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Quote - Has anyone done any 3d printing? I was looking at

3dprintshow.com

And noticed many of the sellers are soldout in human figurens.   Their high priced too.

I was just reading about that the other day. RepRap or some company similar sells a DIY-jobber for $650. I was interested, aside from the obvious points, as I have a 20 foot roll of ABS in my tool shed and nothing to do with it... 

Add: I thought it'd be super cool to make figures with too, or statuettes, etc. 

there's actually a model out on the interwebs somewhere to print the lower receiver for a 9mm.  That's the only part of the gun that you legally have to have a permit to own.  With current legislation, there's no prohibition on or license to own a 3D printed gun.  Allegedly (and i couldn't find the youtube test-firing of it) it's a pretty decent one-shot gun.

Quote - there's actually a model out on the interwebs somewhere to print the lower receiver for a 9mm.  That's the only part of the gun that you legally have to have a permit to own.  With current legislation, there's no prohibition on or license to own a 3D printed gun.  Allegedly (and i couldn't find the youtube test-firing of it) it's a pretty decent one-shot gun.

I was going to mention I'd read that article as well, and you wouldn't catch me with a 3D-printed anything for a firearm (outside of control surfaces) just for durability reasons, let alone the legality issue of creating your own receiver. Me thinks the BATFE would pay you a visit shortly after... 

Anyway, there's a reason why Glock and their ilk uses metal-reinforcement and ABS injection for their frames (mainly that whole saddling recoil issue). 

OT, but you ever see a super slo-mo of a Glock being fired? I sold my G20 afterwards, though slightly unrelated. My 10mm is all steel now 

Add: More OT, but my web hosting service finally fixed their server; free book uploaded today. 

I finally got around to cranking out a few renders last night, and this is one of two that pleased me very much. The second, still cooking, is my favorite! Details on that ivy at dA. 

The World After

Looks good SMT! Looking forward to the second one.

Queen Boudicca (Boadicea)

For those who don't know their history:

Boudicca was queen of the Iceni people of Eastern England and led a major uprising against occupying Roman forces.

Boudicca was married to Prasutagus, ruler of the Iceni people of East Anglia. When the Romans conquered southern England in AD 43, they allowed Prasutagus to continue to rule. However, when Prasutagus died the Romans decided to rule the Iceni directly and confiscated the property of the leading tribesmen. They are also said to have stripped and flogged Boudicca and her two daughters raped by slaves.

And that concludes the history lesson for today.

I have been planning this scene for months, but couldn't find the right content to create the image I had in my mind. I know the buildings, clothing and props are at least 1000 years after AD 43 :)

It took two weeks to be created, and 36 hours to render. I hope you like it!

Quote - Queen Boudicca (Boadicea)

For those who don't know their history:

Boudicca was queen of the Iceni people of Eastern England and led a major uprising against occupying Roman forces.

Boudicca was married to Prasutagus, ruler of the Iceni people of East Anglia. When the Romans conquered southern England in AD 43, they allowed Prasutagus to continue to rule. However, when Prasutagus died the Romans decided to rule the Iceni directly and confiscated the property of the leading tribesmen. They are also said to have stripped and flogged Boudicca and her two daughters raped by slaves.

And that concludes the history lesson for today.

I have been planning this scene for months, but couldn't find the right content to create the image I had in my mind. I know the buildings, clothing and props are at least 1000 years after AD 43 :)

It took two weeks to be created, and 36 hours to render. I hope you like it!

Holy gazoo! How did you get that many characters into one scene?? Layer or one-shot?

This is something I've been looking into, as I've had a render planned for two months that requires around 40 characters in one scene. I don't particularly want to layer 5 or 6 at a time though. Ten I wouldn't mind, but it seems that Studio chokes at any more than 4. 

Any hints, ye olde master? 

One-shot. It was a pain though as DS kept crashing, and due to memory this scene can't be opened in the 32bit version of DS. I don't think this would have been even possible if I used gen 4 characters, they are all Genesis. With the characters, props, clothing, the .duf scene file is only approx 10MB. If you are going to create a complicated scene, save often.

I would recommend doing multiple passes.  Render the background buildings/static characters first.  Then keeping exactly the same groundplane and camera movements, do the foreground characters.  The more you break it up, the faster it renders.  Then composite everything together. 

