"Brace yourself, my dear wallet! There's always another Sale - and Glitches!"

Silent Winter

I caved and got a few things - two new (very rare for me) and two Megafastgrab.  Still, happy with all of them :)

The AntFarm's new off-world character for G3F, MRL mutations: Aliens, Angels and Others, for the new ones, and a dynamic martial arts Gi, and i13's archery pose set for the older ones.

Cris Palomino

I've confirmed wrong discounts and reporting.

cdpro_2831bbd990

dragotx said:

Chanteur-de-Vent said:

The new Aeon Soul armor is so friggingly amazing... Now I have a cart loaded to 48 dollars (I can bump it to 42 with a coupon) and I'm just staring at it... I mean, yes, I definitely want everything in that cart. I probably even will use it (like you know, download and render TODAY). It's just... You know... I was doing so good with not over-spending... 

Anyone already bought the armor and could check how non-female parts look on males? 

 

The renders on AS's Deviantart page are phenomenal. Even at full price this one is a day one purchase for me. Today's sale is by far the best one of the sale so far for me, my cart is sitting at $200, all stuff that is on my must buy list. It's going to be hard to narrow it down enough that I can actually afford it.  *edit*  Although if they don't fix the glitches on the discounts, that'll make it a lot easier to narrow down.

Wow...this isn't just a set of armor...It's an entire adventurer's wardrobe.  I mean, this is an actual, believable set of clothing for a traveling knight.  What is amazing is that it looks practical AND sexy.  Bravo to AS for this effort!  I do hope they add an XPS texture/morph set that includes totally distressed looks.  It would be awesome to see dents, scratches, even cut leathers and broken straps.  

Man, I was totally going a different direction with this sale until this armor caught my eye.  I don't even normally render armor all that much.  But, I really like this one.  I've been planning to buy the Whimsy outfit as well....Hang in there, Wallet!

Orpheus13

Silent Winter said:

I caved and got a few things - two new (very rare for me) and two Megafastgrab.  Still, happy with all of them :)

The AntFarm's new off-world character for G3F, MRL mutations: Aliens, Angels and Others, for the new ones, and a dynamic martial arts Gi, and i13's archery pose set for the older ones.

MLR Mutations seems great, it looks less polyvalent than the old one (https://www.daz3d.com/mrl-mutations), but it's only G3...

If you tried the new one already, can you just put the whole skin rather than a few scars ? Can you choose to show / hide other parts than the wounds ?

 

cdpro_2831bbd990

Orpheus13 said:

Silent Winter said:

I caved and got a few things - two new (very rare for me) and two Megafastgrab.  Still, happy with all of them :)

The AntFarm's new off-world character for G3F, MRL mutations: Aliens, Angels and Others, for the new ones, and a dynamic martial arts Gi, and i13's archery pose set for the older ones.

MLR Mutations seems great, it looks less polyvalent than the old one (https://www.daz3d.com/mrl-mutations), but it's only G3...

If you tried the new one already, can you just put the whole skin rather than a few scars ? Can you choose to show / hide other parts than the wounds ?

 

I don't own it.  But, if MRL included the entire body shader (probably a shader that is applied to a geoshell), you should be able to switch on and off which parts of the shell are visible.  Also, if you are comfortable at all with editing cutout opacity maps, you can create your own exposed portions by applying your edited map.  This is really pretty easy to do.   

cdpro_2831bbd990

I really like the look of the Linday Bandage set.  My only question is: Why no pelvic/hip bandage?  That would really complete the set.  I'm just thinking that if you've got your trauma patient / bride of frankenstein / etc. all bandaged up, she's probably not going to be wearing panties.   Everything else looks great.  

dragotx

cdpro_2831bbd990 said:

dragotx said:

Chanteur-de-Vent said:

The new Aeon Soul armor is so friggingly amazing... Now I have a cart loaded to 48 dollars (I can bump it to 42 with a coupon) and I'm just staring at it... I mean, yes, I definitely want everything in that cart. I probably even will use it (like you know, download and render TODAY). It's just... You know... I was doing so good with not over-spending... 

Anyone already bought the armor and could check how non-female parts look on males? 

 

The renders on AS's Deviantart page are phenomenal. Even at full price this one is a day one purchase for me. Today's sale is by far the best one of the sale so far for me, my cart is sitting at $200, all stuff that is on my must buy list. It's going to be hard to narrow it down enough that I can actually afford it.  *edit*  Although if they don't fix the glitches on the discounts, that'll make it a lot easier to narrow down.

