First, Let me get this out of the way.... I'd love to buy a new system, but it ain't happening right now... :)

I'm thinking breaking it down to groups of 4 characters, and merging them in Gimp post render, but I'm dreading doing this. But I think this is the most realistic option... anyone have any other suggestions?

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems difficult to find unique outfits that aren't armors, fantasy elven hunters, or barbarian warriors types.

And I still can't locate my Keymate and Graphmate plugins. Have they fixed that?

I would like to know what is included, from what I can see from the images the carriage is as well as the station but what is is or is not?
I am guessing not the engine.

Genesis Generation X for DAZ Studio 4.5+ (Win 64-bit)
Genesis Generation X2 for DAZ Studio 4.5+ (Win 64-bit)

I installed both of these, started DAZ Studio up and discovered the GenX pane was arranged differently and did not include the target drop down box that allowed you to select Genesis. G2F or G2M. I tried uninstalling and re-installing but same results. I then figured out this must be the original GenX plugin, not the GenX2 plugin. I uninstalled the update:

Genesis Generation X for DAZ Studio 4.5+ (Win 64-bit)

and then things were back to normal. I had the GenX2 plugin again and could select Genesis 2 F or M as the target.

Apparently, if you purchases both GenX and GenX2, you are not suppose to install the update to GenX, only the update to GenX2.

When I install these files, must I put them in a mapped native DAZ Studio content folder like all my other content (and/or with the image file in it's own uniquely named subfolder like you would with any images you use in DAZ Studio to avoid duplicate filename issues?) Or are these files completely independent of DAZ Studio and I can just put them anywhere?

Far as I know it should be showing in daz studio with the advance iray render options, but it's not, and I don't know why. I THINK the drivers are updated correctly. Is there something I need to do to make Daz see it?

Basically, I'm working on a story that is told primarily from the first person perspective. 90% of the shots can be made with the "regular" cameras, but every so often I come across a situation where I wish The MC had a camera directly in his eye. I'm sure with some work I can make the regular camera do what I need, but it would be nice if I could just pose the MC and have the camera in the proper spot. (i.e. He turns his head, and the camera turns with it.)

Is this even an idea that others would find useful? Is there one already?

For the first time I tripped over that there was such a thing as Photoshop Bridge. I tried to install it but Install Manager ignored it, so I assume it already has been installed? I assume so because Photoshop shows it in the menu.

The problem is I get an error message when I select the fly out menu in PS. (See attached -- nothing informative other than it doesn't want to cooperate)

I'm using DAZ 4.7 64 bit on a MAC OSX 10.8.5 (also 64 bit), and PS CS3. This meets the minimum requirements according to the Bridge User Guide which says that CS2 is needed. The product page in the forums says CS3 is needed. Fine. I have all that.

So I'm wondering if there is still something that doesn't want to interface.

I *think* I can do all that I needed to by hand, selecting files from folders and opening it in PS. It's worked to do it that way, but it's not terribly convenient. And if there's something that should be working but isn't, I would like to get that sorted.

So how do I get it working?

Thanks.

I'm curious as to how it looks in non-iray (3delight)

It looks like a VERY interesting texture (there are very very very few spooky/unusual/weird/creepy textures for Gen2F unfortunately) but two things are stopping me from putting it in the cart....

No vendor name. Generally I will have a good idea of quality etc from teh vendor name - but no idea who created this. Just DAZ Original.

It looks like it's JUST a base texture..no makeups etc. Can that be confirmed? Just wondering whether it's worth it if it's a simple base texture...no versatility.

Can anyone here who has this software another way to reach them? This is really frustrating. They should have replied to me by now.

Is support there this bad overall?

My only option now is to start a mess thru Paypal. I really want to avoid that.

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I'm using 3D Universe's Seaside Village (love it btw!!) and had a question about the scale of the scene.

Loading characters quickly made it apparent that the village isn't the same scale as default characters. After some playing around (placing characters beside the tavern tables and chairs was the easiest test), I found that scaling down characters to 65% was about the right scale to match the buildings. However, once I started placing vehicles, it very quickly became apparent that 65% wouldn't work as the roads and parking spaces were still far to narrow, yet the vehicles at 65% matched the characters. With the roads and parking spaces and related kind of items being part of the entire ground plane, I can't figure out how to make it all work together nicely.

I suppose I could make it a bike/pedestrian only type of town, but then wouldn't that make the Stop signs kind of weird? :lol:

I guess what I'm getting at is if anyone has figured out a good scale to use in this setting that works for all different kinds of props? This is an amazing setting, so detailed and diverse! I have so many ideas for this setting! :coolsmile:

Far too into the process to kill it and start again, I let it finish, hoping it was just that one character and I could do a spot render to file and fix it all in photoshop. That's what turned out to be the case, but what causes the problem in the first place.

The log from 3DL has

3DL ERROR S2051: cannot load shader 'brickyard/{407f8e5c-3a9b-4708-b5e5-799ff1fe7c1d}/shader_Surface', will use 'defaultsurface'

Which is clearly where the problem is...but why does it happen?

edit: It appears the price on this bundle is now showing up correctly in the cart, thanks Daz! (Now if I can decide whether that whole thing was a sign telling me not to spend the money right now...)

Any suggestions? (Is it possible to convert a G2F outfit to V4?)

Was looking at a couple of things today and noticed a "heart" icon on the top left....when I moused over it says "in wishlist"......

I LIKE this!!!! :D

I have some questions about lighting in iray and I'll be very grateful for helps and advices in lighting (or skin shader if it's the problem).

I try to morph Callie to Tinker Bell (from the disneytoon movies), rendered in iray: Tinker_Bell_-_Callie.jpg
I used callie skin with iray genesis 2 female material shader setting.

But my goal is that: Tinker-Bell-secret-of-the-wings.jpg

http://01.screencaps.us/m.screencaps.us/201/2-tinkerbell-secret-wings/full/secret-of-the-wings-disneyscreencaps.com-523.jpg

The morph is not quite there, but I have more difficulty with the kind of light/shader they have in disney movies

I'm still at lost how in pixar/disney movies the light is so soft, like around the character, nicely showing their features.

With iray, is it Bigger source light ? Nearer ? or it's a problem in the shader for the skin ?

Or else, do you have some advice to emulate that lighting with 3DLight ? Even with UE it's never quite the same feel.

Thanks a lot.

How hard would it be to geograft V4 and M4 (and/or V3/M3!) feet onto Genesis1 so that G1 could wear the shoes available to earlier figures without the autofit toe crinkle thing?

https://syntheticaurality.bandcamp.com/album/thrown-against-the-sky-2

Priced affordably at $2, it includes bonus liner notes/making-of PDF and the ENTIRE album as one track, mixed and sequenced the way I meant it to be!

A special shout-out to my friends in the Complaint Thread, who have been both supportive and inspirational.. no way could I have kept what little sanity I had without you guys!

Enjoy! :cheese: :cheese:

Thanks

deleted because I can't reproduce the problem no matter what I do.

LOL.

Possibly a strange glitch in the matrix and won't happen again. Who knows???

:D :D

edited again cos i forgot to delete the image. Sheesh, can a mod delete this entire post for me please????