Dem Pouty Lips!
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Hair Re-haired
Holy cow this was a lot of work! But I think it will be worth it. I re-did her hair.. It's longer, too.
I think I'm gonna go with Jo for her name. So Jo's hair is more complex than Maria's, by a factor of 3 or 4 perhaps.. If not more. But it's done and I don't have to mess with it any more.<...
2018-02-20 06:31:40 +0000 UTC View PostZipp-a-dee doo dah!
Hey all! Check out how nicely this new girl is shaping up. Isn't she cute? The hair is still a work-in-progress. Well all of her is a work-in-progress.
Anyone want to suggest a name for her? I was thinking Shaunna.. Shanie... I dunno.
Also Maria's big animation is on frame 4247 out of ...
2018-02-19 10:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The Result of This Evening's Stream
Could this be the beginnings of the next muscle-engorged CGMan girl?
2018-02-17 05:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostNice trip, Shakespear!
Coming up on frame 2900 (out of 5555).
I just slipped and fell down some stairs. Nothing serious though.. My left foot is sore, side of my back is sore, and I scraped my elbow & pinky. Oh, and I spilled hot rice & beans all over my right forearm.
Waiting for more rice & beans to cook.
2018-02-16 21:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostProgress Report
Hey all,
Nothing much to report other than I am rendering frame 2048 out of a total of 5555. It's looking great, too.
2018-02-15 03:11:55 +0000 UTC View PostNow I'm REALLY rendering.
Last night I was experiencing some issues. Super long delays before each frame started rendering, and the rendering itself was painfully slow. 17 minutes per frame.
I submitted some bug reports and heard back from Lightwave support this morning. Now I made some changes and I'm getting a frame done every 1.5 m...
2018-02-11 18:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostBetter...
We are well into the zone where the sim was freaking out last time.. It's hanging in there. So that's good news. Should be done in a few hours.
2018-02-10 22:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostProgress(?)
I sit before you a broken man.
The last fifth of the animation was causing terrible problems with Maria's pants sim. I stopped the sim and made changes.. Resuming the sim from a hundred frames earlier showed a bit of improvement. But still went south at the end. I ended up retooling the sim 4 times and ...
2018-02-09 06:56:06 +0000 UTC View PostProgress!
All done with the top. Adding some pants now. These won't take as long, thankfully. Then it's render-time!
2018-02-06 00:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostProgress for today
So I was simming cloth all day.. Things were going great.. The tearing is off-the-charts cool. Best ever. But then I hit a problem... the shirt slipping off earlier than it was supposed to. I was trying to increase the friction... 10 times... 50 times... 1000 times.. 1,000,000 times.. Nothing ...
2018-02-03 06:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostJust keep Simmin'
Cloth sim still at it.. I think it may be another day or two. :/
2018-02-02 05:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostProgressing
Breast sims are done. Shirt is a simmin'. It will probably take all day.
Ermahgerd!
I woke up today with a new version of the cloth simulator plugin in my email. It has a new "sew" feature. Check out the attached video. Way cool!
Not sure how to use it yet, but I am stoked.
2018-01-31 13:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is new
So I am (probably) mostly done with Maria's breast sims. And there is BE in the animation too... One of you were asking for that.
On the cloth front, it seems to be at a stand-still.. The cloth sim developer is not responding to my emails... What I might have to do is have the shirt rip in all places all at o...
2018-01-31 02:56:34 +0000 UTC View PostCloth Under Investigation
Hair is solved.. I heard from the cloth sim dude. He is looking at it but cannot replicate my issue so far.
I made this little video showing the problem.
2018-01-29 21:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostHair issue resolved.
Lightwave support fixed me up. Cloth sim issue remains. Hopefully not for long!
2018-01-29 18:33:41 +0000 UTC View PostToday's Report: Strides & Bugs
Today was a series of moving ahead and running into walls.
I modeled Maria's top and got about halfway through setting it up for getting torn up when I hit a problem that I believe is a bug. I sent a copy of the scene to the cloth sim developer and hopefully I will hear a solution from him tomorrow.
So instead I we...
2018-01-29 03:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostProgress!
Got the growth sequence done! Time for the sims (hair, breast, etc). Getting close to R-day!
2018-01-27 23:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostLat'll do, Maria. Lat'll do.
It's true what they say... The fifth time's the charm!
2018-01-25 12:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post(Grumble)
Lats problem is fighting me tooth and nail.. But I'm not giving up!
2018-01-24 22:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostProgress: Abs
Abs animated, and also their rig remastered with even better deformations.
Now to fix the lats!!
2018-01-24 00:21:19 +0000 UTC View PostProgress Report!
Hey all! I've been quiet, but I have been quietly working. By now I have transferred all of Maria's animation to her final high resolution model. With a few exceptions:
1. Need to animate her tummy flexes.
2. I need to fix her lats. They look good standing still but there are deformation problems....
2018-01-23 04:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAnimation Progress Report
Flex shapes (morph shapes + displacement maps) are complete! More to come, stay tooned!
Wow...
Just finished making all of the flexing / bouncing shapes for Maria's pecs. I've out-done myself this time.. This is next-level. ;)
I know I keep saying this... But there's no way I could have done all this without this new version of LW. This is like Maria 2.0.
