3D-Daz Daz3d Art - Show Us Your DazSkill

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Zavijava_

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Now for something a little different ;)

Trying my hand at making custom billboards of people - like the Now-crowd asset packs - since I figured it couldn't be too hard to do (and based on a short convo with jojozz about assets for a cosplay convention). Worst bit is that I finally figured out scripting in Daz and it's javascript (ew, dynamic typing) but I threw a couple assets together last night and they maybe came out okay?

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The four in front are my own billboards, the ones in the background are from a Now-crowd asset for comparison. This is without any tweaks in the surfaces tab (e.g. brightness) except for switching out the textures. IMO I like the lighting on mine a bit better, since the Now-crowd ones have always been a bit dark and I usually have to crank up the diffuse color to 150%-200% to make them look good. Any thoughts?
 

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Now for something a little different ;)

Trying my hand at making custom billboards of people - like the Now-crowd asset packs - since I figured it couldn't be too hard to do (and based on a short convo with jojozz about assets for a cosplay convention). Worst bit is that I finally figured out scripting in Daz and it's javascript (ew, dynamic typing) but I threw a couple assets together last night and they maybe came out okay?

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The four in front are my own billboards, the ones in the background are from a Now-crowd asset for comparison. This is without any tweaks in the surfaces tab (e.g. brightness) except for switching out the textures. IMO I like the lighting on mine a bit better, since the Now-crowd ones have always been a bit dark and I usually have to crank up the diffuse color to 150%-200% to make them look good. Any thoughts?
This looks so good!
 
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Night Hacker

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Now for something a little different ;)

Trying my hand at making custom billboards of people - like the Now-crowd asset packs - since I figured it couldn't be too hard to do (and based on a short convo with jojozz about assets for a cosplay convention). Worst bit is that I finally figured out scripting in Daz and it's javascript (ew, dynamic typing) but I threw a couple assets together last night and they maybe came out okay?

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The four in front are my own billboards, the ones in the background are from a Now-crowd asset for comparison. This is without any tweaks in the surfaces tab (e.g. brightness) except for switching out the textures. IMO I like the lighting on mine a bit better, since the Now-crowd ones have always been a bit dark and I usually have to crank up the diffuse color to 150%-200% to make them look good. Any thoughts?
Nice work. I learned how to do that with Daz and an image editor (Photoshop) a while back. Just haven't come up with a reason to use it.
I originally used the following tutorial on how to create them:

Nice work on the ones you did. I agree, you did a much better job with them.
 
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Aspajer

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Now for something a little different ;)

Trying my hand at making custom billboards of people - like the Now-crowd asset packs - since I figured it couldn't be too hard to do (and based on a short convo with jojozz about assets for a cosplay convention). Worst bit is that I finally figured out scripting in Daz and it's javascript (ew, dynamic typing) but I threw a couple assets together last night and they maybe came out okay?

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The four in front are my own billboards, the ones in the background are from a Now-crowd asset for comparison. This is without any tweaks in the surfaces tab (e.g. brightness) except for switching out the textures. IMO I like the lighting on mine a bit better, since the Now-crowd ones have always been a bit dark and I usually have to crank up the diffuse color to 150%-200% to make them look good. Any thoughts?
Yea, it looks frikin awesom!
 
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Thanks for the quick answer. But if I may ask,doesn't blender use PBR and alot of G8-G8.1 also has PBR texture.
Sure you can just plug the textures in but it will not look even remotely like they do in daz or good. At the minimum you have to set up sub surface scattering.
PBR stands for physical based rendering. Iray is a PBR engine. The textures themselves are just some images. Daz naming this new shader as PBR is confusing because the old one was also PBR
 
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M7wXgJ7HfXi

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Was trying to update the shaders and lighting of an old Poser environment so would look good in Daz Studio (and yes the main color of the walls is supposed to be a deep black, and the mirror is warped like a carnival funhouse mirror so reflects odd angles). For a fully enclosed room I guess I did OK?
 
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