I have a cart full of Andrey Pestryakov's products, which are supposed to be 45% off when buying any of 'the view' new releases.

The discount is showing up in my cart on everything but his 'Nature - Lake', and I can't figure out why, not can I get anyone to answer the phones at Daz.

I don't suppose anyone here can help?

Support tickets always take days to get a resolution, and I want to check out now, and not wait for a refund.

Also, is there anyone here that can look in my account and see what I paid for something last month? It's on sale, and I want to see if it is cheaper now, or not.

Mythicka-Michelle said:

SileneUK said:

Hi Michelle,

Have you looked at Merlin Studios for DAZ?

http://www.daz3d.com/merlin-studios

He has lots of great items. I have his Merlin Oak Props set which is only $8.00 right now and there's a lot in that set, stone wall, grasses, plants, etc in addition to a great tree.

He also has other excellent trees and a tree bundle.

And for scenes there's several by Andrey Pestryakov that are reasonably priced that I own. Some good stuff in there!

http://www.daz3d.com/andrey-pestryakov

But my Carrara heart belongs to Howie and Dart and Mmoir! %-P ...and to some of the Bryce artists who make their art compatible in Carrara, too.

:) Silene
Hi, thanks for the links. I do have some of their products already, but your link reminded me of them and I've picked up a couple of sets I didn't have already :)

There's an easy solution to this problem. Wait for a Carrara sale. ;-)

Indeed

Dartanbeck: Thanks for your posting. It's something I will look into and consider; especially with the faster render times!

I know my post was a bit flippant, but it's all meant in good humor, and personally, I think Carrara is a really fun and powerful program, despite DAZ's apparent lack of love. ;-)

If you want rabid, go to the Bryce forum. They scare even us old Apple users. :lol:

SileneUK said:

Hi Michelle,

Have you looked at Merlin Studios for DAZ?

http://www.daz3d.com/merlin-studios

He has lots of great items. I have his Merlin Oak Props set which is only $8.00 right now and there's a lot in that set, stone wall, grasses, plants, etc in addition to a great tree.

He also has other excellent trees and a tree bundle.

And for scenes there's several by Andrey Pestryakov that are reasonably priced that I own. Some good stuff in there!

http://www.daz3d.com/andrey-pestryakov

But my Carrara heart belongs to Howie and Dart and Mmoir! %-P ...and to some of the Bryce artists who make their art compatible in Carrara, too.

:) Silene
Hi, thanks for the links. I do have some of their products already, but your link reminded me of them and I've picked up a couple of sets I didn't have already :)

There's an easy solution to this problem. Wait for a Carrara sale. ;-)

Dartanbeck: Thanks for your posting. It's something I will look into and consider; especially with the faster render times!

Mythicka-Michelle said:

It's a pity his sets are for Carrara only; I only have daz and Poser. They do look beautiful, though

Hi Michelle,

Have you looked at Merlin Studios for DAZ?

http://www.daz3d.com/merlin-studios

He has lots of great items. I have his Merlin Oak Props set which is only $8.00 right now and there's a lot in that set, stone wall, grasses, plants, etc in addition to a great tree.

He also has other excellent trees and a tree bundle.

And for scenes there's several by Andrey Pestryakov that are reasonably priced that I own. Some good stuff in there!

http://www.daz3d.com/andrey-pestryakov

But my Carrara heart belongs to Howie and Dart and Mmoir! %-P ...and to some of the Bryce artists who make their art compatible in Carrara, too.

:) Silene

Andrey Pestryakov said:

Thank you for your kind words. As for the live trees possibly someday I'll make such an addition.
Jaderail, render is good but bit dark. Also I would recommend to use of Atmospheric Cameras [ http://www.daz3d.com/atmospheric-effects-cameras-for-daz-studio ], it well conveys sense of depth in the plans.

You're welcome :) Of course, I had waited to see what banners were rotating, bought about $50 of the stuff, THEN the gift certificate came up. Sheesh. I had waited an hour and was headed to bed, and since they were flash sales, I couldn't wait till the morning. Flash sales usually are half a day, but my luck, it would be the first time they weren't and I would miss out. (and of course they are still going.)

Tropical Elements (Andrey Pestryakov)
http://www.daz3d.com/tropical-elements

One product that I can't 100% recommend, just maybe parts of it- is Tropical Elements. The tree bark is just plain WRONG. Like the cave, the plants are fine. Some of the rocks are fine, some aren't, they're blurry.

And OMGosh, what on earth? I thought I'd use The Fabricator on those tree trunks (Boucle would be an improvement) and look what it did! The brown is the Boucle. It put green squares with the palm leaves into the trunk! So I don't think you can use shaders and change the trunks. But you can keep it in mind if you want weird FANTASY trees, lol.

Novica said:

Tropical Cave (Andrey Pestryakov)
http://www.daz3d.com/tropical-cave

When you load Tropical Cave, you're on the outside of it. Rendered with the included lights, out of the box EXCEPT- changed two shadow maps to raytraced. There are 24 Ambient Lights! Two spotlights. The Deep Shadow Map ones are the two spotlights.

One thing I saw is I can use the outside of the cave as a mountain wall backdrop.

900 pixels large, .20 shading rate, all other settings are on very good/excellent:

50% at 3 min 15 sec
70% 4 min 15 sec
90% 5 min
Done 5 min 15 sec

Second shot is still on the outside, but now looking down the hole. 6 min 30 seconds for 65%, so it's slower. At 7 minutes, only 67%. So once you hit the lower part of the render, it will slow down. (If you render horizontally.) Looking at it, it's the tree over to our right, directly below the beige colored root. That took four minutes!

14 minutes for 95%
14 minutes 20 seconds done.

Last one will be from inside the hole looking out. Working on it.

These are all brightly lit, I did not intensify, contrast, or lighten at all.

Tropical Cave (Andrey Pestryakov)
http://www.daz3d.com/tropical-cave

When you load Tropical Cave, you're on the outside of it. Rendered with the included lights, out of the box EXCEPT- changed two shadow maps to raytraced. There are 24 Ambient Lights! Two spotlights. The Deep Shadow Map ones are the two spotlights.

One thing I saw is I can use the outside of the cave as a mountain wall backdrop.

900 pixels large, .20 shading rate, all other settings are on very good/excellent:

50% at 3 min 15 sec
70% 4 min 15 sec
90% 5 min
Done 5 min 15 sec

Second shot is still on the outside, but now looking down the hole. 6 min 30 seconds for 65%, so it's slower. At 7 minutes, only 67%. So once you hit the lower part of the render, it will slow down. (If you render horizontally.) Looking at it, it's the tree over to our right, directly below the beige colored root. That took four minutes!

14 minutes for 95%
14 minutes 20 seconds done.

Last one will be from inside the hole looking out. Working on it.

These are all brightly lit, I did not intensify, contrast, or lighten at all.

Tropical Quest (Andrey Pestryakov)
http://www.daz3d.com/tropical-quest

Still customizing studio, doing quickie renders to see details so I'll know/keep in mind certain sets. These are Tropical Quest, with the lighting that comes with it. Renders fast but when you add shadows, it slows down a lot. There are a LOT of lights and this is out of the box. The cliffs would be good for closeup scenes. I would personally add details to the foam splash at the bottom, too much white for me, and do something with the bump/displacement of the falls. Tropical Quest fits with other sets in the Tropical series.

Szark said:

I knew I had forgotten to do something, too eager to get to bed. Which I am still trying to do. LOL

Ok latest Vue render called Wandering Brian referring to http://itiseyemeeszark.deviantart.com/art/Brian-377346493

Rendered in Vue with the Tropical Cave www.http://www.daz3d.com/tropical-cave by Andrey Pestryakov and Genesis with Garibaldi hair which didn't export very well. Could be down to me using the wrong export info...something I need to play with.

Yes I exported in OBJ format and had to set up the highlights and Bump but with OBJ import I have never had an issue with high reflections but yes everything needs adjusting and I mean everything. :)

I have been working on this scene since I get my new PC.

Wow! This is a very impressive project, drew me in instantly, really love it, you have a real knack for capturing nature along with your very unique and creative characters. Its one thing to capture a character, or an environment... its something really special to piece the two together and have them compliment each other equally :) Ive been quietly working on some projects combining the two rather than focusing on one (Which is typically what I do, focus on one), and its a fragile thing to get 'just right' together. Keep it up mate, looking great :)

Lost world
Where you never know who is predator or who may be pray

Best viewed full size HD 1920 x1080 to see all the little details ( there are a lot of them..lol)

Rendered in Daz Studio. No Post work, everything was rendered within studio
Products used

by: Alessandro_AM http://www.daz3d.com/the-lost-world
Dark Elf http://www.daz3d.com/downloader/customer/files/#prod_16792
Mill Dragon2 http://www.daz3d.com/millennium-dragon-2-0 with Mill plated-dragon Textures http://www.daz3d.com/plated-dragon-maps
Clouds are from stonemason's wintery terrain http://www.daz3d.com/winter-terrains-for-daz-studio

The floating Island i created my self in 3DS and i used Ground plants for the top of it from Tropical Bundle By Andrey Pestryakov
http://www.daz3d.com/tropical-bundle along with a few other things from this bundle

Andrey Pestryakov said:

Richard Haseltine, Cosmo71, Alexhcowley, Kulay Wolf - thank tou! :)

a little just for fun render :)...and...if you meet him...better run :)

Entry: #6
Artist: SileneUK
Title: Race for Survival

Description of required use of the terrain editor:
For the ground, changed shading of Carrara ground terrain along with converting to more flat surface with indentation for river using the map editor. Inserted Ocean wih turbulence for swimming caribou/reindeer. Used Carrara High Mountain with snow...two intertwined. A bit of mist from Realistic Skies.

