Congratulations, it looks great in the store! Think about starting  a new thread in the commercial area,  so customers have an official and central place to reach you for questions. Also, consider updating your signature with a link to your new product in the store. Thanks for letting me be a beta tester!

...uh oh, just when I thought the rest of the summer would be like it has been the last several weeks (mid 70s to mid 80s) things are about to really heat up with 3 days of 100+ temps (Wednesday's high is supposed to be 107 which would tie the all time historic record for Portland). Now I really wish I was in my new place as it has central AC.

Thanks, there was a lot of people and running kids, plus people on boats as well , it is middle of the season in New York City the most busy time for turists , I tried to use overlapping techniques that works fantastic on regular jpg panorama but with HDRI too much ghosting that need to be cleaned up after pixel by pixel and this last one was the worse to do that but so beautiful after , if not the buildings in the back it almost looks like 7 lakes  NY , I also shot some streets in the busy time on the way back and on the Upper West side where you walk by apartments of Robert de Niro or Denzel Washington , I came across an American actress Amy Smart , she just left an apartment going to Central Park while I was shoting the street , I was like, "hey I know you", she was like "They found Me " lol 

Here some more dragons in Central Park after cleaning out the people in the HDRI and was a lot of them on land and water walking in cycles .. well Tourists 

btw this great lake in Central Park have huge collection of water turtles all around waiting for food, but also raccoons waiting to take a picture after you give them some sneak  lol everyone profit but sadly for me it was a night mare to take the shots .

Ironically if you had an actual Dragon with you at the time then you wouldn't have to worry about Tourists or Raccoons at all....... mind you the Police might have wanted to talk to you!  LOL  Still you've done an amazing job removing the people, I honestly wouldn't have thought there was any at all if you hadn't said you needed to clean them out.  Beautiful work as always.  

 

Here some more dragons in Central Park after cleaning out the people in the HDRI and was a lot of them on land and water walking in cycles .. well Tourists 

btw this great lake in Central Park have huge collection of water turtles all around waiting for food, but also raccoons waiting to take a picture after you give them some sneak  lol everyone profit but sadly for me it was a night mare to take the shots .

Ironically if you had an actual Dragon with you at the time then you wouldn't have to worry about Tourists or Raccoons at all....... mind you the Police might have wanted to talk to you!  LOL  Still you've done an amazing job removing the people, I honestly wouldn't have thought there was any at all if you hadn't said you needed to clean them out.  Beautiful work as always.  

+1

 

Here some more dragons in Central Park after cleaning out the people in the HDRI and was a lot of them on land and water walking in cycles .. well Tourists 

btw this great lake in Central Park have huge collection of water turtles all around waiting for food, but also raccoons waiting to take a picture after you give them some sneak  lol everyone profit but sadly for me it was a night mare to take the shots .

Ironically if you had an actual Dragon with you at the time then you wouldn't have to worry about Tourists or Raccoons at all....... mind you the Police might have wanted to talk to you!  LOL  Still you've done an amazing job removing the people, I honestly wouldn't have thought there was any at all if you hadn't said you needed to clean them out.  Beautiful work as always.  

Here some more dragons in Central Park after cleaning out the people in the HDRI and was a lot of them on land and water walking in cycles .. well Tourists 

btw this great lake in Central Park have huge collection of water turtles all around waiting for food, but also raccoons waiting to take a picture after you give them some sneak  lol everyone profit but sadly for me it was a night mare to take the shots .

In production HDRI Central Park NYC , some quick tests. 

 

So I have two renders I can't decide between now. The first is the first one I made and I'm done fiddling with it for now until I figure out what else I want to do to it. The other is one I made and showed to my DeviantArt first because I couldn't decide if I wanted to enter it or not. Finally decided I'll just post both and see which one looks best here. Did some custom texture work for a birthmark on the new one to make my friend's description of her character:

Care for a Drink?

 

Shadowed Killer

I like both works you present here and I like how different you approachd the topic with them.

Let me start with the dark one. Nice use of a spot in darkness theme and it suits the character. Still I think your character would win with a touch of backlight pushin his putlines a bit

With the other one you went a bit too monochrome with the tones and the light. You have a niceh use of DOF and thw overall lighting on the character seems nice, but I would like to see him set off the backwall a bit more ( darken the backwall / reduce the light hitting the backwall there are always several options)

Yeah that wall has been pissing me off this whole time. XP What would you suggest for a better way to make the central figure pop against it? Maybe change it to a dark mahogany wood or just darker stone or just fiddle with the lights some more?

