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i wanted to give it a try and on some movie actress and create the model with daz3d. any suggestions
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I have a problem: I am or have a scene or 4/5 that evolve around a pool event in a back yard. I have a decent set of a rural house with a back yard that is large enough to have the pool and hot tub. When I put the pool in the scene it lays in great and looks good, but the ground and grass is in the water and of course the models are in the dirt. As there are several underwater shots, and hopefully a few split above water half way and under other half. I have tried with a wooded HDRI and that works well but no house in background, and the woods don't blend with the over all scene and atmosphere. Is there a way to have the ground of the original house and yard scene. I am using the Harwood Rural house asset ( which is real heavy in extras that boog down rendering also ) and of course I didn't save a scene but recreating it now.
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My solution would be to take the floor/grass texture, duplicate it in black/white, make it all white except for the pool area (and a bit more since it will be hidden by the wood parts) that will be black. Then use the resulting image as the opacity map for the ground surface.
Tell me if I'm not explicit enough.
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you can try to mix your scene with that
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Actually I really don't have a clue how to do that
I just started with DAZ in late Feb.
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That looks like the same setting but with way different grass than what is in mine??? I like the grass I had to delete grass in my set it was scraggly...
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The removing a polygon or hiding it did the trick. The area was so large that I will have to be careful of the angle, but for under water it is no problem though.
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Is that a different grass option in Harwood House that I likely missed...
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If you are talking about the grass built into the aset you can easily reuse it wherever you want
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I believe I understand what you're trying to do... (I may misunderstand though)
I don't exactly see any issue with the "above-ground" render, however it seems that you want to dump the pool into the same
house prop but I actually do see the need to try anymore since it's not working...
Example of workaround: Movie shots in France may actually take place in Southern California yes ?
So if the pool model has/ came with a bottom I don't see the issue. Please forgive me if I'm totally lost on your "problem"
If the pool didn't come with a bottom, are you able to get a texture, create a "plane" and put it exactly where you need it,
then apply that texture to the plane for your pool bottom ? Again, sorry if I'm actually silly on this thing.