Quote - Just a quickie.. 2 hour render and 20 minutes postwork (filters)

It's summer, so I really would be at the beach right now :)

IBL from hdrlabs.com

"Just a quickie"  bah.. nauseating.  That would take me a couple hours to set up and all day to render to that quality.  I'm booking a flight to the netherlands and I'm going to hijack your creative flow and computer.  Love the render though.

Quote - That is a shock, Tony didn't direct Prometheus, hat was Ridley, but he was a brilliant director. Among other thigs he directed Domino, which is a stylish jewel and one of my favorite movies. 

What a tragedy!

Ahh.. I thought that was Tony that did prometheus.  Big fan of both of them though.  Very creative pair.  Ridley's directed some of my all-time favorite movies as well as directing Numb3rs which was my favorite tv series of all time.

Quote - Just a quickie.. 2 hour render and 20 minutes postwork (filters)

It's summer, so I really would be at the beach right now :)

IBL from hdrlabs.com

Great as always! I got 4 running all night and all day in the oven...

Quote - > Quote - Just a quickie.. 2 hour render and 20 minutes postwork (filters)

It's summer, so I really would be at the beach right now :)

IBL from hdrlabs.com

"Just a quickie"  bah.. nauseating.  That would take me a couple hours to set up and all day to render to that quality.  I'm booking a flight to the netherlands and I'm going to hijack your creative flow and computer.  Love the render though.

lol Thanks :) Took me 40 minutes to set it up. There is only a V4 with pants, and a bridge, so not much to 'set up' anyway. Most time was spend choosing her pose and camera angle. I did try 3 different IBLs also. Added a sun and voila!

After the two hour render the image was just over 400 S/p and had still some noise so I made it smaller to eliminate visual noise. So not much of a 'creative flow' :P

Quote - Great as always! I got 4 running all night and all day in the oven...

Thanks Bob :)

4 at the same time? Well, no wonder they need to run all night! ..your poor cpu.. ;)

Quote - > Quote - Great as always! I got 4 running all night and all day in the oven...

Thanks Bob :)

4 at the same time? Well, no wonder they need to run all night! ..your poor cpu.. ;)

LOL not all at the same time. Each queued in 2 hour sequences. Brilliant feature if you asked me. Reggie was kind enough to turn me onto it... How else would I already be closing in on 700 renders since late feb!

Quote - Just a quickie.. 2 hour render and 20 minutes postwork (filters)

It's summer, so I really would be at the beach right now :)

IBL from hdrlabs.com

Excellent render, as usual!

Maybe the wrong pants for summer though? Not complaining, I love it :)

Angel pants with material converted to LUX chrome I am guessing :)

Quote - Angel pants with material converted to LUX chrome I am guessing :)

Yes :) Leather: Chrome, polish 9706, belt: Aluminum polish 5000

Quote - > Quote - Angel pants with material converted to LUX chrome I am guessing :)

Yes :) Leather: Chrome, polish 9706, belt: Aluminum polish 5000

Cool love that outfit used it several times myself http://fav.me/d4y22u7

Quote - > Quote - Angel pants with material converted to LUX chrome I am guessing :)

Yes :) Leather: Chrome, polish 9706, belt: Aluminum polish 5000

Never liked those pants, the way they are cut makes Vickies hips look wide, but your pose makes it work

Quote - > Quote - lol, goodnight.  Here's some idea's for you to dream about...

whips, paddles, chains, rope, wooden crosses.....  hehe

Abi.

 

And you can find most of what you need at http://www.naughtymindz.com/

Oh yeah, one of my fav stores, LOL.

Quote - just a side thought too.. i was doing some searching the other day for info/news revolving around 3.0.  saw the google listings for the "new" Reality 3.0 on several torrent sites.  Never went to investigate but thought to myself "there's a boatload of noobs that are going to be downloading a rar file packed full of virii."

NICE! While i would never engineer that, I would advocate it. Serves them right being scum and using illegal torrent sites.

I helped a friend model a commercial addon for a game, took us over 6 months to get it ready with a reasonable $26 price tag. Day after release was on the torrent sites. He stopped modeling after that and dropped out of the community, couldn't blame him. Since it usually takes someone to "share" the initial seed upload, I wished i could have known who it was as I had all kinds of ways to inflict discomfort upon him.

Quote - I'm building a polygon-repair kit for my characters, so they can do some basic repair work. Will save me a lot of of time if they can do a thing or two for themselves.

Here's the next one, useful for those pesky plumbing problems they might have : )

 

 

Cheers!

Nice work  Erik!! I can see using your tools for um, interrogation scenes, LOL

Ha Mikey going nuts! Morning bro! I just sold another commish project any new genesis shoes you can suggest?

OT- I am torn about updating to 4.5 We have Charley & the Good Doctor here assuring us that it pretty well runs ok and being a tight nit group I value your opinions.

Then there is some really big problems with folks over at the DS forum...

Quote - That is a shock, Tony didn't direct Prometheus, hat was Ridley, but he was a brilliant director. Among other thigs he directed Domino, which is a stylish jewel and one of my favorite movies. 

