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I brought her back - Amanda II Remastered
🕑 Added 2022-04-11 03:38:53 +0000 UTCThis is how I spent my Sunday - how was yours?
I am posting after working 14 hours straight. I got up and had this idea:
What if I got 'old' Amanda, and - this time applying everything I have learned in 15 months of using Daz 4 - managed to remaster her to the point where she looked great and all her outfits worked perfectly. And I could use her in the great lighting and environments of DS4 and at the same time use all my 10 years of saved Victoria 4 poses? And I could use dForce and auto-fit and smoothing modifiers and have no poke through at all on her lovely V4 clothes?
Well, mission accomplished.
I've re-textured everything you will see - every single surface - with custom iRay shaders built from scratch. Based on a year ago when I only understood what 10% of the settings do, I now understand about 60% of it... so this is progress. I can even explain to you Dual Lobe Specularity and Glossy Anistopy Rotations if I had to.
Every single outfit from Amanda II's wardrobe has been preserved and updated. I have added smoothing/collision modifiers to all of it so I never get poke through even around the hips when bending legs. Different items can be worn on top of each other in layers. Thank you Daz 4! And I have made her some new pantyhose from scratch using a Geoshell.
Amanda II was never the problem - it was Daz 3. The lighting was horrible, the clothing was always poking though, the postwork requirement on all those old images was huge.
Hopefully now I can have the best of both worlds.
I missed her.
Not sure how much airtime she will get on Patreon, I guess that's down to you? Even though Amanda II reigned supreme from 2016-2020 I still kept Amanda I going in Teen Rebel form. So I guess now I will be able to go back to her whenever I feel like dusting off an old Mummy, using old poses and not having to spend hours building a new Genesis 8 pose from scratch. Or maybe combining her with the latest in Daz 4 dangers.
Speaking of Genesis 8, do you think that some kind of time travel dimension swap story is possible where she could meet Genesis 8 Amanda?
*** Included glasses version for you weirdos who like that
*** Plan for tomorrow - eat, wash, tidy the place
Comments
Duck-Bot
Thank you!!
Torqual3D
Added another glasses variant for you in the latest post :-)
Duck-Bot
On behalf of all weirdos, thank you for the glasses. Pretty eyes and they are great picture frames. It's nice when you can figure out how to make stars and planets align. It's wonderful seeing the dust knocked off and A2 getting some love again. Also, dimension hopping is a fantastic idea. Discovered some device, maybe a watch that will dimension hop her? Baddies were hot on her tail and before they could checkmate her, she uses the device and vanished to another reality?
