I rendered a scene with the Victoria 5 Elite Pony Tail and whoah, do I have a problem.  It looks like pieces of plastic stuck on her head. It's horrible.  The promos show a pretty shiny soft hairdo.  The hair in my render looks like you could chip bricks with it.  Does anyone know what might be the problem? Oh, I did work on this in PS to try to make it look more normal... still doesn't though.

Quote - I rendered a scene with the Victoria 5 Elite Pony Tail and whoah, do I have a problem.  It looks like pieces of plastic stuck on her head. It's horrible.  The promos show a pretty shiny soft hairdo.  The hair in my render looks like you could chip bricks with it.  Does anyone know what might be the problem? Oh, I did work on this in PS to try to make it look more normal... still doesn't though.

 

Was she using DoctorJellybean's 'Special Hair Treatment'?

What settings did you use on the hair prop?

Just as a general starting point, try setting the skullcap to glossy, around 7000 +/- 500, then the remainder of the 'strand' pieces to glossy and check the translucent box.

Quote - As said, I have this from a very reliable source.. wink 

Callad and Doc, sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

Quote - Was she using DoctorJellybean's 'Special Hair Treatment'?

You might be pleased to know that I have removed you from my Christmas Card list :biggrin:

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Callad and Doc, sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

Only in my dreams, only in my dreams ......

Quote - John,

Here is the image with the lamp you let use. I think it turned out very nice.  Thought I would share!

If I remember correctly the chair is from FSMCDesigns.

 

Thanks again!

VERY nice! I like the pose and the lighting, LOVE the wallpaper texture. Is the skin texture from Imaginary House?

great job on the lamp john!

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You might be pleased to know that I have removed you from my Christmas Card list :biggrin:

LMAO!

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Dinner, drinks, chocolate, roses, jewelry ... what more can a woman ask for as a wedding anniversary celebration and gifts. Maybe she has his present at home, who knows.

 

Oh Doc I reallly like this!   She might have asked for a dress. *winks

LOL, my ex wife did this exact thing on our third date, long coat with undies underneath.

Great scene doc, although I would be a bit worried, seems late since there is noone else around, could be dangerous.

This was just a quick setup test for a friend to show how fast and easy it was to set up a Reality scene for luxrender. 18 minutes from opening DS4pro to hitting render, 7 hours to render. Hopefully he'll be getting Reality now, LOL.

Quote - This was just a quick setup test for a friend to show how fast and easy it was to set up a Reality scene for luxrender. 18 minutes from opening DS4pro to hitting render, 7 hours to render. Hopefully he'll be getting Reality now, LOL.

 

That's a helluva great render for a promo Mike! Rack up another sale for Paolo

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Here is the image with the lamp you let use. I think it turned out very nice.  Thought I would share!

If I remember correctly the chair is from FSMCDesigns.

 

Thanks again!

 

VERY nice! I like the pose and the lighting, LOVE the wallpaper texture. Is the skin texture from Imaginary House?

great job on the lamp john!

The skin texture is Columbia by vyktohria at RMP

The wall texture is something I picked up from fabricator at Daz

Attached Link: The Last Moment

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2352076

Congrats Bob! You do have a render-factory! :)

Quote - Congrats Bob! You do have a render-factory! :)

LOL thanks! Like my tag used say on the old DS forum sig Rendering Maniac! Which is why I always melt the heat syncs in my notebook PCS good thing I buy the additional coverage! I am back into playing drums more two but thanks to the LUX queue render chain I can practice and render at the same time!!!!

Quote - This was just a quick setup test for a friend to show how fast and easy it was to set up a Reality scene for luxrender. 18 minutes from opening DS4pro to hitting render, 7 hours to render. Hopefully he'll be getting Reality now, LOL.

 

Ohh Primevil

Very nice

Attached Link: Doll Madonna

Attached Link: Doll Madonna

Quote - This was just a quick setup test for a friend to show how fast and easy it was to set up a Reality scene for luxrender. 18 minutes from opening DS4pro to hitting render, 7 hours to render. Hopefully he'll be getting Reality now, LOL.

