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This is potentially an issue for me. I'm not a fan of hotkey-only interfaces. I like having them available, but when I'm first using a program, I prefer being able to access all the functions in a menu.
Does Garibaldi provide both hotkey and menu-based controls? I can't afford to get both of them right now.
On the other hand, I do use the scripted renderer for some things, so if Garibaldi won't work with that, it's less useful to me....
This is potentially an issue for me. I'm not a fan of hotkey-only interfaces. I like having them available, but when I'm first using a program, I prefer being able to access all the functions in a menu.
Does Garibaldi provide both hotkey and menu-based controls? I can't afford to get both of them right now.
On the other hand, I do use the scripted renderer for some things, so if Garibaldi won't work with that, it's less useful to me....
We're adding a toolbar/icon based interface to LAMH for the next update for those who don't like keyboards.
Kendall
We're adding a toolbar/icon based interface to LAMH for the next update for those who don't like keyboards.
Kendall
That's good to hear. I don't mind keyboard hotkeys, I just don't have too much time for learning and removing (or lessening) the required need to lookup a hotkey will just make it quicker if I ever get around to even installing LAMH. I haven't installed anything recently except thru the DIM since that is on my new/uncluttered laptop.
It's not really a lot of hot keys, only 4 that i ever use.... ^^;
I´m 100% an anti-hotkey guy, but I had no issues with LAMH.
Syill I'm glad to read there is an alternative for that in the works. :D
That answers my concern. Now I just have to wonder... will it be on sale in March? Should I wait? ;)
(I can't do any rendering right now anyway... my content is all messed up at the moment and I'm too busy teaching statistics after hours to have time to sort it out.)
As a Poser user primarily, would buying the Garabaldi system to make hairs for use in my Poser scenes be worth it? I haven't really learned DS yet, but I am somewhat familiar with it, and have no problem playing in it to port items to Poser.
LAMH will indeed be on sale during marchmadness.
Kendall
Did anybody else have Norton say the Garibaldi download was unsafe and then quarantine it?
Norton does that for a lot of DAZ files...and it has nothing to do with whether or not the file is malicious, but rather everything to do with the 'feature' that equates file 'safety' with the number of times it shows up in some database kept by Symantec...it's a 'reputation based' ranking system. So new files, because they don't have a place in the db, MUST be bad...
Thanks :-) I figured it was something like that. That's why I already have it installed. It was just a bit of a surprise because it was also a different type of installer too.
These are beautiful! I've seen some of your work on www.furrythings.com but hadn't realized that "Alia" was you...
These are beautiful! I've seen some of your work on www.furrythings.com but hadn't realized that "Alia" was you...
Yep... Beloved_Alia :)
Well I'm not that beloved by anyone really but thar ya see it.
I do love LAMH tho ;)
Yep... Beloved_Alia :)
Well I'm not that beloved by anyone really but thar ya see it.
I do love LAMH tho ;)
I love the beach girl render with the long hair, beautiful character! What did you use for morphs/texture?
Norton does that for a lot of DAZ files...and it has nothing to do with whether or not the file is malicious, but rather everything to do with the 'feature' that equates file 'safety' with the number of times it shows up in some database kept by Symantec...it's a 'reputation based' ranking system. So new files, because they don't have a place in the db, MUST be bad...
Like some people say, Runtime folder is very infectious. It keeps you coming back to render more! ^_-
Yep... Beloved_Alia :)
Well I'm not that beloved by anyone really but thar ya see it.
I do love LAMH tho ;)
I love the beach girl render with the long hair, beautiful character! What did you use for morphs/texture?
Ah it was a while ago.... hard to remember... Okay not that long ago, just bad memory! But Texture I'm pretty sure is Elite texture Lana.... morph is probably combo of V5/hitomi and maybe a smidgin of Nata.....sorry ^^
And, another picture of hair made with LAMH, took me 15-20 min, tops, to make this hair style. :D
Very nice! Did you use postwork to get the toon effect?
I love the beach girl render with the long hair, beautiful character! What did you use for morphs/texture?
Ah it was a while ago.... hard to remember... Okay not that long ago, just bad memory! But Texture I'm pretty sure is Elite texture Lana.... morph is probably combo of V5/hitomi and maybe a smidgin of Nata.....sorry ^^
And, another picture of hair made with LAMH, took me 15-20 min, tops, to make this hair style. :D
That is fabulous! I can't wait to have LAMH available in Poser. :)
Widows Peak in LAMH is easy as painting in Photoshop. I'm at work but from memory, at the bottom of the creation panel there is that paint area. There is a drop down options for body parts. Choose the face and it will clear the face (it will go white). Using the paint brush paint in your nice sharp widows peak and make sure you fill in the hair line all the way back, make sure your careful around the ears though, if you cross over a certain level you get hair shooting out of the ears. ... not pretty. Not sure what the new version is going to have but hoping that will be a bit more intuitive for many new users.