What a tragedy!

Really sad! Domino was a great movie, I also like Top Gun and Man on Fire.

Quote - Ha Mikey going nuts! Morning bro! I just sold another commish project any new genesis shoes you can suggest?

OT- I am torn about updating to 4.5 We have Charley & the Good Doctor here assuring us that it pretty well runs ok and being a tight nit group I value your opinions.

Then there is some really big problems with folks over at the DS forum...

Morning Bob, just getting caught up on the thread, LOL.

I don't plan to update to 4.5 for 2 simple reasons. One, no Reality so I can't render. Two, genX isn't compatible yet, so I would be working with a less than perfect genesis. I know there are workarounds, but I'd rather skip the hassle. No problem, I can wait like I always do.

Quote - > Quote - Ha Mikey going nuts! Morning bro! I just sold another commish project any new genesis shoes you can suggest?

OT- I am torn about updating to 4.5 We have Charley & the Good Doctor here assuring us that it pretty well runs ok and being a tight nit group I value your opinions.

Then there is some really big problems with folks over at the DS forum...

 

Morning Bob, just getting caught up on the thread, LOL.

I don't plan to update to 4.5 for 2 simple reasons. One, no Reality so I can't render. Two, genX isn't compatible yet, so I would be working with a less than perfect genesis. I know there are workarounds, but I'd rather skip the hassle. No problem, I can wait like I always do.

Reality for 4.5 is going to be out today or maybe tomorrow. I bought Gen X never really got around to using it I am still ok with using both 4th Gen & Genesis figures. I use genesis to face gen existing ppl for the most part or I will just dial a made up character.. Like you guys I have hoards of content / characters. I also like the way Reality/ Lux can breathe life into what would be a lame flat looking older prop.

Here's a new one with my geeky zombie hunter girl.  I think this captures the feel of her better than the last one. 

Callad, great render, not quite what I was hoping you'd think of but oh well. hehe

Abi.

Quote - > Quote - That is a shock, Tony didn't direct Prometheus, hat was Ridley, but he was a brilliant director. Among other thigs he directed Domino, which is a stylish jewel and one of my favorite movies. 

What a tragedy!

 

Really sad! Domino was a great movie, I also like Top Gun and Man on Fire.

OOooo.. didn't know he did man on fire either.. favorite denzel movie

Just playing with 4.5 and found some issues...

If you are using a V4 that has her scaling altered, any figure hair does not fit correctly.

Prop hair is OK. Will now need to look at alternative hairs for some characters.

Beautiful render Callad!

Quote - Just playing with 4.5 and found some issues...

If you are using a V4 that has her scaling altered, any figure hair does not fit correctly.

Prop hair is OK. Will now need to look as alternative hairs for some characters.

Well that does it I will hold off since all my stuff is scaled... Sides not super biggie since I use Lux to render

Quote - > Quote - Just playing with 4.5 and found some issues...

If you are using a V4 that has her scaling altered, any figure hair does not fit correctly.

Prop hair is OK. Will now need to look as alternative hairs for some characters.

 

Well that does it I will hold off since all my stuff is scaled... Sides not super biggie since I use Lux to render

I think it's when you use part scaling, say just scaling the y-axis of the chest by 90%, the overall V4 scaling stays at 100%.

Ha do me a favor and scale the whole figure down to 10% and let me know if it or anything else gets whacky? Mind you worse case scenario I can always revert back to 4.37.... and current version of Reality just got to make sure that I back up my scenes and Reality file

If you scale the whole figure, it's fine. When you scale a body part, say chest or hip, it magnifies the effect of the scaling on the bones of the hair figure.

If you scale your V4 chest to 90%, the hair appears as though it has scaled to 80% and is smaller.

Quote - If you scale the whole figure, it's fine. When you scale a body part, say chest or hip, it magnifies the effect of the scaling on the bones of the hair figure.

If you scale your V4 chest to 90%, the hair appears as though it has scaled to 80% and is smaller.

As are well familiar with my vitual series I scale the whole figure other then that, how are you finding 4.5 overall??

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - That is a shock, Tony didn't direct Prometheus, hat was Ridley, but he was a brilliant director. Among other thigs he directed Domino, which is a stylish jewel and one of my favorite movies. 

What a tragedy!

 

Really sad! Domino was a great movie, I also like Top Gun and Man on Fire.

OOooo.. didn't know he did man on fire either.. favorite denzel movie

That is quite shocking. I've always been a fan of Tony's. Anything he was involved with became an action bonanza with smart directing. Although my favorites of his were the shorts he did for BMW with Clive Owen in the early 2000s. You can still find them floating around the web. 

RIP Tony Scott. WTH were you thinking? 

Did he not direct Numbers with Ridley? I used to watch that show..

Just found what's happening, it's like it's down-scaling the hair twice. If I scale the V4 chest to 90%, then I have to scale the chest bone of the hair figure to 111.11% to compensate.

4.5RC versions were OK with body part scaling and hairs.

