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Looks better then what I got with the Displacement set so high, I had to back it of to -0.1 +0.1, left bump min/max alone.
(EDIT, and here we go, now for the eyes, lol)
Ok, whatever floats the boat. Did you buy a set of poses? I used one that came with MilDragon 2 which is why some bits look odd.
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Not that you'd notice, but, on the eyes on mine, I added an opacity colour of 240 253 244, then I set up refraction with an index of 1.4, and turned Reflection on to raytraced with a strength of 29%. Specular at 100%, glossiness 75% and sharpness 85%.
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I see, it's a bit annoying it doesn't come with poses, but, I guess that's why it's LE and free!
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I see, it's a bit annoying it doesn't come with poses, but, I guess that's why it's LE and free!
CHEERS!That, and caned poses don't always work, especially on uneven ground like that Flipmode set.
LOL, over here in the UK, 'caned' means the same as stoned! You should save any poses you do and stick them on ShareCG.
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And that Reflection map (Yes that's what it dose there with reflection turned on with that "DAZ Studio Default" shader), It dose not even come close to the tutorials it's used in, lol. A modern house hallway inside a stone arch cavern chamber, really, lol.
Only came with the two maps, I don't think there is anything I can do with this. I'll remove that stupid map, and see what is possible, tho I'm expecting nothing at all. There just is not enough to work with for maps.
Then again. Ditch the Specular Color map. Kill the stupid Gloss, and set 'Actual' reflection to 50%.
It's a start at least.
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And drop the Eye color map, into that 'Ambient Color' slot.
Opacity settings are just below Diffuse. You don't do anything with the specular except the sharpness.
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No, ditch the specular map, leave the gloss alone, set the opacity to what I did, reflection and refraction to what I did, ambient to what you did and you get eyes like below.
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Leaving the Glossiness dial at the default 0%, and removing that stupid map from the "Specular Color" just gives you a pure white eyeball. Kind of makes it impossible to aim the eyes when you can't see where there looking.
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Your dragon loaded with a different shader on the eyes, didn't it? AoA, Omni, Iray, Other?
LOL! Yes, sorry, I selected the entire creature when I loaded UberSurface, I thought you'd done likewise. My bad.
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Specular Color 240r 222g 180b, Specular Strength of 100% plus map, glossiness of 75%, Specular Sharpness of 0%.
Specular2 Color 255r 255g 255b, Specular2 Strength of 100% plus map, Specular2 Roughness 65%, Specular2 Sharpness of 0%.
Fresnel Strength 91%, Fresnel fall off 2 and Fresnel sharpness 15%.
Again, Thanks. (EDIT added render of SubDragonLE with eyes, and skin errrr scales instead of velvet)
I'm still not sure if the texture sets I should get are for the "Millennium SubDragon", or the "Millennium SubDragon LE".
Ok then, load UberSurface for the eye and then do what I suggested and you'll get there. Then I think we should stop as Kettu and Wowie haven't been on yet, we're heading towards P100 and we don't know what Kettu has done about a new thread. We'll pick up when we know what Kettu is up to.
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Turn down the ambient strength to zero.
I tried resizing the textures to 4096x4096, which seems to be the new Daz standard.
These are some awesome dragon renders you've got, guys!
I will start a new thread later this evening (it's evening where I am) or tomorrow. "The 3Delight Laboratory Thread", it's your last chance to suggest something else.
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Correction: UE2 couldn't have caused the specular glow, since it's a non-specular light. UE2 will trigger the velvet, though. Mapping the velvet was a smart move, it can add nice "dusty" effects, but a strength map is a must for this to look nice.
What may cause glowing shiny bits when they don´t belong is a specular-only light without shadows (or any directional light without shadows that isn't diffuse-only).
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I don't think I enabled Fresnel on any of the reflective bits, what settings do you recommend!?
Try 75% with a sharpness of about 10% and falloff 4, for starters, and tweak from there. We have "artistic" Fresnel in the UberSurface family, so there's always several ways of setting it up to look good. Either way, noticeable Fresnel attenuation (strength-wise) is important for all reflective things that aren't metallic.
Seems two people are trying their best to get to the 99 pages. Don't open a new thread too soon. Let them fill up
And before you open a thread, here is my suggestion : the eternal three daylight in some mindless spot
It won't take them long to get to the 99th one.
