ANYWAY.

I don't know why I went and downloaded Octane last night, but I did. The demo is challenging. With the ridiculously large overlay and what I am only assume is disabling of features...I'm struggling to effectively evaluate. Didn't help that it crashed on me while I was trying to poke at the materials.

First question for any users out there: Lights... I couldn't tell if my lights were coming over or not, if that was just the demo or what that was about.  Am I limited to the environment lighting? And is the full plugin not quite so restrictive with the environment?

Second: any information on the materials that is a little less opaque than the official documentation?

Third: what good resources have you found?

I appreciate any input. This is a pretty big purchase... 

Daniel

I only caught this after I purchased my items, so I'll send a note to CS in the AM for my order... I wanted to bring this to peoples' attention before I go to bed :)

I have done a lot of textures in the past and stopped for a while due to family issues (mother passed away), marrage issues (divorce), moving issues (moved back to Texas),computer crash issues (Stupied computer lost everything) and recently graduating from culinary collage (not an issue, a happy and exciting day for me). But those issues are done and I'm free to do other things.

So if you are interested, please let me know. 

Thanks

can the cape/tails be removed or made invisible successfully on the outfit?

Genesis 1:
19296 vertices, 18872 polygons, 26 material groups, 73 bones (including root)
Genesis 2:
21556 vertices, 21098 polygons, 28 material groups, 81 bones
Genesis 3:
17418 vertices, 17000 polygons, 17 material groups, 173 bones

Interesting that Gen3 has lost polys where Gen2 has got them compared to Gen1 - (that's the power of marketing :) ).

Generally Gen3 has cleaner mesh loops and it's better from animation standpoint (my primary concern). It has facial bones so we'll be less dependent on morphs and can DIY expressions how we like them.

Lost polys mean less details (ribs area, pelvis, knees), so I thinks we'll see more HD morphs to compensate this loss. (Or geografts? THAT could be funny.)

Joints have correction JCMs by default (the ones in shoulders resembles Ideal beauty) what AFAIR Gen1 and 2 didn't have.

So, what is the conclusion: we're heading to gamedev! This rig is almost perfect as base for game character - you'll have to REMOVE unneeded bones instead of adding them and I bet even default 'general' weightmap will work fine when exported to FBX :) And less material zones means less draw calls by default.

It came too early! I have an animation project to finish but I cannot hold myself from trying to play with Gen3 in UE4 and I know what will happen then - my very soul will be lost :)

Waiting for G3M.

For example, I just bought the new aiko 7 pro bundle.  The product list all the product within the bundle including any other

bundle within it as well.  Now when I go back to the store all individual the product that are in the bundle are no longer showing 

because they are bought.  My problem is that the aiko starter bundle is showing up on my screen in the store as not bought even

though I bought a bundle with that bundle in it.  Is this a new trend or just a oversight that is just not getting caught?  

Questions, comments?

Better yet, why should I buy them again at full price whithout the 30% off for new products?

Does anyone own the previous versions and the new ones?  If you do can you tell me what differences there

are besides the obvious ones (ie: like it's made for the Genesis 3 female).

So, can you help me guys?

 need love too  

I am working on a sci fi graphic novel, and have constructed the characters over the last year from G2M. However, now that G3M has come along, I want to start using the items and gear with the new figures. However, so much time and energy has been invested in the G2M characters, and their morphs/faces/skins, are exactly as I want them to be.

is there currently a way, to transfer those exact figures over to G3M? A cloner, converter or such? 

Sure, I could continue to use G2M, and will likely do so, but I do want to take advantage of the G3Ms flexibility if I can. Any help is geratly appreciated.

Regards

Linton

For example I have a MFD/kimono with a pattern I like, but wanted to get the reflections to make it look more like silk.  I wasn't sure what settings to use offhand (or even if it could be done with the default shader) but I have a bunch of silk shaders (Silkessense for example), I thought it might be easier to just use one of those to jump-start the settings, but they are of course different patterns.  So I ended up applying a random silkessense shader, then going back into each group of surfaces, finding the diffuse parameter, then selecting it for every single parameter that appeared applicable, changing the associated parameter's color as well, and also digging around and adjusting the transparency (I would also have had to do bump/displacement if I cared enough to.), then changing the tiling.  In the end I was having problems with transparency (unexplained shadows or black spots I couldn't explain nor eliminate) and lost the silk look as well (probably because I don't understand how the new shader works and was attempting to put something into the wrong parameter), and abandoned the attempted conversion, although presumably it may have been possible.  I'm wondering if there is a dramatically faster/simpler way I should be aware of to change the shader while retaining the diffuse/transparency/bump, essentially translating some, but not all, of the parameters from one shader to another.  Maybe a script for each possible to/from shader combination?

http://www.daz3d.com/aiko-3-0-base

I've tried uninstall/reinstall, doesn't help.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it still  happens. Its a quite iritating!

Kaspersky wants me to delete the file at the least quaintine it ..This is located in DAZ Studio 4.9 beta .  the offending file name is Freeimage.dll located in  C:\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4 Public Build\libs\iray\Freeimage.dll.

Anyone know what it is> I quarintined the file for now, until I know if its something i need in daz or not. before i delete it.

Please see my screen captures below. for verification of my virus scan alert.

What I want is for a jacket that fits reasonably and, well, hangs off the breasts. Like loose jackets do.

I HAVE Fit Control, Ultra Bodysuit, Genesis supersuit. I know about hidden morphs. I have GenX2 so I can make a G2M look like G2F.

I keep running into the problem that while I can smooth over the transition between breasts and torso, it still pretty obviously follows the outline (and has an annoying kink under the breast that plays havoc with the zipper).

I could convert to dynamic, but then the zipper goes kablooie.

If I dial down the 'female'ness, I end up skewing the arms out of alignment. I've mostly managed to dial away the breasts for the jacket, but then it's submerged in her body and I have no easy way to smoothly 'scale forward' the torso.

Halp?