Not done much with DS4.5 as I was messing with that swimming pool which has been done in Hexagon & DS3. Also been converting characters to Perfect V4s also using DS3, they look really fit...

I did have a problem with the earlier RC where the Nemesis car lost it's front wheels and the hose pipe I used in the pool scene lost it's nozzle. That's been fixed on this version.

Not imported much or loaded any DS4 scenes yet. My building blocks are DS3 scenes as I find it easier and faster when building using primitives.

Quote - Did he not direct Numbers with Ridley? I used to watch that show..

Produced it IIRC, through "Scott Free" which was their production company.

SBT.. as far as the what were you thinking question... last report I heard on the news said that reports were that he was recently diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.. so may have been a case of auto-euthanasia.. can't remember the name of the bridge.. paolo prolly knows.. but it's the bridge that all the cruise ships out of SoCal dock by.. it's like 180 ft tall.. eyewitnesses said he pulled his car up to the crest of it.. got out and jumped w/o missing a beat or pausing at all.. so he must have been pretty damned sure he wanted to do what he did.

~fires up Numb3rs on Netflix~

gawd.. sucky day for hollywood.. Phyllis Diller died today too.

Quote - gawd.. sucky day for hollywood.. Phyllis Diller died today too.

If that is the case with Tony, I'd have to agree with you Sharky.

Hollywood goes out in three's. Wonder who else is going to bite it today?

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Quote - That is quite shocking. I've always been a fan of Tony's. Anything he was involved with became an action bonanza with smart directing. Although my favorites of his were the shorts he did for BMW with Clive Owen in the early 2000s. 

That short is titled "Beat the Devil" and for me is the best short movie ever made. Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, James Brown, Denny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. That short is pure Tony Scott style, distilled to perfection. I just watched it again. What a loss, what a huge loss.

Quote - > Quote - That is quite shocking. I've always been a fan of Tony's. Anything he was involved with became an action bonanza with smart directing. Although my favorites of his were the shorts he did for BMW with Clive Owen in the early 2000s. 

That short is titled "Beat the Devil" and for me is the best short movie ever made. Clive Owen, Gary Oldman, James Brown, Denny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. That short is pure Tony Scott style, distilled to perfection. I just watched it again. What a loss, what a huge loss.

An awesome short indeed (although my favorite from those is "the Star" with Madonna).

Abi.

sbt.. that's the one.. it's been forever since i've been out to the west coast.  last time was '86 when i lived in LA.. wife and I want to head out that way sometime this fall or winter.  she's got an aunt out there who she talks to on facebook but has never met irl. i'd like to take her around to some of the places i lived in mid-city LA but i don't think they make bullet proof vests that'll fit over her bewbz.

As much as I don't like talking about death, it is very sad indeed.

Someone mentioned threes, we had 3. Scott McKenzie, although not Hollywood.

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Quote - Hmm.. You are making me curious Abi, but it's my bed-time now.. I don't think I can sleep with this temperature. Think I will leave the blankets off..

(NO Anton.. NO peeking!) :P

Hey, Callad, you're welcome to stay here in the state of Washington for a while.  It's a very pleasant 14C, and we're done with hot temps for the summer.  The only condition is that I get to watch you set up your renders.  (And no, I promise that Doc won't be behind that two-way mirror in the bedroom.  ;-)  )

Jay

Quote - > Quote - Hmm.. You are making me curious Abi, but it's my bed-time now.. I don't think I can sleep with this temperature. Think I will leave the blankets off..

(NO Anton.. NO peeking!) :P

Hey, Callad, you're welcome to stay here in the state of Washington for a while.  It's a very pleasant 14C, and we're done with hot temps for the summer.  The only condition is that I get to watch you set up your renders.  (And no, I promise that Doc won't be behind that two-way mirror in the bedroom.  ;-)  )

Jay

Thanks Jay, but 14 degrees is too cold! Huh? two-way mirror?? ..you naughty boy! ;) 

Well guys.. Reality 2.5 is released as of now. Please take your number and get in que :)

How come I dont get an update notice upon opening Reality?? Link??

You beat me to it Callad :) . Here is the annoucement with link and instructions:

http://preta3d.com/blog/2012/08/21/reality-2-5-has-been-released/

Enjoy!

Quote - How come I dont get an update notice upon opening Reality?? Link??

Because you are running DS 4.0, for necessity. I decided to not use that channel yet. Given that DAZ has broken both backward and forward compatibility, this  update is a bit delicate. I'm erring on the side of caution.

Cheers.

Edit got I am going to wait a bit to update everything I just lost 2 hours due to my ATI catalyst that offered an automatic update that killed my PC with the blue screen of death. Windows repaired itself. I was then without a driver then performed a system restore to get everything back up..

What update is delicate Reality or studio?

Quote - You beat me to it Callad :) . Here is the annoucement with link and instructions:

http://preta3d.com/blog/2012/08/21/reality-2-5-has-been-released/

Enjoy!

smiles yes, for once I was fast! :)

Thank you Paolo for yet another update of your fabulous and intelligent bridge between DazStudio and Luxrender!