It appears Renderosity doesn't know what to do with the subdomain and attaches it to  http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/ instead. LOL

Let's try this (and if this fails, copying and pasting into your browser address bar will work.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)

I don't know why using a null would fail to work if you made sure it was selected in the scene tab before loading reality and then hit the focus on selection button. :(

For DoF I have used Null's before. Have not tried that in a while though.

BTW, I think you can only edit your post if it's the last post in the thread. Not sure, just the impression I get from when I can and cannot edit mine.

Regarding the DAZ Froum software, it was chosen for some tie-in to the newre or some software they are using with the new store. Choosing the best forum software was unfortunately not the driving factor.

Of course, the forum software here also has its pros and cons as well.

Or maybe there's a time delay, as I can no longer edit my previous post (or soem combination of both).

A lot of great renders in here already!! :D

I left my window open for a while and after about 10 minutes I clicked "edit" and it told me that the ability to edit or delete my post had expired and that only an admin/mod could do it now. ;)

Here is my 'alternate' Lonely Street image to show you guys that the dynamic clothes worked today!

Not sure which version I like more, this one or the first one. Full version at DA.

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Quote - Here is my 'alternate' Lonely Street image to show you guys that the dynamic clothes worked today!

Not sure which version I like more, this one or the first one. Full version at DA.

 

Humbling as always.

Using some old content.

Quote - Here is my 'alternate' Lonely Street image to show you guys that the dynamic clothes worked today!

Not sure which version I like more, this one or the first one. Full version at DA.

 

Yay for getting it working! Cool effect with the translucent fabric! :D

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Love the shadows above her head!

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This picture comes near to a foto. Very nice. Can you do it one more time with DOF? BTW, she looks like *Nicole Kidman *for me....

Quote - My first new render for the thread.

She may need a bath, but it can wait. ;)

I like this a lot... what did you use for the sets?

And hair... nice hair.  (Alphaseed?)

Dino Store... (My first contribution to this thread.)

(I'm not sure I like how posting works...)

Desktop size is here;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2330834

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She may need a bath, but it can wait. ;)

I like this a lot... what did you use for the sets?

 

And hair... nice hair.  (Alphaseed?)

Thanks!

Here you go:

1 Reality water prop

1 Tropical Beach HDR from http://hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

Hair: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/hair/long/aspasia-hair

Building: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/oversea-bungalow (It never goes on sale so I bought it with the help of some vouchers from getting a couple of my images in the monthly galleries)

And one sandy ocean bottom I created in Carrara. ;)

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Dino Store... (My first contribution to this thread.)

(I'm not sure I like how posting works...)

Desktop size is here;

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2330834

I like the robot. Looks good in Reality. :)

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Here you go:

1 Reality water prop

1 Tropical Beach HDR from http://hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

Hair: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/hair/long/aspasia-hair

Building: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/oversea-bungalow (It never goes on sale so I bought it with the help of some vouchers from getting a couple of my images in the monthly galleries)

 

And one sandy ocean bottom I created in Carrara. ;)

Hmm....   I got the Bungalow on sale...  A bunch of that artists stuff came up a few months ago.  I got like $1400 of stuff in my wishlist, and when it comes up I buy it.

I'm gonna get that hair.

Very cool UHF

The DAZ site is all fraked up

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Here you go:

1 Reality water prop

1 Tropical Beach HDR from http://hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

Hair: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/hair/long/aspasia-hair

Building: http://www.daz3d.com/shop/oversea-bungalow (It never goes on sale so I bought it with the help of some vouchers from getting a couple of my images in the monthly galleries)

 

And one sandy ocean bottom I created in Carrara. ;)

Hmm....   I got the Bungalow on sale...  A bunch of that artists stuff came up a few months ago.  I got like $1400 of stuff in my wishlist, and when it comes up I buy it.

I'm gonna get that hair.

Rut roh, I must have overlooked that sale. Oh well, too late now. O_O

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Beautiful! Love it Kimmers!

Agreed and I agree with the Nicole Kidmen thing

Question for future multi character renders. The one I did above was difficult to to the memory suckage. Would exporting chracters as obj and re importing them make it less resource consuming?

Here is my little contribution for the forum here at Renderosity.

The stage is set...

Click for Gallery Page

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Question for future multi character renders. The one I did above was difficult to to the memory suckage. Would exporting chracters as obj and re importing them make it less resource consuming?

Doubt it as they would have the same number of polygons. Reducing the texture size is a big help, especially if you have a few different character textures.

You don't need eye textures to be 3000x3000 pixels. I can get over 11 V4s into a scene by just altering the pixel sizes of certain textures, bump and spec maps.

Changing the size on disk by altering the quality doesn't help.

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Question for future multi character renders. The one I did above was difficult to to the memory suckage. Would exporting chracters as obj and re importing them make it less resource consuming?

