Unfortunately, I am stuck having to try to match things without a clue. 

I've got a couple of left-overs. I suspect that somehow the original downloads didn't get backed up, for I certainly can't fing anything with those names or similar in my backup library. 

I've no idea of where the jewelry came from, but there is an outside chance that it might be a texture set that got separated from a clothing set. In any case it seems distinctive enough that someone may recognize it. The name of the pose folder is 'ValynJewels', and the subfolder with the actual pose files is labeled 'Springtime'.

The shoes are a somewhat different proposition. These I know almost certainly came from RDNA, and probably ought to be in my purchase history but a search brings up nopthing. The name of the folder is 'RA_ShoeMixCD'. Anyone have any idea what this texture set is an add-on for?

ETA: Never mind. Go ahead and fill the thread with kitty pictures. Somehow I managed to buy the add-ons without picking up the base sets.  Sheesh!

I was just curious to get your input on the shop/product page search engine, and the category tree. Do you feel like you are able to find everything you need without difficulty? I know the search engine has seen a few revisions lately, and was just curious if there had been any feedback to the Daz staff on whether people were happy with the latest streamlined approach, or wehther it should be more detailed and robust.

*****UPDATE*****

SUGGESTIONS IN THIS THREAD:

• more filter options 
  • price range filter
  • more genres & figure filters
  • Daz Originals & non-PC+ filter
  •  
• more advanced/accurate search 
  • search by title only
  • use of tags to help accuracy
  • Boolean operators / AND / OR / NOT / etc.
  • using quotations to search for exact matches
• More Levels in Cateogry Tree
  • e.g., split Poses & Animations into separate categories
  •  

Well, it's now official.  I'm old...

My daughter has posted her first complete Morrowind mod tonight.

In analyzing my sales over the past 3+ years, a few trends stand out.  Typically speaking, the exterior-only houses (like Modern Home Exterior 1 and 2, the Cape Cod Style Home, etc) tend not to do very well.  This is understandable, because they're not terribly useful on their own.  You kind of have to own the whole set, or at least a few of them, to be able to build a neighborhood that fills an entire frame.  This is an example of something being too broad, or too diffuse, in scope.  On the other hand, the houses with full interiors (such as The Farmhouse, and Modern Home Deluxe 1) do very well.  It seems you guys generally get a lot of use out of those.  Another thing that sells very well is the Create A Room, and I get a  lot of positive feedback regarding the PC freebie Portrait Vignettes.

Since full interior houses take a long time and a lot of comprative effort to develop, what I am looking at right now is developing a set of "Movie Sets" that are sort of a cross between the Create A Room (or even part of it) and the Movie Sets I have in the store right now (Victorian Dining Room, and Haunted House).  The idea is that there would be 1 or 3-sided sets with a limited field of view, but with additional detail.  For instance, through additions and custom setpieces for the Create A Room, I could expand its usefulness as a "sound stage" for framing whatever shots you need to build out of it.  Or, instead of selling 1 complete 360 degree exterior-only house with a narrow patch of lawn, I could do a row of 3 facades with a much more detailed front lawn, and everything behind the house either cut away or lower detail, for shooting "establishing shots" that don't require you to be able to go anywhere in the scene.  The backdrops could be extremely detailed mattes or partial cycloramas, making a "neighborhood" shot much easier to shoot.

So what I'm wondering here is, does that sound like something that would be useful for your renders?  What types of Movie Sets would you like to see (genre specific, everyday, etc)?  What kind of additions to the Create A Room Base Set would be most helpful or useful to you?

Feedback would be great, and most appreciated.  There is an XPack for Create A Room already in the system and approaching a release date, and which features a lot of (I think) useful doors, wall hangings, and other decor.  Let me know what you guys think about Movie Sets, and keep an eye out in the coming weeks for another giveaway on the Create A Room Xpack!

Thanks for all your feedback!

Am I going insane?? Was there such a thing? And does it still exist in the store??

... And have any feelsing on it?

