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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    @Novica, those pictures take me back to California. Different vegitation, but the fear that type of smoke cloud creates is awful. I hope the winds stay down, rain comes in, and the fire crews are able to get it contained safely. 

    Getting back to the project. This morning was weird. My clinic called me last night to come in for a pneumonia shot for this morning. 

    @Fishtales, that is a great job on the bike. I got it as a freebie I think and never used it yet. Need to pull it out one day, especially now that I have seen how great you made it look.

    Mary

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119
    memcneil70 said:

     

    @Fishtales, that is a great job on the bike. I got it as a freebie I think and never used it yet. Need to pull it out one day, especially now that I have seen how great you made it look.

    Mary

    I have attached the material file for you use and have a play with.

    duf
    duf
    steam-bike-pro-001.duf
    8M
  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Thanks, that is very kind of you!!

    Mary

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    So picking up on the Hair project and which ones have white or a silver or pale grey color.

    Melody Pigtail Hair - 02 Blonde (Platinum), 08 Grey (Pale Grey White)
    Messy Bun Hair - 04 Blonde (Pale Blonde-Grey)

    Mihrelle
       dForce LongLayered Hair - 03 Platinum Blonde
       MRL Amara Braids - #10 Grey
       MRL Everyday Hair - 03 Blonde 02 Hair Hm (White), 08 Grey Hair HM (Grey)
       MRL Gem Hair - 02 White, 04 Platinum Blonde, 12 scalp Black & hair White
       MRL Warrior Hair - WH 02 Blonde 01 HM (Pale Blonde)

    Minami Hair - #05 (White)
    Miranda Hair - Grey, White, Ash, XBlack & White (White dominant)
    MoLi Hair - White

    Neftis3D - Generally has five hair colors (Black, Brown, Red, Medium Blond, Medium Grey)
       Bella Mane Hair - Blond
       Paulyn Tied Bun Hair - Iray Dual Lobe White 
       Perfect Wild Curls - Platinum Blonde, Grey (Medium)
       Sonia Hairstyle - Grey (Light)
       Vicktor Long Locks - Grey (Medium)

    Nesena Hair - Grey, White, Ash
    Nick Hair - OOT Materials, pale blonde
    Nya Hair - White

    outoftouch - the base hair style is release with a pale blonde but the Xpansion packs I have, had XP050, XP103, XP104, XP105, and presets 23 and 26 which were white or extremely pale. I will note an XP behind the hair that I have the XP pack for the base hair.
       OOT Alice Hair
       OOT Camila Hair
       OOT Caprice Hair     - XP
       OOT Classic Bob Hair - XP
       OOT Double Tails Hair
       OOT Lainey Hair
       OOT Lary Hair
       OOT Leony Ponytail Hair
       OOT Linda Ponytail Hair     - XP
       OOT Liv Hair
       OOT Loose Pigtails Hair
       OOT Madeline Tails Hair - XP
       OOT Marigold Hair - XP
       OOT MEGA Updo Hair - XP
       OOT Neko Hair
       OOT Riviera Hair
       OOT Rose Hair - XP
       OOT Ryan Hair
       OOT Short Fade Hair     - XP
       OOT Steven Hair
       OOT Super Messy Updo
       OOT Surrounding Curls Hair - XP
       OOT Tia Hair - XP
       OOT Untamed Curls Hair
       OOT Various Age Bob Hair - XP
       OOT Wild Loop Tail Hair - XP

    Operator Hair - no white or light grey or silver hair
    Orphelia Hair - medium grey only

    OSO3D
           Furry - no color materials
       Oso Bob - Platinum, White tipped Black
       Oso Textured - no white or grey or silver
          Oso Texture Add-on 1 - Platinum, White tipped Black
          Oso Texture Add-on 2 - Frost (Very pale blue)

    Mary

     

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Here are my Ps and Rs:

    Pandora Hair - Grey, White, Ash, XBW
    Pascale Hair - Grey, White, Ash, XBW
    Perrin Hair - Grey, White, Ash

