if you have lights on the ceiling rather than make them emitters in iray, Octane or Luxrender and presumably Cycles, why not put holes in the mesh either via geometry editing or transmaps and stick the sun above and make it big!

no fireflies!!!!!

you still get an "indoor light" look as confined to those fittings,

alternatively if not showing the ceiling at all, just hide it.

I am only posting this as some may have overlooked the obvious, we are working with filmsets/ a photography studio after all, the real thing they would add lights have cut out sets etc.

Magnetor (from a Dragon Magazine ad):
http://www.patric.net/images/dragon_ad_magnetor.jpg

Dreamweaver (ye old small pointy shoulders):
http://www.writeups.org/img/fiche/4594.jpg

Gauntlet:
http://tinyurl.com/h9wk9jb

Then there's always the superhero standard for pointy shoulders, Nightcrawler from Marvel Comics.

Specifically looking for stuff I can send through autofit and get to fit Genesis 3 (Generation 3, Generation 4, Genesis, Genesis 2, etc.). Free or paid is fine.

ETA: oh, and a question: is there any way to make pointy shoulder pads not bend when the arms of the figure they're conformed to are bent?

These things are a work of art, and it almost seems a shame to waste them on distance shots! Excellent work, Kool. I can tell I'll have to keep an eye out for your next work!

I have nothing to do with this link, use at your own risk. I cannot vouch that it is truly safe, just it seems to be, and after a reboot, the Win10 update is GONE!

But visit http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads   and click on the GWX Control Panal  : Download Stand Alone (no installation required)

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Its getting more and more difficult to keep track of all of my products. With all of our RDNA stuff merging, its just going to compound the problem. If we could have a way to customize our product libraries by creating our own custom categories it would make product searches so much easier than it is now. If we could even just have the ability to view according to product type that would be nice. For example, Hair products, Props, Figure, etc.

Please consider this Daz. Ive only been here for a few years but I now have many, many pages in my library. I cant imagine how large the product libraries are for some of the long time users.

Simple question: Is it possible with Iray to render an image in black and white?

Jesse for Genesis 3 Male adds a shorter stature male to the Genesis 3 gene pool. All morphs are custom and only require the Genesis 3 male and serves as an entry point to using Genesis 3.

The base product includes four custom head morphs and one body shape with an additive muscular shape, with a HD morph for the base shape to add extra details. Each head morph has been sculpted in Zbrush and includes correctives for eye closes. The body shapes include over 50 additional JCMs for improved bending and muscle flexes and can be mixed in with other morphs from the Genesis 3 Male gene pool.

Jesse also includes a HD foot morph and two custom ear morphs, as well as a dial to adjust the angle of the ear as well as hip adjustments when posing.

Jesse loads a shorter character for the Genesis 3 gene pool, but includes an adjustment to scale the height closer to Michael 7. Also adjustment morphs are included to use head morphs for Michael 7 and Leo 7 with Jesse's body shapes.

Jesse also include various HD morphs and adjustments for anatomical detail for your renders.

More renders of Jesse's product features can be found at DeviantArt: 

http://male-m3dia.deviantart.com/gallery/57588184/M3D-Jesse-G3M (mature content, registration required)

...his body looks decent, but his face...I dunno, he kinda looks like a palooka.   ;)

I have a character I need to do some seam checking on and a good normal map export for but I can not for the life of me remember how to import in the maps I made for her into ZBrush (I made them in Photoshop). It's as per usual it's a multi mapped character so there is a face, limbs, legs and torso maps so I know all this has to be done separately but not sure what steps I need to get each part imported.

I really wish that ZBrush coders would make this easier like a drag and drop sort of thing. Be easier and more elegant than all this confusing trouble.

Thanks so much

Rich

So, now posing works pretty much as it should, but I am getting deformed areas at the elbows and knees, and a bit at the underarm. I'm attaching a screen cap. Can someone clue me in on how to repair this?

Thanks!

I am trying to find out the all round general quality requirements for making something that could be a quality product to sell eventually from using Blender.

If anyone uses Blender to create products do you think I could talk to you one on one? thx.

I THINK I remember hearing something about quads in particular... but I can't remember if it was 'oh my god don't use quads' or 'oh my god only use quads.'

Generally it happens with characters that follow the pattern of having every image is the character rendered in the same stylised lighting, with no neutral render, no base material render, no alternate render engines: no display of what you're buying actually looks like. This especially happens with new Originals characters and their bundles, which is why the complaints are mostly in those threads.

This is not saying the work is bad or the product isn't worth it, or anything like that: on the contrary, there have been many characters people complained about the store images of, then saw customer renders in more neutral settings that immediately made them want to buy it too. It's also clear that a certain stylised uh style is preferred / seen as the best way to attract customers. This is fine too! There are also many non-bundle PA characters that do a fantastic job of showing all of the various makeup/skin options that come with the character (generally in small boxes over a few of the latter images.)

When people on here say the promos suck, generally the impression I get - and my own complaint - is that what's actually meant is that the promos don't give the information the artist requires to make a purchase. Stylised sellers are great, but it's not like there is only one promo image. It would be great if we could have a few stylised renders, some showing the various options, and then a neutral image (clothing/scenes usually then have a 'clay' render at the end already, which is perfect as is.)

Look at this:

http://www.daz3d.com/collective3d-portrait-vignettes-horror-1

The first three are stylised renders to grab customer attention, then a neutral render of the scene, then two 'clay' (or whatever you call them) renders showing exactly what geometry is included.

It's so perfect. If it wasn't free I'd buy it just because the promos are so great.

* Obviously this is only my opinion and your opinion may differ. That's not a bad thing.
* Also obviously there are many fantastic promo sets for products in the store already. But the new Originals characters always seem to attract the same requests outlined above.

Upon closer inspection, I realized there were three generations of Genesis now. Well well cow bell, looks like Rip Van Winkel awakes to the future!

Thus, now that I realize how much of a fanbase Genesis 2 has gathered, and the fact that Genesis 3 is Daz's new baby, I decided to completely redo my original best-seller, Explosive Poses for Genesis, and bring it to a whole new level with Genesis 2 and 3, male and female.

Something tells me that supporting Genesis 2 as well as 3 with my new releases might help expand the usefulness of my pose sets. It may add a bit of time to the production portion of the evolution, but I think you will agree it is worth it.

So without further ado, here is my newest release: Explosive Poses for Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 Male(s) and Female(s)!!!!

104 Explosive Poses for Genesis 2 and Genesis 3: (.DUF)

• 26 Explosive Poses for Genesis 2 Male(s)
• 26 Explosive Poses for Genesis 2 Female(s)
• 26 Explosive Poses for Genesis 3 Male(s)
• 26 Explosive Poses for Genesis 3 Female(s)

Get it here!