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Singular3D

j cade said:

algovincian said:

Leonides02 said:

 

Krampus said:

Taking advantage of Blender's Filmic and wide dynamic range, I was able to increase the outside light source while preserving color information without blowing out the highlights.  Very cool for interior renders.  Only 1 light used in this scene, no light tricks.

This looks great, Krampus. Does Cycles have a wider dynamic range than Iray?

Iray will render out in 32-bit canvases:

Render Settings -> Advanced Tab -> Canvases Tab

Check Canvases and then click the "+" sign to add a beauty canvas.

HTH.

- Greg

 

Both do the full dynamic range under the hood, blender's tonemapping for the transformation to what we see and eventually output as a non-32bit image is a bit better the whole "filmic" thing uhh does stuff that more closely emulates how cameras work, you can make things a bit better in Iray by turning burn highlights clamp shadows almost all the way off (which I do) or export out the exr and then tonemap that in Blender (or something else with better tonemapping than Iray) which I also do. 

 

seriously though I wish DS had better defaults for burn highlights/crush blacks 

its not the clearest example but compare 

Straight out of Iray

 

Tonemapped in blender (note how the bright and oddly super saturated yellow highlights on the forehead have gone away, I dont even think I adjusted the white value or anything either)

 

The reference, which also doesn't have bright yellow saturated forehead highlights 

 

obviously you can take the iray output and manually adjust it to look nicer, but I find blenders tonemapping makes a nicer base that I don't have to work as hard to make nice

generally speaking Blender's tonemapping -easier to use stonger lights without blowing out bits of your image in a really ugly way

 

That's just amazing. Really have to dig in deeper to get such great results in Blender.

Cinus

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted to particle hair with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Krys Kryngle

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

 

Hair and skin look good.  I think particles definitely have an advantage over transparancy maps.

Cinus

 

Krampus said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Hair and skin look good.  I think particles definitely have an advantage over transparancy maps.

Thanks! Yes, the particle system in Blender is amazing. Just starting to scratch the surface. Took me a while to get the hair to look good.  At some point in time I will try to animate it :)

Leonides02

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted to particle hair with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

 

Wow! Cinus, your hair conversion looks amazing. Any chance you will share or sell to the rest of us?

TheMysteryIsThePoint

Cinus said:

 

Krampus said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Hair and skin look good.  I think particles definitely have an advantage over transparancy maps.

Thanks! Yes, the particle system in Blender is amazing. Just starting to scratch the surface. Took me a while to get the hair to look good.  At some point in time I will try to animate it :)

It is utterly amazing. 19.4 million particles in total, vram usage was 3.5 gigs for everything.

Leonides02

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

Cinus said:

 

Krampus said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Hair and skin look good.  I think particles definitely have an advantage over transparancy maps.

Thanks! Yes, the particle system in Blender is amazing. Just starting to scratch the surface. Took me a while to get the hair to look good.  At some point in time I will try to animate it :)

It is utterly amazing. 19.4 million particles in total, vram usage was 3.5 gigs for everything.

That is fantastic-looking grass!

Singular3D

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

Cinus said:

 

Krampus said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Hair and skin look good.  I think particles definitely have an advantage over transparancy maps.

Thanks! Yes, the particle system in Blender is amazing. Just starting to scratch the surface. Took me a while to get the hair to look good.  At some point in time I will try to animate it :)

It is utterly amazing. 19.4 million particles in total, vram usage was 3.5 gigs for everything.

Great grass! The particle system looks very promising!

Cinus

Leonides02 said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted to particle hair with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

 

Wow! Cinus, your hair conversion looks amazing. Any chance you will share or sell to the rest of us?

@Leonides02 Thanks! The converter is very much experimental at this stage. It's also part of a larger plugin i'm working on that has lots of other experimental stuff that is not ready to be shared (and may never be :).

If I find some time I will extract the hair converter from the plugin and share it as a stand alone plugin. 

Cinus

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

Cinus said:

 

Krampus said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Hair and skin look good.  I think particles definitely have an advantage over transparancy maps.

Thanks! Yes, the particle system in Blender is amazing. Just starting to scratch the surface. Took me a while to get the hair to look good.  At some point in time I will try to animate it :)

It is utterly amazing. 19.4 million particles in total, vram usage was 3.5 gigs for everything.

@TheMysteryIsThePoint  That is incredible! Very realistic looking grass!

