Thanks.

EDIT: Or maybe not, I may have been remembering the "wishlistify" bookmark addon.

Thanks in advance for any ideas

http://www.daz3d.com/muud-for-genesis-3-male

He is a real man of the earth, who loves long walks in the rain and jumping in puddles. But he is not all soft and gushy, when he dries out he is hard as brick.

Comes with a loose mud texture and a dried out cracked version.

The set comes complete with custom crafted High Definition Morphs, and a highly detailed texture set, suitable for Iray and 3DL

Product Includes:

• One Muud Character Preset

• One Muud Morph Preset

• Two Muud Full Material Presets

• Two Eye Material Presets

• Also includes IRAY and 3DL MAT files

By changing the translucency color (lighter) and the SSS reflectance tint to lighter and from the blue tint to yeloowish things lighten a bit, but nothing close to what the promos are. So I thought I'd check here first to see if I'm either missing the obvious, or if someone has already figured out the magic key to reproducing something similar to the promos. I've also tried several different light rigs, and HDRI's without any better results (even the "go to" Pixar campus HDRI doesn't seem to lighten her up). Maybe the SSS or spec maps need adjusting?

Hopefully it's just me being stupid. This is the first time I've been tempted to return something because the promos are sooo much different than what I'm getting.

Daz Promo Image

Default Amaya on right, default Quinty on left

So last night i was playing around with an outside night-time scene, and i figured the best way to get good lighting would be to use a nightsky HDRI to light it. The problem was, i was getting some seriously ugly noise on my character, and only on my character. It would not clear up, no matter what i did. I let it render to 15000 samples, and it looked no different to 6000 samples. It was frustrating as hell, i figured it was something to do with my character, since the noise was only present on the character, and not the rest of the scene.

I spent ages playing with different things, but could not figure it out so i saved the scene and figured i would do something else and come back to it. Then i was setting up a skin shader on a different character, and i had the same noise come back, in a scene that had nothing in it except the character. so after initially getting angry again, i reset all the render settings to default, and the noise was gone. After playing around a little i figured out it was the HDRI map causing the noise problems. Confirmed after going back to the night scene i was doing, deleting the sky HDRI and using the environment light.

So what is it with certain HDRI maps that cause this noise? low resolution? or is it in conjunction with something else?

happy that i know what was causing it now, but also curious to know specifically why this happens

Thanks! 

Don

Also in the "surfaces" tab, there are no thumbnail pictures for (for example) the diffuse tab, the normal tab, etc.

Hoping somebody can help me resolve this.

Is there a difference bewteen loading G3F and then applying materials and charater morphs (say Bethany) using the parameter dials, and just loading the pre-load character (i.e. click on Bethany 7 in the content)?

Some time ago I became convinced that the former method was better because it allowed better mixing of morphs (say, part V7 and part Bethany).

Is there a way or a tool that can convert G3 poses to G2, G and/or V4?

Thanks for help,

Eddy

I tried to fix it by removing the weight map part for the hair around the ears but there is only a "General Weights" map which doesn't seem to change anything in this concern. On the other hand a d-former to move them back in works to a certain degree but every time when adjusting the ears the hair move again. This doesn't look well with animations.

Is there any better way to fix this?

"One or more files could not be found while loading file: . Make sure that your DAZ Studio content directories are correctly set, blah blah"

I've installed other Lisa Botanicals products through Connect which load without issue, so it could just be a problem with these two products (or others that I do not own). Just wanted to pass that along.

Thanks in advance for any help.

http://www.daz3d.com/mec4d-unshaven-2-for-genesis-2-male-s

well, the most specials of sale specials requests right now 

an ANIMATE sale with all the plugins, here-to-fors, and why-fors, and the what-nots anitmates and blocks and importers for carrara and DS. 

Cheers!

I've tried applying AS with the same settings to several other characters, it works fine with all of them, it's only this particular character that is distorted this way. Any idea what can be causing it? My guess is some UV map thing, but I'm not an expert on that stuff.

Many thanks,

Robert

http://www.daz3d.com/genesis-2-to-genesis-3-pose-converter

http://www.daz3d.com/pose-converter-genesis-2-female-s-to-genesis-3-female-s

I realize that there's probably not an easy answer for this, or that opinions may vary, but IN GENERAL (and assuming I'm using standard body types without extreme morphs), would I need to do a little tweaking, or is it a big pain in the you-know-what?

Thought I would share what I am working on next and maybe get some feedback.

Basically it's old books. I've modelled five books so far each with three variations of cover; plain, leather and marble. So you get fifteen variations in all.

Question is (aside from if anyone likes them), I'm planning on making at least five more. Do people think I should do a big pack of the ten with three variations for each ?

Or spilt it up into two packs of five ?

For a bit of further info, the books are inspired by real books. The spines were put together from photos of real books, it was fiddly getting the detail in there, but I think it was worth it. Really these are old books, but not meant to be particulalry age worn. I made some that look older, but in general it was about books in period so they would still look in good condition - of course you can find old books that look new today, I bought some from eBay for my reference for the next five.

Anyway' I'll stop rambling. The bookends I made too and would be included.

Edit: I did a pack of six in the end with 3 cover variations for each one.