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This was inspired by the challange a while back, first picture is her wearing loose fitting t-shirt in one shot then the next one she's holding it tight showing off her beautiful figure.
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Test render for environment. thought i would share it with you all.....
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And now, only Daz, no postwork at all ^^
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Worked more on this model's figure etc... done up a more modest pose with a playful look...
The wet hair is dforce hair... what a royal pain that is to work with. Takes longer to simulate it than to render the image.
The wet hair is dforce hair... what a royal pain that is to work with. Takes longer to simulate it than to render the image.
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I'm on this wet&dforce thing myself atm, it's hard to get believable results for someone being in water, having wet hair and being wet, AND having a somewhat believable effect on the water ... without using postwork. Especially if you do not have the skill to get it done in post
I am with you there!
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Hello hello! My beautiful Coral is here again!
And this time, she brought an old player to this new game...
Meet Xerrin, Coral's godmother and best friend! I am planning to give a short backstory about this duo a bit later ^^.
I know it's been a while since I've posted, however, I did my homework very hard this time.
I am playing with every single button available on DAZ Studio, heheh.
Here I present you several images of my beauties that I preferred to render in earthy / autumn color palette.
Not only I've tried new studio setups (lighting, camera, filtering, environment settings, etc) but also I got a new asset, an outdoor one, and tried my first render with an actual environment this time! What do you think? It was a bit harder than I expected to set the lighting up for the outdoor environment, especially for a daylight render, I used HDRI + an emissive spherical light. The render time took so long I mostly set my sampling/iterations approx. to 300-350, but for the one with the environment, I had to increase it up to 2k. The result is kind of OK in my opinion, since it is the very first trial.
There is sooooo much to learn... I'll try indoor renders, more outdoor renders (maybe), more daylights, maybe nightlights... We will see... Anyway, hope you like them <3
As always, there is no postwork in any of the images below, and I am all open for the comments and criticism.
PS: OMG OMG OMG!!! The Fallen Cardinal and Forlorn Desire!! I am honored *teardrops*! I didn't think anybody would be interested in the no-post team forum signature! I appreciate it. Thank you so much! Hope our small team of talents will grow bigger and bigger!
And this time, she brought an old player to this new game...
Meet Xerrin, Coral's godmother and best friend! I am planning to give a short backstory about this duo a bit later ^^.
I know it's been a while since I've posted, however, I did my homework very hard this time.
I am playing with every single button available on DAZ Studio, heheh.
Here I present you several images of my beauties that I preferred to render in earthy / autumn color palette.
Not only I've tried new studio setups (lighting, camera, filtering, environment settings, etc) but also I got a new asset, an outdoor one, and tried my first render with an actual environment this time! What do you think? It was a bit harder than I expected to set the lighting up for the outdoor environment, especially for a daylight render, I used HDRI + an emissive spherical light. The render time took so long
I mostly set my sampling/iterations approx. to 300-350, but for the one with the environment, I had to increase it up to 2k. The result is kind of OK in my opinion, since it is the very first trial.There is sooooo much to learn... I'll try indoor renders, more outdoor renders (maybe), more daylights, maybe nightlights... We will see... Anyway, hope you like them <3
As always, there is no postwork in any of the images below, and I am all open for the comments and criticism.
PS: OMG OMG OMG!!! The Fallen Cardinal and Forlorn Desire!! I am honored *teardrops*! I didn't think anybody would be interested in the no-post team forum signature! I appreciate it. Thank you so much! Hope our small team of talents will grow bigger and bigger!
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I used a wet skin mod for it, though it is not needed. You can edit the skin surface properties and adjust things like reflectivity etc... and get a wet look just as well. The wet hair is easy enough to use, I just hate waiting for dforce simulations (which sometimes explode the hair and you have to restart). There is wet hair that is not dforce though that is posable, that's what I normally use.I'm on this wet&dforce thing myself atm, it's hard to get believable results for someone being in water, having wet hair and being wet, AND having a somewhat believable effect on the water ... without using postwork. Especially if you do not have the skill to get it done in post
I am with you there!
For the ripples in the water in these renders, that is really simple, the following add on allows you to select the figure, click the ripple and it will be added. You just need to adjust the height (Y-direction) to match the water it is in:
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I don't do any postwork. I try to do it all in Daz.
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getting creative with meshes ...
As you could see in my last post here intimacy, I am working with a somewhat ... moist surrounding, and was thinking, it would be nice to get not just a "water-y" surface and (eventually) wet skin for anybody actually being in water, and thus likely being wet.
