secret lab

interior

secret devices

carrara assemble room

 

great work to see an error has occured 

does that sound right?...  

Gingerbread man update.

I've rigged the Gingerbrad Man in Studio, created a couple morphs, and have created conforming decorations.  A morph can make him smile.  I've posted a link in the Freebie Forum.

Not feeling good about trying to share this figure.  Still experimenting with a new workflow so I'm not confident that all the correct files are in all the correct places, etc.  Let me know if there are problems.

the ginger bread man!

awesome stuff @Diomede .... does one of the morphs have his head bitten off? yummo... I have ginger twice a day 

got off my butt - well I got off the tread mill actually - here's old faithful freak in his old faithful tutu "Ladies Night."

Up to the viewer to decide the narrative.

attached also unpostworked 

apart from the usual I used PhilW's portrait pack for the central freak - then adjusted his arms

 

 

 

 

the Freak needs a three three rather than a tutu ... fun render 

got off my butt - well I got off the tread mill actually - here's old faithful freak in his old faithful tutu "Ladies Night."

Up to the viewer to decide the narrative.

attached also unpostworked 

apart from the usual I used PhilW's portrait pack for the central freak - then adjusted his arms

The dreaded curse of the pink tutu - excellent !!

+1 - instant classic

got off my butt - well I got off the tread mill actually - here's old faithful freak in his old faithful tutu "Ladies Night."

Up to the viewer to decide the narrative.

attached also unpostworked 

apart from the usual I used PhilW's portrait pack for the central freak - then adjusted his arms

 

 

 

 

The dreaded curse of the pink tutu - excellent !!

got off my butt - well I got off the tread mill actually - here's old faithful freak in his old faithful tutu "Ladies Night."

Up to the viewer to decide the narrative.

attached also unpostworked 

apart from the usual I used PhilW's portrait pack for the central freak - then adjusted his arms

Thanks, Wolf! Yes, my new system and workflow should allow me to explore the Genesis characters--certainly a lot going on there. For now, V4/M4 works pretty well for me, if only for the great Xurge outfits that haven't been updated to Genesis. I also don't want my characters to look too realistic, so V4/M4's more stylized look is still fine.

Great breakdown of the 3 lip sync options (and thanks for the shout-out!). I think for now I will stick with Mimic Pro--it actually works quite well on my new Windows 10 PC--but I'll keep my eye out for something new for the future.

Speaking of animation advice, maybe we (few) Daz animators should start an ongoing Animation thread that we update with links, tips, and renders etc. so we--and any aspiring animators--have a central place to go for tips and advice and to share work, kind of like you see in the "Star trek Builders Unite" threads. I recently searched the word "animators" on the Daz Forums and came across a discussion where people were asking why Daz advertisements even bother to show animation since "it can't be done" with Daz! I think it would be in our best interests to show this is not true, if only to out of self-interest of making sure Daz knows people do use the animation tools, and would like to see more.

Are you sure you have loaded 3DL materials or are you possibly using IRay presets? How are you lighting your scene?

The Mats are Base mats, its a very old V4 Charactor I've used for some time; the lighting for this scene was default lights in basic 3Point lighting array. Which has previously no problem for the 3DL engine, I used 2 Lights together to create a central fill with a very wide spread angle. Nothing special about the set really; but thats whats confusing. I've done a good many scenes like this over the years; not sure why these seams have lately become an issue.

 

Just to be clear...is the one on the left an OpenGL render or what do you mean by basic engine? In the 3DL render on the right, are the only lights in the scene 3 DS standard spotlights? What is the shadow softness? Are you using shadow mapping or raytraced shadows? Is the skin a poser mat converted to the DS default shader, or something else? Did you upgrade DS or anything else recently? Need more info to be able to help:)

One more thing...did you change your rendersettings by mistake, or load a scene that altered something in there, like shading rate?

Are you sure you have loaded 3DL materials or are you possibly using IRay presets? How are you lighting your scene?

The Mats are Base mats, its a very old V4 Charactor I've used for some time; the lighting for this scene was default lights in basic 3Point lighting array. Which has previously no problem for the 3DL engine, I used 2 Lights together to create a central fill with a very wide spread angle. Nothing special about the set really; but thats whats confusing. I've done a good many scenes like this over the years; not sure why these seams have lately become an issue.

