robkelk Wrote:Oh, great - it's only after I pay good money for Victoria 4 Complete and Apartment 39 that I learn they're on the DVD included with Figures, Characters and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art. Oh, well - the DVD also includes Michael 4 Complete, the Millennium Dragon, Carrara 6 Pro, and Hexagon 2.5, so it's still a decent buy for me. For somebody just starting in the hobby, it's a great bargain. (Apparently, the book reads like an ad, so you're buying it for the DVD.)Ignore the Chapters/Indigo link - they're now listing the book as Out Of Stock.
page, and http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Fig ... wsec=Books for us Canadians who have to worry about the current postal-workers lockout.
Anyway...
My Very First Contest Render is in the third post on http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=164988&start=960. There's a larger version of the image http://web.ncf.ca/fm536/renders/he%20th ... 20star.png.
Yes, I know Michael has a few skin-mat problems. Yes, I know the foreground and background shadows don't line up. I don't have time to fix these problems and make the contest deadline.
It's much easier to work with lights in Daz4 than it is in Daz3 (or, at least, it is for me).
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
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