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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244
    Serene Night said:

    They look like competing products. The design anvil product did not come up for a potential add on like the idg product did. I didn’t even know it existed.... the store only told me about the first one. The idg product also requires the pro bundle. The design anvil product does not.

    i will test the one I bought....the idg bundle later today and give you my opinion.

    Thanks.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    @Barbult. I can tell you right off the bat that I love the IDG bundle. Not only does it really make the 3delight textures look good there are more coat options than is included in the pro pack. Horse 2 pro has 16, and the IDG bundle has 32. Plus more hoof and mane and tail colors.

    Here is bay texture, default lighting out of the box. Both with the default texture and with the IDG texture.

     

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    This is the freebie mane for Horse 2. It only appears to hang to this side. It is 3delight only but takes iray shading well. For a freebie it seems a nice variant to add to one's collection of tools.

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    IDG essentials add a bump, and you can add glossiness settings to your horse's coat. Something you can't do with the regular horse 2... So it gets my vote. I don't have the other product though so can't compare them.

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548
    Serene Night said:

    Here's a cowboy pose from my upcoming freebie set. This is the pose with the calf.

    I realize now that I need the Horse 2 pro bundle. I want those extra breeds. I wish DAZ offered the option to 'complete' a pro bundle since I only have 4 items I don't own from it... Mostly the medieval armor. But you need Horse Pro 2 to run the Iray textures for some reason. I hope it goes on sale soon... I have a hankering to get the mustang from that set, for obvious reasons... Also would like the iray texture expansion...

    Thiis is excellent

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    Aww thanks! Now that I have horse pro I will do even more great stuff.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    Here I had M8 with DAZ Lamb. Daz Lamb looks okay in certain types of lighting but its limits need to be turned off to get the pose to work.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244
    Serene Night said:

    @Barbult. I can tell you right off the bat that I love the IDG bundle. Not only does it really make the 3delight textures look good there are more coat options than is included in the pro pack. Horse 2 pro has 16, and the IDG bundle has 32. Plus more hoof and mane and tail colors.

    Here is bay texture, default lighting out of the box. Both with the default texture and with the IDG texture.

     

    Thanks for the update. I have Horse 2 Pro Bundle that I got super cheap in some sale in the past, but I've never even used it. I'll wishlist the IDG textures for now. It seems like they are on sale quite often - maybe not quite as cheap, though.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    Some kitbashing and an experiment adding a cartoon character to the OOTS intimates product as a texture. Owen is wearing the Ready for Bed Genesis 8 female PJ bottoms.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Female pajamas with that motive? The cartoon pony matching the tank top colors good.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    Yeah those pajama bottoms have a number of patterns anyone can wear. This is from the texture expansion. I wish there was a pants lower morph to make the waist go down a smidge

    it is products like this that make me wonder why a male fit is not made.

  • Phoenix1966Phoenix1966 Posts: 1,672
    edited July 2018

    The calf rescue pose/scene is awesome. Tells a story all by itself.

    If they were in the Outback, they might have to rescue platypuses. Just sayin'.

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    Hah hah hah... now maybe I have to buy the platypus..... 

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    I really tried with Daz sheep but I just don’t think I can do anything with him.Here’s my two my attempts with it.

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    I think the sheep turned out really well.  The more sepia toned one does help hide the limitations of the sheep's coat and really looks natural.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    I thnk the sheep looks good, too. It was recently shorn.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    Hah hah! Well, I tried different things to make the sheep look less flat. I tried tweaking its BMP, then I tried doing a softer focus, no luck, I took it into photoshop and painted curls on it. I even tried making it black. -Nothing work. I even used fur shaders on it, and turned it into a chia pet!

    There is nothing wrong with the base shape- I want to say. Just that its textures are very flat. Since its white, too it has a tendency to blow out.

     

     

  • vwranglervwrangler Posts: 4,889
    Serene Night said:

    IDG essentials add a bump, and you can add glossiness settings to your horse's coat. Something you can't do with the regular horse 2... So it gets my vote. I don't have the other product though so can't compare them.

    The DA package also adds bump, specular and normal maps, as well as a white horse variant. (For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture -- because I don't remember, honestly -- I have both options. I think, though I will not swear to it, that the IDG package came into the store as a holiday freebie at first, then it left, then it came backa s a commercial package. The DA product was always commercial, I think.) I don't know if the IDG package adds normal textures, though I'd be surprised if it doesn't.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    Thanks! I appreciate the update. The IDG package really helps make Horse 2 look so much better. I may get the DA package at some point and do a comparison.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    There are some things Boyd does not do well.... Tying a tie is one of them. Fortunately, Owen is a pro. I'm not sure if Owen is helping him take it off or put it on though. =-) . I made the pose just for fun as I like tying tie poses. Unfortunately, there is a lack of ties to make stretch, and move in a believable way.

    I realized that I had never rendered Casual Craze outfit. I had tried it once, found the suspenders went all strange and stopped. But, when I saw the texture expansion in the store I thought, it looked sort of cool. So Owen gets to wear it. For some reason, it rendered really light for me, so I added a brown color to the outfit to stop it from burning out. Its still very white, almost as papery white as Owen.

    Boyd is wearing mostly female things. He has on the tie for G8F by Uzilite V801. He's wearing a woman's top from rendo by Serzart since I love the way it fits. It tucks well into pants. I wanted to put something in Boyd's right hand, but couldn't find a good prop. Like another tie-d-forced, but ran out of time.  I will find one for the next time I use the pose.

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    Boyd takes his turn adjusting Owen's bow tie. Yeah, I ditched the hat. I will have to redo Owen's entry.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244
    Good. That hat reminded me of a hairnet. Something must have been wrong with the materials.
  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    I tend to like my characters hatless and that hat looked a bit odd Owen... I agree...

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    Boyd likes to live dangerously. As illustrated by this specific pose. laugh This is not the worst of his food-related offenses though. He also drinks whipped cream from the can, and sneaks food off Owen's plate to taste.

    I've been wanting to use Maclean's grocery set for sometime for food-specific poses. So here is my chance. Since its my day off.

    I am looking for a milk carton that opens though. If you see a prop that has this morph let me know. I may at last have a use for the Deviney's milk brushes and layer styles....

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244
    edited July 2018

    You can make the sheep fluffier by increasing the displacement and subD on the skin surface. This is Displacement strength 1, min displacement 0, max displacement 3, surface subD 2. Higher SubD makes a more detailed texture. Depending on lighting, you might need to fiddle with other settings to avoid the white textures from blowing out, as you mentioned. It still doesn't look very real, but it is a little better I think. 

     

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  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647

    That’s an improvement for sure. Thanks. laughAt least the fur isn’t flat. I may rerender tonight and see how the settings look.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244
    Serene Night said:

    That’s an improvement for sure. Thanks. laughAt least the fur isn’t flat. I may rerender tonight and see how the settings look.

    I used the wooly texture preset as the starting point.

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,647
    edited July 2018

    Weirdly, I think my sheep looks smoother... I had a pretty heavy BMP before. Does this look better? (Ignore the hat, I haven't done any phtoshop on hair pokethrough).

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    edited July 2018

    I think the fur looks good and somewhat matted like you'd expect. At least they were somewhat matted when I was asked to shear them.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    It does look better. I wonder why you didn't get the same results. Did you start with the wooly texture? If you used the other one, it probably has a less dramatic displacement map. It looks good like that, though.

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