rokket posted at 10:13 PM Sat, 10 September 2022 - #4444282

primorge posted at 7:25 PM Sat, 10 September 2022 - #4444271

Do you know a good dynamics setting for satin or silk?

I have this:

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Some poses are well-done, and others need a tweak or two.  I've had this set for quite a long time along with the M3 set.  You can't go wrong with it.

rokket posted at 10:13 PM Sat, 10 September 2022 - #4444282

primorge posted at 7:25 PM Sat, 10 September 2022 - #4444271

Do you know a good dynamics setting for satin or silk?

I have this:

Hey thanks for those settings Rokket. I'll give them a spin, you'd be surprised how difficult it is to find dynamic settings. I also appreciate you hosting my rather strange posts here in your thread, without batting an eye no less.  The only way this can stay interesting for me and keep me engaged is if I create these little scenarios to amuse myself... Plus it drives me to explore different content and methods.

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Some poses are well-done, and others need a tweak or two.  I've had this set for quite a long time along with the M3 set.  You can't go wrong with it.

Totally awesome. I can see I'll be using this a lot moving forward... in particular for the grab fall off. Now if Blender would only get better painting tools.

Boundry Brush

rokket posted at 9:02 AM Sun, 11 September 2022 - #4444303

hborre posted at 10:35 PM Sat, 10 September 2022 - #4444284

Some poses are well-done, and others need a tweak or two.  I've had this set for quite a long time along with the M3 set.  You can't go wrong with it.

I am going to assume they will work on V4, since he used M4 to create them...

I stopped working on the skirt for a bit because I was jumping the gun somewhat there. I need to make the new shape JCMs for the figure before I commit too much time to the clothing otherwise there will be more after the fact fixes needed. I'm doing the thigh JCMs in Sasha now, also with valueOp JCM OFF switches... I wasn't happy at all with what the weight bends alone are doing in that area, especially with the custom shape. I'll post some images and thoughts about it later if you're interested.

I am interested.

I wondered if I could do it. Needs some work on the face mask for the symbiot but otherwise, it's not too awful.

She looks a bit like a girl I used to be infatuated with in art school. K(****), a nympho basically, she gave me the heart flutters. Mexican from Austin, well bred and well to do. Spitting image of an Aztec goddess. The smell of sandalwood. A real seductress with a ringing mischevious girl child laugh. Talented. Cruel. Knee high laced black Doc Marten's. Or heels. Lithe in her incensed room with the morning light, naturally oily like a sleek creature. Floating across the studio at midnight to my work area like a entrancing wraith but scary in a different way. She used to get me drunk on wine, and her. Ah well...

Nice character :D

Thanks. I was kind of surprised when I came up with her face. It was a happy accident.

I did another render. I don't know. I might keep the morph, but not the textures.

Of course, not the fangs or long nails

Think I'm going to take a little leave of absence for a while rokket. Feeling a bit burnt out now. Who knows, I'll probably feel better tomorrow...

See you next time, I'll have some things to show.

Take care.

Oh, ok. No problem. You have to look out for your health. I will see you when I see you.

The girl without Venom. So I took out the muscle morphs and the fangs and nails. Not bad.

Thinking about it

Maybe...

I will have to fix the pose when I make the boots. IF I make the boots. I don't know if I want to finish this one.

This is Pauline European with some some body and face morph dial spinning.

Wow. It's dead in here...

I think I finally found the right character for my Supergirl. Now I have to model a suit for her, since the one I made earlier is for a totally different body type. May I can use her as the Good Supergirl/Kara Danvers and use the other one as my evil Supergirl...

A very plausible model looks the part.

I think I am going to render a side by side of them and see what I think. I will have to use a different hair for one of them. Right now I am using that neftis hair that I won in that contest a few years ago, and I will have to change one of them.

The lighting for the bad girl is awful, and the good one doesn't have boots yet, but here they are.

I think I will change out the cape for the good Supergirl. I am not liking how it looks.

I found out that I can get the costume to fit either body with some minor adjustments, so I don't have to create a whole new suit.

But here is a nude side by side comparison of them. Tell me which one you would use:

The beefier-looking one on the left is my preference; the one on the right lacks muscle tone for a lean hero, there should be some definition to the anatomy.

That's kind of what I thought, although I prefer the face of the one on the right. I don't know if I have the patience to replicate that face on the other body. Maybe I could just beef up the one on the right.

What models are you using?

V4, both of them. And I have several morph packages in them both: Aiko 4, Stephanie 4, Base, Morphs++, SheFreak, Elite. I also have a bunch of Syltermermaid's morphs and really good MATS for them.

I used some of the SheFreak morphs on the one on the left. But the one on the right is about 90% Elite. The face is a mixture of Elite, SheFreak and Morphs++

I am going to try to mess with the one on the right tomorrow. Right now I am doing another animation and I want to finish it before I got to bed in an hour. 4AM comes early. I start my week at Tesla tomorrow. I take my laptop to work, but the WIFI there is shady and I am busy most of the 12 hour shift I am there. But I do manage to get some things done.

New and improved.

