Quote - Don't just take my word - here.

Very nice.
Ya might want to subdivide her a time or two.

Wow, I just discovered the beauty of Poser subdivision, thanks to ShvrDavid, at RDNA!  Unbelievable...I'm subdividing everything from now on, to see what happens.  :-)

Yes, please, Afrodite...would you do a subdivision render in Poser, so we can see what she looks like?  It might get rid of that wee bump in the thigh.  Or is that from shrinking the image?  :-)

Quote - Wow, I just discovered the beauty of Poser subdivision, thanks to ShvrDavid, at RDNA!  Unbelievable...I'm subdividing everything from now on, to see what happens.  :-)

Yes, please, Afrodite...would you do a subdivision render in Poser, so we can see what she looks like?  It might get rid of that wee bump in the thigh.  Or is that from shrinking the image?  :-)

 

Feel free to SubD all you want ,but SubD meshes are modeled to be SubDed.
If the mesh was not modeled to be SubD you might get unwanted results.
For exsample Game Meshes ,Posetta/V1 does not SubD well.

Most SubD Meshes are 100% Quads.
The topology will have a good flow.

I'd like to see texture templates of Dawn , please. :-)

Your clothes are beautiful!

(would you tell me which hair the shorter one is?)

Kerya,

it is Constanza Hair by SWAM/Renderosity MP

Thank you! I like that it is not so much in the face like other hairs of similar styles.

Beautiful outfit Vintorix! Made with MD?

Mazak

Mazak , "Made with MD (Marvelous Designer)?"

Of course, is there anything else?

?

Fantasy Ranger for Dawn.
Got an idea in the middle of the night, had to try it out (never mind people thinking you are a lunatic). Hmm have potential I think!

Quote - Most SubD Meshes are 100% Quads. The topology will have a good flow.

There exist meshes that are NOT 100% quads?  :-)  I'm joking.

Thanks for the tips.  Quads and watch the topology flow.  No poles, I'm assuming.

I do love that subd feature though, in Poser.  :-)

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Fantasy Ranger for Dawn.
Got an idea in the middle of the night, had to try it out (never mind people thinking you are a lunatic). Hmm have potential I think!

Definite potential.  :-)

Quote - Rigging and morphing the dress. I like to make the windy and movement morphs :)

Nice design.  :-)

I'm glad someone likes to make morphs.  I'm joking...it's ok, when Zbrush behaves.  Otherwise, too much importing and exporting for me -- and magnets don't like me.  ;-)

Really nice dress!!!

Insomnia make me work better at night!!! Lol.

No good wondering why you can't sleep, just get on with doing something in the hope you drop off.

Plus it comes in handy if I need to test things into the early hours.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Love all the sneaky peekies of what is to come.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Quote - > Quote - Don't just take my word - here.

Very nice.
Ya might want to subdivide her a time or two.

Sadly, I'm stuck in PP2012 :( no subdivision for me yet.

Oh, ok.  :-)

Well, thank you anyway!

Vintorix, looks great! Both the fix for the tanktop and the other outfit! I wondered why I had a little trouble with the straps but thought it was just because this is the first weight mapped figure I've worked with. I used a spandex shader by kobaltqueen on my demo images. It doesn't have a big bump to it, thought I could up the value somewhat. The shorts that go with the tank top worked fine in several different poses so I think they work good. PM me when you get time. I do like the look of the second outfit!

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Very nice.
Ya might want to subdivide her a time or two.

Sadly, I'm stuck in PP2012 :( no subdivision for me yet.

There's a SubD script.Ask in the Poser forums I'm sure someone will no the name or link.

it's an addon by Snarly. http://www.snarlygribbly.org/3d/forum/viewforum.php?f=28

That's nice!  A subd script for 2012.  :-)

I have P2014, but that script would be handy for the folks who haven't upgraded.  Subd can really improve the looks of some garments and characters.  Not that Dawn isn't beautiful in A-O's render.  Without subd.  :-)

 I have not had the chance to read all the details about Dawn but what will make her stand out from the other figures already on the market? 

Quote -  I have not had the chance to read all the details about Dawn but what will make her stand out from the other figures already on the market? 

The most important, to me, is her rigging. She is fully weight-mapped (meaning that, to support her, vendors had to make the choice of letting go of Poser users with older versions, but will now have to worry less with compatibility of their products), and she bends amazingly well.

Is it easy to rig for Dawn, in Poser?  :-)

That's real important to me, because I luv's to model clothes.

I'm having a blast to rig my outfit for her in Poser. WM makes everything so much easier! She's super easy to understand, too. It's great.

Also, she uses bulge maps in many body parts. Those are found in the Joint Editor. If you copied joints from her, and something in your clothing looks spiked when bent even after you smoothed the WM to no end, check if it has a bulge map - that one probably needs to be smoothed too.

That's fantastic!  :-) 

Dawn is very pretty, in your renders.  I'm looking forward to modeling for her, when she's released.

And yes, weight mapping is fun.  I didn't like it much, to start with, but once I learned to paint those dots...it's great!

I'm not real expert at it yet, but I'm learning.  :-)

Thanks, Afrodite.  You bring good news.

Quote - > Quote -  I have not had the chance to read all the details about Dawn but what will make her stand out from the other figures already on the market? 

 

The most important, to me, is her rigging. She is fully weight-mapped (meaning that, to support her, vendors had to make the choice of letting go of Poser users with older versions, but will now have to worry less with compatibility of their products), and she bends amazingly well.

That's great be nice to have a figure that can bend and look natural.

10 more days!!!

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Quote - 10 more days!!!

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Wow, is it really just...10 more days?  :-)

Quote -  I have not had the chance to read all the details about Dawn but what will make her stand out from the other figures already on the market? 

