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Totte and Ken, I'm looking forward to the conclusion of your stories.
Thanks, Chanteur-de-Vent and barbult.
purrkat #1 - Wow, great images and cool story
Totte #2 - LOL, I went to Rendo to look at Space Jump Gate, figuring it had to be the anti-aging machine. Hehe. I love the renders and the story (and the names.) I look forward to the third one.
Ken OBanion The Take-Down Nice action and puking. (Maybe you left the Iray Auto Headlamp on?)
pull #4:
Caleb for m4 & Genesis
Corvidae Dress for Genesis 2 Female(s)
Millennium Horse Texture Pack 2
Genesis 2 Raven
Space Rover
Ron's Particles
Ruths Redemption
The Kings Chamber
West Park Morgue (LB)
Quite a pull...
I thought of you when I pulled the motorcycle and bonsai tree.
lol - some items are like "bound" to certain players, like me and camels.
Tag Totte#2-3
Also Used:
Merchant Fredrich Krautfelden: G2M + Timothy HD + Facial Hair + Work Clothes + Millen Hair + Marketplace Poses
Helga Haferflocken: G2F + Greta + Marketplace Poses + Fairy Dell + End of summer hair
Medieval Markets
Crates and Barrels
G3M + Edgar + Sword of time + Whiskers + Kyle Hair
Shaders:
SubsurfaceToolbox
JM Human Shaders
Professor Gottlieb Krautfleden’s anti-aging machine - Part III
Helga Haferflocken’s head started to spin again, but her body ached less this time, Suddenly she found herself in her hometown, but in a time long gone. She saw a merchant selling his inventions, and she recognized both the name and appearance. She walk straight up to him and said - “Whatever you do, never ever have children!”. Suddenly her head spun, and she woke up in her bed, in her old room, not a day younger. The weird lamp in the ceiling, the one her nephew Gottlieb had made, was not there.
Story Pull #3
#683 Bundle of the Damned (#19473) {
#19428 Queen of the Damned HD
#19464 King of the Damned HD
}
#1170 Creature Creator HD for Genesis 2 Male(s) (#19398)
#3784 Mutant Hair (#3489)
#3395 Mansion Backyard (#22228)
#572 Biker Bandit Textures (#29343)
#5448 Summer Casuals Fitted Sundress Textures 1 (#14761)
#3908 Nomadic Huntress for Genesis 2 Female(s) (#21742)
#1540 Domino Palace (#4614)
LB: #3858 NeverSafe (#12033)
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Lol, it's a big machine, and the names, I guess you translated them into english ;-)
Gopherus #3A
Meet Me At Sundown Sea Critters: Urchins Cara Hair The Study Expansion Pack 2 Classic Shields Street Rogue Outfit G2M Octopus GIS Project V4.2 Bodysuit (LB) Lisas Botanicals Tropicals (LB) Modualz Aquatica 1 Corals (LB) Lux Lucis (LB) Sea Critters: Anemones * (*Sorry about that I drew and linked Sea Urchins but my fingers typed Sea Anenomes... so I included both... scrambled brain)
Cormac's Tale
Part One – The Drowning
Cormac s luck had given out. Even the luck of the Irish can only go so far. As his body drifted into the deep, with his last flicker of life force he glimpsed an Antarean Xeno Marine Biologist… obviously a hallucination.
Gopherus #3B
Meet Me At Sundown Sea Critters: Urchins Cara Hair The Study Expansion Pack 2 Classic Shields Street Rogue Outfit G2M Octopus GIS Project V4.2 Bodysuit (LB) Lisas Botanicals Tropicals (LB) Modualz Aquatica 1 Corals (LB) Lux Lucis (LB) Sea Critters: Anemones * (*Sorry about that I drew and linked Sea Urchins but my fingers typed Sea Anenomes... so I included both... scrambled brain)
Cormac's Tale
Part Two – Abduction
The Antareans had arrived to study sea life. And for the life of them they could not understand how this form could possibly survive the rigors of the ocean. It was just so maladapted. They tested food preferences by attempting to feed it sea urchins and octopi. Raw, of course, for it was extremely rare for a marine life form to have invented fire.
Thanks Chanteur de Vent for your comments
@Totte #2-2 Is it real? Is it a dream? Technically she has been made younger and dropped into an adventure. Good one!
#2-3 What an enigma!! If he didn t send her back he would still exist. But if he doesn t exist how can she have been sent back to prevent his birth? Great thought provoking story. caught in a time warp!
