Genesis 2 Appreciation Thread

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• richardandtracy Posts: 7,077

  August 18 edited August 18

  I have a feeling she's going to have a lot to say about 'it' (whatever 'it' is) once she starts....

  Regards,

  Richard

  Post edited by richardandtracy on August 18
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 19

  Here comes https://www.daz3d.com/shirred-dress-for-genesis-2-female-s with https://www.daz3d.com/shirred-dress-textures and https://www.daz3d.com/cross-strap-heels. On the right  https://www.daz3d.com/lna-basic-wear-mallorca-outfit. Hair is https://www.daz3d.com/short-ponytail and https://www.daz3d.com/alyssa-hair-for-genesis-2-female-s.

  

  

  

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• ChuckM Posts: 159

  August 19

  mding Now there's a pair I can draw to!

  Thanks and thanks for the reminder to check my library and DAZ store.
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 19 edited August 19

  Thank you @ChuckM! Sounds like you might contribute another render for us - looking forward to that!

  Pose was adapted from https://www.daz3d.com/friends-for-life-poses btw.

  Post edited by mding on August 19
• tsroemi Posts: 3,455

  August 19

  mding said:

  Here comes https://www.daz3d.com/shirred-dress-for-genesis-2-female-s with https://www.daz3d.com/shirred-dress-textures and https://www.daz3d.com/cross-strap-heels. On the right  https://www.daz3d.com/lna-basic-wear-mallorca-outfit. Hair is https://www.daz3d.com/short-ponytail and https://www.daz3d.com/alyssa-hair-for-genesis-2-female-s.

  

  Wow, what a great render! Would you mind sharing your lighting / rendering set up? This looks fantastic.

  Also, loved your Sighni dress render, it's truly a classic!  
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 20 edited August 20

  @tsroemi: I have to admit, I am a bit astonished about your very kind interest, but here is what I can tell about it:

  The HDRI is from https://www.daz3d.com/pro-studio-hdr-lighting-system-3, "Light 21L". I have a HUGE collection of HDRI products, and I just click myself through until one works. This product might work here, but often it didn't, so I rather recommend to own a broad spectrum of those procucts (although I assume you already do, tsroemi)

  Then in addition the" PointLight Right Key" from https://www.daz3d.com/pt-illuminations-hdri-lighting. From this lightingFX product I also used the setting Vignette 050. Don't forget, that if you already own an HDRI product from Paper Tiger, these settings should be included there.

  Burn Highlights is at 0.25 and crush blacks at 0.2

  It was such a quick render, that I even forgot to put the focal length of the camera to 90, instead of 65. No DOF. Focal Distance = 372.92. Of course headlamp off. 

  I had to adapt the surfaces to the lighting, as they were shining too bright: Base Color, and some also Glossy Color and reducing glossiness with the skin. Even here I was to lazy to finish adapting the skin of the right figure

  I was told that this setting doesn't matter, but I did it nevertheless and my impression is it does with skin and hair and the rim of meshes towards their surroundings: Render Quality to 10.

  So the lighting is nothing special, as you can see, and the HDRI I used might not help you with other clothing colors. Nevertheless I am very happy with those products.

  Well, thanks again for the kind words!

  Post edited by mding on August 20
• tsroemi Posts: 3,455

  August 20

  mding said:

  @tsroemi: I have to admit, I am a bit astonished about your very kind interest, but here is what I can tell about it:

  The HDRI is from https://www.daz3d.com/pro-studio-hdr-lighting-system-3, "Light 21L". I have a HUGE collection of HDRI products, and I just click myself through until one works. This product might work here, but often it didn't, so I rather recommend to own a broad spectrum of those procucts (although I assume you already do, tsroemi)

  Then in addition the" PointLight Right Key" from https://www.daz3d.com/pt-illuminations-hdri-lighting. From this lightingFX product I also used the setting Vignette 050. Don't forget, that if you already own an HDRI product from Paper Tiger, these settings should be included there.

  Burn Highlights is at 0.25 and crush blacks at 0.2

  It was such a quick render, that I even forgot to put the focal length of the camera to 90, instead of 65. No DOF. Focal Distance = 372.92. Of course headlamp off. 

