Hi all,
For my first Ready to Render scene, I decided to go with the basics. Oftentimes, the scenes shared by the community are set for a particular model or activity. In this post, you will find four basic scenes aiming to help you quickly creating nice portrait shoots and showcase your models with your choice of outfits.
TL;DR
Everything you need is here on Mega:
CuteSvetlana.Scene-Ready to Render Sc 1.zip
CuteSvetlana.Scene-Ready to Render Sc 1 Toolkit-Background & Textures.zip
CuteSvetlana.Scene-Ready to Render Sc 1 Toolkit-Props.zip
CuteSvetlana.Scene-Ready to Render Sc 1 Toolkit-Skyboxes.zip (2 GB)
Explanation - This submission comprises of:
Four Rooms:
The main theme of the rooms is to present your model in front of a nice scenery.
- The Blue Room and the Pink Room named after their main ambient light. Both rooms have a glass pane to add some reflection effects to the scene.
- The Graffiti Room – this was actually my original idea – is here to showcase your model in front of your choice of vivid Street Art.
- The Abrito Room is inspired by Abrito, a known nude photographer on Deviant Art. He is a true master of beautifying the woman body in dance and in sport. I really love his work and wanted to take the opportunity to make his art known by more people.
All rooms come with a preloaded model shared by the community with built-in hair and clothing to reduce external dependencies.
Light rig
The main light setup is a 4 spots rig focused on the upper body of the model and one Ambient light. The 4 spots are parented to the model so they follow the model’s pose and move. The Ambient light is parented to an empty atom. You can rotate the Ambient light by selecting and rotating the atom ‘Scene Ambience Light Control’.
If there is too much reflection, try to change the ‘Back Left Contour Light’ and ‘Back Right Contour Light’ from Spot to Area.
Props, Skybox and Textures
I am also providing 21 new skyboxes and an assortment of props, textures and images to kick-start your own scenes.
Plug-ins
I did not include the common beautifier plug-ins. You can add them at your convenience and depending on the performance of your gear. Typically you’ll add Hunting-Succubus tessellation plug-in to the model and McGrubber postmagic to the ‘Scene Ambience Light Control’ atom. You may also add Nostage3’s UnityVaMifier plug-in to the props for additional control.
Tuning
Probably the part where I spend the most time is in setting up the skin to my likings. Mostly you’ll need to play around with the Skin Materials 1 and 2 tabs. If something is not quite right, check the scene Lighting effect parameters and verify the skybox settings are not too high.
You can get lucky as well. The screenshot below only took me a few minutes to make. I changed the background image and loaded one of the Lexi presets into the example scene. I adjusted the neck angle to meet the light and then loaded the outfit.
Contents:
Since it is more a toolkit that a static scene, this is not a var package. Download the different components and unzip to your VaM folder. You can use the scene subfolders to save your personal creations.
Custom\Assets\CuteSvetlana\Background
Background images for the 'Back Pane' atom, with photo from Abrito, a choice of graffitis, a short selection of high-quality wallpapers and some textures from DA MysticArtDesign for more subtle effects
Custom\Assets\CuteSvetlana\Textures
texture resources for the floor and walls
Custom\Assets\CuteSvetlana\Props
a few Unity assets to start with. A bar stool in 3 styles, a very nice couch from Blendswap, a wood step, a ladder for the Graffiti room
Custom\Assets\CuteSvetlana\Skybox
21free for use high-quality skyboxes from hdrmaps.com. Split in 4 categories for faster loading.
Saves\scene\CuteSevtlana\RRS1 Portrait
VaM Room scene files
End thoughts
I hope you'll find valuable that I took some time off from clothing conversion this week. If feedbacks are positive, I'll turn my sights to porting in the future some nice environments I've seen around. I look forward to your comments. XOXO (＾ω＾)
