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First Bastions The Hidden Waterfalls- where to find?

cherpenbeck — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 13:55:11 +0000

I stumbled about a picture fo a DAZ product called The Hidden Waterfalls by First Bastion.

Is there any place this item is still sold? Cause it doesn't exist on DAZ anymore.

Render Farms

nelsonsmith — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:08:58 +0000

Has anybody here experimented with building a render farm or done any performance tests on how many CPUs were needed before any noticable speed was accomplished. I guess this is even more pertinent to those doing animation, but I'm very curious.

Platinum Club Membership Going on Sale?

mwokee — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 23:17:35 +0000

Just wondering if there will be an upcoming price break on the Platinum Club membership price....?

Please help to identify this outfit

vitriks1 — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:50:39 +0000

Ot at least tell the part that was used. Thank in advance.

Looking for an Elvis suit

Llynara — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:19:34 +0000

I'm looking for an Elvis-style suit with a Peter Pan collar and bell bottoms. The glitzier, the better. I haven't seen any so far, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Outfit Identity

john1720 — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 13:13:33 +0000

Can anyone help me identify the costume/outfit(s) in the promo picture please.

The product is a pose set by 'Greyson5' on renderosity but unfortunately there are no credits given.

Hoping someone can help.

You Can't Please Everyone

nelsonsmith — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:21:28 +0000

"Try to please everyone, and please no one"

It's an old adage with many variations, but it does infer that you do have to please someone. So I'm starting to wonder exactly who is Daz most pleasing at present? This isn't a criticism so much as stepping back and giving some pause. It seems that more people seem to express their displeasure whether it be an outfit, a character or the software itself. I still consider myself fairly new, so maybe it's always been this way, but I came into it with no real idea of what could actually be done with Daz, so I didn't really have any preconceived notions, though it didn't take long to realize that if I was wanting to do more than pose scantily clad buxom models, or fairies it was going to have to develop additional skills.

It also seems to me that most of the stuff people want can be achieved if they develop those skills; the thing is figuring out what those skills are and where to acquire them. Even when the resources are developed the documentation is very bare bones. It's quite possible that Daz could stem a lot of the discontent if a bit more effort was put on the utilities and how exactly to use them so that a lot of people could then do for themselves the stuff they are relying on PAs to do. Obviously a lot of people already know how to do much of this as people are always suggesting fixes, which is fine if you're at an intermediate level, but often worthless to suggest to a newb; and it does look like many PA's are releasing items with the idea that Daz users are able to do their own mods.

UVs and Shaders

cclesue — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:32:07 +0000

I need a little help in understanding some shader basics. I constantly see reference to a mesh’s “UV’s”. Up till now I have assumed the UVs to the attendant files that I’ve a basic modeler’s mesh the “skin” so to speak. In other words the mesh is the wire frame and the texture consists of the various maps placed on the mesh to give it virtual substance. The texture consisting of the displacement and/or bump maps and the color map are the UVs. Am I correct in this assumption? If so to what effect do the shaders affect the texture. (Always wanted to use both them words in one sentence).

For instance will the “cartoon” shaders affect the displacement maps that give a model a craggy face? the image below is one I did using a live model and Smay’s Last gladiator for M4 and various props from poser and compiled in Photoshop. I would like to do something like this in DS using all meshes rendered in cartoon style but retaining the craggy aspect of the male. Will that work?

Live Model: Carlotta Champagne MM #3155 (Warning: lots of Nudity)

Big Bad Boris and Beyond Attn: Smay

cclesue — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 20:01:47 +0000

I’m posting this here in the commons because I can’t help but think others have run into something like this.

I recently purchased your Boris character. Unfortunately I did not understand there were textures other than the displacement and bumps to go with it and I now have a black and white guy running round in my runtime and i don’t know what to do with him. I like Boris perhaps better than Ivan 7 although I can see a lot of similarities, but how do I color him? Boris is Gen 2 and Ivan is Gen 3 so can Gen 3 textures be used on Gen 2 stuff?

I’ve tried a few mats from other figures but I can’t help but wonder if you didn’t have a mat in mind when you created him. If so which?

I’ve even trans-mapped some mats from M4 using Texture Transformer but they lack the Iray surfaces and don’t render well.

I addressed this to Smay but perhaps others have suggestions.

