October Show Off Thread - 2023 "Creatures of the Deep"

[Llola Lane]

Dangerous Deep Sea Beauty


Beneath the waves of the trade routes of the sea, a beautiful Mermaid swims, tending to her corral garden, and her fish livestock. She makes her home along the trade routes because that is where most boats sail. Aboard those boats are the human males she desires; not as permanent lovers, but as victims whom she will devour, after having her way with them. Men should beware of her Siren Song, as it is what makes her irresistible. Hearing it just once has brought many to the bottom of her sea, never to rise thereafter.

GREAT perspective Agent... Well done!

[Agent0013]

GREAT perspective Agent... Well done!

I was trying to make the light have that underwater effect that makes the surfaces have that mottled lighting look you see when underwater. You know how the water that is wavy and has seafoam on it makes the light passing through it look. My efforts produced little, if any change in the light. I'm still experimenting with it. I think if I could do a gel light that has that effect builtin, it would look more real. I don't know if gel lighting is possible in DAZ Studio 3Delight renders.

[DanaTA]

I have something for 3Dlight, called Under the Sea, but it doesn't seem to be at DAZ anymore.  But I found these at Renderosity:


https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/100456/under-the-sea-layer-styles - Under the sea layer styles, if you have photoshop or a compatible software...they're old, and on clearance for $4.52 (less if you're in their Prime club)


https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/124658/underwater-lights-ps-brushes - Underwater lights brushes for Photoshop or a compatible software.  $7.99  For Photoshop CS6 or PS 3-5.


Dana

[DanaTA]

There's also this: https://www.daz3d.com/underwater-ambiance-for-daz-studio for $14.95.


Dana

[DanaTA]

And also: https://www.daz3d.com/ultrumarine-ocean  Has props and lights.  $14.95.   I haven't used it yet, but I bought it a while back.  Has setting for different depths.  Looks promising.  Doesn't say Iray, so should be usable for you.


Dana

[Llola Lane]

And also: https://www.daz3d.com/ultrumarine-ocean  Has props and lights.  $14.95.   I haven't used it yet, but I bought it a while back.  Has setting for different depths.  Looks promising.  Doesn't say Iray, so should be usable for you.
Dana

I have this one... used it only once... so far... Marshian makes some great products.  Never had a problem with his stuff.  ;)

Agent... also try... https://www.daz3d.com/gobo-lights-for-daz-studio-iray and https://www.daz3d.com/take-to-the-floor-ds-gobo-lighting ... I used to use gobos a lot with my photography studio... I was over the moon when I found I could use them in Daz... I started making my own shadows... like the one below...

[Agent0013]

What I am really after is called Caustics. It is the effect of light refracting through water that is wavy. It requires knowledge of the Refractive Index of water to actually look realistic. As we all know, sea water is not exactly clear, so at greater depths light loses its caustic effect as the water absorbs more of the light the deeper you go, until at a certain depth you will need a more localized light source. This lightsource would be within the water itself and not have any caustic effect. For the shallow depths though the caustics are prominent, depending on how shallow the water is. There are more than one type of caustic effects depending on what the water surface is doing when the light is shining into it. The effect for stormy waves will be different from just choppy, Beach breaker waves gives a different caustic effect, and flowing streams give yet another. My need at this time though is for something that looks like what is in the photo I am attaching. This effect happens in relatively shallow water that is not flowing,r stormy, or breaking on a shoreline. It is relatively still water with mild choppiness.

[DanaTA]

The ones that I posted for DS have that effect.  The last one even has different effects depending on the "depth" of the water.  Did you look at those products?


Dana

[Agent0013]

They all have a price attached, so I would be unable to get them at any rate. I rarely have enough to spend for such products, which is why I am looking for tutorials that explain how to do the effect in DAZ Studio for 3Delight. I found a tutorial that is good for the Iray render engine, but I don't know if it is adaptable to 3Delight. There is so much more that surfaces and lights are capable of for Iray, that are not able to be done in 3Delight. I will be trying to follow that tutorial and adapting it for 3Delight. If it works, I'll let you all know here, and perhaps make a tutorial of my own explaining the 3Delight adaptation of the procedure. It requires the use of certain DAZ Primitives that I did not know were needed. So we shall see how it works out.

[Llola Lane]

What I am really after is called Caustics. It is the effect of light refracting through water that is wavy. It requires knowledge of the Refractive Index of water to actually look realistic. As we all know, sea water is not exactly clear, so at greater depths light loses its caustic effect as the water absorbs more of the light the deeper you go, until at a certain depth you will need a more localized light source. This lightsource would be within the water itself and not have any caustic effect. For the shallow depths though the caustics are prominent, depending on how shallow the water is. There are more than one type of caustic effects depending on what the water surface is doing when the light is shining into it. The effect for stormy waves will be different from just choppy, Beach breaker waves gives a different caustic effect, and flowing streams give yet another. My need at this time though is for something that looks like what is in the photo I am attaching. This effect happens in relatively shallow water that is not flowing,r stormy, or breaking on a shoreline. It is relatively still water with mild choppiness.

I played with caustics a while back with Daz... You will need a prim with lots of sides to make it work... a plain water plain gobo was easier to put where I wanted it... I have several Caustic packages from Daz.... https://www.daz3d.com/easy-caustics ... https://www.daz3d.com/easy-shadows ... I only have another for Iray.  Not sure you can get caustics the 'original' way with 3Delight.... Gobos were just easier.