TAG:MelanieL#2

Market Gardening

Their new villa delighted the members of the Threapworth family in many ways:
Mistress Threapworth was delighted with the central location and convenient local shopping.
Master Threapworth was delighted with the promise of a good income from the attached market garden.
Their daughter Cassie was delighted with the rather fit young men who worked there.

MelanieL said:

And my Pull #2:
418 = Medieval Bundle 1 (= Medieval Tavern, Medieval Market, Medieval City)
1109 = Garden of Galahad
29 = Hiro 4 Realistic Textures
1981 = Regency Cottage

Hmm, another excess of buildings!

TAG:MelanieL#2

Market Gardening

Their new villa delighted the members of the Threapworth family in many ways:
Mistress Threapworth was delighted with the central location and convenient local shopping.
Master Threapworth was delighted with the promise of a good income from the attached market garden.
Their daughter Cassie was delighted with the rather fit young men who worked there.

Also Used:
Gardeners (Hiro 4 Realistic shape) - Glyn Hair, Cuffed Tail Hair, Gabriel Hair, Slicer (pants), Lord of Battles (tunic)
Spades and forks - Potting Shed and Tools
Girl at the Cottage - FW Cassie, Xylia Double French Braids 2, Sighni Dress with Adal texture, Medieval Fantasy Accessories
Market Folk - Lorenzo LoRez, Loretta LoRez, Dress for Loretta LoRez (ShareCG freebie by illkirch)
Advanced Ambient Light, Advanced Distant Light

Bunyip02 said:

evilproducer said:

So, here's what I've come up with. I have two angles that I like, but I haven't decided which one I will enter. Any feedback would be appreciated. Both are raw renders.

Hello EP

I like the set-out of the second picture.
Is it possible to add just a bit/fraction of texture to the snow in the foreground ?
Don't know if it will make it look "wrong" or if it will give it a "wow" factor but there's only one way to find out.

A question about the icicles (bearing in mind I have lived in a warmer environment for most of my life), should they be a fraction more translucent ? ( I assume there would be quite a difference between "deep-freeze-your walnuts off" weather and "spring-thaw" weather )

Also would the ferns near the base of the rocks look better with a slight coating of snow ?

Refer the attached photo for icicles ( photo by kconnors DSCFWINT00015.jpg - at morgueFile free photos )
kconnors has a number of photos that may be of help (especially if you are after textures for your shaders), also do a search for icicle as well as snow.
http://www.morguefile.com/archive#/?q=icicle&sort=pop&photo_lib=morgueFile
http://www.morguefile.com/archive#/?q=snow&sort=pop&photo_lib=morgueFile

Regards, Bunyip

The first thing I will point out, is that generally my goal is not hyper-realism, but rather a stylized realism.

Living in North-Central Wisconsin, I have life experience with most types of snow and ice in all different lighting conditions. I also have quite the library of photos of different snow events. I appreciate the time it took to get the references. The example image below shows ice buildup along the shore of Lake Superior. Lake ice is different than what you may get in other circumstances, however I have old-school, non digitized photos of run-off based ice flows from the Hidden Valleys area of Wisconsin that look very similar, less the chunks. You can see some similarities to the shader I made, except for the dirty streaks.

Regarding the ferns, a lot depends on the surface material, the type of snow, and a whole host of conditions related to time and place, so the ferns wouldn't necessarily be snow covered. They would be flexible enough to bend under the weight, creating a steep angle, and shedding the snow, then they would spring back. Of course, the heavier and wetter the snow, and the longer the dead plant has to endure the freeze thaw cycle, the more likely the plant would stay covered. In my image, the pine needles in the trees have captured and held onto the snow, which means it is the light and fluffy variety with large airy flakes. This is a cold, dry snow without much wind to break the flakes up as it falls vertically to the ground. More sheltered ferns would have little or no snow on them.

