Thouuughts?

My initial thought is that I quite like her as a Victoria replacement, and I like the Starter Bundle over the Pro Bundle for once, but I'm not really seeing any "big savings" compared to other character releases.

The attachments below were supposed to be a lighting exercise with Reality. 21 hours into the render, it was nowhere close to what I would call finished.  CPU-Accelerated with Extra Boost disabled (because it can introduce bias) on my 3.5 GHz Core i7-4770K. I tried switching to OpenCL, but Lux crashed, twice. I thought, "Screw this. Let's see what I can do with Iray".

The villa comes with 12 pre-configured Iray mesh lights, all of which I completely reconfigured - only I know how I want my scenes lit, thank you.  It rendered in 51 minutes with my GTX 980 Ti and GTX 780, and my CPU disabled.

In... credible...

As a point of note, I keep my CPU unchecked in the Advanced render options so I can multitask while Iray renders in the background.  Otherwise, my PC slows to a crawl.

Just saying... 

Think sometimes.

There are 2,996 people and their loved ones who might not appreciate the use of this date as a sales tag line.

If I'm wrong, I'm sorry... If the reference is correct... Way cheesier than words can express.

Thanks in advance.

These are 2 cropped screenshots from the episode 

http://www.daz3d.com/the-farmyard

Some great trees that can be used in other renders, as well. Yippee!

G3: Where are the monsters? In G1 it was superb, with creature creators packs AND wonderful DAZ Monstrosities with its super star UNDEAD FIEND, one of my all time fav DAZ character. In G2, So many monsters were awesome in addition to creature creator packs again. We even had the complete bundles of minautors and lizards men!

But in G3? except for the superb work of RawArt, we have nothing. No creature creator (always developped at the beginning of a new gen), no creatures family, just some few individuals morphs.

Well, as I'm here, I'll add a +1 to new cat/dog/dragon ;-)

Please DAZ users, make some noise, vote +1 for new creature creator packs!

While there are lots of nice outfits suitable for an older figure, there really aren't a lot of outfits geared to fit an older physique.  Don't even get me started on how long it took me to find a decent shirt for my older lady and her boob issues!  Once those breasts start sagging, you might as well hang it up because there is all sorts of distortion going on!  Even Fit Control has a problem handling that one!

Is there something in the way an outfit is rigged that causes this?  I'm curious because I've spent a lot of time making an outfit specifically for an older man making sure that things do NOT look shrink wrapped.  I want this outfit to fit the body loosely.  Is this going to be totally undone when I rig it for us in DS?  Are there ways to tell DS that you don't want the breast/pec area fitted, but loose instead?

All suggestions welcome.

Thanks for any help

Charlie

In the past, I did buy pro bundles quite regular when released - usually impulse buys. As of late, not so much anymore. Although budget is certainly a substantial part for the reason not to buy directly anymore, another important part - for me - is that bundles tend to be too much a bit of everything. A lot of items in a bundle are not really too my interest and not related to one other, or the character they are released with. Also the new characters that are the 'reason' for launching the bundles appear to be just another G3 variant, not really a new, different shape. As such bundles - again for me - only become worth while later, when in a 'deep' sale of some sorts.

Personally I would love to see more themed bundles, maybe smaller in number of items, but with the items better related to one another. Be it fantasy, casual, gothic, pinup, whatever the fancy..... Just my 2 cents.

Anyone any thought on this?

Thanks!

I'm getting massive poke through with just about everything I've put on her (except her "basic wear"). 

Ironically, G2F wears V4's clothes better than V4 does (thanks to Victoria 4 for Genesis 2 Female). Here are the same clothes on G2F:

What am I doing wrong? Why aren't V4's clothes fitting her? I'd really like to use V4 more but I spend so much time trying to get rid of all the poke through (and usually failing) that I just give up and load G2F or G3F instead. I have quite a few really lovely V4 characters and I want to use them, but I just can't seam to figure out what the deal is - what am I doing wrong? What is the trick to her clothing?

Any help you guys can give me would be much appreciated! 

DAZ once told me there are only very specific situations in which the Architectural or Caustics samplers would need to be used.  It seems lenses are one of them!

I made this with the following:

Plane Surface

Flattened Sphere:

X Scale: 10%
Y Scale: 110%
Z Scale: 123%

Iray Shader:

Glass - Solid - Clear
Refraction Index (IOR): 1.40

Photometric Spotlight:

Light Geometry: Disc
Area width: 30
Intensity: 200
Luminous Flux: 5000
Temperature: 6500

Environment Settings:

Dome and Scene
Draw Dome on
No Environment Map

Tone Mapping:

Exposure Value: 13
f/Stop: 5.6
Filim ISO: 300

Optimization: Architectural Sampler off, Caustics Sampler on

It would also be nice to see if there is a morph for the coat to have access to the sidearm while still wearing the coat and what it looks like.  Does the vest and shirt open at all?

TIA!

thanks!

http://www.daz3d.com/last-light-outfit-for-genesis-2-female-s

The promos only leave it to the imagination how it may look...

I think that many people aren't going to buy unless we get to see the legs/full body. I want to support the PAs but I really won't purchase a character if we don't even get to see a single full body shot of her/him or at least a shot that include the legs. Surely I'm not the only one who would prefer to see at least one full body render, or a shot that includes the character's legs, before deciding whether or not to buy a figure?