I've heard the temps in Northern California are nice year round.

...if you are referring to Humboldt County (Eureka/Arcata) and the Redwoods area, yeah it is more like Oregon and not quite as expensive as the big cities further to the south, No risk of snow and ice either. Thought about that, but then I'd have to live a year there without the supplemental support I get here until I gained residency. 

Getting there is a pain though as Running Dog abandoned their direct Oregon/California coastal route (no connections) so you have to connect first in Sacramento and then Oakland before heading back north.  Sad as the old route was one of the few actually nice bus rides I've been on (used to attend the Eureka Kite Festival every year) because it travelled along the central and southern Oregon coast and through part of Redwood country when it got into California.

He has two part PDF that's pretty good too.  Part of tut?

Forgot about modeling room & export as .obj from Carrara.  Been meaning to get back to that one.  (Disk crash had me wiped out for a while.)

Anyway, enjoy your stay in Maine.  Probably a bit cooler than central Texas right now! 

The Maya were some of the greatest builders in pre-columbian Central America, but as far as I know, they didn't use DAZ Studio... they made great looking pyramids and stuff, but I'm not sure if they even had computers... They might have used Bryce because that's really old, but I'm pretty sure DAZ Studio has only been around since 1892 or something like that... or maybe the early 2000s.

EDITED TO CORRECT- Oh, sorry, you meant Autodesk's "Maya" software, not the Maya empire... I looked it up though and I was sort of right... but it was the Inca that used Bryce...

The Maya were some of the greatest builders in pre-columbian Central America, but as far as I know, they didn't use DAZ Studio... they made great looking pyramids and stuff, but I'm not sure if they even had computers... They might have used Bryce because that's really old, but I'm pretty sure DAZ Studio has only been around since 1892 or something like that... or maybe the early 2000s.

EDITED TO CORRECT- Oh, sorry, you meant Autodesk's "Maya" software, not the Maya empire... I looked it up though and I was sort of right... but it was the Inca that used Bryce...

Semi-complaint:  I just figured out my last two problems with the front panel do-dads and how they connect to my new motherboard.  Yay!

I was stuck with being sure the basic front panel do-dads (power switch, power LED, disk activity LED, and reset switch) were connected correctly.  Research on the Internet talked about the connections not being standard among motherboard manufacturers.  Question was... is my old HP case's do-dads connector compatible with my new ASUS motherboard connector?  Size was the same, keying was the same, and after some very careful inspection involving bright lights, and powerful magnifying glasses, and peering through a forest of cables I was able to find the teeny-tiny diagram on the ASUS motherboard that does indeed correspond with the pin layout for the old HP motherboard.  Yay!  Connected!

But the bad news is that I have to give up on finding a place for my frontpanel Firewire socket to plug into my new motherboard.  Aparently the old HP motherboard had a special IEEE-1394 socket(pink) into which the frontpanel Firewire cable connector(pink) would connect.  Diligent searching of my motherboard manual does not reveal any IEEE-1394 compatability.  Research on the Internet seems to indicate that despite USB and IEEE-1394 being similar it wouldn't be fully compatible.  However, this is a moot point because after connecting the two frontpanel USB sockets and the frontpanel SD (and other memory type sockets) into a USB connector on the motherboard I'm out of USB sockets on the motherboard.  And besides I only have one Firewire device (an old external hard drive) which also has a USB connector that can be used instead.  So, no biggie.

Time to close up shop for the night and finish watching Sherlock Holmes.  No more work on the new computer until Monday.

Firewire is dead.  I say this having a Firewire audio interface.  I dread my next motherboard upgrade.  But at the same time, I'm feeling a tinge of "good riddance" as well.

I just got back from JFK airport and I was really amazed that the parking facility for terminal 2 actually has a stronger urine smell than the lower levels of Grand Central Station in the mid 80s... but the odd thing was it's not a eastern queens urine smell as one would expect, it more of a Battery Park pee bouquet... maybe it was because of the rain or the high number of Uber drivers peeing there... I guess that's one of those mysteries I'll have to just guess at.