From the vid included it looks awesome, but would rather not return something if I can find out enough info beforehand.

My mistake, they answered via email, not through the site's messaging system!

But their pics are more provocative than the ones that attracted so much flack for the DAZ young teens. The accessories: shackles, spiked collars, and a disintigrating tube top? So many poses in the ads that don't come anywhere near "age appropriate".

I don't think I've seen such sexualizing of children on DAZ before.

But after I double-click the product in Environment panel, what I got is aweful. I'm new to Daz3d, I don't know how to achieve the look of the product image (sorry, my English is very poor)

I upload the image I get in the attachment file, please help me!

While I'm in there, there are some MOR poses for the morphing fantasy dress, but I'm not sure what they are for.  Although they show a variety of materials and transparency options, tey don't appear to affect the texture in any way, they just subtly affect the shape (slight flare at the bottom, minor sleeve changes of some unidentifiable variety.)  Guesses?

So i am trying to use the current lace textures and shaders available in DAZ , in particular this one : http://www.daz3d.com/elegant-fabric-iray-shaders , which is a basic lace mesh fabric (no design). 

The objective is to combine this lace preset , with my own custom PNG image to create my own custom lace fabric, which also has an embroidery bump 

However i am having trouble combining the lace preset and my PNG. The lace always seems to cut through the embroidery. 

How do i "freeze" the embroidery so the lace preset cuts through the opacity to the rest of the fabric, while leaving the embroidery. 

Attached is my progress . Help is greatly appreciated ! 

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/23272/start

It's seems OK for more distant shots, but closeup I didn't care for the results.  I noticed there is no bump or normal with it.  So on a closeup, the drops look flat.  The way it is would be better for performance, I want to go for realism in a closeup.

Sorry for huge image, easier to see what I'm talking about. 

Is this just for animations or stills and what 3D apps has this already been tried in?

Is there more info on this product?

Too rich for me.

Beyond the PC Club, I fold. 

:(

edited to correct link

I did the product as a PA, because it wasn't going to exist otherwise. I hope I did what is ultimately felt to be a better version of those elements, UV's which perform better for detail position and sizing, a clone which performs better, and a character shape which is a little more accurate than it's 5th generation equivalent. I also attempted to price it reasonably; which right now is about 10$ when factoring in the intro discount.

For example, look at this case of the A4 School Girl shoes converted by both; and I'm showing the actual mesh here with no smoothing modifier to hide anything.

What's good about this being a PA product?

Updates. If there is a problem I will fix it. Someone posted that they saw an issue with nipple alignment, it was slight but I agreed, fixed it immediately, and the update is already at DAZ. If there are problems, and I know about them, they will be fixed if it's within my power to do so, and you as the customer get an update.

Why do the old MATs not work?

This has been explained in more detail in other places, but the short of it is this; old presets don't support applying to the new Genesis 2 Female material setup. The solution is a workaround of applying the textures to Victoria 4, and then saving out a new Material Preset, specifically in DUF format, to apply later to your Genesis 2 Female characters. When you apply the preset, you then simply have to switch all materials to use the Victoria 4 UV set under Surfaces. note: I say to save from Victoria 4 herself, because she has the material for the eye reflections to carry over, and Genesis 1 does not. In all other respects however, saving the preset from Genesis 1 would work as well

Making that new preset only has to be done once. Again, this is something that was out of my control. If I could have the existing presets work I would. However, there have also been shader advances since many of these presets were made. For example; in the ad images for G2FV4C, when saving presets for the Lana and Maya textures to render with, I added the SSS base and effect to them. So making yourself new presets, is not always a bad thing.

I was hoping that Toonimal Kitty would've been in the sale, but it isn't. Although the texture expansions (Toonimal Cat) are. 

I'm sure Daz have their reasons as to why it's not included in the sale. So, I'll add it to my wishlist and save it for another time.

(I know it's a bit of a pointless post/thread, plus, I don't really like to moan. So, apologies for doing so).