Quote - Very nice piece of modeling Erik-nl.

Thanks : )

Did some preparations for upcoming clips. Here is one single Frame of one clip, which will take a little "bit" longer to render... 

Enjoy!

Very nice Odie

Decided to use my favorite Hongyu's Bikini for my first test/tryout of blacksmith3d.  It turned out pretty good considering it LITERALLY was the first time I ever used blacksmith.

Sharkbytes, nice job!  You've got me thinking that I should spring for Blacksmith, which I have been kind of eyeing anyway.

I recently purchased Halcyone's TurtleNeck Style top and a couple of texture packages for it.  I decided to do a render highlighting three of my preferred textures.  The textures are:

FW's Styles for TutleNeck Style by FWArt
Vogue for TurtleNeck Style by Romantic 3-D

Larger image here: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/315/e/4/variations_on_a_turtleneck_by_59burst-d5knhlf.jpg

That bikini looks great.  How does BLacksmith avoid the stretching pattern issues? I went and read about it, it says you can create textures right over the seams with worrying about matching.  How does it do that? Did it work?

Quote - Very nice Odie

Mille grazie, Paolo!

Quote - I recently purchased Halcyone's TurtleNeck Style top and a couple of texture packages for it.  I decided to do a render highlighting three of my preferred textures.  The textures are:

FW's Styles for TutleNeck Style by FWArt
Vogue for TurtleNeck Style by Romantic 3-D

Larger image here: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/315/e/4/variations_on_a_turtleneck_by_59burst-d5knhlf.jpg

Your quite good at this I have Obama Clinton renders coming LOL

Quote - I know Jason Statham :) He was primarily a driver in the Transporter series, and a general ass kicker in other movies LOL.

Planning another few renders using him....loved him in Safe....

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That bikini looks great.  How does BLacksmith avoid the stretching pattern issues? I went and read about it, it says you can create textures right over the seams with worrying about matching.  How does it do that? Did it work?

Xandi.. it's kind of hard to explain.. but say in photoshop.. where you have the color picker.. blacksmith has a color picker too for its paint brush.. and you can choose the pattern the paintbrush lays down.  In the same part, you can choose a texture and instead of painting with your color.. your paintbrush paints with the texture.  Since it paints right on the model in 3D.. you don't get the stretching.  Although, I did the same bikini in a seamless snakeskin pattern, then made the girls boobs huge.. and the pattern got stretched out.  Then again, put a 34C bikini with a snakeskin pattern onto a real woman with 38DD's and the pattern is going to be warped all out of shape too.  You'll see what I mean when I post the next render tomorrow.  How it performs it's magic is a mystery to me; but, I don't care.. it just works.  As far as the coding goes and the behind the scenes.. I dont' enter that zone.. dragons be there.

Quote - Your quite good at this I have Obama Clinton renders coming LOL

Thanks.  Is that Bill, Chelsea, or Hillary?

No its Obama with a young hottie

Attached Link: Obama 1

I happen to get to the part of my story which coincides with his re election so I had to play into it LOL

I just added to "hottie" to give it more eye candy

Attached Link: Obama 2

Attached Link: Obama & Philip Broyles

Attached Link: Obama 3

That's a pretty decent FaceGen of Obama.  I've not had much success with FaceGen.

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An open letter to the People of Earth from Her High Excellence, Empress P'nny of Lesbor, Chancellor of the Four Moons, Prime of Kendar and Queen of The Omega Federation.

People of Earth, I am presently aboard an Obama class Heavy Cruiser of the Lesborian Empire Third Battle Fleet which is orbiting your planet. My ship is accompanied by a squadron of Clinton class Star Destroyers, the big ones not the small local ships.

Your planet has been sending messages to other worlds across the Empire, which you call television. Since the cancellation of it's favourite shows, the Empire has become angry and consequently you may now consider yourselves its slaves.

In the coming days you will be relocated and will begin your new lives. Some will be sent to the (Spice Mines of) Kessel. A number will take part in games to entertain us, those passing the Empire Standard Inter-species Totty Test will join our personal slave collective. The majority of you will die.

Resistance is futile, etc.

That is all.

P.S.

Kessel does exist and there are Spice Mines. Tatooine also exists, or used to as I blew it up last week to be on the safe side.

Ciao!

Vast dynamic range Reggie, very nice....

Cool Reggie Burst thats an actual meshed character not FG but I had success with FG not sure if you are familiar with 666 Park ave but this is Rahcel Taylor who starts in it and from the failed cheezy's angel remake. http://fav.me/d4j9y3i or Kim Kadashian http://fav.me/d5d6nu8 I find its either hit of miss...

