Quote - If you don't behave, I'll have to come over ;)

Promise or a threat???

Got another render brewing (Claudia is prancing around naked again - As much as I like the new girls I'm installing I just can't leave poor Claudia alone!) so I'm off to bed while it bakes - Have to go to Richmond (London) at 5am so I think I should get some sleep.

G'nite,

Abi.

Edit: I've also decided to dedicate this render to Doc, the title and pose seem perfect! now you'll have to wait (yeah, payback!).  hehe.

I guess I am getting no replies from Paolo I will file a Reality bug report

He's a busy man.. don't stop him from writing code.. i want reality 3 in january not march.

Quote - He's a busy man.. don't stop him from writing code.. i want reality 3 in january not march.

LOL you & I both he told me in an email once he would rather we post issues on a forum rather then email him. I know this is a bug because it ws not happening before. One of the features that is mentioned regaring Reallity 2.0 is an improved scene merging. It appears this is no longer the case...

Congratualtions on the well deserved Artist of the Month feature Callad! Your body of work speaks for itself.  It's nice to see artistry such as yours recognized :-)

Congratulations Callad!

Let me add mine, too: a big congratulations, Callad!

Quote - > Quote - I've run across a few sets of letters and numbers on sharecg I think John. They're more the TIme New Roman-style text, but they are a 3D prop.

FInally got this one out of the fire this morning, baking for 24 hours. I'm quite thrilled with how it came out, so completely and utterly satisfied  Only postwork is the border. 

Looks like all four of those girls had some "postwork" on their boobs

In the semi-altered words of Jessica Rabbit, 'We're not bad. We're just morphed that way!"

Almost hard to believe that all of them used A4 as the base :-) (Even the fellas)

And a congrats to Charley for AoM! Another of the Reality community moving up to the big time 

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Quote - Thanks Paolo!

I'm having a silly smile on my face since I got the rendo mail, really could not believe it! 

:b_funny:

The best is the best!  Why do you not belive it?   Gratz         ;-)

Thank you all very much! :)  Geez, I still have a silly smile on my face, even when I woke up this morning. All the nice reactions are like a warm bath; wonderful!

Oi! ..now it's time for me to go to work!

Have a great one Charley!

For the rest of y'all, more zombie goodness :

Where does one file a Reality bug report?

Congratulations Charley!

Cheers!

Just to compare notes here are my initial Reality-LuxRender settings for the new DAZ Stephany/Michelle skin:

Diffuse Colour: 242-247-255
Specular Colour: 83-87-89
Glossiness Strength: 6524
Top Coat Colour: 170-134-120
Top Coat Thickness: 0.10
Surface Fuzz: on
Bump Strength: 12%
Bump Negative: -0.010
Bump Positive: +0.010

Nail Glossiness: 8000 Surface Fuzz: off
Lip Glossiness: 8000 Surface Fuzz: on
Lip Bump Strength: 18%

Test renders: DAZ Stephany (Riley shape + Michelle textures).

Image Based Lighting + 1 meshlight.

The only modification I did was to 'deflate' those balloony Riley lips a bit.

Larger versions can be found in my gallery here at rendo.

If I find better settings I'll post them of course, but these seem to work quite nicely.

Cheers!

As mentioned earlier, a dedication to Doc...

Title: Tease.

Enjoy,

Abi.

LOL. You posting this from Richmond?

Nice, thank you. Did wonder what you look like.

Quote - LOL. You posting this from Richmond?

Nice, thank you. Did wonder what you look like.

Just got back 10 minutes ago, has to drop a car off in the centre of London for 9am on a Monday morning, I dunno what idiot thought that was a good idea.  Thats what I imagine I look like, reality is much much different sigh

Abi.

When Charlie Met (Seduced) Neve

This was originally posted on the old DAZ forums April 2011, and swiftly removed by a mod as it was deemed too suggestive. Not sure where that comes from.

Quote - When Charlie Met (Seduced) Neve

This was originally posted on the old DAZ forums April 2011, and swiftly removed by a mod as it was deemed too suggestive. Not sure where that comes from.

