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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,300

    Well said, Tiffanie. This program is a gem and I use it even more often nowadays.

    Can make normal maps and the other ones (Stylize filters).

     

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,242
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

    If you talk to the Howler people, they will get you the update fix, no matter where you bought it, here, steam, btmicro, etc. They are very good about it.

    .....................................

    I'm happy to see your enthusiasm for this gem of a program, and hope to see it used more and more, especially considering it's price in comparison to PS and some of the others out there, that don't do as much.

    Thanks Tiffanie. It does seem to be a great program. However, I don't do much 2D painting and my main use for Howler is terrain generation. So, I really would like to export the texture maps as ell as the object file.

    When asked if an upgrade from Howler 11.1 to Howler ll.2b was available, the response I got from Phillip  was that he is 'working with Daz to get 11.2b there, but don't have an ETA yet.'. There was no real indication if it would be an update to the current product or would require a seperate purchase and no offer of a discount to get Howler 11.2b from their site. So, I can't decide if I should keep 11.1 or return DAZ to DAZ and wait for 11.2b

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    Here are a couple of screen shots of the export menu. Also, While it's not a one stop import, you can already import the texture into Daz. Create the terrain with texture. Export the obj. Swap the buffer and save the terrain texture map as a jpg. Import the new terrain object. Then go to the diffuse and find the saved terrain jpg. Viola! your obj is textured. Hope that helps.

     

    Store area.jpg
    1355 x 860 - 165K
    Maps Generated.jpg
    1499 x 820 - 175K
  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    Charlie Judge said:
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

    If you talk to the Howler people, they will get you the update fix, no matter where you bought it, here, steam, btmicro, etc. They are very good about it.

    .....................................

    I'm happy to see your enthusiasm for this gem of a program, and hope to see it used more and more, especially considering it's price in comparison to PS and some of the others out there, that don't do as much.

    Thanks Tiffanie. It does seem to be a great program. However, I don't do much 2D painting and my main use for Howler is terrain generation. So, I really would like to export the texture maps as ell as the object file.

    When asked if an upgrade from Howler 11.1 to Howler ll.2b was available, the response I got from Phillip  was that he is 'working with Daz to get 11.2b there, but don't have an ETA yet.'. There was no real indication if it would be an update to the current product or would require a seperate purchase and no offer of a discount to get Howler 11.2b from their site. So, I can't decide if I should keep 11.1 or return DAZ to DAZ and wait for 11.2b

    Phillip  said - if you don't want to wait for the undate at Daz 

    you can get the Steam verison from their site - it will over write the Daz verson with 11.2b - worked for me

    be sure to ( read how you have to do it )

     

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,343
    Artini said:

    Well said, Tiffanie. This program is a gem and I use it even more often nowadays.

    Can make normal maps and the other ones (Stylize filters).

     

    oh, that's interesting. So you CAN make normal maps in Dogwaffle?  Are they well made?  Thinking about having another source to generate them for my human maps I make....

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574
    RAMWolff said:
    Artini said:

    Well said, Tiffanie. This program is a gem and I use it even more often nowadays.

    Can make normal maps and the other ones (Stylize filters).

     

    oh, that's interesting. So you CAN make normal maps in Dogwaffle?  Are they well made?  Thinking about having another source to generate them for my human maps I make....

    It does make nice normal maps, as far as I can tell. I don't use normal maps enough to be a huge judge on that, but I'm using a set that I made in PD Howler for a set of outfit textures that I'm working on for Dawn.

     

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,242
    edited January 2018
    Charlie Judge said:
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

    If you talk to the Howler people, they will get you the update fix, no matter where you bought it, here, steam, btmicro, etc. They are very good about it.

    .....................................

    I'm happy to see your enthusiasm for this gem of a program, and hope to see it used more and more, especially considering it's price in comparison to PS and some of the others out there, that don't do as much.

    Thanks Tiffanie. It does seem to be a great program. However, I don't do much 2D painting and my main use for Howler is terrain generation. So, I really would like to export the texture maps as well as the object file.

