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MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
edited March 2015 in The Commons

gonna suggest this one today. amongst the ones who doesn't understands what UE2 is and does. :lol:

UberEnvironment2 Basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlKMMeTY3h8

the dome thing that loads, s'posed to be a reference so you know which direction the sun is at dohhh

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    You can use that sphere as a rendered background but you do need to a few things first http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/50576/

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    i'd render skies in bryce or carrara, if i could learn how to unwrap a sphere to a rectangle. don't know where to put the pins.


    has anyone put a video toot on the toob about the map transfer utility within DS?


    Thanks.

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979
    edited December 1969

    UE2 seem to have been removed in DS 4.7, has it been replaced by something else?

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:
    UE2 seem to have been removed in DS 4.7, has it been replaced by something else?
    It is under Daz Studio Formats > Light Presets > omnifreaker > UberEnvrionment2 and it is still there for me
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,979
    edited March 2015

    Szark said:
    Taozen said:
    UE2 seem to have been removed in DS 4.7, has it been replaced by something else?
    It is under Daz Studio Formats > Light Presets > omnifreaker > UberEnvrionment2 and it is still there for me

    Hm, you're right, thanks. Strange, I was looking for it under both Lights and Light Presets the other day but couldn't find it (and I know it's in the omnifreaker folder). I think I've heard others talk about stuff sometimes disappearing and reappearing in the library, wonder if that's the case here.

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    LOL the old UI glitch, most likely as I still get them from time to time.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    Tutorial suggestion for 150303

    comes free with DS, but what does it do and how to tweak it's settings? :)

    Subsurface Shader Base
    http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/read_me/index/16324/16324_subsurface-shader-base.pdf

    bumpy orange peels, looks good :lol:

    -in the following DAZ Studio Folders:
    “Shaders:Age of Armour:Subsurface”


    doohh ---- there's a switch setting!

    Pre SSS - Post SSS - This switch sets whether the diffuse texture and color should be calculated within
    subsurface scattering or applied (by color multiplication) after subsurface scattering

    Post SSS diffuse tells the subsurface portion of the shader to consider the outer surface as being solid white.
    ... the shader takes the subsurface result then multiplies ...

    Pre SSS uses the diffuse color and texture in the subsurface calculation. This generally gives a softer looking...

    -normal maps not affected by tile settings
    -The most important settings to keep in mind are the Group ID and Shading Scale.


    (not sure, but i think the s in fresnel is silent s.)

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    "(not sure, but i think the s in fresnel is silent s.)"

    yes that is correct franel phonetically

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Szark said:
    "(not sure, but i think the s in fresnel is silent s.)"

    yes that is correct franel phonetically


    thanks :)

    never came up in a spoken out loud conversation.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited December 1969

    my pleasure Misty

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    Tutorial suggestion for 150304


    The Camera Editor
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43yl7Cs2j8s


    fstops and focal points and woh noes accidental keyframes


    -holding control key constrains to distance movement

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    if anyone is interested in the cornell box or the chinese dragon for light studies,
    they's here - http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/data/meshes.xml#10 - with other nifty geometry. :)

    Picturenauts izzn 64 bits :) - to view hdr images.
    http://hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Tutorial Suggestion 150305 (is it march already?)

    this tutorial is for carrara.

    Tutorial - Carrara Rigging Made Easy: Part 1
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4N2jx0gc5I

    8 minutes

    - alternating colors to help find the joints, gonna adopt that idea. :)

    oh, it's a part 1.

    was looking for a tutorial on the uv unwrapping pins :roll:

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    Tutorial suggestion for 150307 :)


    Advanced Ambient Light 01
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOBX7wcvGpQ

    23 minutes. only watched part 1, (part 2 for tomorrow)

    he's using 2 adv ambient lights in the scene.

    explains about the hitmode. and flagging.
    read some posts about flagging, me thinks this is what theys referring to


    - part 2 of Advanced Ambient Light was basically watching renders in real time.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Tutorial suggestion for 150309 :)


    Carrara 8 God Rays
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Axje625Rjk

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    Tutorial suggestion for 150312 :)


    i've had this utility months, don't understand how to use it effectively

    Applying pwSurface² to Surfaces
    http://www.poseworks.com/shaders/pwsurface2/pages/applying.html

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2015

    Tutorial suggestion 150316

    - more just documentation than a tutt.
    https://3delight.atlassian.net/wiki/display/3DSP/Using+the+RIB+reader+-+renderdl

    was trying to find tutt on using the 3DE standalone.
    it IS possible to que up a few renders.
    command line though. there's a couple command line switches.

    can't find any info specific to ds


    tdlmake >.<<br /> https://3delight.atlassian.net/wiki/display/3DSP/Using+the+Texture+Optimizer+-+tdlmake

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    I'm going to have to settle for 3Delight. This is a 32-bit machine and can't do Iray. Thanks for all these tutorials, Misty. I need to get better with what I've got.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    i haz no gpu, can't do irays or any other kinda rays. :lol:

    and there's no saying the 4.8 general release will be 'free'.

    i'm pretty happy with 3de and the advanced lights sets. and uber sets.


    would like to figure out that path tracing. need more data.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,225
    edited December 1969

    here is a tutorial suggested in another thread. designed for Maya, but would also apply to Hexagon, Carrara vertex modeler, Blender, etc.

    Take a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xls25e08sSg

    Ryan Kittleson has a great method

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    Being leprechaunless today, I hope to get some serious tutorial work done. I can't handle Iray either and I really need to learn what I'm doing with 3Delight and the other things I already have.

  • ZelrothZelroth Posts: 910
    edited December 1969

    I love the suggestions. Like others, I really need to learn how to use what I have, especially before I spend money (that I don't have) for things that make me go "Shiney! I want!" Now if I would just find the time and actually go through the tutorials instead of just adding to my every growing, and disappearing, list.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    film terminology :)
    http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/filmglossary/web/filmterms.html

    -long shot

    etc

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    Great! I've bookmarked the film site for reference.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited April 2015

    Tutorial suggestion 150419


    aoa's atmospheric camera
    pdf manual here: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/13926/start
    - parameters tab, volume camera, vignette


    Cloud Nine for Daz Studio Tips - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhXs29a3JzA


    doh i bought the skies of economy not cloud9 - tsk no instructions

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    I got the AoA Atmospheric Camera when it was released, but have never used it. It's time for me to explore it. I downloaded the manual just in case I didn't already have it. Now I have to excuse for not diving in.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    learning atmo fog is the first part. :lol: can't make sense of the lost world :doh:

    couple dinos strolling around a foggy lost world, nabbit, parts don't load at center, but the slider trans are 0. :bug: iz beyond all reason.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited May 2015

    Tutorial suggestion 150525

    Use Smoothing To Fix Clothing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU1kQBeEb3Y

    * 2 smoothing types
    * baking a smoothing as a morph


    Creating and Hooking Up a JCM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HKdAkxpC2s

    *reverse deformation
    *set the jcm to apply only with gianni

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