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The Spartans, The Hoplite armed Soldier and Hercules W.I.P [COMMERCIAL]

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  • ErdehelErdehel Posts: 386
    edited December 1969

    Mec4D said:
    forgot to add that you can hide partials of the hair to get short semi curly hair
    additional MAT sets will be included

    Wow Cath, that is a godsend! I was just wondering this morning where to find good looking curly short hair for males. You read my mind LOL

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    I was thinking the same .. since there is nothing that will fit it so well especially Gianni as everything was looking like old granny wigs on him so decided to add this one as bonus with the beard .. what works also on M6
    but hey!!!!!!

    I have surprise

    Hercules is a free set ! as long you purchase one of the previews one , the Armored Spartan or the 300 look a like you will get Hercules at no charge

    that was my Surprise I mentioned before
    DAZ store team is very busy so I guess I will distribute it early the same way I did with the Wizard add on

    there is one more important item I am working on for the Hercules and will be ready and waiting for your spartan renders ( what will be the ticket for you to get the Hercules early at no charge )
    so we will have some fun!

    :)

    Erdehel said:
    Mec4D said:
    forgot to add that you can hide partials of the hair to get short semi curly hair
    additional MAT sets will be included

    Wow Cath, that is a godsend! I was just wondering this morning where to find good looking curly short hair for males. You read my mind LOL

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    That's very generous of you Cath! XO

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,982
    edited December 1969

    Mec4D said:
    I was thinking the same .. since there is nothing that will fit it so well especially Gianni as everything was looking like old granny wigs on him so decided to add this one as bonus with the beard .. what works also on M6
    but hey!!!!!!

    I have surprise

    Hercules is a free set ! as long you purchase one of the previews one , the Armored Spartan or the 300 look a like you will get Hercules at no charge

    that was my Surprise I mentioned before
    DAZ store team is very busy so I guess I will distribute it early the same way I did with the Wizard add on

    there is one more important item I am working on for the Hercules and will be ready and waiting for your spartan renders ( what will be the ticket for you to get the Hercules early at no charge )
    so we will have some fun!

    :)


    Wow, that is extremely generous of you, Cath! Got any stables you need cleaning? ;)
  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    That is little I can give back on this moment to the supporters of my work
    since you and others was very generous too so I can afford to do something back
    and believe me or not I spend more time on Hercules than the other set .. you will see soon why :)

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    Cleaning your wallet was not enough ? hahaha

    SimonJM said:
    Mec4D said:
    I was thinking the same .. since there is nothing that will fit it so well especially Gianni as everything was looking like old granny wigs on him so decided to add this one as bonus with the beard .. what works also on M6
    but hey!!!!!!

    I have surprise

    Hercules is a free set ! as long you purchase one of the previews one , the Armored Spartan or the 300 look a like you will get Hercules at no charge

    that was my Surprise I mentioned before
    DAZ store team is very busy so I guess I will distribute it early the same way I did with the Wizard add on

    there is one more important item I am working on for the Hercules and will be ready and waiting for your spartan renders ( what will be the ticket for you to get the Hercules early at no charge )
    so we will have some fun!

    :)


    Wow, that is extremely generous of you, Cath! Got any stables you need cleaning? ;)
  • SorelSorel Posts: 1,395
    edited December 1969

    Cath you're the best!

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,982
    edited December 1969

    Mec4D said:
    Cleaning your wallet was not enough ? hahaha

    LMAO! You almost had me spitting out my beer with that! :)
  • AlexLOAlexLO Posts: 193
    edited December 1969

    Hercules Hercules Hercules!!! hehehe What a nice surprise & great gift. Thank you Cath. Love the curly hair option, especially with the ability to hide partials for a short set. This is going to look amazing with "real light" ahem ;-)

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    You welcome!!
    well after I textured yesterday the top part I really did not like it , so I went today to make new Pectoral Armour
    and new arms braces to go with it and now I am happy 100%
    free or not , I like to do the stuff right way

    the Free Hercules set will be more Leather and Cloth with small metal accents

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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    Is the hair fiber or trans? New improvements look awesome hon!