Right now, I'm working on a kind of funny parody video.  Here's what's rendering now:

Little bored last night.  Dialed this up just to let Lux know I was still alive and at the keyboard.

Yeah Doc I was wondering how you got so many characrets on the maids commish anymore then 6 would choke lux up even with mem conserve and export only...

Quote - One-shot. It was a pain though as DS kept crashing, and due to memory this scene can't be opened in the 32bit version of DS. I don't think this would have been even possible if I used gen 4 characters, they are all Genesis. With the characters, props, clothing, the .duf scene file is only approx 10MB. If you are going to create a complicated scene, save often.

I didn't know Genesis ran that lean. Damn the luck! But you're right on the money with the Gen 4 figure being a bloated mess. After about 4 or 5 Gen 4's, Daz has a fit and gives up. I tried threatening by calling it's union rep, but it gave me the direct number while waving a less desirable finger. 

Quote - I would recommend doing multiple passes.  Render the background buildings/static characters first.  Then keeping exactly the same groundplane and camera movements, do the foreground characters.  The more you break it up, the faster it renders.  Then composite everything together. 

 

Right now, I'm working on a kind of funny parody video.  Here's what's rendering now:

This is the way I've normally done it as well, but I'm getting more picky on how light falls with shadowing and such, and I've noticed that layering--even when done well--doesn't look 'true' as the characters (if they were in the shot) would block light for others around it but weren't in the scene for that pass, or eyeball reflections would be incorrect, things like that.

Picky, I know, but that's me! (The wife says I have closet OCD--Me, I say ehh, in some things; my desk is a real mess and I like it that way!) I may have to give genesis a go, or actually plan a Doc-style mega scene on paper first. grrg

Im OCD when it comes to *&^% noise in lux renders

Quote - I finally got around to cranking out a few renders last night, and this is one of two that pleased me very much. The second, still cooking, is my favorite! Details on that ivy at dA. 

The World After

 

Looks great! My only nit pick is the concrete in the forground. Way to shiny and clean for the scene. Needs more grunge................

Quote - Queen Boudicca (Boadicea)

For those who don't know their history:

Boudicca was queen of the Iceni people of Eastern England and led a major uprising against occupying Roman forces.

Boudicca was married to Prasutagus, ruler of the Iceni people of East Anglia. When the Romans conquered southern England in AD 43, they allowed Prasutagus to continue to rule. However, when Prasutagus died the Romans decided to rule the Iceni directly and confiscated the property of the leading tribesmen. They are also said to have stripped and flogged Boudicca and her two daughters raped by slaves.

And that concludes the history lesson for today.

I have been planning this scene for months, but couldn't find the right content to create the image I had in my mind. I know the buildings, clothing and props are at least 1000 years after AD 43 :)

It took two weeks to be created, and 36 hours to render. I hope you like it!

 

Wow! Doc thats great.... The spoils off war.   You need wood mud and thatching for the buildings in that time frame..   Great image anyway...

Quote - I would recommend doing multiple passes.  Render the background buildings/static characters first.  Then keeping exactly the same groundplane and camera movements, do the foreground characters.  The more you break it up, the faster it renders.  Then composite everything together. 

 

Right now, I'm working on a kind of funny parody video.  Here's what's rendering now:

 

Can't wait....  Are you going to have them Break Dancing?   :lol:

Quote - Little bored last night.  Dialed this up just to let Lux know I was still alive and at the keyboard.

She could poke an eye out with those assets. Although I might let her try. 

Love the colors in this one.

A few tips on getting loads of characters in a scene...

Textures, textures and textures. Reducing geometry will not have as big an effect as reducing unsuitable texture sizes.

You do not need 2000x2000 pixel images for diffuse, bunp and spec for eyes on a secondary character. Same for face, torso and limb textures.

You can collect textures and then reduce them manually using a graphics app, I recommend IrfanView for the PC. If possible, reuse textures but change diffuse values for variety in background characters.

It is possible to export characters and scenery separately from Daz Studio and combine them for Lux rendering. Makes editing materials much easier.

Yeah I tried collect textures and reality just spun into infinity I know about seperate layer renders off topic where are some tutorials for the new 4.5 features like part of scenes that can be hidden now?

Quote - A few tips on getting loads of characters in a scene...

Textures, textures and textures. Reducing geometry will not have as big an effect as reducing unsuitable texture sizes.