 

Looking back at what I've written, I'm surprised you could even read that with all the typos...;)

First thing I would do is check the lights, I assume you use iray? What kind of illumiation do you have, is is possible to reduce the spread angle? Tilt the direction or move it a tad foreward? Can you just put up a plane out of sight blocking the light from hitting the back wall?

If all that is not working because of the sort of light setup you use, I would go to the backwall surface and turn the diffuse colour to a medium grey and see what it looks like. If you like the tone but not the appearance the next step would be a different shader like you suggested.

 

So I have two renders I can't decide between now. The first is the first one I made and I'm done fiddling with it for now until I figure out what else I want to do to it. The other is one I made and showed to my DeviantArt first because I couldn't decide if I wanted to enter it or not. Finally decided I'll just post both and see which one looks best here. Did some custom texture work for a birthmark on the new one to make my friend's description of her character:

Care for a Drink?

 

Shadowed Killer

I like both works you present here and I like how different you approachd the topic with them.

Let me start with the dark one. Nice use of a spot in darkness theme and it suits the character. Still I think your character would win with a touch of backlight pushin his putlines a bit

With the other one you went a bit too monochrome with the tones and the light. You have a niceh use of DOF and thw overall lighting on the character seems nice, but I would like to see him set off the backwall a bit more ( darken the backwall / reduce the light hitting the backwall there are always several options)

Yeah that wall has been pissing me off this whole time. XP What would you suggest for a better way to make the central figure pop against it? Maybe change it to a dark mahogany wood or just darker stone or just fiddle with the lights some more?

 

 

An interesting thing happened.  I noticed that Daz imports FBX files.  So in Cinema 4D, I exported my model in an FBX format and here's where its interesting...  Daz imported the model without textures but it imported each polygon individually.  It even imported the HyperNurbs nomenclature from the Cinema 4D object manager.  Expected Daz to explode or form a hole in the space time continuum.  But all seems well.  This at least provides me a workaround since I can redo the model to put the textures in exactly how I want.  (And I'm about 70 percent certain the only reason its not exporting my textures is because of the noob folder system I'm using where I pull all my textures from a central repository.)

The import process seems really detailed and from what i understand it can import animation and rigging from Daz to Cinema 4D so there's the distant possibility of doing my animated rendering in Cinema 4D's renderer.

The big question now is, why isn't everyone doing it? Why is anyone with any of the major 3d suites even messing with .obj files at all?  What little poop from heaven is about to descend upon me?   

 

@th3Digit be carefull not to get the PC wet when doing that!           

One of Phillip Drawbridge's Star Ship (Deep Space Heavy Cruiser) and mmoir's BMF Landscape Pack

Here is the same ship sunken to the ocean floor

and this is a whole city I made using the Distant City Background distance preset for the above mmoir BMF Landscape Pack. It loads back in the distance but when I looked at it up close, I decided to try it out as a central city environment... looks cool!

I started out making a concept ( well a first one) for a possible story I got in mind, just trying to get a hang of the character and the settings first ( and then I wonder if I got the long breath to go through with it.

So here is my first and central character and a rough idea of the environment. Not very finetuned render but it should be enough for this, Iray, no postwork. The character ia a mingel mangel from several g3f and some dialspinning plus  lunaskin that wnet through skinbuilder3

Yay an upcoming story from Linwelly!! Please please please =)

The render looks awesome, can't exactly make out what she's doing though? Climbing out or going in? Or *River Song voice* "spoilerzz"?

As I understand it Windows 10S is designed as a reply to Chromebooks, hoping to regain lost ground in education and perhaps in other markets where simple computers accessing a central server have made inroads.

This is how I'm seeing Win10S as well.  I'm a network admin for company with offices in multiple countries, as well as multiple call centers.  We are constantly fighting against users installing unapproved crapware on our systems (there's a balance between how tightly you lock a machine down yet not have to spend all of your time at said machine unlocking things that are necccessary but were blocked by the security rules, our company policy is to err on being more permissive so we don't have to spend as much of our time holding the users hand).  It would definitely be nice to have an OS we can roll out and not have to worry about.  Unfortunately, it won't really work for us right now, we do have programs that we have to use that are not, and probably will never be, part of the UWP.  Although, come to think of it, we could use this right now at the conventions we put on for our associates where we have to supply computers for them to use to access our website and it's apps.  This would definitely simplify setup for those.

