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Yay (BTW a stock photo) :)
Doesn't matter, had golden sunset. ;)
Also: got munny today, put moolah on my Visa at 8 am, so tomorrow I should have dough for doing shoppin' at DAZ if something comes up during the weekend and I also have cabbage for upcoming PC frenzy, so hopefully I'm all set.
Sounds great :)
Yellow light + blue light = white light, is the same as red+green+blue lights because yellow is red+green. You will need to decide on a dominant primary colour. A sunrise in the sky, as it is framed now, will backlight the subjects leaving a strong rim of sunrise colour around their edges. Shadow will fall toward the viewer. I would use point lights very close to each subject to highlight detail you want people to see. Everything depends upon how much detail, for example you could lower the camera angle a little to make more sky in the frame and then silhouette the subjects against the sky. It depends what you want to do, your strategy right now seems to be to light everything equally, when a sunrise would leave deep shadows in places. I always gamma correct (2.2), although we had a thing for anti-gamma correct in the thread a while ago. If you gamma correct you get more bang for lighting bucks, if you don't all the bang is in whatever dark you want to play with. I always overcrank lights, turn a distant light up to say 166% and aim it toward the camera, see what happens as you adjust its angle. When you see something you like crank the light up to 266% and see what that does. Once you got one light more or less happening you aim a second at whatever place you want to highlight. I always set falloff, where available. Use linear falloff until you get comfortable with it. How much falloff depends upon what you are lighting. Falloff from point lights makes good textures look better. Always crank up a point light to more than 100% (usually 333% for me - I always step in thirds) ) and use the rolloff to prevent stuff blowing out and turning white. GC is helpful there as well. That's a lot to take in for now.
Thankyou very much! That's really helpful :) I'm just saving some reference sunrise pics... I'll be using the pointlights as suggested... It's kind of a guess game with the lighting tests cos I havent loaded the trees in as they bump my render time into several hours! I see what you mean about me neutralizing the lighting... It was unintentional, there's just so many details I want to see lol!
Grawr :3
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Played with one of my photos :D
I'm a sucker for zoom effects and blur and stuff :3
Ugh.... no one should have to wake up this early >_<.</p>
Have to be at work before 7 as we have a safety meeting at 7:30 today and I have to get a ride in the van.
So far, no sign of headache. So maybe I slept it off.
4.5 in my experience retains morphs. That was the reason why I jumped to 4.5RC* so fast that my hair was like a flag in brisk breeze.
Thanks, good to know. But does "fit to" still make the hair distort? If so, I guess my solution might still help Gen4 and Gen3 hair look better.
I have to say it depends on hair. HOWEVER. You can "fix" some of the problems by diddling with "Actor" parameters that appears to fitted hair plus adding smoothing parameter. I got my elf-ear problem solved that way (I dialed ear morph settings away and bam, no more hair over ears in a sheet, now naturally).
Example:
Coincidentally, that's my favorite anime elf ear recipe, so you're welcome. And "SilverMoon" is the hair, FYI.
Hey that's the Skiriki hair! (Points at the pics)
Yes it is! Except wrong color, of course.
oh noes, the hairy stuff you have to go through to be safe, a sign of the times maybe,surely it wasn't like this in the old days :)
SAV drop
A hero saving prehistoric primitive life from extinction??
heh OK didn't think of that, more about contrast range for a particular shader tree , turned up the reflect channel of a Blinn surface and yay specular shinies! - or maybe Zarathustra, who promises to bury a dying man but instead carries his corpse around for a few chapters of Thus Spake Zarathustra, by F. Nietzsche :)
That is what I am thinking also. i do not know why they have that music on so loud.
I thought i lost a library book but it fell off the night stand and was behind it. The book is Dead Until Dark, a mystery novel with a bite. True Blood is based on that series. I wonder I can see the 2012 season of True Blood. I also want to catch up on Dexter. i did not see the 2011 season of Dexter and there probably is a 2012 season of it I have not seen. Maybe I can catch up on that when I get Netflix, but that will not be for a while.
