Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 10
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It will only work between G3 and G8, and only female-to-female or male-to-male. My understanding is it works because the mesh for both generations is essentially the same, in spite of all the other changes. It works both ways, too. So G3 can wear G8 hair just as easily. (Clothing is quite a bit more work, though, thanks in large part to the different default poses.)
Happy to help, Sandy. I've got Win7Pro on this computer and Win10Pro on the beast. If I can find it on this machine, I can usually figure out where it is on the other one.
I use both the latest 4.10 beta and the latest 4.9 released versions on the Beast. (I mostly work in the beta, but sometimes it comes in handy to be able to have both programs running at the same time.) It's been pretty stable for me, and I can usually trace a crash back to something I did. The beast has 64GB of RAM, and I suspect that helps. When it does crash, it seems like DS waits for me to be so engrossed with the creative process that I've not saved the scene for a couple of hours. lol
I am trying to get into the habit of saving every time I add something to a scene, change shader settings, add a pose or clothing etc, I don't always remember though :)
No one has mentioned this that I've seen...
But Now-Crowd Billboards, Modern City Life... must be the best bargain in the DAZ library on a GB per Dollar ratio. It was downloading super slow, and then I looked down and realized it was over 10GB in 15 different install packages.
A few of those in your content library will really bloat your DAZ hard-drive footprint.
yes, I have 4 of these billboard sets.... They are extremely memory intensive.
I have all the billboards except for the modern day ones (just pickecd up the sci fi ones yesterday). They are HUGE files but on the other hand, the savingings in memory in the scenes and the ability toss a bunch of random people into a scene to make it believable is worth it if you machine has the space for them. And the fact that they orient to camera, with a script to be able to rotate them (so you can see the back instead of the front, or the side, can see them from a different angle like above, and they still look right? Invaluable.
I had already gone to the Windows icon at the bottom left and gone through every possible setting :( I know I used to have Control Panel, but it wasn't an option, so I went into search and then just kept typing words from the steps you listed. What a pain in the hiney. That item was already checked. I also checked for disc fragmentalization, drivers initialized- everything is in top notch shape and up to date.
BTW I added L'Adair's tip on using Gen3 hair on Gen8 in the tips section, first page, under HAIR.
Today's sale is Mad. Mad I tell ya!
Why couldn't Daz throw a few of these at us in March? I placed an order yesterday where one new release was 46% off, three were 52% off and the new DO was 62% off. I also had back catalog items with discounts of 77% or 82% because of meeting the new release requirements in two different promos, and two PC+ items for under 50¢ each… Twelve items for under $87.
Today, I've got a new release in the cart for 70% off. A new release! (I had them all in my cart to test it, and they were all at 70% off.) I met the 5 or more requirement with back catalog products, which are showing 74-75% off, except for the DOs at 82% off. 10 items for $48.99!
And Daz wonders why we didn't get excited for March Madness! LOL
ETA: Discounts above include the extra 15% for the Daz Thanks banner.
Yes, it's quite fun shopping today. One thing to note- the Thorneworks Ultimate Fantasy Ears has a hide the ears completely morph which comes in handy if you're ever doing hooded cloaks that are tight fitting, or hats, etc.
Unfortunately there's only two of today's items I kind of want, and not a single wishlisted older item. There's always another sale LOL
I think the Visual Studio 2005 compiler is used to compile DAZ Studio so I doubt that it is 100% 64 bit code through and through. I think Visual Studio 2017 is the newest Visual Studio. As VS 2005 is now 13 years old DAZ 3D ought to consider upgrading to VS 2017. They might be limited to by their reliance on the QT libraries though. And switcher to a new compiler is not easy, Blender has been struggling to make a working feature-matching release of Blender using the latest VS compiler and haven't managed it yet.
That didn't stop me.
I've got a few items in the cart that I would never buy otherwise, but for $3-$4…? They'll be fun to have. Though after spending so much yesterday, I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to actually buy anything today. (Even though I expect I'll be kicking myself if I don't!)
Since I buy to showcase, I'm picking up the Nikisatez clothing. I am also focusing on all the morphs from Thorne/Handspan because as we all found out, morphs to plumpen the sides, make the arms more saggy, and give slight potbellies are nice to have if you want to make your characters older. Just a thought. They're $4.30-4.85 with the 15% banner. The fantasy (one for G3, one for G8) can be used for the eyes, regardless of whether you have a fantasy character or not. (In addition to some other parts of that product.)
