An ambient lamp?  Yeah that can work.

With the tv, you need a separate light emitter or you get a washed out image

Here is a tv with the screen lit

Here us the same tv with a light emitter as seachnasaigh suggests

Thanks, that clears it up. Hborre, it's got both an ambient value and a point light. I wish we had area lights but this should do I think. 

A little closer to done.

Teyon,

The walls are too bare. How about breaking up the monotony with  some picture frames and moulding around the baseboard and ceiling. 

They're not even properly textured yet :)

cough Tray Celing cough

Looking good, Teyon! :D

I actually have a wall set with one. I need to get it textured also, so it can be used with this stuff. And thank you :)

Just needs a carpet, a small table, some decorations.

And on this side, the side we are looking from, a small kitchen in the same style.

Nice work..

Here's one with white and mithril as was requested by seachnasaigh.

That's a really nice dress.

[quote RedPhantom]  "Here's one with white and mithril..." [/quote]

     Ooh, yeah, that's fit for an elvish lady. :D

Teyon, regarding the glowing TV screen, as RedPhantom demonstrated, IDL does not respond in proper proportion to an active light source;  it was only designed for passive diffuse bounces (cf Mantis 33917).  So, use an unseen emitter to cast the light.

     I omitted the glass from the windows of the carriage, and that sped up rendering considerably.  Also smoothed out the shape, and improved UV mapping.  In the scene, the materials have been adjusted for IDL.  The old style A3 skins really don't work for twilight scenes, but take the square root (color math node) of the texture map and add SSS, and they lighten up.

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OK I realized I forgot to turn the shadows back on for that last render. It looks much better with shadows, at least I think so.

An unfinished project I started on a ways back and never got the chance to complete...

And a couple of early texture tests for the aircraft and a pilot uniform I was making...

Here's a dress I've been working on. It's a dynamic dress for Sydney. It comes with 14 textures. You can find it in the free stuff here or at sharecg. All shaders are based on bagginsbill's nylon or mithril shaders posted in the forum here.

What do you guys think, too much reflection or too little?

Is it wood or canvas?
Hard to give an opinion cause if it's wood it depends what it's coated in I suppose, lots of different finishes for wood.

It's wood. It's meant to be one of those hard wood floor tiles (or look-a-like tiles) with a somewhat reflective varnish.

Hey Teyon, for a polished wooden floor the reflection looks ok.

But? The displacement-bump-normal map looks a bit overdone. (Do not know what you used, so I put all 3 in them)

For floor varnish it's probably not refective enough, and it sort of ties in with what Vilters said about the bump, too much bump so your bump is probably making it look slightly duller or rougher than the surface should be - acting like a microsurface at steep angles.

That thread Baggins started the other day with that glossy wooden box, that finish, I'd say that's spot on for a wooden floor as well, absolutely spot-on.  He even had the orange-peel effect on it.  That's the sort of detail that makes all the difference with surfaces.  I'm going to have to download that material thing of his, especially after seeing that box, cause unless he used double geometry to get a thickness look to the gloss (and I doubt it), I have to know what he did to get that.

I agree with Tony, the bump that you used for the grain is too strong. It makes it hard to tell the reflection, but I think it probably looks good.

Here's my next outfit. It's not UV-mapped yet and I need to decide about rigging it. I probably won't do as many textures as I did the last one, but it will have one than one.

I'd posted some WIP pics of some alternate Squadron Colours I'd been working on for the F-4B Phantom model I'd made... The base textures I'd made for the Phantom represent VF-92, the "Silver KIngs" circa 1972 flying from the USS Constellation. My last post in that regard was a set of textures for VF-111, the "Sundowners" flying from the USS Coral Sea in Vietnam in 1970-71. Here's my next set... VF-84, the "Jolly Rogers" who flew from USS Independence in 1965 over Vietnam...

Next up will be VF-96, the "Fighting Falcons" who flew along side VF-92 during the 1971-72 deployment of the USS Constellation...

Testing some of my props in the Modular Living series over at Runtime DNA. Not sure what's up with the wall shadow behind the lamp. I need to look into what I did differently between the wall I made and textured and the walls that came with Modular Living.

I like that floor, but the reflection is way off. Looks washed out or faded or something.

I got the last of the work done for the VF-96 textures. Here is VF-96, the Fighting Falcons circa 1972 when they, along with VF-92, formed CAG-9 aboard USS Constellation... Driscoll and Cunningham of VF-96 scored 5 confirmed kills against MiG-17's and MiG-21's during this deployment, making them aces...

