Render your buys! ALL TIME Challenges

Matt_Castle

Rosie is wondering why she's not getting any ice cream.

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Inspired by a render that was posted on the Slackers discord, we have zombies with ice cream.

This isn't a wealth of newly used items, but we do have:

https://www.daz3d.com/ice-pops (a pretty old product, but not too shabby with some shader tweaks)
https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-su-fashion-urban-outfit-for-genesis-9-81-and-8-female (which I don't *think* I've used yet, at least I can't find anything I've uploaded to the gallery that's using it).

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This has been a long running WIP that I finally remembered to wrap up when people were posting about Mass Effect for N7 day.

I think I haven't used any of... 
https://www.daz3d.com/fallen-angel-hd-with-dforce-outfit-for-genesis-8-male
https://www.daz3d.com/fallen-angel-hd-with-dforce-outfit-for-genesis-8-female
https://www.daz3d.com/alien-guard-outfit-for-genesis-8-male
https://www.daz3d.com/x-fashion-intrigue-outfit-for-genesis-8-females
https://www.daz3d.com/lorgent-hd-for-genesis-81-male
https://www.daz3d.com/flight-suit-outfit-for-dain-8-and-genesis-8-males
https://www.daz3d.com/sci-fi-settlement-construction-set
... before. 

I know I have used https://www.daz3d.com/chthonic-arkouda-hd-for-genesis-8-male and https://www.daz3d.com/sci-fi-square before, but they get a slightly more prominent role here than I remember previously.


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I've wanted to use https://www.daz3d.com/isis-lock for a while, but had previously failed to come up with a scene I was happy with.

This is also a first use of Aeon Soul's new Decibel outfit for their Urban Noise series, although it's going here rather than the "recent buys" topic because they've released it on other stores.

Elor

SapphireBlue said:

Story: Pierrot and Pierrette's trick or treating is waylaid by a monster hungry for their cupcake treats!

I'm late to the party, but it looks great :)

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I don't think it would qualify for the other discussion when the only product I recently bought used in that render is so blurred, but I'll count it toward the #4new challenge 

• Japanese Fishing Junk: blurred almost beyond any recognition, bought a couple of days ago.
• i13 Ethereal Wonder Pose Collection: gifted as a bi-weekly freebie in September 2024.
• DM's Le Sanctuaire: another freebie, but this one, it's from the 2023 Christmas sale.
• dForce Victorian Lady Outfit for Genesis 9 and the textures pack (I tweaked the surfaces setting to get the stripped white and gold look).

The vest and the textures used are freebies by Aeon Soul and I wanted an icon for the textures pack's metadata, in line with the one I made for the vest's metadata, so I re-used many of the same products including the render presets as a base and made change to fit the more fantasy look of the textures pack.

All items bought from Daz should be linked at the bottom of the gallery page.

Gardienne du Sanctuaire (Sanctuary's Warden in English, but since it's taking place in DM's Le Sanctuaire, I used French too):

Elor

My November's render for Llola's Lane render challenge. I took the 'two women kissing while sitting on the stairs' idea from an artwork I saw on Bluesky, drawn by an artist called Simz, and I tried to re-create it in Daz Studio.

Tricks or kisses?

Victoria and Lacey waited for their friends before going to a Halloween party, sitting on the stairs, chatting and kissing.

While they were kissing, they both heard a burst of camera shutter sounds telling them at least one of their friends was here: the photographer.

Unfazed, Victoria waved her wand to make the photographer go away, but either she’s not really a witch, just disguised as one, or she needs to be able to speak to cast a spell.

Who knows, but while editing the photo, the cheeky photographer added a nice warm magical light on Victoria’s wand.

All is forgiven?

#4News:

Premium Props - Park Bench, a freebie from June this year and which provided the lamp in the background.

Urban Sprawl 3, which is great to add a US style city in the background on top of being a great environnment.

dForce Victorian Vampire Outfit for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Females, very nice but for some reasons, the jacket while having SubD already activated, is loading at Base resolution which produced not so great shadow. The rest of the outfit doesn't have SubD active, but once added, it worked nicely (though I mainly needed it on the boots).

Wizardly Wands for Genesis 9, nothing really to say, the light effect on the tip is just a point light with a bit of geometry and bloom filter active.

CC Character Kit: Vampire Vagaries MR for Genesis 9, it's made for Genesis 9 and I don't think it'll work on Genesis 8. I looked at how the pallor effect was made and I applied it manually on Genesis 8 as best as I could (I may have missed something), which is not something I could have set on my own.

Feng Fantasy Books, barely visible, but I wanted Lacey's and Victoria's heads at a similar level and after taking into account the difference in height between them, the depth and the height of the stairsteps, something was still missing.

Descant Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s), it does look great but it's not dForce so to get it to drap nicely, I added dForce on the dress, did a simulation after applying dForce on it and the dress slipped down… So I added a weight map to set the first couple of rows of polygons from the waist to be excluded from the simulation and the dress stayed on Victoria's hip. It will likely need more tweaking around the trim at the bottom if you want to use it on a scene where it's more visible but it felt nice enough for my use.

I think I learned how to do it in this video (I'm not sure, it's been a while):

Mada also has a nice tutoriel on the subject that I also watched: