Dani for that great tip for doing water scenes

 

[skylab]

Discovered today that I had the La Femme 1.1 update in my Rendo stuff, so I tried it out with the male morph. La Femme's controls are much improved...after a rather intense effort to get a likeness of Paul McCartney, I only noticed one possible morph that could be included in future versions....that is, if it had the ability to raise, or lower, the mouth...just a bit, I would say that the facial controls are getting close to excellent. So, here is Paul McCartney, using La Femme 1.1 free male morph and 3Dream's textures.

 

[skylab]

Singing cat we've seen before, a long time ago...worth a replay

...and the bouncy dog

...and dog blessing

 

[skylab]

Free stuff used in La Femme Paul character listed below, and the face pose is zipped in a runtime folder and attached to this thread post. All base morphs have to be injected before applying the 3Dream male morph...and after everything is loaded, then the Paul face pose will work. The outfit is La Femme Wayfarer from Rendo.

Aprilysh Jamie Hair

Beatles bass, at Rendo, and 3dpmr

 

[skylab]

Found my original nodes from when the Nursoda chess set was created. Here's the list of freebies that I used to do the project.

KCTC's LONG SKIRT AND BLOUSE FOR VILA

MCGYVER'S MARBLE CHESS TABLE

MODEL BASE (scaled down 45%, then yScale 175%)

EUROPEAN CROWNS

DUCK POND'S POSER SHADERS

 

[Dani Foster Herring]

Great job with LaFemme! I've have the male texture in my cart with a couple of other things.

I'm glad I could help you for a change! Sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday. When I opened the file I found that I had used the skydome with one of RDNA's sky textures. I also found that it didn't render the same way in PoserPro 11. Checked to make sure that it was rendering in Firefly and yep, it was. I still have PoserPro 2014 so I'm going to open it up in that and see if I get the same results.

 

[skylab]

Dani recently mentioned Christmas in July. Here are some links to toys used during the holidays.

VINTAGE TOYS FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE RENDERS

MORPHING PADDLE BALL	BIG WHEEL
BRICKS BUILDING SET	TRICYCLE
RED WAGON	WATER GUN
	POOL
OGEL	DOLLHOUSE
LEGO TURTLE	PLUSH TOYS
LEGO SUV	TEDDY BEAR
LEGO ENTERPRISE
	BRUNO BEAR
	TOY BLOCKS
TOY TRAIN 2	TOY PIANO
	MARBLE RUN
TRAIN SET RAIL	TOY BOXES
SLED	TOY BOXES 2

FREE HOLIDAY DECORATIONS


Christmas Tree, Ornaments and Presents

Holiday Lights

Ornaments OBJ

Christmas Bells

Rigged Gingerbread Man

Rigged Gingerbread Man by Bionic Rooster

Rigged Nutcracker

Frosty Snowman

Candy Cane

Christmas Bell

Rudolph

8 Poses for Rudolph

Christmas Hat

Christmas Moon

Christmas Sleigh

Christmas Mug

Christmas Tree Ornament

Candy Cane

Christmas Ornament

Christmas Tree Stand

Christmas Penguin

Wrapped Christmas Gift Box

Merry Christmas OBJ

Holiday Add-Ons for Photo Mug (below)

Photo Mug (required for Holiday Add-Ons)

 

[Dani Foster Herring]

Here are a few garden-ish images that I did in 2014.

 

[Dani Foster Herring]

Thank you!

 

[skylab]

Hey Dani Figured you got busy yesterday....Fridays and Saturdays can be busy times for folks.

I've been digging through some of my old notes from stuff I posted on the old chat thread about five years ago...and I tried to harvest out the remaining holiday themed links that stuff function, since you mentioned liking to do Christmas in July renders.

I didn't know if anyone would even be interested in a face pose for La Femme, and I almost didn't post it, but thought maybe someone would be using the figure anyway. At first La Femme was free for a limited time, if I remember correctly, and that's how I ended up having the figure. Then it was updated recently in my Rendo stuff and I didn't even realize it....so it was sort of a spur of the moment project. When I first saw the male morph applied, Paul's face came to mind, so I just kept tweaking it until it was more obvious. They have indeed improved the figure a lot....I always like a lot of facial expression controls. Anyway, thought it might be good, since Rendo just purchased Poser, and is promoting La Femme, that I'd pitch in my contribution

 

[Dani Foster Herring]

Those toy boxes are great!

 

[skylab]

Nice renders, as always. Your lighting skill fascinates me....even when it's a darker render, you seem to have total control of the light, which I admire. The garden shed is my favorite....similar to a Vermeer painting, with such control of the lighting