I made another trip to Half-price Books this afternoon and came home with a Eudora Welty and 4 more of the Stephanie Plum series. I love to read.
I think I saw a used book store near where I live. Maybe when I have money I can check it out.
Got a roommate today. I barely met her so I do not know much about her. I forgot her name, but then I tend to forget people's names. I hope she does not want to use my computer.
OMG! BIG COMPLAINT! Daz is running ridiculously slow... And I haven't even loaded the trees and plants! It takes me an average 10-15 mins to change from posing tab to rendering tab!!
Question for anyone that knows: Is there a way to allocate more memory to daz to make it work like a program on a windows 7 computer and not a mind boggling lagging s**t old Windows98? I CANT WORK LIKE THIS GRRRRR lol
...I use Cacheman for that. ;)
what's cacheman? Sorry but I not sure what you're talking about. :P
my rendering is at a halt until I can find a solution... I assume it shouldn't be this bad.
Daz store is taking forever to load. i shouldn't even look after what i spent yesterday. ouch :lol:
nuthin for lunch today. hopes the lunch truck has something yummy yet nutritional.
This. It is not a hoax -- it has made my computing better since 2003. Bought a forever license this year. You can allocate resources better with it, and let it do cache/memory management instead of Windows' native. They got a trial version if you want to try it.
Is it effective? I'm looking at it now... Daz seems to be my only issue with slow lagging problems.
Also, when your on daz, what profile do you usually use? 'Best of all worlds'?
Effective? Hell yes. Made my life smooth while using Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Sadly, custom, since I can tweak the settings as much as I wanna, on account of having paid version. ;) But you can test and tweak what's the best for you.
Go to Memory Management tab while DAZ Studio is running, and see if assigning it better priority gives you better results and let Cacheman do memory management. You will also want to tweak Dynamic Priority values. In "Sticky priority" tab, give "Above Normal" to DAZ Studio.
There are tons and tons of little things you can tweak to make life better. Such as running Taskbar as a separate process. ;)
Wow, according to cacheman, windows by default runs daz at low priority
Oh what would I do without you Skiriki! Thanks for the help :cheese: The basic free profile of cacheman definitely improves things, still slow, but faster than it was! I guess this highlights the fact that pretty soon I should upgrade my computer... Just need to learn the ideal specs for 3d software.
Now there, those aren't all the tricks in my pocket to speed up stuff. ;) I truly recommend to slip some moolah into getting a bought version of it -- it REALLY makes things go smooth. :)
I may be considering it, assumeing that the bought version is much better! Though, I do think I need to get an upgrade computer at some stage in the future. Sorry my reply was so long, I'm rendering a low-res of the jungle trees. As expected it remains rather tolling on my pc's ram lol I'll have to learn the resaonable specs for a dencent 3d rendering computer.
Complaint Thread history lesson:
Once upon a time at DAZ there was a man named kmwill, who thought one possible response to the deluge of complaints flooding the Forums was to make a post (entitled The Complaint Thread) in which he complained about all of the complaining in a satirical fashion. A number of other people, including a few from his (now defunct) self-created Fan Club thread, found the post amusing, and started posting to the thread. It then morphed (much like the Fan Club had previously) into the sort of community blog and general discussion thread that it is today. Most of those original posters have since moved on for one reason or another. I think Richard and I are among the most senior posters left, though I don't remember exactly when Vilian wandered over from the Fan Club.
Heyyyy...it's kinda cool to hear of the "Beginning" LOL Awww... now I wish I had known kmwill.... does he know what he started? lol Thanks for sharing!!
...and HOW ARE YOU!!??? Good to see you! :)
He did look back in here a few incarnations before the Forum switchover, remarking that he was surprised the thread was still around. But given what he had started with the kmwill fan club, I don't know why he was surprised. As for how I am, employed (for the moment, it's seasonal/temp work for H & R Block, and they haven't given me an offer for next tax season yet), and doing all right with my meds, so things look pretty good.