Render your buys! ALL TIME Challenges

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  • emanuela1emanuela1 Posts: 1,105

    @SapphireBlue Excellent voice, video, and music, as always. It's a good idea to include subtitles; they're a huge help to understand the song for non-native English speakers like me.

  • emanuela1emanuela1 Posts: 1,105

    @SapphireBlue3DIO , Fire AngelMatt_Castle,  csaa  excellent work! I hope to be able to make decent renderings so I can participate in this thread too:)

     

  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 342

    @emanuela1
    Cheers, and looking forward to the renders!

  • Fire AngelFire Angel Posts: 328
    edited May 24

    emanuela1 said:

    @SapphireBlue3DIO , Fire AngelMatt_Castle,  csaa  excellent work! I hope to be able to make decent renderings so I can participate in this thread too:)

    It's not a contest, if you enjoy making an image and want to post it please don't worry too much about the technical standard.  Of course do your best, but please don't stress over comparisons.

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  • sueyasueya Posts: 859
    edited May 13
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  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,334

    sueya said:

    Used Oremus

    Psst... Is she floating?

  • felisfelis Posts: 6,306

    jmucchiello said:

    sueya said:

    Used Oremus

    Psst... Is she floating?

    You will usually learn levitation on second or third year of wizard school cheeky 

  • SapphireBlueSapphireBlue Posts: 1,403

    emanuela1 said:

    @SapphireBlue Excellent voice, video, and music, as always. It's a good idea to include subtitles; they're a huge help to understand the song for non-native English speakers like me.

    emanuela1 Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! heartsmiley

     

    emanuela1 said:

    @SapphireBlue, 3DIO , Fire Angel, Matt_Castle,  csaa  excellent work! I hope to be able to make decent renderings so I can participate in this thread too:)

    Emanuela! First, your renders are perfectly fine and creative. Secondly, these "Render your buys" threads are to get us to use all these assets we buy, have fun and just share. We can share quick tests, silly renders or finished pieces. No pressure. So please just participate! smiley

    I always love seeing everyone share their renders, and the threads themselves have really inspired me to use more of my library of amazing DAZ things! heart

  • Navigator_ITANavigator_ITA Posts: 48
    edited May 16

    Inspired by The Exorcist. 

    Note: I previously tried to upload a file with 'attach a file', it doesn't work with Edge, but it does with Opera GX. Maybe it's my settings.

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  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,148
    edited May 19

    Been a bit short on ideas lately, so going back to the old tunes of doing silly mythological pin-ups.

    I think this is a first use of:
    https://www.daz3d.com/wwii-jeep
    https://www.daz3d.com/restoration-shop
    https://www.daz3d.com/x-fashion-uniform-04-for-genesis-8-females (albeit only parts of it mixed with https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-40s-liberty-lingerie-for-genesis-9-and-genesis-8-female, although I've definitely used that before).

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,593
    edited May 20

    SapphireBlue said:

    emanuela1 said:

    @SapphireBlue, 3DIO , Fire Angel, Matt_Castle,  csaa  excellent work! I hope to be able to make decent renderings so I can participate in this thread too:)

    Emanuela! First, your renders are perfectly fine and creative. Secondly, these "Render your buys" threads are to get us to use all these assets we buy, have fun and just share. We can share quick tests, silly renders or finished pieces. No pressure. So please just participate! smiley

    I always love seeing everyone share their renders, and the threads themselves have really inspired me to use more of my library of amazing DAZ things! heart

    And I'd add: it's fun to see everyone's toys in action! More than once I've discovered something cool on this thread that I had overlooked based on the cover promo picture in the store, or wound up avoiding something I was on the fence over because the person here mentioned struggling to make it behave. I'm all for finding cool stuff and avoiding frustration! So please, selfishly, share your renders!

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,593

    Matt_Castle said:

    Been a bit short on ideas lately, so going back to the old tunes of doing silly mythological pin-ups.

    I think this is a first use of:
    https://www.daz3d.com/wwii-jeep
    https://www.daz3d.com/restoration-shop
    https://www.daz3d.com/x-fashion-uniform-04-for-genesis-8-females (albeit only parts of it mixed with https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-40s-liberty-lingerie-for-genesis-9-and-genesis-8-female, although I've definitely used that before).

    Can I ask what you used for the splatter effects? I really like the distribution.

  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,148

    SilverGirl said:

    Can I ask what you used for the splatter effects? I really like the distribution.

    Depending on which splatters you're talking about...

    For the skin, it's one of Aeon Soul's Skin Effects products - probably https://www.daz3d.com/skin-effects-dirt-for-genesis-3-and-8-females but the texture file names in the scene aren't completely clear. This includes on the centair body, because I used my clothing transfer clones to bake the geoshell textures across to work for the graft too.
    For the clothes, https://www.daz3d.com/ptf-grungy-threads
    For the floor, https://www.daz3d.com/sy-splats-drips-and-splatters-for-dforce
    For the photo: CC0 image from https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=182950

    I probably should have mentioned some of these products in my earlier listing; I'm not sure if I've used all of them before.

     

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,593

    Matt_Castle said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Can I ask what you used for the splatter effects? I really like the distribution.

    Depending on which splatters you're talking about...

    For the skin, it's one of Aeon Soul's Skin Effects products - probably https://www.daz3d.com/skin-effects-dirt-for-genesis-3-and-8-females but the texture file names in the scene aren't completely clear. This includes on the centair body, because I used my clothing transfer clones to bake the geoshell textures across to work for the graft too.
    For the clothes, https://www.daz3d.com/ptf-grungy-threads
    For the floor, https://www.daz3d.com/sy-splats-drips-and-splatters-for-dforce
    For the photo: CC0 image from https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=182950

    I probably should have mentioned some of these products in my earlier listing; I'm not sure if I've used all of them before.

     

    Thank you kindly! 

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,773
    edited May 20

    I don't have a title (blame the gallery being closed blush) but I do have a short story smiley

    She was just enjoying a sunny afternoon, walking toward the next stop in her journey, reading the new book of her favourite author while a skeleton tried to jump her.

    She likely could have won without stopping reading, but a two-handed warhammer, as the name suggests, requires two hands…

    It takes skills to place a bookmark while dodging attacks, one she had to master since an evil overlord decided to threaten the peaceful countryside, so once she has disposed of the threat, she jumped back where she was.

    Maybe she should start walking again, because by staying here, reading, she will have to walk without anything to read. Now, that would be horrific, right?

    Newly used products:

    I have some doubt about the tower from Jack Tomalin in the background and the butterflies.

    The scene started as the icon for the metadata created for CGS Eva (I created the metadata and added .duf files akin to the ones you usually find in a character product) and for a change of scenery, I wanted to do a fantasy render and wanted to try to mimic the sense of depth @MaureenMcMahon was able to showcase in her renders (ex: 'The sight of home. Been along time since.' or 'king' to name two examples I like a lot).

    I'm still missing something to put between the foreground and the background, but the couples of things I tried were not great and there is likely a more efficient way to but mountains in the background than using Mega Terrain: Highland but I like the foreground and background.

    I used some dformers to push the plants and grass under the shield and the skeleton, inspired to do that by this month Daz 3D New User Challenge (otherwise, considering a past bad experience with dealing with dformers and grass, I would likely have removed the shield and not bother with the grass poking through the skeleton).

    I have a list of the other items used, thanks to @Ascint's Asset Auditor: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/761231/easily-identify-products-and-assets-in-daz-studio-duf-scene-files-seeking-feedback/p1

    Edit: I forgot, I did some postwork to merge various renders, to get the two tones dress because the way the dress is surfaced doesn't allow to easily have one color for the top and another one for the corset.

    And it would have been easier to make FBM for the outfit if the corset was a difference piece: making sure the part of the dress under the corset was not inside the body required some strange cameras angle in Blender indecision

    But as a bonus, if someone want to only have the dress, it's possible because the part under the corset does exist.

    I also used Thickener on various parts of the outfit, to give them a bit of thickness.

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  • csaacsaa Posts: 1,008
    edited May 20

    Elor

    Lovely vignette, both the story and the scene. Besotted with a book, trusty hammer in hand, a fair maiden savors the countryside! At least the skeleton found its final resting place on such a verdant plot. 

    Does "She" have a name? What hair did you use? How did you split your renders -- foreground, mid- and then background?

    Thanks for sharing.

    Cheers!

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  • cosmosmcosmosm Posts: 68

    Elor said:

    I don't have a title (blame the gallery being closed blush) but I do have a short story smiley

    Haha, nice!    Don't let the undead get in the way of a good book!    Good job with the foreground details, too.

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,773
    edited May 21

    csaa said:

    Does "She" have a name? What hair did you use? How did you split your renders -- foreground, mid- and then background?

    Thanks for sharing.

    Cheers!

    Eva I guess: I don't really think about name outside of using the name given to a character or morph by an artist (so CGS Eva in this case).

    I don't remember mixing two characters together, so it would feel strange to me to say 'Meet Elizabeth, a twenty something bright student going on a adventure' when everyone using Daz would say 'Hey, you picked the wrong queen, it's Victoria 8.1' blush.

    The morph is from CGSerpent, everything else (skin, brows, and HD morph) are from Loriane, by maelwenn.

    The hair is from @AkhelloosALO Elysianna Hair for Genesis 9, 8 and 8.1 Female.

    For the separation, the character and her immediate environnement is at world center, the house in the lake is at something like x=-8000, y=-1400 z=-12000, and so on:

    I used the matte fog setting (using the setting provided with Skies of Economy Redux - Volume 2) and I played a bit with Matte Fog Visibility in Iray Preview to get a result I liked.

    cosmosm said:

    Haha, nice!    Don't let the undead get in the way of a good book!    Good job with the foreground details, too.

    Thank you smiley

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  • sueyasueya Posts: 859
    edited May 21

    I made this image to show off the member festival items. I doubled the size of the dice and used a selection of glass and metal textures.

    Room is Modular studio room

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  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,935
    edited May 21

    I often enjoy the Premier exclusive characters more than the base.  Here is Link, a version of Lyna 9

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  • Fire AngelFire Angel Posts: 328

    Matt_Castle said:

    I've been buried in various stuff for a while, but I've found a bit of an opportunity to do some stuff.

    Playing the old tunes, putting centaurs in underpants again:

     

    https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-ceecee-basics-06-bra-and-panty-for-genesis-9-and-genesis-8-female
    https://www.daz3d.com/quiet-garden-corner
    https://www.daz3d.com/build-a-street-english-country-village (although it's pretty subtle behind the trees).

    A really flipping time consuming scene, because it took me ages to fill out the shelves and table (which while it's not my first use of it is adapted from https://www.daz3d.com/after-the-war ) to make it look like a wargaming store.


    https://www.daz3d.com/svms-rider-outfit-for-genesis-9-81-and-8-female
    https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-su-fashion-long-jeans-for-genesis-9-81-and-8-female
    https://www.daz3d.com/construction-worker-outfit-for-genesis-2-and-genesis-3-male-s (while a little rough around the edges, notable for being the only tape measure I could find in my collection that actually had an option to unreel it)
    https://www.daz3d.com/lorez-statues-i
    https://www.daz3d.com/jet-bike
    https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-display-cases
    https://www.daz3d.com/lowpi-formations-extension
    https://www.daz3d.com/lowpoly-crowd-creator-expansion-medieval-army
    https://www.daz3d.com/heavy-assault-mech-zeus-m1
    https://www.daz3d.com/tank-mrt
    https://www.daz3d.com/jigsaw-puzzle (albeit retextured as model boxes in the background)
    No store page for it any more, but "Tabletop Dice Christmas Freebie" (2023) from GCJellyfish

    And arguably more suited for the "test your buys" thread, but rather than kicking off two posts for it:

    This is me ignoring the instructions on https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-rql-varsity-cheer-girl-outfit-genesis-8-and-81-female and using some of my clothing conversion tricks to put it on a Genesis 9 figure (auto-fit and most converters will quite badly break clothing posing morphs - this is just using their ready made pose morphs, no dForce of my own.).
     

    That wargaming store image is fantastic, and the work shows in all the tiny details!

  • Fire AngelFire Angel Posts: 328
    edited May 25

    Here's an image with a lot of 3D products in it, from DAZ and from other stores too.  Some are very old but still highly usable.  I'll try and list all the DAZ products below the image in a later edit but I may forget some as there are a lot to remember.  All of the figures are Genesis 8 female characters.  It's a full UHD width, so clicking on the thumbnail to view the full image might be worthwhile.

    • RW Butterfly wings for Genesis 3 Female — there are two other sets of wings used too, one that I made and one that I bought elsewhere.
    • Babina 8.
    • Raver Hair for Genesis 8 Females.
    • ALO Annita Hair for Genesis 9, 8, and 8.1 females.
    • ALO Elysianna Hair for Genesis 9, 8 and 8.1 Females.
    • Mega Updo 2 Hair for Genesis 8 and 8.1 females.
    • Coco Hair for Genesis 8 females.
    • Darcy 8 Hair for Genesis 8 and 8.1 females.
    • Darcy 8.
    • Marnie HD for Genesis 8 Female (the guitar player).
    • Woodland Props - Tree Trunk & Ivy.
    • Woodland Props - Faerytale Fungus.
    • Double bass and poses for Genesis 8 and 8.1.
    • Fairy Outfit for Karyssa 8 and Genesis 8 Female(s) (Customised).
    • Kady for Genesis 8 Female.
    • Oni Shadow Suit for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Females (my texture).
    • dForce Casual Cute for Genesis 8 females (With my own custom textures).
    • Pixiedust Dress for Genesis 8 females (Slightly customised).

    There are many 3D products from other sites too, and there may be other products from DAZ in there that I cannot remember using.  It was quite a lot of work putting this one together as you can probably see.  Rendered in one go though, as my machine has 128Gb of RAM.  I did have to render it using the CPU because it would not fit in the memory of the graphics card; Blender reported using over 34Gb of RAM to render it.  No post render work other than adding text in Affinity Photo.

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,593

    That Jack Daniels bottle as a fairy keg is so creative!!

  • sueyasueya Posts: 859
    edited May 26

    Trying out my latest purchase - Anime faces for genesis 8 female

    Also  converted V4 overalls for use with G8 female

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