RRRR - Murphy’s Law Render Contest *closed*

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• barbult Posts: 23,133

  November 2015

  Hi, sign me up to sponsor for $20.
• Gopherus Posts: 1,103

  November 2015

  Alright! Running thru the holidays with catchup time in the new year.

  Gopherus pull #01
  SKINsource V4
  Reflections
  Scarlet Nights Hair
  Evening Star Dress
• Emsim Posts: 234

  November 2015

  This sounds like another fun one!  Murphy's Law - I've experienced that plenty of times, lol!

   

  Pull #1:

   681 Dragon Bridge

   543 Hydra

  2596 Leylana

    718 Garbage Cans

   
• Ken OBanion Posts: 1,447

  November 2015

  Oh, Hell yeah, I'm in!

  Here's my first pull:

  349 - Jessica Dress Sexy Textures
  4256 - Jartnia - Character and Outfit
  2181 - Ysaris Hair
  344 - Guardian for Genesis 2 Female(s)
   

  Murphy's Law strikes right off the bat!

   
• Totte Posts: 13,497

  November 2015

  Murphy’s Law Pull #1

  #4383 Regina Leo for Lion Queen (#16112) Clothing texture set
  #5539 The Living Room Collection 2 (#21772) Furniture
  #3659 Natural Patchwork 5 (#20897) Clothing texture set
  #2343 GOM Genesis Male Morphs (#13271) Morph
  LB1: #4404 Reparation (#9804) Scenery
  LB2: #2460 Harem (#20528) Scenery
  LB3: #1952 Fatale Noir - Poses for Genesis 2 Female(s) (#21678) Poses

  Mr Murphy has been visiting my poll already!

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• Emsim Posts: 234

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  I hope this counts as a Murphy's Law because this is what came to mind.  For such an old model, that hydra rendered out pretty well.    By the way, does anyone know how to change the format of your post so the lines aren't so far apart.  I haven't been able to figure it out.

  Pull #1:

   681 Dragon Bridge

   543 Hydra

  2596 Leylana

    718 Garbage Cans

   

  Tag: emsim #1

  Title: When You're Trying to Impress Someone...

  It never fails.  When you are taking a prestigious member of society on an extensive tour of your estate, the neighbor's pet will choose that moment to scatter your garbage around.

  

   

  Edit:  Okay, didn't mean to put the picture first - my first time trying to do this in the latest forum.  Obviously I haven't mastered this yet.  Sorry about the weird layout.  Maybe I'll get it right in the entries thread. 

  Edit #2:  Okay, figured out what I did wrong, please disregard the previous edit!

   

  

  

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• Gopherus Posts: 1,103

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  @emsim #01  what a mess!  but also a distraction so that you can beat a hasty retreat.  Good one!

  Gopherus #01
  SKINsource V4
  Reflections
  Scarlet Nights Hair
  Evening Star Dress

  WYSANWYG

  What You See Aint Necessarily What You Got.  The best manual… the best applications instructions aren t worth much if the blond won t read them.  If the customer can mess it up… she will.

  
  

  

  

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• luci45 Posts: 2,654

  November 2015

  Oh, wow, I just saw this today! I am happy now!!!!!!!!!!!  

  Put me down for $30 sponsor, Totte. Now for my first draw!

  Emsim, your first one is a gem! 
• luci45 Posts: 2,654

  November 2015

  Pull #1:

  Gardens of Poseidon - Reef Rocks
  Old West Mercantile Interior
  The Firearm Pack
  A Curious Tea Iray
  Space Relic (LB)
  Pitfall Poses for Victoria 7 (LB)
  Vintage Bouquet (LB)
  Fountain of Health (LB)
  Elegant Fabric Iray Shaders (LB)

  LOL, This is a mess!
• Ken OBanion Posts: 1,447

  November 2015

  luci45 said:

  Pull #1:

  Gardens of Poseidon - Reef Rocks
  Old West Mercantile Interior
  The Firearm Pack
  A Curious Tea Iray
  Space Relic (LB)
  Pitfall Poses for Victoria 7 (LB)
  Vintage Bouquet (LB)
  Fountain of Health (LB)
  Elegant Fabric Iray Shaders (LB)

  LOL, This is a mess!

