suprised by a lack of material

drafter69_696b99e42b

With the number of wars that have been common in the past years it suprised me that there are very few (almost nothing) artificial limbs or even wheel chairs available. 

AbbyClone

Agreed. I often thought that it was something I'd like to render. Prosthetic limbs and an amputation centre with mobility walkers etc would be interesting.

nelsonsmith

Yeah, an assortment of wheelchairs at the very least would be appreciated, but I'm sure that that too would be considered a niche item, since the majority of Daz users are not doing renders of disabled characters except in sf/fantasy scenarios with cyborg parts, but rather characters that look like fashion models, or pin ups.

It's rather odd the stuff you can find and the stuff you can't, which leads me to believe that you can get the occassional random item (like a Vespa) if a PA simply decides that they'd like to model one whether it would sell well or not.

 

vwrangler

There is a classic wheelchair that was in the store just recently (http://www.daz3d.com/push-wheelchair) along with a mobility scooter (http://www.daz3d.com/the-wanderer-mobility-scooter). For other wheelchairs, you'd need to look at Renderosity, although I think their chairs may have gone on clearance a while back.

The only prosthetic limb modification I've ever seen was for original flavor Genesis, at ShareCG. I hoped the person who did that would do more for the later versions, but they seem to have more or less just disappeared. Pity, that. That said, I can't imagine that it would be a commercially viable thing to do. It would take a fair amount of time -- especially with Genesis 3, I think -- to do the rigging and texture modification to make that work well, and the market, as you note, would be extremely limited.

Cybersox

vwrangler said:

There is a classic wheelchair that was in the store just recently (http://www.daz3d.com/push-wheelchair) along with a mobility scooter (http://www.daz3d.com/the-wanderer-mobility-scooter). For other wheelchairs, you'd need to look at Renderosity, although I think their chairs may have gone on clearance a while back.

The only prosthetic limb modification I've ever seen was for original flavor Genesis, at ShareCG. I hoped the person who did that would do more for the later versions, but they seem to have more or less just disappeared. Pity, that. That said, I can't imagine that it would be a commercially viable thing to do. It would take a fair amount of time -- especially with Genesis 3, I think -- to do the rigging and texture modification to make that work well, and the market, as you note, would be extremely limited.

There are still several wheelchairs at Rendo, one sold standalone and several that are hidden inside sets like the antique one in Coflek-Gnorg's Right Here, My Dear.  Similarly, there's a lgihtweigh transport wheelchair (four smaller wheels) hidden inside Jack Thomalin's Westpark Legacy here at DAZ. There used to be a fantastic old school "Hosmer Hook" type prosthetic for V3 at Rendo, which I've sucessfully fit on Genesis 1 & 2 in the past, and the same artist, obm890, also offered several sets of artifical legs, but they're no longer being sold there.

    

Daywalker Designs

I've used the arms from Cyberpunk for M4 on Genesis in the past, and I suspect with a texture set it could make a passable synthetic arm. I've also got the More than Human cybernetic set on Rendo by Dariofish for Genesis, and one of the later figures, but don't remember if it could be similarly retextured to work.