Wow...this isn't just a set of armor...It's an entire adventurer's wardrobe.  I mean, this is an actual, believable set of clothing for a traveling knight.  What is amazing is that it looks practical AND sexy.  Bravo to AS for this effort!  I do hope they add an XPS texture/morph set that includes totally distressed looks.  It would be awesome to see dents, scratches, even cut leathers and broken straps.  

Man, I was totally going a different direction with this sale until this armor caught my eye.  I don't even normally render armor all that much.  But, I really like this one.  I've been planning to buy the Whimsy outfit as well....Hang in there, Wallet!

Yeah, the Legend set is phenomenal, I think it's AS's best work so far. Why my is also very good, and if you are looking at it, it has a whole lot of morphs designed to go with the whymsy poses (which also has some great poses)

Orpheus13

cdpro_2831bbd990 said:

Orpheus13 said:

Silent Winter said:

I caved and got a few things - two new (very rare for me) and two Megafastgrab.  Still, happy with all of them :)

The AntFarm's new off-world character for G3F, MRL mutations: Aliens, Angels and Others, for the new ones, and a dynamic martial arts Gi, and i13's archery pose set for the older ones.

MLR Mutations seems great, it looks less polyvalent than the old one (https://www.daz3d.com/mrl-mutations), but it's only G3...

If you tried the new one already, can you just put the whole skin rather than a few scars ? Can you choose to show / hide other parts than the wounds ?

 

I don't own it.  But, if MRL included the entire body shader (probably a shader that is applied to a geoshell), you should be able to switch on and off which parts of the shell are visible.  Also, if you are comfortable at all with editing cutout opacity maps, you can create your own exposed portions by applying your edited map.  This is really pretty easy to do.   

Great to know ! And I have no idea how to do that, any tutoral anywhere ?

As it isn't included in this version, I'd like to know if there any way to apply an object shader (like metal for cars for instance) to a character ?

Silent Winter

Orpheus13 said:

cdpro_2831bbd990 said:

Orpheus13 said:

Silent Winter said:

I caved and got a few things - two new (very rare for me) and two Megafastgrab.  Still, happy with all of them :)

The AntFarm's new off-world character for G3F, MRL mutations: Aliens, Angels and Others, for the new ones, and a dynamic martial arts Gi, and i13's archery pose set for the older ones.

MLR Mutations seems great, it looks less polyvalent than the old one (https://www.daz3d.com/mrl-mutations), but it's only G3...

If you tried the new one already, can you just put the whole skin rather than a few scars ? Can you choose to show / hide other parts than the wounds ?

 

I don't own it.  But, if MRL included the entire body shader (probably a shader that is applied to a geoshell), you should be able to switch on and off which parts of the shell are visible.  Also, if you are comfortable at all with editing cutout opacity maps, you can create your own exposed portions by applying your edited map.  This is really pretty easy to do.   

Great to know ! And I have no idea how to do that, any tutoral anywhere ?

As it isn't included in this version, I'd like to know if there any way to apply an object shader (like metal for cars for instance) to a character ?

Yes you can apply the material to the whole body - there's a pdf included with the readme to explain how to do stuff (though for the whole body it's as simple as applying the mat to the figure.

As for applying a shader to a figure - just select the surfaces in the surfaces tab (must have figure selected too) then apply the shader.  Whether it'll work well might depend on the shader - if there are body specific mats like these, there might be no point in applying it to something else.

Orpheus13

Silent Winter said:

Orpheus13 said:

cdpro_2831bbd990 said:

Orpheus13 said:

Silent Winter said:

I caved and got a few things - two new (very rare for me) and two Megafastgrab.  Still, happy with all of them :)

The AntFarm's new off-world character for G3F, MRL mutations: Aliens, Angels and Others, for the new ones, and a dynamic martial arts Gi, and i13's archery pose set for the older ones.

MLR Mutations seems great, it looks less polyvalent than the old one (https://www.daz3d.com/mrl-mutations), but it's only G3...

If you tried the new one already, can you just put the whole skin rather than a few scars ? Can you choose to show / hide other parts than the wounds ?

 

I don't own it.  But, if MRL included the entire body shader (probably a shader that is applied to a geoshell), you should be able to switch on and off which parts of the shell are visible.  Also, if you are comfortable at all with editing cutout opacity maps, you can create your own exposed portions by applying your edited map.  This is really pretty easy to do.   

Great to know ! And I have no idea how to do that, any tutoral anywhere ?

As it isn't included in this version, I'd like to know if there any way to apply an object shader (like metal for cars for instance) to a character ?

Yes you can apply the material to the whole body - there's a pdf included with the readme to explain how to do stuff (though for the whole body it's as simple as applying the mat to the figure.

