What's this channel about, anyway? Well, right now it's mainly to do with 3D character creation and animation, but also has 3D printer stuff and model aircraft videos. Basically, it's a channel about stuff I'm interested in at any given time.
This whole process sucks and is a pain. I think maybe rendering in unreal engine is better and less of a pain but I just want iray in iclone for what I'm doing. What a shame it doesn't work.
I agree on all accounts. I'm fortunate that I had bought the iray plugin before they discontinued it. I really think that was a terrible decision on their part.
Excellent explanations for some problems I have had with Physics for many years now - thanks - new subscriber - BTW even though I have IC8 have been holding off installing it cause I am so familiar with IC7.9, 3DXchange etc and all my plug-ins which work well for me LiveFace [on iPhoneX] - again thanks and God Bless
Video helped me fix the Z-limit. You helped me figure out how to reinstall the cables correctly. I had to superglue the Z-limit swiitch cable end because it broke right below the set screws on the Z support. The Z would keep going and I couldn't print. This video walked me through disassembly and repairs. Thanks!
Thank you. I have an question: can change any FBX to VRM? which I tried but I could not. May be I can find the answer with video if possible .. again thank you
The thumbnail for this video was not done with iClone. It was generated with Midjourney because I'm lazy. However, one way to make cartoon characters and animate them in iClone is like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_3YiqOl7wNo.htmlsi=mH8AUSFj07BkaMtL
This video was done before Headshot 2.0 was released. Headshot works in a very similar way and is a simpler workflow with similar or better results, so if you are just copying a head scan, I would recommend that path. Unfortunately, Headshot only does heads, as the name implies, so for full bodies you still need to use Wrap.
Update: Hi Brian, I tried putting a Ring, on the tongue, but no luck yet. and I tried to animate the ring on the tongue, but as it moved, it was out of Sync, with the movement of the tongue. so I gave up for now. Lol. The only solution I know for now, is still pictures for the story. ring on tongue. Sigh! Terry
Yes, sadly, I'm not really sure how you would go about making a tongue piercing work properly, at least not off the top of my head. I'll give it some thought. Incidentally, since you seem to like my videos, I have a patreon (www.patreon.com/0calvin) for only $1 and I sometimes post behind the scenes videos there where I show how I do things a bit more in-depth. With that said, I don't make as many videos as I used to do it is up to you.
Update: I just thought of another question on the making of this video. and that is, after Justin Is Walking under that angel, I noticed the whole sky was moving. So my question is: is it possible to animate the Sky? In Circles? Thanks Terry Oh, and can you do a video of how it's possible to do an Earth Quake? Shaking effect in iClone?
Yes, the sky is really the inside of a sphere with an hdri image pasted to the inside of it. You can select the sky and animate its rotation parameters. As for simulating an earthquake, I think some camera shake would be the usual way. You would animate small, semi violent movements of the camera and that should simulate it, apart from animating any other secondary effects, of course.
Wow! Very enlightening! I was hoping you would reveal the tricks. But 1 question: Where did you come across getting that Skeleton? Reallusion Store? The breathing is amazing once the Morph is set up for it. I still have to watch your Tutorial on breathing a bit more to get that down pat. Nice Work. I loved how you had to do post Magic on using a Mask to make him disappear in the ring. Love it. Terry
I can guess how you did the magic ring, but the fire converting Justin to a skeleton, A bit more harder to figure out. Both of those effects are out of this world! Well done Brian. Terry oh, and the lighting up a cell phone is cool.
Brian, You did good, but I'm curious, if at the feet area, ( I didn't try it yet, but) What if you had a smaller Infinite plane at just the right angle that could have stopped the sliding of the panties down the feet? In theory, but the plane would be as small as both feet. right? Terry
Hi Brian, I did something somewhat similar to this on iClone 7, but the difference is that the first half of the video was in motion. And the second half was Still, Like you did. but what I did, was in the first half, I used the computer voices from Microsoft, the best ones I could use, and then I rendered Just the sound track, and used that same voice track for the stills, but I had to time each still picture, to fill the right amount of time for the sound track. and it worked. This was done before I knew you ever did this video, which was exactly what I've been considering, but with a bit of movement and stillness at the same time. and still using computer voices! I haven't made up a story yet. I usually just come up with something on the Fly, and go with it. Sometimes that works. And it gets interesting. Ok. Thanks for a great School story. That ending was totally unexpected. Peace! Terry Oh, and if you want to peek at the video I made, it's called: The Doe Family Roasts some Marshmallows on iClone 7. ( I think that's titled right. Lol. )
I love that you are using my favorite Video Editor: PowerDirector, well Mine is version 16, and is getting real old but gets the job done for my purposes. I wanted to get a newer one, but they didn't have any at the Best Buy store, so I stick with this one for now, I'm considering getting the Davinci Resolve But not sure yet. They have a paid version of D. R. but I prefer free. Peace! Terry
Hi Brian, I don't know if you've already done it, or not, but I downloaded all the voices for Microsoft Windows, and so instead of Just "David" and "Zira", you get 100 or more Voices for free. but a lot of them are for Chinese and Japanese and Italian, and Canadian and many others, are basically different Accents, and they are all Free, If they still have it. You get some few more US voices and Australian voices. I use the US, Canadian, and Australian voices myself. And sometimes I toss in My voice, Lol. Since it's Free, Check it out. It's a bit Robotic but not too bad. to me some sound convincing. I certainly try not to pay for voices. Thanks Terry P.S. I love to use that Acculips. Much better now.
