Daz side-effects and affects (sob story)
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So two terrible things happened to me once.
1) As a child I became obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons. Me and me friends would see people and begin to guess their stats..."They look like a XX strength, XX charisma...XX constitution...."etc..
2) When I worked for myself, I began to count how much I made per hour when I made purchases. I'd be like, "wow, lunch was 45 minutes worth of work"...."Getting that = spending 2.5 hours of work" "My car needs a repair - that's more than a whole day's pay!"
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Now, I'm convinced I have gone insane.
a) I look at people and guess what morphs/slider adjustments I'd use to make their face and body.
b) I look at hairstyles and wonder if I have one like it in my runtime...
c) I was looking at a woman's shoe today and wondering if a vendor sold something like them. (Forget getting a pair for my GF, my 3D person's wardrobe is more important)
d) I'm back to looking at purchases as...that $12 dollar lunch out could have been a homemade sandwhich instead, and another product in the cart.
e) I'm looking at everyday items and wondering what iray could do to replicate their qualities. Yeah, the shiny chrome napkin holder that's so reflective.
f) I see poses....clothing....I see a crowd as LoREZ figures...
It's terrible. I think I need to lay down for a while.
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LOL! All the signs of being a DAZaholic! I think we've all done some of these things. I actually save pictures that I think would make good clothing in DAZ (like I'm ever going to find time to model clothes!) I tend to save good poses too.
There was a free MMORPG I used to play called Eternal Lands. It's still around. In that game you can level all kinds of skills, including harvesting. After playing a while, you start looking at the plants by the side of the road you're driving down, wondering how many points they'd be to harvest them. This is why I don't play a lot of games right now. I don't like them. I LOVE them. Nothing would ever get done if did.
The one that really made me laugh out loud was when I had posted in one thread that I was needing a new cooker and also trying to save up for a new PC, and the cooker may be more important. One of the others in the thread asked what was wrong with the cooker and I said it was fully functional, but was getting rusty in places on the outside. The suggestion I got was to use emery paper and remove the rust, use a small tin of car toucn up paint to hide it and concentrate on saving the money for the PC. Another person chimed in and said, "photograph the rust first and distribute the photo's as a texure source."
ROFL! That's hilarious but also very clever!
its when you dream 3D it gets interesting
lol! I can totally relate, for the past 1 hour I've been tossing up between a gorgeous pair of Red pumps for me or to hit the Buy Now button for the Cart of Daz clothing for my G3 girls ...I must be going mad ;)
To be fair, a $12 lunch is a bit steep, and homemade food is healthier.
My 3D people have WAY better clothes than I do! But theirs don't wear out and usually fit...
But theirs don't wear out and usually fit...
With this pattern of spend-on-nothing-else-but-Daz, my clothes will certainly wear and I will be asking the forum for help with poke through soon enough.
Auto-fit cause my shoes will be talking.
I was standing in my daughter's school playground a while ago and noticed a tree in the next field that had grown into the shape of a very symmetrical upturned mushroom head. My first thought on seeing it was 'I don't know how that got past quality control, but I think I'll pass on this one - it's totally unrealistic-looking!'
What's wrong with that, sounds like budgeting.
Which ones? The ones where you dream you're IN the latest Stonemason release, or the ones where you're dreaming about a set that would be nice to make? I dreamed about a nice Sci-Fi one of the latter last night.
...that last one is great.
I frequently catch myself studying surfaces when I'm out and about wondering how to create them. For example, a street, with oil stains, skid marks, wear from constant traffic, potholes, or worn striping, and pavement that is old, cracked, or uneven (due to tree roots and/or age). Tired of seeing perfect streets and pavement in urban sets that look so clean you could eat off of them.
...same here. They get new, I go to second hand shops for my stuff in RL.
It's like having another child....I buy Victoria and Michael and the other characters nice outfits and shoes and hairstyle. And houses and cars? Oh yeah..they get those too! My 3D people are just way too spoiled! I always catch myself thinking "wow..this would look good on (insert 3D character name)". God knows I don't spend as much money buying my real child all the stuff I buy my 3D people. Luckily my child IRL is grown and can afford to buy his own stuff.
I've compared it to Barbie Dolls and heroin. And I noticed when I went out yesterday, I'd say things to myself like, O, she's got Lani hair, Wow, where'd she get that Elliot hair..." And yeah, I'm wearing rags while my characters go around in finery.
Crud, I'm unemployed and I'm STILL spending money on this!
haha...mine too Llynara...so this morning before checking Daz I hit the buy now button on the red shoes..let's hope they fit ;)