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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Decided today would be a RRRR contest render work day. Still working on the blooming Environment, then will come lots of Parenting of props to figures. Then I will need to do some Surface work on some items. All in all it will be a long and hopefully productive day. Not that I plan on winning but I'm going to PUSH my DS only skills as far as I can. I pride myself on as little postwork as possible.

  • BlumBlumShubBlumBlumShub Posts: 1,108
    edited October 2012

    Jaderail said:
    Decided today would be a RRRR contest render work day. Still working on the blooming Environment, then will come lots of Parenting of props to figures. Then I will need to do some Surface work on some items. All in all it will be a long and hopefully productive day. Not that I plan on winning but I'm going to PUSH my DS only skills as far as I can. I pride myself on as little postwork as possible.

    Yes, I like to let my 3D app do the work, too. Taking to Photoshop sometimes adds a layer of "fake" about a render and my skills aren't high enough to hide that. Also, having seen your work I sometimes feel that you don't know how good at it you are. I like your stuff.

    I think we should do some renders and post them on CGTalk just to see how fast we get set alight! But that's just the naughty boy in me showing his face!

    Not sure I'll get much rendering done today, now that I've got the house looking reasonalby clean and tidy I want to keep on top of it. It's so much easier without Daniel here.

    Funny story from yesterday: When Daniel moved out last Friday he put on Facebook "I am free, I have a life now, and am free from that fat b****** forever!" (except he didn't censor the word following 'fat'). And I thought fair enough, let him be free, I feel quite free of him too.
    So, guess which fat b****** he came running to yesterday when he missed his last bus back to his new home! HA! And I was benevolent, gave him a lift back, but told him not to make a regular thing of it. On top of everything else, petrol isn't cheap!

    How is everyone today? I'm still feeling a bit off kilter but I think I'm getting better.

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  • VIArtsVIArts Posts: 1,499
    edited December 1969

    This new version of the dagger is kicking my arse!

  • BlumBlumShubBlumBlumShub Posts: 1,108
    edited December 1969

    I got more housework done than I thought, so I'm going to play with Carrara a bit when I've taken Carole to work and picked Jade up from her School thingo. She does some kind of choir thing on a Thursday. Then she goes out to youth club later, so I should be able to get on with something.

    Am excited. Thinking of doing a Millennium Dragon Versus Mestopholes Dragon thing. Might use DS or Carrara, not sure. Since there are DS mats for both, I might use them just for comparison.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited October 2012

    Well keep at it Jacob I'm sure you'll get it.

    As for me I got a good bit done yesterday but still have lot's to do for the RRRR render. I got the Set finished and my Air power set up and tested. Today will be ground forces and then troops. See a theme yet?

    I'm also to new at PS to do very good at Postwork Barry.

    OPPS: BBS we cross posted, Have fun with the dragons.

    EDIT: P.S. My avatars are now my how I feel today looks. Dialysis got me today. So the sad Avatar.

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    Decided today would be a RRRR contest render work day. Still working on the blooming Environment, then will come lots of Parenting of props to figures. Then I will need to do some Surface work on some items. All in all it will be a long and hopefully productive day. Not that I plan on winning but I'm going to PUSH my DS only skills as far as I can. I pride myself on as little postwork as possible.

    Yes, I like to let my 3D app do the work, too. Taking to Photoshop sometimes adds a layer of "fake" about a render and my skills aren't high enough to hide that. Also, having seen your work I sometimes feel that you don't know how good at it you are. I like your stuff.

    I think we should do some renders and post them on CGTalk just to see how fast we get set alight! But that's just the naughty boy in me showing his face!

    Not sure I'll get much rendering done today, now that I've got the house looking reasonalby clean and tidy I want to keep on top of it. It's so much easier without Daniel here.

    Funny story from yesterday: When Daniel moved out last Friday he put on Facebook "I am free, I have a life now, and am free from that fat b****** forever!" (except he didn't censor the word following 'fat'). And I thought fair enough, let him be free, I feel quite free of him too.
    So, guess which fat b****** he came running to yesterday when he missed his last bus back to his new home! HA! And I was benevolent, gave him a lift back, but told him not to make a regular thing of it. On top of everything else, petrol isn't cheap!

    How is everyone today? I'm still feeling a bit off kilter but I think I'm getting better.

    You're obviously a nicer person than I am, Barry. I would have told Daniel TS, there's the road, start walking.

  • BlumBlumShubBlumBlumShub Posts: 1,108
    edited December 1969

    AtticAnne said:
    Jaderail said:
    Decided today would be a RRRR contest render work day. Still working on the blooming Environment, then will come lots of Parenting of props to figures. Then I will need to do some Surface work on some items. All in all it will be a long and hopefully productive day. Not that I plan on winning but I'm going to PUSH my DS only skills as far as I can. I pride myself on as little postwork as possible.

