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  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 8,049
    edited April 2025

    Squishy said:

     

    e: what is up with Genesis 3 Female, seems to be gone from my library/not available in the store any more?

     Each Genesis generation has a starter essential package.    

    https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-starter-essentials

    https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-3-starter-essentials

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  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    Even though I do not do any commercial renders (yet?!?) the "non commercial only" tag keeps me from downloading stuff, just because I'm too lazy to check items somewhen in the future if I might do something commercial.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,338
    edited April 2025

    Squishy said:

    No, that content is listed under a different account, I am not actually going to delete anything from the site at least not right now, unless something changes that gives me a reason to do that.

    If you want the Poser V3/V4 content, here is my old ShareCG gallery:

    https://sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=fleshforge

    Please note I am not able to support any of that stuff at all, I no longer even have a copy of Poser!

    It's funny, I actually saw someone using part of my Dark Sorceress dress from back then just yesterday, I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever seen anything of mine ever actually used anywhere frown

    The V4 stuff should be pretty well supported in DS, anyway. I have and still use a lot of V4/Poser stuff. Dark Sorceress looks like fun. I like the Seraphim Revealed outfit, but I saw that it's an authorized port under EL. You have a lot of fun stuff, new and older. Cheers to that!

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  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,338
    edited April 2025

    maikdecker said:

    Even though I do not do any commercial renders (yet?!?) the "non commercial only" tag keeps me from downloading stuff, just because I'm too lazy to check items somewhen in the future if I might do something commercial.

    I tend to agree with your position. Despite that, I do still download the occasional EL freebie. surprise I try to mark the item as such so I remember the limitation.

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  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,338

    Squishy said:

    ... what is up with Genesis 3 Female, seems to be gone from my library/not available in the store any more?

    G3 is still alive and well, plenty of G3 stuff in the store and in my library.

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,229

    oh and btw, what a bummer that the site is closing. obviously I don't know any behind the scenes information... but I low-key think the site could have had so much more traffic if only they'd have reasonably sized thumbnails instead of these teeny tiny ones. I didn't visit ShareCG very often, mainly because squinting at those ant-sized thumbnails was just too exhausting.

  • emanuela1emanuela1 Posts: 968
    edited April 2025

    Another small group of authors and items from Sharecg that I like and consider good and worth downloading.

    Autors

    Dw3D (hair and sci-fi)
    KomyFly (Pirates of the Caribbean props)
    Dream*Star (fantasy shapes)
    Tranquil (Sci-fi)(he is also on DeviantArt)
    jababinks (medieval helmet and armour)
    amy_aimei (outfit)
    intheflesh (character development package and other useful things)
    aemy1970 (outfit and other utility, also on rendo, but only with few of the items)
    arah018 (outfit)

    Props
    Hybrid Pursuit
    RGPC Philippine Moro Helmet
    The Steampunk HeartGlass
    The Black pearl
    Juraji by Moshi

    The Jeweled One Outfit G3F

     

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,762

    lukon100 said:

    nonesuch00 said:

    Renderosity or RenderHub shhould buy ShareCG.com and draw more traffic to their own sales site. It's not like it would add too much overhead costs to their current site. However, I have no ideal how much in the black their profits are.

    I'm trying to imagine how Renderosity or RenderHub could profit from owning ShareCG. I can't understand how. Could you elaborate? How, for example, could trafic be directed from ShareCG to whichever other site owns ShareCG?

    Correct. Freebies draw traffiic. Traffic leads to iimpulse buying. DAZ got me. Renderosiity got me. Via exactly that method. And ShareCG has one of the largest selection of freebies made by hobbyists. They'd need to add css to tiightly integrate it in with their main site.

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,278
    edited April 2025

    A nice selection of hats, for G8M but they should work nicely on any other figures: 

    https://sharecg.com/v/99888/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/8-Hats-For-Genesis-8-Male

    Edit: oh, nice, they are already available on Renderosity, in case someone read this message too late to get them through ShareCG:

    https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/94093/eight-hats-for-genesis-8-male

    Post edited by Elor on
  • starwarsorivusstarwarsorivus Posts: 43
    edited April 2025

    Well [bother]. Guess I better get in and get (or buy) what I can.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,338

    sharecg is currently malfunctioning. Try again later.

  • PixelPiePixelPie Posts: 371
    edited April 2025

    Did share CG say "when" they were offline--does anyone know any further details? It didn't mention it in their closing announcement.. just that they were closing..  They were up this morning, but now it only spins

    Post edited by PixelPie on
  • hjakehjake Posts: 1,283
    edited April 2025

    PixelPie said:

    Did share CG say "when" they were offline--does anyone know any further details? It didn't mention it in their closing announcement.. just that they were closing..  They were up this morning, but now it only spins

     

    No. They did not give any specific information.

    But just because you can not reach it at the moment is not a confirmation of closure. As was previously mentioned, freebies were stored in the most economical method and therefore the server may be overwhelmed by concurrent visitors.

     

     

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  • PixelPiePixelPie Posts: 371
    edited April 2025

    I'm so sad they are closing.. I wish they would have someone save the site to archive.org.. its such a shame

    Post edited by PixelPie on
  • SquishySquishy Posts: 710

    hjake said:

    PixelPie said:

    Did share CG say "when" they were offline--does anyone know any further details? It didn't mention it in their closing announcement.. just that they were closing..  They were up this morning, but now it only spins

     

    No. They did not give any specific information.

