So this is a render of 150 instances of Orestes: Them Bones for Iray inside of Jack Tomalin's: Winterblack Halls. I wanted to set up a quick backdrop for some horror renders for all of the spoopy new products that I am sure will come out in October. I knew that Ultrascatter Advanced would allow me to make something that looked more like Oreste's promo pics where it has multiple instances of bone piles. I hadn't used Ultrascatter yet so I thought would be complex and intimidating.

It was extremely easy for this type of simple scattering. I didn't know going into that you pick your object to repeat and then you pick a parent prop. So, I figured out that I could select just the floor prop and hit scatter. Then I discovered that I could do a random rotate and after that I just had to do it 4 more times because this version of Winterblack Halls had 5 floor tiles. 5 minutes and 150 instances later my scene was ready to render.  I was amazed at how fast it rendered. It seemed to render just as fast as a single pile of bones. I am new to having this many instances and I think I will have to do more. I am thinking about trying a stadium filled with lo-rez people.

For this render I used the following products:

• http://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatter-advanced-instancing-for-daz-studio
• http://www.daz3d.com/them-bones-legacy-bundle-with-iray-updates
• http://www.daz3d.com/winterblack-halls
• http://www.daz3d.com/atmocam-for-iray - just a bit of atmosphere to make smoke from the candles
• http://www.daz3d.com/above-the-fog-for-iray-and-3delight - just a bit of fog to give the bone piles some distance haze between them

...like...ahhh...wow.

DId you use emissive or photometric lighting?

..and how long did the render process take (CPU or GPU)?

So this is a render of 150 instances of Orestes: Them Bones for Iray inside of Jack Tomalin's: Winterblack Halls. I wanted to set up a quick backdrop for some horror renders for all of the spoopy new products that I am sure will come out in October. I knew that Ultrascatter Advanced would allow me to make something that looked more like Oreste's promo pics where it has multiple instances of bone piles. I hadn't used Ultrascatter yet so I thought would be complex and intimidating.

It was extremely easy for this type of simple scattering. I didn't know going into that you pick your object to repeat and then you pick a parent prop. So, I figured out that I could select just the floor prop and hit scatter. Then I discovered that I could do a random rotate and after that I just had to do it 4 more times because this version of Winterblack Halls had 5 floor tiles. 5 minutes and 150 instances later my scene was ready to render.  I was amazed at how fast it rendered. It seemed to render just as fast as a single pile of bones. I am new to having this many instances and I think I will have to do more. I am thinking about trying a stadium filled with lo-rez people.

For this render I used the following products:

• http://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatter-advanced-instancing-for-daz-studio
• http://www.daz3d.com/them-bones-legacy-bundle-with-iray-updates
• http://www.daz3d.com/winterblack-halls
• http://www.daz3d.com/atmocam-for-iray - just a bit of atmosphere to make smoke from the candles
• http://www.daz3d.com/above-the-fog-for-iray-and-3delight - just a bit of fog to give the bone piles some distance haze between them

Awesome!

- Greg

So this is a render of 150 instances of Orestes: Them Bones for Iray inside of Jack Tomalin's: Winterblack Halls. I wanted to set up a quick backdrop for some horror renders for all of the spoopy new products that I am sure will come out in October. I knew that Ultrascatter Advanced would allow me to make something that looked more like Oreste's promo pics where it has multiple instances of bone piles. I hadn't used Ultrascatter yet so I thought would be complex and intimidating.

It was extremely easy for this type of simple scattering. I didn't know going into that you pick your object to repeat and then you pick a parent prop. So, I figured out that I could select just the floor prop and hit scatter. Then I discovered that I could do a random rotate and after that I just had to do it 4 more times because this version of Winterblack Halls had 5 floor tiles. 5 minutes and 150 instances later my scene was ready to render.  I was amazed at how fast it rendered. It seemed to render just as fast as a single pile of bones. I am new to having this many instances and I think I will have to do more. I am thinking about trying a stadium filled with lo-rez people.

For this render I used the following products:

• http://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatter-advanced-instancing-for-daz-studio
• http://www.daz3d.com/them-bones-legacy-bundle-with-iray-updates
• http://www.daz3d.com/winterblack-halls
• http://www.daz3d.com/atmocam-for-iray - just a bit of atmosphere to make smoke from the candles
• http://www.daz3d.com/above-the-fog-for-iray-and-3delight - just a bit of fog to give the bone piles some distance haze between them

Thanks for sponsoring, Orestes Graphics!  Love your work. 

And warm wishes to PhilW if he has a marriage-related event going on in his family.  Cheers.