    PhilW
           dForce African Hair - White, Silver
       Femme Fatale Hair - White, Silver
       Full Fringe Hair - White, Silver
       Longdrape Hair - White, Silver
       Morena Hair - has 5 different color categories: in Natural Colors # 06 White
       Paige Hair - has 3 different color categories: in Realistic Colors # 05 Steel Grey, # 06 Silver, # 07 White

    Ping Hair - Blonde 03, Blonde 04, Grey 02, Vivid 08
    Pippa Hair - Blonde (Platinum Blonde), Platinum (White)
    Pretty Pixie Hair - # 12 (White Silver)
     

    Prae
       Rosabel Hair - Silver, Ash

    PropsChick
       Heather Hair - Platinum Blonde
       Virginia Hair - Platinum

    Rachel Hair - Ash Blonde (has dark roots)
    Raver Hair - Blonde (Pale), Platinum
    Razor Hair - Platinum
    Retro Hero Hair - Ash (White), Grey (Light Grey)
    Riley Hair - Blonde 03 (Pale Grey, White streaks)
    Roxanna Hair - Silver, Platinum

    @Novica, thank you for this project. I am rediscovering hairs I had forgotten about and seeing what a difference the layout in Content Library makes to using them, as opposed to Smart Content.

    Mary

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    @memcneil70  Thanks for all the work you're doing. Hopefully I'll be back online tomorrow. The fire is now 250 acres and still only 40% contained, but it isn't moving south, just expanding a bit north and to both east and west (which is forested, no subdivisions.)  It did come within half a mile of a subdivision, but forest rangers were on site all night and will be there again tonight. It is creeping up right next to the county landfill, I made one trip this morning but decided I was done. (Six loads yesterday.)  

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited May 2020

    I wonder how the Millennium Baby 3.0 would do with Mesh Grabber to make it more pudgy. I really don't have $60 of DOs that are worth a toot, very slim pickings. A lot of starter bundles, which are repeats when I own the pro bundles. There's also the Cuties for Millenium Baby 3 (yes, one n) by Adam Thwaites over at Rendo which plumps the baby up.

    Post edited by Novica on
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,941
    whitemagus said:

    whitemagus said:

    » show previous quotes

    Hi, I was looking for some thecnical help and I just saw, your comment..

    In my defence that was one of the first HDRI´s product that I made and didnt make the last post processing steps that I do now, because some people like the photo with the Raw look with the grain to make it more realistic. So at that stage I decided to keep it. Only after the use of them I realised that it would be more convinient not to have that grain. So my lastest HDRI´s dont have that Sky grain. (wich can be removed by bluring it in PS). 

    But, yes it is a bit too much grain, also in my first´s HDRI´s the Horizon line is not tottaly straight. To be honest I didn´t worry too much because those are things one can fix when doing the post work in Photoshop. Now I am more worried.

    When you guys see, serious error´s or anoying stuff you can message me (you can use the contact page at www.whitemagus3dmodels.com), so I know because I dont go to forums that often. 

    You can also check the quality of the HDRI´s here http://www.whitemagus3dmodels.com/?category=Free  before you buy. 

    Taoz-Thanks for the feedback.  I've tried a couple of your free ones but they still have a lot of noise or compression (camera?) artifacts.  Are there some better ones?

    -------

    This a response to Taoz questions (had to copy paste it was on diferent tread):

    The ones from the HDRI beach super pack on foward are a little bit better, that includes the HDRI Tokyo Cityscapes the Green fields, and  on foward. 

    However in terms of sharpeness and level of detail the ones form DimensionTheory are better I imagine the ones from Bob Callawah Cake One also, that is why they call it UltraHD, mines do not have that much quality in terms of photo definition per say.

    What I can say is that in terms of light specially sunlight with hard shadows my HDRI´s mimics reality more closely I put a lot of efort on that, so still I prefer the light producced by my HDRI´s  versus the DimensionTheory also I cannot say that for all DimensionTheory HDRI´s I only tried a few of the base ones. So if you really need a sharp image you sould go for DimensionTheory

    In relation to file size more colors and deeper range higher size in the HDRI image, I wish it could go lower (it takes a lot of disk space and we have to store them in a diferent disk and bring them back when necessary) , but there is a considerable diference from a render from an 8K to a render from an 16K HDRI, sometimes it does not matter but other times it makes an huge diference, I made a lot of test with the Twisted Tower promo images, and specially if you have clouds and going for a realist image deep range with loots of colours matters a lot. That is why the ones that you guys say that have noise (which I agree) specialy the first ones some of them are my favorites because the noise brings a lot of colors that is why they are heavier images in size. And I didn´t make that on purpose I just noticed while testing it with the Twisted Towers. So I wont change those ones, still  I might add 8K to those first packs if you all find it necessary.