It's not the Uber drivers.  It's probably the Uber passengers!

do plains, l empty the pee tank on the tracks?

was   on a cross country amtrak trip, they literally dump the pee on the tracks. is why they say not to potty while at the station

 

Referencing material at a site called tardisbuilders.com, I've improved the proportions and scale of my old Tom Baker console Poser based prop. I also took the opportunity to modify the mapping. When I released it around 2004, the UVs for the readout display were upside down, meaning any graphic had to be spun 180 degrees to properly display. I could have left it at that one correction, but I wound up tweaking just about every surface, spending several hours Saturday and Sunday doing so.
I also corrected the height of the hat stand (can't recall where I got it) and I adjusted the size of a rigged K-9 figure (by Dodger) to have a 30 inch length base. Funny enough, I did NOT have to resize CastIronFlamingo's control room. The builder's forum reveal the main entrance doors stand 84 inches (7 feet) and they were already that height.
The big divergence from the real life set is the inclusion of the suspended hexagon array. That was an element from the early Hartnell serials, but was eventually discarded. The geometry came from a model my Richard Marklew. And the central column is one Aldemp made specifically to replace the admittedly mediocre one I originally supplied with my prop.
Oh, we are looking through the main entrance framed by the distinctive zigzag doorway. The overall arrangement is inspired (meaning I've acknowledged some "liberties") by the layout of Tom Baker's final year and Peter Davison's first.
Sincerely,
Bill

i love it bill , any chance i can obtain a copy

I want to clone and rotate a brushed metal texture I created for the console and then I will share it with you.

Sincerely,

Bill

Semi-complaint:  I just figured out my last two problems with the front panel do-dads and how they connect to my new motherboard.  Yay!

I was stuck with being sure the basic front panel do-dads (power switch, power LED, disk activity LED, and reset switch) were connected correctly.  Research on the Internet talked about the connections not being standard among motherboard manufacturers.  Question was... is my old HP case's do-dads connector compatible with my new ASUS motherboard connector?  Size was the same, keying was the same, and after some very careful inspection involving bright lights, and powerful magnifying glasses, and peering through a forest of cables I was able to find the teeny-tiny diagram on the ASUS motherboard that does indeed correspond with the pin layout for the old HP motherboard.  Yay!  Connected!

But the bad news is that I have to give up on finding a place for my frontpanel Firewire socket to plug into my new motherboard.  Aparently the old HP motherboard had a special IEEE-1394 socket(pink) into which the frontpanel Firewire cable connector(pink) would connect.  Diligent searching of my motherboard manual does not reveal any IEEE-1394 compatability.  Research on the Internet seems to indicate that despite USB and IEEE-1394 being similar it wouldn't be fully compatible.  However, this is a moot point because after connecting the two frontpanel USB sockets and the frontpanel SD (and other memory type sockets) into a USB connector on the motherboard I'm out of USB sockets on the motherboard.  And besides I only have one Firewire device (an old external hard drive) which also has a USB connector that can be used instead.  So, no biggie.

Time to close up shop for the night and finish watching Sherlock Holmes.  No more work on the new computer until Monday.

Firewire is dead.  I say this having a Firewire audio interface.  I dread my next motherboard upgrade.  But at the same time, I'm feeling a tinge of "good riddance" as well.

I just got back from JFK airport and I was really amazed that the parking facility for terminal 2 actually has a stronger urine smell than the lower levels of Grand Central Station in the mid 80s... but the odd thing was it's not a eastern queens urine smell as one would expect, it more of a Battery Park pee bouquet... maybe it was because of the rain or the high number of Uber drivers peeing there... I guess that's one of those mysteries I'll have to just guess at.

It's not the Uber drivers.  It's probably the Uber passengers!

I just got back from JFK airport and I was really amazed that the parking facility for terminal 2 actually has a stronger urine smell than the lower levels of Grand Central Station in the mid 80s... but the odd thing was it's not a eastern queens urine smell as one would expect, it more of a Battery Park pee bouquet... maybe it was because of the rain or the high number of Uber drivers peeing there... I guess that's one of those mysteries I'll have to just guess at.

