Show Us Your Iray Renders. Part VI
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Awesome, I'll head over and post a few :)
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...one of my favourite eras. nice work.
Should put that up in this thread:
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/57610/car-and-bike-lovers-thread-mark-iv/p1 ;
The Saturn Interdiction
Sahel + Jordynne and various adjustments.
Plus CC's new body hair product, 'Shave This'. Autofits nicely to women!
I'm nuts about gingers, even ginger men are compelling to look at, it must be the hair/skin contrasts that I love so much!
..still trying to get a good fair freckled skin for my ginger character Leela. Taking a lot of time so she doesn't look too pale or too dark.
Would love to see your character! As far as too dark/light I usually just go with tan lines that way as long as the tan lines are brighter than the skin, you'll do alright!
...here's a test with her and her mother when she was young For some reason her kin looks darker. even though I am using a fairly pale setting with the freckles overlay on SBP3
The second one is another shot of the her at around 9 years old which came out better but I cannot explain why as again I used the same skin setting and same light setup..
First off, she's adorable! Secondly, it could be the environment as it could be impacting the render, it's hard to say as I don't know how much the spec/reflection/translucency is in play here.
..well the light setup consists of two plane primitive ghost lights at about a 60° angle to the sides a single photometric spot (disk at 95% spread) slightly above behind the camera at dead centre, and a neutral ambient HDR (a limited freebie by Mec4D) in the environmental sphere. I needed the lighting to be as neutral as possible for testing skin tones. There is no SSS that is something Iray tends to have difficulty with.
These are my favorties of my work right now.
Dottie in a diner, and standing around.
You might want to give the Diffuse overlay a go, as that would be a great way of helping with a light skin tone while retaining the texture's details by plugging in a texture.
...don't think that is one of the overlays in SBP3. it only covers effects like veins, freckles, acne & such.
...tried a couple freebie Iray studio light sets but can't get either to work correctly. Looked in the store and none are just neutral sets to use for skin development.
She is adorable! (Your image didn't post in this comment, so I'm adding link here: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/3a/13d68be6ed1189c68c1fab7acbcaae.jpg
My first test render with my new Windows computer with NVIDIA 1080ti...The original larger image would have taken probably 10 hours on my other CPU only computers but this rendered in 10 minutes! DS already crashed once though with just one character and I couldn't even open DS on that computer for 2 weeks because of some bug. Hope this soon gets resolved so I can actually render full scenes!
Floyd "out-of-the-box" with a combo of expressions.
...OK apparently there was something wrong with the skin shader as even with different light setups it looked the same. I thought I used the same skin settings for both pics but apparently not as something in the mix was giving it more of a greyish tone. So I opened the scene of Leela jumping and saved just the character as a hierarchical materials preset, then applied that to her in the other pic.
There is another way to save skin presets through SBP3, but this seemed simpler.
Also fixed the hair colour using Slosh's UHT2
The whole scene, hair included looks like it has a grey film cast over it that isn't associated with light but the white balance/white point or some setting to do photography. Maybe it is reflection from the floor & walls? It's a good scene though.
...I'm using a preset neutral white light set that employs three photometric "soft" spots (faster rendering than with mesh lights) and a single neutral IBL sphere (Mec4D).
The hair colours from UHT2 are pretty flat "out of the box" but there are sheen and transparency settings in the tools folder, I just haven't used them as I am primarily interested in the skin.
Settings: Tone mapping: ISO = 100, aperture = f9, shutter speed = 1/60 . White Point, Gamma, Environment Map, and Environment Intensity all = Default, Env Lighting Resolution = 1024, Lighting Blur = "Off"
Reaper and young Nenana
thats good
...nice.
The year is 2344, Humans have colonized the Solar System. The three power brokers in the system are Earth, Mars, and the Ceres Mining Federation. These three players were locked into an arms race and cold war. That all changed when a hostile alien vessel entered the system,. The alien battle cruiser was destroyed, but at great cost. Mars, Earth, and Ceres have now banned together to protect the system against alien invasion. A joint armada is on its way to the outer edges of the system to intercept an alien invasion.
So this little story is just an excuse for me to put a bunch of different (cool) ships and fighters together. :-)
Models Used in this Render:
https://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/prod/51227/
http://www.vanishingpoint.biz/freeitemdetail.asp?FreeItemID=877
EDF New York model by Don Gaiser @xzarno. Converted to DAZ format by @theschell. Textures modified my me.
Wing Commander Fighters and Cruiser by Hangar.b.productions: https://sketchfab.com/hangar.b.productions. (Looks likes these have been removed)
*Using the Elenora model just bought today with some post work.
"Date night"
Ele was getting ready for date night. She was just about to apply her make-up when her husband, Ron, rudely interrupted her preperation.
Ron: "Can't you stay here one Friday night with me?"
Ele: "Are we going to go through this every week? You are annoying me with your questions. You know how important date night is!"
Ron: "Sorry."
Ele:" I won't be home tonight so don't forget to take care of the things on the list tomorrow."
Happy to play around with the Victorian Lords and Ladies bundle (also CC Beard Boss, Tane dear, Winter Frozen Lake, and DeviantCherry's Handknit on the Snowman scarf. Whew)
Postwork done with NIK Filters.
...nice, needs a stirring soundtrack to go with it like this:
Red Wings
I was inspired to do this weird rendition with Parasite (Parasite at 50%, Victorian suit, Owen skin)