So remember how long ago I had that problem with shadows, and I kinda just…gave it up? Well I’m trying again.
So far I’ve gone through each of the lights in my i13 Pro Light Ease sphere’s set and turned on and off shadows, turned shadow intensity to 5 just to test, turned the blur thing up to 0.5. Gotten nothing but lots of darkness! Not the kinda shadow I’m going for.
I found this explanatory website – Light Properties – which is helpful but really, it’s not helping ME resolve this issue. My buddy balthazarbludd said to check the set to see if it had shadows. Well apparently my props in this particular scene have no properties in their properties tab – which is where the shadow settings are kept. So. Nope.
This is pretty frustrating. I really want to go to Renderosity’s forums and ask for assistance but I’ve done that before and gotten nothing. I really need someone to hold my hand and just point shite out to me and say, click that…now that…okay now type that. And BOOM, have it done. Ya know? I don’t need to build character around this, I don’t believe. Sigh.
I see their pictures. I see the work they do. And I know I could do the same. I could maybe even do better.
And one of my favourite artists, Studio AD, made the switch. I was sure he never would but he did. And he’s fine with it. The switch was pretty easy for him.
So. I guess it’s my turn. This is me, downloading “Daz Central” right now. Even saying that, typing that, makes me friggin’ cringe. Ugh!
The reason I despise Daz so much is because they are like drug dealers. They created this amazing figure, namely Victoria 4, that I spent honestly thousands of dollars on getting content for over the last what, decade?? Then they upgraded her several times, but no one bit. Cuz we all loved V4 so much – and still do! But then they made another amazing figure named Genesis 3. And…if you were smart, you could get that to work in your Poser program, the program I use.
Then…they made Genesis 8….and it’s fucking amazing.
But they didn’t make it work in Poser.
Could they have? Damned straight. How do I know? Because MANY merchants at Renderosity.com make content that fits both V4 AND G8F (Genesis 8 female). So if a merchant can do it, Daz could have too, with all their tech and coders and the like. But you see, Daz decided they wanted their own 3D program. And though it takes V4, they wanted to corner the market. They made it so that if you wanted to use G8 series, you had to use it in Daz Studio.
Daz Studio itself is free. So is Genesis. But…content? And the learning curve? Harsh.
I invested in Victoria. I made my avatar, all my favourite WoW OCs, all my sexy times. I used V4. I could and do still use her! So why do I need to use G8 anyway?
Because. This.
And this.
This.
This…*drools*…
OMG THIS!
This!
See what I mean? Do you SEE? Imagine if ~I~ had these characters? Imagine the sexiness I could make?!?! I ought to be playing with this hotness!
I JUST received a notice from Renderosity.com that one of my most favourite artists, Maddelirium, has uploaded new pics. Well she does that, that’s great.
But when I went to look, I saw she put a link to her YOUTUBE channel in the description!!
You have GOT to go right now and SUBSCRIBE! This girl is LEGIT! THIS is fantasy art…so beautiful!!
Ohhhh the one with the crows….*drools* She’s so inspiring. I struggle to find the time to do work like hers, to even gain the knowledge to come close to it. I don’t get paid to, I don’t feel like I have the luxury of ‘art’ for the sake of it. I know art can make money in adult stuff, which is kinda sexy and kinky and so my thing anyway. But I sure wish I could just…spend time making images like this…*dreamy sigh*
This girl deserves much more attention on YouTube than she’s getting, y’all. FIX IT!