    That is it, hope you find this helpfull.

    ps.Also if you need quick responses you have to PM me. 

    OK, haven't really considered the light effect of the HDRIs in this context, it's also more difficult to evaluate immediately than the look of the environment.  Will take a look at it again and focus on this aspect instead.  Thanks!

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115
    edited May 2020

    Well here are the hair I have that start with 'S' or in my Content Library start with 'S' but may not have the PA's name at the beginning (Sprite).

    Sabela Hair - Platinum Blonde, Snow White
    Sae Hair - #12 (Silver), #13 (White/Lavender tints), ten colors with a white base with pastel streaks.
    Salsa Hair - Blonde, Platinum
    Sassy Bob Hair - Blonde, Platinum
    Savage Braid - Blonde (varied shades), Platinum

    SdeB - many of their hair is for African hair and the colors appear to reflect a realistic reaction to hair dyes.
       Kilmonger Hair - Silver (Brown fading to blue to silver tips)
       Lil Bee Hair - Blonde1, Blond2, Silver (Dark fading to light silver at tip of braid)
       Senegalese Twist Hair - Blonde1, Blond2, Silver (Dark fading to light silver at tip of braid)
       Shaved Side Dread - Blond1 (Ochre), Blond2 (Ochre bleached), Silver (Dark, dark to light)
       Short Curls Hair - Gold (tipping), Silver (Blue White tipping)

    Shaved Side Hair (Also SdeB but not grouped under the name) - Blonde1 (Dark), Blond2 (Light), White (Salt & Pepper)
    Short Afro Hair - Blonde (Medium), Grey (Silver), Platinum (Light Blonde)
    Short Pigtails (Name in Scene pane is 'Quiet Short Twin') - SP 04 (Golden Blonde), SP 05 (Light Blonde), SP 06 (Platinum/White)
    Short Classy Hair (Also SdeB but not grouped under the name) - Blonde 1, Blonde 2 (both looked brown), White (Black with white threading or Salt & Pepper)
    Short Part Hair - Blonde (Pale), Grey (Light Grey), White
    Sleek Ponytail - Blonde2 (Grey)
    Sloane Hair - Grey, White, Ash
    Small World Baby Locks Hair - Blonde

    Soto
       Big Afro - Cloud (Platinum), Vanilla (Light Blonde)
       Deer Lady Hair - White (Medium Grey to White)
       Pattern Hair - Cloud (Platinum), Vanilla (Light Blonde)
       Spiky Hair - White (Grey)
       Sultry Bun - 02 Gray, 03 White, 07 Light Blonde (There are also 3 gradient strengths and 10 colors that modify the base colors further.)
       Top Knot Hair - 03 White

    SP Hair 005 - #12 (Pale Grey)
    SP Hair 006 - #13 (Pale Blonde)
    SP Hair 008 - #13 (Grey Blonde)
    SP Hair 010 - #13 (Pale Blonde)
    Spike Curls Hair - (Also SdeB but not grouped under the name) - Black with colored tips - Tan (Blonde), Grey (very subtle)

    Sprite
       Grace Yong Hair - # 01 (White), Extra 05 (cream)
       Li Hair - White (Silver)
       Ling Hair - White (Silver)
       Lively Hair - White (Silver)
       Qu Hair - White (Silver)
       Spirit Hair - #02 (Silver)
       Variable Hair - White (Silver)
       YouMei Hair - White (Silver)

    Starlette Hair - Platinum (Grey Ash)
    Stella Hair - Grey, White, Ash, XBlack White
    Sue Hair - #08 White
    Super Natural Brows - varied shades of blondes and greys (white)