You do not need 2000x2000 pixel images for diffuse, bunp and spec for eyes on a secondary character. Same for face, torso and limb textures.

You can collect textures and then reduce them manually using a graphics app, I recommend IrfanView for the PC. If possible, reuse textures but change diffuse values for variety in background characters.

It is possible to export characters and scenery separately from Daz Studio and combine them for Lux rendering. Makes editing materials much easier.

Getting them into Lux has never been a problem, its having them all on-screen at the same time, at least for me. I will certainly try, maybe even right now, how many incarnations of just bare genesis figures I can get before things slow to molasses speeds. It's the strangest thing though: just with Studio, I can have literally a whole world of props on screen, but figures kill response time (again, any more than 4 on my rig). And I never run out of RAM or even get close in these instances, its just Studio bogging down with what I presume is too high a vertice count according to the scene info tab. That's why I figured this deal was geometry or mesh related. 

Doc, I think ya nailed it on the Genesis call. Granted, they are the only thing in the scene, but I've got 18 thus far, alternated between male and female, and studio only has a lag of between 1-2 seconds. Yea! Here's comes the zombie crowd via Texture Atlas! 

I'm not talking about layering in post, I'm talking about combining Lux scenes.

Creating two seperate ds scenes, exporting them but editing the lxs file to load both lxo and lxm files.

For example, you could have the background and set as one scene, the foreground characters as another without collect textures and the background characters with the collect & resize textures selected.

Load all via 1 lxs file.

Quote - I'm not talking about layering in post, I'm talking about combining Lux scenes.

Creating two seperate ds scenes, exporting them but editing the lxs file to load both lxo and lxm files.

For example, you could have the background and set as one scene, the foreground characters as another without collect textures and the background characters with the collect & resize textures selected.

Load all via 1 lxs file.

Ahhh! Tut request! I really just need the command code, not a lengthy how-to :-) 

Quote - > Quote - I finally got around to cranking out a few renders last night, and this is one of two that pleased me very much. The second, still cooking, is my favorite! Details on that ivy at dA. 

The World After

 

 

Looks great! My only nit pick is the concrete in the forground. Way to shiny and clean for the scene. Needs more grunge................

Concrete does tend to get slick and shiny when it rains 

I know, the drops aren't terribly apparent in this shot, but they look Grrreat! in the next, which is about to go up. 

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - I finally got around to cranking out a few renders last night, and this is one of two that pleased me very much. The second, still cooking, is my favorite! Details on that ivy at dA. 

The World After

 

 

Looks great! My only nit pick is the concrete in the forground. Way to shiny and clean for the scene. Needs more grunge................

Concrete does tend to get slick and shiny when it rains 

I know, the drops aren't terribly apparent in this shot, but they look Grrreat! in the next, which is about to go up. 

Ok, I will go with the rain but, It's still the world after. More debries needed. The world after didn't have janitors..... :tt2:

Finally done! 

As for you Mr. Horsey, I didn't figure out until afterward how to triangulate the ivy props which were sucking the life out of my computer (and the render, ba dum dum tish!) but for the follow-up I have in my head, there will be MORE!! (wrecking that is; still working on my plane crash)

Quote - Finally done! 

As for you Mr. Horsey, I didn't figure out until afterward how to triangulate the ivy props which were sucking the life out of my computer (and the render, ba dum dum tish!) but for the follow-up I have in my head, there will be MORE!! (wrecking that is; still working on my plane crash)

Very nice!    At least the power is still on.  :lol:

SBT, The Ivy came out nice. I played with that tool but could not get what I wanted. Must revisit...

Quote - > Quote - Finally done! 

As for you Mr. Horsey, I didn't figure out until afterward how to triangulate the ivy props which were sucking the life out of my computer (and the render, ba dum dum tish!) but for the follow-up I have in my head, there will be MORE!! (wrecking that is; still working on my plane crash)

Very nice!    At least the power is still on.  :lol:

Maybe somewhere, but this block 'be dead :-p Powerlines and Ivy lines are one and the same! 

Add: For whatever reason, the OBJ's import reversed, but it's still a very cool tool, once you get the hang of things. If you try it again, I'll put my the leaf alpha's I made on my dA stash page.

Quote - Finally done! 