Hi Brian, How come you didn't seem to use "Direct Puppet" and " Edit Motion Layer" Together, instead of Just, "Edit Motion Layer"? It seems like "Direct Puppet" would have saved a bit of time. Unless I'm overlooking something. Thanks, Terry
Brian, One way that I like to render, is Not Render! What? Yeah! you read that right. What I did, was since my computer is slow with only 16 GB of Ram, And A small Nvidia graphics card, I tried 7 characters on High res. and it crashed while trying to render it. So My solution was to put it on Quick Mode Res. And that way I was able to get all of my 7 characters, But, the system still crashed while trying to start rendering, so My solution, was to use PowerDirector 16 ( in my case) and use the Screen Capture!!! But you have to play your animation on full screen, and make sure to use Custom Size on your Capture software, and Viola!! You have a rendered show in just a few minutes or less. Check it out! I'll Wait. lol. Terry
You should be able to do a realtime (iClone native / non-Iray) render then. I'm not sure why that would not work. It should actually be less intensive on the system than trying to play things realtime while running a video capture. Good workaround, though, if it works for you.
Well, The Video Card I'm Using is only a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. Which isn't much. My other video card acted like it burned out, so I put in this card to take iit's place. It was a Nvidia RTX 2070 Super Ti 8GB VRAM. And I think this little one is 4GB of VRAM. Anyway, the only way this small card could render, is if I had 4 characters or less. And very few props. I'm worried that my old computer's Ram 16GB is wearing down. It's not that slow, so I make do with it. Thanks Brian. Terry
Hi Calvin, I have iClone 7 and it has the Popcorn Particles installed. So why not just use the Fog Particles for your fog? That would seem to save time, right? Terry
thanks for the video. but i had a problem with height alpha. everytime i made small detail. it alwasy turn pixelated. i used 1080x1080. is there something that i miss ?please help
It sounds like your texture size is too small. You can still use it while you work and deal with the pixelation because you can export your textures in a larger size, but I like to use 4096x4096 for the project unless the project is complex and things are running slowly.
In DAZ Studio, the app will NOT let you make HD Morphs; you are limited to working at "Base (LOW) Resolution," preventing you from creating detailed morphs. Is CC4 different? Thanks! EDIT: Okay, so at the very end, you answered my question. :( However, is the resolution of CC figures any greater than the Base Res of DAZ models, thereby allowing more detailed morphs in the first place?
No, the base resolution of CC characters are about the same as the base Daz characters as far as mesh detail, and as you found out, morphs are only in base resolution. For performance reasons, it is typically much better to have the fine details encoded in the texture maps known as the "normal" map. This can be done with programs like Substance Painter, which CC has a pipeline for, or to some extent with the built in SkinGen system, which lets you layer multiple skin effects on top of each other.
You can use Blender for most anything you want to do in 3D, but it isn't exactly the most intuitive program on the planet. It is still worth learning how to get around in it, though. It comes in handy all the time.
@@0calvin yes, it really helped. 😁 have you ever worked from reference in CC4? I have a character sheet from the front and from the side and would like to morph and model it. is there a function to project images into the field of view? 🤔
That's a good question. There is something sort of like that built into the headshot plugin but that only really works with photos. If I'm working from reference, I usually use a program called PureRef, which lets you stick one or more photos on the screen but it keeps them on top of all other windows. This way, you can place the photo right beside the character as you work.
@0Calvin hey buddy, I have a question, I would like to buy hair from the reallusion marketplace. But now I'm not sure if I could use it. For example, if i want to make the hair partially bald or shorten it. is that possible. and if so, can you make a tutorial? or how to make a strand thiker.
I might be able to do a video like that. But just to give you the basics, all Reallusion hair is done with "hair cards", meaning that under the hood, they are just rectangles of no thickness that have a hair texture painted on them and an opacity map that turns the rectangles into groups of individual hairs. Many are sold with morphs embedded in them that let you style them to some extent, but in Character Creator, (with the hair selected) you can click on "Edit Mesh". This gives you tools to move the hair strands around however you want. I did a video on eyebrows but hair works the same way. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uIa2Uj2aKow.htmlsi=7YxHwlsYZ6thQq8B