  I had to adapt the surfaces to the lighting, as they were shining too bright: Base Color, and some also Glossy Color and reducing glossiness with the skin. Even here I was to lazy to finish adapting the skin of the right figure

  I was told that this setting doesn't matter, but I did it nevertheless and my impression is it does with skin and hair and the rim of meshes towards their surroundings: Render Quality to 10.

  So the lighting is nothing special, as you can see, and the HDRI I used might not help you with other clothing colors. Nevertheless I am very happy with those products.

  Well, thanks again for the kind words!

  Heya, thanks for explaining so much in depth! I think it's exactly this 'simplicity' and 'easiness' that I like about the set up here - this undramatic, flattering, a tiny bit painterly and soft kind of lighting.  Will experiment a bit with the settings of course. Thanks again!
• felis Posts: 5,720

  August 20 edited August 20

  G2 enjoying the view.

  

  

  

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  Post edited by felis on August 20
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 20

  @felis: Very cool idea, great pin-up render - many thanks! 

  For anybody interested, that is beautiful https://www.daz3d.com/soleil-hair-for-genesis-2-3-female-s and hot and scary https://www.daz3d.com/midnight-huntress-for-genesis-2-female-s. 

  @felis: Could you tell us which g2 character you have used - just in case it isn't one you have created yourself? Again, thanks a lot, very well done!
• felis Posts: 5,720

  August 20 edited August 20

  As usual, you know the G2 stuff.

  The character is Kori https://www.daz3d.com/kori

  (applied with SkinPBR shader)

   

   

  Post edited by felis on August 20
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 21

  @felis: Many thanks, much appreciated. Skin is very impressive, indeed, as it was with your last render: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/9269121/#Comment_9269121!
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 21 edited August 21

  This is https://www.daz3d.com/ryder-for-genesis-2-male-s, a toon character by DemonicaEvilius and Jessaii, wearing https://www.daz3d.com/wicked-le-relaxed with a texture option from https://www.daz3d.com/wt13-wicked-le-relaxed-textures, both by Xena. Hair is https://www.daz3d.com/finlay-hair for g2 and g3 by AprilYSH. The pose was adapted from a remarkable pose in https://www.daz3d.com/gianni-6. 

  

  

  

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  Post edited by mding on August 21
• tsroemi Posts: 3,455

  August 22

  Hi all, check out the current freebies, there's some nice G2 stuff included! 

  https://www.daz3d.com/battle-kimono-for-genesis-2-females

  https://www.daz3d.com/mec4d-the-vampire-huntress-for-genesis-2-female-s

  (second one even includes hair, but is pre-Iray). Also, 'Actual Eyes' are in the freebies, so one can give it a go and see whether one can make them work with Iray. 
   
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 22

  Many thanks, @tsroemi! Very impressive, indeed!
• Matt_Castle Posts: 3,003

  August 22

  Oh yes, on that note, Fatal Whisper was a G2F-era freebie several months back which I decided to have fun with:

  
  Gallery Link
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 22

  @Matt_Castle: Spectacular, you even thought of the shoes, that's hilarious! But besides, it is still an amazing, cinematic render full of action - brilliant - many thanks!
• felis Posts: 5,720

  August 22 edited August 22

  Madeline on a bike, https://www.daz3d.com/madeline-for-stephanie-6

  

  

  

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  Post edited by felis on August 22
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 22

  @felis: Everybody look here what a great freebie we get atm - many thanks for showing us, felis, that was very fast! Madeline is one of my favorite characters and I guess you used PBR Skin again - lighting, posing and lipstick color make her look very strong and confident! Is that https://www.daz3d.com/devil-may-deluxe-hair-for-genesis-2-3-8-female-s by goldtassel? Thanks again, great render!
• felis Posts: 5,720

  August 22

  Yes,it is that hair. And I changed it to SkinPBR.

  The lips are applied with a custom color using the lips mask that is in the product. I also gave them a metallic flakes on top in a similar color.

