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3D Software Help and Assistance. Ask Away.
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Thank you, that worked! I just adjusted the base bump slider on all the relevant surfaces, from 1.5-->0.7 which seemed to smooth it out well for me.
Do you (or anyone else) have any idea what these two does:
I genuinely tell a difference when I change them ...
I found this:
https://f95zone.to/threads/10-in-1-casual-wardrobe-for-genesis-9.134499/
and liked the look of this top:
the problem is that I cannot for the life of me make that fit on Genesis 8
Does anyone know of an easy way of using Genesis 9 Clothing on a Genesis 8 character? Or know of a similar top that works on Genesis 8?
https://f95zone.to/threads/10-in-1-casual-wardrobe-for-genesis-9.134499/
and liked the look of this top:
the problem is that I cannot for the life of me make that fit on Genesis 8
Does anyone know of an easy way of using Genesis 9 Clothing on a Genesis 8 character? Or know of a similar top that works on Genesis 8?
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Top Coat is an extra glossy layer over the base material. It can have its own bump map. Like if you had lacquered wood, the glossy coat would have less bump than the wood underneath. The top coat bump should have a slot for a texture map, but I don't know why this one doesn't. Also you can choose to have a bump (also called height) map or a normal map, not both. So you need to choose one or the other.
The missing slot is an old bug. I don't remember how it happens, but it happens. Scratch the surface & re-apply !Iray Uber Base, that should do the trick (rebuild from there).
Details of a 8k torso bump :
It's mainly because it's a terrible bump map. You can tweak to an extend but you will run in circle. Don't hesitate to "borrow" maps form other better made skin (especially specular/roughness/bump ones). It can make a world difference.Here's a close-up of what I mean, cause I don't know if the picture is showing it clearly or not:
Details of a 8k torso bump :
Yeah, that bug is weird! One fix that seem to work for me when that happens is to just apply another skin (like !Iray Uber Base) and then just undo that change. The application then has the arrow where it should be, but none of the alterations.
Thank you! I find it superhard to find good skins for daz, I've literally downloaded ~15-ish characters just hoping to hit a jack-pot. I've found one or maybe 2 skin-maps that I like, so if you know some that are great feel free to let me know!
I'm trying to make this scene look good:
My issue is that I like the way the shadows fall on her face, but I don't like the way it makes her eyes super-dark. If I light up her face some more, I get the eyes with the colour that I'm looking for but then instead everything else is kinda ruined:
Does anyone have any clever work-arounds for when the lighting doesn't quite work for you?
My issue is that I like the way the shadows fall on her face, but I don't like the way it makes her eyes super-dark. If I light up her face some more, I get the eyes with the colour that I'm looking for but then instead everything else is kinda ruined:
Does anyone have any clever work-arounds for when the lighting doesn't quite work for you?
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Maybe try a 30x30 circle/rectangle spotlight at about 4000-6000 lumen (you'll have to play with the distance on your own, though.) pointed at her eyes?
The thing is, given the base angle/trajectory of the sunlight/light source, it's actually falling pretty naturally. This would be pretty close to how it'd look if this were happening in real life.
It's quite the jungle lol. I may be not the best person to ask as I may be out of date. Skins that are made by "Daz orignals" (=outsourced by Daz to be sold in their shop in their name), have overall better quality control (not always the case, but more than not). A good shortlist of artists will be more handy than any promo shot imho.
For good details, it depends on witch foot you gonna dance. IrayUber will need fully baked bump/normal, PBRSkin use more likely 1k seamless tiles. Both works well. I may be wrong but since PBRSkin (8.1/9) are a bit less difficult to make, overall quality should be slightly higher.
For IrayUber:
Daz orignal/Victoria8
Daz orignal/Babina8
BlueJaunte/Ensley
For PBRSkin:
Daz orignal/Victoria8.1
Daz orignal/Victoria9 (?)
I think those are good balanced skins base/maps/shader setup regardless of the scult. Ensley might be close to what you can top with IrayUber overall. For Eyes/Mouth I generally go with Victoria8.1 PBRSkin setup whatever the skin uses. If I was maknig a VN prototype, more likely I will make "frankenstein" skin (swapping diffuse/SSS/Normal maps) and iterate from those bases.
Hello everyone, i'm back once again with my Ellie model, this time i'm trying to fix the Hair
And these are the modules of the pony tail one, the modules from the bun are exactly the same.
For what I understand the alpha seems to be part of the problem, when i move the slider to 0 it looks like the hair is gone (which I believe is normal), then it wont change until I move it to 200 and it looks like the hair is made of squares (as the image from the table shows) and if I move it anywhere beyond that it looks real bad.
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And these are the modules of the pony tail one, the modules from the bun are exactly the same.
For what I understand the alpha seems to be part of the problem, when i move the slider to 0 it looks like the hair is gone (which I believe is normal), then it wont change until I move it to 200 and it looks like the hair is made of squares (as the image from the table shows) and if I move it anywhere beyond that it looks real bad.
| Alpha at 0 | Alpha after 0.204 (the same as the first table) | Alpha after 0.403 | Alpha after 0.602 | Alpha after 0.801 |
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The transparency of her hair should be controlled by the alpha mask, but it doesn't look like it's working. Alpha defines which areas are opaque (1.0 or pure white) and which are seethrough (0.0 or pure black) but there's no alpha so you're just setting everything to either white or black, which is why the hair looks like squares.
I have no idea what that node group is doing, but it's probably too complicated.
You can try plugging the alpha mask into $alphatest, but honestly you'd be better off deleting those and using Blender native nodes (speaking from experience).
I have no idea what that node group is doing, but it's probably too complicated.
You can try plugging the alpha mask into $alphatest, but honestly you'd be better off deleting those and using Blender native nodes (speaking from experience).
Ehhh I think I got it by messing arround with the nodes of
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, should I delete the bumpmap or should I connect it to a property?
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I did it like this. I think it worked, thanks a lot my dude (or dudette), if I ever get through and make this TLOU game I'll add you in the credits.
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Lol, you don't need to credit me. This is like, the very simplest texture setup imaginable.
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Some things seem simple once you've been working with 3d long enough, that are terrifyingly opaque to a newcomer.
I think it's great that you've taken the time to help out, and also props to Derker for feeding back resolution and appreciation.
Also I think it's hilarious that a game piracy website has become the premiere internet forum for randoms helping each other build more lewd games.... this is peak civilization :chefs_kiss:
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I am new to daz so can anybody link me the best or necessary plugins I need to start off with making a VN? I am planning a contemporary setting.
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Mesh Grabber, Scene Optimizer (for scenes that are too big for your GPU), Basically anything by Riversoft Art will be useful (especially the Bone Minion stuff, converters, and I believe he also made the mirror geometry which is pretty useful in specific cases. Sickleyield for the super niche assets/poses/effects/etc. and more of a need than a 'best' is either SY Invisilights Iray or Ghost Light Kit One by KindredArts.
Thanks, that was a great tip!
I mainly use semi-large ghostlights for lighting because I like how they work, nice shadows in the scene etc. I usually don't use spot-lights because I keep getting shadows of the emitters shown in my scene when I swap angle, which is super-annoying. I keep forgetting that spotlights do have some nifty features that ghostlights don't.
I ended up using pretty much what you recommended, slightly different settings but with one key-difference that I can't replicate with ghostlights: I lowered the fuck out of the spread angle so I almost only get the light exactly where I needed it on her face!