The Counting Eurohippuses Doesn't Help Me Sleep Complaint Thread

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited December 1969

    Skiriki said:
    Looks like notification bots didn't like the forum maintenance. Yawn. V6 is now in my runtime. THE POWER OF SHINY COMPELS YOU!

    ...yeah, nine pages to slog through. Meanwhile I got an ebot for a thread I haven't been on or weeks.
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2013

    Delta Dawn what's that flower you have on?
    Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
    And did i hear you say

    sigh luv Helen Reddy

    singin to my buppy, his head tilts side to side to side - iz the cute on

    tee hee - Helen and Kermit
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=XfMpVHXSOe4
    kinda sad, like it isn't easy being green


    haven't heard this son over 25 years. Yvonne Elliman
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXdNEh97478

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited December 1969

    Rant time!

    Genesis 2. Victoria 6.

    Bah! Humbug! I'm just getting into Genesis 1 and now they're making it obsolete?!?!?!?!

    FIE ON DAZ! FIE! (angry face)

    I won't be "upgrading" this round. Grr...

    Vinyl -> CD -> MP3, buy the same music over and over again.

    Gen4 -> Gen5 -> Gen6, buy the same assets over and over again.

    Fehhhhhhhhh!

    Rant over.


    ..boy howdy, I hear you on that. After all I laid out from my meager salary (including building a new system) to stay as current as I can, this is like a boot to the gut. Since yesterday the only new releases in the store have all been Genesis2/Vicky6 related.

    ...meanwhile...

    Bryce is still 32 bit

    Hexagon hasn't been updated for over five years.and is about as stable as an overloaded container ship in heavy seas.

    We still do not have "open ended" cloth dynamics in Daz Studio.


    What really chafes my hide about this is the one really nice feature of the Genesis concept - it's versatility - is being limited with G2 becoming Gender specific (will that go further to model specific - e.g. Genesis2Kid, Genesis2Toon...etc?). On top of this, all the original Genesis expansions, like the body shapes, morphs, and plugins are not compatible with G2, and the updates must be purchased AGAIN!

    Sorry, but save for props, vehicles, and scenery sets I won't be purchasing much else from the store here anymore. Looks like Marvelous Designer2 and Blender will be getting a lot more use.


    This is one of the times I wouldn't have minded a little "Daz Soon" occurring.

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    It's called the International Date Line..

    Dana

    Damn, I have to call up the airline to get a trip there because I need me one of those dates. Now I just have to choose between French, Italian, Swiss, or Norwegian. (:


    be actually kewl if we could walk across a designated temporal line.

    there's a place somewhere in the States, four corners?, where you could be in 4 states at the same time, i heard. :)

    Four Corners...yep, I've been there. It's in the middle of nowhere (Indian reservation) and has a set of footprints. When you stand on them you are actually standing in 4 states at the same time. There is a little stand where someone in your group can perch while taking your picture. Hot as hades in July, no water, no potty, no shade.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited June 2013

    Skiriki said:
    You don't have to. Besides, if you run DIM now, you will get the BASE Genesis 2 morph FOR FREE. And it can co-exist with your current Genesis 1.

    ...but it's pretty much useless unless you dump a lot more money into it for the morphs and Vicky6 stuff. And then it's only "Supermodel Vicky", Not Julie & Justin, not Steph, & David, or even Sadie & Sam. Heck, I rarely use Vicky5 by herself at all.

    No, I ll be perfectly fine with "Genesis Classic".

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited December 1969

    I found the Genesis 2 base female figure in my product list, took some searching but it was there. Downloaded 4 files, not sure I'm going to bother installing them, but I have them.

    I suppose in the fullness of time we'll see Genesis 2 base male figure show up. Meh, though. Bah, humbug!


    I'm still screaming into a pillow about the lack of options on the basic figure. Genesis was feature rich out of the box and Genesis 2 is, well, Victoria 4.4

    *muffled screams of moderate frustration*
    ...well said, one step forward, two steps back.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited June 2013

    40 minutes and it's time to hit the bus!

    ...just hope that it doesn't hit back. ; )


    ...however, squeezing it might work better.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:

    ...just went out to take a look. Pretty spectacular.
  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    40 minutes and it's time to hit the bus!

    ...just hope that it doesn't hit back. ; )


    ...however, squeezing it might work better.

    Ha, that's awesome. I wish the Morhping Python had a texture like that :(

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:

    Is a clear sky tonight, mebbe get to see big moon rising L8R

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    40 minutes and it's time to hit the bus!

    ...just hope that it doesn't hit back. ; )


    ...however, squeezing it might work better.

    Ha, that's awesome. I wish the Morhping Python had a texture like that :(

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  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Took that model I made and (lazily applied materials to) and rendered it under various HDR images.