  Lightning is sun dial with an emissive plane to soften the shadows a bit.
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 22

  Many thanks, @felis!
• paulawp (marahzen) Posts: 1,711

  August 23 edited August 23

  I downloaded this week's new freebies and bought Victoria 6 to put them on. 

  

   

  https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-6
  https://www.daz3d.com/ronya-hair
  https://www.daz3d.com/actual-eyes-4
  https://www.daz3d.com/battle-kimono-for-genesis-2-females

  I'm using the original Victoria 6 textures with 1-Click PBRSkin. The eyes are significantly modified from the original freebie, as that product was presumably intended for 3DL.

  

  

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  Post edited by paulawp (marahzen) on August 23
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 23

  Many thanks @paulawp (marahzen), V6 looks really beautiful in your render, her skin very impressive! Great idea with the stone mandala shaders as background, awesome render!
• paulawp (marahzen) Posts: 1,711

  August 23 edited August 23

  mding said:

  Many thanks @paulawp (marahzen), V6 looks really beautiful in your render, her skin very impressive! Great idea with the stone mandala shaders as background, awesome render!

  Thanks! Prior to this thread, I doubt I'd ever done a render with G2 (I'm a relative newbie - Daz was well into the G8 era when I arrived) so everything about working with it is new to me.

  I might note that the pose was one of last week's freebies:

  https://www.daz3d.com/i13-from-above

  And the cool Mandalas can be had for $1.99 in the Outlet Store, probably for a while yet:

  https://www.daz3d.com/stone-mandalas-texture-shaders

  Post edited by paulawp (marahzen) on August 23
• tsroemi Posts: 3,455

  August 23

  paulawp (marahzen) said:

  I downloaded this week's new freebies and bought Victoria 6 to put them on. 

  

   

  https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-6
  https://www.daz3d.com/ronya-hair
  https://www.daz3d.com/actual-eyes-4
  https://www.daz3d.com/battle-kimono-for-genesis-2-females

   

  I'm using the original Victoria 6 textures with 1-Click PBRSkin. The eyes are significantly modified from the original freebie, as that product was presumably intended for 3DL.

  Paula, that render is so nice! And thanks for the tip with the mandalas, I'm putting them on my wishlist. I'll also try 1-click-PBR skin next time with the older models, that seems to work much better than my manual conversion to Iray Uber. 
• tsroemi Posts: 3,455

  August 23

  I've found this really neat blouse for G2, well, it's actually a dress but it's the blouse that I like so much, it has such a realistic fall and great textures. Figure's skin is Monique 6, I've tried to convert her to Iray but I'm not very good at it. The outfit is https://www.daz3d.com/workday-dress-2-for-genesis-2-female-s. ;

  Edit: Upload doesn't seem to work for me atm, so just the link for now, will maybe try again tomorrow.
• richardandtracy Posts: 7,077

  August 24

  I agree with the blouse, it was the one Naida was wearing as the data centre supervisor I uploaded a while back. The link is Workday Dress. Regards, Richard.
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 24

  Here is the link to Richard's render with Workday Dress 2: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/9267611/#Comment_9267611. I also love that outfit and am looking forward to tsroemi's render!

  Thanks for the information @paulawp (marahzen)!
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 24

  A quick reminder of two outfits I like very much: 

  https://www.daz3d.com/casual-streetwear-for-genesis-2-female-s by Oskarsson and

  https://www.daz3d.com/bellissima-for-genesis-2-female-s by 4blueyes with https://www.daz3d.com/belle-textures-for-bellissima by bucketload3d.

  Sandals on the left are from https://www.daz3d.com/hi-lo-dress-for-genesis-2-female-s by Val3dart with https://www.daz3d.com/textures-for-hi-lo-dress by ShanasSoulmate.

  

  

  

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• tsroemi Posts: 3,455

  August 24 edited August 24

  Trying again to upload a quick render of the G2 workday dress. Okay, the mistake was a & in the name, took it out and now it worked:

  

  

  

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  Post edited by tsroemi on August 24
• mding Posts: 1,640

  August 25

  Thanks a lot, @tsroemi, that blouse indeed looks wonderful, and I like also how you converted the skin - thanks again for that great render!