Maddelirium - Finally
Sevrin
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I've long been a fan of Maddelirium's characters over at Rendo. I've purchased over 20 of her (pretty sure) characters over the years and have always had a good experience.
It's been a while since I used DS regularly and have allowed my Plat membership to lapse, but today I made a point of purchasing MDD Pearl for G8F IRAY Only | Daz 3D, since it's a character for my preferred G8 base. I have many of the others already
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I'm seeing Maddelerium's stuff for the first time today, and wow... Beautiful characters.
I was instantly captivated by Lyra. I have no idea what I'll do with her, but she's too gorgeous to leave on my wishlist. Zarina got a spot on my list too, but really, all of those characters are amazing.
Welcome, Maddelerium! I can't wait to see what else you come up with!
I have several Maddelirium characters. No doubt, now she's at Daz I'll soon have several more.
I got Maddelirium's G8F 'Lyra' character over at Rendo a little while ago. Absolutely stunning. The textures, emissives and all the options are absolutely stunning. Perfect for the 'Planet Taira' set and the ultrascenery version. I was, however, surprised at how tall the character is, objectively. Looks very slender & delicate until you put [say] V9 next to the character, and then Lyra seems HUGE. Can be cured easily enough with an 85% scale factor, but I was surprised.
Lyra has been my only Maddelirium character so far, but probably won't be the last. Icelyn definitely looks interesting, and the cracked crystal eye effect is something I've wanted to replicate for many materials.
Regards,
Richard
I've loved Maddelirium's characters and quality from the first time I saw them. I did this image using Eira quite a while ago, but still enjoy it.
Jeez, just checked, I have 89 of her characters. Never thought it was that many...
But she's always been one of my favourite character vendors.
Thanks so much you guys! Happy to finally arrive here.
So beautiful!
...any chance you'll be working in G9 at some point...?
I did a G9 that's at Rendo but I'm not happy with it. Presently I'm in the tweaking phase. G9 is a little different to create with but yes, there will be G9 coming.
Very awesome! Best of luck with the tweaking... may it flow with minimal frustration. :)
The old V4 characters for Poser (here Jasmeen) can work quite well in DS with a bit of tweaking.
They are beautiful characters. I just added Saeya to my collection of G8 characters.
How did you tweak? There are a lot of MDD's V4 characters that are gorgeous but I've always been put off because they say Poser only.
@MoreTN : For V3 characters I played about with the DAZ Uber shader, looked at what was used in G3/8 for the various settings, modifying as I felt appropriate and used the V3 textures in the right places. Then I created a normal image from the bump image using the freebie 'Materialize' software and did try glossiness using the base texture in the glossiness image channel. Came out pretty well. I'd imagine the same thing would be what you'd do to a V4 based character to get a full Iray texture.
The parametric models do actually work pretty well in DS loaded up from their Poser library icons. If you have time on your hands and a desire to keep using and developing your V4 characters, it is possible to convert them to TriAx or Weight mapped rigging and create autofit clones so they can wear modern clothing, too. Here's a V3 character wearing a G8F Kaftan and with DAZ Uber skin:
It means that the old content can be enjoyed all over again. And.. looking at some of MDD's V4 content - it's very much worth enjoying all over again.
Regards,
Richard
YAY you will have access to HD morphs, take my money now!!!!!
I can do this in Octane render but iray displacement is ...lacking
note this is the V4 one on Genesis 2, I actually didn't realise you have a G8 one when I posted this
and it does look good even without HD morphs
the point is HDmorphs will not poke through clothing like displacement does
looking forward to what you will do
I find all of Maddelirium characters work well in ds. My Rendo account says I've got 29 of them, but the bulk of them include extra skins and features so that they're a lot more than 29.
Anyway, welcome Maddelirium! Hope Daz is good for you.
I agree. Some of the most unique and beautiful models Ever!
@MoreTN With the first render I posted earlier I used Anagenessis 2 (the Genesis preset works for Gen 4 also), to convert to Iray, and then tweaked it a bit. Anagenessis doesn't work equally well on all skins though, but when it works it usually does a great job, as is or with a bit of tweaking. The first render attached below shows the Jasmeen character with the Anagenessis 2 shader applied, with no tweaking,
You can also just apply the Iray Uber shader, and tweak that instead. Iray automatically uses the Iray Uber shader when you render if the character's texture shader isn't already an Iray shader, as in this case, but it only applies it to the render in the Viewport or Render Window, so to tweak you first need to apply it manually on the Surfaces tab.
The second render shows how the Jasmeen character looks by default, rendered with Iray with no tweaking, on the third I've applied it and tweaked it a bit. The screenshot shows the Skin settings used, the Lip shader is tweaked the same way with slightly different settings.
Not only do I not use them in poser I don't even use them on V4. That right, I like your characters so much I spend hours re-creating them on a base figure they were not intended for.
Olivia converted to Aiko3.
Eirwenn converted to Aiko3.
Imra converted to Aiko3.
@Taoz Thank you. I have Anagenesis 2 but have never used it. Good to know it works on Gen 4 as I have many of them that I would like to use on other gens.
Maddelirium is hands-down one of the strongest character creators around, I have several in my library. And they did it all without access to HD morphs!
Let's see... how many Maddelirium characters do I already have at Rendo.... um... 72 currently, plus I think I got a few more as bogos. I guess it would be fair to say that I really like their stuff.
It works well on just about anything if you use the generic shader used for geografts. It's sad that Anagensis 3 never made it beyond the testing phase, as a lot of the previews for that were really amazing.
I am going to get Icelyn https://www.daz3d.com/mdd-icelyn-for-g8f-iray-only when I get the next monthly DAZ+ PA coupon. It's hard to choose just one though; they all look amazing.
I have a LOT of her characters for V4 and now V8 as well. She makes amazing creations. I used Lyra recently, because she's so cool! This one is called The Green Fairy.
@ArtByMel That's an awesome render! It's so realistic and yet otherworldly. Love the character.
Thanks so much!! I just recently picked DAZ back up again. Had not used it for many years.
Welcome to DAZ Mad! It's about time you showed up over here ;)
On sale today, too!
Yes finally ! I collected them all since V4
I recently rendered this image with Lyra
@Amaranth What a delightful render!
I love how she looks like she is enjoying her book.