The mass of snow on the ground is fairly dense, so observable refraction wouldn't likely occur unless you were looking at a backlit drift, and then it would be a subsurface scattering look rather than a straight up refraction. If the snow is new enough and the angle is right, you will see sparkles from the top layer of snow flakes. Normally, on a cold, brightly lit day, the glare of reflected light from the snow washes out the sparkles and many details. Think snow blindness.

Another book cover featuring EE Eternal Sands ...

blurb:

The Gilded Empire: A magical empire so ancient it's name has been forgotten to the mist of time. Its citizens believe they are in their golden age, but already the rot is showing underneath the gold veneer.

The Mage Chronicles: A mage level healer, Mary is unprepared when the Council of Mages wants her to intervene in a border dispute in a distant part of the empire. What does she know of nobility or war? Not one to back down, she must confront the harsh realities of life outside the central core, a legion of unstoppable warriors and the ghosts of her own past.

Kyoto Kid said:

...strange storm. Lots of wind but no rain and actually stayed pretty clear over the city most of the day. Usually windstorms at this time of year are accompanied by heavy persistent rain. Seems the rain clouds have been unable to make it over the West Hills

Major gusts recorded, including 67 mph at at the airport, 71 mph in Newberg just southwest of the city, and 89 mph out on the central Oregon coast. So far no damage in the local neighbourhood though the lights have flickered a couple times. On the West side over 40,000 homes lost power, and the light rail tram has experienced service disruptions system wide due to power outages and debris on the tracks.

Wind still howling out there but should subside in a couple hours.

If the Wicked Witch of the West blows by, run for it! :ahhh:

Kyoto Kid said:

...strange storm. Lots of wind but no rain and actually stayed pretty clear over the city most of the day. Usually windstorms at this time of year are accompanied by heavy persistent rain. Seems the rain clouds have been unable to make it over the West Hills

Major gusts recorded, including 67 mph at at the airport, 71 mph in Newberg just southwest of the city, and 89 mph out on the central Oregon coast. So far no damage in the local neighbourhood though the lights have flickered a couple times. On the West side over 40,000 homes lost power, and the light rail tram has experienced service disruptions system wide due to power outages and debris on the tracks.

Wind still howling out there but should subside in a couple hours.

so that's where all the wind went :lol:

...strange storm. Lots of wind but no rain and actually stayed pretty clear over the city most of the day. Usually windstorms at this time of year are accompanied by heavy persistent rain. Seems the rain clouds have been unable to make it over the West Hills

Major gusts recorded, including 67 mph at at the airport, 71 mph in Newberg just southwest of the city, and 89 mph out on the central Oregon coast. So far no damage in the local neighbourhood though the lights have flickered a couple times. On the West side over 40,000 homes lost power, and the light rail tram has experienced service disruptions system wide due to power outages and debris on the tracks.

Wind still howling out there but should subside in a couple hours.

Pull #5
#744 Central Pump Station (#14968)
#2887 M43 Field Cap (Rendo)
#5711 Zaid (#12573)
#2882 M4 Tuxedo (#7992)
LB1 #808 CitizenX (#15745)
LB2 #3216 Morphing Booty Bag (Rendo)

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Misty Whisky said:

good for a giggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leSQsdnEUjk

michael row the boat ashore
fa la la la

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Another thing to keep in mind when posing is Gravity. When you look at how someone stands its all about distributing weight along an axis of gravity. Each stance will have a dominant foot which is holding the majority of the persons weight and from that point there will be a central axis leading through the body. If an arm is raised the rest of the body will need to adjust to compensate for the weight change. Keeping this in mind will help to add realism to creating poses.

Kyoto Kid said:

chohole said:

tjohn said:

chohole said:

tjohn said:

The power is off. Forty degrees outside, swiftly cooling inside.

40 degrees outside ................. Quite balmy then :coolsmirk:

Not when that becomes the temp inside. Electric is my only heat source. :)

Yes I was joking. I do know how you feel Temps here are hovering around the 32f mark, and although we have gas fired heating, if the electric goes then we still have none, as it needs the electric to work the thingummy that sends the heat round the central heating system.