I've been working on this, but I'm not sure I'm happy with it. What's everyone else's opinion so far?

test render:  Jedi Rex vs Sith Creech...

     The cloak crumpled poorly because I forgot to triangulate the cloth; the glow aura on the red light sabre is hardly visible, but the blue light claymore is doing alright, save for the uninspired hilt/grip materials.   The light sabres are active IDL light-casters in P9+.

     Silo screenshot of the claymore:

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     Unlike the Hollywood design, this claymore would stop/block/parry an opponent's light blade, and the crossguard blades have shields on the back side to prevent the user from impaling himself on the crossguards.  And no, the blades don't touch or pass through one another. ;P

Started sculpting again. Hope to complete this character for Poser.

Not sure what to do with the lower half though. Options: Could go all troll like or I could go Centaur for a chubby centaur with horns. I could do some other kind of hybrid also.  Or I could cop out and do demon legs with tiny wings on his back. What do you guys think? Also, if I do the wings and make him for Poser, do you guys prefer wings with separate, flat poly membranes or wings like Dregon's that have thickness? I'm not partial to either.

Started sculpting again. Hope to complete this character for Poser.

Not sure what to do with the lower half though. Options: Could go all troll like or I could go Centaur for a chubby centaur with horns. I could do some other kind of hybrid also.  Or I could cop out and do demon legs with tiny wings on his back. What do you guys think? Also, if I do the wings and make him for Poser, do you guys prefer wings with separate, flat poly membranes or wings like Dregon's that have thickness? I'm not partial to either.

Give him muscular legs and a stub of a tail. Have his normal stance be sort of a crouch. That's what I see when I look at him.

I picture something like the cyber demon's real leg but maybe with cloven hooves.

Added full-time cooling to my battery/surge units;  I power the extra fans with a $13.62 PC power supply, with a jumper from the green wire of the 24-pin to the adjacent black wire.  That turns the power supply on.  The fans are color-coded to match the workstation which they protect (purple for Galadriel, red for Cameron, etc.)

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     Added USB 3 and eSATA support to my workstations (and even the Harpertown CPU drones) to support motion capture sensors.  Also added color-coded fans while I was at it.  Here are Galadriel, Eir and Kara.  Each of my workstations has a signature color.  For example, Galadriel's chassis glow purple, her keyboard glows violet, her mouse glows purple, her Cat6 cables are purple and violet.

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     Galadriel's interior.  Originally equipped with a H/T quad core i7 and 12GB RAM, her X-58 mainchipped motherboard's BIOS chip died.  She now has an E-ATX server/workstation motherboard, dual liquid-cooled X5690 Xeon HyperThreaded hex core processors (3.46GHz, 3.73GHz turbo, without overclocking), and 96GB of registered Error Correcting Code memory with heat spreaders.  The liquid cooling radiators are double thick, with fans at both front and rear of each radiator.  Twenty four render threads with 96GB of memory! :D

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I've been working on this, but I'm not sure I'm happy with it. What's everyone else's opinion so far?

think it looks great, haven't seen that style of hair done well before really. little bit odd at the back of the head from that angle, but otherwise seems awesome.

Started sculpting again. Hope to complete this character for Poser.

Not sure what to do with the lower half though. Options: Could go all troll like or I could go Centaur for a chubby centaur with horns. I could do some other kind of hybrid also.  Or I could cop out and do demon legs with tiny wings on his back. What do you guys think? Also, if I do the wings and make him for Poser, do you guys prefer wings with separate, flat poly membranes or wings like Dregon's that have thickness? I'm not partial to either.

Give him muscular legs and a stub of a tail. Have his normal stance be sort of a crouch. That's what I see when I look at him.
agree with this. raptor/bipedal style dinosaur legs and a stubby tail would be cool.

as for wings, might be better without, but if you did them, single plane trans mapped membrane would be my vote.

Started sculpting again. Hope to complete this character for Poser.

Not sure what to do with the lower half though. Options: Could go all troll like or I could go Centaur for a chubby centaur with horns. I could do some other kind of hybrid also.  Or I could cop out and do demon legs with tiny wings on his back. What do you guys think? Also, if I do the wings and make him for Poser, do you guys prefer wings with separate, flat poly membranes or wings like Dregon's that have thickness? I'm not partial to either.

Could you morph out the horns and give him  Hulk-like legs, Teyon? I think he'd make a great Shrek-style ogre.

Walls, floors and light fixtures (including floor lamp) are part of RDNA's Modular Living Series. All other furniture in this shot are by me. Finally got it in the store, though I didn't have the time to make the set as robust as I was hoping. Next set will be.