Took a moose cow body by Alessandro Mastronardi, morphed her to a smaller more compact physique and made reindeer/caribou antlers in vertex modeller but was not able to properly attach them to the body, so after making poses, changed all to objects and copy and pasted as they would not replicate properly. Hey, I'm a noob, I make mistakes! But did make the texture for them. Using Evil's example of making cliffs, I made simple ones and used Dartanbeck's custom limestone texture he made put out for anyone to use in one of his posts on creating terrains. Made my own hunters' spears. Made blood in 2D PS and laid on rocks with Modifier bending and dissolving.

Description of 2nd required custom use of Carrara items:
Created Carrara hair for hunters heads, beards and men's loin skins and huntresses' "dresses" which were all made.Haired for blonde on top, no hair on brunette' dress butchering, just her hair.

Credits (content, plugins,…) Extensive use of Dartanbeck's Easy Environments trees everywhere on the clifftops and around the bottoms. Used Andrey Pestryakov's Wolves (Canus Lupus) as they come. Used DAZ Hyaena Crocuta as they come. Used DAZ Millenum Big Cat Lion as it comes. Used Andrey Pestryakov's White Birch trees and I changed the bark to brown and stuck them into the limestone cliffs as hanging vegetation.

Link(s) to WIP(s)
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/38186/P180
http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/38186/P105

Postwork? NONE!

Theme, Description, comments, and other discussion. Hope descriptions are OK and within rules. This was done whilst taking a lot of medication, so just done for fun and to join in. I have a lot to learn, but enjoyed it and hope to see more noobs here in future!

ETA: Re-uploaded image after resizing, no other changes!

I knew I had forgotten to do something, too eager to get to bed. Which I am still trying to do. LOL

Ok latest Vue render called Wandering Brian referring to http://itiseyemeeszark.deviantart.com/art/Brian-377346493

Rendered in Vue with the Tropical Cave www.http://www.daz3d.com/tropical-cave by Andrey Pestryakov and Genesis with Garibaldi hair which didn't export very well. Could be down to me using the wrong export info...something I need to play with.

Yes I exported in OBJ format and had to set up the highlights and Bump but with OBJ import I have never had an issue with high reflections but yes everything needs adjusting and I mean everything. :)

I have been working on this scene since I get my new PC.

Nature - Rocks Pack 1 | http://www.daz3d.com/new-releases/nature-rocks-pack-1
Nature - Bushes Pack 1 | http://www.daz3d.com/new-releases/nature-bushes-pack-1
Nature - Broken Trees Pack 1 | http://www.daz3d.com/new-releases/nature-broken-trees-pack-1
Released April 9 2014.
If you buy any of these products you will get a discount of 40% on Andrey Pestryakov store! Valid from April 9 2014 to April 16 2014.

Hello,

I have a very large scene (Forest of Andrey Pestryakov), and have found a position where I want to place my character.
Well now when I go to my character to move it to the position it will take with my PC for years until the character stay at this position. Is there a possibility to place objects in a scene to any Position without having to push this object through the entire scene. I think about "I click with the mouse to the position where I want to have the object".

I hope it very much that this possibility exists and I just have not found yet, because the objects are always loaded in the center and need to be moved, what will jigsaw with such a large and resource-heavy scenes.

Sorry for my bad english ;-)

greathings

Yandris

I've been really happy with GenX2's results. I've converted over a number of V4 and M4 characters to G2F/G2M.

Here's my latest: converted DAZ's M4 Elite Texture: Lee over to G2M. GenX2 did the head morph, the materials I converted with my own private plugin. I also applied Interjection, from the store here, using my Import Tools plugin to finish off the materials. Then I rendered a short animation using Nerd3D's waterfall tool and Andrey Pestryakov's Tropical Quest (both from the store here).

Full video is here https://vimeo.com/89271837

I certainly would welcome a new forest environment. There are - to my knowledge - a few really good ones already, Stonemason's Enchanted Forest and Andrey Pestryakov's Forest, but they both render sooo very slowly that using them always means 10+ hours of rendering :/

An alternative to those would be very welcome :D

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