Redfern posted at 11:55PM Wed, 24 June 2020 - #4392951

I misread that name as "Vanilla" and I thought, "Hmm, looks more like a 'Cocoa'. Equally delicious!" ;-)

Sincerely,

Bill

"A rose by any other name..."

Aiko 4 x 3...

I don't know what I was thinking with this one, I can barely handle posing two arms. Maybe the extras only come out for special occasions?

Djinn Queen

https://sharecg.com/v/96028/view/11/Poser/Dody-Character-Preset-For-Aiko-3

Cool. Cute character. I have Nursoda's Lada/Kali hair too, thanks. Unfortunately Kali is less than thrilled with this development.

EldritchCellar posted at 3:59PM Sun, 05 July 2020 - #4393879

Cool. Cute character. I have Nursoda's Lada/Kali hair too, thanks. Unfortunately Kali is less than thrilled with this development.

I can't go forgetting Aiko's man now can I.

I'm curious why you don't render with Poser Ethin. I mean it is an Aiko thread, which is both a DS and Poser compatible figure (although A3 was a Poser figure at it's inception)... but it's the Official Poser Forum, A3 is a Poser figure. I'm wondering how well this would go over at Daz if you were to blitz a thread there with Poser T Pose renders LOL. Just being that guy and pointing out the elephant in the room. Do you use Poser?

I should hijack this thread with NearMe renders LOL. I wonder how long it would be before the forces of good intervened.

EldritchCellar posted at 12:39AM Sat, 11 July 2020 - #4394289

I'm curious why you don't render with Poser Ethin. I mean it is an Aiko thread, which is both a DS and Poser compatible figure (although A3 was a Poser figure at it's inception)... but it's the Official Poser Forum, A3 is a Poser figure. I'm wondering how well this would go over at Daz if you were to blitz a thread there with Poser T Pose renders LOL. Just being that guy and pointing out the elephant in the room. Do you use Poser?

No I don't really use Poser, I sorta know my way around from my early days of freebie creation, but never really used it for rendering.

The peeps in the A3 thread over @ DAZ haven't run me off yet.

Ah. Good response. You're not posting Poser renders there though. On the other hand I always found a lot of the people on the forum there very friendly and helpful when I'd go there to ask questions about DS compatibility, in particular mjc1016, so who knows.

Aiko3 as "action figure". Here she is wearing Plebeian(daz) with the texture of an old product: RA Leather (Renderosity)

EldritchCellar posted at 11:52PM Thu, 16 July 2020 - #4394289

I'm curious why you don't render with Poser Ethin. I mean it is an Aiko thread, which is both a DS and Poser compatible figure (although A3 was a Poser figure at it's inception)... but it's the Official Poser Forum, A3 is a Poser figure. I'm wondering how well this would go over at Daz if you were to blitz a thread there with Poser T Pose renders LOL. Just being that guy and pointing out the elephant in the room. Do you use Poser?

Well, this thread was started in 2015 and is called "Everything Aiko". Somebody could argue that "Everything" means every software too. LOL

(NearMe renders would only work with an Aiko in the same picture)

Me? I like Poser (Pro 2014), DazStudio, Bryce ...

And Brielle - one of my favourites -

Here is Joseph Michael Linsner Dawn from Cry for Dawn series comic. Its Aiko 3.0

Kerya posted at 12:27PM Fri, 17 July 2020 - #4394641

EldritchCellar posted at 11:52PM Thu, 16 July 2020 - #4394289

I'm curious why you don't render with Poser Ethin. I mean it is an Aiko thread, which is both a DS and Poser compatible figure (although A3 was a Poser figure at it's inception)... but it's the Official Poser Forum, A3 is a Poser figure. I'm wondering how well this would go over at Daz if you were to blitz a thread there with Poser T Pose renders LOL. Just being that guy and pointing out the elephant in the room. Do you use Poser?

Well, this thread was started in 2015 and is called "Everything Aiko". Somebody could argue that "Everything" means every software too. LOL

(NearMe renders would only work with an Aiko in the same picture)

Me? I like Poser (Pro 2014), DazStudio, Bryce ...

I know. I was the first person to ever post an image (besides OP) on the thread (as primorge then). I later posted more images.

Anyway I have an idea for an image that includes A3, and many other maybe more obscure Anime Style figures. I'll start throwing it together when I get done from work tonight, thanks for the inspiration. I also use many softwares, just not DS. Not a bias, just never got around to it, what with Poser and all the others and such.

Love your site btw ?

