https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=4054
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Nik
Friday, 10 September 2021, 02:31 PM

3 Free Trees
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I found these three free trees for Daz Studio by genejoke over on Renderosity.

https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/85136/free-trees-for-daz-studio

I was ready to export as OBJ from DS, or 'rip' their DSF meshes with ($$) DSF Tools, when I noticed genejoke had kindly included their OBJ files Also, his neat 1k textures were Poser-compatible. Foliage Leaves & twigs are transparency-mapped onto low-poly 'flats'.

For this test-scene, I loaded each OBJ at ~300% of standard figure height, set bark diffuse & bump, leaves diffuse & transparency textures.

Several trial renders showed the scene needed a lot of light, something I'm far from mastering.

Eventually, I set Superfly, progressive, 96 pixel samples, 64 vol-bounces and buckets, sent job to my network-render 'Box', which ran in ~1½ hours.

I saved scene as a PZ3 so, if I can sufficiently improve the lighting, I'll post render in 'Comments'.


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Nik
Saturday, 11 September 2021, 08:59 PM

3 Free Trees And A Bear...
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I played around with the lights, found 'Diffuse IBL' was the perp. And, no, I do not yet know why. Another urgent RTFM required...

Having day-lit scene, I added one of Honorsoft's free grizzly bear ports.

https://www.deviantart.com/honorsoft/art/Grizzly-Bear-Pack-v2-891508884

The set came as both .MESH.ASCII and FBX, plus excellent textures. The FBX imported to Poser at 50 ~~ 80% of original scale, auto-loaded textures. Yay !! 

It seemed to have broken to two sub-rigs, but both were intact. Turned out to have [b][i]two complete, rigged bears[/i][/b], with differing 'Levels of Detail'. I only needed one, so used 'Hierarchy' to delete the other. Did some mild posing, ran several local trial renders. Set Superfly, progressive, 96 pixel-samples, 64 vol-bounces and buckets. Sent the job to my network render 'Box', which took ~100 mins.


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Chromium
Monday, 13 September 2021, 12:21 PM

Re: 3 Free Trees
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Looks like a good find.


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rico
Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 05:56 AM

Re: 3 Free Trees
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:thumb: Thank you very much, they look great!