Ah, memories. :biggrin:

Abi.

Quote - Just got back 10 minutes ago, has to drop a car off in the centre of London for 9am on a Monday morning, I dunno what idiot thought that was a good idea.

At least you had good weather and a nice scenery to look at :)

Quote - Ah, memories. :biggrin: Abi.

Just how many memories do you have? On second thoughts, don't answer that ;)

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At least you had good weather and a nice scenery to look at :)

Quote - Ah, memories. :biggrin: Abi.

Just how many memories do you have? On second thoughts, don't answer that ;)

Plenty of memories, loads of experiences - more experiences than memories due to alcohol, makes me forget sometimes!  lol

Remember what I said in the PM...  "almost anything".

Abi.

Quote - Plenty of memories, loads of experiences - more experiences than memories due to alcohol, makes me forget sometimes!  lol

Remember what I said in the PM...  "almost anything".

Abi.

Being a rock musician for many years I can so relate, LOL. When my GF asks about experiences, I give her that look and say "do you really want to know?" LOL

Quote - > Quote - Plenty of memories, loads of experiences - more experiences than memories due to alcohol, makes me forget sometimes!  lol

Remember what I said in the PM...  "almost anything".

Abi.

 

Being a rock musician for many years I can so relate, LOL. When my GF asks about experiences, I give her that look and say "do you really want to know?" LOL

Ah, the Doc wants inspiration from me for his renders,  I "play for both teams"   (anyone who doesn't understand is too young and naive to participate in this conversation anyway!)  hehe.

Abi.

I'm too young and naive......

Quote - I'm too young and naive......

ROFLMAO, some of the jokes you come up with are fantastic Doc!  hehe

Abi.

Well, I'm gonna try for an hour or so nap (late night and early morning sigh), Claudia is baking away in the Lux oven - She kinda reminds me of an ex, more good memories (this next render may well be my favorite to date looking at the preview).

Back in a while,

Abi.

You should have gone to bed when you first said, not stayed up and played ;) Too nice outside to sleep anyway.

Quote -   Being a rock musician for many years I can so relate, LOL. When my GF asks about experiences, I give her that look and say "do you really want to know?" LOL

Ditto being a sound and light guy.. all the girls thought we were the gateway to the band.. who were we to disavow them of that idea?

Quote - Ditto being a sound and light guy.. all the girls thought we were the gateway to the band.. who were we to disavow them of that idea?

In one of my first serious bands, my bass player also worked sound at the club we played at the most. Always wondered why he got so much more attention than any of the rest of us, especially when big name acts played, LOL.

Musicians, what a difference an ocean can make... Freddy Mercury, George Michael, Elton John, Boy George, Gary Glitter, just to name a few. Couldn't think of anyone similarly talented from the other side of the pond.

Cheers!

I was going to mention Led Zeppelin, but they are this side of the pond too.

Quote - Musicians, what a difference an ocean can make... Freddy Mercury, George Michael, Elton John, Boy George, Gary Glitter, just to name a few. Couldn't think of anyone similarly talented from the other side of the pond.

Cheers!

hmm, seeing a theme here other than musicans and side of the pond, LOL

doesn't Goerge Michael now live in Dallas?

Tupperware Party

Groundbreaking guitarists: Eddie Van Halen, BB King, Jimi Hendrix
Groundbreaking drummers: Buddy Guy, Louis Bellson(good friend R.I.P), Neil Peart(a canadian but this side anyway)
Groundbreaking bass players: Les Claypool, Mike Balzary(flea from rhcp)
Not to mention Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Winton Marsalis

given the devil his due.. i can't think of a single singer I'd put on my list higher than Freddie Mercury.  Still makes me sorta sad that he's gone. 

