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Matt_Castle · January 22

Time for more silliness.

The Killer Sweater was a Rendo purchase back in 2018, but it's been sitting around so long it's now moved to Daz.

I'm going to blame this very long delay on it not properly exemplifying the backless sweater concept - but I think I've now resolved that.

richardandtracy · January 23

Bareback riding...

Regards,

Richard

barbult · January 25

There is a nice Weekly Freebie for G3M at Daz this week, that autofits nicely to G9. https://www.daz3d.com/outlander-monk-outfit-for-genesis-3-male-s

Matt_Castle · January 31

I didn't really like Rococo Lingerie when I first saw it; the hole in the back didn't work for me. However, I later realised that the hole was so that it fits a centaur and relented to buy it.

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(One of few assets I've converted where I haven't had to cut holes in it in Blender, although I did still do a bit of remeshing).

I also think this is the first time I've used Winterblack Gallery.

Elor · February 14

Matt_Castle said:

I'm working with a scripter to get it fully automated with the end goal of turning it into a product. It would be an extremely tedious process to do completely manually. (It's still kind of tedious even at its partially automated stage as it is).

End goal is support for G8 and G9 figures, with clothing from G3 or later. G2 support isn't unthinkable, but it adds more technical challenges and I'm not sure how much demand there would be for it.

It seems nice, I hope you'll be able to made it available one day.

I'm dipping my toes in doing it manually and I'm a the stage when every discovery lead to tens of unknows, so an automated way would be great :)

barbult said:

There is a nice Weekly Freebie for G3M at Daz this week, that autofits nicely to G9. https://www.daz3d.com/outlander-monk-outfit-for-genesis-3-male-s

Nice render and nice bouquet: where did you get it ? :)

I have a new render too, but with far too many items never used before to list them so here four I like among them:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-midsummer-outfit-for-genesis-8-females
https://www.daz3d.com/city-bus (I especially like the RATP colour scheme, even if I would not have called it French mats but I digress: it was perfect for a scene in Paris)
https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-9-hd-masculine-add-on , looking good wearing a suit.
https://www.daz3d.com/stylish-and-natural-photography-poses-for-genesis-8-81-and-9-females because the crossed arms pose looked exactly like what I wanted and better than I could get by myself.

Maybe it's not completly in the perfect mood for Valentine Day, but honestly, what better gift someone can make to parents of young kids than taking care of them for a couple of days, allowing parents to recharge their battery and have time just for themselves

Even if you disagree, you're old enough to have discover what Vick 9's youngest niece is now discovering, life's not always fair even if I hope it's treating you as fairly as possible.

So, yes, 'It's not fair… I want to help you turn the bike too, Uncle Vic': short story and items used on the gallery.

(I have one regret with this render: I didn't find a way to get better light on the road ragging driver, at least one that felt not too artificial but he's not that important: in a couple of seconds, he will out of the main characters' life and will be yelling at someone else anyway ).

barbult · February 15

@Elor

Matt_Castle · February 15

Class Talk

Inviting the ancient ghoul into your classroom to give a talk on historical language is a reasonable idea.

Not clarifying her choice of outfit or discussion topic in advance is a mistake.

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(Having some fun with my eccentric Celtic immortal.)

First use of
https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-su-off-shoulder-suit-for-genesis-9-81-and-8-female
https://www.daz3d.com/news-reporter-outfit-with-dforce-for-genesis-8-and-81-females
https://www.daz3d.com/hot-work-costume-set-for-genesis-8-femaless

Although the Hot Work outfit was a complete pain to work with, because I wanted to add textures to it, but this is what the skirt UV looks like:

Vertices completely out of order. After some effort, I corrected it to this:

If it's useful to anyone, I've included a package in the attachments that includes my attempts to reconstruct the original UV, as well as my own version that I feel has less distortion.

Elor said:

Matt_Castle said:

I'm working with a scripter to get it fully automated with the end goal of turning it into a product. It would be an extremely tedious process to do completely manually. (It's still kind of tedious even at its partially automated stage as it is).

End goal is support for G8 and G9 figures, with clothing from G3 or later. G2 support isn't unthinkable, but it adds more technical challenges and I'm not sure how much demand there would be for it.

It seems nice, I hope you'll be able to made it available one day.

I'm dipping my toes in doing it manually and I'm a the stage when every discovery lead to tens of unknows, so an automated way would be great :)

I need to poke my scripter again to see if he's made progress in automating the remaining parts.

The G3 to G8 version is working pretty well right now, able to generate all the missing joint correctives, so I've been using it for various conversions I need for renders.

Elor · February 15

barbult said:

@Elor

Thank you !

Nice, I have this product :)

Matt_Castle · February 17

Adventuring Again

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This one's been really difficult to get it how I wanted.

Plus these that I bought specifically for it:
https://www.daz3d.com/hackysack-fun-for-genesis-8-male
https://www.daz3d.com/skulduggery
https://www.daz3d.com/skyscapes-backdrops

Matt_Castle · February 21

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First uses of:

(Quite a lot of Genesis 9 stuff, which I don't normally use much given most of my main cast are still on G8 or G8.1).

