Shades of Life - Bark Booster [Commercial]

DimensionTheory

Shades of Life aims to provide the highest fidelity materials possible inside of DAZ Studio, while giving you a unique projection based shader to use them in a wide variety of ways. Each preset uses high resolution 4096x4096 tiled textures with bump and displacement, calibrated to produce results as close to the original surface as possible. The included projection shader allows for you to apply the materials in ways you otherwise couldn't. Surfaces will be applied from your camera's viewpoint regardless of UV mapping, which allows you to easily texture objects that are difficult to UV map (3D fractals for example). It also allows you to seamlessly blend objects together by applying the same materials, and lets you apply the same textures across multiple materials zones without worrying about differences in resolution (where Genesis' neck meets the face). This bark booster set provides you with an additional 24 high quality bark textures not found in my Shades of Life Nature product. Great for texturing your tree sets but also creating a number of unique characters and effects such as Treants or Dryads!

Read more about the Projection Shader in the documentation:

http://3dimensiondigital.com/locker/shadeslife/ShadesOfLife-ProjectionDoc.pdf

Previous sets are NOT required for this product.

Szark

awesome and I was just thinking about you yesterday wondering where you have been and what you have been up to.

Mattymanx

That looks very impressive

DimensionTheory

Thank you! I've actually been doing quite a lot lately, it's just that nothing is quite ready for submission yet. There's a few things that need to be worked out still.

Here's a couple more renders!

Szark

Tease, got to love Projection shaders and those are some of the best looking trees, sorry bark I have seen come out of DS.

Szark

I know OT but since I have you here I finally got around to testing Yosemite in Blender http://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/36758/

Did I ever tell you I am a shader junkie and that I hate you (in a nice way) for tempting me to spend. :P

alexhcowley

This has definately got my attention. I can think of at least one old scenic set I have which would benefit from this product.

Noob question: what is a projection shader?

Cheers

Alex.

Fisty

alexhcowley said:

Noob question: what is a projection shader?

Surfaces will be applied from your camera's viewpoint regardless of UV mapping

I.E. It's always perfect.

Leana

Those shaders look awesome :)