Digital Art Zone

We all need to bully Szark into starting his own render thread here, because he does do some seriously good work.

kylumi Yeah no problem. I am quite enjoying the challenge…it has been a while since I got a buzz from making an image. I think she is turning out quite nice. I am throwing everything at it, UberSurface 2,SSS maps, IDL via UberEnviroment, Uber Spot etc.

Jaderail. So far the Autofit works better than before. GenX doesn’t work, waiting for an update hopefully. I click on a free Area light set which crashed DS4.5 RC2 without warning. But apart from that all is well. The new DUF format saves quicker than before. I see some a seeing a slow down with this new format. But it is the opposite for me.The UI seems more responsive, no slow downs. But I have only been using for about 6 hours solid.

kylumi - 23 June 2012 12:49 PM

Frank0314 - 23 June 2012 11:37 AM

We could all learn a lot from you. Keep up the great work.

Frank if you asked me how to adjust skin surfaces, or the best lighting set-up to use and what scaling to use for a specific character…....I would honestly not be able to tell you, I am just a dial twiddler. 

Well then your a good “twiddler”. Your images come out perfect.

chohole - 23 June 2012 12:57 PM

We all need to bully Szark into starting his own render thread here, because he does do some seriously good work.

Thx Cho I will think about it…..............ok I thought about it. I will start one but I will have to start it off with a pick of the crop from my DA gallery.

Thanks for the info Szark. Could you save a Genesis with all your Custum morphs with Gen X before you installed DS4.5 and then use that genesis figure in DS4.5? Or do you need the Gen X plugin for the tranfers to work in DS4.5?

Looking forward to a Szark thread, that will be in my must lurk list.

Szark - 23 June 2012 01:18 PM

chohole - 23 June 2012 12:57 PM

We all need to bully Szark into starting his own render thread here, because he does do some seriously good work.

Thx Cho I will think about it…..............ok I thought about it. I will start one but I will have to start it off with a pick of the crop from my DA gallery.

Best way to start.

Jaderail - 23 June 2012 01:41 PM

Thanks for the info Szark. Could you save a Genesis with all your Custum morphs with Gen X before you installed DS4.5 and then use that genesis figure in DS4.5? Or do you need the Gen X plugin for the tranfers to work in DS4.5?

Looking forward to a Szark thread, that will be in my must lurk list.

Funny enough Genesis retained the GenX morphs I had left after I uninstalled the GenX plug-in which was nice. I test a couple of them and they seemed to work ok.

Indeed Cho

Now back to some cool kylumi art.

These are Reality Renders from last year. 

This year I have been spending much more time using 3D Delight as I was useless at lighting Daz scene renders, I have picked up a lot of useful info from various threads in the forum regarding lighting ect, but as usual I just wander off and do my own thing, again!

Great images as usual. I’ve yet to nail down Reality.

Kylumi I am well impressed by most everything you have poste so far.  This sort of image is one I have not nailed down yet. I do tend to do more landscape type images, although I have managed a couple of passable protrait type ones in bryce.

Frank0314 - 24 June 2012 10:15 AM

Great images as usual. I’ve yet to nail down Reality.

Thank you very much my friend,

Funny thing Frank, I absolutely loved Reality but the more I learned the more complex it became for me to set up scenes.  When I knew nothing about it I was able to do a couple of renders a day.  This is not a fault of Reality its the way I go about things….....lol.
I purchased Paolo’s video tuts but up until now I have only watched the intro!!

All I want to do is bang out an image as fast and as simply as I can, as long as I have something half decent then I have had my Daz fix for the day….........

chohole - 24 June 2012 10:53 AM

Kylumi I am well impressed by most everything you have poste so far.  This sort of image is one I have not nailed down yet. I do tend to do more landscape type images, although I have managed a couple of passable protrait type ones in bryce.

Aw! thank you Pam.

I have Bryce I opened it a couple of times but it looks a bit complex to me…...so, no joy there!
I do use Vue, which I think is great but, I suppose for now I am a Daz addict.

Like you I enjoy making some kind of landscape but, at the moment most of my Vue content is not really up to it , but today I was actually thinking about using it again.

Portraits are my all time fave genre though!

One day I will see reality and be in it for a change. LOL I am on a mission to get a better desktop and Reality.I so love seeing what can be done. I have played with LuxBlend a little but as of yet never started a render project.

Another great batch there kylumi. I remember a couple of them and I am still impressed.

There are soooo many adjustments that can be made in Reality it numbs my brain just thinking about it. It is an excellent plug in and well worth the money.

here you go kylumi http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/2765/#36004 One of my fastest image to date, 2 days from start to finish. I wanted to see how good I can be in a short period of time. I usually spend from two weeks to a month per image. Longer in some cases.