Very very nice! Can't wait to see the other textures on it.

This is definitely  a "gotta have it" item! It's absolutely gorgeous. I hope my finances are better off when it does come out.

Great work Connie!
The big day is getting ever closer!

Yeah, Randy is importing all the morphs in today.
I haven't started on the textures yet. This week today is the first day I can spend some serious time on it.
When Randy is done with morph imports, I may release it for alpha testing. This will be for rigging and geometry/morph functionality only. Without textures.

Let me know when you'll need me Connie, I'm looking forward to working with it now it has the morphs.

How's things at home, will things be back to normal soon?

Stormy, Check your email
JoeB - Check your sitemail

Whoah, this is skintight!! :woot:

Thanks Connie!

Quote - Whoah, this is skintight!! :woot:

hehehe.... that was the idea, no?

Wowee she's looking good in that Connie.  Can't wait for it to come out :biggrin:

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hehehe.... that was the idea, no?

Yeah, that was the idea. Guess I just needed to see it again!

Had to have a quick play with it Connie!
Something was missing though, apparently she needed a couple of small guns.

Dig your idea of "small"!

This outfit is coming along wonderfully...has me sitting on the edge of my seat...hope I don't fall off!

I can't see the guns.... can you make them bigger :lol:
Spiffy render!!!!!

I was told that size doesn't matter.
Or was I being humoured?

That is one hell of a pose Connie, perfect for the outfit infact.
What are you using for rendering, Max, Carrara?

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Great news here! Happy to see it's going on so nicely!! ^^

Quote - That is one hell of a pose Connie, perfect for the outfit infact.
What are you using for rendering, Max, Carrara?

Yesterday's set of renders (with the beige outfit) are all poser renders... with AO and various quality settings near max... taking about 30-40 min per render.

Size doesn't matter? would you like a small ice cream or a big one?

Hey Vince, good to se you pop in :)

That texture draft is looking pretty nice. Is that a bit of pokethru on the ankles, or part of the texture?

Yeah, that texture looks great. Love the detail, I could almost reach out & touch it!

Looking at that texture, you seem to have very good UVs!

You should hide yourself full of shame to tease us like that!! Oo

Thanks guys.
I think I'm pretty happy about the UV's, except couple shoulder straps, the texture looks a bit big on them (which means they're little bit too small on the UV map)
But there's other ways around that too....

that's a lot better.  the scale is more realistic.

Here's another view. This checkered pattern that shows up is driving me crazy right now. I can't figure out what setting is causing it to show up. Shading rate, AO, ligthing setup, something else.
When I didn't need it, I seemed to be seeing threads dealing with it left and right, now I can't find any to save my life.  Hrrrmph!

i think that's what texture filtering fixes.  which is great if your on P7+, because you can apply it only to one material.  applied to a whole image, that'll slow things down.  i've had a similar problem with hair textures, and never found a solution. basically, the texture is so fine, it renders weirdly in Poser.  i have no idea if this is a problem in other renderers.  you can try rendering larger, getting your shading rate really low (and remember, the min shading rate is just a minimum, you actually have to select the group and change its shading rate), or maybe messing with the sampling and aliasing settings.  but i really don't know.

The checkered pattern, i had the same provlem some times ago. And i haven't find any solution :(

It seems to occur when your texture has very small repeated patterns, like your actual texture.

Hmmmmmmm... I've been playing with texture filtering... and with a number of other settings too a point I'm overwhelmed with them, and none of it is making sense any more.    Meow!

Hi Connie,
That texture is just what I was hoping for, I just love the fabric & detail.

Regarding the problem, if you want, you can send me the texture & I'll see what I can do with it in Poser.

Quote - Hi Connie,
That texture is just what I was hoping for, I just love the fabric & detail.

Regarding the problem, if you want, you can send me the texture & I'll see what I can do with it in Poser.

Check you email :)

OK, thanks Connie.
I'll get back to you tomorrow.

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That texture is just what I was hoping for, I just love the fabric & detail.

Regarding the problem, if you want, you can send me the texture & I'll see what I can do with it in Poser.

Check you email :)

Hey Connie, if you'd like I could give it looksie in C6 too.

Since Joe had the cararra idea, I decided to run it through cararra myself too. Quick import. I dodn't tweak the shader parameters to get the same look as in previous poser renders, but I did use the same same texture maps. I probably didn't set the bump high enough, and I didn't bother setting it at all for the straps. I was just concerned with the main piece at the moment.

Talking to couple other people about the checker thing, it does to be a bug, or a limitation of firefly rendered. (YUCK)  As you can see in the pic, same texture in cararra, no problem-o.

Some days I wonder why I use Poser... today is one of those days.

Holy cow, that's the best screenie yet Connie, gorgeous!

Thnakees Stormy!
There are still couple things I need to figure out i cararra - like why my shadows aren't rendering soft, even though they are set to soft at the lights.... Byt, yea, much easier to get a better looking render in Cararra - or Vue. I didn't even use any of Cararra scene presets or environents, just imported poser lights!

It'd be great to see what you can do in Carrara when you have the settings just how you want them.

looks very nice.  I bet it would look ace in Vue with a bit of fiddling around with highlights :)

Wow! Good one Connie! :D

In Carrara, don't think about the softness of shadows as in Poser. You have to set them up way higher, around 100 or even 500 with some lights. Give it a try ;)

Thanks Vince, that worked!

I actually had to crack open the manual LOL
........how does one crack open a PDF.... ? 
Rendering.... I cranked the settings up way high, so it'll be a few min... or so....

Quote - looks very nice.  I bet it would look ace in Vue with a bit of fiddling around with highlights :)

Hope to have something up tomorrow. Connie's set the bar higher now!

Be afraid... be very afraid!

Yeah, that'll be the day, when I raise the quality bar on Stormy... more like th other way around!!!!

settings settings five milion render settings in six different applications....

I could have taken up something easier and more productive as a hobby - like knitting!  But, nooo, I have to be fancy and do three deee.... I need a nap, I get kicked out of bed early so I'm more cranky then usual .... and I like to hear myself complain. :lol:

Well Connie, it could have been tougher. You could have knitted the StormChaser outfit!

Quote - Well Connie, it could have been tougher. You could have knitted the StormChaser outfit!

ROFL!!!!!

.......I actually can knit, but not all that well. My sewing is much better...

I was forced to knit in Primary School. We did it for a few months when I was about 8 years old. I'm ashamed to say I was actually quite good at it. Obviously not as good as you Connie.
One thing's for sure though. It won't be going on my CV!