Quote - > Quote - Hi Stacey! Nice pose and backgroiund. If I may offer my perspective, the lighting on her implies she is in the shade and not in the sunlight, yet there are no shadows under her feet, Also if going for believability, on simsuits like those, they are best when dynamic, the part under her breasts, should be straight and stretched, not conforming to the underside of the breast.

I like the nipples, my GF has perky ones also, LOL.

Yeah.. there's parts of the render I'm not pleased with. It's my first time ever using and IBL sphere and I just don't know the nuts and bolts of it yet. As for stretching the clothes like you mentioned, I haven't a clue how to do that. Any tutes you can point me to to get that effect would be much appreciated. Previously, I've just used my PS skills and done it in post; but, I'm trying to get away from doing much post-work.

Sharkie

Sharky, on your stretchy shirt idea, Optitex has a free white t-shirt that you can use for such an image (some different styles on page 1, 4, and 13 at link below). I've used the pack-in texture(s) as templates for lots of things. Just my workflow, but if you've played with dynamic cloth is Poser, it should make sense.

So you load your dynamic item, fit to character, then if it has the texture on it already, go to surfaces and select none. I believe with the t-shirt, it loads blank, no texture. So you do your drape with the included plug-in (make sure you pose first as you can't make any pose adjustments after draping with the Optitex system or it goes back to default/undraped). When you're happy, freeze simulation, then fit your texture that you made in photoshop/gimp/whatever and you have a custom t-shirt for the above average of chesty characters.

And for good and free IBL's which I think were also suggested by Paolo in the RUG, (quick link) http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

I didn't go for IBL lighting right off the bat, so it took me about 6 months to even start poking around with them, and a good while after that to learn to use them properly. It's all in the RUG

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