They pilot a ship?

The world is far more complex than girls being naked. I simply need the skills to bring it to life and show how vast it really is. Reveal their true story together.

Yes, they have access to a ship. But it's more like a delivery transport for Sasha's company.. for delivery of Valuable medical research and imaging systems. Sasha only gets to use it on the weekends. Otherwise she drives a car like everyone else.. that drive crystal is on loan from the Government, it's far too valuable for anyone to own. It was only given to Sasha for her to be able to deliver medical supplies and equipment to remote areas. It gives her ship the ability to vertically land and take off with the power of standard jet turbines energizing the crystal drive.. push it too hard and it can shatter explosively. If your flight engineer tells you the crystal is out of phase. You best reign it in or a few nearby cities will be replacing all their windows.

I'm sorry I wasn't trying to make an assumption that they are simple... *shrugs*

Oh, it's quite alright, you didn't assume anything by simply asking if they pilot a ship, no need to apologize. I responded generally to anyone who might read the longer reply. It's that more questions prompt more detail. It's good to ask questions.

Interesting story! Would love to see more engineery-techy stuff like this!

Sidenote: "The world is far more complex than girls being naked." is probably the best sentence I'll hear this week.

The actual story is up to a few hundred pages of notes so far.. if I stick to one or two characters I can include far more detail in the scene. My goal is still animation. I'm waiting for blender 2.8 to show the best parts.

Eevee is so much faster aaAAAAA

I find it 90% good enough for anything I need to render. and it does it without having to wait for 30 minutes per frame for a final render.

. . Nothing like rendering overnight only to realize some tiny detail wasn't quite right.. with EEVEE I can see that within minutes.. and setup the scene WYSIWYG style.. and it plans for cross compatible node structure with cycles. So animations can be setup and tested in eevee render, then final rendered in cycles.

I've been loading .blend files from old blender in 2.8 and it seems to translate the nodes to 2.8 nodes and use them in eevee just fine.
I see on the material output nodes that you can pick whether you want that output in blender, or eevee, or both. So presumably you could set up two node pipelines, one for each.

I know Phina prefers being nude, but her outfit is actually pretty cute in this!

It looks like Lola is helping out without pants. Why is that?

Oh, Lola has pants on, just the angle hides it. Her clothing is more casual, it's basically the same top and bottom she's worn in previous images.

If there's one thing I'll always be able to appreciate, its technomagic and the systems it can bring to life. Hopefully you'll manage to get those systems to be shown some day.

Far from magic, the crystals seem originally part of some greater whole. Pieces and fragments fitting flawlessly together, although found half a continent apart. It's only recently discovered that some have some curious properties with storing and projecting energy. Sasha has discovered novel ways to do holograpic medical imaging with light passed through them, without using traditional radiation.

She even has a novel application for the technology in simple layered sunglasses.. powered and controlled by a standard cellphone it allows setting focal depth through soft and organic layers.. both the medical and espionage feilds have expressed their interest.. the demos are often amusing for her, watching their reaction as she demonstrates them in private sessions. it's a bit of a rose tinted view, but suddenly nothing is hidden from view.

Sci-fi n cuteness,huzzah!

Mostly nature, Phina feels quite awkward around energy sources and crowds of people. She would much rather shed her clothes in the warm sunlight and give a great big stretch.. each to their own.

I've never had that kind of feeling around a power source.

She feels it like an odd pressure, sometimes it feels good and and warm she wants to snuggle up to it. And other times it's like an annoying mosquito tickling the inside of her head.

I suffer the paranoid feeling.

How does clothes work on them?.

The question isn't clear. Literal answer: Clothing covers and protects the body, Phina prefers not to wear it.

Technical answer: Clothing is another layer, normally you delete anything that isn't visible, so that nothing exists under the clothes.. The clothing is the top and only layer..

In my girls its added after everything is already modeled, rigged and weight painted for proper movement.
1) I copy the body (Select the desired area) such as the chest area (SHIFT-D to duplicate)
2) Scale it out along the normal by a tiny bit (Push/Pull)
3) Separate it out to a separate object (P)
4) Remove the body materials and apply a new cloth material
5) Edit the vertexes and add features and new clothing mesh a needed.
This way it keeps all the features, weights and texture coordinates of the body underneath, it moves with the existing rig that was attached to the original body.

Ah, sorry if I phrased it wrong...and I see now...I thought you have to used the shrink modifier too

Shrink-wrap is good as a temporary modifier to get something complex into position around a body.. like a belt, but the weights will be different, causing it to move ever so slightly out of sync with the body. It's small but looks obvious and awkward movements.

Shinkwarp tries to snap to a nearby surface. If it's left active in the stack during animation you'll see some interesting and perhaps amusing artifacts in character animation.. clothing will jump and pop between nearby surfaces as the character moves.

Shrinkwrap is useful during initial modelling for adding belts and accessories., and then applied and removed from the stack. It just gets in the way of animation, and adds to the calculation time of each frame when you're trying to preview your animation work.

I know Foenix used it for clothing roxy

When I watched the modeling video for that test model I started, I panicked when I saw all of the other stuff that needs to be done to the model like weight paint and such.

I do plan on trying to get back into trying to learn Blender when the 2.8 Beta comes out. I did grab a 2.8 nightly build and play with the sculpting a bit. It definitely feels drastically better. I have to learn the new interface as somethings did change.

A stable beta should be posted by the end of the month. Weight painting isn't bad.. you could also look into one of the auto rigging mods for blender.

I’m looking forward to it. I think they changed some commands around or got rid of them. That or they aren’t enabled adding. Either way I do hope I can learn Blender this time.

Your getting really good with this. Though if you do decide to open up comistions I know I would happily get one or two from ya. :3

Once blender 2.8 is released I think I can undertake renders and even animations on a commission basis.. it's quite a wide set of skills needed.

Ya. I saw someone else do comishes from blender but poofed a little while ago. I'll be sure to keep a eye out for when you do. I have wanted to get some pics done with that. I would try it myself but i'm terrible and my comp can't handle it.