[Solved] Bonny Hair price is broken

CypherFOX — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 04:46:46 +0000

Greetings,

I guess I made a mistake figuring that someone else would have reported it, and I could drop by just before the end of the DAZ-day and pick it up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bonny Hair is not accepting any discounts on the item page or in a cart by itself, and when it's put into the cart with other new items, it's only giving a ~16.7% discount. As a Platinum Club member, I should be seeing it at 58% off base and, with other new items, approximately 65% off. I'd hoped to pick it up this evening, but now I'm mostly hoping that the additional discount sticks around tomorrow. :-/

I get that the store has been doing wacky stuff, and that takes priority; it seemed like an obvious pricing bug, but nobody probably noticed it because everybody's buying it via the Lilith Pro bundle. (Which I usually do also, but I have almost no desire for this one, which is odd.)

Thanks for pinging someone about this, anybody who has the Power To Ping. :)

-- Morgan

Eva 7 or Olympia 7

3Diva — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:32:24 +0000

Right now if you buy a new release you can get a starter bundle for less than $17. There are more than half a dozen "7 figure" starter bundles available at that price - and I don't have any of them. That's making it REALLY hard not to spend money - even though I've resolved not to. lol I doubt I'll buy anything, but, if you guys were to pick, what would be your pick? Eva 7 or Olympia 7? Those are the two that seem to have the most realism with the body morphs and textures (I think?). So between the ones that are being offered right now (Eva, Olympia, Karen, Bethany, Josie, and Arabella), which would you recommend?

I doubt I'll end up buying one, but even if I don't I'd love your opinion on those - as I'd like to work out which figures I want to get (eventually) and which I'll probably pass on. I've heard good things about Eva. And Olympia looks lovely too. But a couple of the others look like they would also add some nice things to my characters' gene pool. Which figures do you recommend?

Portrait Light Package - What do these lights do?

Stryder87 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:47:20 +0000

I was working on a portrait scene using my usual light setup and thought, since I have a couple Portrait Light packages, why not try one? So I loaded up DG Easy Portrait Lights, IBL 08.

The lights it put in are very different from what I'm used to using. Can someone explain to me what a Specular Only and Diffuse Only light is compared to a regular light? My guess is they only effect the Specular property and the Diffuse property of the surfaces, but what does that really mean? There's an IBL light as well and I can't figure out what that thing does at all. Ray tracing (I thought that was the number of times light will bounce between objects before it dissipates - affects reflections)... Occlusion... gah…

It does seem to make the portrait a little nicer though...

Adapting Preset Facial Expressions for G1 and G2 to G3 characters

Bruce Cook — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 17:40:28 +0000

Hello:

I have alot of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 preset facial expressions; is there any way to adapt/use them on Genesis 3 characters? Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks!

Mega Grab Items Not Discounting (FIXED Thank You!)

IceDragonArt — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 15:39:31 +0000

I have a debut item in the cart and two Mega Fast Grab Items. The Mega Fast Grab Items are not discounting to the 75% off

Not good, not good at all....

RAMWolff — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 05:40:44 +0000

Brace yourselves—source code powering potent IoT DDoSes just went public

Release could allow smaller and more disciplined Mirai botnet to go mainstream.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/brace-yourselves-source-code-powering-potent-iot-ddoses-just-went-public/

Sometimes crazy things just happen

Hera — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:56:56 +0000

Like when I loaded the double decker bus into a work in progress - and it looked as if a mother of a disaster had just occured!!!
I just had to share this!

UV UnStacker

lancelmartin_cf51987037 — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:42:21 +0000

Hallelujah that Genesis 3 obj exports now un-stack the UV's. So when an obj that is a Genesis 3 model is imported into Z-Brush or Mudbox... the UV's actuall appear in different squares.

So ...

Does Daz have any tool that will do the same for Genesis & Genesis 2 exports? (Currently G1 & G2 imports have all the UV maps 'stacked' into one square)

Blacker Magic for Millennium Girls: PT

3Diva — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:33:41 +0000

Has the Blacker Magic outfit ever been updated for V4 or newer figures? I really like it and have been admiring it for a while. I'd love to use it on V4 or any of the Genesis figures. (Basically if I can find a version for V4 I can get it on G2F and G3F via clones.) Is there an updated version of it somewhere? Like one of the "other stores"? Or are there any outfits that you guys know of that look like it? It's a very cool outfit that I'd love to be able to use.

Akasha & Enkil

RCDeschene — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 07:06:56 +0000

Egyptian vampires? Sure! I'll take that! ESPECIALLY Enkil! :D

Dear PAs, just a tiny little bit of more work would be wonderful

cherpenbeck — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:16:49 +0000

I just saw (purely as an example) the new release interstellar patrol. Beautifully made non-skimpware, even with flat heels. I love it. There's just a tiny little bit missing which would make it even more versatile, the option to get a cover for the front stomach area as well (there do exist some real kevlar wests which have this add-on, so that, depending on how imminent the danger is threatening, you can upgrade the protection level).