It takes me 18 minutes at least to decide what I want to render, nevermind create the scene itself :scared:

Quote - > Quote - This was just a quick setup test for a friend to show how fast and easy it was to set up a Reality scene for luxrender. 18 minutes from opening DS4pro to hitting render, 7 hours to render. Hopefully he'll be getting Reality now, LOL.

It takes me 18 minutes at least to decide what I want to render, nevermind create the scene itself :scared:

Y'all are doing better than me! Sometimes it takes me days to decide if I even want to render

Great chair!

Sure, a few more vertices for the seat would have given a nicer looking deformation, but as you can see from my small but ever growing collection, I've been having my share of fun with that particular piece of furniture : ) 

Thanks for sharing it Michael!

Cheers!

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This one is paying for my new monster Dre mixr headphones...

Attached Link: The chase

Quote - Anyone interested in a contest?

I'm putting the finishing touches on a new character (skin texture+morph) and for the life of me, I can't think of a proper name. (His working title his 'Edgar' for the time being).

Not much is known of his background story, except that is he is a villanous bastard of a man, augmented with 13 cerebral core modules, and may be teetering farther on the machine side of mankind than the man side.

Anyhow, I thought it might be fun to see what y'all think up. Winning name gets the distinct pleasure of a copy of the completed set, and all incurred bragging rights.

At the present, this is exclusive to the Reality thread, so ya best put in a smart, quick answer!

(Large view on DA: http://fav.me/d58kwdx )

Well, two names popped out at me after seeing and reading the description...

Smart, bald and a villian? Lex

Villianous bastard dressed in period looking clothing? Moriarity..or Morry for short.

SPLASH!

Lux won't do this (two media) in one go, but, as some will say: "Photoshop's your friend".

: )

Cheers!

Quote - SPLASH!

 

 

Lux won't do this (two media) in one go, but, as some will say: "Photoshop's your friend".

: )

Cheers!

Indeed! Water looks like glass.....

Quote - Lux won't do this (two media) in one go

I'm interested in what this means. Can you elaborate?

Thanks.

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I'm interested in what this means. Can you elaborate?

Thanks.

Hi Paolo,

I tried to do a render with the camera/view partly 'submerged', so I positioned the camera accordingly, looking a tiny bit up.

That setup surprisingly gave me a render 100% above the water surface.

I thought "maybe it's the procedural ripples, and the camera happens to be in a low area by accident".

So, for the next render I lowered the camera a bit, just enough to be sure a part of it would always be below the surface, and I got a render 100% submerged. Again, not what I wanted.

Then I tilted the camera up a tiny bit, without moving it, and I to my amazement got a render 100% above water again!

This led me to my conclusion Lux can only 'look' through one frame filling medium at a time. Not strange when you think about it, but a pity non the less (if indeed true).

I ended up compositing both versions in Photoshop, but I flipped the underwater scene up side down, and used the warped reflection on the surface for the submerged part, because the true view was too clear and not 'underwatery' enough to my taste.

Dirty tricks all over this time, sorry, can't help it ; )

Cheers!

Thank you for the explanation. I will look into it.

Cheers 

I really like your Dino pic FSMCBesigns :)

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I'm interested in what this means. Can you elaborate?

Thanks.

 

Hi Paolo,

I tried to do a render with the camera/view partly 'submerged', so I positioned the camera accordingly, looking a tiny bit up.

That setup surprisingly gave me a render 100% above the water surface.

I thought "maybe it's the procedural ripples, and the camera happens to be in a low area by accident".

So, for the next render I lowered the camera a bit, just enough to be sure a part of it would always be below the surface, and I got a render 100% submerged. Again, not what I wanted.

Then I tilted the camera up a tiny bit, without moving it, and I to my amazement got a render 100% above water again!

This led me to my conclusion Lux can only 'look' through one frame filling medium at a time. Not strange when you think about it, but a pity non the less (if indeed true).