Referencing material at a site called tardisbuilders.com, I've improved the proportions and scale of my old Tom Baker console Poser based prop. I also took the opportunity to modify the mapping. When I released it around 2004, the UVs for the readout display were upside down, meaning any graphic had to be spun 180 degrees to properly display. I could have left it at that one correction, but I wound up tweaking just about every surface, spending several hours Saturday and Sunday doing so.
I also corrected the height of the hat stand (can't recall where I got it) and I adjusted the size of a rigged K-9 figure (by Dodger) to have a 30 inch length base. Funny enough, I did NOT have to resize CastIronFlamingo's control room. The builder's forum reveal the main entrance doors stand 84 inches (7 feet) and they were already that height.
The big divergence from the real life set is the inclusion of the suspended hexagon array. That was an element from the early Hartnell serials, but was eventually discarded. The geometry came from a model my Richard Marklew. And the central column is one Aldemp made specifically to replace the admittedly mediocre one I originally supplied with my prop.
Oh, we are looking through the main entrance framed by the distinctive zigzag doorway. The overall arrangement is inspired (meaning I've acknowledged some "liberties") by the layout of Tom Baker's final year and Peter Davison's first.
Sincerely,
Bill

i love it bill , any chance i can obtain a copy

@Griffin_Avid I wanted to say thanks for your advice yesterday, I've been thinking some more about what you said and there is a lot of truth with this keeping oneself busy with a scene that isn't all that central and could be handled in a much more compact form. I guess it's somethign I stumble over time and again and then wonder why some streches are just a bit boring and longwinded. Good thing to keep in mind!

To everybody on the webinar yesterday:  thanks a lot that was a lot of great info!

It shouldn't take 2 1/2 hours for propagation.

The newest non-today are okay but go back a couple weeks and it's base price all the way.

Some flag or time passed level parameter wasn't set right.

No. It shouldn't.

But I can remember a couple years ago when it took about 15 minutes, after Daz Midnight, for the sales changeover to complete. (I'm in Oregon, USA.) That has been steadily getting worse. Now, without a big sale like the PA Festival, it's taking more than an hour. Maybe you're right and something wasn't set right this time. But I can't believe the steady increase in time between Daz Midnight and the changes showing up on the West Coast is caused by something Daz did or didn't do.

I'm seeing the same thing. I'm in Central European Time (DAZ-time +8), and it used to be that the store had switched by 08:15, slightly later on the PC+ day. These days, 08:15 still happens, but rarely, and it's quite often that the new items aren't even visible before 08:30, and prices may take another hour after that to settle.

Whatever the cause, it's playing havoc with my morning routine LOL

Saaaaame! XD

It shouldn't take 2 1/2 hours for propagation.

The newest non-today are okay but go back a couple weeks and it's base price all the way.

Some flag or time passed level parameter wasn't set right.

No. It shouldn't.

But I can remember a couple years ago when it took about 15 minutes, after Daz Midnight, for the sales changeover to complete. (I'm in Oregon, USA.) That has been steadily getting worse. Now, without a big sale like the PA Festival, it's taking more than an hour. Maybe you're right and something wasn't set right this time. But I can't believe the steady increase in time between Daz Midnight and the changes showing up on the West Coast is caused by something Daz did or didn't do.

I'm seeing the same thing. I'm in Central European Time (DAZ-time +8), and it used to be that the store had switched by 08:15, slightly later on the PC+ day. These days, 08:15 still happens, but rarely, and it's quite often that the new items aren't even visible before 08:30, and prices may take another hour after that to settle.

Whatever the cause, it's playing havoc with my morning routine LOL

Guess what, L'Adair... the shrubs don't turn. Or they do, but... several shrubs are the same object, so they turn on a central axis. Instead I pulled the stairs back a little, so more of the top step is clear of the branch. Ryan is scratching his chin, wondering what he's seeing. He's too daft to be properly scared, though. Now the stairs are pretty much the only thing in focus, he he.

@TigerAnne, I like the changes. They are pretty subtle, but I think it works. I actually noticed there's water behind the stairs with the stronger DOF effect! Ryan closer to the front of the image, and his body language saying he's not so sure about what he's seeing definitely looks better to me, as does the additional blur of the trees in the background.

But what do you think? It's your vision, after all.

(I have a number of sets that treat multiple trees, and other props, as a single object. I'm not a fan of that "feature", now that I' have more experience with DS. There is a work around, though. I'll have to do a mini-tut in the Kitchen, one that's long overdue, I think. I'll let you know when I post it, if you'd like.)