Luci45 #3 Great images as usual. Love the lighting! I swear that the scientist on the right is Balthazar the former owner of Arkana Cabana (nick cage) from the sorceror s apprentice. And the one on the left maybe Drew Carey. Great story too! I m also thinking of whoopi goldberg on her motorcycle! (thief)
Gopherus #3C
Meet Me At Sundown Sea Critters: Urchins Cara Hair The Study Expansion Pack 2 Classic Shields Street Rogue Outfit G2M Octopus GIS Project V4.2 Bodysuit (LB) Lisas Botanicals Tropicals (LB) Modualz Aquatica 1 Corals (LB) Lux Lucis (LB) Sea Critters: Anemones * (*Sorry about that I drew and linked Sea Urchins but my fingers typed Sea Anenomes... so I included both... scrambled brain)
Cormac's Tale
Part Three – Catch and Release
Their studies done. The Antareans, following the prime directive returned all their study animals to their natural environment. They realized that animals housed and fed were reluctant to go back to living by their own wits. So the animal handlers used shields and brooms to prod them back into their deep water home. For some reason Cormac really put up a fight… obviously he had become spoiled by their attentions.
They took their little adventure through the well with Sharkie the great white Shark and discovered some old skulls and alot of confederate paper money. Darma was quite excited at this hostorical find and wanted to call the museum to see how much it would be worth to them. Harold had other pans for the money, he wanted to spend it at the stores. Darma told him he had to turn it into the museum and they would pay them in the todays currency! So that is what they did and they got over 1 million dollars for the treasures including the skulls. The End.
@Saphirewild #1-3 Excellent happy ending! Love your color and almost surrealist images
Thank you - Chanteur-de-Vent and Luci45.
Luci45 - Nice story, with great imagery. Love the chase scene - image #2.
Totte - Great adventure, Aunt Helga's time traveling experience - changes history, and while I can't blame her for being miffed... poor Gottlieb.
Gopherus - Fantastic fantasy. I don't know... I'm thinking Cormac may be suffering from PTSD by that last frame and who could blame him.
Saphirewild - Excellent - nothing is more satisfying than finding the treasure, especially - when everyone ends up rich.
Pull #2 (Random Org)
Gregoria Hair for Genesis
Royal Court Rooms
High drama one
Shimuzu's Head Morphs for M6
Cowboy Gumdrops for Genesis
Fishtail Braids for Genesis
Sculpting Tools
DM's Dark Shrine
Ethnicity for Genesis: Asian (LB)
Pinups N' Props for G6 (LB)
Excellent conclusion to the story!
No, I didn't translate. But now I did and hmmmm... According to Google translator Krautfleden is herb flatbread in German or Power trail in Swedish. Haferflocken is oatmeal in German.
Thanks Purrkat for your comments. I think you re right about the ptsd.
Pull #4
Persian Palace 2
SGM Explorer
1 Click V4 Age Injector
Gorilla for Genesis
Sugar Hair and Candy
Elegance for MFD
Lion Queen for Genesis Female
Collective3D Portrait Vignettes: Horror 3
Morticia s Love Song (LB)
Frost Giants (LB)
K4 Toddler (LB)
Modualz Aquatica 2: Corals (LB)
Items used in this render are shown in red.
TAG: Karibou #1A
Title: All In The Family
Part 1: Black Sheep
Family gatherings suck.
There's a pervasive myth floating around human society that elves are wise, serene, mystical beings who never get caught up in petty squabbles. And, sure, those of us with pointy ears like to pretend all of that is true. It makes us feel superior to the unwashed, hairy, short-lived masses. It gives us an excuse to dress in obscenely ornate clothing and wear tiaras. (And don't fool yourself. Not just anyone can carry off wearing a tiara while camping in the wilderness. You've really gotta believe your own PR, or you just end up looking stupid.) It's a lovely idea that creates an air of otherworldly authority whenever an elf is nearby.
It is, unfortunately, also total fiction.
Anyone who has ever been to Moon's Eve dinner with my extended family would see through the lie in about four seconds. My mother blames her sister, Bellethryal, for the weekly mealtime unrest. Ever since Aunt Belle defied their overprotective parents and married Gzarth, bad-boy Prince of the Underdark, it's been difficult to maintain civil conversation at the dinner table. Honestly, though, I blame Dad as much as anyone. His staunch conservatism and refusal to avoid topics relating to religion and politics are usually what trigger the quick decline into belligerent chaos. I'm not sure what he expects to gain from debating theology with his Lolth-cultist in-laws. By now, you'd think he'd understand that being a subject of the Spider Queen has a way of changing your perspective. We all know that, in his youth, Uncle Gzarth fed at least two of his brothers to drider handmaidens as ritual sacrifices. A guy like that isn't going to back down from a pansy, opinionated wood-elf wielding a salad fork.
Still, none of this would be more than cheap entertainment for me, were it not for Urmesandra. Cousin Urm (as she hates to be called) is the only child of our resident evil kin. It's bad enough that she's an only child. Being raised in a malevolent matriarchic theocracy has turned her into the worst kind of spoiled brat that the universe could possibly spawn. She's petulant, impatient, condescending, and a snob of the worst order. I think she'd like nothing more than to pretend my family and I don't exist, but I have too much of my father in me to let the purple princess treat me as though I'm invisible.
