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Daz Studio / Lights in daz studio
Last post by Nena -
Centuries ago I bought a pool at rosity, a Poser product, so you can imagine, what that means for daz studio.
Lots of work


I changed a lot of materials (marble and metals, water and more) but most important and tricky was the light.
Used a mirror with emission settings, since it's a studio product, but the ceiling needed work.
First implied an emission shader (Poser didn't had it back then, don't know about now) the luminance with 2.900 was ways too low, so I pushed it up. Still not ready to render, and in the render settings I changed the Tone Mapping to a not so white white (0.80 for all 3 values) and the by default value 13 for Exposure went down to 10.
After the render I slightly changed the Curve Point a tiny little bit higher.

I like the outcome  8)

The pool: https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/61115/home-pool-room
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Photography / Re: Next
Last post by Nena -
It amazes me, that no special settings on the cam are necessary to get such a result.
Let me say it with Spock: Fascinating!
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Photography / Re: First.
Last post by Nena -
If you would be a salesman for Olympus, I bet you would the best sellers from all!

Olympus has been my favorite since ever, got my first over 30 years ago.

About the photo, I really love the light, gives the wood a touch of cherry tree (or maybe it is cherry tree?)
Wonderful soft and clean, just beautiful.
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Photography / Next
Last post by Friedland -
Same light and same camera as in First, but different subject.



- John -
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If it matters ... it matters / Dr. Roman Yampolskiy - a serious warning about AI
Last post by Nena -
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

It's long, 1.5 hours and I stopped at 21 minutes to put the link in here.
The scary part about the video is not, what he is saying, but that I've said so from almost the beginning with public AI.

In one point at the beginning he is wrong.
There is a Sci-Fi taking AI driven robots with in.
It's The Orville
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The primary robotic species in The Orville is the Kaylon, a humanoid race of artificial lifeforms from the planet Kaylon-1 who were originally created as servants by biological beings known as the "Builders." The Kaylon overthrew their creators after enduring systematic abuse and pain simulators, leading them to conclude that all organic life is inherently cruel and must be eliminated.

And man, were they after the humans to kill them all.

Well, not sure, if I can listen to the end today, already freaking tired, but this interview/podcast really got me on the hook.
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Outlaws / Re: Banned
Last post by Friedland -
I hope I fit in here even though I didn't get banned in the technical  term.
I banned myself.

DAZ Forum - C'mon ... give me strength ...
Didn't take long to completely ignore it since it was utterly useless and strongly biased.

Renerosity - Yes, I got into a silly debate with the mods.
Result of that was I logged out never to reurn - and now I can't log in.
But before I left I emptied my gallery - or so I thought ...
And judging from Nena's experience, there's no sense in trying to talk to them at all.

RenderHub - Left it after being blatently lied to.
I hate lies and espcially caculated lies.
So as I always do when deceived, I took down my entire gallery and left.

Deviant Art - Have you seen it ..?
Jesus ... it was a nice place once, but now ... Holy crap !

Art Station - They started out well with a No AI-policy.
Then they slacked the policy and are now overrun with AI-bullsheit.
Well what the hell did they expect ?
Pillocks ! Utter pillocks !

Besides those, every social media platform you can think of.
And some you probably can't ...

So I'm a rebel with a website, but without a forum - besides this.

- John -