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Holy cow this was a lot of work! But I think it will be worth it. I re-did her hair.. It's longer, too.I think I'm gonna go with Jo for her name. So Jo's hair is more complex than Maria's, by a factor of 3 or 4 perhaps.. If not more. But it's done and I don't have to mess with it any more.EDIT: Managed to reduce much of the jittering in the sim. MP4 updated.

Zipp-a-dee doo dah!

Hey all! Check out how nicely this new girl is shaping up. Isn't she cute? The hair is still a work-in-progress. Well all of her is a work-in-progress.Anyone want to suggest a name for her? I was thinking Shaunna.. Shanie... I dunno.Also Maria's big animation is on frame 4247 out of 5555. Getting close!

Further Refinements

The Result of This Evening's Stream

Could this be the beginnings of the next muscle-engorged CGMan girl?

Nice trip, Shakespear!

Coming up on frame 2900 (out of 5555).I just slipped and fell down some stairs. Nothing serious though.. My left foot is sore, side of my back is sore, and I scraped my elbow & pinky. Oh, and I spilled hot rice & beans all over my right forearm.Waiting for more rice & beans to cook.

Progress Report

Hey all,Nothing much to report other than I am rendering frame 2048 out of a total of 5555. It's looking great, too.

Now I'm REALLY rendering.

Last night I was experiencing some issues. Super long delays before each frame started rendering, and the rendering itself was painfully slow. 17 minutes per frame.I submitted some bug reports and heard back from Lightwave support this morning. Now I made some changes and I'm getting a frame done every 1.5 minutes. Now we're cookin'! It will slow down a bit as Maria gets closer to the camera, but nothing close to 17 minutes slow.Here's a look at the first frame. Now all I can do ...

Rendering

....has begun!

Better...

We are well into the zone where the sim was freaking out last time.. It's hanging in there. So that's good news. Should be done in a few hours.

Progress(?)

I sit before you a broken man.The last fifth of the animation was causing terrible problems with Maria's pants sim. I stopped the sim and made changes.. Resuming the sim from a hundred frames earlier showed a bit of improvement. But still went south at the end. I ended up retooling the sim 4 times and still nothing fully kept it from spazzing out at the end (even though it got a bit better each time).Today I tried what I thought would be the "nuclear option." I added nulls that follo...

Progress!

All done with the top. Adding some pants now. These won't take as long, thankfully. Then it's render-time!

Progress for today

So I was simming cloth all day.. Things were going great.. The tearing is off-the-charts cool. Best ever. But then I hit a problem... the shirt slipping off earlier than it was supposed to. I was trying to increase the friction... 10 times... 50 times... 1000 times.. 1,000,000 times.. Nothing working. Finally I used the equivalent of killing a ladybug with a tactical nuke. After spinning my tires for the past 7 hours I am finally back to simming.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmA7Nm4qvGE

Just keep Simmin'

Cloth sim still at it.. I think it may be another day or two. :/

Progressing

Breast sims are done. Shirt is a simmin'. It will probably take all day.

Ermahgerd!

I woke up today with a new version of the cloth simulator plugin in my email. It has a new "sew" feature. Check out the attached video. Way cool!Not sure how to use it yet, but I am stoked.

What is new

So I am (probably) mostly done with Maria's breast sims. And there is BE in the animation too... One of you were asking for that.On the cloth front, it seems to be at a stand-still.. The cloth sim developer is not responding to my emails... What I might have to do is have the shirt rip in all places all at once. That's not what I intended but... If it's broken, it's broken. Not much I can do, really. So if I don't hear from him by the time I am done with the breast sims, I wi...

Cloth Under Investigation

Hair is solved.. I heard from the cloth sim dude. He is looking at it but cannot replicate my issue so far.I made this little video showing the problem.

Hair issue resolved.

Lightwave support fixed me up. Cloth sim issue remains. Hopefully not for long!

Today's Report: Strides & Bugs

Today was a series of moving ahead and running into walls.I modeled Maria's top and got about halfway through setting it up for getting torn up when I hit a problem that I believe is a bug. I sent a copy of the scene to the cloth sim developer and hopefully I will hear a solution from him tomorrow.So instead I went and simmed her hair. All was going well until I went to set up the render settings for the hair. Insta-crash every time I activated hair rendering. I believe this is also a bug be...

Progress!

Got the growth sequence done! Time for the sims (hair, breast, etc). Getting close to R-day!

Lat'll do, Maria. Lat'll do.

It's true what they say... The fifth time's the charm!

(Grumble)

Lats problem is fighting me tooth and nail.. But I'm not giving up!

Progress: Abs

Abs animated, and also their rig remastered with even better deformations.Now to fix the lats!!

Progress Report!

Hey all! I've been quiet, but I have been quietly working. By now I have transferred all of Maria's animation to her final high resolution model. With a few exceptions:1. Need to animate her tummy flexes.2. I need to fix her lats. They look good standing still but there are deformation problems.. May need to completely re-rig how they work.3. Booby sims which need to be done last. :)Anyway, this is a really exciting time for me because after all this time I finally see her moving in her ...

Animation Progress Report

Flex shapes (morph shapes + displacement maps) are complete! More to come, stay tooned!

Wow...

Just finished making all of the flexing / bouncing shapes for Maria's pecs. I've out-done myself this time.. This is next-level. ;)I know I keep saying this... But there's no way I could have done all this without this new version of LW. This is like Maria 2.0.