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Valarcho

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Excellent choice of general and directional lighting SiJa (y) Can you share a bit more info about the stage lighting? What lights you used, enviroment lighting setups, etc. Did you use a ready made lighting kit or did you set things up yourself? If it's not a professional secret of course :p
P.S. Her face, lips and eyes are great lit.
 

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Excellent choice of general and directional lighting SiJa (y) Can you share a bit more info about the stage lighting? What lights you used, enviroment lighting setups, etc. Did you use a ready made lighting kit or did you set things up yourself? If it's not a professional secret of course :p
P.S. Her face, lips and eyes are great lit.
Hdri as main general light - have a look at a pack called Promo Lights by SASE.
Main lighting is 3 spots, learn about "3 point lighting" on how to use and position these.
Hope this helps.
 
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Looks good, but Zoey's chest tattoo is a bit much.
Hey thanks. And yeah i only used the wings because i couldn't find anything better with color. I hated using an in game used tat as well but the only other option with color was some Japenese koi tattoo and a full body tattoo so i had to settle with the wings
 
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Hey thanks. And yeah i only used the wings because i couldn't find anything better with color. I hated using an in game used tat as well but the only other option with color was some Japenese koi tattoo and a full body tattoo so i had to settle with the wings
The tattoo looks good, but it's very personal to Zoey. I don't see how anyone else would have the same one. Brett and the others certainly wouldn't reproduce it.

But it is like the only flaw. And even that is a matter of story significance not aesthetics. Great job.
 
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Update

Good news, I restored all of my content.

Best news, I was able to reduce much needed hardware space.

Bad news, I lost all of my renders in the process.
I bought an external HDD just for backing up everything for DAZ. I highly recommend one. (actually I have three external HDDs just for backups)
 
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Am I just a sadist because I prefer having at least 3 drives in a Raid 5 array?
Probably. ;) I honestly never used a RAID array. I have a 1TB SSD boot drive for speed, and two 4TB HDDs because I don't trust SSDs, LOL. Over the years I buy external HDDs to back things up, I have a 4TB External for my main computer data, documents, photos etc... a 4TB external for my DAZ3D stuff and a 1TB external for games I have purchased (mainly from GOG) and my own games I made.

I TRY to make backups once a month after doing a couple scans to make sure there are no corrupt files. If all is running well, and drivers are updated etc, I will make a restore point which can help you recover lost files. And for extra security I have an external USB boot stick in case Windows somehow fails to boot. I hate losing stuff I worked on! ;) I lost one HDD in my life, and it had a lot of programming I had done on a game. I even have backups of some of my older, smaller HDDs on my backup drive. I'm a packrat. Got some stuff from the '90s on there I recovered from old CD and DVD backups I had.
 
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