Doubt it as they would have the same number of polygons. Reducing the texture size is a big help, especially if you have a few different character textures.

You don't need eye textures to be 3000x3000 pixels. I can get over 11 V4s into a scene by just altering the pixel sizes of certain textures, bump and spec maps.

Changing the size on disk by altering the quality doesn't help.

How do you do that without messing stuff up?

If you use the collate textures option without changing the size you can manually change the sizes of the collated files before rendering by using something like Irfanview.

Theres other options like rendering characters individually and adding them in then working in PS... Its a bit dissapointing since 3Dlight does not suffer this kind of problem. I did try to render it in UE after it kept crashing when LUX started then realizing I can try mem conservative. I have to admit it does look better with LUX.

OT there was a local movie company shooting an indie zombie movie called a safe place about junkies who shoot up bad smack that turns them into zombies... I showed them some of my reality renders they were blown away...

Comments/critique welcome.

  ~ Russ 

I get those too every so often I just use the "fill" feature in PS nice render all the same

Thanks.  I have a couple of ideas to improve this.  First, if I add a nice bright mesh light as a Main, that should allow me to reduce the exposure which will darken the background.  It should also add more 3-dimensionality to her figure and features.  Then maybe turn on the DOF so the wall goes out of focus on the left.

  ~ Russ 

The artifact is the mesh of the skullcap and the forehead interacting. Happens a lot with Genesis and V4 Hair products.

Thanks.  If I reduce the scale of the hair slightly will that solve it?

  ~ Russ 

Or increase to 102% may fix it. I've not really looked into it as it isn't that apparent when I have the problem so I can just clone it out.

I also use V4s more than Genesis anyway, we'll see how things go when Reality and DS4.5 start working together.

Helloooo everybody! Just got back from vacation and I haven't read the full thread yet. Just wanted to waive my 'howdy' at all the folks from that other place, and welcome the new folks to the Reality House of Blue

Have to catch up with y'all later. We're off to see The Avengers tonight! Woo hoo!

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Question for future multi character renders. The one I did above was difficult to to the memory suckage. Would exporting chracters as obj and re importing them make it less resource consuming?

No. 8gb are simlly not enough to render such a complex scene using Lux. Reducing the size of the textures, via texture collection, is a way of decresing the memory requirements. Beyond that you need to add RAM.

Hope this helps.

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3Delight does not render images using full light soectrum data. That is what allows you to adjust the light power and the camera exposure while rendering. 3Delight cooks the pixels to RGB and if you need to adjust anything you need to re-render the image with the next light intensities. 3Delight does not come close to thr complexity of the light and materials calculations performed by LuxRender.

Using full spectrum light data takes a lot more memory. At 8gb it's hard to keep all that geometry and textures in memory. I added the texture collection options exactly to provide a good, easy way of working around memory limitations of the rendering hardware. 

Another way is to reduce the resolution size of the image. That matters too. Another option is to:

• use the "Export only" checkbox

• close Studio and other programs and then

• run Lux manually to render the exported scene.

Like with any program, if you ask the computer to process more data that fits your memory, you are going to hit the RAM barrier?

Hope this helps 

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Overall I am happy with Reality / Lux

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One I whipped together before the long weekend....I call it "The Seduction of Danielle...."......Hope you like.....

So I've got a new image in the works, and I'm generally pleased, but it is again focusing my efforts on overall shading the texture using the Diffuse/Spec & Top Coat. options. 

The short explaination is that in Studio with what appears to be an OmniFreaker Shader (this is getting set by a pose button - I'm not doing it manually), there are a large number of colours channeled into the settings. When Reality imports this, well there are less destinations, and I think it grabs the ones it can and puts them in what I trust is a well thought out/logical way. 

In this case however the difference between my Studio render of the character in question and my Reality render is a mild Purple (intended) and a Cool Pink (pretty but not what I want) - the Top Coat in Reality is set at .20 and a bluish hue, I think I can get closer to the desired effect if I copy the Diffuse (where the purple is showing) into the top coat and set it to 1.0.

Does this method make sense? Is there a better one? I'd hate to be throwing away valuable shading/toning information that will provide realistic variations by virtually throwing a coat of paint over my model. 

I can share images if people are curious.

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Let's see if I can get the image to display first time out

If it doesn't work: DA link at top

One that is still baking. Only at 230 S/p after 3.5 hours, going to let it go all night and see how it looks in the morning.

hey peeps nice to see yall in Renderosity

OT What is going with DAZ? I cannot read any forum or contect CS?

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I noticed the same today. Quite a shock coming back after a week and finding that NOTHING works.  Oh well! All the better for the Blue

Tollaris, that render you posted on the previous page is looking very promising. Let us see the final image when its done!

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In the Output tab select the Collect texture option which will enable the slider for the size of the collected textures. Set the size to 2k or 1k and you are done. As usual, there are full details in the Reality User's Guide.

Hope this helps.