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I got the base figure and the HD morph and I like him generally, however, other than Ollie and Floyd and maaaayyybe Edward, I can't help but feel that this generation's men lack character. Ivan had character. This one? Not so much unfortunately....
Laurie
Big bad Vlad!
Vladimir and RM Jared M4 textures
First quick play with Vlad. He doesn't grab me like Ivan did, but he's not bad.
But boy, that Viking hair gave me fits! Lagged my comp so bad I couldn't use it. I went with the buzzcut instead.
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Great characters - all of them, but here is Walker:
... and close up of Walker
Very nice. Playing with blending Vlad with Edward is on my list of to do projects.
Yesterday Was My Friday
A test at mixing characters... Vlad 8 at 50%, Owen 8 at 50%, Lucas 8 at 50%, plus FWSA Gunner Textures and Darius 8 Normal Maps with Veins.
Thanks a lot, EJWorks.
Vladimir 8 and Marika - https://www.daz3d.com/marika-hd-for-genesis-8-female
Hey, I recognize those props! Thank you for purchasing Easy Light and Render - Spectrum Studio! :D I appreciate it!
Great looking renders - I'm loving the Vladimir 8 images!
Thanks a lot, Divamakeup.
Below is another one of Ward - https://www.daz3d.com/hp-ward-for-vladimir-8
I like him - he's got a bit of a Jason Statham vibe which will work well with my action renders.
'Vladimirius' looks an awful lot like this actor. Nicely done!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005245/
He played Derek Morgan on the show Criminal Minds
Loved Vladimir's base character (especially Ryker). So much so, that this is my first proper G8 render!
PS: Like it's been mentioned, Vladimir and Ryker do remind me of Ragnar from Vikings!
Gallery Link: Vanguard - MOT
I was trying to do a Latonya+Vlad picture, landlover with the king of the ocean kind of thing. But the setting I was using "Misty Gorge" with the 2 characters kept timing out before it finished rendering. So played with some other rendering options and even dropped trying to of the gorge in the picture. But I'm still having problems getting these two to be in a finished render. Any suggestions?
Close Studio and watch it's process in Task Manager to see when it actually shuts down and releases memory, possibly reboot your machine, and https://www.daz3d.com/scene-optimizer is also highly recomended for scenes that are just too big for a video card. Also, how much VRAM does your GPU have?
Hmm. Since we both got the extra discount andbought early, and the only crossovers between yours and mine were the two universal dress items and the Pro Bundle, I'm guessing that the extra price cut was being applied because of those. Most likely there was an extra discount that day for buying two or more Debut items and the Vlad PP was being counted in that discount.
I bought 8 additional Vladimir items, and I still paid $41+ for the Pro Bundle. But I've had A LOT of glitches go in my favour, for WAY more than $3+; so, I'll just be happy that I've got a new G8M skin that looks so good and a morph that doesn't make me ask, "Why?!"
@EJWorks
Go to Render Settings.
Open the Editor Tab.
Scroll down the left column and select Progressive Rendering.
Now in the right column are the settings that control the length of the render. I'm going to assume these are the default.
To have complete control over the length of time your image renders, find the Quality On/Off button and set it to off. With Quality Off, the Convergence Ratio is ignore and the only settings that will stop your render are Max Samples and Max Time. Max Samples is set to 5000 by default and has a limit of 15000. However, you can turn limits off in the Parameters for that setting and then set the value as high as you need. Max Time is set to 7200 by default, which is two hours. I find it easiest to turn this setting off by entering a value of 0 (zero). This ensures the render will not stop automatically until the value in the Max Samples is reached. I typically render with this set to at least 5000 and frequently render to 15K and above. (However, I also have a GTX 1080.)
Hope this helps.
Count The Offering
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/673471/
Made with...
fear of needles
https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/673536
Made with...
Vladimir 8 with face lightly changed by different morphs
Daz removes the front page ad for Vladimir 8 after less than a week? Self-fulfilling prophecy of males don't sell.
Been happening A LOT with the Genesis 8 male figures.
Laurie
They've done that for all the Genesis 8 base figures whose generous promo incentives would, in my opinion, conflict with the PA Festival and PC Anniversary sale offers. And it started with Toon Dwayne 8, the figure released just prior to the festival beginning. The other figures are: Latonya 8, The Brute 8, Gia 8, and now Vladimir 8. If they release another figure while the anniversary sale is still going on, I would expect the added incentives to disappear in under a week, as well.
Perhaps Vladimir's removal was more stark to my eye because all other non-sale promos were removed as well, including the 2x promo squares for PC+ being reduced to one.
Pro Bundles (really Core Figure skins and morphs) are the things I most need at this point because of their improved photorealism over most PA characters. Speaking of which, it occurred to me that perhaps Saiyaness has been recruited by Daz as an in-house artist, as -Yannek-, MallenLane, and, I presume, maelwenn were. But this is speculation.
This is Eibhear, not quite out of the box. I used the displacement maps in photoshop to create an overlay, (applied in LIE,) to add a bit of color to the veins, and a touch of Aging Morphs to add a hint of forehead wrinkles. I also turned the Bump down from 5.0 to 1.0. The higher value was making the chest hairs look like small veins sticking out all over his chest.
The Warrior's Talisman