One dress that is cute which could be used as a top (or a dress with leggings and skinz under it, like the corset if you don't want plunging neckline) is Wrap Dress. I'm hoping that's two material zones on the dress. Think what you could do with that with shaders. Get the price- 82% off, for $3.20 The textures are 64% with 15% banner. $4.64 So you could get the dress and textures today for $7.84 All this plus if you got the 24% off gift card and use the credit to buy this... well... it's worth taking a look at. It has shoes too. The textures include a scalloped hem and neckline version, rather cute!
Looking at Wrap Dress, it could be used as a beach swimsuit coverup too.
I sort of like the honeymoon bundle, minus the bed which badly needs some smooshing morphs. Unfortunately, most of the vendors on sale sell primarily female content and its hard to select from those items 5 things I will actually use.
Everything in my cart ATM is from Nikisatez's catalog, including some clothing for the guys, props, and a bedroom scene, (which has numerous props I can use for kitbashing.) But I know what you mean. I really don't want or need more poses or morphs for females. It's my guys that need the 3D love!
I picked up the honeymoon set and several zeddicus’s pose sets. I have the male things I want from the other store.
LY Adair HD (Gen3F) X-Fashion Biker Jacket (Gen3F) Adalyn Hair (Gen3F)
No one ever answered about the lack of reflectivity for the eyes. I added the white reflections in the eyes (postwork.) The pupils render coal black and there's no light bouncing off. The moisture in the Surface pane had changes, so something was inputted, but the eyes aren't doing squat. I loaded it from scratch twice.
For Adalyn Hair, maybe there was a way to do it and I just couldn't find it- but I couldn't get JUST that huge mass of hair on the upper side to shrink. There's a flatten, but it's everything. (Hate that.) There's a top shrink, but that's the top, and not the top/side. There's no upper side reduction option. Sides Width reduces the lower part too, so you still have an unbalanced mass up above. Probably with more tweaking it can be done, but I messed with it for about ten minutes then that was it. IMO I would prefer more precise sections responding to movement.
The hair is shown out of the box and needs smoothing applied, it's crinkly.
The jacket has a nice variety of colors and you can zip/unzip it.
I have trouble with billboards. I like the idea, but sometimes the images can look pretty unnatural. For example, Two of the recent sci-fi ones have sort of floaty feet. Also in certain lighting they don't look great.
I'm debating returning the recent pack. Without better placed feet, it will be hard to get much usefulness out of it.
V4 has forearm side/side. My forearm moves side to side. It can rotate the upper arm while it is moving but it's so much easier to manipulate than having to rotate the upper arm to get the forearm to move where you want it.
The Wrap Dress only has two material zones - one for the sleeves, and one for the dress.
Her skin looks really blotchy. Sometimes I think PAs' attempts at creating realistic looking skin backfire. Rarely do you see photos of women in extreme close-ups without any makeup or some retouching or photo filters. Even when I stare at my own reflection in the mirror up close without makeup do I see all the flaws some PAs are emphasizing. Some realism products and skins just look like the characters are sick or have eczema. V4 skins by top vendors were realistic without all the weird blotchiness that you see now in current IRay characters and shaders. I'm not sure what the creators are aiming for... The jacket looks great though
The way I create poses is clicking on a body part, then going in parameters and sliding the bend/rotate dials. Is there another way of doing it? Won't those save correctly?
There are many ways to make poses. You can move the part manually, use pose controls and bake or use parameter dials. I tend to do all 3 whatever works.
The way you are doing it will save correctly. If you go under Actor, where the head/body morphs are, there is an area further down than the morphs, called pose controls, which I personally don't use much except for the facial expressions and the hands. That is the area that supposedly doesn't save out correctly.
I've never had any trouble saving them. Perhaps that was true in earlier versions of Daz Studio…? But the current save dialog does show the Pose Controls along with all the bones. I'll do a screenshot when my render is finished. Should be soon.
No one has posted, so I'll add the screenshots here. This is the dialog window, expanded to show various bones and Pose Control options.
As you can see, everything is selected by default. There is a siimple way to save only the changes from the default: "Check All Modified Only" Here is screenshot of the dialog after selecting that menu item, but with the menu open to show where to find that menu item.
When I click on the head or hands, it takes me to the pose controls for that body part, so I'm guessing it's the same thing?
While we're on the subject of saving poses, does anyone know how to create a slider out of an expression?
I almost got my screenshots up before anyone posted! lol
I'm afraid I can't help you with sliders, @Wonderland. Sure wish I could.