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I just noticed something...when I get an ebot to my email about someone posting in a thread, the link to click on starts iwth https://www.daz3d.com/forums
The last one I just got was https://download.daz3d.com/forums
Is that normal for the "download" to suddenly be in there?
...hmm still have the discounts on all the G8/Steph8 stuff in teh cart. Still really not sure about pulling the trigger. Can't use a coupon as they are all new releases (somtimes I miss the old voucher days).
I used a coupon for my S8 Pro Bundle etc. purchase, the 10-17PlatClub (leftmost on PC+ page). It works on new stuff.
..didn't know that. Stilll would only knock it down to 40$. Again, have to sleep on this. So far I feel she is the best G8 sofar as she is more average in height and proportion and I think she has the best most "normal" looking face of the bunch so far.
I think Stephanie 8 is better than previous G8 base character females. In my opinion, her face is not as masculine as V7 and O8 were, and some of her promo pics looked quite nice, but there's still too much V8 in her. To be honest, all the new G8F Daz Original base characters look they are close relatives to me, and if you didn't like V8, it's really hard to like any of the other new characters. I like S8 more than previous G8 base models, but not enough to upgrade to G8 yet.
I'll second that. Certain facial characteristics are simply masculine and others are feminine by definition, regardless of sex, it's a fact based on scientific laws and principles.
Well I've seen many real people that looked a lot more different from the norm, to put it that way.
This argument has been already been given frequently, and the answer is the always the same, since G3 and G8 uses the same skins there is no reason at all for G8 to look more or less plastic than G7. You can even use the same skins/shaders on G8 and they should look identical, unless for some bizzare reason it is the shape of the mesh that is somehow making the skin render plastic!
I was wondering too. Maybe they've moved the forums temporarily to the download server because of problems.
It was the tone that made the music. The way the comments (EDIT to add: comments are now deleted) were phrased that created the upheaval weren't simply stating things about the shape, but in a very derisive matter, as if the fact that they have more masculine features makes them ugly, and they should be in the bin, when in reality, they just look like normal people (even some supermodels!), shapewise.
I don't know why Monique would be able to rock a strong jaw any better than V8, S8 or O8 Black women have round feminine faces too.
That's a great render! Love the attitude!
Here she is in a fantasy setting:
I think the root of the complaint is the default shader settings; some people would prefer settings that don't mask the skin texture details the way they do, whereas I personally find them to be a more accurate way to show the characters.
HI, anyone else also got this problem ?
when loading Xanthe -
when one applies the eyelashes material at last - the previously selectet makeup gets wiped of her face.
Glad it's not something wonky with just me then
edit: and it's not EVERY ebot link. Just some. The font looks a tad different here when it's the "download" url......weird.
Here she is with Michael 8. I do find the G8 skin shaders to be way too orange and the translucency too high, especially for Stephanie 8. In these renders I used the default skins but I lowered the saturation to 0.8 in the render tone mapping settings to counteract the orange. Interestingly, to my eyes at least, Rawart's recently released vampire for G8M has very nice looking skin settings. I may have to experiment to see if they would work with other characters.
I'm wondering if her head appears large because she is so thin (classical lollipop head syndrome), as objectively comparing her proportions to available scales, her actual head size looks correct. The strong jaw further emphasises this. ETA She reminds me of Sarah Jessica Parker in this regard - long face tiny body
I don't see myself using the extreme makeups, but remember feeling the same about V7's more clownish makeups. Her petite frame is definitely a nice addition to the female gene pool though.
those are good renders very nice. Well her head looks bigger than michaels. I had to dial it down 5 percent. It is way oversized. It is the head of a giantess. To match a head that size she would be far taller.
Yeah, I like the basic face shape of G8F and V8, but I don't think O8 and S8 are successful attempt to take the faces in a different direction. The earlier Olympias and Stephanies tended towards heart-shaped faces.
Wow, that is a huge improvement on the promo images.
Yes it is but changing transmitted color to RGB 250/210/235 (very light magenta) make Stephanies skin dissolve or breakdown pixel by pixel going invisible. does anyone know why?
In render settings- environment make sure that Draw dome is set to on. There is a bug?/idiosycrasy? with the chromatic SSS that makes certain colour combinations turn the character invisible with draw dome off.
Many thanks, and even bigger thanks for explaining why it happens
Seeing Steph 8 in context with a male figure makes her definitely look better. Still the don't care for the face and skin but the body is a very nice petite shape. Almost made me want to buy her to add to the gene pool. But it makes me wonder if I could get that shape using dials or morph packs and just scale G8 down? Hope there are pose packs that uses a shorter female in interactive scenes.
I thought the same when I saw Stephanie 8. "Hmmm...Is that just a slight variation of V8? Oh wait, that's a new base character..."
Xanthe is my favorite out of all the S8 related stuff. I really wish Isource would go back to just making G8F base characters. I like that so much more than characters with a bunch of prerequisite models and morphs. I've passed on the last 3 Isource characters because of this. And, I'm a big fan of their work.
Xanthe is beautiful. But, I don't really like S8. And, I don't own the G8F head and body morphs, yet. I don't think I can justify spending all the money just to get one character that I like.
Interestingly, Xante's body and face morphs sppear to be slmost entirely custom. Only 5% of Stephanie 8's head and none of her body dials in when you load her. So I think she will work almost the same with or without S8 base.
Without S8 on left, with S8 on the right. Body is identical as it doesn't use S8's morph
She also doesn't appear to use the head and body morphs, only the Navel and Mouth Realism HD morphs.
Hey, Thanks for this! I think I'll have to pick her up after all. :) I wonder why she is listed as requiring the G8F head and body morphs.
That amuses me. A character sold for Stephanie with hardly any Stephanie added. .....
Agreed, I like her too.