SereneNight's Sci-Fi Fun Thread 2

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Has anyone gone through and pruned your expression morph dials? I'm feeling the urge, since I seem to have about 50 evil grin expressions, that I just don't need. But I struggle with it being overly complicated to locate the pose expression creator. 

    I bought one set of expressions that were particular bland and repetative and there are lots of them but I've not yet uninstalled that product.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited June 2020

    Happy Pride month!

     

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Happy Pride month!

     

    I was going to buy the parade vehicles but was disappointed it's only a motor boat & a converted bus. At the Zurich Love Parade (not a Pride Parade but a Techno Music Parade) is similar with lots of garish colored makeup and clothing as the Pride Parades have but they also have trucks pulling parade floats and such other typical parade things.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    I would've liked to see clothing, makeup, and more poses. 

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    I would've liked to see clothing, makeup, and more poses. 

    I see what you mean. A jockstrap & a flag between the two of them is somewhat revealing. laugh

    However, seriously, the extra Love Parade / Pride Parade cloths, makeup & colorful wigs would have been interesting and have multiple uses, but that's a lot of work and the goal is profit.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited June 2020

    My take for what it is worth, is the set is good if you want the transgender morphs and the details they include such as the breast removal scars and you don't already have the UV transfer set, which I bought long ago.

    There is already a free set for transgender morphs on deviant art by Agent Unawares, and several transgender figures sold on Renderhub, but  if you want the extra options, and don't already have the UV transfer set, then this might be a good purchase. 

    The bus and the boat (dingy), are somewhat problematic, since vehicles like this require a lot of passengers, and studio doesn't do big scenes well on the average person's computer. To get a good scene, you'll want to load your bus, and dingy, and even my relatively new computer struggled with just the bus and Owen and Boyd in the same scene.

    I do like the confetti that loaded with the vehicle set, and sincerely wish there were some balloons not anchored to the bus, so characters could carry them. 

    The poses are okay, but come in wtih baked in expressions. Some of which are slightly goofy. 

    I think depending on your needs, you might purchase ala carte the items you specifically like. Since I intend to use most of it, at some point 17 dollars seemed a good deal, even if some items were redundant because of content I already have installed. .

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  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,984

    I don't see a picture ,did you remove it ?

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited June 2020
    carrie58 said:

    I don't see a picture ,did you remove it ?

    Hi Carrie: No I didn't post a picture. But I have several cooking right now.

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  • DaventakiDaventaki Posts: 1,624
    carrie58 said:

    I don't see a picture ,did you remove it ?

    Hi Carrie: No I didn't post a picture. But I have several cooking right now.

    I think shes refering to the Happy Pride Month picture, its not showing for me either.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,984
    edited June 2020

    Happy Pride month!

     

    this one

    is an empty square to me yup sorry forgot to hit the post comment  thingy

     

     

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited June 2020

    Here you go. I'm not sure why it doesn't show.

     

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    Soto Posted a texture freebie for truly excellent MAXX underwear https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lb

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited June 2020

    One of the poses from the Pride Parade Pose Pack. I tried using the confetti here, but, sadly, I don't think it really looks that great. I should have depth of fielded it.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    My take for what it is worth, is the set is good if you want the transgender morphs and the details they include such as the breast removal scars and you don't already have the UV transfer set, which I bought long ago.

    There is already a free set for transgender morphs on deviant art by Agent Unawares, and several transgender figures sold on Renderhub, but  if you want the extra options, and don't already have the UV transfer set, then this might be a good purchase. 

    The bus and the boat (dingy), are somewhat problematic, since vehicles like this require a lot of passengers, and studio doesn't do big scenes well on the average person's computer. To get a good scene, you'll want to load your bus, and dingy, and even my relatively new computer struggled with just the bus and Owen and Boyd in the same scene.

    I do like the confetti that loaded with the vehicle set, and sincerely wish there were some balloons not anchored to the bus, so characters could carry them. 

    The poses are okay, but come in wtih baked in expressions. Some of which are slightly goofy. 

    I think depending on your needs, you might purchase ala carte the items you specifically like. Since I intend to use most of it, at some point 17 dollars seemed a good deal, even if some items were redundant because of content I already have installed. .

    There is also Pedro Furtado's Plastic Surgery product but I don't remember if he included surgery scars. I know from my traumatic brain injury when I was in an accident that required plastic and bone reconstructive surgery that plastic surgery is not something to take lightly at all. It is involved and scary. I was in the hospital 2 weeks and surgery took over 4 hours. Before surgery, they even consoled me after I asked about refusing the surgery saying I'd look like a monster the rest of my life if I didn't. laugh LOL, so I had the surgery! laugh It was sort of interesting to look at the computed tomography pictures of my skull showing the damage. I was very lucky in the damage that was done crush a nerve other wise I would have been in bad pain as it was it only almost knocked me unconscious. What drama!

