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I actually sort of finished the Damascus Steel limb swirls for my OC. But it was just enough to complete the real 2D drawing.
Maybe I shouldn't have deleted the kitbashed outfit render, but when I do this I pose the DAZ figure and make it wear an approximation of what I want. Here, I threw in Aeon Soul's Newsletter freebie "Rosly Vest" and then a hood and pants (can't remember which pants.) I eyeballed the render and then added my own touches to it. Finally, I flat colored the lineart. (I actually wanted this bunny's eyebrows in my freebie, but I felt they were too stylized.)
Anyway, I cannot render him in DAZ. The rabbit ears I own for G9 don't look like his.
Since this is a forum for DAZ, I did make another quick render with the stripes WIP. (I'm tempted to burn these onto a tanned skin that's similar to my OC's. I could probably get away with using these rabbit ear props, but he's not going to look the same. I'm very happy with the finished 2D pic, but the 3D one is going to feel like a failure.) The stripes are on Lucas 9, who I bought last night and I added Charlie 9 in the back.
Speaking of Lucas 9 and Charlie 9, I remember that I had initially passed on both since I thought that Wagner 9 was good-enough for my "skinny guy" needs. I regret not rendering Wagner here, but I don't remember seeing a comparison of Lucas and Charlie, so I made one real quick. Wagner has very defined legs, at least the SD version I always use. Maybe I'll update this post later with all 3, when I'm not too busy. Updated with a render. No skin textures, so you can see their shapes more clearly...though I made them wear boxers as a precaution against my images being pulled.
Lucas has very slim legs, which I feel I should try with my OC, Ernest, who is supposed to have the inverted triangle build. I really want to redo his body preset, so I will experiment with Lucas. Charlie's body is good for another OC, but I bought him because his face can also pass for a Hispanic character. Something I didn't realize until I saw promo pics of him styled differently at another store. (Here is a link to deviantART, with an example. The eyes are definitely from Menfis HD, so I assume the skin as well.) With the aforementioned dA pic, I find it amusing that Charlie was concieved as a small, due to living through the 1930s Depression Era, but Kaos3D made him huge, as is his style. X'D
Speaking of Menfis, I need to see if anyone made a comparison render between him and John 9.
According to my laptop, I did this render of bluejaunte's Amala, but converted to G9, back on August 18th, and then just forgot to share it because I've been busy. I also think I deleted the scene with her. Oops. She is using BJ Akki's skin, for the sake of using assets from the same artist. I don't remember why I wanted to make her a "pink Barbie blonde" for this pic. Likely to contrast more from the backdrop.
Once again, I got busy and had to be AFK for a bit. I decided to redo my OC, Ernie, and I feel this depiction is "closer" to what I had envisioned. I liked the previous version's chin though. He uses Mousso's Kim as a base, along with other G8F Mousso characters, and a few male heads. (He is the older brother of another OC who uses Kim as a base, and with G9, I just needed to do a few tweaks.) I just threw the Cyberpunk Outfit on him, may re-render this later with him wearing a suit. (He became a head of state in my story, after all.) But Ernie was always supposed to be an alt boy, even if he has rugged/rustic(?) aesthetic preferences.
This is the OC who needs the glowing robotic red eye.
For the sake of not bumping my own thread further; I am very disappointed that Mousso's G9 characters all have 8K textures. The file sizes are huge, that's not counting all the HD morphs. I only have two of her G9 characters -- Kim (because she's Chanel remade but her download size is 710 MB) and Carrie (download size pt1: 553 MB & pt2: 408 MB). The good thing is that I have the old Figure Converter script, so I will just move up her characters to G9. Just need to vent.
I don't think I will render him wearing a suit. IDK what is up with him, but my own subconsious creativity wants him wearing anything other than a suit. So the Cyberpunk Outfit will stay.
Right now, I am currently trying to recolor his outfit in GIMP, since the way each piece is mapped doesn't have options to recolor the trim, body, etc. within DS itself. The color palette I chose is his "default" one which is based off of a Kingdom Hearts Mickey Mouse design. (Hence the dark blue.) I have done only the bodysuit and jacket. I am working on the belt next and will likely do the boots, since they're supposed to be yellow like the cuffs. I'm still unsure of the shorts and pants. But the shorts might be red and the pants might be black like the bodysuit. The belt will be brown with silver accents.'
