That would be Classic Barbarian Armor over on the Daz store As for HDRI scaling - you're very limited to what you can do with them on that score .. In your Render tab .. With "Dome Only" or "Dome and Scene" selected in the Environment Mode .. If you change DOME MODE to "Finite Sphere" and then play around with "Dome Scale Multiplier" and "Dome Radius" that will appear, then you might get some success - but I wouldn't hold my breath .. as I say, you're very limited in what you can do.

@@RaukoDaz3D That one for Gen 9 looks like it male only mate

@@KiwiHawk-downunder-nz It is for a male - but I auto-fit it to the female and put a bra on her .. :)

@@RaukoDaz3D LOL I wondered if it was a kitbash or not, OK need see if I got a suitable bra/top, thank for the replies BTW

Let me see if we're thinking the same .. You're wanting a red moon? With an emissive light lighting the scene (red?) .. but - when using an emissive at high enough value to light the scene washes the details of the moon which you want to keep and show in your image. If so .. and I might be answering a question you're not asking here .. Hehe .. then how does this sound .. There's no real way of doing it in one shot .. You'll have to render your image with the moon at high enough emission to light the scene .. but then spot render (kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmKymHtjrrhljK8) the moon only with the emissive value turned down to a level where you keep the details of the moon .. and then combine the two images in a paint package .. Hopefully, that's what you're wanting .. but if not - let me know a few more details and I'll try again!

@@RaukoDaz3D Thank you for thinking with me! As I have it now: 1 moon real with red material (vampiric render). 2nd moon copy, dark red emissive placed behind the real moon 1. Then a 3rth copy moon emissive bright red behind the second moon. So total 3 moons. This already gives a cool emission effect for the first real moon. But I miss the vague / hazy effect for the emission in my render. - Is there a button by emission for the hazy effect? - other ideas? Prefer for this render no post work in PS. Thank you. 🌹

I don't know yet - Toon stuff isn't really my thing so I'll have to have a look at it sometime to see if there's anything I can talk about ..

Good on you! Learn how to do it and then move from playing VNs to creating your own .. 👍 .. hopefully I can help you along the way!

Glad to help out - even if you didn't understand a word I said! :)

Sure. As you say - any image that you create is fine. It's yours. You own the rights etc .. Can do what you want with it. Post it anywhere or use it in something like Ren'Py .. However, use any actual asset in a game (not a flat image) .. like with Unreal or Unity .. you'd need an interactive license .. FOR EACH ASSET YOU USE .. So, model, hair, clothing etc The reason for this is because to use a character model in a game with Unreal or Unity - you'd need to distribute the models geometry with the game. You'd need to include the actual 3d model .. It's known as an "interactive license" because a player needs to interact with the model in real time to make it move, jump, punch, kick and die etc .. And for that - you need to distribute the model and it's geometry so it can be manipulated and interacted with within the game .. hence why you need a license. That clear things up?

Unlikely for the time being - I still have quite a bit of time on my Daz+ and I only got the offer for 3 months of Premier in exchange. There's no value in me switching just yet .. I will take a look at 4.23 when I get round to it - and if there's anything in there (non-premier) that's worth noting, I might do a quick overview ..

@@RaukoDaz3D Oh okay, I only hade about 3 months left on daz+ which I got one month of Premier for.

@@Poulpc Yeah, some crazy offers going round. I have 10 month? 11? Something like that and got offered 3 .. just not worth it for me .. 3 months of slightly better discounts that I currently get - and then pay 18.99 for the next 7 months I would have had Daz+ for ..

Not really .. I've just had a look and noticed the F/Stop on tone mapping had been lowered to 7 .. but that wouldn't make a huge difference .. I think it was just that the spot light was close to the models head (an arms length in real terms!) And with the Rim light being a rim light - it doesn't need to be too bright as it was mainly lighting her hair so even just a small bit of light would have the trans and gloss of the hair "reflect" enough to light it up That's my guess anyway! 😀 But, no, nothing beyond that!

