Renderotica

Originally Posted by: thedeadjester

Sorry to hear you are not well, I hope you get better soon. When you are better I thought I would add this example. Here is what I was able to do with MeshGrabber on NG to get it to look more like what I want (and what I think looks more realistic):

I adjusted the labia minor with some random variations as well as closed the gap between the glutes up to the anus to make it more linear and smooth to the opening of the anus. Basically a morph that converges the two sides of the glutes to the base of the anus would do the trick and adding some more morphs to multiple parts of the labia minor (the topology is good enough to suppor this).

Cool! 

So your main goal is to make the butt look more natural when the thighs are splayed? Could you share me this scene for the referring? I only need the character + ng9. 

Is MeshGrabber easy to use? Morphs have too little flexibility in adjusting the shape...

Hi 3FeetWolf, nice work on the GF9 gens.  Your gens props have always been the best of the bunch, and this is one is no exception. 

I have a few feature suggestions and questions  --

1) The material preprocessing is unfortunately a bit slow.   Have you thought about running the texture preprocessing concurrently?  This could potentially speed things up significantly.   The texture creation process (under the Customize Genitalia -> Create button) might also benefit from parallelization.  

2) For the clitoral foreskin option (Use Labia Minora Color vs Use Skin Color), it would be nice to be able to control how much of each is used.   For example, I'd like to use the base material skin color but also blend in some amount of the labia minor color.   Instead of a radio button, perhaps a slider could be used to control this blending ratio.    The same approach would be useful for controlling the Labia Majora Skin Color vs Overlay Color ratio. 

3) Your G8 gens prop had a Labia Majora Swelling script, which added some additional redness to the labia majora texture.   If you implement something similar for the G9 prop, it would be very nice to be able to control the color and strength of this effect.    This could be done easily with the G8 prop since it uses LIE texture layers, but it seems that the G9 textures are all pre-baked and don't rely on the LIE system. 

Thanks for your excellent work.

I replied to you with two files in a PM. 

I would say Mesh Grabber is easy to use and, as someone else on here pointed out, it is a godsend. I find that you need to do the tweaks to the mesh early in the "framing" process of the scene, otherwise it gets less responsive the more materials, objects and morphs you add to the scene. I would argue to the investment in morphs for the base product could be recouped with an add-on product as opposed to relying on people to buy Mesh Grabber (a vendor tool) and have the patience/understanding to use the product. That's just my two cents. 

Hey 3FeetWolf, it looks like there are 7 textures that need to be preprocessed, and you are currently doing them one after the other (serially).   I was suggesting that you preprocess all 7 at once (in parallel), which can significantly speed things up.   All modern desktop systems will have multiple CPU cores available to take on concurrent workloads like this.   

I don't believe Daz Script has a multi-threading capability, but Python has good support for doing this.   Your preprocessing.exe binary is what appears to be doing the work -- I assume this is your code.    Here's a good article on implementing something like this in Python - https://www.digitalocean...-multiprocessing-example

Thanks

EDIT: So this appears to be a PBR issue. If I select the legs and body on the new gens, then add the PBR skin, they work once the materials are copied back. That sorts out the legs and body part, but the genitalia is still jacked up. 

This is the issue I mentioned earlier with Pixie 9 after applying the product and trying to render.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lvwjtkCDkAqhN8PhNIHa9oo2XC5oSseb/view?usp=share_link

Hey there, I'm a big fan of your products, and was excited about this one, but it's still giving me problems on custom figures, even after the update was installed.  I keep getting results like this:

Any ideas for a fix?