    Yes, I like to let my 3D app do the work, too. Taking to Photoshop sometimes adds a layer of "fake" about a render and my skills aren't high enough to hide that. Also, having seen your work I sometimes feel that you don't know how good at it you are. I like your stuff.

    I think we should do some renders and post them on CGTalk just to see how fast we get set alight! But that's just the naughty boy in me showing his face!

    Not sure I'll get much rendering done today, now that I've got the house looking reasonalby clean and tidy I want to keep on top of it. It's so much easier without Daniel here.

    Funny story from yesterday: When Daniel moved out last Friday he put on Facebook "I am free, I have a life now, and am free from that fat b****** forever!" (except he didn't censor the word following 'fat'). And I thought fair enough, let him be free, I feel quite free of him too.
    So, guess which fat b****** he came running to yesterday when he missed his last bus back to his new home! HA! And I was benevolent, gave him a lift back, but told him not to make a regular thing of it. On top of everything else, petrol isn't cheap!

    How is everyone today? I'm still feeling a bit off kilter but I think I'm getting better.

    You're obviously a nicer person than I am, Barry. I would have told Daniel TS, there's the road, start walking.
    And he'd have damaged the door, and probably the car, as he stomped. Sometimes discretion isn't just the better part of valour, it's also a large chunk of common sense.

  • BlumBlumShubBlumBlumShub Posts: 1,108
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    Well keep at it Jacob I'm sure you'll get it.

    As for me I got a good bit done yesterday but still have lot's to do for the RRRR render. I got the Set finished and my Air power set up and tested. Today will be ground forces and then troops. See a theme yet?

    I'm also to new at PS to do very good at Postwork Barry.

    OPPS: BBS we cross posted, Have fun with the dragons.

    EDIT: P.S. My avatars are now my how I feel today looks. Dialysis got me today. So the sad Avatar.

    Sorry to see you sad, matey.

    I saw on one of your pictures from a while ago that you made a superhero fire lightning from his hand. You said in the thread that you made the lightning via postwork, and it looked good. One way to improve further on that would be to just add a low yield point light to the palm of the hand where the lightning would be coming from. I am learning the fine arts of making lighting effects and it's SO much fun.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    I dod that when I make lighting bolts in Bryce, especially if I have them coming from volumetric clouds. Gives a nice realistic effect.

    lights are fun things to play with

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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Sorry to see you sad, matey.

    I saw on one of your pictures from a while ago that you made a superhero fire lightning from his hand. You said in the thread that you made the lightning via postwork, and it looked good. One way to improve further on that would be to just add a low yield point light to the palm of the hand where the lightning would be coming from. I am learning the fine arts of making lighting effects and it's SO much fun.

    I'm not sad mate, just not feeling 100%. I did use a point light that's how I lit up the palm and chest in that one. I just failed at getting the lighting to work with the set, IMHO. I'm running into the after treatment crash now so I'm taking a break from my DS for a bit. I did get my ground force set up and merged but I for got to parent the effects. Bummer.
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,219
    edited December 1969

    my Daz models export as obj back to front in iClone, ok if no writing etc, cars ok for Australia
    but damned if I can figure out why!

  • jerriecanjerriecan Posts: 470
    edited December 1969

    Meet a Dalek... he's had a rough day. :)

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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    my Daz models export as obj back to front in iClone, ok if no writing etc, cars ok for Australia
    but damned if I can figure out why!
    Umm.. What? You mean the mesh is imported with X and Y flipped but not Z? That sounds very very weird. If Z flipped as well I might have a idea but this just stumps me. What is your Export settings for the Object File from DS?
  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    jerriecan said:
    Meet a Dalek... he's had a rough day. :)
    Did you leave this poor fellow out in the rain? Nice texture work. Is this pure Texture editing or did you use some Shaders?
  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    NOTE TO WENDY: The Brunna Petals (TOS Safe) render is still a work in progress. Stay tuned I'm still testing ideas.

  • VIArtsVIArts Posts: 1,499
    edited December 1969

    Psst...coupon in newsletter.

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    The 30% one?

  • VIArtsVIArts Posts: 1,499
    edited December 1969

    Aye, ya gots.

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    DAZ is really getting sneaky. As I was downloading my diner tonight, I was think that I'm not going to buy anything else for a month or two. Finished downloading, went to check my mail, and BAM got hit with this coupon. Now I HAVE to buy something else. Or I could just go to my doctor and ask her to remove the bug that DAZ secretly implanted in my brain. That ought be good for getting me a bed in the psycho ward.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited October 2012

    OH Man!! I so got to get something. The list is NICE!!

    EDIT: My RRRR render is a PITA my lighting is NOT working!! ARGH!!!!

