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Published: 2011-08-17 05:43:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 3999; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 170
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Testing out this nifty li'l ground prop.. Wanted to do a magic-like effect.
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Krystal sitting on a giant, glowing Star of David... Mozel Tov?
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I like the light beamy effect! Kinda reminds me of a circle of protection... probably from blue.
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That's what I was thinking when I saw it, too. Maybe I'll do an FMA parody sometime.
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Oh dear lord, PLEASE DO THAT!!
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Oh I think she would make an even better Lust.
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Not sure how I got that confused XD
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Oh Drr. I meant lust. Envy was the dude with the long spiky hair.
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I have seen a female pull off an Envy cosplay, way back in the day. Was quite awesome, in fact.
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For the longest time, I was convinced that Envy was a flat chested chick, it was the voice. It sounded more "Evil girl" than "Evil guy". That was quite a shock for me on those last few episodes XD
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I had assumed Envy was a female as well, since I'd seen this aforementioned cosplay of the character before I even saw FMA.
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It's interesting, but might be a bit too bright white, obscuring some of the subject.
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Yeah, that's some tweaking I still need to work with. These were the default settings.. and the test render just looked so neat, I had to toss it up here.
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Excellent work, Daymond. Krystal is uber badass. Sweet lighting effect.
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Still playing with it, though. The lighting isn't -quite- how I want it. :>
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Maybe. But, it was still a great first try.
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I was always curious about why the default texture setup for the adventures outfit has a strong, metallic refection map applied to the loin cloth. I can't really tell in this image if you turned it off or not (maybe it only happened in Daz Studio, who knows), it just made me think about it.
On a slightly more related subject, great image! As usual, the posing and expressions are top-notch. Good work.
P.S.
Just a friendly warning, I'm probably going to bug you about some Krystal-specific Poser settings sometime in the near future. Sometime when it's not a ridiculously late hour.
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I didn't turn off the strong reflection map in this one. Interestingly, I've found that it -really- only seems to be blown way out of proportion is when I'm using some lighting rigs that use heavy Ambient Occlusion, or an IBL setup. When those come into play, the reflection map area turns really dark.
I've been trying to investigate that, because the same sort of setups turn Dr. Villainess' silver goggles near-black.
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Hmm, that is strange. I can't see any reason way IBL would cause the reflection to blackout... that's exactly what's not supposed to happen. The reflective areas turning really dark is what usually happens when there is nothing to reflect (empty scene without IBL) or you don't have any ray tracing bounces. Having only one bounce has done it to me before, but it usually means I forgot to set any at all.
And I haven't the foggiest why using Ambient Occlusion would cause that effect 
Again, I'm posting this after being awake for way too long, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt (or a cube... a cube is good). I'm hoping to have regained at least partial lucidness by the weekend.
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Just though of this, sorry. With the goggles, you can add a chrome-esque texture map (blend with a gray scale map if it is too strong) and ratchet the reflectivity down to a much lower value to achieve a look much like the reflective metal should look. I've used that technique when reflective metal is giving me fits, and it can look very natural. I know you've found a way to get the look you want, I just thought I'd mention it.
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Neat effect. Looks like an adventure scene. I think I have that prop. I'll have to check.
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It's from that Japanese site Poserclub. Pretty nice prop
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Maybe I don't have this. I'll check on it.
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Trying to give her Adventures outfit some love..
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^^ My Fave outfit so I'm Glad to see her in it ^^
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