Back to the present story line. While the search for the different offices and bases of the evil corporation continued, life had to go on and Miho had to deal with the day to day running of her thousands of companies and charities. She had a business meeting in the morning and had asked me to meet her for lunch. She said she would be waiting for me in the park. There was a nice restaurant nearby. Now I am used to seeing Miho in shorts and Tees or bikinis or in nothing... Rarely I have seen her in a dress as she is more of a outdoor rough and tough person. So imagine my shock and surprise when I saw Miho siting there on the park bench wearing that form fitting lace top dress that I had never seen before. She had left the house in a jeans and tee. She was looking gorgeous and sexy and that is what I said out aloud ! And well, Miho just smiled, got up and gave me a kiss and then we linked arms and headed to the restaurant......

This looks like a fairly simply scene. But had to spend around 10 hours+ on it. It started with the hair. I think this hair (Shavonne Hair @ Daz) suits her very well but this hair does not come with morphs to move the hair in front of the shoulders to the back and I wanted to put an earring on her and to show it I needed to move the hair back. So I took her and the hair into ZBrush and then it was a fair bit of back and froth between DAZ Studio and Zbrush and test rendering in trying to make the custom morph I was creating look proper and just showed the lower half of the ear properly. After I got that right, then next was her delicate pose. That also took time. You might have noticed in my renders that I do take care of small details in posing. No fingers going through the skin surface etc. If they are going to touch the skin, they need to do so delicately. After posing her then came the question of what she should be wearing. What netsuke said on my "Meeting up in the town" render came to mind and I quote "Always have considered a sexy outfit much more provocative than nudity." and that got me thinking about what dress to use to make her look really sexy without anything being seen. So I tried a couple of dresses but kept coming back to the dress you see above (Jolina Dress for Genesis 3 Female @ Daz). On this dress there was no revealing neckline etc. but it really looked nice. At first I tried the textures that came with the dress and also some textures I had bought here in Renderosity for it. But none of them gave me the look I was looking for. Yes they looked nice but I was not getting the look I wanted. So as usual I selected the different surfaces of the dress and started to apply different fabric materials I had in my content library. I used the lace for the top, then I just changed the color of the band / belt below her bosom to pink and finally after clicking through many materials for the skirt part, I came across the material that you see and well the combination looked sexy and that is what I went with. And as I did not want her nipples to be showing through the lace top and to give a impression of a nude color modesty cloth was stitched underneath the bosom part of the dress, I edited her torso texture. Had to take the dress and Miho into ZBrush again to fix the distortions on the dress which was coming due to the seated pose of Miho. Created custom morphs to take care of the distortions and also to make it more form fitting. The background, grass and the table Miho is sitting on are all from different sets.Mixing sets makes the setting more unique I think. Navi had made a interesting comment that my previous version of Miho was more expressive and I would say yes to that. I had created many custom expression morph for her which unfortunately don't really work with the current face morph that well. I just need to find time to create the custom expression morphs. The standard canned expression morphs and those sold here and at Daz just does not look natural on Miho because of her face geometry being different than the standard G3F or whatever model the vendor based their expression on.

Those of you using Daz Studio and have not tired changing the texture of the dress surface or for that matter any object, select the object / dress in the Scene tab, switch to the Surface tab. And under that select the same object and expand it to see the surface for that object. E.g. for the Jolina dress the three surfaces were 'belt', 'skirt' and 'top'. Select the surface that you want to apply the new texture to. Now you need to make sure that the 'Filter by Context' is unchecked under the Smart Contents tab. Then double click on Shaders to expand it. Now you can basically click on any item on the right side to apply it to the surface that you selected under the Surfaces tab and I am sure all of you will find a lot of stuff there which you may not have realized it was there. If you are modifying clothing you can look for 'Fabric' directly under Shaders or expand the 3Delight / Iray option and look under those. Basically other than certain types of clothing e.g. jeans, etc where the pockets are painted on, you should be able to apply any of the seamless textures you see to any clothing / object surface and you might just get surprised by the result like I was with the dress Miho is wearing. Those of you using Poser, I can't give you the steps as I don't have poser but I guess you should be able to do the same. I heard poser has a better material room than Daz Studio. I have a habit of buying texture packs from Daz when they are on really good sale. They do become useful like in this render.

I just redid and uploaded this render again. I was not happy with Miho's iris texture. Always had a problem with it and was working to improve it. Finally I think it looks nicer and has more definition and basically I am redoing all the recent renders again and updating the renders. I also did a very slight change to the sun light angle and the camera angle to make Miho look even better.