Good theme, Chickenman. Putting my thinking cap on.  With 3 potential images, I will commit at least one to toon, NPR render engine, or otherwise unrealistic approach. Thinking maybe marrying chocolate and peanut butter in lush Reese's goodness but too early to say. 

Carrara Challenge #28: Marriage

Click for entry Thread

Kindly Sponsored by OrestesGraphics and Daz

Please see new concept rules for voting - at end of this post

With things going on In the last winners life I have volunteered to run the challenge again.

But also in honor of what is going on in Phil's family life we have come up with the theme of Marriage.

That could be as simple as portraying a couple, but could also be putting two disparate items together that would not be usual, or any kind of "joining together"

So the rules are simple:

1) Make a render having to deal with the theme of Marriage..

It could be a design of a new shader Joining two or more basic shders wit the layer shader options.

It could be a Car crashed into a tree in an unintended Marriage of Carnage.

It could be Sci FI shotgun wedding because someone was messing around with the wrong alien

Or it could be a traditional Marriage style image in either Realistic style or non photo-realistic style. 

Basic rules will be:

1. Each participant may submit up to 3 images into the Challenge.

2. Images must be new (previously unpublished).

3. Images must be primarily set up in Carrara.

4. Images must be rendered in Carrara or in an external renderer for which there is a Carrara plug-in (e.g. LuxRenderer, Octane).

5. At least one WIP (work in progress) image must be posted to the WIP thread

7. Screen shot of the scene in Carrara to be included in WIP - (sorry added this later).

Please note, there is no requirement for the winner to host the next challenge, unless they want to.

Sponsor:

We love our wonderful sponsors   

Once again Daz will generously sponsor the monthly challenge with the following prizes:

1st Place: $100.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
2nd Place: $ 50.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
3rd Place: $ 25.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s)
Honorable Mention (4th place): $10.00 towards DAZ 3D owned item(s) ( may be used for best new comers).

I am excited to announce that the amazing OrestesGraphics has confirmed his sponsorship:

One item each for each of the winners from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and HM.

OrestesGraphics  Daz page is here http://www.daz3d.com/orestes-graphics

Dates to Remember:

all dates are Daz Utah Time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/salt-lake-city

WIP Thread Opens: Friday 23 Sep 2016

Entry Thread Opens: Thursday 6 Oct 2016 2016

Entry Thread Closes/Voting Begins: 12.00 Midnight Saturday 22 Oct 2016

Voting Ends: Saturday 29 Oct 2016

The commons thread is here if you would like to share your entries!

CONCEPT VOTING RULES PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT

As with the last challenge because we are having up to three images an entrant we could judge the winner by their scores combined. ie if their image 1 gets 24 votes, their image 2 gets 12 votes, and their image 3 gets 12 votes then they score 48.

2nd and third and HM would be as per usual - ie based on votes for one image.

This seemed to work quite well.

Hopefully we can get as many entries as last time.

Lots of great stuff from Orestes Graphics. I wasn't going to buy too many things (saving up for the PC+ sale :)), but these I just couldn't leave out.

I think I'm pretty much happy with the lighting as is, might knock down the exposure that's about it. Thoughts?

Get rid of the confetti-effect, maybe?   ( Ok ok, I'm regularly having trouble with that, too  )

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Updated. @ewcarman, thank you for the great ideas!

Nice  - which fire were you using and did you need to tweak it to look like this?

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Some updates from me - no new buildings yet, but I made an (slightly unfinished) emission-map for the dragon, moved some water nearby, and added a ship (Drakkar) and a Troll (Troll for Genesis) onboard, as well as some lightning (Orestes Electromancy, non-Iray version)...

Also improved the fire by adding a more transparent geometry-shell - though I'd prefer a gradient-transmap when I get to it...

Oh, and the ground and water are still from the castle-creator - admittedly it's too linear for a river, I'll propably better look for a replacement.

 

Please give some feedback  . ( especially on the different camera views - and no, not all of them have DoF yet; also, I'm not sure as of which to use as entry... - maybe C30 and C27 ? )

(p.s.: Am currently re-rendering Camera 27, it seems it wasn't frozen, but just slowed down to a crawl...)

p.p.s: On the last 2 pics you can see my trouble with the "confetti" - at 0% progress (last pic) the renders sometimes look better then at 100% (second-last pic) - any idea why that is so?

 

[edit: Just put the non-reduced versions of the pics into the attachements.]

 

Thanks, @unLight865.  I used the fire and logs from "Around the Campfire" by Bluebird 3d. I did tweak it a bit. I needed to get light 360 degrees around the fire, so I took into a modeling software and duplicated the four planes with the fire texture and turned each new plane 180 degrees, After that, I plugged the fire texture into an emission node and adjusted the power until I got the look I wanted. The blurring of the fire is part DoF and part post work.

