Novica & Invited Guest Contributors Tips & Product Reviews Pt 4
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Boudoir Poses For Olympia (DAZ3D / Sedor)
http://www.daz3d.com/boudoir-poses-for-olympia
Although this says Boudoir, I can see some other possibilities, particularly in the first one with Cassia looking up.
You can see in this render why I put the leggings with the Ranger top- see the slight blue in the top?
Will be adding more to this post as I render them, so check back :)
Boudoir Poses For Olympia (DAZ3D / Sedor)
http://www.daz3d.com/boudoir-poses-for-olympia
And the last of the Boudoir Poses.
Capsces Poses Olympia 6 Barbarian (Capsces Digital Ink)
http://www.daz3d.com/capsces-poses-olympia-barbarian
Some of these poses have swords or knives, you'll easily be able to see which ones.
Capsces Poses Olympia 6 Barbarian (Capsces Digital Ink)
http://www.daz3d.com/capsces-poses-olympia-barbarian
The last of the Barbarian poses.
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Skin Builder Pro for Genesis and Genesis 2 Female(s) (DraagonStorm, Zev0)
http://www.daz3d.com/skin-builder-for-genesis-and-genesis2-female-s
Thought I would share some renders I've done while playing with Skin Builder Pro. It's still at the intro price and there is a competition going on. You can check it out here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/40945/. :)
If you wish to know which other items I've used in my renders you can check out the competition thread:
Two girls: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/40945/#600412
Cream-colored Alien: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/40945/#601005
Black girl in a desert: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/40945/P15/#601601
I've found this product easy to use, extremely versatile and useful in creating skins for both humans and aliens. If you wish to know more check out it's product description, it's pretty much self-explanatory. Basically with the Pro version you get scripts that with which you can build skin, brows, eyelashes, eyes, nails, tan lines, make-up and genital hair for your genesis and g2f figures. All it's textures use V5 UV's, so as long as other skin texture you own uses V5 UV's, with this product you can apply to it make-up, tan lines or gen hair. You can also use the eye builder and eye lash builder with any texture. The eyebrow builder you can theoretically use with any texture that uses V5 UV's but you would first have to remove (for e.g. in PS) eyebrows that came with the said texture for it to look right.
I think what I like most about this product is that it comes with skin textures without brows, with no painted shadows or baked in specular and a good selection of brows to choose from. The fact that the included skin textures are browless makes it easy to use them on aliens and all sorts of creatures. As with any skin textures you can achieve the best results after tweaking the settings to suit your lighting, but the default settings are enough to get good results. The product comes with the promo lights which is a nice bonus. In my images I've used AoA lights (promo lights use UE2). All my images were postworked in PS (mainly to slightly adjust colours and contrast) except one (with the black girl in the desert).
I'm having lots of fun playing with this product and would heartily recommend it to anyone, especially to those looking for a quick way to add some variety to your characters. :)
@Novica: Wow! You've been busy! Thanks for showing us all those environments and poses!
@Luci45: Cold War Lab looks great in your render. Added it to my wishlist. : )
@tjohn: Thanks for showing us FW Lucille, I really like how she looks in your renders!
@SereneNight: Quite an interesting technique. I'm looking forward to seeing your next pic done using it. : ) I might just try it out sometime. Thank you for linking to the tutorial!
Those look interesting Tarina! Your alien looks like they're having a great time, too :)
I'll be doing more poses throughout the weekend, doing Life at the moment- lots of errands and heading back out the door.
Olympia Fantasy Classic Poses (Muscleman)
http://www.daz3d.com/olympia-fantasy-classic-poses
Having a fun Friday night, rendering and while waiting, reading a great Silo book. So here comes Muscleman's poses for Olympia!
Will be adding more all night tonight. :)
Note: I am having a problem with the prop. It won't attach to the hand. See this thread, if you can test it I would appreciate it.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41080/
Meanwhile, I will do just the poses. If we figure out what the problem is, I'll do a few samples with the cane prop.
This is what comes with the product:
25 Poses for Olympia 6
25 Simply Cylinder Prop Pose for fitting to Olympia
Olympia Fantasy Classic Poses CONTINUED
http://www.daz3d.com/olympia-fantasy-classic-poses
So you have to create the pole prop, then apply the pose. In the thumbnails, the pose is labeled, then you have a pole thumbnail with the same number as the pose. As I mentioned in the other thread, I applied the pole pose with the figure selected and it didn't work, then I tested with the hand selected, and it didn't work. I also tried it with nothing selected, and got error messages.
