Quote - > Quote - Hello peeps. It's Off Topic Man. That's my new alias. lol

The Off Topic Police might be watching...

Indeed. I think I might need to be taken into protective custody. Penny for your thoughts...

Quote - Hello Tako, I feel your pain.

Hello John.  Thank you for the empathic commiseration. Hopefully I can snap out of it eventually cuz I need many more monies. O_0

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The forums at DAZ is open for business :)

I took the liberty of creating the Reality thread.

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/289/

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Nudity warning: Every so often, I pick up my gallery and shake it until all of the clothes fall off. This is one of those times.

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FYI: Officer Penny is no longer employed at the Off-Topic Police

oOO... wimin nin uniform!  ...nice! ;)

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Thanks to Turbo for the help with slick skin settings

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Thanks to Turbo for the help with slick skin settings

Looks like you got your greased bod!

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Thanks to Turbo for the help with slick skin settings

 

Looks like you got your greased bod!

And the blue tint gives me my night light effect without having to use a high time consuming IBL light....

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Thanks to Turbo for the help with slick skin settings

 

Looks like you got your greased bod!

 

And the blue tint gives me my night light effect without having to use a high time consuming IBL light....

I was going to ask about the tint, thinking that's what you wanted. If that's specular, I probably should have noted a value close to white (just a hint of blue). My bad! But hey, if it works, roll on!

BTW, the forums at DAZ are up and running again...

Quote - BTW, the forums at DAZ are up and running again...

No reason to stop posting here, especially since the product is now sold here.

Personally, with the new TOS. I prefer posting here

It was intended only as a reference. I prefer this place (Rendo) too....

I hope everyone else stays too! It was just starting to get fun , and what an emoticon selection! Now that image posting has been smoothed out, what's not to love?

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Finally got this fog scene punched out. It gave me a pretty good fight with several crashes throughout the week, but hey, check out that door glass...

The computer issues were mostly my fault, probably. Giving the ol' CPU a workout with too high of overclocking. Oops.

The big, unsquashed version with brilliant cough commentary: http://fav.me/d514ah9

I like the fog coming thru the window. tried the fog a couple of times and never had good results, will have to play with it some more. How long did the render take?

As for the "squashed" look, when posting the image, delete the height number part and just punch in the 600 width and it will resize properly.

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Finally got this fog scene punched out. It gave me a pretty good fight with several crashes throughout the week, but hey, check out that door glass...

The computer issues were mostly my fault, probably. Giving the ol' CPU a workout with too high of overclocking. Oops.

The big, unsquashed version with brilliant cough commentary: http://fav.me/d514ah9

Great piece, love the atmosphere. The detail really gives it a period feel too. Well done on getting the door glass right, it looks perfect.

Quote - I like the fog coming thru the window. tried the fog a couple of times and never had good results, will have to play with it some more. How long did the render take?

 

As for the "squashed" look, when posting the image, delete the height number part and just punch in the 600 width and it will resize properly.

Thanks FM and Cambert. Actually I did that, but as I usually render to the size of my screen (around 1900x990 or thereabouts with screen adjustments, etc) I think it went a little wonky, or I put the 600 in the height. Probably the latter.

All told on the render count, I posted this one after about 16 hours. I had one go for three days and killed it due to noise in shadows getting worse and worse. Doh! This one is still going out of curiosity's sake, but it was my slowest render with RC1 to date. It's tough going from the 300-770ks/s to 23...

Just a heads up. Paolo's tut on elimating render noise has now gone live in the tutorial section: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=2664

Cheers, Justin

OT I was just given my 2nd premium membership on D/A I am glad some folks enjoy my fantasy. Even if it is twisted at times. I am in the process of baking a nice futuristic appt scene I love Reality / LUX!!

One trick I am discovering to cut on render times is intead of using the sun or IBL I just set a mesh adjusted to daylight add a curve to the opposite end lights up nice renders much faster..

When An Angel Falls.....this one almost killed my poor old PC.....used the Forest, and although I tried to hide as much as possible, given that the trees are all grouped together, it was still a massive scene, and took 30+ hours to get to only 359 s/p......had to despeckle/blur fieflies post render......but I am pleased with it....

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I had issues when I rendered my strship room of characters had to render on mem conservative on my ol welfare i7 8G machine LOL

Thanks Bobvan.....I generally use matte settings for all areas on MilHorses, except eye areas and inner mouth areas, where I set it to glossy, and turn the dail down to half way.....I always use CWRW textures, as they are the most realistic....hope that helps.....

I'm guessing everybody went back to the Daz forums... Sigh.