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  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited June 2013

    And um... The forum submitted it too soon? Guess I hit submit by accident instead of "Preview Post' XD

    Anyway, here's the rest...

    #5 is my personal favorite... :)

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    Took that model I made and (lazily applied materials to) and rendered it under various HDR images.

    They both look pretty good!

    Head getting heavy, I think I'll go to bed.

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    Took that model I made and (lazily applied materials to) and rendered it under various HDR images.

    haz the shinning :o)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Rezca said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    40 minutes and it's time to hit the bus!

    ...just hope that it doesn't hit back. ; )


    ...however, squeezing it might work better.

    Ha, that's awesome. I wish the Morhping Python had a texture like that :(
    ...I've seen this one, very inventive as well.

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited June 2013

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Skiriki said:
    You don't have to. Besides, if you run DIM now, you will get the BASE Genesis 2 morph FOR FREE. And it can co-exist with your current Genesis 1.

    ...but it's pretty much useless unless you dump a lot more money into it for the morphs and Vicky6 stuff. And then it's only "Supermodel Vicky", Not Julie & Justin, not Steph, & David, or even Sadie & Sam. Heck, I rarely use Vicky5 by herself at all.

    No, I ll be perfectly fine with "Genesis Classic".

    While I am not thrilled by the gender separation myself, it just means I'll delegate her as "specialist" for some of those tricky situations involving extremely elaborate bending.

    And here's a thread about how to bring over shapes from Genesis 1 to Genesis 2 Female.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Is a jungle out there drop

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Skiriki said:
    Kyoto Kid said:
    Skiriki said:
    You don't have to. Besides, if you run DIM now, you will get the BASE Genesis 2 morph FOR FREE. And it can co-exist with your current Genesis 1.

    ...but it's pretty much useless unless you dump a lot more money into it for the morphs and Vicky6 stuff. And then it's only "Supermodel Vicky", Not Julie & Justin, not Steph, & David, or even Sadie & Sam. Heck, I rarely use Vicky5 by herself at all.

    No, I ll be perfectly fine with "Genesis Classic".

    While I am not thrilled by the gender separation myself, it just means I'll delegate her as "specialist" for some of those tricky situations involving extremely elaborate bending.

    And here's a thread about how to bring over shapes from Genesis 1 to Genesis 2 Female.

    Animated, M4 Beautiful Bends is what it says and the best bender in the Daz store imo

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  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited December 1969

    *headdesk* I left my system rendering, involved some preeeetttty detailed stuff, like, oh, I don't know... like 128 samples/1 shading rate with uberenvironment, gazillion vertices, image size 2500 x something, and six hours afterward it crashes. Argh.

    Time to hit that "make art" button again.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited December 1969

    ...my "Learning How to Fly" pic was rendered at 192 samples and shading rate of .2 which helped to eliminate the fringing effect on the flutterby wings.

    What exactly were you rendering that it would take so long? I just rendered a pic (unable to post it as it is a challenge entry) that was 770 x 1250 which used Nerd3D's Fog Tool, SSS, with UE at 128 samples/.2 shading rate, and that took 3hrs and 48 min.

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited June 2013

    Well for starters, your picture is just 770 x 1250.

    When you crank it up to 2500 x something (16:9 ratio), rendering times increase and not always proportionally.

    Second, oh... I'm not joking when I say that there's about gazillion verts on the scene.

    My environment is a mix of high-resolution version of The Forest (from which I've killed every item not visible to the camera, which is okay, I intend the scene to take place at the edge of the forest; there's a reflective river in the middle of the scene) and Worldbase XT (I wanted the skies and ring of mountains, everything else has been culled from the scene). Toss in V6, fully clothed, with intense hair. Toss in couple of other figures and props. Have a mix of default DAZ surfaces, ubersurfaces, and SSS surfaces.

    So, this is gonna take a while. But that's okay, I wasn't planning to do much today. And I have my tablet and laptop (and my SO's laptop) if I need faster action.

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  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    SSS surfaces? On what? o_O

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited December 1969

    Uh, people?

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Skiriki said:
    Uh, people?

    Ahhh ^^;

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    I decided to look up SSS on the Indigo forums as that's one thing I haven't played with yet (Never had the chance) and I found this.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,214
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    I decided to look up SSS on the Indigo forums as that's one thing I haven't played with yet (Never had the chance) and I found this.


    Milk, vegetable oil, and wine. Very cool.
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,214
    edited December 1969

    ps1borg said:
    Is a jungle out there drop

    "Did anyone remember to feed the giraffe?"
  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    From the Earth to the Moon with Joseph Cotton, George Sanders is on TV in antique Technicolor
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(film)

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