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Merry Christmas
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kMH-6AfcfQ0
a video I made
Jack's Christmas
Wham. Last Christmas seems like it’s barely passed and now another year has gone by and it’s Christmas again. Jack and Betty and Jasmine are all happy you stuck around through another one of them, and wish you a Very Merry Christmas. May you spend time with family and friends, maybe exchange some gifts you all enjoy, and enjoy each other’s company even more. Remember the Reason for the Season. The gifts you’ve received and the gifts you give in return. Take joy in giving something, no matter how humble it is, and receive whatever is given with that same joy. Merry Christmas to all. And to all a good night.
Yup! I got one...and just in time too!
This is a render of my first (and favorite) character, Anna (see attached).
(BTW, how do you post a larger photo in the thread like in the post above mine?)
I am very new to Daz 3d Studio (just a week and a half now) and you wouldn't BELIEVE what I went through to do this. This was my first indoor setting and it nearly took me two days to complete. I been having issues with dForce which is responsible for allowing dresses that are flowing like this one to fall against the body and go with gravity. Otherwise the dress will not look natural on the body. However, the simulation program doing this is VERY finicky and if the dress is touching or going through anything when the simulation starts, it will crash and the dress will either crumple or just become a mess of polygons! I just term this issue as 'the dress exploded'. There is a big learning curve to dForce and I am starting to get the basics down. I originally wanted Anna to sit down in a chair, but I have found out that sitting positions are the hardest to do, followed by laying down. Standing positions I found to have a good amount of success with. However, another issue presented itself in that the neckline on the dress kept 'exploding' too. I found out that Anna's long hair was the culprit. The fine hairs that couldn't move from the front to the back of her neck were piercing the dress. After playing with her hair for a half hour, I decided to just give her a different hairstyle. Luckily I found a similar updo hairstyle with her hair in a bun. The part was on the opposite side though. This hairstyle had so much in terms of being able to control it. So I shaped it to give it more volume and I was pleased with the results there. Once I had her in position and everything looked good on her. I moved to her living room.
I had bought a bunch of Christmas items that were on sale, one of which was the Christmas Tree. So I started to set up the tree, place some presents below it and I put more Christmas decorations around the room as my intention was to make this a big photo shoot with Anna in many poses in her beautiful new dress. However, with my initial renderings, that was when things went south. I ran into huge difficulties with lighting the scene. I don't want to bore everyone with the details, but I will if someone asks me personally, I will divulge into greater details then. In a nutshell, the wall sconce lights in the room (which are cut out from the shot) didn't light up. When I tried to fix them, then I had issues with the tree lighting. I also had a problem with the walls and fireplace looking glossy from my highlighting lights that I have focused on Anna. Thankfully with some help from the fellows in the Daz Studio forums, I managed to get something that worked. It didn't work out the way I wanted to but I managed to tweak the lighting settings around to finally get the result above. The lighting looks somewhat natural.
When I was finally done with the scene, I noticed another issue which didn't show up in the textures shot, but it shows up in the render. The shoulder straps you see on Anna's dress are not supposed to be there. This was another mistake I made when I was deciding on a look for Anna's dress and apparently even though I had removed the straps they were still showing up in the render. I did this style of dress over with another iteration of Anna's body and put it in the same pose, this time not touching any settings that had to do with the shoulder straps and the dress rendered fine without the straps. However, it was getting too late to fix the scene as the above shot took close to 2 hours to render! It was my longest rendering yet! I decided that the shoulder straps, which appear gold in the shot, really do not detract from the overall look of the dress. So I decided to just leave it for now. Perhaps down the road I will fix it as I have already updated the dress for future renderings with that dress.
So all in all, I am just happy that I managed to get through this one on time. I hope you enjoy it!
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from my home to yours and your family.
Best way to add a picture to the message is to first click on your attachment. It will open in another window usually. Copy the address there.
Then go back to the thread and edit your message. Hover over message, click options in the upper right and select edit.
Once in your message, look over the icons you can use on the top row and pick the first one of the fourth grouping. That's insert image.
It will bring up a windo with a lot of options. In the first one, it asks for the address of the image you want to use. Paste the copied address in there.
Then go down and tell it to display no more than 800 pixels wide. Some people push that a little bit up to 850 or 900, but we tend to try to be nice to people who don't have large monitors, so we like to hold it to 800 pixels wide so the forum doesn't explode sideways. ;)
I think you have to hit submit or ok or something like that for it to go in. And then you update your message in total and the picture should show up all nice and pretty for everyone to see real easy like. :)
Christmas Serenade
Gorgeous pic, and I hear you on the dforce grief. Dforce ignores anything that is hidden, so the easiest thing to do in the situation you describe is to hide the hair you've picked out. and then run the simulations.
Thank for the tip.