Hello L.A. I wonder how you would do a EDI model, without having headache because of textures and stuff, how would it look like? Would you use DAZ body or prefer in Game Model? Would it have genitals? Special Flexes only she has? This question is just for fun, but not about what´s technically possible ;)
I wouldn't. It would be a Daz model. The textures would be a nightmare.
There's a reason it hasn't been done yet.
I've seen a lot of your tutorial videos. Very enlightening. Could you elaborate a bit more on your workflow? Are you shaping your models in Daz and/or Blender? Is all your animating done in SFM? Are you also creating the scene/background/map from scratch? Further more: do you think you would ever create animations with scrotum-less models? (I really admire the works of Galaxy Pink.) Cheers, Martin von Doom
Sure. 3dsMax. Yes. "From scratch" in the sense of pulling assets together and using them to build a scene, not in the sense of meshing and texturing the assets from nothing. No. Cheers.
Your blog post made it sound like Blue Star Episode 4 was next up to be worked on after Rachaos was finished. But, with Rachaos cancelled/delayed, where does that leave Blue Star? Is that what is being worked on now or are you working on something else?
Blue Star Episode 4 comes after Overbreed Episode 1. See my pinned Tweet thread: https://twitter.com/LordAardvark/status/1420135929063251968?s=20
There is a non-zero probability I will make a smaller project in between them. With any luck, Blue Star Episode 4 will begin production sometime next year. Early, late, I can't say. But hopefully next year.
I also have some ancillary Blue Star content in the workshop. Nothing to share yet, nothing to promise. But there's big blue booty currently on the anvil.
Do you find it even more difficult than ever to get your video projects finished due to the Covid 19 fiasco?
Only as it impacts the schedules of my voice talent and editor.
Since my work is entirely web-based, it's been very minimally impacted. Only one of the endless list of ways I am extremely privileged and fortunate to make the living the way I do.
What are the chances of getting a .dmx session for that harley jack'otwerk for... expanding ones assets and knowhow of sfm animation? (or the fact that those jigglebones are on point and I have no clue how to animate them that well for my own devices)
Sure!
Made a Tweet with the link. Find the Tweet here: https://twitter.com/LordAardvark/status/1432149737923244035?s=20
And here's a direct link to the file. It's fully self-contained. https://files.lordaardvark.com/Assets/Projects/Harley_Jacko_SessionFile.7z
How difficult would it be to port your Chaos model into Blender, and can you point me in the right direction of some tutorials or other guides to do so?
Pretty straightforward, I'd imagine.
As to getting started there, you have two routes: the classic decompilation route, or the newfangled direct-import route.
For classic decompilation, you'll want to look into how to set up Crowbar and use it to decompile the model, and then use the Blender Source Tools to import the decompiled mesh into Blender.
For the newfangled direct-import, there is a Blender tool that can supposedly directly import the model straight into Blender, with all the bells and whistles that you'd otherwise have to assemble yourself via the decompilation route. I've never used the latter, so I can't speak for its efficacy.
Either way, once you've got the model into Blender, you're outside my wheelhouse and I am entrusting you to the plethora of general Blender use guides that exist on the Internet.
Hello, how long does it take for a vote to end?
Assuming you are referring to models, the vote ends when the Wheel is spun. The general way it goes is as such:
1.) On a Wednesday modeling stream, the Wheel is spun, and a model is chosen.
2.) That model is removed from the Wheel, and is put in a temporary buffer zone - if the model gets finished in 3 weeks, then it gets placed in the "finished models" pile; otherwise, it gets placed back onto the wheel under the "models to finish" section.
3.) The vote is ended. The submission with the most votes is added to the Wheel. All votes are reset to zero, and the long-time losers of the vote are purged to keep the list reasonable. All pending models are added for the next vote, and the next vote is started.
4.) The model is built over the next 3 streams. Either 3 streams pass and the model is released in its unfinished state, or the model is finished and released.
5.) Return to step 1, and begin the cycle again.
The Wheel is always spun on a stream. Usually at the beginning of a stream, but sometimes it's spun mid-way through a stream or even at the tail end of a stream. Regardless, though, a model is always given 3 streams to be built as much as it can be.
Note that everything is measured in streams, and not weeks. Weeks where I, for whatever reason, cancel the modeling stream do not count. It's 3 streams, not 3 weeks. They are often the same, but not always.
A lot of your DazV4 models on SFMLab are in public domain, what about the new DazV5 models you put on your site here? I wanted to port some of your DazV5 models to Source Filmmaker 2 as well. Once I port them, may I post them on SFMLab linking/crediting you? Or can I send them to you and you can post them on your site? There are just not a lot of models for Source Filmmaker 2 (especially good ones like yours), so if I ported them I wanted to make them available to others if you are ok with that.
Absolutely, go for it. All I ever ask for is credit where it's due.
If you find yourself needing source files, don't hesitate to ask. Though DazV5 (outside some of the super early models, like the Samus prototype and maybe the first two DazV5 models) should be much simpler to port via decompiling than DazV4 was, due to DazV5 being built on a better solution to the deformations problem than DazV4's "spread legs when compiled, use flexes to bring them back together" method.
Hello, this is your side https://www.patreon.com/posts/4881531
Aha!
Yeah I have no plans to build anything like that in the near future. Thanks for taking the time to hunt it down for me, though. 2016, yeah I completely forgot about it since.
Can you simply port Fireboxstudio's Elsa and Anna to SFM ? It has 100% canon body,
I could, but I personally prefer building models from the ground up, myself.