I know how to set the frame size in Reality, for my render, but I don't know how to set the size of the image to be posted here.

Xandy, for my vase I unchecked the architectural glass flag. For this kind of images you should just use standard glass. Just to make sure, there are three types of glass:

• standard. No checkboxes

• hyper-realistic

• architectural

Cheers.

Quote - I know how to set the frame size in Reality, for my render, but I don't know how to set the size of the image to be posted here.

Once you have the URL of the image you have posted elswhere, when you click on the image icon when composing a message, there is an advanced tab. Click that and delete all the numbers for th3e existing sizes (if any) and just put in 600 in the first box, the rest will sort itself out.

Thank you Michael!

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So about those glass vases.... I really wanted objects. Is there a product anywhere that has glass shapes that are objects that I can make textures for, does anyone know of one? 

I unchecked the architect glass box and my vase now looks like Paolo's.  So thank you.

Xandi, you can export the Wondrous things from Studio to OBJ format and make texture from those OBJs. 

Is there a tutorial I can use to learn to export the Wonderous things to objects? I'm assuming that if I do that I can then import them as objects and use textures I make?

Load the item in DS. Select it on the Scene tab, then click File - Export. Enter a name, and select Wavefront Object as the type. Click Save, and you'll get an OBJExportOptions dialog. Select DAZ Studio in To, and Accept.

Or you could ask the PA if he has templates. It'll make it much easier, I think.

Thank you Doctor!  That worked.  I now have an object instead of a "thing"! 

I now have to make a template for the new object, if I understand this correctly.  What would be an easy way to do this?  Easy and quick.  I do apologize if I'm asking too many questions.  There's a scene I want to render in Reality using alot of the glass vases.

Here is a test image for a comercial project. The writer sent me this outline " Stacie was excited to get the invite from her friends for the all inclusive getaway deal, although she was a bit worried that it was outside of the US, especially since it was her frist time abroad. She had heard the stories of women going missing to be found dead or becoming sex slaves, but she figured that was all made up to scare the public, afterall, this was a luxury resort in a tropical paradise, it had to be safe, right? She decided this trip could serve as a last fling before heading off on her new job adventure in the fall........

,,,after checking in to the luxury hotel in the Central American paradise, Stacie and her friends got invited to a new club opening which seemed like a perfect way to get the holiday started. That evening she, Melanie and Renee slinked across the red carpet dressed to impress and turning heads. Unfortunately some of the onlookers had other ideas instead of having a good time on the dance floor.

I have been meaning to try out the cloth simulation in DS4 and this seemed a good opputunity. (click for full size)

Daz is going to get me in trouble, just spent more money on content, recieved the Daz news mail with Ksenia V4 and instantly added it to my cart - she looks so sweet, then as usual I've just had another virtual shopping spree (yet again!).  I really need to unsubscribe from the daz mailing list!  hehe.

I'm running another render at the minute, going to let it run overnight and then play with the new girl(s) tomorrow, can't wait!

Abi.

Quote - Here is a test image for a comercial project. The writer sent me this outline " Stacie was excited to get the invite from her friends for the all inclusive getaway deal, although she was a bit worried that it was outside of the US, especially since it was her frist time abroad. She had heard the stories of women going missing to be found dead or becoming sex slaves, but she figured that was all made up to scare the public, afterall, this was a luxury resort in a tropical paradise, it had to be safe, right? She decided this trip could serve as a last fling before heading off on her new job adventure in the fall........

,,,after checking in to the luxury hotel in the Central American paradise, Stacie and her friends got invited to a new club opening which seemed like a perfect way to get the holiday started. That evening she, Melanie and Renee slinked across the red carpet dressed to impress and turning heads. Unfortunately some of the onlookers had other ideas instead of having a good time on the dance floor.

I have been meaning to try out the cloth simulation in DS4 and this seemed a good opputunity. (click for full size)

 

That looks awesome (and kinda fun wink  hehe), although the tresspass sign looks a little flat, and the shoe on its side looks strange, heels normally dont like at 90 degrees, it looks too precise, same with the gun, looks too perfectly aligned with the crate/label - just my quick thoughts.

Abi.

@Xandi: No idea, sorry lol. That's as far as my knowledge goes.

@FSMCDesigns: Never mind the poor girl, I want to know where that club is, especially if the women dress like that :)

Nice render!

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You can read the original 12 page story here: http://frommytwistedmind.wordpress.com/steel-rising-0/

Click the dA link for good full size version.

Quote - Here is a test image for a comercial project. The writer sent me this outline " Stacie was excited to get the invite from her friends for the all inclusive getaway deal, although she was a bit worried that it was outside of the US, especially since it was her frist time abroad. She had heard the stories of women going missing to be found dead or becoming sex slaves, but she figured that was all made up to scare the public, afterall, this was a luxury resort in a tropical paradise, it had to be safe, right? She decided this trip could serve as a last fling before heading off on her new job adventure in the fall........