So I THOUGHT to manipulate the original watersurface in the poolmodel, but that idea went straight down the drain, because the surface ist just a 1x1 grid with no divisions. So, no maipulating vertices, because, there are none
I know, potentially there is a shitload of methods to get these mesh-manipulations done, but I am happy I can use DAZ somewhat ok, working with blender and such is no option.
Meshgrabber (my 3rd-party DAZ go-to tool of all time) can't be used, so what can I do?
My idea: remove the original pool-surface, replace it with a plane primitive and give it "sufficient" divisions, and give the new waterplane a propper watershader.
That's what it looks like:
Im not totally happy, especially the refraction urks me, but all in all it looks good, I think.
The reflecting lights looks very "edgy", but I would have to use much higher textures AND much mur vertices, which is not practical.
I think for a relatively easy work, it looks ok enough.
Not to forget, there are watersplashes and wetskin missing atm, when that's added, it will probably look a ton better.
I'm putting 01 & 04 in the spoiler with much higher res.
As you could see in my last post here intimacy, I am working with a somewhat ... moist
surrounding, and was thinking, it would be nice to get not just a "water-y" surface and (eventually) wet skin for anybody actually being in water, and thus likely being wet.So I THOUGHT to manipulate the original watersurface in the poolmodel, but that idea went straight down the drain, because the surface ist just a 1x1 grid with no divisions. So, no maipulating vertices, because, there are none
I know, potentially there is a shitload of methods to get these mesh-manipulations done, but I am happy I can use DAZ somewhat ok, working with blender and such is no option.
Meshgrabber (my 3rd-party DAZ go-to tool of all time) can't be used, so what can I do?
My idea: remove the original pool-surface, replace it with a plane primitive and give it "sufficient" divisions, and give the new waterplane a propper watershader.
That's what it looks like:
Im not totally happy, especially the refraction urks me, but all in all it looks good, I think.
The reflecting lights looks very "edgy", but I would have to use much higher textures AND much mur vertices, which is not practical.
I think for a relatively easy work, it looks ok enough.
Not to forget, there are watersplashes and wetskin missing atm, when that's added, it will probably look a ton better.
I'm putting 01 & 04 in the spoiler with much higher res.
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thanks for your reply! I tend to go overboard with details most of the time
and think way too complicated in how to solve a certain problem.I will test your "ripples and wakes" addon, maybe it fits better in my scene ... thanks!
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Nice work! I'm not sure if this will help at all, but have you tried adding a subdivision modifier? I done up a quick screenshot of it here...getting creative with meshes ...
As you could see in my last post here intimacy, I am working with a somewhat ... moist
So I THOUGHT to manipulate the original watersurface in the poolmodel, but that idea went straight down the drain, because the surface ist just a 1x1 grid with no divisions. So, no maipulating vertices, because, there are none
I know, potentially there is a shitload of methods to get these mesh-manipulations done, but I am happy I can use DAZ somewhat ok, working with blender and such is no option.
Meshgrabber (my 3rd-party DAZ go-to tool of all time) can't be used, so what can I do?
My idea: remove the original pool-surface, replace it with a plane primitive and give it "sufficient" divisions, and give the new waterplane a propper watershader.
That's what it looks like:
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Im not totally happy, especially the refraction urks me, but all in all it looks good, I think.
The reflecting lights looks very "edgy", but I would have to use much higher textures AND much mur vertices, which is not practical.
I think for a relatively easy work, it looks ok enough.
Not to forget, there are watersplashes and wetskin missing atm, when that's added, it will probably look a ton better.
I'm putting 01 & 04 in the spoiler with much higher res.
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You click on the plane, then follow those menu prompts and Convert to SubD which then allows you to subdivide it into higher and higher resolutions. It basically takes your geometry and divides each square by two, effectively adding in more "vertices". Each level you raise it (on the right side under Mesh Resolution), divides it further, exponentially increasing the polygons, so be careful. But it could possibly help... if I understand your problem, which i am not sure I do fully.
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I know of SubD, but never actively used it, and to be honest, I thought (think?) it would not work with a 1x1 geometry. Haven't tried yet... maybe i shouldNice work! I'm not sure if this will help at all, but have you tried adding a subdivision modifier? I done up a quick screenshot of it here...
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You click on the plane, then follow those menu prompts and Convert to SubD which then allows you to subdivide it into higher and higher resolutions. It basically takes your geometry and divides each square by two, effectively adding in more "vertices". Each level you raise it (on the right side under Mesh Resolution), divides it further, exponentially increasing the polygons, so be careful. But it could possibly help... if I understand your problem, which i am not sure I do fully.