Which is why, every week like clockwork, after the dishes have been cleared and everyone over the age of 480 has retired for port and pipe smoke, Urm and I quietly find a secluded place where we can do our best to murder each other.
Tonight has been rough. I wasn't paying attention when I refastened the buckle on my brand new, shimmery Boots of Elvenkind and the Lavender Lowlife got the drop on me, kicking dirt into my face while simultaneously insulting my parentage. We both know that using battle magic in the front yard is forbidden. We've been warned. We've been threatened. We've even been punished. We just… don't care. And I may not have landed the first blow in tonight's battle royale, but I'm not ready to concede defeat by a long shot.
Hell, no. That Purple Prima Donna is going down.
So Auntie Haferflocken would be a flakey old blonde... And Krautfleden would be a person whose head is bloated with gas like a fermenting cabbage?
Actually bread made with fermenting cabbage instead of yeast or baking soda sounds like something i d like to try.
@Karibou #1A Nice start! Like your colors and use of shadows. Circle of protection yellow versus fireball purple? Should work. This is going to be some tale you ve started.
Krautfleden is something like "field of cabbage", cabbage is kraut, Germans were called krauts as they eat saurkraut which is sour cabbage, lol. And you Helgas last name correctly. I love coming up with fun and luny names ;-)
Saphirewild Pull #2
#184 The Black Chair 4 (MDC)
#314 Turban Prop (MDC)
#148 Badger (MDC)
#89 Music Boxes (DSF)
#380 Morphing Grassy Outcropping (RDNA)
#362 Clapper Board Prop (MDC)
#69 Quad Tank (DSF)
#415 Shrunken Head (RDNA)
I have a feelig this is going to be a great story already got some things in mind!!!!
I am in a bit of a quandary, here. I've got all of the elements for the final scene in the story, but when I put them all together and try to render it, DS crashes: out-of-memory. And it takes for-freakin'-ever to get to that point; the machine becomes unresponsive for long periods of time (twenty-some minutes between updates to the system clock, even! Hell, it takes almost that long just to load the damn thing in the first place!) It is a pretty massive scene, I'll admit: a total of a dozen figures, if you include the vehicles -- which I do -- plus all the clothing, and the environments; and there are two of those. Easily the biggest scene I've ever put together.
Here's the quandary: do I haul my tuchus to Best Buy for a memory upgrade (something I've been intending to do since I bought the machine), or re-work the scene into something smaller and more manageable, perhaps even to tear a page out of Luci's book, and build a multi-panel, quasi-comic (sorry -- 'graphic novel') kind of thing...?
You can never have too much RAM ;-)
The only Valid Amount of RAM is : Maximum that the motherboard supports
You can always render in two parts and do some layering in postwork...
That's pretty much what I ended up doing. Except that I rendered in four passes, and then composited in GIMP.
I'm not too terribly happy with the result, mostly because I totally spaced on the whole 'ambient' concept in Iray, so the composited layers are kind of washed out. Anyway, here it is....
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Used in this image:
Well, DUH! By this time, pretty much all of them!
Actually, I re-used the A Quiet Repose pose set (with a couple of tweaks). And, of course, everything I had used in the previous two images.
Also used:
CV-1 Police Car (Renderosity)
Ambulance by Vanishing Point (also Renderosity)
Michael 4
Victoria 4
Real World Heroes Police Officer for M4 and V4
Derek HD for Genesis 2 Male
Drifter Hair
Blue Collar Basics Coverall for G2M/F (Twice)
Bijou for Genesis 2 Female (I paid retail for the b**ch; you know I'm gonna use the hell out of her!)
Elite Ponytail for Genesis 2 Female
Mad Nurse for Genesis 2 Female (What can I say -- she needed shoes!)
Image Title: Mystery Solved -- And Now It's Off To The Mall!
As the police stuffed the killer into the back of the patrol car, he was heard to say, "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't have been for those meddling kids!"
"Flattery will get you nowhere, pal," Alexis said snarkily. "I haven't been a 'kid' since the beginning of the Clinton Administration!"
"I'm really sorry about your shoes," Velma said to Alexis. "I'll buy you a new pair."
"Ooh, shoes shopping!" Alexis said with undisguised enthusiasm. "Sounds like a plan!"
"That's more Daphne's schtik," Velma remarked. "But, hey, I'll suck it up and take one for the team."
Wow, that was an ambitious undertaking, Ken. How did you even move around in the viewport with all that loaded?
Barbult:
Slowly. Ponderously so!
This weekend, I'm heading south, either to Fry's in Houston, or Best Buy (in Conroe -- considerably closer), to get a memory upgrade. I only have 8GB in this thing now, and it maxes out at 16 -- so I'm going to max it out. (I've already replaced the hard disk; went from 1TB up to 2 -- and it's already a skosh over half-full. Mostly 3-D content. Fortunately, that particular metric is well covered: I have a total of 15 TB of online storage, with another 2TB in "portable" devices -- external USB drives that I can carry around with me. So that ought to hold me for a few months.)