TheMysteryIsThePoint

Like everything I do in Blender that comes out well, I can't take any credit for it :) But I suppose that's what a good addon is supposed to do:

True-Terrain 3.0 · True Terrain Pro

Scatter - The Scattering Tool Of Blender

Physical Starlight And Atmosphere

Leonides02

Cinus said:

 

@Leonides02 Thanks! The converter is very much experimental at this stage. It's also part of a larger plugin i'm working on that has lots of other experimental stuff that is not ready to be shared (and may never be :).

If I find some time I will extract the hair converter from the plugin and share it as a stand alone plugin. 

Experimental stuff? No I'm really intrigued, LOL. 

j cade

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted to particle hair with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Wow! that is an excellent conversion

one thing I will say though not technically physically accurate I find the easiest way to make the scalp transition look smooth is to use the hair info intercept + a color ramp and add just a bit of transparency at the very  very root at it helps smooth the transition right up (The actual reason we have a smooth trsnsition is that our hair gets much finer at the edge of the scalp, but neither blender nor DS have a way to adjust strand thickness within a particle system, and it makes me sad)

 

Disirregardless, that still does just look amazing!

TheKD

j cade said:

 

one thing I will say though not technically physically accurate I find the easiest way to make the scalp transition look smooth is to use the hair info intercept + a color ramp and add just a bit of transparency at the very  very root at it helps smooth the transition right up (The actual reason we have a smooth trsnsition is that our hair gets much finer at the edge of the scalp, but neither blender nor DS have a way to adjust strand thickness within a particle system, and it makes me sad)

 

Disirregardless, that still does just look amazing!

Can you show that setup?

TheMysteryIsThePoint

j cade said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted to particle hair with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

Wow! that is an excellent conversion

one thing I will say though not technically physically accurate I find the easiest way to make the scalp transition look smooth is to use the hair info intercept + a color ramp and add just a bit of transparency at the very  very root at it helps smooth the transition right up (The actual reason we have a smooth trsnsition is that our hair gets much finer at the edge of the scalp, but neither blender nor DS have a way to adjust strand thickness within a particle system, and it makes me sad)

 

Disirregardless, that still does just look amazing!

@j cade

But Blender has several settings for the root/end diameter of the strands, as well as the cap and scaling, doesn't it? And permission to steal "Disirregardless" :)

Edit: Oh, you meant along a strand, didn't you?

@Cinus I agree, that conversion looks amazing. I'll be interested if/when you make it available through whatever conduit.

Cinus

j cade said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted to particle hair with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

 

Wow! that is an excellent conversion

one thing I will say though not technically physically accurate I find the easiest way to make the scalp transition look smooth is to use the hair info intercept + a color ramp and add just a bit of transparency at the very  very root at it helps smooth the transition right up (The actual reason we have a smooth trsnsition is that our hair gets much finer at the edge of the scalp, but neither blender nor DS have a way to adjust strand thickness within a particle system, and it makes me sad)

 

Disirregardless, that still does just look amazing!

Thanks j cade!.  I never thanked you for the tip regarding the eye shader. I am using that and the eyes look a lot better, so thanks for that too :)

Not exactly sure what you mean with the hair info intercept + color ramp, but I will experiment with it and see if I can make it work. 

j cade

TheMysteryIsThePoint said:

j cade said:

Cinus said:

Reese's skin and Haydina hair converted to particle hair with my own hair converter. Render time with a 2070 was 13 minutes 12 seconds. No post processing.

 

Wow! that is an excellent conversion

one thing I will say though not technically physically accurate I find the easiest way to make the scalp transition look smooth is to use the hair info intercept + a color ramp and add just a bit of transparency at the very  very root at it helps smooth the transition right up (The actual reason we have a smooth trsnsition is that our hair gets much finer at the edge of the scalp, but neither blender nor DS have a way to adjust strand thickness within a particle system, and it makes me sad)

 

Disirregardless, that still does just look amazing!

@j cade

But Blender has several settings for the root/end diameter of the strands, as well as the cap and scaling, doesn't it? And permission to steal "Disirregardless" :)

Edit: Oh, you meant along a strand, didn't you?

@Cinus I agree, that conversion looks amazing. I'll be interested if/when you make it available through whatever conduit.