I agree with @DvoraszeniaStudios comments. Using the second picture, adding more to the village, and having the dragon coming in for an attack run on the troll would be awesome!

I think I'm pretty much happy with the lighting as is, might knock down the exposure that's about it. Thoughts?

Get rid of the confetti-effect, maybe?   ( Ok ok, I'm regularly having trouble with that, too )

Updated. @ewcarman, thank you for the great ideas!

Nice - which fire were you using and did you need to tweak it to look like this?

Some updates from me - no new buildings yet, but I made an (slightly unfinished) emission-map for the dragon, moved some water nearby, and added a ship (Drakkar) and a Troll (Troll for Genesis) onboard, as well as some lightning (Orestes Electromancy, non-Iray version)...

Also improved the fire by adding a more transparent geometry-shell - though I'd prefer a gradient-transmap when I get to it...

Oh, and the ground and water are still from the castle-creator - admittedly it's too linear for a river, I'll propably better look for a replacement.

Please give some feedback . ( especially on the different camera views - and no, not all of them have DoF yet; also, I'm not sure as of which to use as entry... - maybe C30 and C27 ? )

(p.s.: Am currently re-rendering Camera 27, it seems it wasn't frozen, but just slowed down to a crawl...)

Camera 30 :

Camera 30 again, with troll+boat :

Camera 27 :

Camera 33 :

Camera 36, rendering finished :

Camera 36 at the start of rendering :

p.p.s: On the last 2 pics you can see my trouble with the "confetti" - at 0% progress (last pic) the renders sometimes look better then at 100% (second-last pic) - any idea why that is so?

[edit: Just put the non-reduced versions of the pics into the attachements.]

[edit2: Made clear(er) which pictures I was referring to.]

A bald eagle flying thru what looks like the Grand Canyon with "In Remembrance" written on top... put out as a separe advert square on Sept. 11.... doesn't remind of Vicky 5 or 6 at all. 

It didn't remind you of Vicky 5 or 6. Obviously, it didn't trigger the same response in everybody.

Last weekend, DAZ put up a separate banner for the Extra 10% off if you bought 3 or more items. Throughout the 2 years I've been shopping at DAZ, it has been quite common to see a banner over the weekend for something different. Mega Fast Grab has been predominantly older items, so far, predating Genesis. It makes sense to make a big deal about putting thousands of Genesis and Genesis 2 products in the Mega Fast Grab. Otherwise, a significant number of customers may have not bothered to check that section of the sale, especially if nothing in the Debut or Still New sections hit them as a "must have, right now!" The words, "In Remembrance," may have been a nod to 9/11. Or not. Maybe with 9/11 on their minds, the words "felt" right, something completely subconcious. None of us know for sure.

But I'd bet my last purchase here that the folks at DAZ did not intend to offend anyone.

As for renders used in banners that don't represent what's for sale... Last year's PC+ sale got quite a few comments about using Orestes Cobwebs in a promo image for the day's special priced items when the product itself wasn't in that section. Look at the current banner image for Daz 3D Freebies. It's a render of Jack Tomalin's Balnea, a PC+ item released at the end of June. It wasn't even a PC+ members Freebie. And I'm sure others could chime in with banners and promo images they've seen that used items not part of the promotion. At the end of the day, it's all just art.

I got mclean stuff to create rooms and addons, aiko 7 orestes, archery stuf from i13 yesterday the planets aligned and spended heheheeh, I'm waiting for V3Digitimes and valzheimer for my last blow and maybe zev0 but well, im just able to make on more hit on my wallet hahahaha

In my first use of this, I mixed it up with the new Iray version of Orestes Electromancy. The result can be found in Llola Lane's Story Telling Thread where I wrote a little story to go with the render.

Other than the always awesome Orestes' new Electromancy which was quickly put to good use, I went on a Faveral frenzy. I don't know how many times I edited my shopping cart to get it to an affordable size. But I walked away a happy shopper. :)

I'm still in the process. And if I remove the Village Bundle and Medieval Dock, bringing the cart under $20 so I can be sure and grab Aiko 7 today, will those Faveral items be in Mega Fast Grab tomorrow? Will I kick myself if I don't get them today? And if I do buy them today, will I be able to afford to get something else tomorrow? (Must save some of the budget for Zev0/Draagonstorm's Brow Remover...)

I'm reminded of an oft repeated line in the 13 episode tv series, Daybreak... "Decision. Consequence."

Arrrgh!

I think you need to assume the Mega Fast Grab will have changed tomorrow - not many things have stayed in more than one day (except the Terradome 1 and 2 bits). You may be lucky and Faveral is having another day in there, but I'd bet not. (He'll still be in the 40% PA list though - they seem to stay for three days.) And you might lose the extra 10% - those "holiday-weekend" sales often include Monday as well, but who knows???

