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Muscle map for genesis models

george_kilibarda_83fa5dfef3 — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:53:42 +0000

Hello all

I see Daz has come a long way since I first used it for drawing reference -10 years ago ?, now I am quite confused on what I need to purchase. I like the Genesis models but all I need is the muscle maps. Is this straight forward. Reading around a tutorial suggests it has to be bought for Michael 4 then finagled to fit genisis2. Is this correct

buying base character vs the pro bundle

chris_settlemoir — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:48:14 +0000

i been at odds buying a male and a female pro bundle and unsure what the pros and cons of either i want a micheal 7 but idk if which is best for me same with akio can anyone help point me pros and cons of either

Grasping Objects - Hands

Angel — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:01:18 +0000

One thing I dont understand with Daz Hands is why is it that the carpal only bends the fingers. Grab a broom, you'll notice the carpal doesnt stop at your first kuckle. You can fold the palm of your hand almost in half. The outside of your hands, yes, the carpal stops at the kuckle, but its like the carpal is angled at a 45 degree so that your palm isnt a brick... The exact issue with daz hands is that the palms of the hands are static bricks that do not move with the fingers... The fingers pose, but the palm of the hand does not move an inch, making every single pose with where someone is holding something, like bars, or a fence, or a glass of wine, or a sword, impractical, and generic looking. Try posing them to hold a sword the hand needs to be huge, or it hand needs to be scaled small to make the fingers touch down and the bottom of the hands touch down.... Otherwise it looks more like they are trying to hold a cellphone, rather then the handle of a sword.

Basicly, I make this post to ask for tips on hand poses, and to hint at daz, if they read this, to fix this issue if/when G4 comes out. Theres a lot of things these figures can hold, and its 2016 and Genesis still cant hold a pencil properly..

Lousy way to start the week, buying new content

lenwilder — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:20:10 +0000

I bought some new content and installed it... Went into the DIM 3rd column, instead of updating metadata I clicked on something that uninstalled every content item in the 3rd column. It took almost and hour to complete and now I have to go back to the first column and individually selected the content to re-install. The problem is there are hundreds of items I don't want to install, so it may take a couple hours to do this. I can't just click on the top block. I have to scroll through and select the items I want installed from all those items. I can only imagine how long it will take to reinstall 1,500 content items I want installed. Reinstallation is further complicated because I don't remember what all those items are without checking back to the product pages, which make the reinstall alot more difficult.

Daz needs to require some type additional click-on to confirm actions that will make large changes in file status. At first I didn't know what was happening, but I could not exit the DIM while running. I had to let the DIM thing run it's course.

Building sets for IRay

tring01 — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:34:21 +0000

Just an idle observation here as I while away the day trying to get a scene to work for me.....

I'm starting to believe I have to fundamentally change my approach to sets and scenes in IRay. I have a ton of full room and building scenes that are enclosed on all four sides and have a roof and floor. In the old 3Delight days these types of scenes were boss because all you had to do was load one up and throw in AoA's Advanced Ambient Light and you were just a few accent lights and a camera or two away from rendering.

With IRay these enclosed scenes are just a huge pain. The IRay environment light is completely blocked out by the box. I find myself wasting silly amounts of time fiddling with different interior light setups (harsh shadows everywhere!) and never really getting what I want. Today I had sort of an epiphany about the whole thing.

Since IRay treats lights as if they're real - I should create my scenes just like professionals do in the real world of film and photography. Outdoor, "on location", scenes are just fine. Indoor scenes are much easier to work with if I just create three walls, a floor, and dress it up with some furniture. I can almost throw together some primatives with textures and get a better result faster than spending $20 on someone's fabulously detailed room (that takes hours just to render the base geometry because it's chock full of complex geometry emissive lights).

The only thing missing from the simple, "sound stage", scenes is nice touches like doors, windows, fireplaces, etc. Those I have to scavenge from somewhere - or just go without. I have all the furnishings I could ever wish for. Takes a while to dress the set - but it turns out just like I want and I can use the IRay environment light to great effect. Back to just adding a few accent lights, cameras, and away I go!

I really wish some of you very talented vendors out there would start making IRay optimized "soundstage", style creation kits for different genre's instead of the endless enclosed box rooms that are so hard to work with.

Just a thought.

