Digital Art Zone

Murgatroyd - 04 February 2013 07:58 PM

Zylox - 04 February 2013 03:17 PM

I would like to see some traditional Japanese clothing and armor for Genesis, including:

Kimono - both men’s and women’s styles

Yes.  This.  A thousand times this.  Not an ultra-fancy style, absolutely not some fetishist’s idea of a “sexy” kimono, but the sort of thing you’d actually see people wearing.

I think I saw somewhere that someone was working on them (or at least a furisode), but I don’t remember where, or how long ago, and I don’t want to say who in case I’m mis-remembering that.  (If it is who I remember, it’s someone very good at doing stuff that people really wear.)

Lyrra has a lovely group of traditional Asian outfits for Gen 4 over on Rendo. But getting it to work with Genesis is more than I’m prepared to undertake.

RCDeschene - 15 January 2013 05:31 PM

As for Girl 5, I actually tried to contact Kim Goossenz asking about it. Of course as I should have expected, he never replied back. However, this may very well hint that something is in the works and he just can’t say anything.

That or he’s just like MallenLane and just doesn’t respond like the cool kid that he is…

Kim Goossens has only created the original Girl that he later sold to DAZ in 2004. All the other versions have been made by DAZ.

Kim Goossens is teaching at an university in the Netherlands

http://made.nhtv.nl/index.php?page=information&sub=staff&third=game_architecture_and_design_staff&staff_id=39

Actually… since the Girl seems to have changed very little between Gen3 and Gen4 (mainly just in how she could be used as a morph rather than a separate figure), I’m not convinced that there would be enough of a change between Girl 4 and a hypothetical Girl 5 to put the development time into it. Although, I suppose that’s a morph which could probably use its own UV set.

Kid4 on the other hand probably could use a reworking to a Gen5 people have been grousing about some of the porportions there ever since the figure launched.

Has anyone mentioned age morphs?
I’m old and I want to render old people

Have you checked out Zev0’s age morphs over on Rendo? It’s a very nice package.

JOdel - 05 March 2013 12:43 AM

Have you checked out Zev0’s age morphs over on Rendo? It’s a very nice package.

Hadn’t seen those. Thanks!

I’d like to see men’s clothing that doesnt have the bulgy shoulder cup, and with the shoulder seam in the tailored place across the shoulder not the upper arm. That shoulder business is so unreal looking, and is very odd when the rest of the render is realistic. Something with a nice morphable collar that looks neatly folded over, for a starched shirt or up for a rebel-without-a cause look.

More high quality high polycon count clothing with modeled detail by zbrush artists.

Have a look at those galleries to get an idea how that might look like:

http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/gallery/

Lately I more and more get the feeling that the clothing is lacking details.
Mostly it is just simple flat surfaces.
Details are only provided by either displacment maps or shaders.

Details provided by shaders are not optimal for exporting models to other applications.
Details provided by displacement maps is not optimal for many render engines because it takes actually longer to render.

As far as I understood DAZ content was never targeted to be for games or other low poly uses.
So there might as well be more clothing that is heavier to load in the scene.

If all we can do is rendering single images of figures in DS we might as well be able to do that with as much detail as up to date pcs can handle and keep pushing those limits with new content.

RCT-Spanky - 16 January 2013 12:00 PM

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And ... I know I have requested that a few times ... I would like to have a cute Genesis Teddybear.

I second, third, fourth, and fifth the above!

The lack of ‘cute’ at DAZ is depressing.

I didn’t realize there was such a demand for real world uniforms.  It seems like I only see scifi, sexy, or superhero uniforms out there.  Here is something I have been working on for myself, a Genesis version of the M3 Navy Uniform I sold on Renderosity for ages.  If you think there is enough interest, then I will start working out the obvious kinks, add some options and more pieces.

...nice.  I’d buy it.

Would also be cool to have a few historic naval unis from other sea powers as well as civilian (liner) ship personnel.

...I’d also like to see traditional ethnic eastern European and Balkan clothing.

(of course in non-skanklwear versions).

I’m going to speak for the silent majority and ask for more ridiculous Frazetta-fantasy metal bikini skimpywear like Martian Princess and Aery Soul stuff. There’s a lot of fantasy wear and most of it is rather revealing, but there are very few in the style of classic 80’s and 90’s fantasy pinup artwork specifically for Genesis. Many of the V4 items get distorted when auto-fit because they either have straps between the breast cups or other hanging or curved elements, so having some specifically for Genesis would be nice.

Slosh - 05 March 2013 05:51 PM

I didn’t realize there was such a demand for real world uniforms.  It seems like I only see scifi, sexy, or superhero uniforms out there.  Here is something I have been working on for myself, a Genesis version of the M3 Navy Uniform I sold on Renderosity for ages.  If you think there is enough interest, then I will start working out the obvious kinks, add some options and more pieces.

I think I bought that M3 version, but yannow.. I’d buy the genesis version from you to keep me from trying to convert it.