,,,after checking in to the luxury hotel in the Central American paradise, Stacie and her friends got invited to a new club opening which seemed like a perfect way to get the holiday started. That evening she, Melanie and Renee slinked across the red carpet dressed to impress and turning heads. Unfortunately some of the onlookers had other ideas instead of having a good time on the dance floor.

I have been meaning to try out the cloth simulation in DS4 and this seemed a good opputunity. (click for full size)

Cool its nice to get some side cashola for something you like to do

Love the render of the girl and the cloth simulation. The shoes look fine to me.  Now I'm going to have to learn about cloth simulation in ds4, after seeing this. 

Bradhp the bar scene is great!  I'll have to go read the story.  Love the render.  I have so much to learn..

okay.. so now i'm getting beating up by acsel shaders.  i accept the fact that they're "automatic" and that i don't have to do anything other than install them.  my latest genesis character has been using the Dublin V4 SSS textures for skin.  lo and behold i see a shader set for dublin v4 sss optimized for genesis.  i download the shader.. load my character into a scene.. and NOTHING happens.. there's no change to the materials whatsoever.. ditto with my wife using the v5 bree texture on her character... idk what the hell i'm doing or not doing.. in the acsel column of the material tab.. should there be something there if an acsel shader is being used on that material?

edit:  saw the bug report in the forum and it said that this issue was fixed in 2.01.. checked my version number and i have 2.0.1.132

And now for something completely different......excuse me for being  a bit daft on this subject, but from what I have read about Network Rendering in LuxRender, I take it that it can only be done while online.....? Is there any way to sync two computers to one render, ergo increasing rendering speed, without having to be connected to the internet? Any advise would be much appreciated.....

Sharkbytes, not related to ACSEL but you should upgrade. Reality has been at version 2.2 for some time now.

StevieC, you dont need to be connected to the Internet to do Network rendering. The machines need to be in the same local network. From Lux you simoky add the IP address of each node running luxconsole.

Hope this helps 

Paolo, yes, I understand now, Thank you very much!

Quote - StevieC, you dont need to be connected to the Internet to do Network rendering. The machines need to be in the same local network. From Lux you simoky add the IP address of each node running luxconsole.

Hope this helps 

That's another thing I can't seem to figure out with Lux.  I start my other box with luxconsole.exe -s, then start my render on this box.. add the ip addy of the other box and all I get is a buttload of errors saying that the file can't be opened on the other computer as well as a few others.

Sharkbytes, what exact error messages you get from Lux/luxconsole?

Hey everybody! For those in the US, happy 4th! Wow, had to catch up and saw some stupendous renders along the way! Welcome to the new folks too!

Callad, I just checked out your animation. Nice! How long did it run for and how many frames? I'm still debating the animation in Lux project... I got sucked into helping my in-laws renovate their rental house on a 2 week timeframe. Guh! SO SORE!!

And Mike, on your dynamic cloth pic, what did you use for the 'wet towel' look? I've been looking all over for something of that size and material. Just a sheet is practically impossible to fine for optitex junk!

Ah, almost forgot. Xandi, so glad to see you got your vases figured out; and kadix, your crystal scene looked great! The light and shadows coming through them looked very good!

neimann, I found some very cool smoke brushes awhile back. I've been working on converting my favorites to transparent images so I can stick them on primitve planes for use in-render in Reality/lux. I'll post where I got them as soon as gimp fires up.

Add: Looks like they were Mystikel brushes, which came in a big package or two, as there's probably right around 40 or so. I could have sworn I'd gotten them here at Rendo but didn't seem them in his store, on a quick search anyway.

If you're looking for a quicker fix, this fellow on DA was in my bookmarks and has several sets:

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=smoke+brushes#/dhgw8d

Yes, to all the people in the U.S. of A, happy Indipendence Day! 

:)

America!!!

Quote - Sharkbytes, what exact error messages you get from Lux/luxconsole?

Paolo... got it all figured out.. it was all about permissions.. just gave myself permissions to the lux folder on each of the slave computers and my network render was off and running.  The render was slow to begin with.. was only getting 17k/sec on the owner computer.. so getting 20k off one slave and 18k off another slave sped things up a lot.  Will be nice to see how fast I render when I can manage to pull one off that is going a lot faster.  This won't be much of an issue in the fall when I build my full-time rendering box.  This one is kind of a hybrid since I use it for gaming too.

Another bump for Paolo's vendor credits.  I'm only about 80% happy with this.. but it rendered forever and I just couldn't get the graininess out of her face.

Click the pic for the full-size image.

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here's what was cooking last night, time to play with my new aquaintances.

Abi.

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Ok, someone please take my credit card from me, I'm shopping again!!!

