Amazing shaders : Decorator Kit: Neutral Shader Presets for Iray
Musicplayer
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I have just purchased these shaders and felt I had to write a product appreciation to Khory who produced this amazing set. There are so many variables within the different categories, and being neutral shaders they will have hundreds of uses.
Many thanks Khory for all the hard work you put into making these shaders, and then making them available.
http://www.daz3d.com/decorator-kit-neutral-shader-presets-for-iray
Kindest regards.
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Thank you. It's nice to see some examples. This set did not catch my eye but it is lovely. I can't get them right now but they are definitely wish listed. I tend to pick up shaders and stuff from my wish list faster because they are so versatile in make things that look unique
Thank you so much Musicplayer. I worried a bit that starting with neutrals would be sort of..blah? But I thought that I needed to do a set that was a fairly good foundation for most rooms. I'm planning on doing future sets that are a variation on the same theme. More colorful or cottage and so on.
kimh, I think I ended up being such a big shader preset fan because they do add so much versatility to products I already own.
Hi Khory,
Once upon a time I would never have considered using shaders or probably even known what to do with them. I also take your point about versatility to products already owned. I have seen over time what I perceive to be an increase in material zones in the products I purchase. This makes shader texturing so much fun, and for me the added realism in iray, is amazing. Cloth, especially clothing, and textures in general are now looking so 'real'.
I'm excited to read you are planning on doing future sets. Cottage colours sounds really intriguing and I am sure would make a good follow-up set (hint, hint)
However, in the meantime, I wish you and your family a very Happy Christmas/ holiday time before all the hard work starts again.
Best wishes,
Thank you so much Musicplayer. You have a wonderful holiday season and a festive Christmas!
One of my favorites as well, and really, I can't say enough about all of Khory's sets. There is such attention to detail and everything works extremely well together. She has a beautiful sense of color and what works well together.
Thank you Ice Dragon! What lovely comments. I'm wondering if you guys would like to make some suggestions for colors that you would like to see included in the next sets?
How about a red/white/black set?
You know, here's a weird idea, not sure how practical:
a script that will go through and select every surface with a particular tag or material id.
Why?
Let's say you have a room with accents and main surfaces, and you want to quickly try out 'gold accents + plaid main surfaces. No, that looks terrible, maybe gold and dark oak?'
How about a series of add on sets to add colour to the neutral set ups. Living in a rented house which is decorated in, to me, boring neutrals I change the look of rooms according to the season. So Spring you can have things like curtains cushions, accessories like vases, doilies, mats etc in spring combos of colours, mainly pastel with emphasis on yellow and pale greens, with maybe pale blues or pinks. Summer could be brighter colours. more saturated colours, Autumn obviously the warm golds,oranges,rusts and reds or maroons. Not sure that you would need to have a cold, blue based set for Winter though.
That's a great idea, Chohole, with the seasonal sets. Maybe even include a few decorative seasonal props that can be changed out- wreaths, centerpieces, vases of flowers, accent things that people normally do change out with the season. A quilt that can be retextured by season and draped over a chair
BTW- love the neutral shaders. Haven't had a chance to play with them much yet. Bought them after seeing people rave about them on Novica's thread. The promos are fantastic, but sometimes it's nice to see how the forum members use them too.
I put a user render in the commercial thread today.
"How about a red/white/black set?"
I love that color combo and it would be fun to do actually. I'm a big fan of graphic colors like that. I was actually looking at patterns tonight to decompress. We have company in town (a day sooner than expected) and I had not finished cleaning because I was finishing up something for a friend, and another friend ended up in the hospital unexpectedly last night as well so I have been a bit here and there. I saw several that would be lovely for black and white or red and black or red and white (that covers them all right?). Not just graphic patterns but some cool sort of floralish and decorative ones. I'll put it on the ever-growing list of on my to do board.
"a script that will go through and select every surface with a particular tag or material id."
I can't speak for anyone else but I am wretched at remembering to put those in there. That said using the right click in the view screen gives you a slew of select all of options. It does not always find everything you need but it can get close.
Seasonal would be fun as well. And I think that Chohole is right about not going with the icy blue/greens for it. Though, I did do the color research for a winter set of fabrics and you would be surprised how many of the icy colors can be more muted or bright. It is still a fairly small color range. Winter might be best served by somewhat darker slightly less saturated colors. Like warm berry colors, hunter green, and deeper blues because people are more able to "live" with those day to day than just having icy colors or holiday colors.
I have thought for a while that there might be a place in the market for somewhat randome "bits and pieces" and having them be aimed around a lose theme might be a way to go about that. I'm not sure that I am the girl to do flower modeling yet. But the sorts of things Llynara suggested would be lovely addions and something that the market really lacks.
I've always loved to see what people do with my stuff. I always think of doing shaders like making paint for other artists. You know what you think it is or looks like or how it will be used. But then someone does something with it and your just thrilled because they are not in the same mental box you are. Barbults are a very good example of that to me.
Re: tag/material id
I figure it'd be on the user to add tags/ids, but once you do it you could swap quickly between patterns and looks.
I have no idea how easy it'd be to script.
Another option is the blue/orange constrast look. I'm thinking a little more muted, maybe pewter colors.
Heh. The icy colors are what you'd douse the room with in high summer. The nice bright jewel colors are the winter accents.
I like shaders but prices unless they are on sale here at Daz are too high for my budget. Thank you for your hard work.
Another option is the blue/orange contrast look. I'm thinking a little more muted, maybe pewter colors.
I'll keep blue orange in mind. I tend to steer away from it because it was my high school colors and I always feel like I am over saturated with it. We still live a couple of blocks from the school so not I am not still wearing my high school colors.
I love pewter, and I have a couple of other under used metallic type colors that I want to shoot for in the future.
I agree on the icy/pastels ending up being used more for sping/summer. And yes, I love jewel tones in the winter. Interesting how people see some colors as light and others as heavy.
Thank you Silver Dolphin.
There are so many ways you could go with it. You could do a set of romantic colors- the softer versions, pastels, etc. More of the "cottage" look and even some of the Scandinavian stuff. You could do some bold sets that also go well with certain decorating styles- like modern. Asian (lots of black and red there) and Indian (bold as well as jewel colors.)
You could do a set with richer, deeper colors, inspired by great works of art- the Renaissance, Van Gogh. Starry Starry Night comes to mind- I decorated an entire room around that and a few of his other night & star paintings. Throw in a couple of frames so that people can put a piece of whatever art they like into the scenes. That would be really neat.
In fact, you could add one or two props per set, that could be changed out and go with all the sets (like the wreaths, frames, etc). Then people could collect the sets and "cross-pollinate" with them. Everyone loves it when stuff goes with other stuff. The usefulness goes up exponentially and these are already starting strongly from that concept by being able to reshade and reuse things. People can truly make the 3d sets they own, new and old, theirs.
The sky is really the limit. It was smart to start with neutrals, because anything you do after it will work beautifully with the first shader set.
There are quite a few options there. I suspect I'll do the main (big) sets that are themes that I can go ceiling to floor with first and then go back for some of the others to fill in any gaps and add more depth. And there are also less "soft good" rooms like kitchens and baths that want addressing as well.