Pics 161: Planning for Day 2 and Day 3

 Since most of you have access to Day 1 already, (at least I hope you do, I'm writing from early June), thought I'd share my tentative plans for day 2 and day 3. Thanks to the limitations of Daz props, some things have already had to change.

One thing that is new is better: "wet" and "dry" models. There are tools you can buy to turn any skin into wet skin, but I found a video online explaining it using texture settings. Wet skin is shinier and wet hair sticks to the body tighter. Wet swim suit is darker and more opaque, so it will be fun to make the status easier.

 Day 2 is not all beach fun of course. but I don't have the wardrobe to make a new outfit for every occasion. These are the non swim outfits. On the left is the "fun casual" outfit Ariane will wear on the sailboat, the casino and the aviary.

The casino has a scene where if Ariane starts losing money she unbuttons her top to get some credit. Unfortunately, tops that can be unbuttoned for Genesis 8.1 are practically non existent due to dForce draping tech that doesn't work with unbuttoned clothes. So instead of 4 buttons to unbutton she has one. I'll figure out what to do when I get there.

The Vexing Day 3 puzzle that turned out to be easy

Day 3 hiking is: "I'm not completely naked. I have a hat, sunglasses, a backpack, and tennis shoes." The problem was the hat.

The only V 8.1 hats that fit the ponytail hair is a baseball cap as shown on the right. I mean the baseball cap works, but then I remembered that to ride the bus to town Ariane has to use her hat to cover chest, and the baseball cap is comically small for that task.

So I thought about changing the hair to no ponytail, and I could use the original hair and original hat instead, like on the left, but I really wanted to keep the hair consistent and changing the hair in day 3 would feel like a defeat.

That's when a revelation hit me: SHIT! THE OLD HAT WORKS WITH THE NEW HAIR!!!

Here's the front and back view to prove the perfect fit. I barely had to make any adjustments to the hair to avoid poke throughs.

If you're wondering where the flowers came from, they have always been on the hat and I hid them in the old renders. In honor of being the "best hat", the flowers can stay. Left hat is the classic old color, the dark one on the right is what I'm using now.

You can see the new backpack. I loved the "panda" backpack, I found the original clip art online at a free clip art site, and put it on the new backpack.

You might notice a more "fun" aesthetic this time around. It was all intentional. Ariane 4.2 feels too "formal", Ariane 8.2 feels like a fun girl especially on vacation. So the kitty cat top on day 1, the cartoonish top on day 2, the panda backpack, the circle sunglasses, and the flowery hat are all intentional.

The biggest remaining problem with the pony tail hair on day 3 is the electric scooters and helmets. I'll probably do what I did last time: render with wearing the helmet and no hair, and then with hair but no helmet, and photo edit the two together so her hair sticks out of the helmet.

 Finally, here is the very first picture I did for "Day 2" and should already be in the game. The beach figures were designed for Daz, but I used them in Poser for the "I spy" game, and didn't want to have to make the puzzle over. So I made an ocean and sky picture in Daz Studio and loaded in as a background in Poser, then loaded the poser original and erased the old sky to create a perfect duplicate so that the game would work. I did a similar technique for the Gilligan and Skipper tribute in Day 1 because remaking them in Daz would be too hard.

July will definitely have Day 2 remastered pics. Here's a Day 2 preview.

Day 2 has more pictures than day 1 and day 3 combined. This was a new set I had to light and took longer than I hoped. I'm almost done with the hiking path on day 2. I may release an update in early July with just that path. The beach, nude beach, coral reef, taco stand, sailing, casino and aviary paths are my July project.