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Ooh ooh I know thanks to her videos. You add it using the Add Advanced Iray Nodes script that is included with DS. Then you activate it under Display/Rendering/Iray.
...I still haven't quite managed to make my primitives not a slightly different shade than the original backdrop but otherwise it is amazing.
Oh so sweet render Phil , thanks for sharing , yeah the light is on top of the nadir as it was afternoon already so not typical portrait light but with your pose she catched it lol well done!
Thanks , of course, that was just front side as each of them have more to offer. I tried to capture as much as possible around on the wild side , cleaned the plastic and cloned out the people
Thank you guys ! You requested you getting it !
Thanks a lot , well shaders I was working on are gone , the only one that survived was Satin shaders 85 of them as I shared with some of the people so I had a copy to work with and all ready to be released soon here at DAZ
the rest need to be redone.I have almost empty library not even bikini for V so not installed even all my stuff I purchased as I am busy doing new products , I guess there is always positive in the negative so we going to have better stuff soon , I also working on a vector displacement shader for iray and working already amazing , Will share as freebie when done .
Unshaven 3 for G3M will be not sold here anymore as it is too late, Unshaven 4 for future males, yes and since V8 is already in the store her companion may arrive also soon and much more new stuff to play with
I run test with my new purchased Mars rover on the beach terrain , no post work , I will include some additional effect cameras as well ,
I am using Nikon D800E without filter sensor as it best worked in iray other ways too blurry after rendering, 3 steps 2EV are poor and you will never get sun light in iray with that, but cloudy days are fine, you will never get shadows from light with that, Iray need 28 EV dynamics to produce sunlight, you need to shot the sun with the shutter speed at ISO 100, 1/1800 at minimal f/11 aperture or f/22 is better to isolate completely the sun from the environment light to make it works, so minimal 10 exposure shots at 2EV ,
I do manual mode and use my Samsung G6 to control the camera since D800E can't do that for me automatic, most cameras can't anyway and are limited to -7EV You need also create true HDR and not flatten (fused ) to make it works in iray , so no tone mapping on your HDRI or you lose the potential of the HDRI , I also did over 30EV in my tests but it was too much for Iray as maximum it can handle is 28EV dynamics
so if you take just HDR pictures you are fine with 3 steps 2EV in raw or jpg , but for using in iray you need more, I tested like 5 cameras before I decided to buy the best one for this job
28, wow I had no idea. Thanks so much for the info. Yeah D800E is great, just a bit unwieldy and files a bit high res. Sharpness I figured shouldn't be that much of an issue, can sharpen it in post or even just use Capture One instead of Lightroom which has better out of the box sharpness for RAW processing apparently. But I'm pretty inexperienced so maybe I'm wrong about it all.
I have an S6 too so that sounds like a great idea.
You welcome Cathy and thanks Dreamfarmer for the reply to Cathy , you can do more, for example you have a scene where there is shadow and also light , usually HDRI scenes have sun light and you can't place the model in the shadow as you will get double shadow that works bad, here you can use the Matte Function to block the sun light and get rid of the shadow , look the 2 renders below, one without matte funtion and one with and how to fix the double shadows .
You find it under DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library\Scripts\Utilities\Create Advanced Iray Node Properties.duf apply it to a primitive you want to use as Matte Function then go Under Parameters/Display and turn the Matte Function ON it is under the same section where you turn visible in render or not option , and you ready , also you need to change the matterial of the matte function object , set the specular off and change the color to dark gray using the base iray shader on that not original 3DLite that primitives load in .
You see each camera sensor beside D800E has a optical low-pass filter (OLPF) in front of the imaging sensor same as Iray Pixel Filter , D800E does not provide an in-camera solution for anti-aliasing of your pictures as it does not have optical low-pass filter as it was created for studios and photos that going to be postworked after so not for regular customers that wantch the perfect picture without the work , the raw renders in iray do the same , that why we need to use at last 0.80 to 1.00 value of pixel filter OLPF to get rid of the jagged edges of the model, if you use perfect HDRI it will get blurred out by 80 to 100% and lose on the sharpness in final renders and that was my issue with other cameras , You can make sharp your HDRI using Unsharp mask in Photoshop to bring some of the pixels up so it will helps as well and a lot , it may not look as pretty anymore but render well pefrect . Test it out to see, load some pictures on a square plane and render out to see how much you lose on the sharpness
Hmm yeah I read about the D800E filter, or lack thereof. I guess I'll have to experiment some when I have time. What app are you using on the S6?
We all know G3F and G8F are so similar one can follow Sickleyield's tutorial and make G3F clothing, hair and even shoes fit G8F without using auto-fit. If G3M and G8M are that similar, perhaps it would be possible to make Unshaven 4 work with both generations. Seems like supporting both generations would increase your target market significantly, with people who only shop here. (I already bought U3, so I'm not thinking of myself...) Of course, I have no idea if that's feasible. It's just a thought.
Hugs.