Quote - Cool Reggie Burst thats an actual meshed character not FG but I had success with FG not sure if you are familiar with 666 Park ave but this is Rahcel Taylor who starts in it and from the failed cheezy's angel remake. http://fav.me/d4j9y3i or Kim Kadashian http://fav.me/d5d6nu8 I find its either hit of miss...

Bob, no, I'm not familiar with that show, and I'm only kind of vaguely familiar with Kardashian.  Thanks for the info though.  I'll get back to trying to get FaceGen to give me something usable.

Totally uninspired this past week.  Had a few renders that I started and scrapped and a few ideas I thought were good that didn't come out how I wanted. This is one of them.  

I have no idea what to do next, can someone give a me a promt or challenge to get me going?

Attached Link: Walter

Fringe? John Noble aka Walter  Bishop

Attached Link: Fringe Lab

Here a second Frame of a different scene from the same clip, which I mentioned yesterday!

As always: Click for bigger!

Quote - Here a second Frame of a different scene from the same clip, which I mentioned yesterday!
As always: Click for bigger!

Redneck Barbies dream truck LOL

Okay, here's another one and it came out better than I expected.  But still not too happy with it. 

At least you had fun creating it :)

Are you guys still going to post links to the weekly builds?

Quote - Are you guys still going to post links to the weekly builds?

When I remember :lol:

Quote - > Quote - Are you guys still going to post links to the weekly builds?

When I remember :lol:

LOL

You or Reggie

Wow it's slightly changed again. I know Paolo does not recoomend them and we are taking a chance with using them. I just cant live without the NR features :)

What do the Noise and progress setting # do?

Latest render fresh out of the oven.  This one I had to do in stages.  Forgot to give her a decent setting.  Did Paolo's alpha layer trick and rendered a quick background using the same camera angle.  Combined them all in PS.  This is the second texture I've tried out for Hongyu's bikini using Blacksmith.  There's a lot of distortion to the pattern but not sure if that's avoidable given the size of the models boobs.

I just tried GPU accelerated again still does not work on my machine

i tried this most recent dev build... with an ibl that should be getting me 300 or 400k/sec in a sample scene.. i was getting 18k s/s... i'll go back to the last one tyvm

CPU doesn't seem to work on Windows 8.

I'm just going to wait for Lux 1.2 and see how that works out.  Luxmark works fine in hybrid mode though.  

I think its just a matter of wait and see.

Quote - CPU doesn't seem to work on Windows 8.

At that point I would ask Microsoft for  my money back ;)

Off topic, but does anyone want a free weekend trial for Guild Wars 2 (Nov 15-18)?  I have 3 invites to send out.

Hi Paolo,

With the release of Reality 3 for Poser put back until March, does that mean that the Subsequent release date for Reality 3 for Daz Studio will now be june' ish.???

Or can us Daz users still have our Reality 3 in January'ish.???

Cheers,

S.K.

Considering DS users already have a working reality, I am pretty sure that the poser version will be the priority before another DS version. Would love to be surprised though, LOL.

Quote - With the release of Reality 3 for Poser put back until March, does that mean that the Subsequent release date for Reality 3 for Daz Studio will now be june' ish.???

Unfortunately I can only work on one project at the time. It takes about 14 hours a day, six days a week, of my time to write Reality 3. The priority is on the Poser version. Once that is done I will take a week or so to nurture the heart attack that I will surely have :) and then start working on the Studio port of Reality 3, which I hooe will be done in about three months.

Cheers.

Make the poster logo Reality 3 for Ds Summer 2013....

I say take as long as you need to put in all kinds of crazy materials for us to play with.  I want wood grain and leather and real fur and skin and hair that looks like hair and well.. all the stuff that i'm not creative enough to do on my own now.

I agree Im good with 2 for now

Quote - I say take as long as you need to put in all kinds of crazy materials for us to play with.

Reality 3 has full access to procedural textures and I just added texture math for both grayscale and color textures. For example, you can mix (multiply) a light blue with a texture, and the subtract a shade of red from the mix. The effects are crazy good and they open the door to adding supports for complex shaders. 

Of course this is all done Reality style: point-and-click simple and with a gorgeous preview.

Cheers.

Quote - > Quote - I say take as long as you need to put in all kinds of crazy materials for us to play with.

Reality 3 has full access to procedural textures and I just added texture math for both grayscale and color textures. For example, you can mix (multiply) a light blue with a texture, and the subtract a shade of red from the mix. The effects are crazy good and they open the door to adding supports for complex shaders. 

Of course this is all done Reality style: point-and-click simple and with a gorgeous preview.

Cheers.

So first you tell us it's going to be a while, then you go ahead and tell us how awesome it's going to be.  That's cruel torture. 

I know, I sometimes I don't know how I can live with myself :)

We know you enjoy torturing  us that way