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Also covered are the ancillary software, tools, techniques, and processes needed both before and after rendering in the 3D software.
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Well, tomorrow is the day, and as luck would have it, my day off from blogging (well, if I weren't capping of my 13 Nights of Halloween at R.G. Male's Dark Corners). I'd stay and blather on some more but I have to go buy that Carrara 3D Express and get that free shader pack. Time is running out.
I don't have a real or pertinent blog today, but after skipping Tuesday I thought it best to pop in for a moment. I'm busy writing, and as soon as I get sufficiently ahead on that--hopefully tomorrow--then I want to get moving on a couple of pictures in Daz that I started so that I will have at least three for everyone to see next week just in time for Halloween. See you then.
Music: Monster Mash by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Cryptkickers.
Should I buy Carrara 3D Express for $20? I know most people wouldn't balk at that price. It only took me a few months to shell out approaching that for some Daz figures. A lot of it is a matter of time to put it to use, and will to put it to use. So, should I just go ahead and take the plunge?
Here are some questions for anyone who's picked it up already. Does it actually come with a bunch of materials to put to use right away building scenes? Terrain, skies, etc? I read some of the PDF file and it seemed to say so, but I don't to miss how it was talking that you could buy them. Is it relatively easy to use or am I going to spend a while on the basic learning curve? Can you import scenes from Daz? I know it said it uses the figures and such, but will I have to repose characters from scratch? Do I have to reinstall everything for it (is that even possible?)? Anything else I should know about the program that I'm not thinking of? Last question, should I stop whining and just go ahead and buy it.
I bought some more sets again. The timing and the prices were so right. For starters I bought 3D Celebrity Belle and 3D Celebrity Genesis. These mark my second and third purchases of "characters" for Victoria 4-the only figure I have that is fully of morphable. Now I have a huge variety of characters that I can make with three different skin tones head to toe in addition to three full injectable morphs (Saylor is the third). That should cover me for quite a while unless I run across another really great character.
Also in the spirit of Halloween-though for the likes of me every day is somewhat in the spirit of Halloween with all the horror stuff in my possession-I bought Dies Nefastus and Dies Mortis. Dies Mortis is essentially a map for Dies Nefastus. I immediately noticed something odd about Mortis, which is some parts of it are transparent until rendered. This poses something of a problem. Put another way this is a problem for some poses. It will take some getting used to with placing other items, like characters interacting with the building. I'm a little perplexed as to how it is transparent where it is, and why that might be.
While looking over the settings and all the add-ons for The Study set and expansions I bought I noticed a bit of a problem. I cannot find any books to go on the bookshelves. I looked all through my folders, of which there is a tonne of them, and always growing, and I did not see the books. Kind of makes it hard to do a scene where the "house" hasn't been stripped before its abandonment, or for a lived-in scene. Now, I suppose I have that morphing book of magic or some such that I could use multiple times within the scene, but that would have to bring the program to a screeching halt trying to process all that information. So that means I have to do something about making a set of books.
The set would have to be scaleable without looking bad. That seems like a daunting requirement in and of itself if I intend to ever use them anywhere other than within that shelving unit. Why is that? Well the "object" could be just a flat plane, but unless I want the books to be really thin when they are resized for a smaller selection of books I'd have to make different sets with different numbers of books to make it so that they can be used different places, like say a few of them on a desk held up by book ends. This is never mind if I want each shelf not to look identical. This, if I do it, will require me to figure out my problem with placing an image on a "primitive". I have some notes kindly furnished to me from a previous blog. My apologies that I can't remember who they were from.
