I'm not sure anyone is even following this thread anymore, but anyhow...

I did a quick down and dirty Inquisitor Lightsaber. I didn't detail it much, and only put placeholder materials on it. I am going to do one that is not as poly heavy as this one is, at over 50K.

But what do you think? Can anyone use this? I will model the blades if anyone wants it.

Very nice.  A beautiful-looking piece.  If you make it available, I'll be glad to play around with it.  I love honing my Poser Cycles skills.  

I won't make this one available. I will do one that won't be taxing to most computers. This one was just an exercise to come up with a way to model it. Turns out a torus and a cylinder are the only things I needed.

The final product will be available. And have a few more details, like an activation button or switch. This one was based off a 3D printed version. I will try to find some better reference images later on.

It's pretty.

I am having issues reproducing it. I was tempted to just do a retopology, but I am not really good enough in Blender to do it. It's tough to do in Wings 3D.

The way it's supposed to work is that the emitter heads are attached to the ring, and they spin around it when it's ignited. But I can't find a decent picture of one to be able to emulate that. I am going to have to wing it. All the reference images I find are not really good enough to figure out how it works.

I can take a crack at retopoing it for you. Strictly algorithm in either mudbox or Zbrush. I have retopoflow for Blender but thats very time consuming, its manual retopology. Very cool but still some work. I find it meditative though. I use it a bit for making clothes ( what little I've made) or fixing some of my basemeshes that I hoard. The results with algorithm retopology aren't "wow beautiful craftsmanship" but more like "hey it's the forms in less than a million polys at a button push and a few edgeflow guide strokes"

Ok. Times up. Nevermind. Back to painting lol.

I realized where I went wrong. Since I didn't get too far along, I am simply going to delete the cylinder and start again.

But thanks for the offer. I was off taking care of my pit bull and got notified of a response. I don't hang out here like I used to. I don't think anyone does, judging by how slow some of these threads are.

Yup. It's a cold fish.

Pretty soon it'll just be like 3 dudes and some lady with a scowling avatar... And all they'll know is Superfly render settings lol. No offense to hborre ;)

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

Yup. It's a cold fish.

Pretty soon it'll just be like 3 dudes and some lady with a scowling avatar... And all they'll know is Superfly render settings lol. No offense to hborre ;)

Wow, I don't know how to respond...

rokket posted at 10:23 PM Sat, 13 August 2022 - #4442745

Wow, I don't know how to respond...

Thanks again for helping me find that dress hborre :)

rokket posted at 10:23 PM Sat, 13 August 2022 - #4442745

Wow, I don't know how to respond...

The horror. How about "screw you primorge" lol. I won't break.

Thanks again for helping me find that dress hborre :)

What's a little banter among friends?  We're all one happy family.

I think it's a given that I have ADD or something. I start on one project and then go to another.

My idea of either a Sith or maybe just a fallen Jedi. Not sure...

WOW!  You can go either way with this one.

I was just experimenting. I have to go take care of my dog. He's going nuts outside my bedroom door...

Ok, I'll quit messing with it now...

I decided I wasn't done messing with it. I am going to rig that suit and adjust the fallout and weightmaps until I don't have to spend so much time fixing the parts with the morph brush...

So I am doing a render... Gwen Stacy making the biggest mistake of her young life.

More when the render is done. It's going to take awhile. There are 3 mirrors in the scene.

Was that allowing herself to be pushed off the building by the Green Goblin?

hborre posted at 7:56 PM Tue, 16 August 2022 - #4442829

Was that allowing herself to be pushed off the building by the Green Goblin?

There is some comedy in this....

Was that allowing herself to be pushed off the building by the Green Goblin?

Ah, the Ghost Spider!

hborre posted at 8:26 PM Tue, 16 August 2022 - #4442832

Ah, the Ghost Spider!

This render didn't cook long enough, but you get the idea. I will probably do another one when I am busy and can let it go the distance.

I changed some things around. I modified V4's pose and added a cell phone that she is trying to pick up. I may have gotten the lighting a little too dark...

I need to add a ceiling...

What type of lighting are you trying to achieve?  By my assessment, since this is a studio you should have multiple light sources from the ceiling.  Studio walls are painted in light colors, they are much more reflective and illuminate the room.  And don't forget that overhead lamps need inverse squared attenuation to simulate realistic light dropoff.

I added 3 torus' and then lit them with the Physical Surface node by ramping up the emissions. I don't know how to change the attenuation. I will look. It's probably something I know but my old brain wants to forget.

I basically just added primitives and not actual lights

This is how it's done.  If you use Blackbody node lighting in degrees Kelvin to simulate the specific types of lights or lighting, that will get plugged into the Emission channel.  The color chip should be set to white.

I am messing with that setup you posted that added the blackbody node. I didn't even realize that you could use the Cycles nodes with the Physical Surface.

Really cool. I am tweaking the settings as I go.

You can even use the Wavelength node as a source of color for theatrics but the pallet range is limited. 

I have the blackbody node temperature set at 6000, and I have the Lightfalloff set at 200. Seems to be working.

Here is the render at the 2nd sample:

I'll post the final render when it completes. It's going to take most of the afternoon to finish, I think...

The lighting looks very good.  Unfortunately, mesh-based lighting can be grainy if your pixel sampling is too low.  Otherwise, it actually looks like a studio.

I use progressive sampling, so that was the shot as soon as the scene popped up. It's almost 60% rendered right now. I am seeing some spots (what is the nickname for those?) in the render that may or may not render out. My pixel sampling is 12, and it has served me well. Maybe this one will need more, but I will wait and see.

The white ones are fireflies, the rest are noise.

Fireflies. That's cute. Like the old render engine...

So the fireflies were mostly in the mirrors. I guess I have to change the settings on the reflective surface in the materials room.

In the meantime, I have messed with this enough for today...

I didn't let the render finish. It was about 67% finished when I stopped it. I am pretty sure it wouldn't have looked much better if I let it go the distance, until I change a few settings here and there.

Premise:

Gwen: Jennifer, this place is boring. I need a real workout, not this.

She Hulk: Just give it a chance. Wait until the trainer shows up. You'll see. Oh crap, I dropped my phone.

Gwen: *IDEA*

That hand will take time to heal properly.  I guess no web-slinging for a while.

hborre posted at 7:59 PM Wed, 17 August 2022 - #4442882

That hand will take time to heal properly.  I guess no web-slinging for a while.

Worse, she swatted her on the ass, and the result was Jennifer trying to catch her to smack her too. The studio got torn apart...

EZDome is so nice. The only lights in the scene are from the dome and an added sun.

You can do the same thing with Poser's Background.  Rotating the environment is trickier but it can give you the same results.

If you set the u_offset to .25 on BB's EnvSphere, it will match the background's default rotation. Then you can turn the sphere to see what rotation you want. Then convert the y-rotation from degrees to radians and set that in the background's rotation if you use the setup here https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2961030/rotation-when-using-an-hdr-bitmap-on-the-background-node. It sounds way more complicated than it is.

you can use the background to light an outdoor set and it will provide the sunlight and shadows. Background lighting also renders with less noise than a dome. I don't use background lighting all the time but it does make sense for outside shots.

Is that the Spaniard from The Highlander?