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By tkamal81 - 5 Years Ago
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i know it sounds awkward as nothing is easy in this world.. and by no meansi object artist and architect with professional degrees or experience can only create true 3D or 2D art.
But being a CGI cut and paste hanky panky film makers like us
how do we create 3D environment easy
i know a lot will say 3ds max maya softimage blender
but all of this tools requires high experience of 2D or 3D art and without artist and architectural and software usage knowledge you cannot peacefully create anything with those..
is there a easy drag and drop environment creation solution that we can create environment and bring to iclone as fbx or obj ..
what software is that.. i know unity has pro builder .. but lets avoid unity
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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I would be surprised to find any external software that would create entire environments/prop sets that would be already scaled and optimized with UV's PBR textures etc.) ready for use in iclone. You would still need to undertake substantial work yourself to get them in a suitable state for Iclone.
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By Procrastinator - 5 Years Ago
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With bank loads of money, you would be able to do that.
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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Procrastinator (10/29/2020)
With bank loads of money, you would be able to do that.
Blender is free and so are the many video tutorials ( Downloaded free from youtube ) I used to learn it. I make all of my Iclone clothing,environments/props in Blender and do not pay export license fees to use them. for 3D content You can try to find premade sets and props to fit your animated stories and pay for them. or learn to model ,and stop paying others ,and get exactly what you want every time. those are the choices money ..or time. ๐
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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If my choice is create a scene, or buy one for $5 - $25 dollars, the answer is almost always buy a complete scene.
Some other artist spent weeks or months creating a scene and you can usually buy it and customize it to your scene much faster than starting from scratch. From my experience it is also usually better.
The Reallusion Market Place has great content, and there are other places to buy content and bring it in into IClone.
If you are low on funds, IClone / Blender is a great toolset to create stuff yourself.
If you have a little money and time is precious, buy content either from:
Reallusion Marketplace
https://marketplace.reallusion.com/
or Reallusion Content Store
https://www.reallusion.com/contentstore/
And you can drag and drop a entire scene or other props.
I have spent a fortune on props and characters, but after a couple of years I have to buy less and less.
Kind of an investment, although I cringe the day(s) I can afford a new PC and have to reinstall everything.
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By matenn30 - 5 Years Ago
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I also have a problem. That is, the content does not sell. I sell it as a developer at the company in calculation, but now I am having a problem with sales. Only 2 pieces can be sold twice a month. This seems to be an easy and difficult problem.
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By animagic - 5 Years Ago
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I usually mix and match. Remember you only need to include what the camera sees.
One free resource I have used for buildings is 3DWarehouse. Some are actually quite good.
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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One thing I think is cool is Microsoft flight simulator gives you the entire planet to choose from for backgrounds for a shot or scene.
My favorite part about it for videos is it comes with a weather control.
So if you like a scene and want to have a video background for a sunny day, rainy, snowy or all the above it takes just a second to change it.
I look at how long it takes me to create a few acre scene and how well this AI creates almost everything it is my new favorite toy.
Microsoft Flight Simulator for Video Backgrounds.
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By matenn30 - 5 Years Ago
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Excuse me, was it a camera issue? It seemed easy and difficult, so I thought it was the whole software. Excuse me.
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By tkamal81 - 5 Years Ago
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Data Juggler (11/1/2020)
One thing I think is cool is Microsoft flight simulator gives you the entire planet to choose from for backgrounds for a shot or scene. My favorite part about it for videos is it comes with a weather control. So if you like a scene and want to have a video background for a sunny day, rainy, snowy or all the above it takes just a second to change it. I look at how long it takes me to create a few acre scene and how well this AI creates almost everything it is my new favorite toy. Microsoft Flight Simulator for Video Backgrounds.
is there a sandbox editor for microsoft fight simulator 2020
how did u get to that stage where u can control everything like weather..
can u insert objects like walls and houses and other props ..
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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I am not sure about a Sandbox editor, they do have a Developer Mode for Flight Simulator where you can bring in content from Google Earth or other places.
I have only watched this and not tried it, but this video here as a series on doing your own scenery:
This is not my video, it is a channel called Flying Theston:
As to how you get to the weather controls, there is a cloud Tool bar if you put your mouse up to the top in Flight Simulator.
Another thing I forgot to show last night is you can also set the Time of Day to any time of day:
This is neat for capturing a sunrise or a sunset, or night time of the same scene.
It takes animation from a create each scene a prop at a time to you can just go to any place on Earth by the Latitude and Longitude or go find it just by exploring. I hope someday you can export the scenes that are created. This technology is new so who knows where it will go.
Lewis and Clark would have been jealous of our technology I imagine.
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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It depends on your specific cirumstances. I became (by necessity) a Daz content developer During the latter half of my last major Marvel comic fan film project "Galactus Rising" Once you gain the freedom of being able to create your own clothing/props the thought of buying them never again crosses your mind. Also I work exclusively in the Sci fi /future tech genre and My content needs are uncompromisingly specific. Also I understand why people( who render exclusively within Iclone) would find it more convenient to use premade content ready to use. However Since Blender is my final render environment as well as my content creation suite it is more logical for me to create my sets in Blender and import the pre-animated figures via CC3 pipeline.
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By Angel Alonso - 5 Years Ago
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Is it possible to export a video of the flight in good quality? I can think of a thousand ways to use it. and on the other hand ... Do you know if this type of video could be used in a movie? ... I say this for copyright ... It would be great...
Thanks for the info!
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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You are allowed to use any scenery in videos / movies as I am not the only one that bought it for that purpose.
I have heard the Eiffel Tower lights are copyrighted, but everything you are seeing is an AI generation of satellite photometric data, so I don't think anyone would win if they did.