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  • BlumBlumShubBlumBlumShub Posts: 1,108
    edited December 1969

    AtticAnne said:
    DAZ is really getting sneaky. As I was downloading my diner tonight, I was think that I'm not going to buy anything else for a month or two. Finished downloading, went to check my mail, and BAM got hit with this coupon. Now I HAVE to buy something else. Or I could just go to my doctor and ask her to remove the bug that DAZ secretly implanted in my brain. That ought be good for getting me a bed in the psycho ward.

    I'm a bit grumpy with this!

    It's very nice to get the discount, so don't think I'm complaining about that, but seriously, this is ME we're talking about, and they send me a mail saying "We’ve noticed you haven’t been by in a while, and frankly, we miss you!"
    COME ON GUYS, I buy something a couple of times a week, I post on your forums and I fairly frequently PM your admins just to say hello, and you say I haven't been by in a while? Clearly you're paying loads of attention to your loyal customers!

    And the fact that I bought a bunch of DO stuff last night before this mail came through has nothing to do with my grump. No, nothing. At all. Really.

    *kicks a passing bunny*

    On the plus side, I did finally get two sets of clothing I've been after for a while but were rather expensive for my poxy budget. These are the Cheyenne sets for M4 and V4. Lovely sets and there are quite a few texture variations for them. They're normally about $20 each but they're on offer at 70% off so I nabbed 'em.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    AtticAnne said:
    DAZ is really getting sneaky. As I was downloading my diner tonight, I was think that I'm not going to buy anything else for a month or two. Finished downloading, went to check my mail, and BAM got hit with this coupon. Now I HAVE to buy something else. Or I could just go to my doctor and ask her to remove the bug that DAZ secretly implanted in my brain. That ought be good for getting me a bed in the psycho ward.

    I'm a bit grumpy with this!

    It's very nice to get the discount, so don't think I'm complaining about that, but seriously, this is ME we're talking about, and they send me a mail saying "We’ve noticed you haven’t been by in a while, and frankly, we miss you!"
    COME ON GUYS, I buy something a couple of times a week, I post on your forums and I fairly frequently PM your admins just to say hello, and you say I haven't been by in a while? Clearly you're paying loads of attention to your loyal customers!

    And the fact that I bought a bunch of DO stuff last night before this mail came through has nothing to do with my grump. No, nothing. At all. Really.

    *kicks a passing bunny*

    On the plus side, I did finally get two sets of clothing I've been after for a while but were rather expensive for my poxy budget. These are the Cheyenne sets for M4 and V4. Lovely sets and there are quite a few texture variations for them. They're normally about $20 each but they're on offer at 70% off so I nabbed 'em.ROTFLMAO!! I'm a Effing CV and I'm only behind Pam in post (on this Site) and I get the same email. Did you folks not think it was just a global mail to all users. I bet Pam got it too. Just a gimmick to get us all to buy more stuff. The bad thing is I'll do it.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,219
    edited December 1969

    which voucher? :red: I deleted my last Daz email as I just spent enough alkready!

  • VIArtsVIArts Posts: 1,499
    edited December 1969

    which voucher? :red: I deleted my last Daz email as I just spent enough alkready!

    What do you mean "which"? You mean there's another onebesides the 30 percent off coupon we're talking about?

  • BlumBlumShubBlumBlumShub Posts: 1,108
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    AtticAnne said:
    DAZ is really getting sneaky. As I was downloading my diner tonight, I was think that I'm not going to buy anything else for a month or two. Finished downloading, went to check my mail, and BAM got hit with this coupon. Now I HAVE to buy something else. Or I could just go to my doctor and ask her to remove the bug that DAZ secretly implanted in my brain. That ought be good for getting me a bed in the psycho ward.

    I'm a bit grumpy with this!

    It's very nice to get the discount, so don't think I'm complaining about that, but seriously, this is ME we're talking about, and they send me a mail saying "We’ve noticed you haven’t been by in a while, and frankly, we miss you!"
    COME ON GUYS, I buy something a couple of times a week, I post on your forums and I fairly frequently PM your admins just to say hello, and you say I haven't been by in a while? Clearly you're paying loads of attention to your loyal customers!

    And the fact that I bought a bunch of DO stuff last night before this mail came through has nothing to do with my grump. No, nothing. At all. Really.

    *kicks a passing bunny*

    On the plus side, I did finally get two sets of clothing I've been after for a while but were rather expensive for my poxy budget. These are the Cheyenne sets for M4 and V4. Lovely sets and there are quite a few texture variations for them. They're normally about $20 each but they're on offer at 70% off so I nabbed 'em.

    ROTFLMAO!! I'm a Effing CV and I'm only behind Pam in post (on this Site) and I get the same email. Did you folks not think it was just a global mail to all users. I bet Pam got it too. Just a gimmick to get us all to buy more stuff. The bad thing is I'll do it.
    Of course it's a global mail but I don't feel loved any more.