Abi.

Quote - > Quote - Sharkbytes, what exact error messages you get from Lux/luxconsole?

 

Paolo... got it all figured out.. it was all about permissions.. just gave myself permissions to the lux folder on each of the slave computers and my network render was off and running.  The render was slow to begin with.. was only getting 17k/sec on the owner computer.. so getting 20k off one slave and 18k off another slave sped things up a lot.  Will be nice to see how fast I render when I can manage to pull one off that is going a lot faster.  This won't be much of an issue in the fall when I build my full-time rendering box.  This one is kind of a hybrid since I use it for gaming too.

My Linux box is setup to run "Luxrender -s" on startup as a user and then use a LuxUser home directory for all the files. All I need ot do is turn it on :)

Quote - Ok, someone please take my credit card from me, I'm shopping again!!!

Abi.

You mean its not tatooed on your arm?

When I met my wife, she said her job was a buyer for defense contractor, so she get's to spend 6 figures on a corporate credit card. Constantly... 

I said that was the perfect job for a woman! And she still married me!

Quote - When I met my wife, she said her job was a buyer for defense contractor, so she get's to spend 6 figures on a corporate credit card. Constantly...

I hope they don't look too closely at the DAZ and Rendo entries on their statements :rolleyes:

Sorry, could not resist! :)

Quote - Totally Off-Topic but I made it into IMDB! Credited as a technical advisor for my TrueColor color configuration for the JVC HD camera.

Sorry, could not resist! :)

Paolo that is wonderful!  Congratulations!!!!

Congrats man!! On unrelated matter my notebook is being sent to HP for repair for overheating after 5 plus months of none stop rendering under my warranty they may wipe the drive just confirming that I will not have issues with re registering Reality in the case I need to re install everything?

Quote - Ok, someone please take my credit card from me, I'm shopping again!!!

Abi.

Im lucky enough to produce a subject matter that I get to sell a fair amount of commission work its bought my my notebook Reality and a boatload of content.. My PS3 BR drive just died after 4  years i need to sell more to buy a BR player...

Congratulations Paolo, that's quite an accomplishment. Well done!

I guess it's okay to post nudes in this thread, so here's one of mine just for the heck of it ;)

Hope you like it.

There was some Zbrushing involved in this one, nothing too drastic though.

Cheers!

Quote - Congrats man!! On unrelated matter my notebook is being sent to HP for repair for overheating after 5 plus months of none stop rendering under my warranty they may wipe the drive just confirming that I will not have issues with re registering Reality in the case I need to re install everything?

Thank you.

There are absolutely no issues, as long as you enter valid data :)

Thank you everybody for the congratulations. Much appreciated.

Quote - > Quote - Ok, someone please take my credit card from me, I'm shopping again!!!

Abi.

You mean its not tatooed on your arm?

When I met my wife, she said her job was a buyer for defense contractor, so she get's to spend 6 figures on a corporate credit card. Constantly... 

I said that was the perfect job for a woman! And she still married me!

Im lucky enough to produce a subject matter that I get to sell a fair amount of commission work its bought my my notebook Reality and a boatload of content.. My PS3 BR drive just died after 4  years i need to sell more to buy a BR player...

Just bought...

GenX, Rope Sandals for V5, Carlotta, V4EN Dress, Perfect Arms fix, Shining for Jersey Dress, Ksenia, JSF Lily and Harajuku Lily, about $70, all because i saw Ksenia on the Daz email!

Abi.

Quote - Callad, I just checked out your animation. Nice! How long did it run for and how many frames? I'm still debating the animation in Lux project...

Well, what I recall it were about 600 frames at 15 to 20 minutes each, so that's ..uhhh.. 6 to 8 rendering days.  ..so don't expect a full feature 90 minute movie from me soon.. :P

Quote - Totally Off-Topic but I made it into IMDB! Credited as a technical advisor for my TrueColor color configuration for the JVC HD camera.

Sorry, could not resist! :)

Congrats Paolo! :) wOw!

Well done Paolo!

It's about time I upload a render. I've also promised a good friend this render.

Fifty Shades Of Grey

Thanks to Amethst25 for refreshing my memory about that book :)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2345682

I can't work out the stupid method of inserting from the gallery!

Quote - Well done Paolo!

It's about time I upload a render. I've also promised a good friend this render.

Fifty Shades Of Grey

Thanks to Amethst25 for refreshing my memory about that book :)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2345682

I can't work out the stupid method of inserting from the gallery!

Your a twisted individual... wanna buy me dinner? wink  hehe.  I like it, the hairs not really my style buy the rest is...  interresting.

My method of inserting pics is...

Upload image to gallery, right click on the fullsize image and select properties, highlight and copy the image url to clipboard, then in the post reply screen click the image icon (2nd from right above the textbox) and enter the url.

Abi.