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Virtual Insanity
🕑 Added 2020-06-24 23:43:17 +0000 UTCHi guys, I trust you are all doing well.
Things are good here, work continues as normal.
I'm sure you're all wondering how long until the next update, I'm getting closer but there is still a ways to go yet.
I'm about to start working on the "main event" as it were, with Karen, Nikki and Haley. For every extra character in a scene it takes longer to make because of the extra posing required, so It's slower going.
I've also still got a scene with Dr. Williams and Officer Juru to do as well, I want all the girls to have an animation each too, so that's 5 more animations to create. So yeah, still a fair bit to do yet. I don't dare estimate how long it's going to take. You'll know when I know :)
Following on from last week I thought I would talk about Daz studio render settings again. This time specifically the tone mapping tab.
So these are the settings I used for the above render.
Tone mapping is needed because otherwise Iray will output the raw luminance of each pixel. This is bad because Iray is a physically based renderer, the raw values will have a much higher dynamic range than our displays. To quote Wikipedia " Tone mapping addresses the problem of strong contrast reduction from the scene radiance to the displayable range while preserving the image details and color appearance important to appreciate the original scene content. "
A lot of these settings you don't really need to adjust. I'll just go over the main ones.
Tone mapping is a post process, It should not effect render performance at all.
The Exposure Value basically changes how bright the output will be. If your scene is too dark you can just lower this to make the image brighter, or increase to make darker.
Shutter Speed, F/Stop and Film ISO do not need to be touched unless you are trying to recreate with specific real world camera settings. All they basically do is just change the above exposure value. They do not give the other effects you would expect on a real world camera such as motion blur, depth of field or noise.
Burn highlights per component. This only it tends to desaturate the image so I leave it off.
Burn highlights and Crush blacks effect how the darkest and brightest parts of the image are mapped to the output. The higher the values the more they are compressed, Dark greys become black and bright greys become white. I find 0.1 a good balance. The output doesn't look too flat and I can always adjust it more in post if I want. If it's set too high, detail in the bright and dark areas can be lost that you can't get back in post.
And that's about it.
In this week's commission our patron wanted to see Nikki in VR. That's fine by me but as I know not everyone can view VR images and did some normal ones too.
I think these turned out well, I hope you all enjoy them.
I'll attach the VR versions below for those who can view them.
And that's all I have for you for now.
Thank you all as always and take care.
Comments
Weirdguy
You're welcome (I'm the patreon guy who got to pick this weeks bonus pictures, so I went with Nikki sex in VR in a locker room). There is another set of pics that I recommend. Stig put out a series of pics of ALL of the girls on a bed with no background (just black environment). The picture of all of the women in the nude sitting together is pretty hot.
Weirdguy
Well, technically I have to eat crow. There was a sex scene with the girlfriend Haley doing reverse cowgirl, and its even the only animated VR video that Stig has put out. But, I still think of this set of pictures as better, because i'll be honest and reverse cowgirl doesn't do it for me.
Alberto Martinez
I’m just gonna guess and say Nikki is DDD cups, Karen is D cups, and Haley is C cups., anyone agree?
Stiglet
Noted. I may have to create some kind of toggle or alternate versions for the interpolated animations. My coding ability is abysmal though so we'll see how it goes.
Stiglet
Indeed, I refer you to here https://www.patreon.com/posts/26515092
Alberto Martinez
Beautiful, by the way sir, do you know the cup sizes of the girls?
God Damn, Karen in that dress! Amazing work
Toridan
Two of his girlfriends, one in a black dress and the other in a purple one :)
Weirdguy
There has been the occasional VR pictures and even a few animations before, but now we have our FIRST sex scene in VR. I am happy to say I like it a lot. Even the bonus from the BJ picture you get to look at her nice behind in the mirror. And I even am impressed by the locker room. That background was a lot more complicated than I would have done. Well done. And, yay! 1st VR sex scene. Thumbs up.
JV
I just hope that the next version is going to be better optimized than the latest (0.12.3a). I have not been able to play it through because it freezes every time near certain animations. Only music keeps going. Something that has never happened before with previous updates.
Blueno
VR?!?!?! OMFG And I get my Valve Index in 3 weeks baby! Nikki in VR is a dream come true. VR is starting to take off now. I can see this game going VR easy.
Erik Wastel
I can’t wait to play it
Gray Metal Fox
Thanks for the renders and great info on Daz, as I'm learning to use it.
CommanderCipher
These little Daz studio insights are super useful. Thanks for including them each time! :)
Tarakis
MOST EXCELLENT!!!!!!! :D CHEERS (c)