I ended up compositing both versions in Photoshop, but I flipped the underwater scene up side down, and used the warped reflection on the surface for the submerged part, because the true view was too clear and not 'underwatery' enough to my taste.

Dirty tricks all over this time, sorry, can't help it ; )

Cheers!

This isn't all that surprising really. Your typical over/under water shot has something that lux does not: an actual lens for the water to touch. I think if you can line up your water with a surface for geomety to touch, that will help define that 'magic' line.

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Well, two names popped out at me after seeing and reading the description...

Smart, bald and a villian? Lex

Villianous bastard dressed in period looking clothing? Moriarity..or Morry for short.

I like your thinking, but perhaps names that haven't been used as other characters :-)

Edit: New promo image in the works. I made some drastic changes to the original character design and associated maps. Note, that glow is not from a mesh light or conversion to one

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Attached Link: Gentle Touch

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I'm interested in what this means. Can you elaborate?

Thanks.

 

Hi Paolo,

I tried to do a render with the camera/view partly 'submerged', so I positioned the camera accordingly, looking a tiny bit up.

That setup surprisingly gave me a render 100% above the water surface.

I thought "maybe it's the procedural ripples, and the camera happens to be in a low area by accident".

So, for the next render I lowered the camera a bit, just enough to be sure a part of it would always be below the surface, and I got a render 100% submerged. Again, not what I wanted.

Then I tilted the camera up a tiny bit, without moving it, and I to my amazement got a render 100% above water again!

This led me to my conclusion Lux can only 'look' through one frame filling medium at a time. Not strange when you think about it, but a pity non the less (if indeed true).

I ended up compositing both versions in Photoshop, but I flipped the underwater scene up side down, and used the warped reflection on the surface for the submerged part, because the true view was too clear and not 'underwatery' enough to my taste.

Dirty tricks all over this time, sorry, can't help it ; )

Cheers!

This isn't all that surprising really. Your typical over/under water shot has something that lux does not: an actual lens for the water to touch. I think if you can line up your water with a surface for geomety to touch, that will help define that 'magic' line.

Dirty little secret: Lux's perspective camera does not have any physical volume. It's like a weird singularity-pinhole-camera. :P It exists only at the camera object's center point.

Modeling a surface for the lens is actually a really good idea I never though of. A small box of architectural glass ought to do the job nicely.

Quote -   Dirty little secret: Lux's perspective camera does not have any physical volume. It's like a weird singularity-pinhole-camera. :P It exists only at the camera object's center point.

Modeling a surface for the lens is actually a really good idea I never though of. A small box of architectural glass ought to do the job nicely.

But wouldn't that give unwanted reflections of the scene behind the camera on the glass in front of the 'camera'?

Maybe a cilinder primitive with a solid plane on one end, and glass on the other would be safer. I'll try and see if I can parent one to a camera, to make it pan and tilt with it.

Cheers!

Does anybody know where I can find a safety helmet (.obj) ?

I have seen images with characters wearing them, but I haven't been able to find a single one. I need the european plastic type. I've tried every name I could think of: hard hat, construction helmet, whatever, came up with nothing : (

I need it for a safety instruction demo like the picture below, DAZ seems ideal for that.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers!

Quote - Does anybody know where I can find a safety helmet (.obj) ?

I have seen images with characters wearing them, but I haven't been able to find a single one. I need the european plastic type. I've tried every name I could think of: hard hat, construction helmet, whatever, came up with nothing : (

I need it for a safety instruction demo like the picture below, DAZ seems ideal for that.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers!

Couple of quick searches:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/25000/  (free, looks like v4, no textures, but you can fix that with coloring in Reality no problem - lists many material zones)

http://www.daz3d.com/shop/m4-headwear/  For m4 $14.95 at Daz, and there is a yellow hard hat as one of many hats.

