Renderotica

So, was playing around with the new Vicky 9 and the filatoon shader. Kinda cool. But the various G9 Meipe products aren't rendering properly, they're coming out as glossy white.

I assume that's because they're intended for IRAY, which Filatoon is not So it makes sense. BUT, I was wondering if there were settings in the surfaces tabs, or shaders that could be attached, that would make it work. I confess I'm not a DAZ expert, so before I go and mess around with stuff, I thought I would check here.

I'm fully prepared to accept that "nope, won't work, wrong textures/shaders/shells/etc" - but IF it can work, I'd love to know how so I can try some comic lewds :-)

Thanks!

~ Psyberskald

Looking good so far. Filatoon is using GeoShells for the outline, so a lot of trouble comes with the interaction between different GeoShells. Also, Filatoon is not meant to be used with HD or other highly detailed textures. So reducing the details is the name of the game. For my conversions, I often disable all displacement and/or normal maps.

The main issue with using geograft products like Dicktator with FilaToon is that they rely on geometry shells with opacity maps to blend textures between the geografts and the base figure, and FilaToon (or Filament in general) doesn't handle opacity that well. Even if you set "pbr masked threshold" to 1, which stops the shader from trying to make the opacity map sharp, it'll have like a dark shadow around the entire opacity map causing an ugly dark seam between grafts.

If we want to use Dicktator with FilaToon, we'll need new textures that a) match the anime style of the base anime characters and Vicky 9, and b) doesn't use geometry shells with opacity maps for textures (maybe using the Layered Image Editor for blending pubic textures instead? with toony textures you probably won't need to worry about texture resolution that much).

Originally Posted by: Meipe

I'll release some texture sets without geometry shells!

You're the best! Thanks!

~ Psyberskald

Originally Posted by: demon90

Sorry if it's an obvious question but will the update work for G8 or is it only for G8.1

For the moment I'm finishing to build the G9 version with support for Golden Palace, Dicktator, Double Danglers and Breastacular...

Originally Posted by: Meipe

Originally Posted by: demon90

Sorry if it's an obvious question but will the update work for G8 or is it only for G8.1

For the moment I'm finishing to build the G9 version with support for Golden Palace, Dicktator, Double Danglers and Breastacular...

stupid question but are you considering expansion products for Filatoon as well, like "pumping pole"?

"If?"

Come on, now, you're the glue that holds the adult rendering community together! Without your efforts, this site would be a desert. Without being too disrespectful to the other hard-working content creators, your work functions better than anyone else's I've tried, and I'm not alone in thinking so. Hentai renders would just explode in popularity; it's a niche needing to be filled!

(Ignoring any puns about filling niches, of course...)

Help us, Obi-wan Meipe. You're our only hope.