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    That is useful. I'm so sorry to hear about your traumatic head injury and subsequent surgery. Thats terrible. I am glad to see though, that you found treatment. 

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    That is useful. I'm so sorry to hear about your traumatic head injury and subsequent surgery. Thats terrible. I am glad to see though, that you found treatment. 

    Thanks, I was subconscious about it for a long time but most times now I actually forget it happened. Well they reconstructed the visible damage such that after about 10 years it's not nearly so noticible but unfortunately the TBI caused lots of dizziness, tinnitus like I didn't believe was possible, and a few blackouts but even those things healed except the dizziness and tinnitus sometimes. I tried to explain to the doctors something else was seriously wrong beyond the obvious facial damage the accident caused but they didn't believe me because they didn't find it and couldn't find it because they had no baseline deltas of my body's physical structure and metabolic activity before the accident and the metabolic activity and physical structure (most of it) they recorded after the accident was still in the medical books range for healthy so I don't blame them for not believing me but it was me that lived with that body all those years after all. In fact, I noticed that my eyesight in my right eye actually slightly improved after the accident because the shape of the eyeball had slightly changed and the eyeball is now set a little deeper back into my head. I can still run my finger tips under my right eyelid or right cheek bone and instead of the nerves being activated there they are activated there and my right upper lip and feels like needle pricks. laugh The muscles on that side of the face are slightly paralyzed too so it's going to be that when I'm really old the right side will look like I started botoxing at the time of the accident while the other side will be normally wrinkly. laugh 

    It's been an interesting experience but one I can't recommend In fact, when I first came out of the hospital I actually wore a pirate's patch over my right eye for over 6 months because if I didn't people would recoil in fear and disgust, instinctive and well meaning I might add, so it wasn't too upsetting when they did that, and tell me I'd better get to the hospital to have my face worked on. laugh In fact I can remember a few times I've instinctively done that too with others but tried my best to hide my reaction - that sort of reaction can't be helped as it's instictual but maybe medical professionals grow to be good actors hiding it when they have such reactions as they encounter it so much.

    Anyway, to cut short my rambling but using facts to solve problems I find very interesting, I realized after that accident and medical problems of others I know that the medical profession couldn't treat or even detect in time is that what people really need to establish a baseline for good personal medical health are medical metabolic baselines measured every day of their lives in their dwellings, and (much more difficult) when they leave their dwellings for school, work, play, and other activities. Sort of like an Apple Watch, which I'd like but have to save for still yet, but even much more individual metabolic measurements than the Apple Watch does. Then with that voluminous personal medical data (actually it'd be likely be less than the data in a DAZ 3D Pro Bundle over the course of a lifetime) the medical professions could sum and analyze the data via numerical analysis methods and other techniques as each person is different genetically and any change in the body is always, alawys a medical condition so to be ignorant of those medical changes isn't good medical practice. That's the naked truth. So with that in mind, a couple of years ago I meticulously manually recorded my weight,  diet, pulse, blood pressure measurement, respiration rates for 6 months and went to the doctor and offered those medical measurements I recorded for 6 months and she didn't want them at all and in fact told me I needed to gain weight (I didn't need to gain weight but whatever). I was so disappointed in her. In fact I'm looking for a doctor who still likes to improve their professional medical skills but it's so crazy, you can't even hardly find a doctor that wants patients and if you do find one the wait is usually months before the appointment and that's for 10 minutes of doctor's time after about 10 minutes of one or two nurses taking vitals. I'm sorry, you can't tell me that's expanding and improving medical knowledge to improve the life of all patients. Ity's by rote and usually with insuffiecient medical data to be reciting the "by rote" portion of the "cure". 

    Just as interesting was after I finished my diet a couple of years ago and lost 55 pounds (210 lbs to 155 lbs)  I stopped recording my diet and vitals and it took approximately 2 years butt 2 years later I once again weighed 210 lbs. I was impressed at the way my body homed in on 210 lbs like a homing pigeon so I did the math to see how many excess calories I'd have to eat every day for 2 years to get back to that weight and not so surprisingly it wasn't much, about 200 calories a day on average, every day for two years, but it was definately an overwhelming metabolic instinct that drove me to habitually overeat so designed (evolved?) to keep people from starving during famines over millions of years of evolution so nothing to trifle with or ridicule people for their lack of control when eating and gaining weight.

    Anyways I'm a month into recording my metabolism again and this time I decided I will again, like a medical experiment that no doctor wants the medical data for, record my metabolic vitals every day for the rest of my life. I've also started a diet to get back to 155 pounds again but am only down to 194 being only about a month in. I've realized that the forces of instict in people are so strong that I have to squelch much of those instincts I have inherited to serve the developed civilized world that have the actual experience ecoded in laws that I haven't experienced (that's why those laws were enacted after all so I don't have to repeat those experioences) and also recorded scientific data when they actually bother to use those things like they know they should. I've never tried to control a instinct like overeating in a world of excess food over an entire lifetime so I will have to deny my instincts and treat eating like a medical condition. laugh Don't worry, I'm figuring out ways to make eating good just not too much of it. In fact, restricting excess makes everything I do eat better and more enjoyable.