Someone created a pole and then applied the pose and it worked. Jaderail confirmed you have to create your own pole primitive, and also said it would resize for you.
The ReadMe has no mention of how to use this product. On that page, although things are labeled "poses" we all know that props have been labeled "actors" etc- so that doesn't mean squat. Appreciate the help on the other thread.
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/17906/start
I can not confirm the Auto re-size but if the pose file was created properly the primitive should have the proper translations, size shape, included in the preset.
I went over to the other thread to see what lcfar did to make it work- they said they only had to scale it to make it large enough to see. :)
You can get these last poses for 60% off if you buy one of the featured items. That's $3.98 and you get a great variety. Be sure to go to the New Releases page and look at the banner, a lot of 60% off stores.
http://www.daz3d.com/olympia-fantasy-classic-poses
Simply Olympia Poses (DAZ3D / Khory)
http://www.daz3d.com/simply-olympia-poses
I'm finding there are fascinating poses in each pose product, even though some are quite similar to other pose packets.
I don't like poses that are so incredibly simple that they seem frankly like fillers. I'm not thrilled at all with the fourth one, the two standing poses. To balance that, this vendor did provide energetic poses which were unique too.
I'm going to do an off topic and share a photo of my Morgan which was taken by a professional photographer- she's in love with him, and he's so photogenic! Stetson was a stallion for eight years and has a magnificent muscular neck, and Morgans are known for their flowing manes and tails. I go through a bottle of hair grooming product every 8-10 days.
This is Stetson's winter coat- not even his gleaming summer coat. You can tell by his whiskers and beard! I don't trim in the winter, that hair grows for a reason and it's to keep him warm. We had brutal weather here so no haircuts for my dude- 3 degrees and ice storms in Florida for two days which was totally ridiculous. Now last week 24" of rain in Pensacola and 18.4" here- maybe he needs rain boots!
I named him Stetson, that's not his real name. It's a western classic. It's funny- when people baby talk him they call him "Stets." He's a carrot-a-holic.
I wanted to include the one of the mane flying backwards, that will give you artists an idea of how much the mane lifts up when the horse is in a faster gait.
Warrior Goddess Poses (DAZ 3D / blondie9999)
http://www.daz3d.com/warrior-goddess-poses-for-olympia
In progress.
One thing about this product- it's the first one that will transport your characters to World Center every time- you HAVE to hold down CNTRL to uncheck the XYZ so your character doesn't transport away from the location.
What a beautiful horse Novica! You're lucky to have him. :) The photo is stunning.
Thank you :) He's a real lovey-dovey. I'll give him a carrot from you.
@Novica - wow your Stetson is a real beauty, isn't he?! Give him another carrot from me...
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OK, well here's something a little playful from me. I spent a merry afternoon converting my M4 and V4 skin textures to .duf files so I can apply them to G2F/G2M as well as Genesis. (Actually I haven't got through all my V4 textures yet, but I needed a break)
So as I was testing the presets I put the skin texture from Agnes by Phoenix1966 on Gia, then wondered how it would look on Gianni. Here's the result: Siblings Getting Old Together
I used a single Advanced Ambient Light by Age of Armour, but got some rather strong reflections on the eye surfaces, so I toned down the specular and turned up the glossiness from the original V4 setting.
So he is Gianni 6 with hair from Jaime Character and Hair by Valea and the shirt from the Newport Oufit by DAZ3D/Mada/Sarsa.
She is Gia 6 with Micah Hair by DAZ3D/AprilYSH and the top from Casual Jeans and T-Shirt by DAZ3d/Ravenhair.
Both are completely unmorphed from the Gianni/Gia character shapes, the only "tweak" was a slight smile on each face. Interestingly he has come out looking slightly more "tanned" than her, maybe it's distance from the light source and/or his hair colour giving that effect. His eyebrows may be a little "trimmed" for a man (though I have known men with skinny little eyebrows).
Whoopsie, didn't post the one with the flying mane. Here tis.