Badly Needed store feature - ability to manually mark products bought elsewhere as already owned

Cybersox — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:44:26 +0000

Between all of the RDNA product that has been moved to DAZ and all of the Renderosity artists who have have been moving products over to DAZ with minimal or no changes (some examples being Ironman 13, P3Design and ZevO), DAZ product that was sold or given away outside the store (as in magazines or in the DAZ books) and the funky way that bundles and sub bundles of products will show up as not owned even when you've already purchased them individually or as a larger bundle, it's been getting increasingly hard for me to track what I actually do and don't have. I just caught myself almost buying an item I already have for the umpteenteenth time this month and two weeks ago I did buy something I already had and had to get a credit, so it seems like it would be really helpful if there was a way we could go in and mark products as having been bought previously at another site.

MEC4D PBS Shaders Vol 1 and Vol 3: Different?

grinch2901 — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:47:50 +0000

Hi, I have been eyeing MEC4Ds PBS shaders Vol 1 and Vol 3 for a while, have Vol 2 and love it. Well both are on sale right now and the question I have is are they different really? Both have pure metals, both have micro detail, both have scratched/scuffed stuff. Are they they same but one is okay vendors to use in products for sale and the other isn't?

Thanks, appreciate any help!

Post-Morph Loader Pro Fitting Help

RCDeschene — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 07:41:16 +0000

This is more or less a spin-off of my Animated Shapes Separate Morphs thread, where I was trying to figure-out how to create head and body separate morphs for a character that didn't any. Since this is technically a different issue (and since no one was really responding anymore), I decided that it deserved it's own place of discussion.

Now that I have a set of created morphs and scaled to appropriate proportion of the base mesh, I'm now trying to get fitted to conform with the applied shapes. The previously mentioned thread is provided for reference as to how I came to this point, the following attachment is where I currently stand in the process of things:

12 items genesis sale, list choice too limited

Mistara — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:20:30 +0000

list is too short to pick 12 items.

where the clothes, hairs, animates?

>.<

No new products?

3Diva — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:58:14 +0000

Am I just not looking in the right place for the daily new stuff? I'm a bit of a newbie - I've only been doing 3D art for about 4 months or so - but from what I've seen there is always something new every day. Is there really nothing new today or am I just not looking in the right spot? If there isn't anything new, is that something that happens fairly regularly or is this pretty uncommon?

Handy Save Last Render revelation

barbult — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 05:59:00 +0000

I just figured out a solution to a problem I had. Sometimes I want to save a render that is running, but if I cancel it and select Save in the render window, that closes the render window, and I can't Resume to let it render more for better quality. Now I found that I can cancel the render and do File>Save Last Render.... That saves the current render state to an image file but leaves the render window open so I can Resume. Maybe that was obvious to other people, but it came as a revelation to me today.

hi does anyone know where i can this top and jeans

lasagnaman — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:46:19 +0000

http://www.daz3d.com/z-such-a-diva-poses-for-the-genesis-3-female-s in this pic ty

Are there Genesis 3 clones for Genesis 2? UPDATE Yep.

Oso3D — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:13:24 +0000

There's Genesis 3 for Genesis, but are there clones for Genesis 2?

My Libary folder

unclesben — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:25:16 +0000

I have put many items in the my libary folder but I am only seeing 2 of the items I have put into the my libary folder. Is there any specail thing I have to do to get daz to see all the other items? I downloaded things for gensis charaters and other charaters.

dear lyoness and ironman13

chris_settlemoir — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 08:06:36 +0000

for the love of god quit making me wanting to buy all your products you put out its such good quality!lyoness you make amazing women and ironman you do amazing cloths so far and always so good poses!

"Our thanks to you" promotion, single use?

wiz — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:07:33 +0000

Is this a single use or multiple use promotion? Do i have to defer all my purchases to the last day of the promo?

what happen to daz artests of the month of the youtube video they put out?

chris_settlemoir — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 06:20:34 +0000

what happened to art of the month i miss it:(?

Forum help - suddenly cannot upload images

Cybersox — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:56:16 +0000

It was working fine earlier, but this moring I accidentally tried to upload a file in this thread - http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/105691/tween-julie-7#latest - that was bigger than 2000 and ever since nothing I've tried to upload will load. My suspcion is that I overloaded the queue somehow, so I went to the help page to open a ticket...and discovered that there does not seem to be a help section for the forum software.

So... who does fix this kind of stuff?