Not sure if they are the right style, but much closer than your ball caps. :)

Quote - Couple of quick searches:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/25000/  (free, looks like v4, no textures, but you can fix that with coloring in Reality no problem - lists many material zones)

http://www.daz3d.com/shop/m4-headwear/  For m4 $14.95 at Daz, and there is a yellow hard hat as one of many hats.

Not sure if they are the right style, but much closer than your ball caps. :)

Wow, that was quick, thanks!

I opened an account at ShareCG, and had a closer look, but it wasn't what I hoped it would be. But then I found a better looking one in this set:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/42504/

Glad you pointed me to ShareCG, looks like a very useful resource!

Thanks again,

Cheers!

Quote - > Quote -   Dirty little secret: Lux's perspective camera does not have any physical volume. It's like a weird singularity-pinhole-camera. :P It exists only at the camera object's center point.

Modeling a surface for the lens is actually a really good idea I never though of. A small box of architectural glass ought to do the job nicely.

 

But wouldn't that give unwanted reflections of the scene behind the camera on the glass in front of the 'camera'?

Maybe a cilinder primitive with a solid plane on one end, and glass on the other would be safer. I'll try and see if I can parent one to a camera, to make it pan and tilt with it.

Cheers!

Not if the reflection color is black. ;)

Quote - > Quote - Couple of quick searches:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/25000/  (free, looks like v4, no textures, but you can fix that with coloring in Reality no problem - lists many material zones)

http://www.daz3d.com/shop/m4-headwear/  For m4 $14.95 at Daz, and there is a yellow hard hat as one of many hats.

Not sure if they are the right style, but much closer than your ball caps. :)

 

Wow, that was quick, thanks!

I opened an account at ShareCG, and had a closer look, but it wasn't what I hoped it would be. But then I found a better looking one in this set:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/42504/

Glad you pointed me to ShareCG, looks like a very useful resource!

Thanks again,

Cheers!

 

I used to have a cot set up in the back of ShareCG

I've since relocated my cot to free3dmodels. Lots of useful freebies there, too. 

Quote - > Quote - > Quote -   Dirty little secret: Lux's perspective camera does not have any physical volume. It's like a weird singularity-pinhole-camera. :P It exists only at the camera object's center point.

Modeling a surface for the lens is actually a really good idea I never though of. A small box of architectural glass ought to do the job nicely.

 

But wouldn't that give unwanted reflections of the scene behind the camera on the glass in front of the 'camera'?

Maybe a cilinder primitive with a solid plane on one end, and glass on the other would be safer. I'll try and see if I can parent one to a camera, to make it pan and tilt with it.

Cheers!

 

 

Not if the reflection color is black. ;)

If you're experimenting, I'd go with the cylinder too, or even just the plain square primitive plane with a little y depth added to it. And as you suggested, arrange in front of the camera's 'lens' area and parent to the camera. I'd be rather curious how that all works out when you get a render punched out.

Quote - Does anybody know where I can find a safety helmet (.obj) ?

I have also seen them on turbo squid 0 ranging fro $5.00 and up:

http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?keyword=hard+hat&x=0&y=0

They are a great resource... but often pricey.

Update on my earlier posted image. Updated the pose, added the soap suds and water droplets and changed the lighting a bit.

Quote - Update on my earlier posted image. Updated the pose, added the soap suds and water droplets and changed the lighting a bit.

That little guy is so cute!  Awesome image.

Abi.

Quote - Update on my earlier posted image. Updated the pose, added the soap suds and water droplets and changed the lighting a bit.

Looks good

I have an art book by Boris with that image in it and yours is very close as far as I can tell

@Surreal3D

The soap suds add to the image. The lowest part of the drip down her cheek seems to be too dark.  You may want to consider loosing that part.  Don't get me wrong. I think you have done a wonderful job.

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I think the soap bubbles look very realistic, love the image.  I still love that little creature in her hand. It makes me to do something beautiful like that.  How did you do the soap bubbles?

Bingo! They've got their helmets on like they're supposed to.

Now for some safety goggles and ear plugs : )

Thanks guys,

Cheers!