Quote - The weekly Reality 3 update is up: http://preta3d.com/blog/2013/01/08/reality-3-weekly-update-procedural-displacement/

Cheers.

To be clear this is just your blog not the update Reality 2 for Lux 2.1 right?

Edit never mind its about Reality 3 got it...

That is only for Reality 3.

I post a weekly update on its development.

Cheers 

Quote - That is only for Reality 3.

I post a weekly update on its development.

Cheers 

LOL you beat me to it I added an edit to the fact that I understood looking promising!

Quote - The Volumes tab is used to manage volumes in the scene. Things like fog, smoke, up to SSS. That is a brand new feature of Reality 3 and it will be a lot of fun.

You are a teaser!

Dont forget we dont get it till summer....

Attached Link: Mermaid Christmas

Not everything abide by gravity laws, Lasserine. Very nice scene. The light of the fire could be turned down a notch or two, I like the light coming through the window.

Quote - Not everything abide by gravity laws, Lasserine. Very nice scene. The light of the fire could be turned down a notch or two, I like the light coming through the window.

I had too many light groups in that scene.  5 on the tree, fireplace, the sun/sku outside, candles and a mesh top covering the ceiling.

Took a few days to render.  Was on vacation, but could remote connect into my home computer, to let it cook.  Nice getting home and seeing it fully, instead of on a small laptop screen.

OT there is a new none Beta version of Studio it finally addresses some auto fit issues caused by the DUF format that wrecked some clothing that used to previously work...

Attached Link: http://bobvan.deviantart.com/#/d5qt282

This is what I threw together for that Scared Stiff contest on dA.  Not my best and not really how I wanted it to come out, but it's what I did in the time I had.  The prizes are too nice not to submit something. 

Attached Link: Justine 1

Used again the big 1/4 sphere as meshlight but also added a second meshlight made of a half sphere. Reality luckily gives the chance to 'invers direction' so the light is emmited from the inside of the spheres.

The render ran for 3 hours and 33 minutes at 75 S/p. 

Also added the scene set-up so you can get an idea of the size of the meshlights.

Hope you like it.

Im curious are you using the AM hair plug in?

Quote - The floor Justine is standing on is made of one primitive plane. Used a deformer to bend it so the corner is 'soft'.

Used again the big 1/4 sphere as meshlight but also added a second meshlight made of a half sphere. Reality luckily gives the chance to 'invers direction' so the light is emmited from the inside of the spheres.

The render ran for 3 hours and 33 minutes at 75 S/p. 

Also added the scene set-up so you can get an idea of the size of the meshlights.

Hope you like it.

Amazing! Well done. It is always a pleasure see your creations. They inspire me to work hard to get at this level.

Quote - Im curious are you using the AM hair plug in?

Just used the Galathea Hair prop Bob :)

Ha ok the one you needed to null part of out got it...

Attached Link: Justine -revised-

Quote - Ha ok the one you needed to null part of out got it...

Yes, that is the one :) Now I just used the parts I wanted gone the previous time. Oh! Also used the 'GlamourHair prop as well. :)

Quote - Revised my earlier upload of 'Justine'. This time shes in the set I made of a plane (deformed to floor & wall) and two meshlights as described with image 'Justine 1'.
Tweaked her skin a bit and gave her more hair (uhm.. on 'both' accounts that is..)  Also this time I rendered her a bit bigger.

I really like this one Callad! I've never used deformers, but happen to have several odd shaped prims in my runtime that would work, so I'll give them a try......

So let the second render finish cooking, using three planes exported as .obj, and converted to reality light, and blended that with the render using Callad's deformed Reality curved mesh light....the second render, using Reggie68's variation, was at only 30% opacity, adding just a tad more shading, to give a hint more depth and perspective....used this skin, as I liked the paleness of it, except for the shading in the rib area, which I'll eliminate in photo shop, as it was a merchant resource skin. Now I have to try Callad's sphered dome method. Simply loving these lighting techniques! Thank you very much Callad!

Nice work all

One of these days I may be able to do someting again I hope

@ Reggie:

Very nice! And you are most welcome. :)

@ Robert:

I read about your misfortune and my heart goes out to you and yours.

Quote - @ Reggie:

Very nice! And you are most welcome. :)

@ Robert:

I read about your misfortune and my heart goes out to you and yours.

Thanks

Playing around a bit with a freebie couch that i downloaded.  Model is a younger version of godin's daphne.  hair is one of my faves.. cameo hair.  background is just a photo on a plane that i blurred to simulate DOF.  2 mesh lights.  one key and one fill.

Couch wasn't UV mapped and i'm terrible at uv mapping so it is as good as I could get it to look with blacksmith.

Quote - Playing around a bit with a freebie couch that i downloaded.  Model is a younger version of godin's daphne.  hair is one of my faves.. cameo hair.  background is just a photo on a plane that i blurred to simulate DOF.  2 mesh lights.  one key and one fill.

 

Couch wasn't UV mapped and i'm terrible at uv mapping so it is as good as I could get it to look with blacksmith.

Nice sharky, like the background effect. her skin seems a little flat, like the pose though.

nice couch, on the mapping, quickest thing to do is load it into UVMapper and select group and create a new UVmap and select box. It will then use any tiled texture and look pretty good.