I use Helicon Remote for Android and they have also Desktop version, simple but amazing for shooting as many exposures you need with Manual mode , when you shot auto exposure bracketing build in your camera it use aperture and you losing sharpness with each step , Helicon Remote do the right way using shutter speed keeping the ISO , White Balance and Aperture at the same settings with each shot, resulting in sharp pictures no matter the light condition of the shot . Also I am using Sigma 8mm for my panoramas with special tripod head made for it , before I used Nikon 10 mm manually shaved to use on full format FX it was amazing and sharp but too many issues with stitching complex panoramas , so far Sigma 8 mm do the best job from them all that I tested , and its sharpness is the best set between 8 and 11 aperture and distance at 0.5-1 m exactly what I need .
Cool! Well it's certainly an excuse to go out :) Don't even have a fisheye yet, and no pano head either. For lens I'm looking at Samyang 12mm. Getting good reviews, more friendly to the budget most of all. But you have a very highend setup indeed and getting great results.
I used Unshaven 2 on G3M that why I did not made it for so long as it worked .. and since I am too late this year I did not expected new generation coming so soon and my U3 was almost ready so I keep it on my website , using Transfer Utility and before doing it you need to make sure the base fit exactly the base of G8M , we will see how it works and if there is solution I will post it , And since you getting 50% off of future U4 , you can choice what is best for you ;)
Thanks, I tested Samyang 12 mm as well most all of them fisheye lenses from 16mm to 8mm, what you need is doing shots as fast as possible as the world does not stand still and everything moving and light change condition slightly so every second counts , in bad lighting conditions like fast moving clouds that cover the sun in and out I usually shot only 3 positions instead of 4 to get quick the shots as possible as it was in the last Freebie , a pain , I tried like 3 times to shot this scene over and over again as the clouds covering my sun between .
But the worse ever was shotting the Chinese HDRi but this time was the people running around, one Chinese lady was coming in front of my camera nonstop until I stop her and ask for a moment, she answer me, I am out of your way asxxole , so rude then she run again and said , I am sowwy lol Another time when I shot the Tuscany Garden a wedding planners arrived with children and people, the father said to a girl, come back let the lady shot her picture , then I answer , it does no matter this is 180 degrees shot you all will be in my picture that I am putting on Google , they turn on the heel and left all at once it was funny , with so many people around today it is a hard job to get shot , and on top of that had to clone out tones of them , my wish is to make HDRI of time Square NYC , did not figure out how to get rid of the people yet as it is almost impossible , well maybe at 5 am in the middle of the winter , since it never sleep lol
If the weather works for me , tomorrow I have shots in NYC Center Park , then at Nordic Castle in Montclair NJ and also Italian Gardens if time allows and at the end of summer in South NJ , I found amazing abandoned bunkers by the beach. Then I start to shot in the Fall when tree change colors at 7 lakes in NY , amazing place and the colors of the trees are breath taking. I have also some connection with demolishing company that allow me to shot building before they go down so that is going to be fun , I expected to shot abandoned old school, really creepy, I missed the abandoned Victorian hospital it was a horror with beds still inside and creepy rooms they told me too late . I may drop by Lady Liberty and Eli Island soon for shots but right now it is already booked until the end of August so no way to get inside the statue as I want so badly. I am not sure if my equipment is allowed as not even personal bags are allowed and need to be locked out before entry, the city turns slowly into a museum .
Haha, you have lots planned and yes it seems hard to shoot places with lots of people. I'd probably just avoid popular places and catch interesting shots in more remote locations.
Awww... thank you, Cath. I'm not planning on buying much for the G8 line. Not any time soon, anyway. But I have been having a lot of fun fitting G3F stuff to G8F, and I suspect it will be the same for G3M/G8M. However, there are a few products I'm going to want, to make the G8 base figures more usable, and U4 will be one of them.
Awwww thank my friend for the support ! you never miss any of my releases ! myself I still love G2-G3 generation and use often
Is it possible to do Times Square? I've only ever been when it's too crowded to consider. Do they cut off the lights after a certain hour there? Or is that such a deep canyon it's best modeled?
So after reading some more, you said you use a head specifically for the Sigma 8mm. Is that 360Precision Google stuff? What I don't get there is how to take the bottom shot. It says "hand nadir", does that mean you need to do that by hand, shaking and all?
No it is always crowded no matter the hour, in cold winter less, it is possible for me to do regular 360 panoramas with a technique where you shot a lot of photos and photoshop can eliminate the people from but not with HDRI since you get a lot of ghosting, the light is always on
I am using Acratech Spherical Panoramic Head for Sigma 8mm , Sigma 8mm can take all you need even with 3 shots, but recommended 4 directional shots , there is just little square left on the nadir so easy to fix in Photoshop so I don't need to shot nadir, hand nadir they mean you need to change the position of the camera and tripod manually to shot it and for HDRI hand shots not really recommended. I also have a Theta 360 degree camera that do the full shot at once but the resolution is max 5K and not as pretty and sharp as with my camera , it has 2 lenses
If you use something like a Theta 360, how do you not appear in the shot yourself?!
She runs away, really fast or she uses her stealth suit?
If she runs away, someone else might run in and steal it!
I use remote and hide behind stuff like doors, trees etc , I just use for personal things , where I want to be in lol in NYC it is not good idea to run from stuff you leave behind lol can put you in trouble
I just played with one of the new Beach HDRI
That looks gorgeous, Cath!
Thank you Phil !