I'm not sure on the name of the music to be honest. I grabbed it out of the KZbin Audio Library a long time back and what it's actually called has been lost to the mists of time. Link death will probably be due to your AV software blocking them as they're shortened links.

Glad you like what I've done here! And we always need a reminder of the basics every now and then. I've got more bad habits than enough that I need to shake myself out of from time to time!

It's never been dead! I've been away a couple of times and been busy the last 6 weeks or so! Normal service will resume!

@@RaukoDaz3D I'm really glad to hear that!

Within Daz - clearing the timeline will clear the simulation data. In this example - I'd then render the image out from Frame 30 leaving the timeline, and the dforce simulation, in place. There are more advanced techniques that could work - but I’ve not tried them with a dForce sim such as exporting the clothing item as a OBJ file with the simulated data baked in and then importing the OBJ back into Daz and fit the clothing manually to your model. Alternatively, it might be possible to create a Morph Slider with the dforce data baked in .. Sadly, going into depth with these things here will end up me writing a book! And, having not done it with a dforce sim before, I can’t guarantee it will work anyway. Is there any reason why you need to delete the timeline? Unless it’s absolutely necessary it will be a lot quicker and simpler to just render from the final frame ..

​ @RaukoDaz3D Wow thank you so much for this quick reply. I just wanted to know if there is a way to make it like a morph. DaZ is loading every time the time line with in to the scene and that is slowing things down. As I plan to work with some of the characters again and again It will be a pain to work like that. So I am just to be able to make things a lil bit easier by saving some of the morphs or Settings I need to use beforehand.

You're welcome! Glad you like!

It looks like I'm going to be doing a few more videos like this one - so no doubt indoor lighting will crop up sooner or later!

This is one of those environments I have in my library and never used .. God Bless sales where I can pick something up for pennies .. and never use .. 😀 I've just had a look at it - there's 3 lights in there .. "Light Source" .. "Light Source 2" and "Light" .. each of them are Props ... "Light Source" and "Light Source 2" are plain to see if you expand "Sunlit Breakfast Nook - Sunlight" in the Scene tab .. Whereas "Light" is in under "Nook" - expand it out and you'll see "Light" .. The only other possible light will come from a HDRI if your "Environment Node" is set to "Dome Only" or "Dome and Scene" or your Camera Headlamp on on .. I don't see any other lights beyond those above! I change to "Scene Only" and remove "Light Source", "Light Source 2" and "Light" .. and everything goes black!

Glad you got something out of it - it would be great if you could post your version somewhere so I could take a look at it!

Glad to have been some service. It's usually the little things people do (or don't do) - that can make an "ok" image become a "good" image.

I was going to type a quick answer to this .. but then realised, the more I typed - the bigger the answer got. Let me have a think on it and if there's enough - I might well just do a video!

@@RaukoDaz3D Looking forward to it!

Hey! I've been busy! Stop picking on me! ... 😀

Glad you find it useful! Am here to serve! :)

@@RaukoDaz3D Thank you.

It won't be as simple as you'll have to have a window for the light from the HDRI to come through - which will limit how much and the quality of the light that lights the model. It can be done - I'll always use a HDRI to light indoor scenes - but it's not as simple as plugging a HDRI in and hoping to get great results.

@RaukoDaz3D thank you! I've just started making my first visual novel and lighting is the thing I'm struggling the most with

Next time I do a scene with a different type of lighting set up than what I have here - I'll do a video about it. Glad you liked!

Always best to start of simple .. over-thinking tends to lead to paralysis .. just go with simple and you won't go far wrong

Not massively. Not anything that you or anybody would notice if it was set to one thing or another (unless things have changed in latest Daz versions!)

@@RaukoDaz3D I searched around a bit and from what I could find it seems to be a left over from 3Delight

@@boo63735 Yeah, it probably is - there's the odd little bit from 3delight splattered around Daz .. I've never used it in an image and never noticed any difference when I've experimented with it.

I suppose you can always justify adding any off-camera light that you want ... if it lights up the model in a good way then it makes sense it being there!!!