    SWAM
       Bella Tails     - #03 (Platinum Blonde), #04 (Grey Blonde)
       Cerella Hair - #02 (Platinum Blonde), #09 (White)
       Danny Hair - #01 (White)
       Duffy Hair - #01 (White)
       Exie Hair - #10 (White) has overlays
       Gracy Hair - #01 (White), #09 (Medium Grey) (3DL materials able to use with Iray)
       Ktarya Hair - #01 (White)
       Ladina Hair - #01 (Platinum Blonde)
       Melo Hair - #01 (Platinum Blonde), #20 (Pale Grey)
       Mirai Hair - #01 (Platinum Blonde)
       Nina Hair - #03 (Platinum Blonde), #04 (Grey Blonde or Ash)
       Olive Hair - #01 (Platinum Blonde)
       Pareca Hair - #02 (Platinum Blonde)
       Shiloh Hair - #01 (Platinum Blonde)

    That is all my 'S' Hairs. Woo.
    Mary

    I have my notes ready for my hair from T to Y, but have to leave for a half hour. Will enter them when I get home.

    Post edited by memcneil70 on
  • gitika1gitika1 Posts: 948
    Charlie Judge said:
    gitika1 said:

    Noticed an update for 4.12 in DIM.  Has anyone seen a message about what is in the update?

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/341006/daz-studio-pro-beta-version-4-12-1-117-updated#latest

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/353851/daz-studio-4-12-pro-general-release-updated#latest (See posts on April 3 and later)

    After installing the update DS would just sit indefinitely with the message "preparing scene". I had to update my nVida drive and that solved the problem.

    Thank you! I have learned to not just automatically install updates.  

    Have you noticed the lag when changing your viewport style or switching cameras, as is mentioned in the thread? Experienced any problems with DS not actually shutting down?  

  • gitika1gitika1 Posts: 948
    L'Adair said:
    cismic said:

    @barbult and @L'Adair, Thank you.  I've been using it up intal a few days ago when a news daz version installed and noticed it than as I wanted to try it on the woodsman bathroom. and the option is now gone. 

    I recommend turning off the Quality setting, (whatever it's called now,) to anyone who asks about render settings. Set Max Time to 0, as well. Then you control the length of the render by setting Max Samples. If you set that too low, it's easy enough to increase the number and hit the Resume button. That's always rendered much the same way as the Architectural Sampler. The new Iray in the later releases of DS does more per sample, too. Each iteration may take longer, (don't know if that's still true with the latest release,) but it takes fewer samples to get a good, clean image.

    Thanks for the tips! As a "casual" DS user, I tend to find and configure settings in one way and never look back until there is an indication of a benefit to change them.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Teagan Hair - Grey 03
    Tempest Hair - Grey, White, Ash
    Textured Bob Hair - Blonde 01 (Mid-Grey), Blonde2 (Grey Blonde)

    The3DWizard
       Shock Hair - 01 02 & 03 Blonde (Platinum Blonde with graduated dark roots), 35 Blonde (White Blonde)
     

    Thistle - Six Step Color System - Base color - Ash Blonde, Grey
    Tiny Locks by SdeB - White, Blonde2
    Toulouse Hair - 04 (Platinum Blonde), 10 (Whte), 12 (Pale Blonde), Toxic Mix 40 (Black roots fade to White)
    Tousled Hair - Grey (Varied shades from light to dark)
    Tousled Pixie Hair - Blonde 02 (Ash), Blonde 04 (Grey Ash)

    Toyen
       Viola Braid - Grey (Light Silver)
     

    Twist Braids Hair by SdeB - Silver Full (Dark Grey)
    Vagabond Hair - 'Not So Shiny Recolor' (No Color)
    Versa Cap and Tail - #28 (Light Grey), #s 01 to 05 (Pale Blonde with graduating shades of roots)
    Vilma Hair - Grey, White, Ash, XBlack & White
     

    Virtual World
       Cute Baby Hairs - Three hair styles, 'Curly' good for old ladies too. Each style has nine colors - White. 
       My Messy Hair - Silver

    Voss Hair - Grey, White, Ash
    WF Cecilia Lau Hair - #29 (Silver)
    WF Haydina Hair - #29 (Silver)
    WF Lynna Hair - #29 (Silver)
    WF Matilda Hair - #29 (Silver)
    WF Taylor Hair - #29 (Silver)
    Whitney Hair - Grey, White, Ash, XBlack & White
    Youngblood Hair - Ash, Grey, Light Blonde
    Yui Hair - # 07 (White)
     

    This is it for me. Many of these hairs are G8F/G3F, or G3/G8, or G8F/G8M. I am sure that many people use the Content Library, but I have not. But this project, along with recent experience with Shaders are proving to me how valuable knowing the Content Library is and making sure you can get around it. 

