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The Name Of My Happy-Christmas-Character
It's decided: The name of my »Happy-Christmas-Character« is now set to
Chloe
Thank you very much to all who participated.
Here's the outcome of the poll as of today around 12:15 CEST:
I have to admit »Chloe« was not my own preferred name. I would have loved to see her named »Cleo« or »Daria« ... the names which are on the last places in the poll. Well, well, you do not always get what you want.
Anyway: I am going to produce some new pictures with her in the near future. Pictures of »Chloe«.
modo 601 Once Again And Hair Rendering
Last week I was going to create a new scene for a story I have in my head. This involves not only the creation of the place - living room with chairs and lamps - but also a new doll-character who plays a »prominent« (*cough* *cough*) role in this scene.
I was looking through the various hair models which I bought over the years (up until now roughly 80 for »Victoria 4«) and went for very classy hair which resembles the feeling of the 50's. Then I started rendering in modo ... and the hair looked AWFUL: You can clearly see every strain and the hairline looked so very bad. As opposed to like the hair looked in Poser renders.
I had this problem with a lot of hairs which were transferred from Poser to modo. But I wasn't able to nail the problem. So I decided to investigate very deeply into the problem. And I spent - now it comes - two whole work days in investigating. Yes, two days with rendering, refining, re-rendering and re-re-rendering again and again and again and again.
But I was able to nail down the problem to two factors: »Global Illumination« in modo and bad transparency maps in the hair model. Don't get me wrong: I love the hair model. But it turned out a model designed good enough to render in Poser is BY FAR not good enough to render in modo. So by using PhotoShop I made a new transmap and it instantly looked way better. Problem #2 solved.
Problem #1 was a bit harder to solve: The bad flat look of a all hair strains. A posting in the modo-forum over at »TheFoundry« (the guys who make modo) directed me to the right way: Skip Global Illumination for the hair and light the hair - and only the hair - using direct light sources. Yes, it is possible to »group« elements in a scene to be lighted completely independently. This is a big advantage to Poser and for example Carrara. Using this »trick« I was able to get a descent looking hair. Not as good as I liked it to be, but good looking for making my twisted little images again.
Did I say I LOVE modo once before?
Merry Christmas 2022
🎄🎇✨🎇🎄🎇✨🎇🎄🎇✨🎇🎄 ... and a good "slide" into 2023 (as we say in Germany). Be healthy, be happy and may all your dreams come true in the next year! 😃 🎄🎇✨🎇🎄🎇✨🎇🎄🎇✨🎇🎄
Setting up the website again
Just a little status-update regarding my website. As mentioned in my previous Journal entry: Cyberflating is now down but I am still researching how to set it up again. Well ... honestly ... setting up the on a new place is rather easy. The problem is a hoster which accepts erotic content. I think I already found a good place now. There's a 2nd problem: The website still will be a payed website. Please don't blame me but I want to get some money from my creations. Yes, yes, life is hard but that's the way it will be. My former »Payment Processing Service« is out because VISA as well as MasterCard has risen the barrier for payments for sites with erotic content. Well ... whatever. So I was looking into the rather new »Subscriptions« here at DA. The idea is: Subscribe here, get the pictures in the subscription-folders ... AND get some more picture on my website. Unfortunately the so called »Programming API« of DA does not contain any information if a DA-user has subscribed to a
Goodbye Cyberflating ... for now
As mentioned in my previous post Cyberflating.com is down from today on for the time being. Yes ... very sad. 😔😪😔😪😔 But as I told: Everything is backed up (including the users) and I will re-establish Cyberflating.com in the not so far future. And of course: I will still be active - more or less - here at DeviantArt so you can reach me here. 🙂
Cyberflating going down (for some time)
Yes, I'm sorry to tell this ... but I am going to switch off the Cyberflating-website for some time. My current web-hoster canceled their whole business (not only my website). And I currently neither do not have the manpower nor the mental energy to immediately transfer the whole site to another hoster. So Cyberflating is going down on: 01-Oct-2022 ** DO NOT DESPAIR ** But don't despair: It's only for some time. The whole site is already backed up and I am currently in the process of searching for a new web hoster. Actually I think I already have found one which is very professional looking (vicetemple.com). So Cyberflating will be up again. I plan to do so in in the beginning of 2023. Stay tuned! 😊 Side note: All current customers are backed up and will get free ONE YEAR access when the site is back again.
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I'm a little surprised that Luna came in a close third. But then, I figured that some people would get the pun. (Luna = (ba)lloon a)