    When asked if an upgrade from Howler 11.1 to Howler ll.2b was available, the response I got from Phillip  was that he is 'working with Daz to get 11.2b there, but don't have an ETA yet.'. There was no real indication if it would be an update to the current product or would require a seperate purchase and no offer of a discount to get Howler 11.2b from their site. So, I can't decide if I should keep 11.1 or return DAZ to DAZ and wait for 11.2b

     

    bigh said:
    Charlie Judge said:
    tiffanie_gray_aceaa3bc71 said:

    If you talk to the Howler people, they will get you the update fix, no matter where you bought it, here, steam, btmicro, etc. They are very good about it.

    .....................................

    I'm happy to see your enthusiasm for this gem of a program, and hope to see it used more and more, especially considering it's price in comparison to PS and some of the others out there, that don't do as much.

    Thanks Tiffanie. It does seem to be a great program. However, I don't do much 2D painting and my main use for Howler is terrain generation. So, I really would like to export the texture maps as ell as the object file.

    When asked if an upgrade from Howler 11.1 to Howler ll.2b was available, the response I got from Phillip  was that he is 'working with Daz to get 11.2b there, but don't have an ETA yet.'. There was no real indication if it would be an update to the current product or would require a seperate purchase and no offer of a discount to get Howler 11.2b from their site. So, I can't decide if I should keep 11.1 or return DAZ to DAZ and wait for 11.2b

    Phillip  said - if you don't want to wait for the undate at Daz 

    you can get the Steam verison from their site - it will over write the Daz verson with 11.2b - worked for me

    be sure to ( read how you have to do it )

     

    Update: I got another email from Phillip that referenced the Steam  update. I installed it and although I have only done a quick check it seems to be working for me.

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  • staigermanstaigerman Posts: 236
    Charlie Judge said:
     

    Update: Correspondence with the Project Dogwaffle people indicates there is a bug with Howler 11.2 and 11.2b would be required instead.

     

    Hi, indeed, 11.2 was no good. 11.2b is good. We have been working with Daz to get it to the store in replacement of Howler 11.1 - so please check in your Product Gallery if you can download the new 11.2b now. I've been told today it was done, but haven't been able to ceck for myself.

     

  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202

    It now shows a download for PD Howler 12.1b - powered by Project Dogwaffle: Paint, Motion, 3D and fun with pixels  87.65 MB

    So I guess they got the update but labled it wrong when putting it up.

  • staigermanstaigerman Posts: 236

    The 11.2b version of Howler should be there now. The product description added this Note:  (with a typo: 12.1b should read as 11.2b :-)  )

    Anyway, both the 11.1 full installer and 11.2b full installers are available for download. Try the latest 11.2b, if it doesn't work your system may still run v11.1

     

    Notes

    • This product includes:
      • 2 General Installer
    • This product includes versions 12.1b as well as 11.1. 12.1b may not work on all systems, if it does not run on your system you should use 11.1.

     

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,405
    staigerman said:
    Charlie Judge said:
     

    Update: Correspondence with the Project Dogwaffle people indicates there is a bug with Howler 11.2 and 11.2b would be required instead.

     

    Hi, indeed, 11.2 was no good. 11.2b is good. We have been working with Daz to get it to the store in replacement of Howler 11.1 - so please check in your Product Gallery if you can download the new 11.2b now. I've been told today it was done, but haven't been able to ceck for myself.

     

    The download is mis-labeled as 12.1, not 11.2 - but the zip downloaded is 11_2_RC_094-DAZ.zip; I'll have to wait til I get home to check further.

  • staigermanstaigerman Posts: 236
    bigh said:
    Charlie Judge said:

     

    Phillip  said - if you don't want to wait for the undate at Daz 

    you can get the Steam verison from their site - it will over write the Daz verson with 11.2b - worked for me

    be sure to ( read how you have to do it )

     

    That was this mornings alternative/quick fix indeed :-)   Should no longer be needed as an update, as you should have at your disposal the download of the full installer for Howler 11.2b now

    Cheers!

