Fillers of Xade

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IOX Filler #8 Renders of Hiatus and Alex

Xade

on Feb. 23, 2009

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As I said above I thought I would flash my BIOS yesterday (to me day before yesterday to you) and fried my chip. On the bright side I now have a core duo comp, new mobo, new ram, and new hard drive. Normally it is wicked fast, easily handing a fully clothed model in the daz to hexagon bridge for a quick fix. But now it's so sluggish I gave up because it desperately wants a reboot. And if I reboot it, then it won't turn back on until I replace the chip.

Anyhow, dont worry, the new chip is on its way and I will probably send the old to asus for reflashing so I have an emergency backup.

I did have a very nice filler for Christmas planned, involving Alex in his current getup and someone else but…. Maybe next year.

On a side note While I am making custom 3d meshes and junk I will be documenting and making a tutorial series called Tutorials of Xade. The link is below. There's not much there yet but you get to see a cool picture of my avatar, and it is there where you will find out why my wardrobe changed.

Aired on IOX: on Dec 24, 2008

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User: Unigirl 5

Oooh! Update!
Good luck with getting your computer up and running again!

I know computers can be annFillers of Xade
Daz3d If you go to daz3d and make an account please use my link, I will be able to get more models and junk.

You know when he says "Sure!" he's gonna sneak something in. ;)
Jean-Luc said it all but the benefits and drawbacks.

Benefits:
-Much faster comics. I just place, pose, render, add text and go.
-Longer comics ^_^
-With my rather large library and all that Daz can actually do, coupled with Hexagon, a 3d model maker/editor, which is another daz product, you probably will not get bored any time soon with "sameness"
-You will get to see some hand crafted models that I made, which can be imported into daz 3d.
-Fully rendered scenes make awesome wallpapers with a little photoshopping.
-Better backgrounds, with less effort on my behalf. Imagine a 3d model of Potlight that looks the way I see it with pwToon. I have a "city block" that I'll show over at FOX this week with the most popular one.
-Much better detail!
-Can easily do crowds with many models and photoshop.
-Might have time for more comics, Ive been meaning to do Trainer's story but just dont have the art skill for it. This might solve that problem. :(

Drawbacks:
-Spell and special effects might look a little out of place but I doubt it with my skill and transparencies with 3d models.
-I will have to do some photoshopping but as you can see you probably won't notice it.
-Alex's hair will be the worst thing got me to do, and I might have to resort to cheap tricks to get it to work the way I want, like using a 3d prop, specially colored like hair, when he grabs someone with it, or walks on it. or making my own hair, which I dont quite know how to do.
-I don't have many animals yet so it will be rather limited in that area until I can buy some or morph/recolor meshes some out of what few i have.
-I will have a button to daz studio on both sites.
-Some models and poses are bought with spare cash. To insure plenty of variety I might have to ask for donations more often or make the button more visible.
-its a little graphics extensive so it will slow down even my good computer, which needs replaced/updated anyhow.
-If good pc goes down the comics will still be down.
-Crossovers might be a little more bothersome, since I will most likely have to make custom models or clothing, but I show promise at doing that, so if warned well in advance then it wont effect anything.
-IOX updates will suffer for a bit as I alter the textures to fit the characters, example, bringing Alex's light fur down near his mouth instead up up by his eyes and making his hands brown. I'm working on that texture right now.

And I think that's about it. Oh yeah, the model of Alex has glasses too, it's a prop I made, based off of some that Daz 3d sells, and placed on him to make it easier to draw them because they kept coming out all weird looking.
-Posted on Nov 15, 2008 oying sometimes.. But mine's about 5 years old and still working (more or less (rather the latter)) fine. Toshiba Satelite L10-108 (laptop) if you're interested. 'course it works better with more memory (1G, it came with 256 or 512 I think) and a 75G disk (came with 40G).
-Posted on Dec 26, 2008

User: magicalmisfits 5


Still using the old Fisher Price puter but I just scored 500 G of storage! Merry Christmas
-Posted on Dec 25, 2008

User: ghostrunner 5

same here i'm on a new laptop
-Posted on Dec 24, 2008