There are several outfits which could be dramatically more versatile with just slight changes. Cut-out outfits which would profit if we could make then non-cut-outs with one click, protective suits which would vastly improve if they had an option to really seal EVERY opening, skirts which, if the wearer is just standing still, tend to hung down in reality, but continue to look like being in full motion (or made of stiff plastic) with DAZ, and such.

Consider this just an idea or inspiration, I'm not citizising your work. (Prefer to show my approval with buying).

Solved! Please Help with Identifying outfit in Lilith Pro Bundle Product (Fallen Goddess Poses)

Chatjd — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:55:12 +0000

Could anybody tell me what Jumpsuit outfit it is in the Fallen Goddess Poses Main Promo:

http://www.daz3d.com/fallen-goddess-poses-for-lilith-7

Direcet Link to promo:

http://www.daz3d.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/960x1248/17f82f742ffe127f42dca9de82fb58b1/0/0/00-daz3d_fallen-goddess-poses-for-lilith-7_.jpg

Thanks,

I Can't Find My Sailboat. Any Ideas?

BlueIrene — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:41:04 +0000

I bought Mely3Ds Sailboat yesterday and can't find it anywhere. DIM is insistent that it is installed and even let me uninstall and reinstall it again, but repeated searches of Studio have failed to turn it up. Has it sunk?

Problems with Platinum Club Reactivation

DivaDolly — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 09:57:04 +0000

My PC subscription expired yesterday and I am unable to reactivate at $7.95 pm as I cannot find the "Membership Info" link as detailed in the help section highlighted below:

On your "My Account" page, in the left hand navigation, is a "Membership Info" link. When you click on this link, a page will load that is entitled: "Platinum Club Payment Information". Simply enter a valid credit card and click the "Change" button. Then, enter your current billing address and click the "Change" button. After you've entered both of these items, click where it says: "If you would like to attempt to process a renew right now for your subscription, using your credit card and address information currently selected, click here." This will set your new expiration date exactly 30 days from your previous expiration date.

All help will be gratefully received!

Today's promotion - Same old free character bundles again...

Cybersox — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:22:33 +0000

Sigh... hoping to find either Scott or Ninive, but it's the same character bundles that have been in the half-dozen promos. tt would be nice if DAZ threw some random alternates in there for those of us who buy all the sets when they come out, even if it's only a texture set or a PC item.

Modding Heels, footwear toes, other props

waltn3mtj — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:52:38 +0000

Here's one example of some things I'd like to be able to do: I'm looking to put natural movement effects to items like toes in footwear, and even possibly having a female model bend the heels of her footwear if the situation calls for this. So far bending toes just makes the toes pop out of the footwear.......(I've turned visibility off for editing and rendering for feet in footwear). I can't make the shoes/boots bend in the toes area as they would in real life. Ankles and knees for tall boots are all fine. Am I missing something? Once this is resolved (if it is possible, I don't know if it technically can be done), I know I'll think of other things to give similar treatment as they pop up to get the most out of the reality the software provides.

Sorry if I've missed something already addressed here in the forum, but searching has turned nothing up so far.

What hair is this?

i_hate_mayonnaise — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:31:24 +0000

Can anyone please tell me what hair is used in the main image for this product? Or can you can recommend any good "ghost" hair types? Thanks!!!

http://www.daz3d.com/shrieker

Keeping pins and badges in the right place

Scavenger — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 04:22:52 +0000

I got Vanishing Point's Yorktown G2F outfit. It includes a bunch of rank pins and insignia props, that parent to the outfit. (fig 1)

they stay in place if you move the figure in T position.

They don't stay nicely postiioned when you pose (pic 2)

Anyone have some thoughts on the best way to fix this problem?

DS Default Reset Remotely?

xyer0 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:40:38 +0000

I was rendering reference headshots of single characters at default settings, and I closed and opened Daz. My next render had the same settings as before, but the render started out washed out like the headlamp had been quadupled in intensity. I cannot find any noticeable difference in the render settings. It seems that the default has been changed, but I changed nothing. Has anyone ever experienced this, and might it be related to the recent website maintenance?

Daz Studio 4.9.2.70, Windows 10

Unable to connect to my Daz account?

pedperos — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 08:02:16 +0000

Daz Studio 4.9 is suddenly refusing to link up to my Daz account?

Sci-Fi Rover Trailer not free for PC+

tl155180 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:04:47 +0000

Title says it all. The "free" Sci-Fi Rover Trailer for PC+ members is not showing up as free for me. Anyone else got this problem?