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Generation 3 Aiko and Hiro Appreciation Thread

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  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    richardandtracy said:

    Looks superb, really does.

    Regards,

    Richard

    Thanks, and who knows, maybe it'll get released into the wilds.

  • mdingmding Posts: 1,700

    Ethin said:

    mding said:

    @Ethin: This one is rendered with IRAY, right? 

    Nope, still just 3DL. 

    Incredible achievement!! 

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited November 2025

    Thorne & Sarsa's Salome 2025 glowup. 

    I blame the hair for turning her into a viking. laugh

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  • mdingmding Posts: 1,700

    @Ethin: So beautiful!

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    mding said:

    @Ethin: So beautiful!

    Thanks! 

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited November 2025

    Bunch of stuff I kept forgetting to post.

     

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  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited November 2025

    Gypsyangel's Tempest for V4 converted to Aiko 3.

     

    MDD Tonya for V4 converted to Aiko 3.

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  • DollyGirlDollyGirl Posts: 2,700

    Whooo pretty pictures. Thanks Ethin.

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    DollyGirl said:

    Whooo pretty pictures. Thanks Ethin.

    Thanks and your welcome! smiley

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited November 2025

    Thorne & Sarsa's Tommi for V4 converted to A3. Couldn't decided if I liked the blonde or the ginger version better.

    Wow, 3 conversions in one week, that's gota be a record. Still dozens of V4 characters to go.

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  • ItsAaronItsAaron Posts: 65

    Nice Art

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    ItsAaron said:

    Nice Art

    Thanks! 

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited November 2025

    Was looking over Thorne, Mada and Sarsa's Forest Daphni for V4 to see if I felt like doing a conversion.

    Realized pretty quickly she's a V4 version of their A3 character Miette, so I gave Miette a glowup instead.

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  • Jan_ScrapperJan_Scrapper Posts: 576

    Beautiful work with Aiko 3 :)

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,185
    edited November 2025

    Agreed. The only real giveaway to the age of the base figure in the image are the elbow shapes at the angle of bend needed for the pose. I think you've done a really good job, and the bend issues are not really strong enough to notie unless you're looking for them... Regards, Richard.

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  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    Thanks!smiley

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited November 2025

    Raiya's Kaylee for V4 converted to Aiko3.

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  • Night Owl 3DNight Owl 3D Posts: 140
    edited November 2025

    An Aiko scene I did in 2008 and just re-rendered in IRAY. smiley

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  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    Night Owl 3D said:

    An Aiko scene I did in 2008 and just re-rendered in IRAY. smiley

    heartyes! 

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited December 2025

    *sigh* Started working on a reindeer texture for Melody/Micah, but the work file didn't save right and was corrupted, I still have the mostly finished head texture .jpg but my enthusiasm for the project went down the drain with the .psd... maybe I'll pick it up again sometime.. don't know if I'll get anything else done this year so here you go.

     

    Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!

    And remember to save early and often! lol

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  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,097

    Hate when that happens!! But it looks lovely ,Merry Christmas to you !!

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,185
    Enjoy Christmas, and have a happy new year. Regards, Richard.
  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    Thanks!

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited December 2025

    What do you know, I did get something done.

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  • mdingmding Posts: 1,700

    Wow, @Ethin, that's so awesome! 

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    mding said:

    Wow, @Ethin, that's so awesome! 

    Thanks! 

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited December 2025

    Rosity gave Blackshith3D away back in November, I pick it up for sculpting morphs, it also came with Texture Transformer but the few old add-ons at rosity weren't that useful to me. Well on Christmas a new add-on was released that could do G8f to V4... So paired with Texture Converter 2 (V4 to A3) I can now convert textures form G8F to A3!!! Needless to say I've been busy since then. lol

     

    Aureska Hol for G8F converted to Aiko3!

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,185

    That's a very impressive job you've done there. The texture looks impressive. 

    You said a some point that you never used Iray and only used 3dlight. Now that the 3DL render engine is going to be retired from DS are you going to go to Iray or stick with DS4.24 or earlier? (I'm sticking with DS4.21 myself ATM because it doesn't try to show adverts to me)

    I had completely missed the Texture Transformer add-on's. Thanks for making me aware. Not sure quite how many G8F to V3 texture conversions I'll want or need, but having the capacity to do them will be great. I greatly appreciate that you mentioned the existence of this add-on, I find that the Rendo sales tend to hide as much as they show.

    Regards,

    Richard 

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295

    richardandtracy said:

    That's a very impressive job you've done there. The texture looks impressive. 

    You said a some point that you never used Iray and only used 3dlight. Now that the 3DL render engine is going to be retired from DS are you going to go to Iray or stick with DS4.24 or earlier? (I'm sticking with DS4.21 myself ATM because it doesn't try to show adverts to me)

    I had completely missed the Texture Transformer add-on's. Thanks for making me aware. Not sure quite how many G8F to V3 texture conversions I'll want or need, but having the capacity to do them will be great. I greatly appreciate that you mentioned the existence of this add-on, I find that the Rendo sales tend to hide as much as they show.

    Regards,

    Richard 

    Thanks!

    I have done a few Iray images, mainly just if I want to use Genesis 3-8 since most of the Genesis stuff load with Iray shaders and Genesis is quick and easy when all I'm doing is scratching the art itch.

    I'm kinda between a rock and a hard place. My GPU doesn't have the RAM for me to do the kind of images I would like to do if I switched to Iray. I've already upgraded my PC to the breaking point, and some of the older part might not last too much longer. And now that all the RAM and GPUs are being sacrificed to the AI false gods causing prices to jump, I 1000% can't afford a better PC.In short I'm sticking (mostly) with 3Delight.

    I did bite the bullet and upgraded to 4.24, and of course it had to ruin something. Last time my UI got nuked, this time it was my color scheme, what's with all the blue?!! Seeing as I have to take vitamin D and sun bathe in sub-zero temps just so I wont want to stay in bed all day, having my one bright spot get infected with "50 shades of depression" was... off putting! After spending half an hour trying to fix things by eye I realized I could just take a screen cap from one of my D|S videos and use a color picker on it to get my colors back. It did fix an issue I was have with the ubersurface shader so there is that.

    smileyYour very welcome!! I don't know how many character textures I'll use it on either, I've done two so far, but I'd say its payed for itself already.yes

     

  • EthinEthin Posts: 1,295
    edited December 2025

    Vanille for The Girl 8 conversion/glowup for Aiko 3.

    The first version I did back in 2020 working only from Vanille's promo images because I didn't have her yet.

    Then a few months ago I tried doing a side by side conversion from scratch, I got really really close to her shape with just Aiko's morphs, now if I had been sculpting it it probably would've been great but really close with just Aiko's morphs... the face was terrible. Ended up mostly keeping the new body shape and found a good mix between the old and new faces, plus now I have Vanille's actual texture to use on her.

    I really love the G8 version, I've used her a few times. Thanks @VincentXyooj!

    I really love the original conversion I did, used her a few times as well.

    I can't wait to use the new and improved Vanille A3.

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