Quote - had another one baking overnight, here's the result...

Angels Sorrow

Enjoy,

Abi.

Surreal, calming and sexy all rolled into one.......Nice!

Whoah, I had a lot to catch up on here.

SBT congratulations to you and your wife! May you both be blessed with years of happiness with the new love in your lives.

Everyone has been doing some really great renders.

Abi, both your angel renders are wonderful. Terrific job.

John3d your coke can and glasses are amazing.

I'll have to get back to rendering soon, after seeing all these I'm feeling a bit guilty. But but, it's not really my fault. Honest. Well....okay so it is my fault....I've been  playing Guild Wars 2. Hangs head in Shame  I just can't help it!  Didn't someone here say they played too?

Did someone say Node Instance(s) work in Reality? Or will that be in R3?

Attached Link: Caged doll

Abi, that one with the grass is phenominal! And I mean WOW! I definitely need to check that grass prop out! 

Sharky, love the 'last round' one too. The figure looks good, but my .02, the gun and cartridge could use a little finesse. 

John Woo's 'The Killer' also had a quote about the last round. "I save the last. Either for myself, or my enemy". Great shoot 'em up with a real story. His American films stink compared to his earlier Hong Kong era. Spent a few bucks importing most of his team-ups with Chow Yun-Fat and it took forever to find a subbed Bullet in the Head,  before they came out on Region 1 DVD's. 

Add: And thank you Xandi! I wondered what happened to you as well! 

Ah, now I remember. Abi, you're image reminded me of a scene I've been thinking of duplicating for the longest time. I have a desk-sized statue on my writing table sculpted after the much larger Angel of Grief monument. It even made an appearance in one of my much earlier novels, as I have a thing for Greek and Roman statues carved from marble and alabaster. Had I a garden large enough to contain them, I'd love to add to my collection, but renders prove to be more affordable ;-) . Reference here: http://www.designtoscano.com/product/code/DB1111.do#

Quote - Ah, now I remember. Abi, you're image reminded me of a scene I've been thinking of duplicating for the longest time. I have a desk-sized statue on my writing table sculpted after the much larger Angel of Grief monument. It even made an appearance in one of my much earlier novels, as I have a thing for Greek and Roman statues carved from marble and alabaster. Had I a garden large enough to contain them, I'd love to add to my collection, but renders prove to be more affordable ;-) . Reference here: [http://www.designtoscano.com/product/code/DB1111.do#/quote] SBT...

Oh wow!  I have another render in mind using that exact statue, been thinking of it for a while but I cannot find a good 3d model of it anywhere!  My alternative scene is to use a standing angel statue (the one's you often see, wings folded, hand together, head bowed) but thats all the info your gonna get til I produce the finished render.   I have a few gothic/amgelic render idea's floating around but that is the first and the one I want to do the most too.

Everyone...

Thanks for all the fanatastic comments about my angel scene, I loved creating it and I love the ego boost you have all given me!  hehe

Abi.

Bit off topic, but I've just been broswing the statues on the link SBT gave, how cool is this...

http://www.designtoscano.com/product/garden+statues/fantasy+statues/assorted+creatures+outdoors/the+zombie+of+montclaire+moors+sculpture+-+db383020.do?sortby=bestSellers

I want that in my garden!!!

Abi.

That place has tons of cool goodies Abi, most waaaay overpriced. :-) 

On the statue render, it'd be pretty easy to simulate a statue with just concrete or a flat plaster texture of apppropriate size for your V4 skins and wings. That's what I planned to do anyway. I've used something similar awhile back for these guys: Just used a 12mp camera shot of nice, smooth concrete, scaled it up for 4K and made some maps. 

Quote - Ah, now I remember. Abi, you're image reminded me of a scene I've been thinking of duplicating for the longest time. I have a desk-sized statue on my writing table sculpted after the much larger Angel of Grief monument. It even made an appearance in one of my much earlier novels, as I have a thing for Greek and Roman statues carved from marble and alabaster. Had I a garden large enough to contain them, I'd love to add to my collection, but renders prove to be more affordable ;-) . Reference here: http://www.designtoscano.com/product/code/DB1111.do#

What a great site!!! I love the Egyptian themed stuff! I already have a tastful selection of daggers, swords, helms, and artifacts around my apt now, but I can see adding some of the items from this site. My old roomate and I had a sweet place about 10 years ago with lots of medeival stuff like full suits of armor, he will love this link.

I'd love to have a full armor suit, but me being me, I'd wear it and break something. 

Might have to forge one when I get my knife kick done with now that it's not ten thousand degrees outside... 

Pose inspired by "the Twist" by Mastertouch.

Cheers!

Quote - Abi.. where'd ya get the greenery in your scenery?  I've been looking for something like that for a while now.

The Easter Island set also has some nice grass.

Attached Link: Caged doll

I just picked up some new hair sets from Mairy & 3Dream (they were among yesterday's featured artists at the DAZ PA sale)

This one is Eurydice Hair ( 2 styles), an older product I have been wanting to try out. I think it looks pretty good for out-of-the-box(no bump, displacement or normal maps)

Once I get a copy of CrazyBump I will make bump maps for the set I think.  

Meanwhile, I seem to remember someone (Paolo maybe?) posting about using the diffuse texture as a bump map? Anyone have details on how to go about this or maybe alternate methods of making a bump/normal map from the Diffuse? I used to have Randall's homemade bump map to fall back on at least, but lost it in my recent HD restructuring. ( I think I accidently deleted the folder it was in sigh hope that's all I lost lol)

I liked the hair results enough to try it out in my close-up shot:

I like the way it turned out, what little of it you can see looks good to me. What do you guys think of the hair?

Michael

Reworked my previous render to be more accurate to the original inspiration (i.e. an angel)...

Angel's Cry

"An Angel languishes over the grave of her love, holding the, once gift of a rose that refuses to whither."

I have one more idea to run with this image (thanks John) but I think I'll do something different first - this image is getting repetitive!  hehe

Enjoy,

Abi.

Quote - Reworked my previous render to be more accurate to the original inspiration (i.e. an angel)...

Angel's Cry

"An Angel languishes over the grave of her love, holding the, once gift of a rose that refuses to whither."

I have one more idea to run with this image (thanks John) but I think I'll do something different first - this image is getting repetitive!  hehe

Enjoy,

Abi.

Great render (still) The wings are a nice addition!

Quote - I just picked up some new hair sets from Mairy & 3Dream (they were among yesterday's featured artists at the DAZ PA sale)

This one is Eurydice Hair ( 2 styles), an older product I have been wanting to try out. I think it looks pretty good for out-of-the-box(no bump, displacement or normal maps)

Once I get a copy of CrazyBump I will make bump maps for the set I think.  

Meanwhile, I seem to remember someone (Paolo maybe?) posting about using the diffuse texture as a bump map? Anyone have details on how to go about this or maybe alternate methods of making a bump/normal map from the Diffuse? I used to have Randall's homemade bump map to fall back on at least, but lost it in my recent HD restructuring. ( I think I accidently deleted the folder it was in sigh hope that's all I lost lol)

I liked the hair results enough to try it out in my close-up shot:

I like the way it turned out, what little of it you can see looks good to me. What do you guys think of the hair?

 

Michael

They look real nice, I almost bought them but am forcing self to wait for Mec4D's hair.

You might want to check out ShaderMap2 for your bump/normal maps.

http://shadermap.com

Quote - Reworked my previous render to be more accurate to the original inspiration (i.e. an angel)...

Angel's Cry

"An Angel languishes over the grave of her love, holding the, once gift of a rose that refuses to whither."

I have one more idea to run with this image (thanks John) but I think I'll do something different first - this image is getting repetitive!  hehe

Enjoy,

Abi.

She is an angel with or without the wings.  :thumbupboth:

Lol, I have a feeling you think she's attractive, which means you'd kinda be hoping she is definetly NOT angelic, correct?

Abi.

Quote - Lol, I have a feeling you think she's attractive, which means you'd kinda be hoping she is definetly NOT angelic, correct?

Abi.

Am I that transparent?    :lol:  Doc and I came out of the same mold. :tt2:

Quote - ...

You might want to check out ShaderMap2 for your bump/normal maps.

http://shadermap.com

Thanks, I'll check it out!

I use PixPlant's photoshop plugin for mapmaking.. it makes normal, spec, diff and disp maps.. as well as being able to take a seed picture and generating a tilable texture out of it(as long as there's a repeating pattern in it).  Works like a charm and isn't crazy overpriced.

Quote - > Quote - Lol, I have a feeling you think she's attractive, which means you'd kinda be hoping she is definetly NOT angelic, correct?

Abi.

 

Am I that transparent?    :lol:  Doc and I came out of the same mold. :tt2:

Lol, are you the good one or the bad one? You can't both be evil.

Abi.

Quote - Lol, are you the good one or the bad one? You can't both be evil. Abi.

Would you believe me if I told you that I learned from him?

Quote - > Quote - Lol, are you the good one or the bad one? You can't both be evil. Abi.

Would you believe me if I told you that I learned from him?

Do you think I would believe that? Be honest now.

Abi.

Time will tell! hehe

Sigh .... people on here know me too well.

Doc was a well mannered English gentleman until I chipped away the shell he was hiding under.....

Lol, I'm guessing it wasn't a very hard shell!?

Abi.

Sneak peak for you.

Our lovely angel Ivy isn't as angelic as she seems, she's dyed her hair and is mourning over someone else now...

Enjoy,

Abi.

Quote - Sneak peak for you.

Our lovely angel Ivy isn't as angelic as she seems, she's dyed her hair and is mourning over someone else now...

Enjoy,

Abi.