Thanks Mike.  Haven't really gotten into UVMapper much.  I've pretty much only used it for making templates.

and yeah.. her skin was a bit flat.  the way it loaded into studio.. all the bumps were set at 2.5%.  I was feeling rather unenthused so left all but the lips and nips at stock bump setting.

Did this image for a calender submission with a fetish theme. I needed those boots for the image so went back to V4 for this one. I use genesis so much that I forgot how nice V4 still is, especially with all the fix morphs. LOL. Face is mostly JKings Bianca at DAZ, FBM is mine and texture is mine.

Thanks to Callad for the lux/lighting tips!

Quote - The floor Justine is standing on is made of one primitive plane. Used a deformer to bend it so the corner is 'soft'.

Used again the big 1/4 sphere as meshlight but also added a second meshlight made of a half sphere. Reality luckily gives the chance to 'invers direction' so the light is emmited from the inside of the spheres.

The render ran for 3 hours and 33 minutes at 75 S/p. 

Also added the scene set-up so you can get an idea of the size of the meshlights.

Hope you like it.

 

 

I've added this to Paolo's website you can find it here http://preta3d.com/forum/recipes/second-skin-and-lighting-by-callad-use-of-curve-light-altered/

Attached Link: http://bobvan.deviantart.com/#/d5r2m9j

Again another set of nice images on the last few pages!

Will be gone for the next 3 days btw. You can find me in Paris, France.. :)  

Quote - Again another set of nice images on the last few pages!

Will be gone for the next 3 days btw. You can find me in Paris, France.. :)  

Thanks and enjoy!

[quote Callad]

Again another set of nice images on the last few pages!

Will be gone for the next 3 days btw. You can find me in Paris, France.. :)  

Have a wonderful time!  Hope it is for fun!

my latest contribution.  used Callad's light set up.  Made my own 1/2 dome and 1/4 dome and just inverted the normals.  texture work on the atardecer outfit done in blacksmith by your's truly.

Quote - my latest contribution.  used Callad's light set up.  Made my own 1/2 dome and 1/4 dome and just inverted the normals.  texture work on the atardecer outfit done in blacksmith by your's truly.

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VEry nice!

Quote - my latest contribution.  used Callad's light set up.  Made my own 1/2 dome and 1/4 dome and just inverted the normals.  texture work on the atardecer outfit done in blacksmith by your's truly.

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Nice texture work, good to see you are getting somewhere with Blacksmith3D

Quick question that has been mentioned before as per the realirtic sky

LightGroup "sun"
AttributeBegin
LightSource "sun" "float gain" [1.000] "float turbidity" [2.200] "float relsize" [1.000] "vector sundir" [0.221203 -0.707107 0.671616]
AttributeEnd
LightGroup "sky" would I add the 2 here???
AttributeBegin
LightSource "sky" "float gain" [1.000] "float turbidity" [2.200] "vector sundir" [0.221203 -0.707107 0.671616]
AttributeEnd

Volumes

This render is just me playing at being a modeler, still trying to figure out the latest DS4.5 :)

Quote - Quick question that has been mentioned before as per the realirtic sky

 

LightGroup "sun"
AttributeBegin
LightSource "sun" "float gain" [1.000] "float turbidity" [2.200] "float relsize" [1.000] "vector sundir" [0.221203 -0.707107 0.671616]
AttributeEnd
LightGroup "sky"
AttributeBegin
LightSource "sky2" "float gain" [1.000] "float turbidity" [2.200] "vector sundir" [0.221203 -0.707107 0.671616]
AttributeEnd

Volumes

Quote - > Quote - Quick question that has been mentioned before as per the realirtic sky

 

LightGroup "sun"
AttributeBegin
LightSource "sun" "float gain" [1.000] "float turbidity" [2.200] "float relsize" [1.000] "vector sundir" [0.221203 -0.707107 0.671616]
AttributeEnd
LightGroup "sky"
AttributeBegin
LightSource "sky2" "float gain" [1.000] "float turbidity" [2.200] "vector sundir" [0.221203 -0.707107 0.671616]
AttributeEnd

Volumes

Tanks

Quote - Did this image for a calender submission with a fetish theme. I needed those boots for the image so went back to V4 for this one. I use genesis so much that I forgot how nice V4 still is, especially with all the fix morphs. LOL. Face is mostly JKings Bianca at DAZ, FBM is mine and texture is mine.

Thanks to Callad for the lux/lighting tips!

...just trying to catch up again! ¬) ...very nice image indeed! ...also loving your Justine, Callad! ...hopefully will get some time to myself again soon to render something!¬)

In the end I dont know if adding the 2 makes that much of a difference..

Bob, tt's a bit of shift in the sky light. It's not dramatic.

Quote - Bob, tt's a bit of shift in the sky light. It's not dramatic.

K thanks. Any ETA to Reality update?

No updates yet.

Quote - No updates yet.

LOL I know just asking for an estimate when we can get reality 2 to keep moving forward with Lux is it just not a matter of reversing your correction code? Pardon my ignorance if there is more then that to it:)

No, there is more to it than that. I will announce it when the update will be ready.

All the best.

I know you will and I appreciate you are working on 3...

Thank you.

Another shot at rendering with callad's light set up.  think i should have let it run a bit longer than it did(800 passes) as some of her skin still has a bit of a grainy look to it.  texture work on the clothes done by me in blacksmith.