The hair was also difficult to color. Its textures are on a 4096 x 2048 image map and IDK how it's UV mapped, but 3DCoat hated it. So I had to guess where the lighter and darker parts went, while coloring in GIMP and checking in DS. I wanted more a more "salt and pepper" color scheme for his hair than solid gray. But it didn't work out. Perhaps, I should download Blender on this laptop and see if Blender likes the hair. (Prefer using a 3D app to plan out colors and to tweak the seams.)
I also didn't realize how slim I remade him. But then, his body is 70% Lucas 9 and 40% Michael 9. I also used one of Sickleyield's free morphs (the "tortilla chip" one), but I can't remember the amount. It was likely 20% - 30%, since I don't usually mix large amounts. I guess I'm so used to seeing this OC wearing long, loose clothing, that I even get tricked into thinking he is a builkier man with a more "hunky" build.
I think I fixed what was wrong with 3DCoat where it crashed when using the Paint Bucket/Fill option. I checked on "Use Color Tolerance" and it no longer crashes. I may change the boot colors, but the main shoe part must remain yellow. This is what I meant by "Kingdom Hearts Mickey Mouse" color palette.
Not sure if I would make another OC wear a similar outfit, to color it to their main color palette. I've seen the official texture add-on, and I only like that main "Lavender" Lucy color.
Okay, I put Ernie in a suit. (Used the dForce Padrino Outfit that comes with Neanderthal 9.) I changed his hair style too, to the SBH that comes with geserty's/eman's Henry G9. I have mixed feelings about the result, which you can see here:
I don't see my OC here; no ounce of Ernie anywhere! This is the only "bad" part about this. But, he looks like decent "character actor," if you want a "Golden Age of Hollywood," guy in it. Will definitely recycle his shaping preset for this purpose. I need to figure out what is making him not feel like my OC, if you know what I mean. Is it the hair, the type of clothes, etc.?
All is left is to recolor his pants for the Cyberpunk Outfit. Will get to it in a minute.
The dForce version of the Urban Noise FM hoodie didn't work when I used it. Or maybe it's freaking out because I am trying to make a male G9 wear it. It and the other variant were on my wishlist for the longest time but mostly because I couldn't decide between the default colors and the styles. I prefer the closed/zipped up style, but liked the camo colors of the open/unzipped one more. Another closed variant was released elsewhere, so I decided to buy the open one from here. The idea was that if I liked this after trying it out, I'd get the other closed variant to have both tops with the shared pants and shoes.
I will try to see if reinstalling it would solve this issue. But that won't be until later.
Here is an example of what happened with the dForce "basic" one that just tangled up. Next to it is the regular, non-dForce one that probably works as intended because I just used a few of its movement morphs to achieve the look I want. (None of these renders are from the "start from emmorized pose" setting.)
I did try a simple standing pose too and it still got tangled up. I don't even think my character's body is weirdly shaped. (What is happening with the hood???)
There was no reviews of this product either (as of the time I am writing this post), just some link complaining about a past sale. I took a chance, because I have never had any problems similar to this with other clothes by Aeon Soul. They all look and work great. (Their dForce Everyday2 outfit is one of my most all-time favorites from them and I am still disappointed that it just didn't get natively upgraded to G9.)
It's almost messed up that I don't see reviews anymore with the free version of the DAZ Deals extension either, which renders it even more useless for me. But that is not the extension's fault, it's the fact that users just aren't talking and linking to the products in the forums. I've seen other reviews on some DAZ Discords, but those are terrible places to post reviews. They are closed/private spaces and I've seen/formerly been part of other servers were one of the people running it has some sort of hissy-fit and deletes the server out of spite. A website like the store is less likely to get deleted. But nothing is safe.
Maybe I will try again later with it, even though this week is going to be super busy. Ugh. I guess I'm just disappointed because I wanted to like it since it's something many of my OCs would wear.
(I will also try to post more reviews on my thread, at least of products I like but don't seem to have any reviews linked to it.)