That's my kind of angel..     To be honest, it was more like a layer of chocolate.  I just had to warm him up.  :lol:

LMAO, I dont think I want to know details, sound a bit intimate!

Abi

For us underfunded artists, here's some bump options that are free: (reposted from page 21)

On the next page, someone also mentioned SSBump Generator. I did finally install and try it out some time ago, but for whatever reason, it's very finicky on my machine and stalls out when making maps. Might work for someone else though!

Okie dokie; For a bump map with gimp (2.6 is the latest I have for stability) with your base image, load as usual and go to colors, invert. Then go to colors again, move down to Components, and mouse click on the extension Channel Mixer. A pop up box will show the red, green, blue channels and some sliders beneath it. You'll want to check the monochromatic to put it into black and white. You can further adjust the RGB values if you want more black or white, but for a bump, the standard readout should be fine.

When you're satisfied, click OK, then go up to Filters at the top and drop down to Maps. Mouse over the extention to Bump.

Another box pops up with some adjustments.

In the pop-up box, there's a few things to play with. I usually focus on Elevation and Depth. Both are fairly self explanatory. You'll have to raise both typically, sometimes around 50 for elevation and 20-30 for depth. Experiment a bit. When you're satisfied, hit OK and a green bar goes across the bottom for processing. Two or three seconds, voila! Bump map.

If or when you should go the Normal map route (search for the plug-in, it's free also), you can use this same method to make it a bump map, then go to Filters-->Maps-->Normalmap (this is how it looks in the window). In the normal map pop-up, the default Filter should say 4 color in a selection box at the top. 

Then the elevation is replaced by Minimum Z (in hundreth's or thousandth's of a value, like .001, or .01 etc).  Then there is Scale, which quantifies the effect. 2-5 should be plenty. If your texture is going seamless, click wrap. Check your preview box, and if you like it, hit OK. Another processing green bar, then you should get that lovely, purple normal map.

I usually save them in the same folder as the source texture and name it xxxx_bump or xxx_normal, just so they're all handy to select when you get to Studio. They also transfer right along into Reality!

Oh, Wow!!!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2856303

I'm speechless - never happened before.

Abi.

Congrats on the staff pick! Well deserved

Quote - Oh, Wow!!!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2856303

I'm speechless - never happened before.

Abi.

It's a great feeling!! Congratulations!

Still can't find words, oh wow!

Abi.

Quote - I just picked up some new hair sets from Mairy & 3Dream (they were among yesterday's featured artists at the DAZ PA sale)

This one is Eurydice Hair ( 2 styles), an older product I have been wanting to try out. I think it looks pretty good for out-of-the-box(no bump, displacement or normal maps)

Once I get a copy of CrazyBump I will make bump maps for the set I think.  

Meanwhile, I seem to remember someone (Paolo maybe?) posting about using the diffuse texture as a bump map? Anyone have details on how to go about this or maybe alternate methods of making a bump/normal map from the Diffuse? I used to have Randall's homemade bump map to fall back on at least, but lost it in my recent HD restructuring. ( I think I accidently deleted the folder it was in sigh hope that's all I lost lol)

I liked the hair results enough to try it out in my close-up shot:

I like the way it turned out, what little of it you can see looks good to me. What do you guys think of the hair?

 

Michael

I love the Eurydice hair.  It's one on my favorites that I use all the time.  

And to join the bump/normal discussion below, I'm using the NVIDIA normal map filter plugin for Photoshop. It's free, easy, and I think the majority people here have Photoshop.

Quote - Oh, Wow!!!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2856303

I'm speechless - never happened before.

Abi.

Well done!

Maybe I should post one of my x-rated renders to get picked.....

Quote - Maybe I should post one of my x-rated renders to get picked.....

Thanks everyone, I still dont believe it though.

Go for it Doc, show everyone some real art!  hehe

Abi.

You want to get me banned, don't you LOL!

And I thought you are a friend .....

Quote - You want to get me banned, don't you LOL!

And I thought you are a friend .....

lol, just remember to tag it as sexual themed and you'll be fine.  To think that I thought you were a bit of a risk taker!? all mouth and no trousers!? wink  hehe

Abi.

Quote - Oh, Wow!!!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2856303

I'm speechless - never happened before.

Abi.

Well done Abi...

Congrats Abi

Grats Abi !!

Congratulations Abi, that is to show that results happen after you pour so much dedication in your work. Well deserved.

Attached Link: The Prez

Another oval office shot

Quote - Oh, Wow!!!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2856303

I'm speechless - never happened before.

Abi.

~congrats~! :) Well deserved imho!

Thanks everyone, especially Paolo, if this thread didn't exist and if Reality didn't exist I'd probably have gotten bored of playing with Daz months ago and found something else to mess with - Reality and the people here have gotten me hooked on 3D (I sound like I've just won an oscar!  hehe).

Abi.

(Still can't believe it!).