To my knowledge which is not very much, there is not a way to record from the cameras in flight simulator (yet).
Someone else in the forums could answer that question better than I could.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/
What I do is use the Drone camera, they call it a Showcase camera, and I do a screen record of what I want to capture.
The quality you record at I think is limited by your graphics card or video capture card I think. My software only (Movavi Video Editor) only shows 1920 x 1080 for me.
It's funny to me the game has wind mills that spin, but the few lighthouses I have looked at weren't there.
North America is due for an update later this year, so when that comes out it should make make things look even better.
One of my favorite uses is I follow #landscape #photography on Twitter. When people post a photo of an interesting place on Earth, I like to go find the photo and compare. Some are pretty amazing considering this is a flight game, it's not made specifically for rendering scenes but it does a pretty great job to me.
Here is the real photo:
Microsoft Flight Simulator right now has a bad habit of replacing rocks with Trees. I may bring this up for a feature request to fix this.
Still not bad though, the software knows the steep hill is steep.
From Microsoft Flight Simulator
My Geography knowledge was never that great, but I have learned way more about geography since I bought this.
I was thinking of making an unofficial commercial for Microsoft showing some kids in school. Teacher asks questions, and some kids know the capital or maybe a little about any place on Earth. A kid with Microsoft Flight Simulator knows the name of the town, the near by towns, the emergency military base as an alternate landing, elevation, all kinds of other stuff.
I would love IClone to have a time of day and atmosphere controls like this. Being able to control the time of day and weather for outdoor scenes would be the perfect feature for IClone 9 (Call Microsoft Reallusion).
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By Angel Alonso - 5 Years Ago
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Hey Data Juggler!
thank you very much! (y)
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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You're welcome.
FYI, I learned you can record 4K. Here is an article that tells you how to set your NVidia DSR settings to 4.0, then you can record in 3840 x 2160.
It is real hard for me to see menu options for anything with my screen set like that, but with Windows Magnifier I could get bye.
Recording a 15 minute video in 4K turned out to 8.3 Gig.
This is Crater Lake, Oregon: (At the time of this writing, the HD is still processing, so this should be done in a few hours).
Not sure how much better it looks. My eyes probably don't see in high def.
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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Here is why I prefer to create my own content.
Always exactly what I want. 
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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I can't do that. I can hit 'Place Order' though.
It may not be quite as smooth, but I can even click left handed.
We all have own skills and talents.
Mine:
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By tkamal81 - 5 Years Ago
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but what software u use to create such artistic clothing and mesh..
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By tkamal81 - 5 Years Ago
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AutoDidact (11/2/2020)
Here is why I prefer to create my own content.
Always exactly what I want.
what software u use to create such fantastic art.. can u give some tutorials for us
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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tkamal81 (11/2/2020)
but what software u use to create such artistic clothing and mesh..
I create all of my Iclone/CC3 content in the FREE blender 2.9 I use Iclone for base Character shaping and realtime Character animation of course as it is far superior to the Daz system. I dont have any 3D modeling tutorials online, but there are many thousands of Free video tutorials on youtube for those wanting to learn modeling in Blender. Blender has a Realtime engine(EEVEE) that is higher quality than Iclone and a path tracer( Cycles) that has more options than Iray (particle Smoke& fire effects)... all FREE The transfer of unlimited Imotion Data to Avatars Exported to Blender from CC3 PIpeline is SUPER Easy I do have a video tutorial on that process
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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You can do space environments in Blender
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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The ship interior
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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Imported CC3 Avatars. 
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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I created another video with Microsoft Simulator.
This time around Plockton, Scotland.
I then created a character "riding" a bicycle in place.
Pretty amazing render of this little town. Only a few flying shrubs and a couple of flickers around the pavement, but other than that not bad for computer generated:
Change the resolution to 3840 x 2160 on YouTube and it looks better.
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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Flight simulator makes some beautiful landscape renders . Your composited Iclone Avatar would be more convincing if the lighting changed when she rode into the the shaded areas of the buildings. You could probably have faked that by animating Iclones lights at certain points With the FREE Blender 2.9 and CC3 pipeline the character is, of course, actually in the environment and affected by the lighing thus no need for compositing.
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By Data Juggler - 5 Years Ago
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I don't notice things like shadows, but thanks for pointing it out.
Blender is too hard for me. I built one poker table prop I needed, but I don't like the environment.
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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I personally find Blender the perfect FREE companion rendering environment for Iclone as it offers me so many things that Iclone does not . Such as the ability to grow &style dynamic hair on any surface and it moves move with the surface for bearded animated Characters Also there are excellent free plugins that setup and import Daz content to Blender so the OP ,of this thread, could easily access all of the high quality sets& props from the Daz store and use them in Blender with his Iclone Avatars.
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By tkamal81 - 5 Years Ago
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learning blender isn't easy ..
very hard i see..
but Microsoft flight simulator is terrific idea..
I wish there was a game like gta iv or something where we could import iclone characters with animations..
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By AutoDidact - 5 Years Ago
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tkamal81 (11/5/2020)
learning blender isn't easy ..
very hard i see..
but Microsoft flight simulator is terrific idea..
I wish there was a game like gta iv or something where we could import iclone characters with animations..
GTA is made with a game engine using 3D characters modeled rigged & imported to the engine. Reallusion already provides a means to send Iclone Avatars to the major game engines with the setup tool and livelink to UE4. But you still have the learn those game engines If flight simulator could import animated Iclone Avatars Like Blender,Unity or UE4 or somehow import Iclone camera tracking Data that would be great. However right now using it create flat 2D background footage has some severe limitations if you need realistic interaction of your figures with its environment(Shadows?, reflections?).๐ค So if you do not wish to render in Iclone that is fine but rendering in another program will require you to learn that program.
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