Threw this back view in because, why not?

Looks much better.

I threw that Logan's Run "dress" on her to see if it will have issues with a morphed body. Other than having to update the metal texture on the belt, it works just fine. 5 drape frames did the trick. I am going to make a new suit for Supergirl. I don't want to try to mess with trying to refit the one I have.

I think I will use this hair for my evil Supergirl. Just not that dress...

rokket posted at 11:08 PM Sun, 11 September 2022 - #4444339

The girl without Venom. So I took out the muscle morphs and the fangs and nails. Not bad.

This is V4, and the hair is red-viper's HMHM hair that he made for V4/A4. I found it under that name on ShareCG. The body texture is one of Syltermermaid's V4 textures.

In the meantime...

And her negative counterpart:

I started the boots. I am going to go finish them, hopefully today.

She's looking good Rokket.

Maybe you've been wondering what I've been doing. Nothing really to show yet, still in the morphing/controller/JCMs/Rigging Genesis stuff trenches. Just a technical update.

I'm almost finished SG(W)'s new JCMs. I ended up reworking her entire rotations basically. To say she bends better than the default Sasha is an understatement. But I'll have a comparison images demo at a later date when I reach the time to render stage.

Here's the parms; JCMs, controllers and value Op stuff... I'm close to finished the JCMs themselves and then it's on to more controllers and shaping stuff. I've also started fitting, converting, and rigging some more Genesis stuff, and old V4 things I have, that I purchased for her. But more on that later. Oh yeah, also made a conforming/crosstalking fiber mesh pubic hair for her ;)

Incomplete listing shown in above parms but it gives an idea. All custom. Each with an OFF and a global OFF for the JCMs.

An example value operation JCM, SG(W) has quite a few. What it is a morph that kicks in over top two other JCMs (a difference) that are active and triggered by 2 simultaneous rotations... it's an add and multiply value op, the subtract is the off switch.

Anyway. Maybe a bit puzzling, and I'm sure someone might say "how are you going to transfer this to the clothes?"...but it'll make more sense in a couple weeks when I return with a longer illustrated post of both a technical and narrative art nature.

See you then. Lurking otherwise.

Very nice work. And now you have me curious about the pubic hair prop. All of the textures I have for V4 or Sasha have the pubes baked in and they don't look all that great, especially in Superfly because of the lack of micro displacement.

I thought about making a hair prop for her at one time, but it would have to be in the hair room, and I don't have a lot of luck with making it look right in there.

There are A LOT of JCM's there, but you created them and know how to use them. I would be lost.

She's got BOOTS!!!!

So now it's just the cape left. I am going to have to see if I can pull off the buttoned-around-the-neck look

I didn't let it finish, but I got impatient. I didn't want to use Poser lights, but I ended up having to because the image was too grainy There are still some artifacts on her arm, but overall it's not too bad. I think the artifacts would still be there even if I let the render run the full course.

Specular is blown out.

I replaced Sasha's eyes with La Femme's. I think V4's greatest weakness is her eyes, because the iris is unwelded from the sclera. It makes painting eye textures difficult with the blend between the iris and the sclera so you always end up with that hard line and have to use a transmap in a hack to soften it out. Plus many of the V4 eye textures have baked in specular highlights. By using LF's eyes I can take advantage of the textures I painted for her (a bunch) and also the catalogue of LF eye maps I have which are painted with more modern render techniques in mind. Not to mention the morphs I already have for them. They're shown here, preview, in their default state without morphs (I generally like to use an iris convexity morph to flatten out the iris a bit and make it less concave)... they're just props fit very carefully, matched to the exact scale and position in blender to V4's eye geometries, and parented to the eye actors so they behave just as V4's eyes would. V4's eyes were really bothering me so this seemed like the most productive solution.

I also painted some nipple/breast skin detail displacement maps in mudbox last night, but more on that when I do some more "real" renders.

I'm also hoping that A4 isn't hinting for me to hit the road in that above render lol. Although I'd have to say, with that lovely lake view and wilderness it would be a pleasant walk ;)

Specular is blown out.

I like it. I never would have though to replace the eyes like that. I can't wait to see a "real render

I like it. I never would have though to replace the eyes like that. I can't wait to see a "real render

I am a bit curious why you didn't just fix the specular blow out before you did a final render though. The render obviously took some time. You didn't notice it? Is it just a test? Theres a few things I would suggest in terms of non lighting things but if it's just a throw away image or test aimed at a more considered render down the road I'll keep it to myself.

primorge posted at 3:05 PM Sun, 18 September 2022 - #4444724

I am a bit curious why you didn't just fix the specular blow out before you did a final render though. The render obviously took some time. You didn't notice it? Is it just a test? Theres a few things I would suggest in terms of non lighting things but if it's just a throw away image or test aimed at a more considered render down the road I'll keep it to myself.

No, the whole purpose of this thread was because I STRUGGLE with lighting. So if you have suggestions, tips, critiques... by all means, post it here. I am always looking for helpful tips and hints.

And I didn't see the blowout. I don't honestly know what specular blow out is, or what it looks like.