    Thank you Novica for this project. But now, I am going to play with Valentino 8 and his buddies!

    Mary

  • jewels99jewels99 Posts: 30

    @Novica I hope you and your family are safe. I just got a weather update that they are evacuating the area due to a wildfire. 

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    All horses from the barn evacuated, fire went from 150 to 250 to 400 to 2,000 acres. Homes are burning about eight minutes driving time from the barn. I went to barn 2pm to 6pm and loaded up saddles, bridles, blankets, totes full of brushes, bits, and have easily $25,000 of other people's items in my truck. Just got home, may do a return trip to see if Elaine needs household items loaded up. Roads are blockaided by state troopers, I had to go all the way around, through Pensacola and Gulf Breeze, then over Garcon Point Bridge. North of there is where I normally come through. I've got to eat but while it's cooking I'll get images off my phone to show you. Back in a few. Bottom line- Stetson is safe FOR NOW. There are three fires now, and one is over in Pensacola but not too close yet to where the Equestrian Center is. 

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,115

    Heck Novica! Will you all be okay where you are? What about your mother? I wish I was closer so I could drive my Sienna Van over to help move things for you guys.

    Take care and be sure you keep a lane clear out of the area at all times.
    Mary

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited May 2020

    Went Garcon Point Road, state troopers turned me around. So picture this, I drove 12 minutes through Bagdad on (North) Garcon Point Road, got turned around by state troopers (and the Interstate 10 exits were closed. I knew that much.) So then 20 minutes back to 90 and through Pace, to Scenic. So now my house/Garcon Point Road is on our left as we look out the window. This first TWO SHOTS are at the Interstate 10 interchange, but no one can go left of course. So that's the first shot, below, looking at Interstate 10 and the fire which is going to be south of it. The barn, as you look at this, is going to be to the right of the picture. We're going to drive all the way around and approach from the other direction

    Shot from Scenic, looking back to our left toward Garcon Point area (which is on the right in the photo.) 

             

    Now we go through Gulf Breeze and hang a left turn, so we are headed straight toward the fire. This is shot going over the Garcon Point Bridge. (Trust me, I wasn't looking. I clicked off about 60 shots, hoping one of them would be in focus!)    Yeah, this is what I'm driving into.

    So we're on Avalon and have now turned on to Garcon Point Road (yeah, went all the way around but we made it!) and this is what we're seeing. Barn is going to be four miles down the road into this.

    At the barn, the arena with the smoke from the fire behind it.

       

                   

                         

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  • HylasHylas Posts: 4,988

    Oh man... I hope you're safe, Novica!

  • whitemaguswhitemagus Posts: 71
    Taoz said:
    whitemagus said:

    whitemagus said:

    » show previous quotes

    Hi, I was looking for some thecnical help and I just saw, your comment..

    In my defence that was one of the first HDRI´s product that I made and didnt make the last post processing steps that I do now, because some people like the photo with the Raw look with the grain to make it more realistic. So at that stage I decided to keep it. Only after the use of them I realised that it would be more convinient not to have that grain. So my lastest HDRI´s dont have that Sky grain. (wich can be removed by bluring it in PS). 

    But, yes it is a bit too much grain, also in my first´s HDRI´s the Horizon line is not tottaly straight. To be honest I didn´t worry too much because those are things one can fix when doing the post work in Photoshop. Now I am more worried.

    When you guys see, serious error´s or anoying stuff you can message me (you can use the contact page at www.whitemagus3dmodels.com), so I know because I dont go to forums that often. 

    You can also check the quality of the HDRI´s here http://www.whitemagus3dmodels.com/?category=Free  before you buy. 

    Taoz-Thanks for the feedback.  I've tried a couple of your free ones but they still have a lot of noise or compression (camera?) artifacts.  Are there some better ones?

