I'll Say!
Now I can't stop drooling!

Connie, that's looking great! Do we have an ETA yet?

(btw, left you a PM at the DAZ forums ;)

Hey Arien, I'm hoping to finish it over next three weeks, maybe four (I hope not that long)... but I don't dare to commit to a date.   -especially the way RL things have been going. 

Oh yes, now we see it posed!! :thumbupboth:
Nice one Connie.

Looking forward to putting it through it's paces!

After this test rig, I'm going to turn it all to Randy for final rigging, getting JCM's to work right and any other rigging details. While he's doing that I can do some textures. That'll speed things up by at least a week :)
So, maybe in a week or so we'll be ready for a beta run.

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So, maybe in a week or so we'll be ready for a beta run.

Looking forward to it Connie!

Gotta have it!!!
Have you thought about where you're gonna broker it yet?

I'm pretty sure it'll be for sale here on Rendo :)

Update:

The geometry/base objects and most of the morphs are in Randy's capable hands for rigging.
I'm making few last minute fitting morphs.

Repair/construction at the house starts Wednsday next week and will go on for two weeks. 
The good news is they will be able to tile the office/den floor too.
The bad news is that that room too will have to be cleared out.

This means that there is a very good chance I'll be off line and away from the computer for that time - unless my laptop can catch a local wireless connection on occasion. I definately won't have access to my workhorse computers.

That means I probably won't get to start on the textures till after the construction is done :(

Good luck in all this mess Connie! :)

Aah, life's a bitch Connie!

Hope you get things sorted asap. Maybe in a way it'll be a good thing to get away from the pc for a while. Come back afresh & raring to go!

This is coming along brilliantly :D The posed pics look wicked!

Connie I really admire that even though you're having a run of awful luck right now you are still continuing with this and even taking the time to update us all etc! .... This is the type of thing that seperates the great content creators from the rest!

Like Stormchaser said, maybe take an (enforced lol) break and then come back well rested and on full throttle ;)

Here's another semi-interesting WIP. While Randy is rigging, I'm playing with Zbrush, just quickly adding some zigzag stitching bump that the original outfit has. Lot more to come.
Click on it to see ful size, makes the stitching look much better :)

ZBrush is very cool for doing this sort of stuff.  It's all looking really good from where I'm sitting :)

I haven't made a squish-uppage morph yet. As long as she keeeps her arms up in the air on test renders, she doesn't need one yet :lol:

Absolutely Droolworthy, my Dear!

Those zigzag things can be turned into a disp map with ZBrush, right?

About the AO, i personally encounter this problem with tranparence. When you have a transparency applied to something, AO won't display because of a Poser bug :( And there is no workaround (dito BB) :(((

Looking great, Connie!

God, I love the new screenies Connie!
Firstly, the stitching you did in ZBrush is brilliant, so glad you're putting this detail into it.
I have ZBrush at the moment so I'm just figuring out what's what, it's a great program.

The transparent sleeves really give the outfit that magic touch. Will you be making stocking like textures for her sleeves?

The stitching details are absolutely fantastic Connie! And so is the whole outfit itself! :)

Quote - Those zigzag things can be turned into a disp map with ZBrush, right?

About the AO, i personally encounter this problem with tranparence. When you have a transparency applied to something, AO won't display because of a Poser bug :( And there is no workaround (dito BB) :(((

Bummer. I was semi-aware of the bug having to do that with transmaps. I thought it would affect just the material with transmap on it, but it appears to affect the whole scene. I think it's the hair. Looks like any time you add hair to the scene, the AO will go away. So if you want AO, you have to render things separately.

What a major disappointing PITA!

Thanks everyone for looking at the piccies and commenting and encouragement :)

I like to make detailed textures too :)   I just discovered that if I scan some of my old competition swimsuits and their stitching, they look a lot like neoprene parts of the outfit - YAY!

The zigzargs are a displacement map from Z. In poser, sometimes I plug those into a bump channel, sometimes into a displacement channel. Just depends on which look I like better, and how it fits with the rest of the material components.

It sounds strange to me that adding hair will turn the AO off Oo
I already used this hair in some scenes with AO without any problem.

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I already used this hair in some scenes with AO without any problem.

