Wow!! Guys, your pics are just EPIC!! You can't imagine how much it makes me happy to see my outfits in so many amazing renders!!! Really makes it worth the effort! :heart_tip:

dorkati posted at 9:03PM Sun, 18 March 2018 - #4326217

I have some, but here is the last one!

That is so amazing!! Love the light and how it's shimmering on her skin! Great work!

I think this would be my favourite.

Woohoo great news Ashley. Thank you! And great competition so far.

The deadline is indeed a bit short. It's there maybe a way to add a few more days? And can we actually post renders that we have already done?

Love that video with the little effects added. Getting ready to render my entry.

I'm still in shock by this. My deepest condolences to her family.

To show bantha and RedPhantom the maps of the character i'm currently working on....

As the guy who just released Odelle recently, i can tell you that there IS a market for it. The feedback i've gotten so far is simply overwhelming. People messaged me to thank me personally, that i have made something different. Seems like people are really craving for it.

To what RedPhantom said. Yes, It takes time to make good maps. But i see it differently. That's our Job. It's our Job to make the best characters possible, with the best maps possible. That's how every company works. Everybody is trying to make the best products they can and i'm a firm believer that this attitude towards quality will be rewarded with sales but also with the recognition of the community.

I have a 2gb Nvidia gtx745 plus 2gb Intel HD graphics. The pic I've posted was one the slowest renders I've done. A normal one without or with not so prominent particle hair, Web sized takes about an hour. Maybe two. But I'm talking about original cycles. Cycles is like iray there. If your machine can handle iray, you will probably be able to handle cycles/superfly

PBR always takes time. even with an Nvidia. This one took 8 friggin hours in Cycles. probably because of the hair!

Lol...Cycles guru! i wish!!

Could be that the integrated standard lights don't work well , yeah. besides of that i would always go for mesh lights, even when you want hard shadows. then just scale down the light and increase the intensity

i have to agree and disagree with ghostship2. I haven't seen any really excellent renders, done with their new engine. without any fireflies and grainy shadows. That's is probably due to the Marketing within SM maybe, who knows. But Boni is showing me some insights of the material room and for someone like me, whose livingroom is cycles more or less, it looks promising though.

Well. I've been watching the update and the following days closely. I am always interested in improving things to a certain degree but I actually can't really see an improvement at all. Maybe there are advantages in managing the site now or some other improvements on the 'other side of the fence'. I don't know.
But I do know that the new marketplace is not very user friendly and it isn't really fun to browse to it.
And everyone I have been talking about it (friends that are users, buyers and even vendors) told me the same.
In the same time, I'm reading here that one user after the other are deleting their gallery and go somewhere else.
I just started being a vendor here myself but to be honest, I am very confused about where this is all leading to. So much, that I actually think about if should continue selling here.

At the same time I see that the admins here are working very hard on improving the site and fixing things.

I just really really hope, that this place can be fun again. (without the need for a tutorial on how to navigate the site)