Hi guys, I hope you are all doing well.
Things are good here, I finished up a couple of animations I was working on. I had to go back to an older version of Daz studio because of the bugs in the current version. Now I've already finished them a new beta version has just been released, great timing! Oh well, I still have some more animations to do yet so I can't complain too much.
I've only just downloaded the new beta and it has a pretty cool new feature. A seemingly much improved real time renderer for the viewport. The old OpenGL based renderer was pretty bad, it really doesn't work well with the PBR materials Iray requires and typically looks nothing like what Iray produces. It can also just be plain hard to work with because everything looks the same color at times. Here take a look.
OpenGL

Google Filament

It's like night and day (quite literally :) ). Hopefully this will make posing the characters easier and faster. We'll see I guess.
I ended the current poll for deciding on what color swimsuit Nikki will wear, the winner was

It got more than double the votes than any of the other options, which to be honest surprised me. I felt it was one of the weaker options and I almost didn't even add it to the list. But you guys have spoken and I'll trust in your choice :). I opened up the thread if anyone wants to see what the other options were.
Anyways, I mentioned last week we would not see Karen or Haley in this final ending so I guess it's only fair they get a bit of attention here.



I hope you all enjoy and that's all from me.
Thank you all as always and take care out there.
Alberto Martinez
2020-10-15 21:35:46 +0000 UTCHolif
2020-10-15 18:05:38 +0000 UTCTarakis
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