Fabiana Appreciation Thread
MissLeah
Posts: 61
Rather than necro a (very old) thread I found to thank Fabiana for her beautiful creations, I figured I'd start a new one to welcome her over here at Daz. Welcome Fabiana!
The first time I saw those gorgeous ear chains in a promo pic here, I knew I had to try to find out where they came from. Found them on the other site and wishlisted them, but never got around to buying them, since I do all my asset buying here. You better believe all the things I had wishlisted over there went directly into my cart here on Monday, when Fabi joined as a Daz PA. Now I can decorate my characters with the jewelry I knew they were meant to have.
Thanks and welcome, Fabi! I can't wait to see what else you have for us.
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Ooh! Those are gorgeous lights! Thanks, ZippyGuitar! One more item for the wishlist.
I want to chime in, I own quite a few Fabiana items from Rendo, and literally EVERYTHING is just amazing. She puts so much thought and care and love into her products. I'm overjoyed really that she's finally here as well, and I'll get the new stuff ready-made for DIM.
I especially adore the lighting sets (Theory of Light) - as already mentioned above, they are absolutely gorgeous, with many different settings and add-ons provided. If you like a bit of a painterly feel to your renders, try them! - Sadly, the fabulous 'glow helper' from the now retired Alter Glow set doesn't work anymore since the DS update that killed the old-method ghost lights, but everything else is still simply great, and maybe even that will get a remake one day (one can hope, that Glow Helper did amazing things).
Even more, I love the Shader Plan sets. The shaders are so, SOOOOO gorgeous and versatile, and they're ridiculously small in file size because she really knows how to work with Iray, instead of simply throwing mega-size texture maps in there to make things look good and realistic. I use them all the time and plan to buy the few that I haven't got yet (also hoping for more).
Lastly, those new dForce necklaces with beads - such a superb set, and so cleverly made. Recommend them to everyone who wants realistically behaving jewelry in their renders.
But really, like I said, anything from her store is excellent, and it will behave as promised in the promos. Go Fabi!
You can add me to the list of long-term fans of Fabi's products!
I started my collection by buying her products for Aiko 3 at 3DCommune almost 20 years ago
I do a lot of kitbashing and otherwise massaging the assets I buy, but I scarcely have to do this with Fabiana products because they're so versatile and modular right out of the box. It's so freeing, and it saves me so much time during the stage of every render in which I inevitably put a half-dozen of the tiny rings from Espiritu Bohemio on a character. (I have bought like three versions of Espiritu Bohemio for various generations and I look forward to buying the Genesis 10 one.) She has also seemed incredibly nice every time I've run into her on the forums here.
As I've said before, I'm a hardcore fan of Fabiana's work. Not only do I love her design and the variety of her materials and morphs - the way she handles the goldsmithing side of her models is also a delight.
I am a trained goldsmith myself and have worked in this profession for some years, so I can see whether a jewellery model would be feasible, realistic and stable in 'analogue' form. Fabiana's models fulfil my personal requirements. I can't buy 3D jewellery models that I can see would fall apart in 'real' form the second time I wear them, sorry. It's a personal quirk of mine.
Back when they only did stuff for Poser, it took them a long time before they turned to DS stuff for ages I remember they wouldn't even consider DS users. There were quite a few creators who once took that stance.
YES, Glow Helper resurrection!
Thar's great to hear. Please don't feel pushed though, I'm sure you got lots of other fantastic stuff in the pipeline as well.
i have 18 items from the other store, the Theory of Lights, all of them, Alter quite a few , and jewelry. All the work is top notch. Its great to see you here, Fabiana.
I bought the Fabiana Velvet Shaders and the Blankets. The only disappointment with this purchase is that Daz didn't bother to add useful metadata. Everything is lumped in Lost and Found, without types, categories, or compatibilities. This is no fault of Fabiana. Metadata is supposed to be created by Daz after PAs submit their products. Fortunately for users, Fabiana has things well organized in the Content Library folders. I'm in the process of creating my own metadata for these two products, because I rely on Smart Content for efficient workflow.
I used the velvet shader on the dress, draped a blanket over her shoulder and added one of the feather earrings.
...any chance we might see updates for some of the Gen 4 items to G8/9?
barbult said:
I'd love to create metadata for the ear and face chains products but I'm not sure how to go about it. Do you know of a good tutorial anywhere on that?
Hi @Fabiana, I hope it's okay to post this question here - it's just that I've run into a tiny bit of bother with the G9 expansion of the lovely Piercings set. So, I used the male version on KOO Kevin for G9 (picked the right folder as well, the one with all the G9 presets in it), and somehow, the topmost cuff doesn't seem to fit while everything else does. And what's more, I cannot figure out which of the (plentiful) adjustment morphs could fix it. It looks like the cuff needs to move inwards, but I can only find morphs that move the whole set, or that rotate the cuff. Am I overlooking something, what can I do? Help would be much appreciated, thank you!
(Am attaching pic!)
If you're still looking for one, quoting @memcneil70 from another recent thread about metadata:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FQQ9uLhMSKQ
Thank you @Elor! Appreciate it.
I've been buying up Fabi's products since I found her back on 3DCommune and been following her ever since! My absolute favorite set of hers and a go-to for pretty much any render I create is The Shader Plan - Iray Satined Textiles! Had to do a bunch of flipping back and forth between Rendo and here when her stuff moved over so I could keep track of what I have between the two sites lmao
Hi @Fabiana, no prob at all, I wasn't in any kind of hurry! And it's really sweet of you to check the thread for questions anyway. I will try the Move Front-Back again I think, maybe I just didn't use it quite right. Cheers!
Hi @Fabiana. Do you have any tips for fitting the cuff to non-human ears? So far, I've had to do it manually by moving, scaling, and translating the parts where I need them. It's worth the effort to me to use the ear chains on my characters, but I didn't know if I was missing an easier way to do it. Thanks so much for answering our questions!
\This is a good start, But it could use an update and I cannot get things that are parts of other things to work.
https://www.daz3d.com/bunnylisious-outfit-for-g8f?_gl=1*4q46iy*_up*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqN6T49355AIVjYCfCh0fNA8CEAAYASAAEgJklPD_BwE
For example, making the cufflinks work with the cuffs.
I've been buying from Fabi since her days at 3D Commune. It goes without saying that she is one of the best PA's in this little niche of ours, if not the best.