DAZ stop making characters made for Poser.
with DSON ya could use DAZ Studio Genesis characters in Poser but they where not made for Poser.
So some had issues with DSON Genesis.
Since 99.9% of all Poser Renders have DAZ characters mostly the 2006 V4 in them.
DAZ divided in to DAZ & HiveWire3D.
HiveWire3D Makes up to date Poser Characters made for Poser.
Something Poser has not had since 2006.
You know how out dated 7 year old tech is.

Just a few notes -

Quote - DAZ divided in to DAZ & HiveWire3D.

Daz did not divide into Daz & Hivewire - the people who started Hivewire used to work for Daz and left the company some time ago.

Quote - HiveWire3D Makes up to date Poser Characters made for Poser.

Hivewire3d is just making Poser Characters.  There are separate versions of Dawn for DS and for Poser, and Hivewire itself is a company whose store will sell things for different programs

:)

Quote - Hivewire3d is just making Poser Characters.  There are separate versions of Dawn for DS and for Poser, and Hivewire itself is a company whose store will sell things for different programs

That's pretty cool -- not that there had to be separate Poser/DS figures, but that HW took the time to do that.  :-)

We might as well face it...some of us are going to like Poser better, and some DS.  No shame, no blame, that's just the way it is.  Just like some of us like to model in Silo, some in Modo, some in Lightwave, some in Zbrush...we're individuals.  It'd be boring if we were all clones. 

Quote - Hivewire3d is just making Poser Characters.

OOPS...of course, that should have been Hivewire3d is NOT just making Poser Characters

:rolleyes:

I was just answering dragonsfirenh question.

I've always said Lightwave divided in to Lightwave & Mode.
No ones ever fussed at me over it.

I never said Dawns just for Poser and not for DAZ Studio.
I never said HiveWire3D is a restricted store.

I have DAZ Studio and Poser .
Even talked to the DAZ Crew on the Lightwave forums,
Think is was back in the V3 days.

I wish DAZ,HiveWire3D,Poser the Best .
I would never wish a Artist bad.

Most of all I Sincerely wish Dawn will end the Civil War.

Quote - I was just answering dragonsfirenh question.

I never said Dawns just for Poser and not for DAZ Studio.
I never said HiveWire3D is a restricted store.

No, you didn't ;)  I was just trying to make that clear for the person who asked :)

Quote - Most of all I Sincerely wish Dawn will end the Civil War.

Agreed :)  I use both programs, too, and hate the division between people using them.

Quote - Most of all I Sincerely wish Dawn will end the Civil War.

I thought the South already surrendered!  ;-)

Just kidding.

Me, too -- we don't fight over "Lightwave is better than Modo is better than Zbrush, etc."  So why should we fight over which program we choose to setup/render with?

Dawn's not bad, she's just "drawn" that way!!!! ROFL.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Quote - > Quote - I was just answering dragonsfirenh question.

I never said Dawns just for Poser and not for DAZ Studio.
I never said HiveWire3D is a restricted store.

No, you didn't ;)  I was just trying to make that clear for the person who asked :)

Quote - Most of all I Sincerely wish Dawn will end the Civil War.

Agreed :)  I use both programs, too, and hate the division between people using them.

The problem is that the programs have diversed. Lot of content designed for one program does not work in the other and vice versa.

So it is not a matter of choosing the program, but the content you are going to use often dictates the program you are going to use.

If Dawn is really a figure with content which can be used in both programs, then that would be a step in the right direction. But it has to work good in both programs and one version cannot have a subset of the funcionality compared to the other version.

We will see when Dawn is released

Quote - Closer, and closer..... Lol.

Dawn's not bad, she's just "drawn" that way!!!! ROFL.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

That's pretty!  That'd be nice for a grisaille for a colored pencil "painting."  That's cheating, but it's a quick way to get a nice shaded underpainting.  :-)

I may need to check out that particular shading/render system, assuming I'll ever do cp again.

Nothings cheating if it helps in art!!! Lol.

Those are the PASS Sketching Starter Kit shaders from over at RDNA.

Now a day closer than when I posted the pic!!! Evil little me!!!! LOL.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Yeah, we're in August!  :-)

Thanks to you, I grabbed the RD Sketch PASS kit.  Makes me want to do colored pencil again.  Seriously, you can take a grayscale printout on good paper (like stonehenge), layer some cp on it -- and it's beautiful!

Your Dawn render would look great, done up that way.

So much fun stuff to do -- and so many real life things that get in the way.  ;-)

Ok, 8 more days till Dawn!

Quote - Yeah, we're in August!  :-)

Thanks to you, I grabbed the RD Sketch PASS kit.  Makes me want to do colored pencil again.  Seriously, you can take a grayscale printout on good paper (like stonehenge), layer some cp on it -- and it's beautiful!

Your Dawn render would look great, done up that way.

So much fun stuff to do -- and so many real life things that get in the way.  ;-)

Ok, 8 more days till Dawn!

 

I assume this won't work with Poser 7?!   :(

 

 

 

Dawn will only work in Poser 9+ and DS4.5+.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Yep, it's August, closer and closer!!! Lol.

At least you get to play with your new sketch shaders!! Lol.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

Quote - Dawn will only work in Poser 9+ and DS4.5+.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

I am really sorry...over medicated for a slipped disk. I know about Dawn...I meant to ask  about the mentioned RD Sketch PASS kit?

Quote - > Quote - Dawn will only work in Poser 9+ and DS4.5+.

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG

 

I am really sorry...over medicated for a slipped disk. I know about Dawn...I meant to ask  about the mentioned RD Sketch PASS kit?

only in P19 or PP2014 - it uses compound nodes which are new

Yep, the shaders are P9+

All the best.

Great Uncle LROG