     

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    He beat me to it! I was just going to say that the 11.2B was now available for those who recently purchased 11.1

    Thanks Staigerman!

     

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,300
    edited January 2018

    Below are an example of images generated in PD Howler: fractal and its normal map.

    I have also made an example iray render in Daz Studio, utilized similar maps made in PD Howler.

    image

    Fractal04.jpg
    1024 x 1024 - 563K
    Fractal04_n.jpg
    1024 x 1024 - 844K
    Cylinder05pic08.jpg
    1920 x 1080 - 625K
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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,343

    Cool, thanks folks!  :-)

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    Nice job Artini!

    The Landscape Tutorial is supposed to be coming out on DAZ within the next week, and I'm gearing up for another live webinar in December covering postwork techniques using Howler. If folks have questions that they would like to see answered on that subject, let me know! And if it's something that I'm not planning to cover in the webinar, I'll answer them here, or in the PD Howler forum in the Carrara forum (please do join us there!) or on the PD-Project Dogwaffle Forum on Facebook. Or the PD Howler forum on HiveWire. Or my YouTube Channel "Immortal Moments Arts", PD Howler is spreading it's influence....bwahahahah! Staigerman and Dartanbeck (and Artini) are awesome at answering questions, too!

     

     

  • DkgooseDkgoose Posts: 1,451

    I decided to buy this and try it out however I dont see my serial number in my list I looked through a few times, are they waiting on them from the company?

  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    dkgoose said:

    I decided to buy this and try it out however I dont see my serial number in my list I looked through a few times, are they waiting on them from the company?

    you don't need one for this program .

  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,720

    Glad I picked this one up. I've been reading and watching lots of tutorials and spent yesterday evening playing with features. The PuppyRay render is very fast for me (and I have a very low-powered GPU).

    I had one problem - the installer hung for me (I had to cancel it through Task Manager). I read on the website that it was advised to remove any previous versions first, so I uninstalled the free "Home" edition I had installed before and then it all worked fine. If anyone else has a similar problem, that may be the cause.

  • DkgooseDkgoose Posts: 1,451

    Awesome thanks :)

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,300

    Thanks, Tiffanie. I like this program a lot.

     

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574
    edited January 2018

    https://digitalartlive.com/event/20-powerful-postwork-procedures-with-pd-howler/

    Another webinar coming up! use "postwork10" to get a discount.  It doesn't matter which render engine you use, this is about postwork of the image in PD Howler. If you aren't interested, please spread the word! Sorry, that's GMT, they always do an update with the conversions later, I think it's about 2pm Central time.? 12pm Pacific? 1pm Mountain, and 3pm Eastern.

    Thanks!

    PS. has anyone else tried the techniques from the previous webinar? And I've been told that the recording will be on the DAZ store sometime this week.

    Post edited by Tiffanie Gray - IDLM on
  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    Also, @GriffonAvid, did you get your questions all answered?

  • Griffin AvidGriffin Avid Posts: 3,815

    Yes, I picked it up. I think this is going to be a great product. So glad you joined the discussion and really dropped some important links and information.

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    Can't wait to see what you come up with!

     

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    My webinar tutorial on making landscapes in PD Howler has been released in the DAZ shop for those who want more instructions.  I also have a Live webinar with Digital Art Live tomorrow on Post Work techniques in PD Howler, for those interested.

  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,983
    Just picked up the landscape webinar. Hope the post work webinar will also be offered in the shop as well
  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    It will be offered at DAZ store, too.

    For anyone who still wants to sign up for the webinar today: last chance to attend live! https://digitalartlive.com/event/20-powerful-postwork-procedures-with-pd-howler/

     

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    Well, do to technical difficulties, the webinar has been rescheduled to March 3, so there is still time to register if you want!

  • Tiffanie Gray - IDLMTiffanie Gray - IDLM Posts: 574

    Anyone interested in 2d Painting landscapes using PD Howler, or even other 2d software, I have another webinar Tutorial coming up for that. Hope to see folks there.

    https://digitalartlive.com/event/wilderness-scenes-advanced-painting-techniques/

     

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