March Show-off Thread

[Llola Lane]

Thanks Aelin... I learned something new!  :)  Just lovely.

[Agent0013]

Wow, Aelin! You did an excellent job with your use of brushes to make the sky! Which app did you use to make it? I use PD Howler 12 and Bryce 7.1 Pro, depending on what type of sky I want. I love making sky backdrops. The foreground architecture looks awesome too!
(Hmmm. A possible theme for an upcoming month.)


Llola, I know what you mean by fake looking skins. As it happens, I have several morphs for each figure I own, even some realistic heads for Aiko 3 that are quite pretty; and with most come textures made from photos or are expertly hand painted to look more realistic. I also use different textures from other characters on the other character morphs for a particular figure. It gives me a lot more options, because the UVs used to make the textures are normally the exact same for all characters. So if you have an extreme shaped face, you can still use the skin from another character for that base figure on it. Only a few of the Millennium figures had different UVs made, and I am unable to determine why.
Oh! In case you did not know this, if you have the right things installed, Genesis, and Genesis 2 F/M can use the textures from the Millennium 4 figures and characters! All you have to do is make sure that you are using the correct UVs, then you can load the skins from the old figures onto the new ones. Interesting, Eh?

[Llola Lane]

Wow, Aelin! You did an excellent job with your use of brushes to make the sky! Which app did you use to make it? I use PD Howler 12 and Bryce 7.1 Pro, depending on what type of sky I want. I love making sky backdrops. The foreground architecture looks awesome too!
(Hmmm. A possible theme for an upcoming month.)


Llola, I know what you mean by fake looking skins. As it happens, I have several morphs for each figure I own, even some realistic heads for Aiko 3 that are quite pretty; and with most come textures made from photos or are expertly hand painted to look more realistic. I also use different textures from other characters on the other character morphs for a particular figure. It gives me a lot more options, because the UVs used to make the textures are normally the exact same for all characters. So if you have an extreme shaped face, you can still use the skin from another character for that base figure on it. Only a few of the Millennium figures had different UVs made, and I am unable to determine why.
Oh! In case you did not know this, if you have the right things installed, Genesis, and Genesis 2 F/M can use the textures from the Millennium 4 figures and characters! All you have to do is make sure that you are using the correct UVs, then you can load the skins from the old figures onto the new ones. Interesting, Eh?

Architecture would be a great monthly theme... I bought mucho's when Daz had the big sales a few months ago.  ;)

And yes.. I do have the UVs of older M/V4 to use on Genesis... Depends on how old you want the characters to be.  I have very few M/V3 stuff... Loads of M/V4 on up though.  I've vowed not to buy any more older stuff... even if Daz wants go GIVE them to me FREE... lol. 

Here's a 'just for fun' V3 I posted a few months ago.  Not sure if anyone saw it.  She's still pretty stiff looking... and her skin is too flat... but...she's about a 'real' as I could get her.  I used Kenya skin... It may be fun to experiment a little bit more.  hummmmmmm

[SimonJM]

Ok, V4 and 'cos it's the thing du jour, volumetrics (but in 3Delight, using UberVolume)

[Agent0013]

Nice demo of volumetrics with 3DL.
I have one from DreamLight, a future city with atmosphere. Makes my PC work too hard. Just a tiny resolution render took hours to complete on my old laptop. Too much for my system.
Still, it is nice to know someone else can do volumetrics In 3DL. This one is very well done!

[SimonJM]

Nice demo of volumetrics with 3DL.
I have one from DreamLight, a future city with atmosphere. Makes my PC work too hard. Just a tiny resolution render took hours to complete on my old laptop. Too much for my system.
Still, it is nice to know someone else can do volumetrics In 3DL. This one is very well done!

I suspect that would have been memory issues not CPU, but yes, some complex scene really hammer things and cause lengthy renders.

[Agent0013]

Yes it is memory issues. My current machine has just 4 GB RAM. Yet even with that, I do turn out some decent art. I have lots of resource applications to work with, along with my core set of DAZ Studio, Bryce, PD Howler, and Wings3D.

[Saphirewild]

I made these for last months theme Eye Of The Tiger for Daz+.

[Saphirewild]

Another Eye Of The Tiger theme

[Saphirewild]

Another