20% off

AlienRenders — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 01:53:03 +0000

Thanks for the late notice there DAZ. I already bought the items required. But the discount only applies when you buy... which didn't exist at the time.

FBX import in DS different than Carrara, why?

FSMCDesigns — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 21:15:01 +0000

Anyone at DAZ care to explain why this is. I can import most standard FBX rigged models in carrara 8.5 and they load perfectly with rigging intact. I have yet to get any FBX rigged model to import into DS (4.8) in any useable way. I had a buddy of mine I used to work with at a game studio do a custom model for me and he sent it to me in the usual FBX game format and as usual, I have to pose it in carrara before importing the non rigged >OBJ into DS which gets tedious pretty quick, especially since it makes no sense, both programs share the same developer.

I am on 4.8 still and have no interest in connect or encrypted, but if you guys fix the FBX import to where I can pose and render my game models in DS, I will jump on board the connect/encrypted bandwagon, LOL.

HEY! Shameless self promo!

Ikyoto — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:05:53 +0000

25 May - my birthday!
Where's my swag? No goodies? All that stuff and even my family skipped out on even a single gc this year!
I'm gonna go do my PT and sulk. It's what us old fogotten curmudgeonds best whilst we sit alone in the dark waiting to crumble into dust that smells weird.

Maps question

N-RArts — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 17:57:14 +0000

Hello.

Does anyone know what the difference is between Normal and Bump maps.

I've always thought that they were the same, but if they were, then Daz Studio wouldn't have options to add one or the other.

Plus, what are positive and negative maps? I've never heard of them before.

Thanks ^^

Shanda Hair Confusion

Subtropic Pixel — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 02:48:25 +0000

So in the Diva sale, "Shanda Hair for Genesis 3" shows Shanda hair with no install type, but with a comment about "see included products".

The only included products are Shanda Hair for V4 and also for M4. I see no product + install type for the Genesis 3 version.

Am I missing something?

Joanna - StudioArtVartanian Has passed away

Robert Freise — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 04:02:33 +0000

Here is the Renderosity thread all about it.

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2904472

DAZ, I have a sale idea ...

3141592654 — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 22:55:14 +0000

I am guessing that most customers, like myself, have an item or two that has been sitting in the wishlist for a long time waiting for a sale. Perhaps you could give everyone a coupon for 50% off any one item. [Yes, I know it would probably exclude new items and PC+ items, but hopefully it would stack with the 30% discount Platinum Club members usually get.] This could give many people a chance to finally get that desired item at a sale price.

Anyone interested in add on texture for RawArt's Slim Man?

TSasha Smith — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 22:38:51 +0000

I am thinking of creating some poses for G3M. I am thinking of using RawArt's Slim Man's no face mask to make G3M as a manikin for my Promos. In order for this to work I need to make a new texture set to turn Slim Man into a manikin. I was wondering how far should I go with this texture set. I am planning on using FWSA Skinvent Details Merchant Resource for Genesis 3 Male(s) for the base texture but it will be modified for my needs for the pose promos and thumbnails. I was wondering if I should continue working on it to make a character product with the manikin option? Not sure how much in depth I need to do this.

shaders you buy vs shaders that come withj the product

chris_settlemoir — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 08:33:27 +0000

how do you tell which is better

Look at My Hair Vs Garibaldi

3Diva — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 08:14:01 +0000

Since these are both really close in price right now due to the "A day in the life of a Diva" sale, can you all tell me which of these is a better product?

Both the Look at My Hair system and the Garibaldi Express Hair system look great in the promo renders - what's the difference between the two and which do you recommend?

Serial quote search complaint

WendyLuvsCatz — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:32:52 +0000

I do not know if this affects anyone else but threads like the complaint thread where posters quote each other in sequence make the forum search using a keyword just about impossible for me.

I will most likely be dismissed as a whiner but since nearly every topic is dominated by a series of inline quotes page after page I have to rely on Google site search that often gives foreign language results that do not stay loaded among other issues .a topic site:daz3d.com

I just wish there were a way to eliminate quoted posts if the body of the quote has already been repeated for the last five search pages or better still eliminate a whole thread. ( there is one main culprit)

hey there does anyone know where i can get this soda pop

lasagnaman — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 21:46:18 +0000

hey does anyone know where i can get this soda pop that the woman is holding in this picture ty so much