  Um, Murphy's Law...!
• luci45 Posts: 2,654

  November 2015

  Ken OBanion said:

  luci45 said:

  Pull #1:

  Gardens of Poseidon - Reef Rocks
  Old West Mercantile Interior
  The Firearm Pack
  A Curious Tea Iray
  Space Relic (LB)
  Pitfall Poses for Victoria 7 (LB)
  Vintage Bouquet (LB)
  Fountain of Health (LB)
  Elegant Fabric Iray Shaders (LB)

  LOL, This is a mess!

  Um, Murphy's Law...!

  Murphy's RRRR Law - The More Incongrueous the Better!

  I have this one half done and it is making me laugh. I hope I don't mess it up. Michael 7 is going to distract me a little I know... 
• Diomede Posts: 15,073

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  Put me down for $10 sponsorship again. 

  Diomede pull #1

  5055 "There About Ps

  5236 "Ultimate Digital Fabric Pack: Patricia

  4207 "Room Comforts

  4925 "the Girl 4 Base

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• Emsim Posts: 234

  November 2015

  Thank you gopherus and Luci. 

  @ gopherus - I love the perspective on your first one.  Years ago I ordered something in the mail and at the top of the instruction manual in very large letters was "If all else fails, read the directions."  I thought it was pretty funny.  Seems like this lady could have benefitted from that!

  I have to work all weekend but I'll post my second pull anyway.

  Pull #2:

   617 - Bandstand

  1393 - Valentine Candy

  1726 - Miss Kitty's

   535 - Hammer Tail Dragon

  Seemed pretty straightforward until the dragon popped up.  :)
• luci45 Posts: 2,654

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  Murphy's First Law for Delivering to a Remote Corner of the Gallaxy:
  You Will Always Arrive at a Bad Time

  Used:
  Gardens of Poseidon - Reef Rocks
  Old West Mercantile Interior
  The Firearm Pack
  A Curious Tea Iray
  Space Relic (LB)
  Pitfall Poses for Victoria 7 (LB)
  Vintage Bouquet (LB)
  Fountain of Health (LB)
  Elegant Fabric Iray Shaders (LB)

  Ron's Explosions
  Bellatrix for Genesis 2 Female(s)
  Mars Explorers for Genesis 2 Male(s)
  Nano Suit for Genesis 2 Male(s)
  Sci-Fi Crates 'n Containers
  Rock & Grass Bundle
  Areion's Blaze Transport Ship
  OOT HDR 360° Environments Space for DAZ Studio Iray
  Modern Industrial Floors for Iray

  

  

  

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• Gopherus Posts: 1,103

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  Thanks emsim for your comments.

  @luci45 #01  who would have thought that the delivery guy showed up just as neo and trinity were freeing morpheus.  Clever use of your many many pulls. Well done!

  Pull #02
  Princely for Fairy Tale Prince M4
  Bashers and Bludgeons
  Tumbleweed the Toon Horse
  Valiant M4

  Post edited by Gopherus on November 2015
• barbult Posts: 23,133

  November 2015

  I think we should all vote for Luci45 (of course we do anyway because her renders are AWESOME!) until she gets dozens of LBs!!!! It wouldn't even slow her down.
• Totte Posts: 13,497

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  Totte #1 

  Totte said:

  #4383 Regina Leo for Lion Queen (#16112) Clothing texture set
  #5539 The Living Room Collection 2 (#21772) Furniture
  #3659 Natural Patchwork 5 (#20897) Clothing texture set
  #2343 GOM Genesis Male Morphs (#13271) Morph
  LB1: #4404 Reparation (#9804) Scenery
  LB2: #2460 Harem (#20528) Scenery
  LB3: #1952 Fatale Noir - Poses for Genesis 2 Female(s) (#21678) Poses