As for applying a shader to a figure - just select the surfaces in the surfaces tab (must have figure selected too) then apply the shader.  Whether it'll work well might depend on the shader - if there are body specific mats like these, there might be no point in applying it to something else.

Thanks. And if, on the contrary, they are object shaders ?

tombraider4ever

Novica said:

tombraider4ever said:

I tried it a bit more and it's not so difficult as I thought, ( I feel very stupid ) and I was sucessfull in tranfering Aiko 4 to Gen3, there was some small differences in hight and she was a bit wider but other than that the likeness was perfect, so I think I will have very much use for GenX after all. I have some characters for genesis 1 and 2 but I always use Gen 3 so now I will have use for thoose also

Sorry to be off topic btw.

Don't feel bad, it's not exactly easy. I do have a tutorial in my signature with a few tips you may not have thought of. People say they find it helpful, and I did it for ME so I wouldn't have to  keep relearning it every time I stop using it for awhile LOL!

Thanks for the tip, your tutorial will come in handy! 

Novica

tombraider4ever said:

Thanks for the tip, your tutorial will come in handy! 

@tombraider4ever   My pleasure. 

Liana_1796711

Is there any particular reason why a more recent release like this would be only 30% instead of 40% of like other new releases? It is not the only one. Just wondering.

https://www.daz3d.com/iray-worlds-plus

Here is the on sale again page with all items listed.

https://www.daz3d.com/annual-pa-sale-mid-month-catchup-new-releases

Add: Ok, now the cart is going wonky. haha I will just wait it out.  :)

Richard Haseltine

Reported the loss of the PA sale 40% discounts

Liana_1796711

Thanks Richard :)

3Diva

cdpro_2831bbd990 said:

donovancolbert said:

The problem I find with fitting V4 hairs to later generations is that the morphs and controls disappear. I still bought about $13 stuff total from this sale... but... like the rest of you, I own nearly everything for V4 and M4 after the last two years of sales. 
 

I find that the older hair models rely a lot on their textures to make them appear to have more dimension.  It's hit or miss on them as to which ones look really good retrofitted to newer models, and which ones just don't look right.  My favorite of the older hair is probably the Radiant Jaguar.  Being a long, straight hair, it seems to work pretty well.  I do like the Spanish Updo as well...although it does have some odd "strands" of hair that seem more like stuck on wires than hair.  You just have to clean those off in post.

I find that almost all of the older V4 hair that I have gotten looks pretty good with the right hair shaders. Some of the older hair looks better then some newer ones. I find that can be true with some of the older clothing as well.

Charlie Judge

Petercat said:

Charlie Judge said:

Aave Nainen's store is one of the MegaFast grab stores that is supposed to have 65% off (or 75% with Debut or Still New release) but is only getting 40% off.

Yep. And getting 58% instead of 75% with a qualifying item.
I really want to get Cool Climate before it disappears from the store!

All day and still not fixed.   Oh well, I need to save the money anyway.

donovancolbert

This content: 

https://www.daz3d.com/mastering-daz-studio-content

Is terrible. The guy rambles, loses himself, has a terrible monotone delivery style that makes me want to fall asleep and so far I'm an hour into the "tutorial" which is just a video of a live web session... and he hasn't told me anything I didn't already know.  The price, even discounted, is too high. I don't generally like to trash any content - but at this price, this is as terrible as Headshop OneClick - which is the only other piece of content I've bought in over a year that I felt this strongly about. It feels like he is figuring out how to do it as the video goes along, with a lot of points where he is talking to himself more to the audience and then suddenly, Eureka, "Oh, there you go! That is how you do it!"  

He also doesn't understand basic things about PC technology - which is why he can't figure out why DAZ won't install directly to his NAS (my guess, he never mapped his NAS folder as a shared drive with a drive letter on his PC...) 

Avoid this content at any price, but especially at the price being asked for it. 

I bought it a couple of weeks ago and just got around to watching it now. I tried to give it a chance, but an hour into it, I was going, "this is a waste of my time and was more or less theft of my money..." 
 

