Artemis DevLog CH7 (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

The poll was a great turnout! Paige is getting her hair done. I decided to take it further and provide some options for the final choice. Three styles to choose from for the final decision.

This time I added her glasses, some of you mentioned wanting to see her with her glasses.

Also, I hear your concerns about hairstyles and seeing them overused. Unfortunately, with DAZ it can be challenging with many factors at play; The artist made crappy shaders, the strands/hair don't have bones/pose dials, hair renders poorly. Most of you know I'm capable of creating my own assets or heavily modifying them. But hair is a whole other process that I'd rather not touch. Additionally, most other devs aren't 3D modelers, so creating new styles is far and few between. Best I can do for you guys is avoiding using Haven Park and create my own. But hair isn't in the future, unless I hire someone to design one for me. Which is a possibility in the future.

The point is not many hairs in the DAZ store render good and of course that's what the majority of readers want; really good renders. Consider wet hair for example. Next to Haven Park, this is probably an asset you've seen countless times

That's because there's probably only 3-5 wet hair assets in the DAZ store. Which makes it a little difficult to show wet hair that's at this level of detail. You could just ramp up the reflection and tones to make hair look wet on other hairs. But it doesn't always come out great. It also makes it difficult when you have characters with specific hair styles, like shorter bangs for example. The DAZ store just doesn't have a whole lot to choose from. It's the struggle of development when making asset choices, creating characters, etc.

So, I do apologize if either of the hairs above feel overused. The hairs that are being newly released in the DAZ store do have a higher quality to them, but most are for G9 models only and not all hairs play well when put on G8 models. One of the choices I wanted was G9 and dforce didn't work on it and when I saved a pose, loading the file didn't place the hair back onto the head, lol.

Anyways, the final part of the poll will be going up shortly. Also, next week is Thanksgiving week. My grandma, my sister and her family will be staying over to have Thanksgiving at my place, so it's going to be a short week for me next week. Just a heads up on that front.

Have yourselves a great week everyone and be safe!

digi