    -------

    This a response to Taoz questions (had to copy paste it was on diferent tread):

    The ones from the HDRI beach super pack on foward are a little bit better, that includes the HDRI Tokyo Cityscapes the Green fields, and  on foward. 

    However in terms of sharpeness and level of detail the ones form DimensionTheory are better I imagine the ones from Bob Callawah Cake One also, that is why they call it UltraHD, mines do not have that much quality in terms of photo definition per say.

    What I can say is that in terms of light specially sunlight with hard shadows my HDRI´s mimics reality more closely I put a lot of efort on that, so still I prefer the light producced by my HDRI´s  versus the DimensionTheory also I cannot say that for all DimensionTheory HDRI´s I only tried a few of the base ones. So if you really need a sharp image you sould go for DimensionTheory

    In relation to file size more colors and deeper range higher size in the HDRI image, I wish it could go lower (it takes a lot of disk space and we have to store them in a diferent disk and bring them back when necessary) , but there is a considerable diference from a render from an 8K to a render from an 16K HDRI, sometimes it does not matter but other times it makes an huge diference, I made a lot of test with the Twisted Tower promo images, and specially if you have clouds and going for a realist image deep range with loots of colours matters a lot. That is why the ones that you guys say that have noise (which I agree) specialy the first ones some of them are my favorites because the noise brings a lot of colors that is why they are heavier images in size. And I didn´t make that on purpose I just noticed while testing it with the Twisted Towers. So I wont change those ones, still  I might add 8K to those first packs if you all find it necessary.

    That is it, hope you find this helpfull.

    ps.Also if you need quick responses you have to PM me. 

    OK, haven't really considered the light effect of the HDRIs in this context, it's also more difficult to evaluate immediately than the look of the environment.  Will take a look at it again and focus on this aspect instead.  Thanks!

    You are welcome, for me the most important it is the light and the reflections,to achive a more realistic look in renders.  

  • whitemaguswhitemagus Posts: 71
    Novica said:

    Went Garcon Point Road, state troopers turned me around. So picture this, I drove 12 minutes through Bagdad on (North) Garcon Point Road, got turned around by state troopers (and the Interstate 10 exits were closed. I knew that much.) So then 20 minutes back to 90 and through Pace, to Scenic. So now my house/Garcon Point Road is on our left as we look out the window. This first TWO SHOTS are at the Interstate 10 interchange, but no one can go left of course. So that's the first shot, below, looking at Interstate 10 and the fire which is going to be south of it. The barn, as you look at this, is going to be to the right of the picture. We're going to drive all the way around and approach from the other direction

    Shot from Scenic, looking back to our left toward Garcon Point area (which is on the right in the photo.) 

             

    Now we go through Gulf Breeze and hang a left turn, so we are headed straight toward the fire. This is shot going over the Garcon Point Bridge. (Trust me, I wasn't looking. I clicked off about 60 shots, hoping one of them would be in focus!)    Yeah, this is what I'm driving into.

    So we're on Avalon and have now turned on to Garcon Point Road (yeah, went all the way around but we made it!) and this is what we're seeing. Barn is going to be four miles down the road into this.

    At the barn, the arena with the smoke from the fire behind it.

       

                   

                         

    Sorry, to interrupt, I tought those were render cloudsI I ddint mean to be insesible bringing another topic breakings your conversation.... 

    Be careful, about 2 years ago there was a fire in Portugal people tryed to ascape and got cought by the fire in the roads (it was roads surrounded by trees, and under havy wind conditions), if they stayed at home they would heve survided. 

    Plan your strategy well consider all elemnts, hope this help Novica.  

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    Novica said:

    Went Garcon Point Road, state troopers turned me around. So picture this, I drove 12 minutes through Bagdad on (North) Garcon Point Road, got turned around by state troopers (and the Interstate 10 exits were closed. I knew that much.) So then 20 minutes back to 90 and through Pace, to Scenic. So now my house/Garcon Point Road is on our left as we look out the window. This first TWO SHOTS are at the Interstate 10 interchange, but no one can go left of course. So that's the first shot, below, looking at Interstate 10 and the fire which is going to be south of it. The barn, as you look at this, is going to be to the right of the picture. We're going to drive all the way around and approach from the other direction

    Shot from Scenic, looking back to our left toward Garcon Point area (which is on the right in the photo.) 