L'Adair

Richard Haseltine said:

Reported the loss of the PA sale 40% discounts

The "Annual PA Sale Mid Month Catchup New Releases" page was still showing 30% for the first 11 items, and only 15% for AM's two Dinosaur Series products, and Zeddicus' Z Skaters product. I logged out, and they were still showing at 30% and 15%. I took a screenshot and fiddled with the graphics for a few minutes, then logged back in. Lo and behold, the 40% discount was back on the first 11. Unfortunately, the other three are still showing 15%.

xmasrose

I purchased this one from the same guy https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-content-creation-mastery-part-2-modeling-clothing and didn't find it very good either. Didn't learn much at all.

donovancolbert said:

This content: 

https://www.daz3d.com/mastering-daz-studio-content

Is terrible. The guy rambles, loses himself, has a terrible monotone delivery style that makes me want to fall asleep and so far I'm an hour into the "tutorial" which is just a video of a live web session... and he hasn't told me anything I didn't already know.  The price, even discounted, is too high. I don't generally like to trash any content - but at this price, this is as terrible as Headshop OneClick - which is the only other piece of content I've bought in over a year that I felt this strongly about. It feels like he is figuring out how to do it as the video goes along, with a lot of points where he is talking to himself more to the audience and then suddenly, Eureka, "Oh, there you go! That is how you do it!"  

He also doesn't understand basic things about PC technology - which is why he can't figure out why DAZ won't install directly to his NAS (my guess, he never mapped his NAS folder as a shared drive with a drive letter on his PC...) 

Avoid this content at any price, but especially at the price being asked for it. 

I bought it a couple of weeks ago and just got around to watching it now. I tried to give it a chance, but an hour into it, I was going, "this is a waste of my time and was more or less theft of my money..." 
 

 

donovancolbert

Yeah, I'm all the way through, I kept hoping that it would have some pay off and justify the price-tag the guy is asking... 

There are way better tutorials out there for free to learn content management. @Divamakeup gave me better guidance and advice here in the forums on how to use categories with a better scheme than this guy had... 

There are great tutorials out there, by Fugazi and Lady Littlefox and PhilW and others - that aren't nearly as expensive, or if they are, they're at least worth it... 

Very disappointed in this one. 

The video has huge segments that are mostly them quietly reading viewer questions aloud to themselves, trying to figure out what is being asked... then an answer like, "I have, and hopefully I can show you what that is like..." followed by the presenter stumbling around trying to recreate the issue and failing to do so and saying things like, "And that one I couldn't figure out, I'm afraid..." 

Great... *rolling eyes*

barbult

xmasrose (aka tulipe) said:

I purchased this one from the same guy https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-content-creation-mastery-part-2-modeling-clothing and didn't find it very good either. Didn't learn much at all.

donovancolbert said:

This content: 

https://www.daz3d.com/mastering-daz-studio-content

Is terrible. The guy rambles, loses himself, has a terrible monotone delivery style that makes me want to fall asleep and so far I'm an hour into the "tutorial" which is just a video of a live web session... and he hasn't told me anything I didn't already know.  The price, even discounted, is too high. I don't generally like to trash any content - but at this price, this is as terrible as Headshop OneClick - which is the only other piece of content I've bought in over a year that I felt this strongly about. It feels like he is figuring out how to do it as the video goes along, with a lot of points where he is talking to himself more to the audience and then suddenly, Eureka, "Oh, there you go! That is how you do it!"  

He also doesn't understand basic things about PC technology - which is why he can't figure out why DAZ won't install directly to his NAS (my guess, he never mapped his NAS folder as a shared drive with a drive letter on his PC...) 

Avoid this content at any price, but especially at the price being asked for it. 

I bought it a couple of weeks ago and just got around to watching it now. I tried to give it a chance, but an hour into it, I was going, "this is a waste of my time and was more or less theft of my money..." 
 

 

It is important to note that the tutorial referenced in this message is by a different artist that the one donovancolbert purchased. Both are co-presented by Digital Art Live, but the actual artist doing the tutorial in https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-content-creation-mastery-part-2-modeling-clothing is Esha, a well respected PA who sells content in the Daz store. I also own this Esha tutorial, and I do think I got value from it.

Richard Haseltine

L'Adair said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Reported the loss of the PA sale 40% discounts

The "Annual PA Sale Mid Month Catchup New Releases" page was still showing 30% for the first 11 items, and only 15% for AM's two Dinosaur Series products, and Zeddicus' Z Skaters product. I logged out, and they were still showing at 30% and 15%. I took a screenshot and fiddled with the graphics for a few minutes, then logged back in. Lo and behold, the 40% discount was back on the first 11. Unfortunately, the other three are still showing 15%.

 

Thanks, reported.

Richard Haseltine

Charlie Judge said:

Petercat said:

Charlie Judge said:

Aave Nainen's store is one of the MegaFast grab stores that is supposed to have 65% off (or 75% with Debut or Still New release) but is only getting 40% off.

Yep. And getting 58% instead of 75% with a qualifying item.
I really want to get Cool Climate before it disappears from the store!