Not a criticism of your work, Teyon. That, as usual, is excellent. I dislike shots of rooms like this though. I guess I'm just kind of into the type of rooms you find in home magazines that show a "lived in" living room. It gives the room a personality. The one above has none.

I think we're a dying breed, Clarkie, I think most people's homes today look like offices - cold and hollow - yuck!

Same opinion here, nothing against Teyon's room (and it would look a lot better with some moody lighting), but I'm convinced that carpet has become something of a mystery to some.  And the funny thing is, while people complain about poor insulation these days, having a horrible, noisy, office-floor in your living room doesn't exactly help matters does it.  It's a pathetic fad brought about by the media (TV home makeover programs and crap like that).  It was the same here in the UK, suddenly people were throwing out Axmister and Shagpile carpets and replacing them with crappy laminated flooring designed for offices, toilets and bathrooms etc.  Thankfully, I think that fad is starting to wear off now, but it took it's time.  But anyway, give me a cosy old Gothic or 70's interior anyday.

Talk about heaven on earth, I think this pic pretty much sums up mine:

Thanks for the feedback gang. I suck at renders these days. It's a skill I think I've lost completely. That image was more about promoting the furniture than the artistic value of the piece itself but in advertising you should try to be a bit artsy. I'll have to remember that.

I prefer spartan living to cluttered "lived in". I grew up with clutter and still have to deal with it when I go to my mom's. It's depressing and stifling. I like wide open spotless rooms. Much easier to work and breathe in. As it is all my belongings are in one room and I hate it.

I want that couch tho. Couch/bed thing. Only it would have to be in a much larger room, and a house that I never plan on leaving, cause that would be a beast to move.

Testing some of my props in the Modular Living series over at Runtime DNA. Not sure what's up with the wall shadow behind the lamp. I need to look into what I did differently between the wall I made and textured and the walls that came with Modular Living.

I love that wood floor. Would you mind sharing how you achieved it? Maybe just a bit less specular. Less lacquer/varnish.

This particular wood floor I had nothing to do with. After the feedback on my attempts, I decided to use the one that came with the modular living set at RDNA. Only the furniture in that image was modeled and textured by me. The Walls, floor and glass door came with the modular living: the basics set.

Ok, going to try this out. Let's see if it works!

Edit: hmm....nope, didn't work. Going to try something else instead:

Edit again:  Nope, that didn't work either. Oh well. I'll post up some images later then.

Just made this dynamic wedding dress for Poser 9 Alyson. It's going into free stuff here, and at ShareCG.

Just made this dynamic wedding dress for Poser 9 Alyson. It's going into free stuff here, and at ShareCG.

It's also going into my runtime. :)  That looks great.

Principal design done. Now I need to retopo it, UV map it, do the high frequency detailing and texturing and then rig the thing.

Principal design done. Now I need to retopo it, UV map it, do the high frequency detailing and texturing and then rig the thing.

that is awesome. cant wait to see it done.

Principal design done. Now I need to retopo it, UV map it, do the high frequency detailing and texturing and then rig the thing.

Love that. Now I need to figure out an image so I can use him or maybe it.

@ Nanette => LOVELY dress, realy nice work on the texturing too. Nice Job my dear.

@ Teyon => Allow  one comment/tip for you please.

You write you have to retopology, so most of the detail will go in a map. Alow to sugest bump or displacement map.

No normal maps please for 3 reasons.

• They are less end user friendly to set their intensity
• Less end user friendly to adapt / change
• But worst of all => All specular IGNORES the normal maps in Poser. 

@ Teyon  => This is what BB wrote on Normal maps.

On the other hand, I have demonstrated that a normal map, by its nature, does not let you adjust the intensity of the bump effect the way you can so easily do with a bump map. Furthermore, I have demonstrated several times that Poser Pro has a serious BUG with normal maps that make them useless.

All of the specular effects IGNORE THE NORMAL MAP. Some developer forgot to add the support for normal maps into the specular functions. Only the diffuse functions pay any attention to normal maps.

In my opinion, this makes them utterly useless. While there is some importance to the direction of surface normal in diffuse reflections, the primary impact is on specular reflections. Poser Pro's failure to include the normal map in specular reflection calculations means you just shouldn't use them at all.

That's great and all but nope. Normal maps are more useful to me as I will be selling this for both the Poser and game community. I will include displacement maps also but yeah, BB's right about a lot of things but in this one thing for certain we disagree. Normal Maps have their uses and for me in particular, Poser is not the only community I'm concerned with.