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  • Lyrra MadrilLyrra Madril Posts: 277

    well I think evidence proves that I dont use things in the expected manner either.  I just like to be sure that customers dont think I skipped some things out of laziness lol

    That was a design choice for reasons! honest

    We are dicussing things, and we will see.  But meanwhile I have some clothing I need to be texturing and getting set up today ;)

    LM

  • luci45luci45 Posts: 2,772

    I love your experiments, barbult. They are inspiring, though a lot of it I don't have the skills or patience to attempt. I am really fond of the lorez skins so you can get a little closer to the camera. I would pay good money for that or the clown costumes and other clothes if you became a vendor. wink

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited June 27

    luci45 said:

    I love your experiments, barbult. They are inspiring, though a lot of it I don't have the skills or patience to attempt. I am really fond of the lorez skins so you can get a little closer to the camera. I would pay good money for that or the clown costumes and other clothes if you became a vendor. wink

    I wouldn't be able to sell the skins or the clown costume, because there they are both adaptations of Daz store products. The best I could do is try to explain how I converted them, but it was somewhat time consuming and fiddly with trial and error.

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,013

    luci45 said:

    I love your experiments, barbult. They are inspiring, though a lot of it I don't have the skills or patience to attempt. I am really fond of the lorez skins so you can get a little closer to the camera. I would pay good money for that or the clown costumes and other clothes if you became a vendor. wink

    Our hope and intentions are that PAs will create things for LowPi the same way they create things for the Genesis generations of figures, as we see LowPi as a base figure. Hopefully things will start to arrive but things takes time...

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited June 27

    LowPi hand bends are not symmetrical. Is this caused by a weight mapping discrepancy between left and right? In these examples, the left and right hands were bent to the same numeric value (left positive and right negative). The weight maps look quite different, but I am not a weight map expert by any means.
    Or is this just the hand bend limits issue we are waiting on an update for?

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  • Lyrra MadrilLyrra Madril Posts: 277

    This is the hand bend issue in the update that is waiting for a tester. We are waiting behind a big rush of summer projects. It will get there eventually, Honest!

    I also figured out the hat/hair conversion issue is with the template weightmapping, so I will be adding a Headwear template to the update as well. You can usually get around it by not using either of the templates when converting, but a dedicated Headwear template will make it simpler.

    LM

  • Lyrra MadrilLyrra Madril Posts: 277

    The issue is specifically that the bend limits between the two sides are not the same. 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411

    Lyrra Madril said:

    This is the hand bend issue in the update that is waiting for a tester. We are waiting behind a big rush of summer projects. It will get there eventually, Honest!

    I also figured out the hat/hair conversion issue is with the template weightmapping, so I will be adding a Headwear template to the update as well. You can usually get around it by not using either of the templates when converting, but a dedicated Headwear template will make it simpler.

    LM

    Thank you for the information. I found, as you did, that hair and headwear convert best with no template currently. Luci45 and I discussed that here. A dedicated template will be nice to have. Thanks for continuing to make LowPi even better.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411

    Lyrra Madril said:

    The issue is specifically that the bend limits between the two sides are not the same. 

    Thanks. Many new products and updates seem to be waiting forever in that queue. LowPi is not alone there.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited June 29

    This is my latest work in progress -  LoREZ Horse 2 as a LowPi wearable prop. The Crowd Generator seems to force LowPi feet to the ground level, so it puts the horse half underground. I tried a height maker, but the different horse poses put lowPi feet at different heights, so that was not a good solution either. The best solution I found was to let the Crowd Generator put the LowPi feet at  ground level and use mcasual script mcDropToTerrain2 to place the horse hooves on the selected ground.

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited June 30

    Here's an interesting anomaly. I made a crowd of 11 clowns on horseback. 10 were "real" and 1 was an instance. The crowd generator placed the instance higher than the other LowPi crowd members. Why is that? This screenshot is an orthographic Left view.

