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Using the New Filament Draw Options

DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,623
edited October 15 in The Commons

Hey there, this is Dartanbeck.

Say, I've been working away at the next Creative Cart episode and wanted to utilize the new Filament Draw Options in Daz Studio. I used Filament last time (The Tribute to Jack Tomalin) and it really worked well - and that was the 'then' Filament Options. 

 

The reason being that the Iray viewport, which I don't really notice while I'm busily recording my work session, flashes bright white between refreshes. It never really hit me at first - but I thought I'd try Filament and do a little extra work to make it look better on screen than something else, like Texture Shaded, for example. Though I've tried others too.

 

With a big sigh of relief after (finally) completing the promo video for this month's Halloween Special, I loaded my favorite character, Rosie 8.24, and decided to see if i could create a new version of her that's optimized for Filament - and vice versa.

This is not meant to be a brightly lit scene - she'll be in a shady back alley

 

This all came from the idea that was born in getting things set up for the upcoming show - a Filament Lighting Rig preset with a Distant, a Key, Rim and Fill Light - each with their own swivel around point zero (for individually rotating the chosen light around the center of the scene) which are all housed in a single rig located at the same spot - the point blank zero location that marks where everything loads.

 

So as long as I'm using this setup and Filament during the show, I thought - hey, why not give this to everyone so I can show them how it works during the show?!!!

 

So there's now a free light rig on my website - made to supplement the Daz 3D - Daz Studio Creative Cart show.

 

The post for that particular episode is HERE

 

Never heard of it?

The Creative Cart is a Free, Live Webinar event that we hold every month - showcasing Daz 3D content and creative ways to get it out of the My Daz 3D Library and into a rendered image folder so we can share something cool with the world.

There are often upgrades you can buy instead of just the free course, and in case you miss one or want to collect them for your own keeping, they're sold later on here at Daz 3D.

 

The cool part about attending the actual webinar is that I pause from my presentation throughout each show to see if anyone has any questions. At some point during each show Paul, of Digital Art Live and Daz 3D, asks the audience if anyone wants to share their screen - show some art that pertains to the episode. It's really cool.

 

The cool part about having it as a recording is that we can pause - even change the speed (I know my video player can) at certain points if we want.

 

You see, I record myself working most of the show ahead of time and edit out the boring, long waits - loading, rendering, simulating, etc., - which makes it possible for me to cover a lot more cool stuff in each webisode than what would be possible otherwise - which is why I never sleep! LOL

 

Why am I explaining the show in this thread?

Because I'll be demonstrating some cool things in this one that pertains directly to utilizing these amazing new Filament Draw Options for our every day work - and rendering too! 

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Comments

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 7,138
    Great! I'd love to learn！
  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,623

    crosswind said:

    Great! I'd love to learn！

    I want to learn too! You always teach me new tricks... Always!!!

    It's a lot of fun to share! :)

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,623
    edited October 15

    This is freaking Filament!!!

     

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  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,623

    Learned m'self more new fun tricks since that first post! 

    That's what I do. I learn, learn, learn... experiment... all in preparation for these shows. I forgot to sleep again last night. I might get 8 hours in a week

  • TesseractSpaceTesseractSpace Posts: 1,407

    sadly I'm not good with video tutorials, but if there's a transcript in the Daz release, I'll grab that when it comes out.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,623

    They're not really tutorials. More like a demonstration of fun stuff to do in Daz Studio.

    Trying to write all this down is what I was attempting to do when I was introduced to Paul Bussey and all of this got started. Saved literally Years of my life because I can work much faster than I can type down my thoughts ;)

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