    I think I'm turning into a robot, but I don't mind. Passion only goes so far. laugh

  • Faber IncFaber Inc Posts: 301
    nemesis10 said:

    I foolishly cropped the feet in this image but the shoes from https://www.daz3d.com/20-50-cyberpunk-everyday-clothes-for-genesis-3-male-s autofit flawlessly and fit the styling:

    Wow nemesis10! Lovely scene! You have done a terrific work with the lighting and the styling of Novak and Ozias heart

  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,421
    FaberInc said:
    nemesis10 said:

    I foolishly cropped the feet in this image but the shoes from https://www.daz3d.com/20-50-cyberpunk-everyday-clothes-for-genesis-3-male-s autofit flawlessly and fit the styling:

    Wow nemesis10! Lovely scene! You have done a terrific work with the lighting and the styling of Novak and Ozias heart

    I love your characher's noses!

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited June 2020

    Here's Soto's new swimwear texture as mentioned earlier  https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lbwink

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  • SotoSoto Posts: 1,440

    Here's Soto's new swimwear texture as mentioned earlier  https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lbwink

    Thanks for using it! :D

    Love the render!!

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

     

    Hellboy said:

    Thanks for using it! :D

    Love the render!!

    No, Thank you. Your MAXX swimwear is my favorite set of men's swimwear. It always fits well. I admit to always being on the prowl for new textures for it. laugh

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Here's Soto's new swimwear texture as mentioned earlier  https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lbwink

    Nice pattern!

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    Hellboy said:

    Here's Soto's new swimwear texture as mentioned earlier  https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lbwink

    Thanks for using it! :D

    Love the render!!

    Do the water droplets sets for G8F/G8M come with all the presets that Maxx HD comes with sans the sculpt & albedo materials? You know what I mean? A way to apply oiliness, shean, water, tanlines, and skin color changes that Maxx HD has?

  • SotoSoto Posts: 1,440
    Hellboy said:

    Here's Soto's new swimwear texture as mentioned earlier  https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lbwink

    Thanks for using it! :D

    Love the render!!

    Do the water droplets sets for G8F/G8M come with all the presets that Maxx HD comes with sans the sculpt & albedo materials? You know what I mean? A way to apply oiliness, shean, water, tanlines, and skin color changes that Maxx HD has?

    No, they are completely different products. Real Drops are geometry drops. The ones included with Maxx are shader based. None of the contents of Maxx HD are included with another product. :)

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    Hellboy said:
    Hellboy said:

    Here's Soto's new swimwear texture as mentioned earlier  https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lbwink

    Thanks for using it! :D

    Love the render!!

    Do the water droplets sets for G8F/G8M come with all the presets that Maxx HD comes with sans the sculpt & albedo materials? You know what I mean? A way to apply oiliness, shean, water, tanlines, and skin color changes that Maxx HD has?

    No, they are completely different products. Real Drops are geometry drops. The ones included with Maxx are shader based. None of the contents of Maxx HD are included with another product. :)

    Oh, real water geometry? I think I'll try them thanks.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    Well, today is my lucky day. Two major major hot big guy releases in two weeks? My cup runneth over. 

    Be sure to check out: https://www.daz3d.com/stf-bone-breaker-armor-for-genesis-8-males

    There are some useful skin overlays in there.... And I always can use more.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2020

    Here's Scar HD. He looks really good. I am sad about the tweezed looking brows though. Tired of that. But, the build and skin look good. I used the lighter skin setting. By default his skin was rather dark.  The skin resembles Christian 8's skin. Even down to the brows. He's got 4 eye colors 2 of which seem to use the same picture so I am not sure what the difference is. He's got a lie option for scars which looks useful.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Here's Scar HD. He looks really good. I am sad about the tweezed looking brows though. Tired of that. But, the build and skin look good. I used the lighter skin setting. By default his skin was rather dark.  The skin resembles Christian 8's skin. Even down to the brows. He's got 4 eye colors 2 of which seem to use the same picture so I am not sure what the difference is. He's got a lie option for scars which looks useful.

    The Scars were a bit too many but did look like real scars for a change. Looks Dain 8 quality plus improvements too.

  • HylasHylas Posts: 4,988

    Here's Soto's new swimwear texture as mentioned earlier  https://cloud2.zoolz.com/s-jbks28lbwink

    Nice pattern!

    Right. The pattern. We're all looking at the pattern. Uh-huh.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2020

    Hungren HD for Scar 8, is a believable older warrior/bruiser/heavy type character. He comes with a full set of body hair and the usual options. He looks great. 

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