The list of overly talented American musicians is too numerous to really give full credit in any forum; but, the list would be incomplete without my best friend Eric Kranz.  Probably one of the best drummers I've ever seen in person and I used to work at a jazz bar who was had Louis Bellson(youtube him) as a sitting drummer.  Equally talented on bass, guitar, just about every brass instrument and nearly every woodwind you can think of.  One of those rare guys who can just easily figure out how to make music come out of anything.  And the moron is toiling away in obscurity as a sound engineer and p.a. designer in western illinois.

Quote -   hmm, seeing a theme here other than musicans and side of the pond, LOL

doesn't Goerge Michael now live in Dallas?

George Michael was last seen trolling public restrooms in Topeka, Kansas disguised as a 58yr old woman.

Quote - Musicians, what a difference an ocean can make... Freddy Mercury, George Michael, Elton John, Boy George, Gary Glitter, just to name a few. Couldn't think of anyone similarly talented from the other side of the pond.

Cheers!

Freddy yes.. can't think of another showman who commanded a stage like he did. 8/13/82 in Chicago.  Elton yes.. songwriter beyond compare.. serious showman.. not a slouch at the piano either.  To put George Michael, Boy George and Gary Glitter in there.. yikes.. not sure.  I would, though, add Sid Vicious and Joe Strummer in there.  Maybe not the best vocalists or instrumentalists; but, for me, the voice of my teens and therefore pivotal.

Quote - Tupperware Party

poor kid, being subjected to the antics of drunken aunt lil coming out in her unmentionables, therapy waiting to happen, LOL.

Question for Paolo

I really like seeing mesh changes happen on the DS scene when you change them in the modifier section of the reality window. Any chance of adding a slider for the smooth option next to subdivision? Many 3rd party objects have smooth set to high and other than taking the model into a modeling program and fixing, DS allows for smoothing or no smoothing, would be nice for a slider to have a bit more control. Applying the smoothing modifier in DS just tears the mesh since it is low poly

in this WIP scene I have several older models that are in collada format loaded. When loaded the smoothing is too high (see legs on the ATST). In Reality I can uncheck the smoothing box and get better surface fidelity/shading, but it is far from perfect as now there is next to no smoothing (see the base of the cabin of the shuttle.) I figured that since you added the check box in the reality window, then a slider wouldn't be that difficult.

I can't find the printout of the RUG, maybe someone here knows the answer. What are the steps needed to render an animation in Reality?

Quote - Tupperware Party

Nice, Doc, very nice. Love the "little things" as always ... the blocks..omg LOL, clever.

Hope this is not a childhood memory

Thank you!

As FSMCDesigns said, therapy waiting to happen. But, no, not a childhood memory. Thanks to John for the tupperware props :)

This one took a lot of p/w as it had hot noise sprinkled throughout that I just didn't feel like waiting til it rendered out.

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Ok, I've had a couple of hours sleep and then awoke to this...

I've uploaded my limit to Rendo today so it's at the front of the line to be uploaded tomorrow with the usual credit attached.

Enjoy,

Abi.

Quote - Ok, I've had a couple of hours sleep and then awoke to this...

I've uploaded my limit to Rendo today so it's at the front of the line to be uploaded tomorrow with the usual credit attached.

Enjoy,

Abi.

Very nice Abi, and bright blink blink

What a lovely sight to awaken to!

Just curious, what hair did you use here?

Originally planned to use black and white but liked the color better after playing with the film response in Lux. 

Quote - > Quote - Ok, I've had a couple of hours sleep and then awoke to this...

I've uploaded my limit to Rendo today so it's at the front of the line to be uploaded tomorrow with the usual credit attached.

Enjoy,

Abi.

Very nice Abi, and bright blink blink

What a lovely sight to awaken to!

Just curious, what hair did you use here?

It's called Erato Hair, here on Rendo.

Abi.

Quote - Originally planned to use black and white but liked the color better after playing with the film response in Lux. 

Very nice. Which Film response did you use? 

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It's called Erato Hair, here on Rendo.

Abi.

Thinking about buying it, I like the look. Do you use it a lot? anything you especially like/dislike about the hair? (you can PM me or respond in the thread whichever you prefer, just looking for a little "review" from ya, thanks )

Michael