    Perhaps an apology mail with a 99% discount on purchases might make me feel better?

    *cuddles a passing bunny with hope in his sad, unloved eyes*

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,219
    edited December 1969

    ok, I just got the 30% email now, no others so put your purse back!

  • VIArtsVIArts Posts: 1,499
    edited December 1969

    But I don't carry a purse. I have a beat up, manly wallet!

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited October 2012

    Jaderail said:
    AtticAnne said:
    DAZ is really getting sneaky. As I was downloading my diner tonight, I was think that I'm not going to buy anything else for a month or two. Finished downloading, went to check my mail, and BAM got hit with this coupon. Now I HAVE to buy something else. Or I could just go to my doctor and ask her to remove the bug that DAZ secretly implanted in my brain. That ought be good for getting me a bed in the psycho ward.

    I'm a bit grumpy with this!

    It's very nice to get the discount, so don't think I'm complaining about that, but seriously, this is ME we're talking about, and they send me a mail saying "We’ve noticed you haven’t been by in a while, and frankly, we miss you!"
    COME ON GUYS, I buy something a couple of times a week, I post on your forums and I fairly frequently PM your admins just to say hello, and you say I haven't been by in a while? Clearly you're paying loads of attention to your loyal customers!

    And the fact that I bought a bunch of DO stuff last night before this mail came through has nothing to do with my grump. No, nothing. At all. Really.

    *kicks a passing bunny*

    On the plus side, I did finally get two sets of clothing I've been after for a while but were rather expensive for my poxy budget. These are the Cheyenne sets for M4 and V4. Lovely sets and there are quite a few texture variations for them. They're normally about $20 each but they're on offer at 70% off so I nabbed 'em.

    ROTFLMAO!! I'm a Effing CV and I'm only behind Pam in post (on this Site) and I get the same email. Did you folks not think it was just a global mail to all users. I bet Pam got it too. Just a gimmick to get us all to buy more stuff. The bad thing is I'll do it.
    Of course it's a global mail but I don't feel loved any more.

    Perhaps an apology mail with a 99% discount on purchases might make me feel better?

    *cuddles a passing bunny with hope in his sad, unloved eyes*

    Barry, if it helps any, my copy of this mail landed in my inbox and underneath it an order confirmation from DAZ 3D. that's how long I had been missing before I was welcomed back. LOL

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  • BlumBlumShubBlumBlumShub Posts: 1,108
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Jaderail said:
    AtticAnne said:
    DAZ is really getting sneaky. As I was downloading my diner tonight, I was think that I'm not going to buy anything else for a month or two. Finished downloading, went to check my mail, and BAM got hit with this coupon. Now I HAVE to buy something else. Or I could just go to my doctor and ask her to remove the bug that DAZ secretly implanted in my brain. That ought be good for getting me a bed in the psycho ward.

    I'm a bit grumpy with this!

    It's very nice to get the discount, so don't think I'm complaining about that, but seriously, this is ME we're talking about, and they send me a mail saying "We’ve noticed you haven’t been by in a while, and frankly, we miss you!"
    COME ON GUYS, I buy something a couple of times a week, I post on your forums and I fairly frequently PM your admins just to say hello, and you say I haven't been by in a while? Clearly you're paying loads of attention to your loyal customers!

    And the fact that I bought a bunch of DO stuff last night before this mail came through has nothing to do with my grump. No, nothing. At all. Really.

    *kicks a passing bunny*

    On the plus side, I did finally get two sets of clothing I've been after for a while but were rather expensive for my poxy budget. These are the Cheyenne sets for M4 and V4. Lovely sets and there are quite a few texture variations for them. They're normally about $20 each but they're on offer at 70% off so I nabbed 'em.

    ROTFLMAO!! I'm a Effing CV and I'm only behind Pam in post (on this Site) and I get the same email. Did you folks not think it was just a global mail to all users. I bet Pam got it too. Just a gimmick to get us all to buy more stuff. The bad thing is I'll do it.

    Of course it's a global mail but I don't feel loved any more.

    Perhaps an apology mail with a 99% discount on purchases might make me feel better?

    *cuddles a passing bunny with hope in his sad, unloved eyes*

    Barry, if it helps any, my copy of this mail landed in my inbox and underneath it an order confirmation from DAZ 3D. that's how long I had been missing before I was welcomed back. LOL
    They're so cruel aren't they?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,219
    edited December 1969

    well my Dazzing and computing has come to an abrupt end.
    until I can figure out what is wrong with my computer, I can do zilch.
    except post on my Android.
    might in desperation get out the laptop but that is sooooooo overdue for Windows updates, going online would be a mistake!!

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