Maybe per strand is a better description? AFAIK you can't have individual strands within a particle system with different thicknesses. Generally speaking, the strands along the edge of the scalp are thinner than the rest of the scalp (other than the 2 random super thick strands I get popping up a centemeter down from my hairline)

And feel free to steal "disirregardless" - I stole it myself and find it delightful. It means both "regardless" and "yes I do actually know the correct term, but also I like chaos"

 

 

TheKD said:

j cade said:

 

one thing I will say though not technically physically accurate I find the easiest way to make the scalp transition look smooth is to use the hair info intercept + a color ramp and add just a bit of transparency at the very  very root at it helps smooth the transition right up (The actual reason we have a smooth trsnsition is that our hair gets much finer at the edge of the scalp, but neither blender nor DS have a way to adjust strand thickness within a particle system, and it makes me sad)

 

Disirregardless, that still does just look amazing!

Can you show that setup?

Not the greatest hair styling ever and the lack of eyebrows is frankly disturbing, but a pretty illustrative example

Without Root transparency

With root transparency

Node setup to add root transparency

TheKD

j cade said:

 

 

With root transparency

 

Node setup to add root transparency

Thanks a lot! Can't wait till I can get a few minutes to try it out! Hopefully this weekend. I been itching to try particle hair. It does look a lot nicer to my eyes as well.

Krys Kryngle

@j_cade - Thanks for sharing your node setup.  Definately putting that in my stash.  I almost understand it too!  I'll have to play around with it to see what the Map Range does...

Another method is to adjust the root diameter.  Same effect, different method, all depends on one's preferences.

Strand shape seems to be a ratio between Diameter Root and Tip.  Closer to 1, more tip diameter and less root diameter along the hair strand.  Closer to 0, more root diameter and less tip diameter along the strand.  You can't see it in this example but Diameter Scale is set to 0.001.  It might vary depending on the scale of your character and scene.  I think the diameter scale value is just a multiplier for the root adn tip values.

First example shows a thicker root just as an example (how far along the strand the root diameter travels with strand shape set at 0.990)

Second example changes the root diameter to a much smaller value than the tip diameter.  In this example the root diamteter is 0.001.

'Hair Shape' is found under the particle properties tab on the right.

TheMysteryIsThePoint

Krampus said:

@j_cade - Thanks for sharing your node setup.  Definately putting that in my stash.  I almost understand it too!  I'll have to play around with it to see what the Map Range does...

Another method is to adjust the root diameter.  Same effect, different method, all depends on one's preferences.

Strand shape seems to be a ratio between Diameter Root and Tip.  Closer to 1, more tip diameter and less root diameter along the hair strand.  Closer to 0, more root diameter and less tip diameter along the strand.  You can't see it in this example but Diameter Scale is set to 0.001.  It might vary depending on the scale of your character and scene.  I think the diameter scale value is just a multiplier for the root adn tip values.

First example shows a thicker root just as an example (how far along the strand the root diameter travels with strand shape set at 0.990)

Second example changes the root diameter to a much smaller value than the tip diameter.  In this example the root diamteter is 0.001.

'Hair Shape' is found under the particle properties tab on the right.

Thanks @Krampus I had the notion of the root/tip swapped and was making the root smallerf than the tip. My scalps looks 100% better.

Scarecrow

Cycles render with Angel Armor for Genesis 3 females and feathered wings for all. Diffeomorphic importer.

Scarecrow

So this is a cycles render with dz fire's Forsaken Keep https://www.daz3d.com/forsaken-keep-and-construction-set

The trees and grass are from various Daz sets painted in with Blender's Scatter addon.

Leonides02

Scarecrow said:

So this is a cycles render with dz fire's Forsaken Keep https://www.daz3d.com/forsaken-keep-and-construction-set

The trees and grass are from various Daz sets painted in with Blender's Scatter addon.

This looks great!

Scarecrow

Thanks!

Krys Kryngle

Scarecrow said:

So this is a cycles render with dz fire's Forsaken Keep https://www.daz3d.com/forsaken-keep-and-construction-set

The trees and grass are from various Daz sets painted in with Blender's Scatter addon.

That does look good.  Possibly the start of a great scene...

Scarecrow

Krampus said:

Scarecrow said:

That does look good.  Possibly the start of a great scene...

Well let's hope so, Thanks!

Gordig

My Cabbages!

Rendered in Cycles.

jeff_someone

Here's a render... 

TheMysteryIsThePoint

You guys are really blowing me away.

Scarecrow

Guitar Gods...