*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 7, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 7, 2013 Thanks Gene Quote
itsjustme Posted December 7, 2013 Posted December 7, 2013 David I am sorry to hear that. As a claims adjuster I want to get in to a loss and get it taken care of. Did you have flood insurance? We have coverage for the structure, not the contents. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 8, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 8, 2013 That is what most have. If you need any help let me know. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 8, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 8, 2013 I was comparing and playing with the new rendering features in v 18. Love it. There are so many combinations! Here is a shot with SSAO and SSS. Angie on the right has sss turned on and the left does not. The render times are just over a minute / frame with multipass turned on. Steve Edit I added a shot with sss and light from behind Angie. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 9, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 9, 2013 Nancy I used Bitmap plus and came up with this on the material. Is there anyway to stop the overlap of the pattern Steve Quote
NancyGormezano Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 I used Bitmap plus and came up with this on the material. Is there anyway to stop the overlap of the pattern I am not aware of how to pick where the seams go using bitmap plus. I've never used the tile map feature - so that might be it? But I doubt it. Bitmap plus tries to maintain the pattern of the image without introducing distortion, so it picks where the seams go in order to do this, as opposed to patch images and decals which always have some distortion, unless the shape being covered is a true plane, cylindar, sphere. You might try making her lumberjack shirt less form fitting (like in real life). Or playing with repeat counts, size (or scale), and even maybe the bitmap line shift property? (probably only effects the repeat seam in Y direction? not sure). Just like in real life, the flatter the shape being fitted, the less need for "darts" and irregular sewing pattern shapes. Lots of seam matching problems result in real life in order to fit the model shape. Go for a boxier look, or pick a different image for her shirt pattern, where the seam might not be so obvious? Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 10, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 10, 2013 Thanks Nancy. Decided to put this on the back burner for now until she is rigged. I tried to use decal and apply through editor. Found out how really bad a decal can look when you do it wrong. I will come back to this later. I will revisit how we do clothing later. For now she is going to be rigged and after that hair and makeup. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 10, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 10, 2013 I am thrilled in the help of Mack Chapelle's in the rigging of characters. This is a proof of concept and the rig went in quickly. Mack has been meeting with us and has begun the rigging of characters. Once he gets the rig in and weighted/smart skinned I will begin the face poses. Once again love the new render features in v 18!! Steve Edit This shot took less than 1:30 with hair and a lot of materials, multipass 5 passes, sss. Thank you Steffen Quote
Admin Rodney Posted December 10, 2013 Admin Posted December 10, 2013 I'm loving these renders Steve! Looking very good! I'd like to suggest adding a slight extrusion at the base of this last guy's jacket/sleeves/pants to suggest thickness. It wouldn't have to be much and wouldn't even need to be further extruded inwardly (as in the example on the right) although that might work better in many situations.. Something like the one in the middle but with the inner ring moved closer to the edge would provide 'thickness' enough. The example of an object without any visible thickness is on the left. Looks like with the new speed and realtime improvements I'm going to have to do some experimenting with rendering! Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 10, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 10, 2013 Thanks Rodney You are right and will add them in! Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 14, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 14, 2013 New character. With Angie completed, well somewhat happy at where she is at. I decided that I wanted to created someone for her. Steve Face started and going ok so far. Quote
Admin Rodney Posted December 14, 2013 Admin Posted December 14, 2013 Steve, I'm curious about the Sub Surface Scattering settings you are using. If it's not too much of a pain can you share them with us? It looks a lot like one of Nancy's tests from back awhile but it's hard to tell from here. Regardless... I like! Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 15, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 15, 2013 Nothing fancy Rodney SSS with diffuse color of 253, 227, 185 SSS half distances 3,2,1 SSS extend group to avoid SSS borders Slow going on the modeling. Had a date with my wife. First one in awhile with our son or family or... It was nice. Got some time after to work on this!! Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 16, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 16, 2013 Ears in place. Did I mention I hate modeling ears? Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 16, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 16, 2013 Thanks David I don't know why but this guy is taking forever! Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 17, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 17, 2013 Head nearing completion Steve Edit had the eyes turned off, oops Quote
Admin Rodney Posted December 17, 2013 Admin Posted December 17, 2013 Nothing fancy Rodney SSS with diffuse color of 253, 227, 185 SSS half distances 3,2,1 SSS extend group to avoid SSS borders Thanks for that! It's been a while since I've used SSS and I really should be using it for my skin texturing. Head nearing completion I'll say it is. Looking very good from here! Ears in place. Did I mention I hate modeling ears? You may hate it but you've done a great job with them. I would have guessed you had borrowed them from another model. Good on you for modeling them from scratch! Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 17, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 17, 2013 One thing I have learned from our poly friends. They place a rig around the eyes or what I call fill pieces at the sides of the eyes. I like their practices. That way there are no gaps around the eyes. Steve Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted December 17, 2013 Hash Fellow Posted December 17, 2013 What sort of gaps? Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 17, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 17, 2013 In the corners. I have always had trouble getting the eyes and eye sockets to match without gaps between the eyelids and eyes. So I was on one the "other forums" and noticed a lot of guys model the corner of the eyes with a mesh "filler". Another way is pull and extrude an actual socket and encase the eyes. Both ways were pretty cool. Steve Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted December 17, 2013 Hash Fellow Posted December 17, 2013 Aside from carefully fitting the eyelid to the eye ball, of course, what I've been typically doing is taking the inner loop of the eyelid and extruding it one more time and scaling that down to a point at the center of the eyeball so it's like a cone coming from the center of the eye. That makes for no visible gap between the eyelid and eye. That works except for extreme close ups which are rare. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 17, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 17, 2013 Thanks Robert That is good as well and even easier!! Steve In the past I highlighted and locked the eyeball and splined around it to from my eyelids making sure the splines were not breaking through the eye itself. I will use one of the outlined procedures and Robert will probably do your suggestion! Steve Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted December 17, 2013 Hash Fellow Posted December 17, 2013 Can you point me to an example of what those other people were doing? I can't picture it. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 20, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 20, 2013 There has been a contract dispute in Cupid's Sick Day. Due to this dispute a casting change has taken place. Cindy will no loner be the lead actress. In her role, Angie will now take the lead. Luc has been replaced with Connor. Here are the couple that will be the stars of Cupid's Sick Day. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 22, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 22, 2013 Conner is nearing completion before rigging. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 23, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 23, 2013 I am working with hair and having an issue. Version 18 placed the material on the model and in chor rendered and all hair is black Quick rendered in model mode and it renders correctly. Can someone else test this issue? Steve Edit Version 17 hair renders correctly Quote
Fuchur Posted December 24, 2013 Posted December 24, 2013 I am working with hair and having an issue. Version 18 placed the material on the model and in chor rendered and all hair is black Quick rendered in model mode and it renders correctly. Can someone else test this issue? Steve Edit Version 17 hair renders correctly Do you have an example? Hair is working fine in Chor and Modelling-Window but maybe it is some sort of combination that is causing the trouble...? See you *Fuchur* Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 24, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 24, 2013 Hi Gerald Thanks. It appears to be a combination of SSS and hair material applied. I removed the SSS and the hair rendered correctly. This might be something some one else could try and if it does the same thing I will report it. Steve Thanks Dan really been in the mode to get the project back on track, and with the help of Chris and Mack, things are happening again! Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 24, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 24, 2013 Slow going with work around in place. Here are the two shots of the hair in place and groomed. Will have to touch up but I like where it is going. Need to add brows and stubble. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 24, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 24, 2013 Brows are in and now onto finishing the shirt and he is off to be rigged!! Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 26, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 26, 2013 Back in 2006, I can't believe I typed that, I modeled a dog for a animation short. It was my first project that had movement. It is amazing to look at the old models and realize how things have changed. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...mp;#entry207134 In Cupid's Sick Day Angie will be walking a dog down the street. I have started to model the dog for that sequence. I actually used my old model for reference. I wanted to reuse it, but there are too many issues. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 27, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 27, 2013 Had a chance to work a little tonight. Breed? Think poofy. Going to try something with hair Steve Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted December 27, 2013 Hash Fellow Posted December 27, 2013 That's looking good. That will be a cool challenge for Hair. I don't remember that old dog thread of yours at all! That was a good-looking dog too. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 27, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 27, 2013 Thanks Robert having issues getting layout of the ears but I think I will finish the mesh tonight and start planning the hair. Steve Quote
itsjustme Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 The dog looks great so far, Steve! I'll guess a large poodle? Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 28, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 28, 2013 We have a winner! Working on nose and ears and will be ready for rigging. How are things going David? Steve Quote
itsjustme Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 How are things going David? Lots of waiting. I cleaned up everything in my yard except for the two sheds that don't belong to me (I'll have to deal with the one sticking in the side of my house, but the other one can wait). I have a couple of people I'm now waiting to hear back from...it's the holidays. Things should pick up next week. Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 28, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 28, 2013 I know its tough. I have been on your side as well. I hope things get going for you! Steve Here is the model standard poodle Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 29, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 29, 2013 Hair is going onto the poodle. Working with the settings of MuHair. If Nancy is there, how do you turn down the secondary? I have al but selected 0% but yet I still am getting the secondary color Steve Quote
NancyGormezano Posted December 30, 2013 Posted December 30, 2013 If Nancy is there, how do you turn down the secondary? I don't usually use muhair. Not fond of working with it. I prefer the control and different looks one can get much easier with regular hair for the stuff I do. But Matt Campbell likes to use it. I would need to see your settings first. I don't see secondary color? I only see B&W? with overly bright specular look. Perhaps, (if you are talking about the shiny overly bright look), my guess (without seeing your settings) is that your hair emitter/specular render shader/muhair/secondary strength is NOT turned down from 100% to something else? Or that the surface spec size, intensity settings in the hair emitter are set too high? Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 30, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 30, 2013 Thanks Nancy I will look at that this evening. I have a second color of back and a grey for highlights. I will get back and check the spec settings and let you know. Thanks again Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted December 30, 2013 Author *A:M User* Posted December 30, 2013 Thanks Nancy that was it! It is still a bit to bright but it has toned down a great deal! I will keep tinkering. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 4, 2014 Author *A:M User* Posted January 4, 2014 I wanted to give one last update before I present her. The MuHair shader has been a challenge to figure out. But with lower settings nice effects can be achieved. I am working on the topknot and grooming it and after that I will be ready for rigging. Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 24, 2014 Author *A:M User* Posted January 24, 2014 Almost finished with the poodle. Trying to get the hair to conform is tough Steve Here is Jazmine and Angie Quote
Admin Rodney Posted January 24, 2014 Admin Posted January 24, 2014 Trying to get the hair to conform is tough That may be the case but you've done an impressive job! Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 26, 2014 Author *A:M User* Posted January 26, 2014 Thanks Rodney Here is the start of Angie's hair Steve Quote
*A:M User* Shelton Posted January 28, 2014 Author *A:M User* Posted January 28, 2014 Had to start over on Angie's hair but feeling better about it. I was able to get hair through the hair tie. Here her with the pony tail, sides and back completed. I will get on the top and front tonight. Quote
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