saphirenishi

one shoulder asym dress (g8f)

used here: one shoulder asym dress 

one shoulder asym dress

garment used: one shoulder asym dress (g8f) 

stone hallway

so, back to unreal. wanted to figure why the last "hall romper (animation)" render took so long once i raised the quality setting, so made a way more simplistic hallway, with only one material applied to it. now i know how to set it up but also know that putting a lot of reflecting surfaces on top of each other is not a good idea. you can see it really good in the wide shots i uploaded. maybe thats a better idea to do that with real raytracing

imma prepare for trouble....

garment used: pokemon - jessie outfit (g8f) 

pokemon - lorelei outfit (g8f)

load in the standard g8f character.
in the top menu go to "3d garment" -> "attach all pins to avatar"
load in your character as a morph target.
remove all pins from the scene, and simulate to let the garment settle in place.

if you want the collar to stand up more, then just make the tack length longer. (see second picture in this post)

if you want to change the angle of the collar, then remove the existing tacks,(i cant set this up in advance cause once you replace th...

serene robe (g8f)

used here: azur lane - monarch - serene robe 

load in the standard g8f character.
in the top menu go to "3d garment" -> "attach all pins to avatar"
load in your character as a morph target.
apply the "robe_soft_red" material to all the left red parts of the robe and simualte.
remove pins that create pinching on the garment, and simulate again to let the garment settle in p...

hall slow dance

garment used: short halter dress (g8f)

i really like how the hdri lighting looks inside unreal!    \o/

hall slow dance (animation)

garment used: short halter dress (g8f)

wanted to upload this yesterday, but my internet died, so here it is today.

anyways, did you know you can use animation layers inside daz using aniamte2? this is done with 3 layers, i got the main motion on layer 1, expressions on layer 2 and a blinking eyes on layer 3. this opens up so many possibilities!

also figured out now to use hdri lighting in unreal, ...

azur lane - monarch - serene robe

garment used: serene robe (g8f) 

hapyy valentine

muaaaah! ❤

pokemon - jessie outfit (g8f)

used here: imma prepare for trouble.... 

load in the standard g8f character.
in the top menu go to "3d garment" -> "attach all pins to avatar"
load in your character as a morph target.
remove all pins from the scene, and simulate to let the garment settle in place.

if you want less fluffy arms, select them and lower the pressure in the property editor

rocky rocks

garment used: long low cut evening dress (g8f)

haha, couldnt decide which ones to upload, so made it easy on myself and just uploaded everything. problem solved!!!

pushing things to far

unreal broke my vram!!! my poor old gpu couldnt really handle the first settings i tried and it broke the whole calculation.

tried to re-render the hallway scene yesterday night. since i figured out how to fix the light bleeding and so i thought i give it a try to see what it would look like. well, i started to bake the lighting before i went to bed, when i woke up, 7 hours later, it was still working on the first pass and had done about 10%. just so you know, unreal works with two pass...

me vs epic

haha, ok still need to learn a lot about setting up pbr materials. theirs looks so complicated. i never worked with prb materials since vray is using the glossiness system.

epic/unreal skin shaders

so, playing with unreal for a couple of weeks now, i figured it is time to see how the pros are doing things, so i downloaded the digital human from unreal and used their shader setup and applied them to saphy to see what would happen. all rendered in real time and this is the result

still a problem/ solved

in the last animation, if you look at the hair it has some weird effects on it. i get what is happening now, but no idea how to solve it yet. if i put saphy out of focus on the camera, the translucent/masked materials dont get any dof/ blurriness calculated on them. so hair, lashes and eye reflection, which are all having a masked applied to it, are in focus which they shouldnt be.

update: unreal has so many menus to go through. even the menus have their own menus so finding ...

better shaders and lightmass calculation

i understand why saph her legs where so bright in the previous animation as well, and thats all fixed now. its painful slow processes you have to go through but in the end its well worth it all

fixed light bleeding

last animation i had a lot of trouble with light bleeding and artifacts. so i found the solution on how to fix it all. now we got a nice clean result without any weird effects on it.

hall romper (animation)

garment used: denim romper (g8f)

so, now everything together. boob and hair physics, dynamic clothing, fixed animation, unreal "real time" rendering.

not really sure why her legs are so bright. i dont think that look physically correct. also i really need to learn how to setup proper camera movements. so i guess thats up next

better floor contact and boob physics

download the better floor contact and boob physics.avi vid. the file is 6 mb big

getting the body physics back to work, so i can imported it all back into daz to use with animate2, was not easy to achieve, but i figured it out. a cool thing which i didnt think about is, its really easy to convert these mocap animations once they are ready for daz into aniblocks, so you guys can use these animat...

oopsie

download the oopsie.avi vid. the file is 10 mb big

garments used: dark star top (g8f) and plated skirt (g8f)

i think i pissed off youtube with that last vid i uploaded. got an angry email with a first w...

dark star top (g8f)

used here:
dark star top 
oopsie 

dark star top

garments used: dark star top (g8f) and plated skirt (g8f)

aniMate2

fbx exports were pissing me off cause of the weird results it gives on bending on limbs and well, everything that rotates. so i got aniMate2 for daz which lets you export a vertex cloud which means you get what you see right out of daz. now daz has this nice system were it holds everything in the right place and now we can have that in any animation we make.

just look at the big difference on the shoulders it gives, but there is downside to this workflow as well. since its a vertex anim...

particles test

garment used: diamond cut dress (g3f)

still on the catwalk scene but now testing particles. didnt mess up the expression morph targets this time, so all seems to work. not to happy with the hair movement but making the movement happening inside marvelous designer does seem the way to go with the hair for now. also figured out how to make the eyes track the camera

was looking around on yo...

catwalk

garment used: azur lane - st louis - dress (g8f)

full real time rendering this time. the thing with real time rendering is that it doesnt calculate any ambient light bounces. so it looks flat. also its really demanding on the power of your pc. i had a lot of trouble with flickering lights and textures getting really blurry. was able to fix things a little bit, but not really a fan of real tim...

keep on riding

watch animation here  or download the animation in avi format below

ok, so experimenting with a moving bed sheet made in marvelous designer, not sure if i like the result but it works. imported a morph target for an expression where she opens her mouth, i actually also had a morph target with her eyes closed...

floor contact

if you wanna have a believable animation you will have to have your character's feet hit the ground properly. if its off the animation will suck. see all vids below this one!

when using motion capture there is always things you need to fix, like feet and head to remove weird wiggles and noise from the captured data, move the feet to the right position without messing up the knees and everything above it. and so on. 

so thats what im trying here. i like how it looks for a firs...

dress speed test

now its all about speed, especially testing if marvelous designer can keep up with really fast animation movements. i was expecting some exploding to happen on the dress but marvelous designer is keeping up amazingly well

rotation problem unreal

ok, so fixed the problem with the clothing from marvelous designer. there is no delays, no poke throughs, fits perfectly and animates really great. so i figured, lets try a spinning animation with a dress, right?! well, you know how things are, if you fix one thing there is always an other thing that wont work.

now the problem is getting bone rotations to work properly inside unreal. in any other 3d app you can apply a rotation from 0 to 360 degrees and if you want to go further you can...