  Also Used:
  G2F + Kyra + Patchwork Shoes + Persian Beauty Outfit + Harlow Hair
  V5 + Cat + Lion Queen 
  Genesis + Jepe’s Ian - Pierre Mats + KK Male head Morph + Bad Guy 2
  Aides M7 + Laid Back Outfit + Mathew Hair

  Shaders used:
  PC Gemstones
  PC Metal
  EcVcO Daily Cloth Shaders
  UHT Iray Hair Shaders
  Iray converter for Genesis

  The law of Attention

  The chance of a man losing attention due to a pretty girl is in direct proportion to the importance of the task at hand.

  

  

  

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  Post edited by Totte on November 2015
• Totte Posts: 13,497

  November 2015

  Emsim #1 - Lol - That’s a very nice pet!
  Gopherus #1 - I’m glad that you didn’t render Kawasaki’s Law of children, “WYSIWYG” (What you smell is what you get). Great idea!
  luci45 #1 - Fab as usual and I agree with Barbult!

   
• Linwelly Posts: 5,795

  November 2015

  Finally RRRR time again

  And already some great ideas in, it's gonna be fun again

  here is my first pull

  Rag-Erator for DAZ Studio
  Cista Sanctus DS
  Victoria 4 Skin Maps Std Res
  Wretched for Spirit of Punk DS

  
  I guess this something to work with for Murphy's law

   
• SethM Posts: 65

  November 2015

  I've never done one of these and it looks like fun. I have two rules questions:

  1) Since it's specifically a rendering event/contest, should I assume no postwork/compositing is allowed? Would a triptych be allowed?

  2) I don't know a good way to get a list of my installed products. Using directories seems bad, and even restricting to directories under "libraries" isn't right. Would ranomzing to pages in my Daz account Product List and randomizing within that page (rerolling items that should have been eliminated) be sufficient? I know it isn't perfectly linear (unless my eligible product count is a multiple of 40), but it should be close. That removes non-Daz store items, if that matters.

  Thanks!
• Linwelly Posts: 5,795

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  SethM said:

  I've never done one of these and it looks like fun. I have two rules questions:

  1) Since it's specifically a rendering event/contest, should I assume no postwork/compositing is allowed? Would a triptych be allowed?

  2) I don't know a good way to get a list of my installed products. Using directories seems bad, and even restricting to directories under "libraries" isn't right. Would ranomzing to pages in my Daz account Product List and randomizing within that page (rerolling items that should have been eliminated) be sufficient? I know it isn't perfectly linear (unless my eligible product count is a multiple of 40), but it should be close. That removes non-Daz store items, if that matters.

  Thanks!

  I can at least tell you an answer to your second question:

  Open your DIM, selct the tab with the installed files, select all products then right click with your mous and choose Export to csv. Creates you a file that you can easly turn into an excel or any other program of the kind. Then begins the sorting out of files that you actually don't use like textures you don't have the original product for an the like (I remove al Iray as my mashine is way to slow for that to be fun). With the random generator links at the top you can get numbers generated from the list you made.

  Have fun but be warned, rrrr can be addictious, cause serious fits of crazy laughter and sights that burn into the memory... ;-)

  Post edited by Linwelly on November 2015
• Totte Posts: 13,497

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  Welcome to the madness!

   

  SethM said:

  I've never done one of these and it looks like fun. I have two rules questions:

  1) Since it's specifically a rendering event/contest, should I assume no postwork/compositing is allowed? Would a triptych be allowed?

  Postwork is allowed and compositing too, as long as the items are there (which makes it hard in the first place ;-)

  SethM said:

  2) I don't know a good way to get a list of my installed products. Using directories seems bad, and even restricting to directories under "libraries" isn't right. Would ranomzing to pages in my Daz account Product List and randomizing within that page (rerolling items that should have been eliminated) be sufficient? I know it isn't perfectly linear (unless my eligible product count is a multiple of 40), but it should be close. That removes non-Daz store items, if that matters.