I was just guessing, based on overhearing that adding transmaps will goof up AO. I suppose it's transparency too.  Like I said, I only paid minimum attention to those discussions, so I remember it totally backwards :)

I'll try to do a render with non-transparent sleeves, see if my AO comes back! 

I love the details, connie! It keeps getting better and better!

UP-DA-TE....
Been packing the house all day today...
In case it's the update on the outfit you guys want. Randy is working on the Rigging, body morphs and JCM's.

By the end of tomorrow my home office will be all packed up, so for next couple of weeks my internet access will be very sporadic.

Before you do any JCMs, be sure to see whether you need any in the first place - conform the clothing to a V4 and run the "Magnetize Clothing" pose, and check all poses.  the real troublesome areas for me are collar up/down (breast movement) and the way the buttock flexes (thigh bend).

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Those tend to give me the most trouble too, and they're even more trouble with special morphs like GND4.

Hey guys :)  Just checking in. The house is all packed except for my desk and a computer.

I am plopping tired and my bain is mush. No technical aswers from me at the moment.

I meant to say:
I am plopping tired and my brain is mush. No technical answers from me at the moment....

Wuz gonna edit and correct the spelling, but got distracted.
Did I mention Brain=mush today?

How's the mushed brain today Connie?
I bet you need a holiday don't you!

and a personal assistant :lol:

and a personal trainer, massage boy, and a cabana boy bringing umbrella drinks while we're at it... and someone to go snorkling with.

...While I'm dreaming I may as well dream up a big tray of comfort food with negative calories...

Someone make me a cabana boy rendering please :)  .... Vince?   ;)

You don't want much do you Connie, lol!

I can do the massage thing, I'm a dab hand at that!

Well, why not while we're dreaming ;)  
...... I think that's why my favorite sport is sleeping in.   :tt2:

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...... I think that's why my favorite sport is sleeping in.   :tt2:

Lol, for sure!

Now, if I dare to be optimistic for the moment... I might be able to work on some textures come this weekend.
Randy is morphing and rigging... but he's not an extrovert attention mooching forumite like me. He just keeps in the background and gets things done.

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Does that go on your CV?

Looking forward to seeing some of those textures. How many texture sets will be shipping with the outfit?

CV, what's a CV?

I don't know how many texture sets we'll have. I can never do just one. Minimum two.
The wizard robe shipped with 4 IIRC (maybe 3). I had about 10 of them made total, but three or four was all that would fit in rendo's 70 Meg file limit.

Wizard robe, for example has the rest of the textures coming in an expansion pack. I dunno how many total, I lost track. Between 5 and 10. Speaking of which, I have to finish that project.

I have a sneaky suspicion this outfit may happen the same way.

I invested in Filter forge texture maker few moths ago, and also Genetica .... and YAY, they accepted me to do beta testing on the newest version of Genetica http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/   So will definately be playing and going hog wild with textures.

It needs a modern texture, a romantic one, a sexy one, fantasy one, something funky... I dunno what else, I'm open to ideas and brainstorms.

a CV is a curriculum vitae.  if you're not familiar with the term (though i bet you are), it's sort of like a resume, but much longer and should cover pretty much everything you've done.  it's kind of an academic thing.

Thanks Cobaltdream :)   I haven't heard that phrase used around here (where I live) in a while.
One would think that business environment in southern California uses more scholastic terms, and more often, but they don't. At least in the engineering circles that I tend to be in touch with.

What is a cabana boy?
Sorry for the render, but my computer is actually in the store for some upgrading, so i have none of my tools to play with :( ... since Monday!! iirk!

I wanted also to see if i was able to be far from my computer for some times. And you know what?... I am not! Oo

Cabana boy is usually a hunky studly looking guy, that brings you towels and umbrella drinks (topical drinks) while you're frolicking on the beach. Sometimes available for other comforts ;)

Something like this:

Update... I'm away from my graphics computer till tomorrow.
Randy sent me a fully rigged piece to check out, I'll do that tomorrow... and start on a few textures.  We should have some eye candy in few days.

Looking forward to it Connie! :thumbupboth:

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Mmmm! Eye Candy! Makes my eyes water, but don't worry, they're tears of joy!

No magnets or other experimental gimmicks and touchups I used in early images to hide flaws. This set is, what you see is what you get.  (At this stage)