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Thank you very much!!
3 min read
First of all, Thank you very much for all the good wishes! 
That means a lot for me, even if i am not very active at the moment. The fight against the tumor (esophageal cancer) has just begun. Chemotherapy is like using the Heavy Gustav against the tumor... It will have a lot of result, but some collateral damages too.
Nevertheless, tomorrow the "second shot" will be fired. At the moment 4 cycles of Chemotherapy are planned, followed by the surgical removing of this damn thing and 4 further chemical cycles to destroy possible cancer-cells that has maybe still survived.
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That means a lot for me, even if i am not very active at the moment. The fight against the tumor (esophageal cancer) has just begun. Chemotherapy is like using the Heavy Gustav against the tumor... It will have a lot of result, but some collateral damages too.
Nevertheless, tomorrow the "second shot" will be fired. At the moment 4 cycles of Chemotherapy are planned, followed by the surgical removing of this damn thing and 4 further chemical cycles to destroy possible cancer-cells that has maybe still survived.
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This mean in short words: You are allowed to download it, share it, distribute it, sell it, transmit it and use it in whole or in parts for you own work. So long as you mentioned the source (i.e. a backlink to the work on DA) and share you own derivative work under the same or a similar license.
All downloads are available in HiRes without any annoying watermark. Download-size differs from 1280x960 (some older works) up to 3600x2700 pixels and even more (depending on different aspect-ratios i had used).
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Hard time for me
3 min read
I am not in the hospital yet, but it will become a hard time for me in the next weeks and months. It is a malignant tumor in the esophagus and it will surely kill me if it left untreated. I don't know all the english words (it is even difficult in german) for the surgically process that will be follow... and maybe Radiotherapy, chemotherapy etc. This and next week the physicians will investigate, how big the tumor is and how it can be removed.
So, that's for all so far... I hope, everyone understands, that i am not in a good mood for continue working on my works so far. At least i finished and uploaded "Cattack!" ( fav.me/d7hdshj ) today and i hope, that i will be able to continue my works, especially the DAMNADAS-comic, in the future!
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All downloads are available in HiRes without any annoying watermark. Download-size differs from 1280x960 (some older works) up to 3600x2700 pixels and even more (depending on different aspect-ratios i had used).
So, that's for all so far... I hope, everyone understands, that i am not in a good mood for continue working on my works so far. At least i finished and uploaded "Cattack!" ( fav.me/d7hdshj ) today and i hope, that i will be able to continue my works, especially the DAMNADAS-comic, in the future!
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I will be offline for a while
2 min read
I will be off-line for a while... Can't say, how long, but it got ill and it is something serious and i must go th the hospital tomorrow.
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This mean in short words: You are allowed to download it, share it, distribute it, sell it, transmit it and use it in whole or in parts for you own work. So long as you mentioned the source (i.e. a backlink to the work on DA) and share you own derivative work under the same or a similar license.
All downloads are available in HiRes without any annoying watermark. Download-size differs from 1280x960 (some older works) up to 3600x2700 pixels and even more (depending on different aspect-ratios i had used).
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Old wine in new bottles
4 min read
Almost every hour the 3D-world is coming up with something new, and almost every year you have to upgrade your system so it can handle all this new, amazing stuff that is eating RAM faster than a hungry dragon maidens...
But stop! What is with all your old stuff? What's about V4, M4 or even V3 and all the accessories for it? Clothing, jewelry, morphs, hair and so on.
I did not thought about during working on it, it, but i just realized, that i used only old content when creating my newest work: fav.me/d77i89l
The old serengeti-cyclorama... It's from 2004 or so, the old DAZ MilBigCat, the poor guy is still good old M4 with its morphs. Old stuff is not outdated. I guess, trying to use the brand new DAZ BigCat 2 instead of the old kitty would had crashed my system with "hairing up" the first cheetah with LAMH... Not to talk about using Genesis or Genesis 2 instead of M4.
A german saying is "Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen", roughly translated into english it means literally "Old wine in new bottles" and actually it means something negative; that something old comes only in a new, shiny wrapping... But for 3D this proverb has not a negative meaning: Using the newest program versions and plugins (bottles) for pimping up old content (wine) and saving a lot of RAM by doing so.
DS 4.6 is great! The smoothing-modifier and its collision-iterations to work on old meshes and align clothes to different characters without poke-throughs or fussing around with millions of not really working fit-morphs. I can use my old V3-clothes even on Genesis 2 or fit female clothes to male figures and vice versa.
Or "Look at my Hair" (LAMH), the awesome plug-in to give your characters real hair or fur. In older works like fav.me/d55brgz i was forced to simulate fur with tricky lighting, displacement-maps and a lot of post-production in PSP X4, and this dirty trick worked only for very short fur. With LAMH the good old MilBigCat can still shine in the African sun 
I don't have much new stuff for Genesis or Genesis 2 yet... I can put my old clothes of M4 and V4, even stuff for M3 and V3 on it... On the other side new Genesis-clothing will only fit on Genesis... This old wine is tasting better and better from new bottles!
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All downloads are available in HiRes without any annoying watermark. Download-size differs from 1280x960 (some older works) up to 3600x2700 pixels and even more (depending on different aspect-ratios i had used).
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Finally back in business!
5 min read
Oookay... DA is working again for me now... I can upload new and edit old works again. I don't know, what was broken. but the DA-staff has repaired it... Thank you very much!!