  This IS the tricky part, as Linwelly said (there is an .csv export from DIM that you can use, or you start there, then add your other stuff as time goes by!

   

  Post edited by Totte on November 2015
• Totte Posts: 13,497

  November 2015

  Pull #2

  #3786 November Textures for Autumn (#17768) Outfit texture
  #695 Cafe Day & Night (Rendo) prop building
  #456 Bandstand (#11510) prop building
  #6371 Zombie Bundle (#23239) {
      Soulless Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s) #23095 Outfit
      Zombie Run Poses #23213    Poses
      Valoria for Arabella 7 #23233 Character morph and skins
  }

  LB1: #1010 Colors for Meg Hair    (#13760) hair color
  LB2: #3839 Old Forge  (#5779) - Prop buidling
  LB3: #39 20 Easter Eggs (#4166) Props

  Hello Mr Murphy!
  My fault I haven't entered bundles as separate items, but the more the merrier!

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• luci45 Posts: 2,654

  November 2015

  Thanks, Gopherus, barbult and Totte. LOL, yes, I LOVE my LBs! The more the merrier! Hahahahaha... 

  Gopherus, the first one is pretty strange, but this blond expects not less from you. Hehe.

  Totte, nice one! I think you need more LBs though. Oh, I see you pulled a bundle for #2. Yeah for Mr Murphy! I pulled a bundle too, with V3. Fun.

  Pull #2

  V3 High Fantasy Character & Clothes Bundle 
  Tangien Portico 
  Secluded Rendezvous
  Double-crested Cormorant
  RoboSpider (LB)
  Pred Pack - Olive Trees (LB) 
  Flinks Sky Stars (LB)
  Saloon At Trails End (LB)
  DLD Stone Shaders for DAZ Studio (LB)

   
• Ken OBanion Posts: 1,447

  November 2015

  Totte said:

  Welcome to the madness!

   

  SethM said:

  I've never done one of these and it looks like fun. I have two rules questions:

  1) Since it's specifically a rendering event/contest, should I assume no postwork/compositing is allowed? Would a triptych be allowed?

  Postwork is allowed and compositing too, as long as the items are there (which makes it hard in the first place ;-)

  SethM said:

  2) I don't know a good way to get a list of my installed products. Using directories seems bad, and even restricting to directories under "libraries" isn't right. Would ranomzing to pages in my Daz account Product List and randomizing within that page (rerolling items that should have been eliminated) be sufficient? I know it isn't perfectly linear (unless my eligible product count is a multiple of 40), but it should be close. That removes non-Daz store items, if that matters.

  This IS the tricky part, as Linwelly said (there is an .csv export from DIM that you can use, or you start there, then add your other stuff as time goes by!

   

  What Totte said (especially about the madness!)

  I have my own method of putting together an "inventory":

  I go to my Product Library page, and start copying and pasting every item from the list on the left side of the page, then paste that into a spreadsheet.  Repeat as necessary.  (In my case, it was 'necessary' a total of 132 more times; yeah, I have a lot of stuff!  And when I play in the RRRR contests, I only use DAZ products; tracking down all the stuff I've gotten from Runtime DNA, Renderosity, Content Paradise, (cough) Renderotica (cough-cough), or freebie sites like ShareCG, is just too much of a pain in the never-mind-precisely-where!  And, of course, I couldn't use the Renderotica stuff in any case!)

  Also, when I paste, I use the 'Use source formatting' option; that way it retains the URL to the library page, in case I need to be reminded of just what it is that I got.  (It doesn't tell me why I got it, though, and that always turns out to be the Sixty-Four Dollar question!  Well, either that or, 'What the hell was I thinking!?')

  The last inventory update/refresh using that method took me about four, maybe five, hours.  Your mileage may vary.

  Have fun, and good luck!