SilverGirl · February 22

#AnythingGoes #4New #AllNew #StuffSoAncient

So I wasn't quite sure what to put this one under, but I'm really proud of it. All new except the characters. I've been working on this corner of the room since I got the European Style Apartment a little over a year ago, but it was a long process as I kept slamming into props I needed but didn't have. And then the two big holdups: I wanted an upright piano with articulated keys, and I needed to do the portrait over the mantle but that required a whole other set of stuff to do the render, and also to figure out how to get it into a frame and looking right. It took me a long time to know enough of what was possible and have the skillset to actually make it happen. So I'm really really proud of this little corner because I've been wanting to do this render for a year, and my skills finally caught up enough that I could.

Assets list a mile long, especially when you get into everything I did to kitbash the render for the portrait. Happy to identify anything that folk are interested in. Least obvious ones:

For the piano (since I bragged about it): https://www.daz3d.com/hd-grand-piano-and-poses-for-genesis-3-and-8 donated the keyboard to the upright from https://www.daz3d.com/i13-visions-of-the-past (which had to be drastically resized to fit the keyboard, and then duplicated and scooted backwards to make it deep enough).

For the tapestry: rug from https://www.daz3d.com/ultimate-rug-collection attached to the hanger (banner deleted) from https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-dinner-hall-props

For the portrait: frame is from https://www.daz3d.com/the-cat-collection but resized and fitted over a canvas from https://www.daz3d.com/fg-ice-cream-parlor

Only two things I'm not super happy with... the low light made the render grainy (maybe I could pretend that's stylistic) and even after fussing with it for an absurdly long time, I couldn't seem to get any add-on lights to make the light over the piano do the "pool of light" type thing in a way that looked believable.

MissLeah · February 22

Wow, SilverGirl! Wonderful job! I love all the details!

SilverGirl · February 22

MissLeah said:

Wow, SilverGirl! Wonderful job! I love all the details!

Many thanks! I've had a lot of fun playing "Daz dollhouse" in getting their flat put together in a way that looks both lived-in and "them." It's always the little things that make a place feel like home.

Matt_Castle · February 26

After Zicon kept going on about having rendered Astaroth's buns, I decided I would turn him into a cookery teacher in my setting:

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https://www.daz3d.com/astaroth-9
https://www.daz3d.com/astaroth-9-horn-collection
https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-padrino-outfit-for-genesis-9 (which I've had sitting around since the Neanderthal bundle)
https://www.daz3d.com/hs-fade-with-spike-hair-and-beard-for-genesis-9-genesis-8-and-81-males

There's also https://www.daz3d.com/fg-kitchen which I bought with the intention of it being usable for a school kitchen, although I'm going to be blunt that I was disappointed when the set proved to have a lot of completely static components, so the ovens had to be swapped out with the ones from GCJellyfish's excellent https://www.daz3d.com/rising-sun-environment so I could actually open and use them for the scene.
(I will continue to cheerlead for GCJellyfish's stuff. The kitchen in his Rising Sun set gets a single promo render, but comes with this oven that's extensively posable with a fully adjustable clock. And that pattern continues across the other props in the set. Seriously, their stuff might cost a bit more than products that seem ostensibly similar, but it earns that).

SilverGirl · February 27

Matt_Castle said:

There's also https://www.daz3d.com/fg-kitchen which I bought with the intention of it being usable for a school kitchen, although I'm going to be blunt that I was disappointed when the set proved to have a lot of completely static components, so the ovens had to be swapped out with the ones from GCJellyfish's excellent https://www.daz3d.com/rising-sun-environment so I could actually open and use them for the scene.
(I will continue to cheerlead for GCJellyfish's stuff. The kitchen in his Rising Sun set gets a single promo render, but comes with this oven that's extensively posable with a fully adjustable clock. And that pattern continues across the other props in the set. Seriously, their stuff might cost a bit more than products that seem ostensibly similar, but it earns that).

Thank you for the rec on the Rising Sun environment... I'd passed it over because I don't really have a use for the venue, but I think I'll give it a second look now just for that oven. Sadly it seems like most of the FG props are static, even things like clocks where it would be really great if it was right more than twice a day. They're great for backgrounds but not so fantastic if your characters need to interact with things.

Matt_Castle · February 27

SilverGirl said:

Thank you for the rec on the Rising Sun environment... I'd passed it over because I don't really have a use for the venue

I didn't feel I had a huge amount of use for the venue itself either*. But my experience with GCJellyfish's previous products told me that even though I might not have had a lot of use for the whole set that I could expect the individual pieces to be extremely useful. It's very often the case that individual parts of their sets would be entirely decent products on their own. They don't put out much stuff, but the stuff they put out is fundamentally the most usable sets I have seen on the store.

Their Dirty Dishes sets are enough of a wonder when it comes to any scene revolving around cooking or eating food that it's actually surprising that I didn't end up using them in this particular scene. (But I certainly have on many previous occasions).

The only reason I wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend their products to someone is if they're genuinely not the right genre for your renders (like if we're talking about their car product but you only ever do historical fantasy). Because otherwise they're an absolute tool box of posing, morphs and variants of their different pieces.

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* Although I did end up using it as the backdrop for a bunny girl render...

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