Glowing wraith in daz3d ?

ASTERX5GAMING

Hi everybody Well excuse me for my English because I may not be able to explain exactly what I want Is there a way to make my character look like the wraith on the right Look glowing yet transparent I don't even know how to say let alone search it So if any one can help I would be very grateful

Richard Haseltine

Are you using 3Delight or Iray to render (Iray is the ddefault)

ASTERX5GAMING

Richard Haseltine said:

Are you using 3Delight or Iray to render (Iray is the ddefault)

I use iray always

deathbycanon

If you don't find a daz answer it can be done in photoshop. https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/photoshop/create-cool-neon-effects/   I think there are actions and plugins that also do this. 

Richard Haseltine

It's not, to me at least, clear what you want to achieve from that image.

SickleYield

There's not a way to do great ghosts and wraiths in Iray at the moment.  The best options are probably to render the wraith on a different layer, either using 3Delight and pwghost and composite him on top of the Iray render in your 2D program afterward, or using Iray and making him a ghost with postwork (still rendering to a new layer so you can composite).

This is pwghost:

https://www.daz3d.com/pwghost

DaWaterRat

Note: I use Iray and 3DL, and am more familiar with 3DL

I'd do 3 render passes, then composite in GIMP/Photoshop.

Pass 1 - character and scene as normal in Iray

Pass 2 - Scene only, no character

Pass 3 - switch to 3DL, use pwGhost or pwEffect to create the phantom character (adjusting ambient channel to pale blue, rather than the default cyan) and render over a dark slate-gray background (via the environment tab)

Mix, match and erase as needed.

If I needed the ghost half to actually illuminate something, I'dd add a ghost light (possibly using geoshells of the base figure) to pass 2.

Oso3D's Master shaders ( https://www.daz3d.com/oso-master-shader1-for-iray ) might allow some of this in Iray.

ASTERX5GAMING

Hey everyone , how are you today ? I was wondering if I can make a glowing yet transparent look to my characters and props With daz3d like the blue half (For people who played the game , any way to make my character look like the bright lord) I hope you get my point

BeeMKay

You can, but the first question is, Iray or 3Delight?

For 3Delight, there's  a shader, PWGhost is in the store which is very good. https://www.daz3d.com/pwghost

For Iray, you'd have to use a few tricks and results vary (and render times go through the roof).

I kitbashed a ghost-shade from a glass shader and some changed surface settings in this image; it's not quite as solid as what is in your image, though.

Dim Reaper

I've just had a go at getting a similar effect using this product:

Wireframe and Hologram Shaders for Iray  (There is also a version for 3Delight)

After a few test renders and work in Photoshop, I think that the answer is "No, you can't do it in Daz Studio, but you could probably render several layers of effects in Daz Studio and then combine them in something like Photoshop to get the effect that you want."  Daz Studio might get you close, but I think that you will definitely need to use postwork as well.  However, there may be people here with more experience and a better skill set that have some more ideas.

It might also be worth doing a Google search for Photoshop filters that might give you a similar effect, or for ghost / wraith effects tutorials.  I just found this one that might get you some of the way:

https://jasonpatz.com/2016/10/25/how-to-create-a-ghostbusters-ghost-effect-in-photoshop-and-lightroom/

 

If you do manage to find a way to do this, please post back with your final results - I'd be very interested to see what you come up with.

kaotkbliss

You could load your figure, pose him, then duplicate him.

Then use the geometry editor to make one half of each invisible

Finally using the ghost shader on one of the copies...

Richard Haseltine

Merged threads, please don't post multiple threads on the same topic (or bump existing threads).

zerbinattiadv_58e8504879

ASTERX5GAMING said:

Hi everybody Well excuse me for my English because I may not be able to explain exactly what I want Is there a way to make my character look like the wraith on the right Look glowing yet transparent I don't even know how to say let alone search it So if any one can help I would be very grateful

I did something like this to the cover of one of my books:

https://leandrozerbinatti.carbonmade.com/projects/6914601

What I did was to set up the character in daz, apply some shiny shader over everything (character, clothes, etc), reduce opacity of everything, then render it without a background. 

Then, in Photoshop (where you can reduce layer opacity, if you don´t want to render it with less than 100% opacity), I created a new layer (background layer), applyed gaussian blur, so it would work like an aura around him, and applyed some glow to the layer.

TSasha Smith

When I read this thread’s title I thought you want to make a wraith sparkle.  Now that I see you want the wraith to be see through with a glow, not to sparkle.

dracorn

I did a composite myself for this render (started as 3Delight but converted to Iray) "Ghost Fleet":

1) I posed Genesis 2 and did my Iray render.

2) I took G2M and turned the opacity low, which allowed me to pose the M4 Skeleton and match the pose.  I then rendered the skeleton by itself.

3) I composited the two images in Photoshop by layering the elf on top of the skeleton and setting the opacity low enough that I could see the bones underneath.  I then applied the eraser with a soft brush at varying levels of opacity until the bones showed through.  After that, I restored the elf layer opacity to 100%.

You can view my whole process is here:

Ghost Fleet Part I (Initial setup, 3Delight)

Ghost Fleet Part II (Change and completion in Iray)