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Still getting stuff loaded up and configured in the new computer. The latest versions of Blender and BforArtists work on the computer. The Blender programmers have finally given it a decent "user friendly" interface. It's about time. "Halleluah!"
What is the latest version of Daz Studio? I have version 10 downloaded from earlier in the year.
You will want 4.11 with the strand based hair
Still loading and configuring a bunch of files in Windows 10, and weeding out obsolete stuff. I have never liked Daz Studio much, and since I am not a fanboy of the Iray look Daz Studio is rather useless for me. But I keep it loaded up anyway and use it once and a while.
They have 3Delight support for that hair too, and you can make it visible in OpenGL too
it comes in after Carrara, iClone and Poser for me too but beats Blender
for rendering that is ...
I prefer to do "post-production" tweaking and fiddling on rendered images to reduce that "CG" look. When my last desktop computer dropped dead 8 months ago I was beginning to work on ideas for giving some CG renders a Surrealistic painterly look. That can also be done by dumping modeling completely and using a cg paint program like Krita, or Painter, to create a painted canvas look. But my talents as a painter are "for the birds" so its CG modeling for me, and then attempting to make the render look a bit painted.
openGL image series and Dynamic Auto Painter batch process
Lots of crap going on over here; earhquakes, 100 plus degree weather with only a roof swamp cooler, feeling fatigued and fed up, endless file re-location work.
If Southern California is hit by an 8 magnitude earthquake in a few days then I am offline probably permanently, and my new computer useless due to the electric grid being damaged. We already had a 7.1 magnitude earthquake this evening. Well, at least a bad earthquake is preferable to thermonuclear war which we just squeezed by for the moment.
Try to keep you safe - all the best for you.
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http://alexiy.nl/blc-download/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QmY-gWu4iA&list=PLsOFchBQd60bM9xc-7tDmnBbmtbrS3NbC&index=5&t=0s
I found this stuff today, but haven't tried it yet. It may be useful for some lattice modeling experiments.
The next earthquake in the LA area this week could go either up, or down, in magnitude. If it goes down to 6 magnitude we are safe, but if it goes up to a high 7 or 8 magnitude that means the first quake was a precursor for bigger quakes.
An 8 or 9 magnitude quake would do a lot of damage and downtown LA already has a huge roaming rat colony with fleas infected with typhus, and homeless people all over the place. Things are bad enough without adding a major earthquake. into the mess.
I live 150 miles from downtown LA but these quakes are being felt in the entire Southern California region.
I'm weeding out software and add-ons that are too expensive and going the "open source" way as much as is possible. I bought Carrara 8.5 on sale years ago for 99 dollars, but the rest of the software I bought years ago is too expensive to upgrade so to hell with it; There are now a lot of great free "open source" programs that are as good as old brand names, and some even superior to them.
It appears that the 8 magnitude California quake has passed this time, but according to Cal Tech scientists it could still happen soon considering the unusually large number of tremours ocuring.
Australia was hit by an eathquake, and Japan, and Indonesia. The midwest USA farming belt has been wrecked by endless feakish storms so food prices will escalate.
I get the feeling that someone, or some group, has developed a device/gadget for manipulating both the weather and geolological events. In the 1960s film "Our Man Flint" the whole world is held ransom by a group of idealistic scientists who have invented a weather/geological modification gadget. We know the CIA has been working on this kind of stuff since the 1960s. Hmmm
Good thinking. I also like Blender very much and try to use it as much as possible.
The latest version of Blender will not open in computers that have old versions of openGL. My new desktop computer has the latest version of openGl, or close to it, so Blender and Bforartists both load up fine.. Hurrah, I can finally use them.
I have a lower range Nvidia graphics card in the new computer so I can now experiment with modest IRAY renders in Daz Studio. Forget about Octane which is priced way out of my range at 500 plus dollars. IRAY is free.
My plan is to use Daz Studio for Realism imagery and Carrara for non-photrealistic imagery and modest animation.