Thanks! Glad you like!

Sometimes the PAs get their folder structures messed up .. a fix usually involves finding them in the installation and then copying those files into the folder that Daz is looking into for them (does it give a file not found message or the like?)

@@RaukoDaz3D Yes, when loading onto the morph a box appears files not found, in this instance it's (runtime) normally its data but I have managed to re-install the zip files and cleared the problem, but this one will not clear.

It's one of my gripes in Daz also. Although, to be fair - made-for-dforce clothing goes along at a semi-decent speed. It's the older stuff that goes real slow. But there's a lot of geometry in this type of hair with lots of collisions - hence the slowness! Ah well - can't have everything!

@@RaukoDaz3D daz3d is a lazy company, were on the other hand reallusion boosted their entire product by 100% past few years and daz studio still barely do ANYTHING decently without the help of 3rd party products. I have tons of cloths from daz and i have to go hell and above to make it work on other software cz dforce is nearly impossible to work with even with a decent rig. I really hope instead of this AI BS daz game up by next year.

@@zenparvez Whereas I agree in principle- things need to get better ... We have to also remember that Daz is free software using various components created by other companies (ala QT and NVIDIA Iray) compared to other software like Reallusion .. so, they put their efforts into the assets they push .. But, yet, things need to improve in some areas .. Hopefully, with Daz 5 (.. whenever that is) - they'll be a lot of improvements simply by using a better version of QT GUI it's built upon ..

I might have a look at it some time .. but Daz has got very bloaty of late - so I can't imagine we'd fit on anywhere near the number this time. Although - I do have 128gb of Ram now so I doubt we'd be running out of that anytime soon ..

At 6:09 I just collapsed the Render Settings panel tab so it wasn't obscuring the page. If you watch me click the tab .. it then almost vanishes completely - but you can still see the tabs "Content Library", "Simulation Settings" and "Render Settings" up against the left side of the screen .. clicking on 1 of the tabs again would have the panel pop back out .. The HDRI appeared in the viewport because of two things .. firstly, I was in NVIDIA Iray Preview and, secondly, in the Render Settings (the tab I closed down) - there's a Draw Dome option (below Environment Mode). If this is set then the dome / HDRI will render out when I a) Preview the scene or b) Render the scene .. You can see me switching to NVIDIA Iray preview at 6:10 Keep any more questions coming!

I've just tested it - it's downloading now - or at least it is for me!!! 😀

@@RaukoDaz3D Thanks Rauko, I will give it a try now

@@RaukoDaz3D I sent them an email, I tried other sites and the same thing, textures and models open ok it's just the HDRI's, I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my new set-up.

Thanks for watching. Yeah, when you load up a scene and there's just cameras then you'll need to add your own lights - although - with some scenes they might come with not-so-obvious lights already .. like emissives. They won't show in the scene tab - they'll just be in-scene already and will only show when you go with a preview shot or a full render. When there are lights in scene .. point or spot lights .. then they should just work straight out of the box. If not - check on your Render tab for "Environment Mode" and make sure it's set to "Dome and Scene" or "Scene Only" .. Point and Spot lights will only show in one of those two modes. If you have any more questions - just drop them here and I'll do my best to answer!

@@RaukoDaz3D Thanks Rauko

Yeah, blame KZbin for that - it messes up some of the orders in the playlists ..

Hey - sorry for the delay - I think your comment got lost in all your "Great" comments! :) The software used is called Ren'Py (www.renpy.org/) .. it requires a little bit of coding - but you can still put something together without delving too deep into that side of things.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - I had a lot of spam at some point and it seems your comment got lost amongst it all .. You've probably sorted this by now - but if not, give me a shout again .. However, to let you know - there are a few different types of textures some of which you need to do different things with (for instance, you might have a "shader texture" in which case you'll need to select the surfaces you want to apply it to within the Surface tab before double clicking the texture)

@RaukoDaz3D seems like it was a bug. Reloaded daz at its fine. Not sure what happened