Aiko 3

Mint Chocolate Kit

Sir, Your 2:00 Is Here.

I don't think she's from accounting.

I've had Liquid Rust's Belladonna for V4 for a bit. I've used her converted texture on Aiko before, decided the other day to try my hand at approximating her with A3. She's still very much A3 but not bad, even had the clothes to kida match the second skin Bella comes with.

Overall I like how this came out, but I don't really think pinups like this are my thing.

ethin posted at 7:26AM Mon, 21 September 2020 - #4399984

Nice work. Love the lighting.

I don't remember that character for Aiko. I do remember there was a morph and texture pack that turned V1/2 into a humanoid cat.

@randym77 .. That's a render of Melody.

Nice work. Love the lighting.

I don't remember that character for Aiko. I do remember there was a morph and texture pack that turned V1/2 into a humanoid cat.

Thanks! Yeah its only 80% Aiko.

Splendid collection!

A_Sunbeam posted at 5:41PM Wed, 09 December 2020 - #4406632

Splendid collection!

Thanks!

Searching for another topic I found this and took the chance to make a render with Aiko. Character is from illusion design, dress by Kobomax and the trike from Blackhearted

A3 on Stonemason's Urban Future 2, with all of the streetlamps and neon signs re-matted as P12 meshlights.

Thanks for posting!

Aiko 3, descending the stairs in Ryoko dress and Anayumi boots. The building is part of Stonemason's Urban Future 3 set, to which I added the interior with meshlighting. This is a Superfly render lit by the meshlights.

For getting an interior shot, I made interior wall surfaces for the curved wall, and found that this also gave the light something to bounce off of, with the result that the same outside shot is now better lit. :D This is Aiko 3, with Thorne's Sydni morph and maps (tweaked for Superfly).

The interior shot...

distant shot giving context for the spiral stairway...

Who ya gonna call?!?

Blonde with pink bows is A3 Sylfie (by Thorne & Sarsa), redhead with ponytail is A3 Pazu (by Thorne and Sarsa). Instructor is L'Homme.

P12 Superfly renders. The building is an old Redhouse model, the Ballroom. The wall-mounted candle-like lights are apparently intended to be electric, since the material zone is named "bulb". I set them as meshlights, and added the chandelier (also set as meshlight).

Aiko 3 Sylfie, P12 Superfly...

Question: How are you managing the foggy background? I love the way it shows up in the scene.

It's not a foggy background; the scene has volumetric fog throughout - note the godray from her head downward roughly parallel with her sword.

To do this, place a box mesh engulfing the construct. The box will be your volumetric air. Place a plane over the box; this plane will be a transparency gobo for the infinite light (the only light in the scene). The gobo will simulate breaks in the clouds. The gobo plane should considerably overhang beyond the edges of the atmosphere box, so that rays from the infinite light must pass through the gobo to reach the atmosphere (air) box.

I separated the construct's skydome from its terrain, and re-imported them as two separate props, so that I could set the skydome's properties to not participate as a light emitter, not cast shadows, and not be visible in raytracing. Thus the skydome appears in the render, but it does not light up the fog near the skydome walls. I had to set the sky to ambient value 7 to get it to show properly.

example of a simple material for the gobo plane: The infinite light strength was 12,500%.

Material setup for the volumetric "air" box; the absorption color is slightly blue.

Render settings will need to use volume samples and volume bounces. Expect long render times.

Thank you for the quick tutorial. This is something worth tinkering with in the near future.

A3 Sylfie again, but with more shadow/light contrast (controlled by the infinite light's gobo) and more subtle fog/godrays (controlled by the volumetric material settings of the "air box".

Mulberry despatches Imperial droids, burning clean through one with her lightsabre, and using "the Force" blast to slam the other. P12 Superfly with motion blur engaged; the force lightning, molten metal, and lightsabre are lightcaster meshes. View from behind Mulberry is rendering now (motion blur takes a long time to render).

Aiko 3 (with Sarsa's Mulberry morph and lightened MAT) is wearing Appleseed gear, but using Jedi weapons, and she looks more like Buffy the vampire slayer than like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Stonemason's the ARC (circa 2007, P7 era) updated with Superfly metals and lightcasting.

A3 Mulberry again, viewed from behind:

Cousin, where did you get her suit?

That's Trooper for A3 by Royloo; I got it from Poser Pros on 13 March 2008. It looks very like the suit worn by the anime character Deunan Knute in the second Appleseed movie, Ex Machina.

Wow, it looks good. I am assuming that you updated the mats for Superfly...