Widows Peak in LAMH is easy as painting in Photoshop. I'm at work but from memory, at the bottom of the creation panel there is that paint area. There is a drop down options for body parts. Choose the face and it will clear the face (it will go white). Using the paint brush paint in your nice sharp widows peak and make sure you fill in the hair line all the way back, make sure your careful around the ears though, if you cross over a certain level you get hair shooting out of the ears. ... not pretty. Not sure what the new version is going to have but hoping that will be a bit more intuitive for many new users.
Neither one seems to have an "ear avoidance" mask or feature (since the ears are on the head material group) and it's quite pesky to try to manage those areas or divert hair around them. I imagine the ability to save and share the paint areas will be popular for this reason.
You can, in both of them, open the density maps in a paint/image editor and 'clean up' the map...that's especially useful if you want to use the same 'base' map...which is probably the case for most hair styles.
Also, 'skull caps' can be used instead of the actual figure...but there are some disadvantages to that method.
Toon effect? What toon effect? Admittedly it looses quality being so squished but full view it, it's not really toony. Skin is Elite texture lana. Hair doesn't have a "real" shader on it, rather, has a vivid pink velvet shader. Water was one that I spent hours on.
The postwork was only to add bubbles around the edges of the water and some water on the mermaid's body, add the starfish in her hair and the seashell, and a bit of saturation adjustment. That was all. The vivid colors may give it a feeling of animation perhaps but it's not toon.
Glad you like it. :) Was ever so fun to do (once I got that water done)
Neither one seems to have an "ear avoidance" mask or feature (since the ears are on the head material group) and it's quite pesky to try to manage those areas or divert hair around them. I imagine the ability to save and share the paint areas will be popular for this reason.
I almost always, with the exception of animals, just paint the hair and hair density (and widows peak is done just as easily inside of LAMH as in photoshop) and the scalp, rather than selecting hair surfaces. I seldom use just one group of hair and i like to define my own surfaces. if you have a couple you tend to use more often, save the scalps (before you grow the hair) so you can reuse it often for new hair styles.
My 2 cents
- Not alot of success for me with Poser Dynamic hair, Carrara Dynamic hair, or fiddling with a very early beta of Garabaldi
- I think these type tools are cool for adding fur or specialized hair regions
- For the human hair on top of a head just add your favorite figure or prop hair... click, click your done. I don't think either of these products is a threat to PAs of conforming hair.... just look at Poser as an example
- I don't own either product but seems like to be fair Daz should offer the 10% MM discount to owners of either product to be fair.
Once you get the hang of making hair with LAMH, the workflow is actually very fast. most of my hair styles take me about 15-20 minutes. That's pretty amazing. The mermaid's hair, that i did above, was 15 minutes!! Spent more time placings flowers and plants in the scene, or tweaking her pose, than I did on hair.
That said... I haven't done any highly complex hair... probably the hardest hair I did was my "charlie" hair preset . Or the 5-ponytail hair. But those are still feasible.
I do wonder why Garibaldi gets a special march madness promo and LAMH didn't... special treatment? Sigh. Irks me but yeah...
Anyway I'm a huge LAMH fan. Making all the hair styles that I've always wanted to do. It's awesome. I'm actually spending time googling hair styles to see what kinds of hair to make. I have no hair style experience and keep my own hair pretty short. :P
As far as I read in the LAMH tread there will be LAMH special too in March, so you can calm down.
Me? I prefer Garibaldi, because I don't need an extra activation for it.
I don't really like being told "calm down" I am not a child nor was I throwing a fit. I'm not apologizing for not really trusting Daz these days. All the negative changes are bound to make me less inclined to trust the sales practices of Daz.
The activation isn't really a big deal. The program is totally worth it but ya know, whatever rocks the boat! Poser for some, Daz for others. LAMH was the first to make waves in Daz universe and is the groundbreaking pioneer for hair creation in Daz Studio. I've been a follower since it started and I clearly love it. That's all. ^^
Toon effect? What toon effect? Admittedly it looses quality being so squished but full view it, it's not really toony. Skin is Elite texture lana. Hair doesn't have a "real" shader on it, rather, has a vivid pink velvet shader. Water was one that I spent hours on.
The postwork was only to add bubbles around the edges of the water and some water on the mermaid's body, add the starfish in her hair and the seashell, and a bit of saturation adjustment. That was all. The vivid colors may give it a feeling of animation perhaps but it's not toon.
Glad you like it. :) Was ever so fun to do (once I got that water done)
I think the velvet shader on the hair is what created the effect that caught my eye. Cool!
I tried garibaldi and I really didn't find it that easy to use. It was rather time consuming to paint a normal hairline, avoid the ears, and try to get some symmatry when I'd much rather be doing other things.
I like the looks others have achieved, but my results were sort of 'eh'
I'd pay for a collection of some hairs and presets made for the iconic figures (mil cat, dog, lion etc).
To me bundling these plugins with a whole bunch of pre-made content would've made it worth the price. But I'm not keen on downloading non vendor content or going off-site to other places to find stuff people have made and if I buy something, I kind of like to have some stuff I can use now... And then fuss around with learning it later, if I ever decide.
I'd love a garibaldi premade hair set bundle. That I would pay for.
Serene, there's only one site that has hair presets for LAMH.... and we keep adding to it!!