As for you Mr. Horsey, I didn't figure out until afterward how to triangulate the ivy props which were sucking the life out of my computer (and the render, ba dum dum tish!) but for the follow-up I have in my head, there will be MORE!! (wrecking that is; still working on my plane crash)

For some reason I like this! Even if the police sign looks out of place, and the paintwork of the building looks like it was done yesterday :)

Quote - > Quote - Finally done! 

As for you Mr. Horsey, I didn't figure out until afterward how to triangulate the ivy props which were sucking the life out of my computer (and the render, ba dum dum tish!) but for the follow-up I have in my head, there will be MORE!! (wrecking that is; still working on my plane crash)

For some reason I like this! Even if the police sign looks out of place, and the paintwork of the building looks like it was done yesterday :)

That's why I said the power is still on the police sign is to bright.....

Distruction was yesterday, that's why the paint is still fresh..   :lol:

And the building in the background, when did that perish?

Quote - Finally done! 

As for you Mr. Horsey, I didn't figure out until afterward how to triangulate the ivy props which were sucking the life out of my computer (and the render, ba dum dum tish!) but for the follow-up I have in my head, there will be MORE!! (wrecking that is; still working on my plane crash)

Breathtakingly stunning work!

Quote - And the building in the background, when did that perish?

You talking about the 17 story parking garage???   The day before! :lol:

LMAO!

Hey SBT, I hope you not taking KH and myself seriously :)

doc.. tried sending you those files.. gmail spit it back at me.  is it blocking attachments?

Quote - LMAO!

Hey SBT, I hope you not taking KH and myself seriously :)

You think anyone ever would???  :tt2:

Abi.

Quote - doc.. tried sending you those files.. gmail spit it back at me.  is it blocking attachments?

It'll only block attachments if it contains executables. Last one came through fine though. Upload it somewhere and send me the link :)

Quote - > Quote - LMAO!

Hey SBT, I hope you not taking KH and myself seriously :)

You think anyone ever would???  :tt2:

Abi.

You just got out of bed???

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - LMAO!

Hey SBT, I hope you not taking KH and myself seriously :)

You think anyone ever would???  :tt2:

Abi.

You just got out of bed???

not quite, I rolled over and grabbed the laptop.  I'm currently parked in a layby outside Carlisle, on my way back from Perth (ran out of driving hours).  Thank god for sleeper cabs.

Abi.

Now you tell me! I could have driven up to that layby ...... sighs

Time for my beauty sleep.

Quote - Now you tell me! I could have driven up to that layby ...... sighs

hehe, I'll have to remember that for next time

Quote - Time for my beauty sleep.

My thoughts exactly (for me though - I need it more!). I still have another 7 hours stuck here sigh

g'nite all,

Abi.

Quote - LMAO!

Hey SBT, I hope you not taking KH and myself seriously :)

For sure, we just got tired of picking on Abi.

Quote - > Quote - LMAO!

Hey SBT, I hope you not taking KH and myself seriously :)

You think anyone ever would???  :tt2:

Abi.

Abi dear! Were your ears burrning?

Quote - doc.. tried sending you those files.. gmail spit it back at me.  is it blocking attachments?

Better to use Dropbox, you can provide links to files to anybody, any kind of file,  and it doesn't bog down your email. Click on this link, they give you 2GB for free. 

Quote - > Quote - LMAO!

Hey SBT, I hope you not taking KH and myself seriously :)

For sure, we just got tired of picking on Abi.

Quite alright, gotta switch flavors once in awhile! And she's such an 'easy' target, har har. 

The Police portion is actually a riot shield grown into the ivy. Kinda gotta see it full size, but look close and you can see the outline and darker shade of the plexiglass and the handle on the back side ;-p I hadn't thought about the paint except adding rust to the tank. Drr, I mean, that's part of the mystique! Yeah, yeah... 

Quote - > Quote - Now you tell me! I could have driven up to that layby ...... sighs

hehe, I'll have to remember that for next time

Quote - Time for my beauty sleep.

My thoughts exactly (for me though - I need it more!). I still have another 7 hours stuck here sigh

g'nite all,

Abi.

I gave up on beauty sleep, though I used to joke to a friend of mine that if he went for beauty sleep, we'd never see him again.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been so brash; he's built like an Irish dockworker with hands the size of a dog house. Bit of a drinker, too! lol