I was looking at the new SuperFly shaders being sold over at DAZ. I'm just wondering if anyone is using them, and, if so, what the views are on how well they work.

 

Just bought, not really tried them much yet, but here are a few samples using default poser scene and default render settings

And here are a few more

I'm a little surprised, and pleasantly so ... the details I've read at DAZ and what I know from working extensively with Superfly shaders. This is an EXCELLENT set. VB is respected in the community and frankly ... this set can't be beat and I haven't even bought it yet ... just from the screenshots and small details shared ... it's a good set. Worth every penny.

Boni

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"Be Hero to Yourself" -- Peter Tork

Thanks! I totally missed seeing these and I even knew the vendor was making them.

The dust settled, thinking "what a fine home, at least for now" not realizing that doom would soon be coming in the form of a vacuum cleaner.

Keep in mind that if you are willing to do a little work ... there is an excellent shader in sharecg: Dielectric Shader for Superfly Version 2 Ghostship who made it says it can do most of what VB's shaders can do ... for free. Just a heads up.

Boni

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"Be Hero to Yourself" -- Peter Tork

Hehe...love the crumpled tin foil ;)

Laurie

Yeah I have those I grabbed the bundle it is a great set.

- Johnny G

"Try animation to get things moving"

lpr001@renderosity.com

Yet another reason for keeping on saving my shekels for Poser Pro 11. These look better than anything I've seen in Pro 2014.

Kudos to Renderosity for showing a DAZ product here at Rendo. Kudo's to DAZ for selling a Poser product.

Thanks for the info Boni, I do like that vendor's work and had gotten some of his items from his previous store. I also got Ghostships to compare :)

The dust settled, thinking "what a fine home, at least for now" not realizing that doom would soon be coming in the form of a vacuum cleaner.

It is good to see inter-site cooperation and software support. THAT is what makes a community!

Boni

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"Be Hero to Yourself" -- Peter Tork

Thanks for all of this. Now, I believe that you can also keep the original image map or maps if you want, and just add the material components such as "glass" or "trees" to a figure or part of a figure. Is this correct? Has anyone tried that? What I'm thinking of is the situation where some part of a prop or figure is just too bright, and I might think that if I could just get it to be "bark" or something like that, it would be fine. So, could I find something like "bark" in VB's shaders, and apply the "bark" shader (and maybe the bump), but choose to keep the original image map? Would that work?

 

VB implies that by ticking the double check-marks rather than the single. A technique I have never actually used in the mat room, but perhaps his setup allows for that. I don't have the set, so I can't say for certain. It does refer to it in the description slides at DAZ.

Boni

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"Be Hero to Yourself" -- Peter Tork

My Superfly shader sampler (in freestuff) has an ambient boost node cluster which is meant to be added to the current material, rather than replacing it. So, if that's you mean, then yes, adding does work. I use it fairly often.

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5

The product sounds great. I'm glad I'm asking about it because I'm one who is often confused about what to do with the SuperFly shaders. I use EZskin 3 for the people, but sometimes I'm stumped when it comes to props, clothing, or buildings.