Neat suggestion, although I didn't like that movie that much ;) Kate Winslet's hair had some nifty colours in it, of course.
Trying to find something fun and in the mood/spirit. First thing that came to my mind even though I don't really remember the movie but I know I liked it
I hope my brain comes up with something else
Kettu's 3Delight Lab?
I'll make a note of those fresnel settings and get back to you.
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"I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight..."
Yep...3Delight Lab...sounds good to me.
Oh man, but it should be a lab for everybody. Too much of Kettu-this-Kettu-that could scare some people away.
I don't think so, anyone that's been in this thread knows you do good work and they know they can learn a great deal from you. In just shy of 2 weeks, I've learned more from you than I ever have in 2 years. Don't hide your light! Lay down what you can do in the first post and you'll be well in.
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This is my next little project, it's the Sanctum Arts Horde figure and it deserves to be given the full UberSurface2 treatment. This will be fun!
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PS (The render shows it as it loads.)
Kettu, The point was, that the one-foot tile only had a hundred pixels going across the floor tile. Fare les then a 1-to1 texture pixel to renderd pixel, and it still had good contrast between dark and light areas. Yea, the SubDragon stock mats are not much better, tho the color map had far more color and contrast, then what was in the rendered result.
As you point out, and I was horrified to see, by default, there is no maps to control where any of the Specular or velvet is on the SubDragonLE. That combined with the presence of light from every direction, made for a low-contrast dragon. I see people experimenting with Iray skin textures, and with a lack of good maps, well. Peach-fuzz on the cheeks is good, on the lips, not so much. Peach-fuzz on the backs of hands looks good, Peach-fuzz on the knuckles and palms of hands, well, lol. Translucency on the nose and ears is good with bright lights, translucency elsewhere, that depends, lol.
I will look at that program, tho I'm sure in a roundabout way, I did that using IrfanView after figuring out a good set of adjustments for the existing maps.
It looks like that figure is missing allot of strength control mats.
It looks like that figure is missing allot of strength control mats.
Actually, the figure loads and performs better in DS than it did in Poser, all the maps are there, they just need a decent shader. All Sanctum Arts stuff looks better. Their Grim armour looked great, in Poser the helmet lenses were just transparent holes, in DS there were proper lit lenses. The beard hair on the Horde just sat there and looked silly in Poser, whereas there are control morphs for it in DS. It is odd then that they were distributed by Poser vendors and not here in Daz. Whatever, we'll never know now as Sanctum Arts are long gone, which is a crying shame, as I would love to have seen Marine armour from them.
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I see now. I guess what may also play against SubDragon LE's microscopic textures is that the dragon's not flat... unlike the floor tile. So there may well be some distortion to the textures, particularly when the dragon is posed. It's very hard to get minimal UV distortions, especially in animatable models.
Actually, the figure loads and performs better in DS than it did in Poser, all the maps are there, they just need a decent shader. All Sanctum Arts stuff looks better. Their Grim armour looked great, in Poser the helmet lenses were just transparent holes, in DS there were proper lit lenses. The beard hair on the Horde just sat there and looked silly in Poser, whereas there are control morphs for it in DS. It is odd then that they were distributed by Poser vendors and not here in Daz. Whatever, we'll never know now as Sanctum Arts are long gone, which is a crying shame, as I would love to have seen Marine armour from them.
CHEERS! Breakfast didn't sit well with me, so I had to lay down for a bit, feeling better now.
A bit of glossiness, as is on the nose, is good. The body needs that velvet (peach-fuzz efect) with gloss turned off almost completely. I don't think they would look correct if both were everywhere.
Also, Atticus Bones fur pelt would look awesome on that... If it could be turned into a proper mat for the fella.
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewreply/690946/
Hmmm.
Kettu Agreed. If it wasn't for the one render, personal interest render of sorts, I wouldn't bother. The DazDragon3 is still some time off for me. I kind of already got my massive bit of, "flushing the wishlist threw the shopping cart" , for the month. The final result in the last posted render is more then sufficient, It's just pending an 8 hour stretch to do an All-Out render, window of opportunity. I have some more testing to do on the new Graphics card first, and to figure out how to turn off that obnoxious OpenGL sound in the view-field.
It won't, the tone is just right, people take in what you say and learn and that is what is needed for any tutorial.
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