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I hope I don't sound like a wet blanket but I'm getting a bit concerned that all the off-topic messages might alienate people who look for this thread as a place to see Reality-based workflows and renders. Especially new users.

I'm not saying to not have the friendly back-and-forth every now and then but it would be great if we can have a place where Reality techniques are showcased and discussed.

Thank you very much for your understanding. 

 

LOL make a reality banter thread good point!

Yeah, I've been thinking we need  a separate "Doc and KH flirt with Abi" thread. 

Quote - > Quote - Easy render, hard choices.  There are 4 or 5 different film responses that I really like with this image, but finally decided to go B&W-- Agfapan APX 400 (with sepia added in PS).  

I'd say I prefer this one Brad. B&w fits the theme!

How's your comic going, by the way? Still working on it?

Thanks, I do think this one is my favorite after staring at them for a while.

The comic is always going in my head, I'll play around with a panel or two sometimes, but really waiting until I feel like my Daz skills are good enough to tackle something that big.

Easy render, hard choices.  There are 4 or 5 different film responses that I really like with this image, but finally decided to go B&W-- Agfapan APX 400 (with sepia added in PS).  

if you give a werewolf a cupcake...

I love working with black and white. 

Quote - > Quote - Thanks callad, off to check it out.

 

OT anyone here taken advantage of the PA sale at DAZ? Curious to know what goodies anyones purchased.  Got a few new items today that I am interested in from Flipmode.

I have not taken much advantage of it this year. I picked up Marja Hair, which I think I will return and The FM Tank Top. I'm still looking at the World Base XT but would like to see soom renders first.  hint hint

This image I did the other day is using the World Base XT Snowland pack.  I removed the sky that came preloaded and used a Skies of Reality IBL instead. I like the trees but the ground textures need some work. I didn't do anything to them in this image but I'm working on another image that angles towards the ground more and it looks pretty bad, so I need to spend some time this weekend figuring out how to make it look better. 

I like mixing my adictions (that would be Daz and gaming), so here's one inspired by my Norn bow warrior from Guild Wars 2.  Click for super-size (seriously, it's really big, so make sure you have a few seconds for it to load). 

Quote - Don't you have a sleep mode?

It was disconnected when I had kids.

Quote - What caused it to pause and can't you turn off whatever it was that paused it?

I was what paused it and sometimes I wish I could turn myself off for a little while.

I hate waking up in the morning and finding that the render you left running during the night was paused. 

Quote - I just picked up some new hair sets from Mairy & 3Dream (they were among yesterday's featured artists at the DAZ PA sale)

This one is Eurydice Hair ( 2 styles), an older product I have been wanting to try out. I think it looks pretty good for out-of-the-box(no bump, displacement or normal maps)

Once I get a copy of CrazyBump I will make bump maps for the set I think.  

Meanwhile, I seem to remember someone (Paolo maybe?) posting about using the diffuse texture as a bump map? Anyone have details on how to go about this or maybe alternate methods of making a bump/normal map from the Diffuse? I used to have Randall's homemade bump map to fall back on at least, but lost it in my recent HD restructuring. ( I think I accidently deleted the folder it was in sigh hope that's all I lost lol)

I liked the hair results enough to try it out in my close-up shot:

I like the way it turned out, what little of it you can see looks good to me. What do you guys think of the hair?

 

Michael

I love the Eurydice hair.  It's one on my favorites that I use all the time.  

And to join the bump/normal discussion below, I'm using the NVIDIA normal map filter plugin for Photoshop. It's free, easy, and I think the majority people here have Photoshop.