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,013

    barbult said:

    Here's an interesting anomaly. I made a crowd of 11 clowns on horseback. 10 were "real" and 1 was an instance. The crowd generator placed the instance higher than the other LowPi crowd members. Why is that? This screenshot is an orthographic Left view.

    It's due to fact it's wearing the horse, and the instance does not have a bounding box of it's own where you can find the hip bone, so teh hip bone placement is inherited from the instance parent, but as it is weaing somethiing "under it, the calculations for the bounding box y-min for thew lowpi gets screwed up by the added y height caused by the horse.

    Butr looking at the picture, it uses the bounding box bottom for the instance and it's at the ground, while it uses hip bone - bounding box height with the added horse drops it down for the non instances.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 1

    Totte said:

    barbult said:

    Here's an interesting anomaly. I made a crowd of 11 clowns on horseback. 10 were "real" and 1 was an instance. The crowd generator placed the instance higher than the other LowPi crowd members. Why is that? This screenshot is an orthographic Left view.

    It's due to fact it's wearing the horse, and the instance does not have a bounding box of it's own where you can find the hip bone, so teh hip bone placement is inherited from the instance parent, but as it is weaing somethiing "under it, the calculations for the bounding box y-min for thew lowpi gets screwed up by the added y height caused by the horse.

    Butr looking at the picture, it uses the bounding box bottom for the instance and it's at the ground, while it uses hip bone - bounding box height with the added horse drops it down for the non instances.

    Thank you for the explanation. 

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited June 30

    Here is another view of my LowPi on horseback, where they are less hidden by the terrain. I added a single LowPi down in the culvert.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 1

    More LowPi on horses. I think trouble is riding into this western town. Can Kaz handle it on his own?

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  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,256

    Those are amazing!

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 1

    butterflyfish said:

    Those are amazing!

    Thanks! I believe I can make a crowd of anything as long as it is parented to LowPi and I set LowPi iteself to be invisible. I think that will be my next project.Right now I am adding some more horse poses for trot and gallop.

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,013

    LowpI Script updates are finally live in  DIM

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411

    Totte said:

    LowpI Script updates are finally live in  DIM

    Thanks for the notice.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 6

    I had so much fun with my LowPi on horseback, I made LowPi on dirt bikes.

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,513

    Very nice, @barbult

    Are there anywhere in documentation listed steps necessary to put LowPi on bikes?

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 7

    Artini said:

    Very nice, @barbult

    Are there anywhere in documentation listed steps necessary to put LowPi on bikes?

    Not specifically. I parented the bike to LowPi hip and posed LowPi on it. I saved it as a wearable preset and saved the LowPi pose as a pose preset. I made a Pose Kit with the LowPi pose. I made a Prop Kit with the wearable bike. I made a Set with the Pose Kit, a Wear Kit I already had, and the Prop Kit with the bike. In the Set Builder I associated the bike prop with the LowPi pose. Then I rendered a crowd with that Set. You can look at existing sets for handheld props for inspiration/guideline.

    I forgot to mention that before starting all this I used Geometry Editor to delete a lot of the bike geometry to make it simpler. Then I decimated it 50% besides.

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,513

    Thank you for the explanation,@barbult.

    Very clever with deleting of the bike geometry.

    In Unity or the other game engines, it is pretty common to delete the geometry, that is not visible.

    I have bought in Unity store some very good looking characters with low poly.

    Will need to experiment, at some point, to get them imported to Daz Studio as LowPi figures.

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 11

    I used lots of LowPi stuff in this image.

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,013

    Those are brilliant images Barbult!

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,513

    Agree, great images, @barbult

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411

    Thank you guys. I wish more people would post. I want to see what other people are doing, too.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 13

    50 LowPi running for their life. One LowPi waiting for rescue. One LowPi rescuer on the fire truck ladder.

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,411
    edited July 13

    Another view.

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  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,013

    You've really embraced the power of LowPi Barbult! Lovely images !

     

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