Last Stand *for Angel* by hardwaretoad
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Just so you know you're not alone in your woes I had been working on this wallpaper for several hours and this was my first full sized test render. I saw I'd made a couple of mistakes such as underlighting the left side, which was easy to do when I already had 15 lights set up.
I added a light and changed her hair to better show her face and then decided I'd save the scene. Well, who knows what the Hell happened but CRASH... my computer shut down. It restarted on it's own then went through a diskcheck and restarted.
I opened DS again and went to open the scene and... NOPE! It didn't want to open, couldn't find files, yadda, yadda, yadda. So this is all I've got for the better part of a day's time spent... the saved scene is junk as was the scene I snagged the girl out of.
I guess it's not as bad as having my runtime messed up like your's is (was?) and all my morphs toasted, but it was still a major pisser. I'm in the process of trying to put it all back together.
At least I've got a pic I can use as a guide to try and rebuild the scene... *grumble*

Comments (14)
Wow, sounds like something that happened to me too recently, lol. Oddly enough I was doing a scene with the BEO2k as well. I had just done a test render in Poser, then bam, crash. Lost the entire scene. All I have is the test render and haven't had the will to set it up again yet. It really is an upsetting thing, but I guess it's nice to know you're not alone Your lighting looks very nice. Hopefully she finds a weak point to shoot at XD
The things we go through for the love of the craft. Well done!
Oh, man. That sux. & yeah. My runtime is still devastated. I sometimes have to add lighting in post work when it just doesn't do it in DAZ. This turned out pretty well, even still. Thanks! ")
Awesome lights and FX Sweet Sci-fi scene!!
sorry to hear that for both you and angel.thats a piseer when it behaves like this.my daz 3 this morning opened up with a new interface and all that crap just by itself no way to move the rays of light either.. had to restert customize my preferences again and its running, that was only a litttle glitch compared to you.i feel with you bro,we dont like our toys beeing deranged.
Sorry to hear about your woes, it does happen. A very fine composition, the lighting looks awesome and that character is out of this world.
Great scene setup
The render is excellent to my eyes. I know the feeling - I have to rescue an save all my files and 3D archives a year ago when Windows Vista terminated to work with DAZ (and all other programs for that matter). So I try to be very carefully but you never know when...So by every step in a scene I save, save - and if I make big changes I save the scene under another name...But if your hear someone scream in the middle of the night it could a unlucky render artist...:o[
Awesome!
Very cool scene!
Wow, that does suck! DS really needs an auto save feature. Oh well, maybe some day, sigh. Image looks really cool though ;)
I have been there my friend!!! I am almost afraid to say it.....but my DAZ has been stable for several weeks now.....I suppose I am due for a major loss...lol! NIce scene! :)
This is totally cool, and an awesome looking sci-fi pic. Nice work!
Exquisitely looking picture; light, textures, action - great!