             

    Now we go through Gulf Breeze and hang a left turn, so we are headed straight toward the fire. This is shot going over the Garcon Point Bridge. (Trust me, I wasn't looking. I clicked off about 60 shots, hoping one of them would be in focus!)    Yeah, this is what I'm driving into.

    So we're on Avalon and have now turned on to Garcon Point Road (yeah, went all the way around but we made it!) and this is what we're seeing. Barn is going to be four miles down the road into this.

    At the barn, the arena with the smoke from the fire behind it.

       

                   

                         

    Scary! I remember when I worked in the DFW metro in the summer of1996 and the daily temperature there was over 100 degrees for weeks and at that same time forest fires so massive in Central America were burning that the skies in the DFW area were smoke filled too. Hot, Hot Hot! That was also the year Beanie Babies from McDonald's were a big thing! Our lifegard instructor asked us to help her to collect them all. I think we got them all for her but one by the time we graduated from the class.laugh

  • DaventakiDaventaki Posts: 1,624

    Prayers for all @Novica, hope everyone is safe and sound and they get that out soon!

  • firewardenfirewarden Posts: 1,482

    Stay safe!

  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,384

    Oh, that's scary. I hope things get better soon, Novica.

  • xmasrosexmasrose Posts: 1,403

    Scary! Thinking of you.

  • jewels99jewels99 Posts: 30

    @novica Please update how you are doing when you are able. I hope you, your family, and pets are safe.

  • mori_mannmori_mann Posts: 1,152

    Scary stuff.. Hope thing calm down soon.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited May 2020

    Fire is 2000 acres, 40% contained, but spreading north toward subdivisions and the county landfill (yep, the one I made 15 trips to last week! Little did I know when I shot the photo of the cloud plume that four days later it would be moving toward the barn.)  Today the winds are 9mph instead of 18mph, NNW and N which is still bad, but gusts are 23mph instead of upper 30's. Fire area appears to be moving north, not south toward the barn. I can't drive the truck as it's absolutely full of stuff (as you saw) and the car had low tire pressure and coolant alert, wouldn't you know it. So I love living in a smaller town (Milton/Pace) as I told Goodyear Tire here in Milton the situation and that I needed to get to the place where we evacuated the horses, and they said "Come on in, we'll get you taken care of right now."  In and out in five minutes!   So gotta finish up some stuff here (boxes for troops with the ClickNShip already dated for today, have to mail!)  then headed out. Will keep you posted. 

    Thanks so much!    (Elaine texted 1am this morning, power back on, so we knew things were probably improving. They shut off power to protect firefighters, lines for her were NOT down like in other places.) 

    PS- This is called the Five Mile Swamp Fire if you want to see what the latest updates are. Facebook is here for best info. Barn is SOUTH of Mary Kitchens Road, off of Garcon Point Road. You can see the latest map doesn't take the fire toward Mary Kitchens, and yesterday is was going south of there. 

     

                 

     

       

                   

                         

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  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214

    Stay safe Novica! Hopefully they will get the fire under control and out soon.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited May 2020

    Thank you @kharma

    Found a really cool tool- noaa has a hotspot map. It's not perfect, but it at least shows where the embers / fire is still burning. If you zoom in so you can see Pensacola, go to your right (east) where that big peninsula is. You'll see Avalon Blvd. That road runs parallel to Garcon Point Road, which is where the barn is located.  Mary Kitchens Road which is middle/farther down the peninsula would be really worrisome, as that's only a minute from the barn. So you can see the one hotspot, which is way north of Mary Kitchens Road. By Interstate 10, it's really still burning there, and moving north. It jumped the interstate yesterday morning.

    Look at the Mexico fires / hotspots, and Cuba!  Then go up to Canada by North Dakota and Minnesota. Wow.

    https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html?fbclid=IwAR1tkrIBd_tqvmKP0YERBV8fmou-44euBkHJ6X8zE63p0EMinONsmugOoqk

     

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  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,527

    Stay safe, Novica. heart

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