simple example: 

my female figure sits on the ground.  her tunic is fitted to her.  she is the collison target of 6 smoothing iterations to keep her body inside the garment/eliminate pokethrough.

but the trousers she's wearing are not skintight.  so the folds of the tunic disappear into them, instead of draping over them. i can fix that by making the trousers the collision target of my smoothing iterations--but then her body goes right back to escaping from the shirt again. 

that example's real enough.  but i'm also running into a lot of smoothing/collision issues with hair these days.  i have figured out that some hair behaves much more nicely if you load it *after* a character is dressed.  but that's just the tip of the iceberg...

i'm guessing that there might be a trick with geometry shells that could solve the problem, but i can't quite logic out how you'd get around that basic limitation--my shirt can only smooth around one collision object at a time. 

is it possible to create a geometry shell that 'coats' multiple objects, or multiple nodes of the same object?

can different nodes of an object be set to smooth to different collison targets? 

i've found this forum post that posed the same question a while back.  all three of the workarounds sound cool, but all three of them also leave me with new questions.  i was hoping to find a method explained in a little more detail.  

suggestions very much appreciated--

j

in this pic i looked everywhere i cant find it 

Thanks,

Uh, this isn't to knock the Were-Man sale items, which look very cool.

Personally, Kenji himself doesn't really "grab me" or make me want to buy him right away. The base character, to me, isn't really distinctive enough. However, Sasori looks like a great character, imo, and really makes buying Kenji look much more appealing. 

What are you guys' thoughts on Kenji? I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on the character and if he's a buy or a pass for you. 

I'm trying to figure out what hair and outfit is in the attached picture. Could you help? Thank you!

I want at least a an 800 watt (1350VA) unit or maybe a 900 watt (1500VA) unit Are there any recommendations as to what would be the best battery backup with "Pure Sine Output" and meet those output power requirements?

I'm using 4.8, 970, 16mb ram

I have almost all of Rawns characters and have never had an issue, so I hesitated to post this as I don't want to give a bad impression of his work.  I'm sure this is user error on my part and I'm just to thick to figure it out.

*Update - I was able to render him with no materials, just the neutral gray Genesis color, so I've troubleshot it down to an issue with the materials.  

just found this software and forum

is there a place to hire talent 

I need 5 fugures full  frontal standing to promote my crowdfunding photoshoot to shoot real characters

1. Sun Tzu - chinese general

2. Mulan

3. Samurai

4. Samurai Women in full armor

5. me with riding boots and leather jacket

I'm going to check licencing and commercial use rights with owners of this site

Anybody interested let me know 

Thanks

MIke

I've been wondering about this for a while now and internet searches are not helping.

Is it simply that Daz3D buys the rights for whatever they happen to like?

For a specific example:
Why is this not DAZ Original...
http://www.daz3d.com/i13-nurse-outfit-for-the-genesis-3-female-s
...if this one is?
http://www.daz3d.com/i13-hq-bathrobe-for-the-genesis-3-female-s
Same creator, same great quality.
So far it seemed that 'sexy' content is generally avoided but the bathrobe has reveal morphs just like the nurse outfit.
Or is nurse fetish somehow more objectionable than bathroom fetish?

I own the indie license for Daz Originals so this goes beyond idle curiosity.

Is there a manual to read? Or should I simply lurk more?

I must know! Please help me understand.

Mostly, I do video production.  That means...since I am a man I have to get women actors voices if I use those content items.

I use women sparingly in my work for that reason.

It is not very well accepted to use Synthesized or computer generated voices, even though the characters are animated.

Something about the way Hollywood has always used real human voices for animated films makes viewers uneasy when they don't hear for-real voices.

Yes, I know Hollywood promotes the real actors voices with their animated features...which probably the reason for it.

Anyway,  for months the shop promotions are of girls, girls and more girls.

I would really appreciate to see more a variety of content items.

All it would take is an additonal promo box or two each day.

Flash sales are good too, because they usually pick up on content from PA.  

Maybe, gamers are the market for Daz3d content and they want more of the almost naked girls.

Anyway, no biggy... I just don't buy the girls.

I did finally buy a Victoria 7, but is was a super deal.  I thought it might be able to use the content in some closeups.

I like the quality of Daz3d shop items better than others

This is both wondering for traditional art for my mum and cgi for me 

It might be helpful to see the pdf that is a must read according to the instructions. Currently considering; I might try as can return but prefer not to.

She looks very familiar, but I don't think she's Victoria 7.

Pd. I have a little problem with zbrush. I can't re-send the files to daz. When I push the Goz button It's say "File saved to disk successfully" What I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks

Thanks

my first iray experience, woes!!

bought the cafe luca, eager to render coffee

so the first woe, preview window dark. can only see flashing orange.
for fun hit render (i no haz nvidia)
i see light in the grains
canceled it.

added a ds default light to shine on the lattes and cookies. hit render

it looks like iray is ignoring DS light??

where are the iray point/spot lights?

thanks for any insight.

Ansiko's work is a good example or what I am seeking.

Go to the last descriptive square at these links and you will see removal walls, and other see through abilities.

http://www.daz3d.com/peaceful-house

http://www.daz3d.com/cuban-patio

http://www.daz3d.com/lux-living-room-scene

Why these content items are good for video work is probably not that important for other content users. Camera and lighting placement can be a tedious job when you have to make your shots in small spaces.Being able to remove or see through walls and other obstructions from the camera point of view is a real help. The least restrictions for cameras is alot of help.  Having to shoot closeups in small interiors when you don't want closeups doesn't work out well.

Couple more things -  It would alot of help if exterior scenes had opening doors. If there is no interior it would be nice to have short hallway inside doors to allow charcters appearing to go into the interior or come out of interiors. Outside views alone limits the use of the content props transitional short hallways behind doors is a alot of help. Ancillary content items in the package should be separate from the pre-loads so we can build our scenes using individual props as we need.

Yes, I realize additional work can be done to accomodate this with some content, but it is just more things to do. Making adjustments for exporting/importing and editing or bashing content should not be necessary.  I can understand bashing, when you need something different that isn't included in the content. Exteriors with interiors are alot of help with many scenes/sets/props.

Recently, bought a large pre-set/scene and it has several large pre-loads with alot of content props in those pre-loads. I regret the purchase, because I am stuck with the pre-load sets unless I spend half a day trying to separate prop items that I don't need.

I am looking for pre-set/scenes as I have described. There doesn't appear to be a way I can search for these requirements in the shop without viewing a couple thousand content items.

I just bought Caveman for Genesis 3 but I did not get the anatomical elements listed on the product page. Can you please update this item so I get what I paid for?

If you will not please let me know so I can get my money back?

http://www.daz3d.com/lauran-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s

http://www.daz3d.com/icie-hair-for-genesis-2-and-3-female-s-and-victoria-4

http://www.daz3d.com/venice-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s-genesis-2-female-s-and-victoria-4

http://www.daz3d.com/adell-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s-and-genesis-2-female-s

http://www.daz3d.com/hanna-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s-genesis-2-female-s-and-victoria-4

http://www.daz3d.com/venice-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s-genesis-2-female-s-and-victoria-4

P.S.

Is there a thread here somewhere for such 'identification' purposes?