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited May 2014

    I want to make something clear .. Fiber is something like Garibaldi or LAMH for DS it is only a plugin shader inside Zbrush that render hair based on the curves, once exported the Fiber curves are converted to geometry and have nothing to do with Fiber anymore .. just regular polygons geometry .. if you export OBJ from Garibaldi or LAMH is not Fiber right ? the same go's for Zbrush

    Even my unshaven set or the beard is NOT fiber it never was , that are a cube or triangle geometries with a lot of loops manually deformed into ( looks like hair ) shape as I made my own Hair insert brush for the follicles ? right word ?

    but back to your question ..
    The curls are geometry only and the cape bellow is trans-mapped on the edges , render very fast with AO
    I am thinking to split the curls into smaller sections

    and also updated the CLUB to match the total look .. less barbarian lol
    going to use the other one for some primitive folk in the future ;)

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  • BurstAngelBurstAngel Posts: 762
    edited December 1969

    Good Lord! Where's Gerald Butler when you need him! The details are beautiful, I don't usually make ancient greek renders, maybe I use this for a museum.

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    LOL thanks!

    Gerald Butler is making Gods Of Egypt movie he left Sparta for good ..

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  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited May 2014

    some test of the hair settings 9 sec without Ao and 32 sec with AO
    now the whole hair are semi trans-mapped

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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    OK, rephrase the question... the hair started off as fiber mesh in ZBrush or Garibaldi (I think I remember you liking that at the time better than LAMH). Regardless, it looks great.

    My beard that I made for my Pan figure I'm developing is all home made strands. Duplicate allot of them to make sections and then use the Move tool to bend them to the shape of the face. Very fun. Made something similar to other beard sets with sections that can be loaded so you get different looks from just a stach, soul patch, goatee, mutton chops and all loaded for full beard.

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    the hair are 2 side polygons , I use insert brush for inserting it where I want , do you remember the Helix ? I extracted one side poly side from that and used for the whole hair ..

    here progress in texturing of the first part :)

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  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    2 more to go ! :) W.I.P

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  • CathyMCathyM Posts: 261
    edited December 1969

    Wow Hercules is really looking amazing, plus i REALLY love that hair! Looking forward to this :) -Cathy

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,982
    edited December 1969

    That leather is looking pretty darned good!

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    Looks great.

    Question... Are there morphs to move the thigh pieces away from the legs a bit? I've noticed they look stuck to the legs a bit to much in certain poses hon!

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    Thanks Guys and Gals

    Richard .. slow down feller ... it is just texturing preview , I still have to edit the final morphs for M6 and Gianni
    making the sides away from the figure will not change anything .. that why the final morphs will replace the automatic one you see right now
    I am working on textures now .. and all details you see are actually modeled on the original model what was 12 million poly
    would be good for HD morphs but it render to slow so I extracted all 3D maps what are accurate to 3D as much as possible .. my new way of doing stuff pushing it to max possible

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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    HAHAHAHA... I wasn't intending to come off as mean or anything hunny, Queen of 3D. Just wondering is all. I kinda knew you were still working away at this project and I know your a stickler for detail so ... just wondering! XO

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    I was not thinking you mean or anything .. sorry if I give you that expression of fallen knife on stone LOL
    you know me I am talking always straight.. just like you hunny bee
    xoxo

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    **kisses* Off to bed now....

  • MuzeMuze Posts: 182
    edited December 1969

    Mec4D
    Well done!!! That looks stunning!

  • OstadanOstadan Posts: 1,125
    edited December 1969

    I usually save my "leather that looks so good you can practically hear it squeak" description for Xurge3D's stuff, but you've really hit the mark with this one.

  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    Thanks MUZE ! :)

    Muze said:
    Mec4D
    Well done!!! That looks stunning!
  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    Thanks Ostadan, I like Xurge3D's stuff too

    Ostadan said:
    I usually save my "leather that looks so good you can practically hear it squeak" description for Xurge3D's stuff, but you've really hit the mark with this one.
  • MEC4DMEC4D Posts: 5,249
    edited December 1969

    Last updates in progress and I guess the last day of work!
    the non textured previews are 20 million poly models , just geometry no bump maps
    and textured last one with Gianni are low poly with just diffuse, normal maps

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