The think that gets me is the light up the nose.

It's the latest fashion. Wearing L.E.D.s up your nose lets your friends know you don't have any boogers and they double up as reading lights in tight places. . :D:P:w00t::hehe:

sort of interesting considering that it is actually possible to buy a "fully equipped" male character from the market place, like this one for example:
http://city.reallusion.com/ContentPreview.aspx?i=JIC4f34913a1cb8bce69

He's Canadian. Of course he'd use maple leaves! ;)

hah, yeah. Although when I last visited Canada in 2011,  I stayed within like a 100 mile radius from Niagara Falls but within that relatively small area saw traffic signs pointing to 3 different nude beaches. I was surprised, if not for the fact that I have not seen signs for that here in the US then because I did not think it was all that warm there. But each to their own;-)

Yes, looks very good.  Very exciting.  Yadayada.

Yet again I'm baffled by the choice of going with 2K texture maps.  We've got 4K rendering now.  We need 4K maps.  I hope they'll address this by release time comes around...  When can we expect that, by the way...  Christmas?  Last time I checked that's Q4, not Q3, as we've previously been told.  Q3 ends when September does.  So I guess we'll see it then?  RL is purposefully mute on this subject.  

Also - I hope they will give us more clothing options besides:

1. a spaghetti strap dress
2. a pair of jeans
3. a tank top
4. a blazer

We NEED TO BE ABLE TO MAKE CLOTHES FOR CHARACTERS.  We need a full replacement for Clone Cloth.    No word on that.  Anybody?  (knock, knock, knock)  Hello???

And if there's to be no Clone Cloth replacement, then we NEED A WAY TO CONFORM CLOTHING WE MAKE IN 3RD PARTY PROGRAMS TO G6.  

IT'S BEEN 8 MONTHS SINCE THE RELEASE OF ICLONE 6 AND STILL NO CHARACTER CREATION TOOLS FOR G6.  

RL, are you listening?  

1. WE NEED FULL-CHARACTER CREATION (MORPHING) CAPABILITY: CHARACTER MESH, HAIR, CLOTHING
2. THIS MEANS WE ALSO NEED TO BE ABLE TO CONFORM CLOTHING (shirts/jackets/pants) FROM 3RD PARTY PROGRAMS
3. WE NEED FULL-CHARACTER CONVERSION FROM 3RD PARTY PROGRAMS - THE DAZ>ICLONE (G2) PIPELINE IS BROKEN!!!  WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FIX THIS (2 MONTHS AND COUNTING!)


  

You have to remember that iClone is realtime animation software. It isn't just a case of adding 4K unless you are only interested in static images and not animation.



Have you been away from the forum for a while? It has been stated many times that the Character Creator is scheduled to be released in the 3rd quarter 2015 and we are still on course for that until September 30th. ;)



Character Creator comes with a selection of clothing that can be fully customised like CloneCloth. In addition we will be releasing further add-on clothing packs to build up your library.

 

Yep that's why we have these Character Creator videos to show all the exciting things that what we have coming in iClone 6.2. :)


                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

True, iClone focuses on realtime, but...

We can set max resolution on textures.  We can change anti-aliasing values and other settings when we render.

It seems to me a person could cap the realtime texture size to 1k if you wanted to, and be able to animate smoothly in realtime.  The fluid realtime animation is extremely important while you are editing.

But when it comes time to render your output, I already have many cases where the final render is not realtime anyway.  Why not allow the author to use 2k textures, output 4k png and mp4 files complete with 4x anti-alias settings.  Depending on a person's computer, you might render at realtime, or 3 fps, or even slower.  But that's up to the individual to decide.

Hey, it's still a lot faster than Indigo, right?  ;)

BOTTOM LINE: During editing, realtime is very important.  During final render, actual speed is less critical.

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I did see a lot of texture customizing boxes in the UI in the second video. This is seems like something that a user could accomplish fairly easily. For the face, the eyebrows and other facial hair are probably most significant, and those are decals in the new CC.

If your shots are needing 4K textures to look good, your also going to need increased resolution in your meshes. Just turning on smoothing is probably not enough in this case. This will be especially true for things like hair.

I would be inclined to try it when I can afford to go 4K, and yeah, I would also use lower resolution proxies for animating.

Will we have to purchase new characters or will heidi and mason work.

Carmello Holden