Not that I'm trying to persuade you to break your budget though! (Zev's latest will probably be a must-have)

Oh, no. Of course, not... But I bought the whole sheebang. And if hubby takes me to task on it, I'm going to blame it all on you!

(Thanks for being my scape goat...)

Other than the always awesome Orestes' new Electromancy which was quickly put to good use, I went on a Faveral frenzy. I don't know how many times I edited my shopping cart to get it to an affordable size. But I walked away a happy shopper. :)

I'm still in the process. And if I remove the Village Bundle and Medieval Dock, bringing the cart under $20 so I can be sure and grab Aiko 7 today, will those Faveral items be in Mega Fast Grab tomorrow? Will I kick myself if I don't get them today? And if I do buy them today, will I be able to afford to get something else tomorrow? (Must save some of the budget for Zev0/Draagonstorm's Brow Remover...)

I'm reminded of an oft repeated line in the 13 episode tv series, Daybreak... "Decision. Consequence."

Arrrgh!

I think you need to assume the Mega Fast Grab will have changed tomorrow - not many things have stayed in more than one day (except the Terradome 1 and 2 bits). You may be lucky and Faveral is having another day in there, but I'd bet not. (He'll still be in the 40% PA list though - they seem to stay for three days.) And you might lose the extra 10% - those "holiday-weekend" sales often include Monday as well, but who knows???

Not that I'm trying to persuade you to break your budget though! (Zev's latest will probably be a must-have)

Oh, no. Of course, not... But I bought the whole sheebang. And if hubby takes me to task on it, I'm going to blame it all on you!

(Thanks for being my scape goat...)

Other than the always awesome Orestes' new Electromancy which was quickly put to good use, I went on a Faveral frenzy. I don't know how many times I edited my shopping cart to get it to an affordable size. But I walked away a happy shopper. :)

I'm still in the process. And if I remove the Village Bundle and Medieval Dock, bringing the cart under $20 so I can be sure and grab Aiko 7 today, will those Faveral items be in Mega Fast Grab tomorrow? Will I kick myself if I don't get them today? And if I do buy them today, will I be able to afford to get something else tomorrow? (Must save some of the budget for Zev0/Draagonstorm's Brow Remover...)

I'm reminded of an oft repeated line in the 13 episode tv series, Daybreak... "Decision. Consequence."

Arrrgh!

I think you need to assume the Mega Fast Grab will have changed tomorrow - not many things have stayed in more than one day (except the Terradome 1 and 2 bits). You may be lucky and Faveral is having another day in there, but I'd bet not. (He'll still be in the 40% PA list though - they seem to stay for three days.) And you might lose the extra 10% - those "holiday-weekend" sales often include Monday as well, but who knows???

Not that I'm trying to persuade you to break your budget though! (Zev's latest will probably be a must-have)

Other than the always awesome Orestes' new Electromancy which was quickly put to good use, I went on a Faveral frenzy. I don't know how many times I edited my shopping cart to get it to an affordable size. But I walked away a happy shopper. :)

I'm still in the process. And if I remove the Village Bundle and Medieval Dock, bringing the cart under $20 so I can be sure and grab Aiko 7 today, will those Faveral items be in Mega Fast Grab tomorrow? Will I kick myself if I don't get them today? And if I do buy them today, will I be able to afford to get something else tomorrow? (Must save some of the budget for Zev0/Draagonstorm's Brow Remover...)

I'm reminded of an oft repeated line in the 13 episode tv series, Daybreak... "Decision. Consequence."

Arrrgh!

I picked up mostly crypt and Orestes stuff this go around. I suspect I will have to have Sarge explore a tomb to justify the expense! 

I did break my vow of no more females by buying MRL Isabis since she is lovely with dark skin- AND includes a cybernetic implant. I will buy cybernetic implants most of the time. I always use and need them.

I have been messing around with the IDG Iray FX ribbons. I think they are great! 

Yesteray was a big day for me, since they released a ton of nice sci-fi environments.

Aiko 7, for $1.08, after applying the PC coupon...

And Orestes Electromany, and IDG's Ribbons and Sprites!

Winners are:

1st. Downtown by veeters2002

2nd. Deploys Glue to Get It Back! by Defenistrat

HM. I Told You You'd Shoot Your Eye Out! by Holloko

Congratulations to the winners and a job well done by everyone. Winners will need to contact me by PM and give me a link to the pack you would like from OrestesGraphics

Orestes seems to hiccup - some things are 79% http://www.daz3d.com/orestes-graphics

Not a hiccup, those are the ones in mega fastgrab, and with the way things are stacking those can go to 91% off!