I will give Stetson his Melanie and Tarina carrots- I had to run some errands and pick up someone from the airport so I didn't make it out there. I don't like to disturb the horses once it's their bedtime. They need their beauty rest.
OMGosh Melanie- that is SOOOOOOO cool. Refresh my memory because I haven't done it yet- to convert to DUF, do you apply the skin to V4, save it as a material preset, then apply to Genesis or Genesis 2? I've got so many products that convert things, I've lost track. Yours looks really neat- I think the lighting makes it look ultra realistic, and those eyebrows look fine. A lot of older men do have wispy eyebrows. :)
Warrior Goddess Poses (DAZ 3D / blondie9999)
http://www.daz3d.com/warrior-goddess-poses-for-olympia
Remember, go back to this post as I filled it in with the poses. :) This is the last one from the Warrior Goddess poses. I REALLY like this set- the poses are really different from each other, and great action!!!!
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/38051/P600/#602750
Callidora Poses for Olympia is coming up next.
Callidora Poses for Olympia
http://www.daz3d.com/callidora-poses-for-olympia
This is another set that you need to hold down CTRL so the pose won't take your character back to World Center. This set has a nice variety!
There is one pose not shown, with her hand behind her head.
Well, Giselle is coming tomorrow. That means folks will probably watch what they spend today, even with 60% off all those stores. (Be sure and go to the New Releases page, great stores on sale!) I was smart and only bought one of the featured items yesterday, so I'd have another one to buy today in case more stores went on sale. They did. :) Love Aave's stuff.
@MelanieL: Agnes texture looks great on both Gianni and Gia. Have to invest in Agnes character sometime... Btw how do you apply V4 UV's to G2M?
@Novica: He looks awesome with the flying mane. Horses are such beautiful animals. I hope he liked the carrot. ;)
@Novica - thanks. Yes, I just load up V4, apply the textures, save as Material Preset. This is simple and quick for the "whole body" option, but I'm also doing all the makeup options, eye options, lips, nails, ... Each of which needs to be applied then saved as a preset being careful to just save the matzones affected by that particular option (needs a quick browse of the original .ds or .dsa to check which matzones are affected) otherwise using that .duf preset would override some other option (e.g. change makeup when you're only trying to change eye colour). Slightly quicker for M4 textures as there ar generally fewer options (though some like Phoenix1966's men have at least 4 facial hair options with bald head and same number with hair on head). But I'm a completeist so I just have to do every MAT option!
PS: That mane really does fly out, doesn't it?! I wish the DAZ Horse 2 mane was as morphable.
@Tarina Kivi - as long as you have the V4 UVSet for G2F, Slosh released a set of UVSetters at ShareCG - see forum post here - which will set the UVs on G2F or G2M to any set you "own" for Generation 4, Genesis or G2F/M.
Please give Stetson a virtual carrot from me! :)
And yes, that is the basic principle for Gen4 textures Genesis 2 figures, a quick tutorial, wot I wrote, at either ShareCG or deviantART.
@MelanieL, SimonJM: Thank you for your answers. I knew I've seen it explained somewhere on the Forums. : )
That;s a nice render, MelanieL. It is amazing that the texture alone gave the aged appearance and that you didn't need other morphs. I've added Agnes to my wishlist.
If you are having the problem of large round gray circles on the eyes with the Advanced Ambient Light, the easiest solution is to change the Advanced Ambient Light parameters light type from On to Diffuse Only. Then, if necessary, add a separate spot or distant specular light. The Advanced Ambient Light has a broad specular response that causes those eye problems. I got this info from AoA in the product thread a few months ago.
I've been playing with older characters, too, but I haven't tried the men. I've been using V4 Lola skin and Bellatrix skin on G2F with various morphs, including Zev0's aging morphs. Here is one picture with Bellatrix.She also has some additional age spots and freckles from Zev0's skin overlays.
Title: Nobody's Favorite Teacher
Here's V4 Lola skin in a morphed G2F Kori. I don't have GenX, so this doesn't use the Lola morph, just the skin. I used Zev0 Aging morphs.
Oh, I'm loving these! Thanks for all the tips and links.
Do any of you have the Project EYEris - Subsurface Expansion? I'm trying to find the included presets for Eye Surface but I cannot find them anywhere in my Library... :( I don't know if it's just me or if maybe someone else is having the same problem?