All day and still not fixed.   Oh well, I need to save the money anyway.

I wasn't seeing this earlier, but now I am - reported

barbult

Remember that Daz will refund your money for purchases that you are dissatisfied with, as long as you request the refund within 30 days of purchase. There is no need to keep products that you find to be a waste of money.

L'Adair

barbult said:

xmasrose (aka tulipe) said:

I purchased this one from the same guy https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-content-creation-mastery-part-2-modeling-clothing and didn't find it very good either. Didn't learn much at all.

donovancolbert said:

This content: 

https://www.daz3d.com/mastering-daz-studio-content

Is terrible. The guy rambles, loses himself, has a terrible monotone delivery style that makes me want to fall asleep and so far I'm an hour into the "tutorial" which is just a video of a live web session... and he hasn't told me anything I didn't already know.  The price, even discounted, is too high. I don't generally like to trash any content - but at this price, this is as terrible as Headshop OneClick - which is the only other piece of content I've bought in over a year that I felt this strongly about. It feels like he is figuring out how to do it as the video goes along, with a lot of points where he is talking to himself more to the audience and then suddenly, Eureka, "Oh, there you go! That is how you do it!"  

He also doesn't understand basic things about PC technology - which is why he can't figure out why DAZ won't install directly to his NAS (my guess, he never mapped his NAS folder as a shared drive with a drive letter on his PC...) 

Avoid this content at any price, but especially at the price being asked for it. 

I bought it a couple of weeks ago and just got around to watching it now. I tried to give it a chance, but an hour into it, I was going, "this is a waste of my time and was more or less theft of my money..." 
 

 

It is important to note that the tutorial referenced in this message is by a different artist that the one donovancolbert purchased. Both are co-presented by Digital Art Live, but the actual artist doing the tutorial in https://www.daz3d.com/daz-studio-content-creation-mastery-part-2-modeling-clothing is Esha, a well respected PA who sells content in the Daz store. I also own this Esha tutorial, and I do think I got value from it.

I purchased one tutorial from Digital Art Live, and returned it shortly after viewing. In my case, I felt like the content did not live up to the hype, as well as the pain of watching a poorly presented "seminar." I don't believe it is a reflection on the artist as much as the "live seminar" format is simply a poor way to create content for sale, (IMHO.)

A much better format would be for the artist to script what they want to tell their audience and then follow the script. The script is the key. With a script, the artist is kept on track, imparting the knowledge they set out to share. Without a script, it's very easy to get sidetracked, talking about things the artist knows, but wasn't prepared to present at the time. Unfair to the artist, and unfair to the person who buys the product. Not to mention, when a Video is being shot with a script, that script can be included as a companion PDF.

I have purchased numerous tutorials since getting into this hobby three years ago, and I'm pretty sure none of them were produced using a script. Except, perhaps, the one on Blender I just purchased, which comes with both videos and PDF.

donovancolbert

Remember that Daz will refund your money for purchases that you are dissatisfied with, as long as you request the refund within 30 days of purchase. There is no need to keep products that you find to be a waste of money.

Normally if I am dissastisfied with content, it has been minor and when the sale price was good enough, I don't bother requesting a refund. For $5 or $10... I took a gamble on Headshop Oneclick, I lost, and I knew I just needed to wait for FaceGen Artist Pro to go on a good enough sale. Eventually I got it, and I never asked for a refudn on Headshop... but it was bad enough I wanted to warn other users not to make the same mistake as I made. 

In this case, I did request a refund. The first time ever for that. 

xmasrose

I agree with you L'Adair. You explained it very well. I won't purchase this type of live tutorial anymore, it's not for me.

But I purchased other tutorials by different PAs and they are great. For example the ones from Darkseal on ZBrush are very good, maybe he (she ?) had a script. Very easy to follow, very detailed, easy learning.

3Diva

donovancolbert said:

There are way better tutorials out there for free to learn content management. @Divamakeup gave me better guidance and advice here in the forums on how to use categories with a better scheme than this guy had... 

 

Dawww shucks heheh :)

I'm glad you found it helpful! 

 

donovancolbert

 

divamakeup said:

donovancolbert said:

There are way better tutorials out there for free to learn content management. @Divamakeup gave me better guidance and advice here in the forums on how to use categories with a better scheme than this guy had... 

 

Dawww shucks heheh :)

I'm glad you found it helpful! 

 

Actually, I found it so much more useful than this $30 tutorial, send me a PM with your email address and I'll kick you down a $5 gift card... which is an absolute bargain for how useful your advice has been to me. :)