But another point is bothering me... It's DAZ-Studio. Just the other day i lost 3 evenings of work again due some weird behavior of DS.
I created a new scene, worked on it, saved it, worked on it and so on... After loading the scene without problems i moved the camera... and DS crashed.
So far this is often a usual behaviour of DS... No problem... I load DS again and tried to load my scene again... and DS crashed again during the loading-process... Damn!
Okay, the third try... with the same result... Restating my PC completely new, loading DS, trying to load my scene which worked until the first crash... with the same result.. DS crashed during loading the scene-file.
Cool! All work for nothing so far! It seems, DS is doing always some read/write process in the background on a scene when you work on it. So if you load a working scene and DS is crashing while you work on it, it can happen, that the scene-file on your HD get corrupted too, even if you don't saved it manually via "Save file..." before the crash. You lost your scene in the RAM... and you can lost your scene on your HD.
The only workaround is to safe every process of your scene with an enw filename, like "scene01", working on it, next saving as "scene02" and so on, if you don't want to lost all of your work in one crash of DS. So if, for example, "scene22" is crashing and DS is destroying the last saved version of it on your HD down too, try to reload "scene21" after restarting DS.
I am practise this kind of saving works already in "Hexagon", that has a nasty tendency to suddenly refuse to work too...
Okay, enough ranting... Next step... Leaving the comfort-zone: While you get more and more familiar with your used software during the years, there is growing the danger that you are doing the same things over and over again, e.g. in the first years you tried out a lot of new things, memorized or saved working presets, and used them over and over again... I's comfortable, easy and cut down production time a lot!
I did this with my light-setups and material-settings in DS a lot... Sometimes i tried the Reality/Luxrender but never got really familar with it... And during the last years i have used my working light-presets for the 3Delight-engine and because of this once in countless hours worked out presets are doing working so fine and fast i ignored Omnifreakers "ÜberEnvironment 2" completely... Shame on me!
So my next work is going to be done with "ÜberEnvironment 2"... It cost me a lot of time again to get a little bit familar with this forgotten tool, but the first results are looking very promising... Very "LuxRender-ish" but 100 times faster done! I am still tweaking on the settings, trying out what happened, if i move the slider XY to 50% or to 150% and so on...
And it will be done with "Look at my Hair Version 1.5" that is allowing now multiple haired up figures in one scene... Lets's see, how many haired up characters my PC is able to handle
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This mean in short words: You are allowed to download it, share it, distribute it, sell it, transmit it and use it in whole or in parts for you own work. So long as you mentioned the source (i.e. a backlink to the work on DA) and share you own derivative work under the same or a similar license.
All downloads are available in HiRes without any annoying watermark. Download-size differs from 1280x960 (some older works) up to 3600x2700 pixels and even more (depending on different aspect-ratios i had used).
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Thank you very much!! by ancestorsrelic, journal
Thank you very much!!
First of all, Thank you very much for all the good wishes! :w00t:
That means a lot for me, even if i am not very active at the moment. The fight against the tumor (esophageal cancer) has just begun. Chemotherapy is like using the Heavy Gustav against the tumor... It will have a lot of result, but some collateral damages too.
Nevertheless, tomorrow the "second shot" will be fired. At the moment 4 cycles of Chemotherapy are planned, followed by the surgical removing of this damn thing and 4 further chemical cycles to destroy possible cancer-cells that has maybe still survived.
.
Hard time for me by ancestorsrelic, journal
Hard time for me
I am not in the hospital yet, but it will become a hard time for me in the next weeks and months. It is a malignant tumor in the esophagus and it will surely kill me if it left untreated. I don't know all the english words (it is even difficult in german) for the surgically process that will be follow... and maybe Radiotherapy, chemotherapy etc. This and next week the physicians will investigate, how big the tumor is and how it can be removed.
So, that's for all so far... I hope, everyone understands, that i am not in a good mood for continue working on my works so far. At least i finished and uploaded "Cattack!" ( http://fav.me/d7hdshj )
I will be offline for a while by ancestorsrelic, journal
I will be offline for a while
I will be off-line for a while... Can't say, how long, but it got ill and it is something serious and i must go th the hospital tomorrow.
.
Old wine in new bottles by ancestorsrelic, journal
Old wine in new bottles
Almost every hour the 3D-world is coming up with something new, and almost every year you have to upgrade your system so it can handle all this new, amazing stuff that is eating RAM faster than a hungry dragon maidens...
But stop! What is with all your old stuff? What's about V4, M4 or even V3 and all the accessories for it? Clothing, jewelry, morphs, hair and so on.
I did not thought about during working on it, it, but i just realized, that i used only old content when creating my newest work: http://fav.me/d77i89l
The old serengeti-cyclorama... It's from 2004 or so, the old DAZ MilBigCat, the poor guy is still good old M4 with its morphs.
Finally back in business! by ancestorsrelic, journal
Finally back in business!
Oookay... DA is working again for me now... I can upload new and edit old works again. I don't know, what was broken. but the DA-staff has repaired it... Thank you very much!! :w00t:
But another point is bothering me... It's DAZ-Studio. Just the other day i lost 3 evenings of work again due some weird behavior of DS.
I created a new scene, worked on it, saved it, worked on it and so on... After loading the scene without problems i moved the camera... and DS crashed.
So far this is often a usual behaviour of DS... No problem... I load DS again and tried to load my scene again... and DS crashed again during the loading-process... Damn!
Okay, t