Quote - I'm guessing everybody went back to the Daz forums... Sigh.

I rarely get notfications of any activity over at DAZ since the changeover so I suspect everyone has taken up knitting or photography. :P

Most of the renders there are mine LOL

Quote - I'm guessing everybody went back to the Daz forums... Sigh.

Not me, got a few images, but don't want to spam the forum, LOL.

Been busy revisiting some of my old DS3/first reality saved files and applying some of the new DS4 features/reality2 and genesis to them

Working on something

I get no notices from Daz other than some product notices, maybe wrong but I don't think the forums are sending notices yet

I'm still here, working on a project at the moment so cannot post any renders here. Reality/LuxRender is brilliant, it makes my props look half decent :)

While you fellas are here, I've got a bit of a brain tickler for y'all. While working on a scene today, using DS4Pro, things started to bog down rather badly with just two figures and the Sacrement set running. Going to Reality/Lux, it's sitting in memory at just over 4gb, but the studio version is just under 2gb. I thought that the 64 bit version was supposed to be able handle all of one's system's memory (??). Any insight? It ought not be so sluggish, as I had more stuff I wanted to add...

Add: Hope the refugee's stick around!

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I rarely get notfications of any activity over at DAZ since the changeover so I suspect everyone has taken up knitting or photography. :P

No knitting, just a bad combination of Diablo 3 coming out the same time my monitor died. Had my PC hooked to the big TV which is great for Diablo but bad for Daz.  

But...I beat my first round of Diablo this morning and my new monitor came this afternoon, so I guess that's a sign it's time to get rendering again. 

I really wish I had money for the Supersuit Pro Suite right now, that would definitely motivate me.  Anyone had a chance to play with it yet?

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I rarely get notfications of any activity over at DAZ since the changeover so I suspect everyone has taken up knitting or photography. :P

 

No knitting, just a bad combination of Diablo 3 coming out the same time my monitor died. Had my PC hooked to the big TV which is great for Diablo but bad for Daz.  

But...I beat my first round of Diablo this morning and my new monitor came this afternoon, so I guess that's a sign it's time to get rendering again. 

I really wish I had money for the Supersuit Pro Suite right now, that would definitely motivate me.  Anyone had a chance to play with it yet?

Good to hear on the monitor. I've been eyeing the super suit myself, but I'm still hopelessly dependant on Gen4 for the time being. Probably out to hook up a GenX purchase, but the money pit is calling too fiercely...

Getting back on track, first of a 2-parter (though the same image from alternate angles)

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I can't even find our regular threads on the new Daz forum.....anyone else having trouble uploading images on the regular Rendo Gallery? I can upload onto this gorum, but not via the regular Gallery uploader, and have tried on both my laptop and my noebook, using two different IP addresses....I get an error message stating Bad Request......

SteveC, I've just uploaded a pic to my gallery here and had no problems using the DS gallery option.

Can't post this over at Daz even if the flags were up, but as it is only a concept I don't want to toss it up on my DA. So, it gets to be shown here.

Just seeing what the seem zones on the new super suit turned into light would look like. It was just a test so I just threw the suit on a scene that was already setup for ease of use. 300 mat zones on the suit makes it a pain to use for reality though.

Quote - Can't post this over at Daz even if the flags were up, but as it is only a concept I don't want to toss it up on my DA. So, it gets to be shown here.

Just seeing what the seem zones on the new super suit turned into light would look like. It was just a test so I just threw the suit on a scene that was already setup for ease of use. 300 mat zones on the suit makes it a pain to use for reality though.

The light effect came out pretty slick. And I feel your pain on mat zones. My last, er, several images are 313 zones or above, though my personal highs are 1287 and 1301 for two different city shots. Damn my love of detail!

They were involved in a Star Trek scene and may have the impression thay are now Star Fleet officers caught in some strange alien dimension.

I would advise all DAZ users to close down their runtimes as their first action may be to forage for supplies, disguises and weapons.

Quote - Not to alarm anybody but 3 of my V4s have escaped. I just left DAZ open for a hour or so and when I returned they were gone. On checking the system logs, they were last seen making their way to the cloud.

They were involved in a Star Trek scene and may have the impression thay are now Star Fleet officers caught in some strange alien dimension.

I would advise all DAZ users to close down their runtimes as their first action may be to forage for supplies, disguises and weapons.

With my luck, they'll be misdirected by a series of 404 errors into my empty 4.5 folder and starve to death, but not before a climatic Donner party roshambo.

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Agent Miki

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Thank you Bob.

I hope I'll be back with some new products eventually too if DAZ has any customers left after they smooth out their new site. whimper

Nice pic Tako

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