Mesh grabber for Daz 2025 Alpha?

Squishy

Richard Haseltine said:

The plug-ins that were purchased by Daz and developed into the Premier plug-ins will not be getting updates other than to the Premier vesions, I'm afaid. they will of course work in DS 4, and aside from needing to bake the Mesh Grabber Modifier to a morph or shape (and render Queue, obviously) their effects should then be savable and openeable in DS 2025.

this sounds pretty explicit to me.

Leana

Squishy said:

Richard Haseltine said:

The plug-ins that were purchased by Daz and developed into the Premier plug-ins will not be getting updates other than to the Premier vesions, I'm afaid. they will of course work in DS 4, and aside from needing to bake the Mesh Grabber Modifier to a morph or shape (and render Queue, obviously) their effects should then be savable and openeable in DS 2025.

this sounds pretty explicit to me

Daz bought what was supposed to be Mesh grabber 4, as well as a bunch of other ManFriday plugins. Those plugins now belong to Daz, and Daz can decide whether they will get a DS2025 update (the older standalone plugins won't, only the Premier plugins based on them will). 

However Daz didn't buy Mesh grabber 3, which is still sold in the store as a PA products. ManFriday still owns them, and can decide whether to update them for DS2025 or not.

Richard Haseltine

I was relaying information I was given - I am not sure exactly what the status of the older Mesh Grabber products is.

As far as I know the Daz developers have been working on the Premier versions of the tools.

Squishy

Can you find out for sure? If not how can I contact ManFriday and ask?

Laurita

Gotta say that the loss of ManFriday's dForce Companion will hit me even more. That's a tool I use for possible 75% of my renders.

Leana

Squishy said:

Can you find out for sure? If not how can I contact ManFriday and ask?

ManFriday sometimes posts in the forums so you could try a private message. There's no guarantee you'll get an answer though.

stripe6499_9253833ae8

It does occur to me that Daz PAs that specialize in scripts and plugins just saw their sales flatline, as no one is going to be buying stuff that's Daz has announced is going to be obsolete soon. So another triumph for Daz management?

Squishy

Leana said:

Squishy said:

Can you find out for sure? If not how can I contact ManFriday and ask?

ManFriday sometimes posts in the forums so you could try a private message. There's no guarantee you'll get an answer though.

worth a try I guess, thanks.

memcneil70

If ManFriday is aware of this thread, I would like to add my bit that yes, if there was an update to Mesh Grabber 3 for DS 2025 for Windows and Mac, I would jump on it immediately. I was ready to buy MG4 when it got pulled into Premiere.

Squishy

sent a forum message april 29.

Shadowdream

Squishy said:

sent a forum message april 29.

Did you ever get a response? 

Squishy

No

drcko016

Without Mesh Grabber, Daz is literally unusable.

Richard Haseltine

drcko016 said:

Without Mesh Grabber, Daz is literally unusable.

Then, if you have a Premier Membership wait for Geometry Scul;ptor to be updated for the alpha or just continue to use DS 4..x.x.x for the tasks that need Mesh Grabber and then bake the modifier to geoemtry if you need the results in DS 2025. 

calok84_62e8db9913

Richard Haseltine said:

drcko016 said:

Without Mesh Grabber, Daz is literally unusable.

Then, if you have a Premier Membership wait for Geometry Scul;ptor to be updated for the alpha or just continue to use DS 4..x.x.x for the tasks that need Mesh Grabber and then bake the modifier to geoemtry if you need the results in DS 2025. 

Hi, can I ask what you mean by bake the modifier to geoemetry? How do you do that?