    But just because you can not reach it at the moment is not a confirmation of closure. As was previously mentioned, freebies were stored in the most economical method and therefore the server may be overwhelmed by concurrent visitors.

     

    I think it's down for good, even the announcement message site is down - probably simply de-listed from being served, whatever the technical term is, but this is not just server load:

    Warning: oci_pconnect(): ORA-01034: ORACLE not available ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist Linux-x86_64 Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3640 Additional information: 203494111 in /www/www_com/htdocs/database.inc.php on line 265
     

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981

    It's too bad that you had to be logged in to the site to download stuff, otherwise the Wayback Machine may have been able to preserve some of it. :(

  • hjakehjake Posts: 1,283
    edited April 2025

    Here is a copy of the notice.

    Screenshot 2025-04-07 191645.jpg
    1876 x 1206 - 621K
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  • eric suscheric susch Posts: 135

    ShareCG is down for me right now but it has been going in and out for the last few days.  I'm guessing the word has gotten out and they are being slammed with people trying to download stuff.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,338

    It's the way of things. Unfortunate! I got a lot of stuff, though.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,356

    It was an amazing site and I am grateful to everyone who shared their favorites.

  • emanuela1emanuela1 Posts: 968

    I also think the site is now closed, with the same text screen reported by others. It was one of the first sites to look for freebies when I started with DAZ, and I'm very sorry that it closes. Let's hope that some other site wants to take that space and leave it open. I thank so much all the authors who have been generous and have shared their works with us users.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,191

    Squishy said:

    Hey a small heads up for the 5 people or so who like/use my free content: I am in the process of listing essentially everything of mine made with modern tech at RenderHub (including a few items that did not make it onto ShareCG or Renderosity). I am going to allow the very old Poser V3/V4 era content I made to fade into history.

    !!!!!!!!!!

    One of the 'A lot more than 5' here: I need to get your V3 stuff. NEED it. I find I'm using a fair bit more V3 now that I've managed to get a TriAx version of Jim Burton's Glamorous V3 working and set her up to autofit V3 clothes. 

    Regards,

    Richard

  • SquishySquishy Posts: 710

    Apparently I had set up couple of Google Sites pages with my old generation content, and someone archived it at some point, I don't really remember doing this but it does have my signatures on the site activity, so ...

    https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Flesh_Forge

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,799

    There were DB errors the other day too, so hopefully it might not be gone for good yet.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,191

    @Squishy, @DollyGirl does a lot of cross referencing for PoserDazFreebies, as does DAZ member @Kerya and Rob Kelk over there. It is useful, usually, to have an ad free cross reference site.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,278

    richardandtracy said:

    !!!!!!!!!!

    One of the 'A lot more than 5' here: I need to get your V3 stuff. NEED it. I find I'm using a fair bit more V3 now that I've managed to get a TriAx version of Jim Burton's Glamorous V3 working and set her up to autofit V3 clothes. 

    Regards,

    Richard

    If you didn't have the time to get it, I think I got all the V3/V4 era archives from Squishy's alternative account.

    I can look for a way to send you everything if Squishy agrees.

  • PixelPiePixelPie Posts: 371

    I'm getting the error too, I am so sad about them going away.. I am also sad and disappointed sad that in their announcement they didn't at least give everyone a time frame for their departure.. like Hivewire did. They just said.. we are going away and that is it and its not even 2 weeks later.  I wish someone would buy it.  I want to try to contact some artists and see if they can re-upload their wares elsewhere..I really liked Birdman77 I believe it was as well as Spacebones. 

    I am thankful some folks are doing that!

  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981
    edited April 2025

    richardandtracy said:

    Squishy said:

    Hey a small heads up for the 5 people or so who like/use my free content: I am in the process of listing essentially everything of mine made with modern tech at RenderHub (including a few items that did not make it onto ShareCG or Renderosity). I am going to allow the very old Poser V3/V4 era content I made to fade into history.

    !!!!!!!!!!

    One of the 'A lot more than 5' here: I need to get your V3 stuff. NEED it. I find I'm using a fair bit more V3 now that I've managed to get a TriAx version of Jim Burton's Glamorous V3 working and set her up to autofit V3 clothes. 

    Regards,

    Richard

    I see you created a 69 page tutorial: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/96369/tutorial-triax-figures-from-old-parametric-figures

    I'm not very good at learning via text, do you know if anyone has done a video tutorial on how to create a TriAx version of V4 or A3? Just curious, as it sounds like it would be a really neat figure, as I have a ton of V4 stuff that just doesn't transfer very well to newer figures, despite having V4 clones.

    Post edited by 3Diva on
  • 3Diva3Diva Posts: 11,981

    I feel sorry for whomever edits and maintains the Pose Daz freebie wiki https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

    That is going to take a LOT of work to get rid of all the old ShareCG links, or mark them all as inactive. 

    Man it's such a bummer that nearly 15 years of community content is just gone. :(

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,191
    @3Diva , I have not seen if anyone has done a video version of the tutorial. I know I have not, as I don't have any experience of video. Regards, Richard.
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