As I understand it Windows 10S is designed as a reply to Chromebooks, hoping to regain lost ground in education and perhaps in other markets where simple computers accessing a central server have made inroads.

I forgot Linwelly, do you run a hi-speed NVIDIA GPU or do you follow in the steps of those courageous people like Chanteur and use the CPU for Iray?

Since last christmas I am the happy owner of a NVIDIA GTX 1060. So not the biggest and fastest around but it is very comfortable. I couldn't bring myself to use Iray much when I was still on CPU only, as I'm not the most patient person around...

I'll need to remember that. Somehow you don't strike me as "not the most patient person", quite the other way. =)

Great renders, as usual =)

One nitpick: there are splashes underneath the bench as well. But I guess it's a limitation of that rain product?

Lol, yes that eloped my attention, with some adjusting and postioning I could have avoided that but well there is is now :)

I started out making a concept ( well a first one) for a possible story I got in mind, just trying to get a hang of the character and the settings first ( and then I wonder if I got the long breath to go through with it.

So here is my first and central character and a rough idea of the environment. Not very finetuned render but it should be enough for this, Iray, no postwork. The character ia a mingel mangel from several g3f and some dialspinning plus  lunaskin that wnet through skinbuilder3

Hi All,

I've almost finished a city park set that I'll submit to DAZ for sale. Willow Park itself is a roughly 60x30m trapezoid, with willow trees, grassy areas, sidewalks, benches, street lamps, trash cans, and a central statue. It's bordered by three streets and a river -- with one street extending over the river via a stone bridge -- and surrounded by seven building facades. Each building facade has both default low-res texture maps and optional high-res maps for shots where that building is in-frame, in-focus, and close enough to see texture details.

The total ground plane is about 120x80m. I tried to place the buildings and trees to block distant sightlines, but many camera angles still show an edge of the ground plane, and the sky goes all the way down to the horizon. So I'd like to find (or create) a skydome with buildings in the middle-distance (beyond the ground plane) out to the horizon, so it looks as if the park is in a larger city. If DAZ has such a product, I can use that for my promo renders and cite it in the promo text. If DAZ doesn't, I'll need to make my own.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,

CrissieB

When I lived in Florida, I lived on the central east coast in Melbourne.  I often made motorcycle trips to Orlando in the center of Florida about 65 miles away.  The road between Melbourne and Orlando (US-192) goes  east-west through river plains, swamps and cattle ranges all dead flat and unpeopled for about 50 of those miles.  On the nights coming back from Orlando and still about 30 miles away from Melbourne I could see the glow of the coastal cities from Cocoa Beach 20 miles north of Melbourne to Palm Bay 20 miles south of Melbourne.  The sky directly overhead was pretty dark and starry but the eastern horizon was obscured by the glow of the unbroken line of coastal cities.  And of course behind me the lights of the Orlando metropolitan area obscured the western horizon. 

Unfortunately, in Florida it's often so humid and dewey at night that the stars are sometimes dimmed out by the moisture in the air.  Although sometimes overhead out in the swamps, or standing on the beach looking east out over the Atlantic ocean on dry nights they are amazing.

I was waiting for a gift card offer and the other day one came along, so to trigger it I got Wild Arums - A wild flower bundle for Daz Studio. I combined it with grass and weeds from G3D-DA Grass and Plant Pack and a tree trunk from Dark Trees Pack 1.  The central white and red flowers are from wild arums while the surrounding foliage and the fallen tree are from the grass and plant pack. Here are two  IRay renders, the first without DOF and the second with DOF. The sets combine together nicely and give a nice lush setting.

  

...I've had requests for my Leela character but I have similar feelings about releasing her or even the settings I use, considering I have been developing and refining her over several years from Gen 4 (when there were no teen characters) to the current G2 version.

She is also the central character for a story I am working on.

I take it thats your Avatar? Thought she was from that Disney movie a few years back, but quite cute. : )

 

...actually my Icon is Merida from the film Brave.

This is Leela (G3 version)