   
• Oso3D Posts: 14,886

  November 2015

  So, is randomly picking a product library page, randomly selecting one on the page, would that be acceptible? All the other stuff seems excructiatingly tedious.

   
• Ken OBanion Posts: 1,447

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  timmins.william said:

  So, is randomly picking a product library page, randomly selecting one on the page, would that be acceptible? All the other stuff seems excructiatingly tedious.

   

  Actually, there are a number of regular participants in previous RRRRs who did it exactly that way: get a random number from 1 to the last page of your Content Library (inclusive), then a number from 1 to 40 (the number of items per page), and there's your item.

  Alternatively, you could churn out the random numbers, then divide each by 40 and then add 1 (that would be the page), then take the modulus of the same division (which would be the item on that page).

  We're a creative bunch here in RRRR-land!

  EDIT: If the random number turns out to be less than forty, then the page would be 0, and that wouldn't work.  I know, I totally suck at math; that's why I'm a seven-time college drop-out!

   

  Post edited by Ken OBanion on November 2015
• barbult Posts: 23,133

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  Ken OBanion said:

  timmins.william said:

  So, is randomly picking a product library page, randomly selecting one on the page, would that be acceptible? All the other stuff seems excructiatingly tedious.

   

  Actually, there are a number of regular participants in previous RRRRs who did it exactly that way: get a random number from 1 to the last page of your Content Library (inclusive), then a number from 1 to 40 (the number of items per page), and there's your item.

  Alternatively, you could churn out the random numbers, then divide each by 40 and then add 1 (that would be the page), then take the modulus of the same division (which would be the item on that page).

  We're a creative bunch here in RRRR-land!

  EDIT: If the random number turns out to be less than forty, then the page would be 0, and that wouldn't work.  I know, I totally suck at math; that's why I'm a seven-time college drop-out!

   

  Maybe you don't suck. You said "and then add 1 (that would be the page)", so a random number less that 40 would be page 0+1=1, not 0.

  Post edited by barbult on November 2015
• Ken OBanion Posts: 1,447

  November 2015 edited November 2015

  barbult said:

  Ken OBanion said:

  timmins.william said:

  So, is randomly picking a product library page, randomly selecting one on the page, would that be acceptible? All the other stuff seems excructiatingly tedious.

   

  Actually, there are a number of regular participants in previous RRRRs who did it exactly that way: get a random number from 1 to the last page of your Content Library (inclusive), then a number from 1 to 40 (the number of items per page), and there's your item.

  Alternatively, you could churn out the random numbers, then divide each by 40 and then add 1 (that would be the page), then take the modulus of the same division (which would be the item on that page).

  We're a creative bunch here in RRRR-land!

  EDIT: If the random number turns out to be less than forty, then the page would be 0, and that wouldn't work.  I know, I totally suck at math; that's why I'm a seven-time college drop-out!

   

  Maybe you don't suck. You said "and then add 1 (that would be the page)", so a random number less that 40 would be page 0+=1, not 0.

  Um, actually that "...and then add 1..." was the edit; the original post was incorrect, so I made the change, assuming that somebody might have read it before I went back in to make the correction.

  So, I stand by my assessment; I cosmically suck at math.  And apparently, I pretty much suck at exposition, too.  I really should have explained that: what I changed, and why.

   

  Post edited by Ken OBanion on November 2015
• MelanieL Posts: 7,133

  November 2015

  Late as usual to the party - but in my defence I'm in the middle of rebuilding my entire Content Libraries. (They'd progressed from untidy to mess) So I'm not ready for my first pull yet. But I don't want to be pages behind so here goes...

  @emsim #1 - great idea - those hydra just have no sense of timing.
  @Gopherus #1 - ooh, clever! But strange: it's usually the men (blond or not) who don't read the manual in my experience?
  @Luci45 #1 - ah, you've arrived with all guns blazing and so has she! Nice response to the (customary) massive pull!
  @Totte #1 - oops, I hope it wasn't too valuable! Neat use of the extra building props.