...Swindon had freezing drizzle yesterday. Have the city faved on my weather site as a fair part of my story is set in the area.

We had hard rain earlier in the day up here in the South Wales Mountains., you know the sort of rain that makes piles instead of puddles. lol.

We are bout 3½ inches further west and an inch or so further north than Swindon according to the map I have (91½ miles by road)

chohole said:

tjohn said:

chohole said:

tjohn said:

The power is off. Forty degrees outside, swiftly cooling inside.

40 degrees outside ................. Quite balmy then :coolsmirk:

Not when that becomes the temp inside. Electric is my only heat source. :)

Yes I was joking. I do know how you feel Temps here are hovering around the 32f mark, and although we have gas fired heating, if the electric goes then we still have none, as it needs the electric to work the thingummy that sends the heat round the central heating system.

tjohn said:

chohole said:

tjohn said:

The power is off. Forty degrees outside, swiftly cooling inside.

40 degrees outside ................. Quite balmy then :coolsmirk:

Not when that becomes the temp inside. Electric is my only heat source. :)

Yes I was joking. I do know how you feel Temps here are hovering around the 32f mark, and although we have gas fired heating, if the electric goes then we still have none, as it needs the electric to work the thingummy that sends the heat round the central heating system.

Unless I'm mistaken, and I never am (completely daft, absolutely wrong and quite insane, but never mistaken)...
That appears to be a layout of most of the military border patrol routes of Uzbekistan (or as it's more formally known, Uzbekistanley).
The lines that crisscross the interior correspond to primary munitions supply routes and peak at several former Soviet mobile missile deployment zones... The area where the monitor termite has chosen to "take a 5 second break",is quite telling indeed...
This overlays with an area just outside of the airport near Tashkent, which was once home to one of the many secret experimental genetics labs that were once all the rage during the Soviet era.
That long squiggly line on the left lines right up with the rail line heading northwest from Zhaslyk into Kazakhstan (formerly known as Kazakhlarry during Soviet times)... It is rumored, that just before the fall of the Soviet Onion (as it was properly known), a group of mad scientists employed by the Soviets, smuggled a picnic basket full of mutant insect specimens out along that very rail line, they were supposed to meet up with a group of mad East German scientists for lunch at a darling little tea room in Shevchenko, but the mad Russians never showed up.
At the time it was believed that the Russians were either really badly lost or were attacked and eaten by the specimens they were carrying.
Wild theories abounded in the western intelligence communities...
One of the most popular involved the soviets experimenting with a type of communal wood louse that exhibited a form of rudimentary telekinesis, their DNA was combined with that of African Termites, Mexican Killer Bees, Giant Sumatran Praying Mantis, Humbolt Squid, Peruvian Mimic Beetles and for some unknown reason, Mick Jagger... It was rumored the resulting organism, while quite tiny and powerless on its own which was pretty much relegated to lurking around the the EM fields of electronic equipment, could at will summon and join with a swarm of millions of its brethren to form a deadly unstoppable biological killing machine hellbent on destroying humanity all while doing a neat compilation of Rolling Stones hits.
That rumor was widely scoffed at and quickly replaced with a rumor that, that rumor was actual a rumor itself, based on a rumor about a rumor of another rumor, which actually was based on a fib created to deflect suspicion about another rumor, which in fact was partly true but had nothing to do with any of that and more with one of the mad scientists having a crush on his lab partner.
This was all forgotten in the turmoil and celebration of the fall of the Iron Drapery.
Until recently... when the wife of one of the mad Russian scientists claimed to have seen a doppelgänger of her former spouse while attended a one-man Rolling Stones impersonator concert in a community center at Lahasa in Central Tebet.
She claimed he could morph into all of the Rolling Stones, the mad science team her husband worked with, as well as Joseph Stalin, Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher...
She also claimed to be remarried to Fred Flintstone and that she was the living reincarnation of Yogi Bear... Since he is alive and well and living in a retirement home in Jellystone Park, it was decided her claims were probably the delusions of a poor mad Hanna and Barbera cartoon fan.
But mysteriously when intelligence sources went to check, they found out the Tibetan community center had in fact booked the one man Rolling Stones impersonator and that he mysteriously packed up and left the night the mad Russian's wife claimed to have seen him...
And... That the show was supposed to have been QUITE good...

You may be wondering why I chose to share this with you, and quite frankly so am I... But I believe there may be some reason this creature has chosen to seek you out...
Are you former MI6 or CIA?
Do you now or have you ever worked at a Chucky Cheese franchise?
Have you ever visited a SilCorDyne testing facility?
Do you own a Sentient Ant Farm?
Have you visited another planet or parallel universe in the last six months?
Are you or someone you know looking for low cost term life insurance and are under the age of 65?
Do own ANY Apple products or have you purchased any for a friend or secret lover?
And lastly...
Was your monitor purchased from MadScienceLabs.com?

Please do not answer those questions here, it is very important that we meet at an abandoned testing facility in Scotland tonight...
I'll PM the coordinates to you by this evening unless I'm killed or I forget.
A private jet will meet you outside your home within the next few hours... Unless I forget to book or steal one and or your driveway or street is too short... in which case I'll steal a bus or ice cream truck and pick you up in that... I'll have to find one that can make a transatlantic journey, so that may take some time...
Especially if I forget all this as soon as I leave the house, which I most likely will...
I made a Post-It note for myself about all this, so unless it falls off the bathroom mirror and my kids throw it out... I'll probably be by your place within a few weeks or so...
Do you like Sushi? I figured we should probably get something to eat before we go... I could pack a bag lunch, but I haven't had good Sushi in a while...
You know what... why don't we just pack our own lunches, you might be allergic to shellfish for all I know, and besides I'm in the mood for steak now...
Why are we going to Scotland?
Megh, look... Don't wait around, but if I do show up I'll honk the horn THREE times then TWO, pause and THREE honks again.
I'm gonna go look for a seaworthy ice cream truck (I decided)... See you soon.
Maybe.
Probably not, but I hope you like ice cream and are not lactose intolerant.
See ya.

Admittedly, I haven't thoroughly scoured the SDK documentation for answers to this question, since I only got around to downloading it about a week ago, and the day-job has been seriously kicking my butt of late; however....

Some time ago, I had a conversation with a friend, who works for a major women's wear retailer. She mentioned an idea for an in-store marketing tool: a kiosk set up to allow customers to interactively visualize how a particular product would look on them, taking into account the customer's actual body shape and skin tone. She asked if I would be interested in pursuing such a project. (Well, Duh! Who wouldn't!?)

So here's my question: how do I leverage an instance of DAZ Studio to use as an automation server? Any insights from the dev team at DAZ Central?

9am Central time. (Up since 4pm yesterday) It's okay, I'm off schedule because I have to stay up all night to keep a heating pad turned on for the stray cat. We were 10 degrees colder here in Florida than ANCHORAGE ALASKA!

Ah ah… I didn't know this forum and it seems that it's a central point for all the other more specialized forums !
All that I can say, it is that Carrara challenge is very hot this month, and moreover, it is opened to the newbies with a special classification for them.
It's an excellent manner of making discover the enormous possibilities of Carrara because when one arrived at the limits of DAZ Studio and that one wants to go further, it's Carrara the solution.
Moreover, the program is filled of a great quantity of items which will make an easier work to them.
You can believe me, I test (almost) all the softwares of the market and it's Carrara which remains since of very many years my preferred!
Welcome with all and many thanks Antara to manage this very exiting challenge !

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/48708/

Howdy,

Does any one know if The Artifact can be split up in to parts or is it al one piece?

I would like to raise the central platform, those pieces that come down but right now and replace the path way but it's all one piece with the exception of the roof and the floor.

I though there was a newer seperate texture you could buy too but I cannot find on the new site.

Thanks for any help you can offer.