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For me the answer is easy. Today I could of got 1 free Victoria base character of any generation but since I had them all I generously got to choose from any Genesis 2, Genesis 3, or Genesis 8 base character.
OK, now it's more difficult. I don't want to waste a free base character choice on a base character whose Pro Bundle has enough good things in it that I'll be buying the Pro Bundle 1st chance I get. So that criteria eliminates Mei Lin 8, Lee 8, Mabel 8, Floyd 8 and would have eliminated others but apparently those Genesis 8 Pro Bundles are considered too recent to be freebies. That left characters that are good standalone but Pro Bundles are sort of lacking: Nix 8, Alexandra 8, Edward 8 and so on. Nix 8 was gone because DAZ Pro Bundles and young characters are pretty common place even if young male pro bundles aren't exactly common at DAZ 3D they are common enough. That left Edward 8 & Alexander 8 so Edward 8 as a clear attempt to do clearly mundane and boring middle aged characters, a rarity, it was. I don't count past 'Warrior' rough around the edges DAZ characters like Ivan 7 and so on as the tough guy aspect trumped the middle aged aspect.
So I guess I want, based on the criteria I whittled those choices down to Edward 8, what was in those pro bundles that caused me not to choose those base characters was more classic hair styles and more classically ethnic clothing styles. Ethnic does not necessarily mean non-white, there are many European ethnic styles of clothing, but definitely more classic ethnic clothing is wanted. I was going to buy Marvelous Designer this fall until I found out my computer wouldn't do it. I like Oskarsson's library although I consider that more American traditional clothing than older European styles.
haha! Had to google that. Unexpected and interesting. I now have a new random fact to amaze people with. And some steampunk ideas.
One other wish, more good-quality 3DL utility shaders that don't fall into the common and already well-filled categories of fabric, metals, generic stone, etc. Bundles with a wide variety of random unique materials that can be used on scene filler and include displacement and/or transparency maps and some effort to be as seamless as possible when appropriate. (Not just basic things that anybody can do themselves by taking a photo and putting it in diffuse with no displacement/transparency.) I don't necessarily need these specific items, but just to illustrate possible variety imagine a bundle that included items like these picked out of a hat: braided metal cable that I can apply to a tube. Textured plastic grips and surfaces found on anything modern. Just transparency maps with rows of holes such as found on shelf brackets or air vent holes in cabinet style electronics. Foam rubber. polyester fiberfill. braided shoelaces. Stitches. Bubble wrap. beveled panels that can be applied to geometric objects like a cabinet door bevel or wall panel or air duct X pattern, maybe just displacement you can apply to your favorite wood shader. Rotton wood. A mat of tangled roots. Bamboo or woven mat. Accordian bellow patterns (accordians, cacti, antique camera, etc.). Fluffy snow. Insect eyes and wings. piles of straw/grain/granules/beads/crumbs/shavings/sawdust/dirt/barkchips/sand. buttons/keypads. Microphone grills. Tire treads. privacy glass. Gear teeth. Bubbly liquid (I have some 3D bubbles, but nothing tileable.). Oozing lava. lichen(raised). Cardboard tube spiral. Sandpaper. canned food tops to apply to ends of a cylinder. Button displacement to apply to a flat cylinder. Velcro. worn/torn paper edges to apply to a rectangle plane. hinges to apply to a cylinder on a closed hinge. worm-eaten wood. worn/chipped/scrimshaw ivory. Myan (or any culture) pattern displacement to apply to existing stone materials. fiberboard. rivet/bolt patterns. flexible metal watchband. quilted paper towel or a roll of string/cable/cord/carpet to apply to a cylinder, both a map for the circle ends and the sides with varying thickness and scale. drill bit or rasp patterns. chipped edges for hand-carved stone to apply to a rectangular prism. Styrofoam. fan grates. campfire ashes. whatever.
I'd like a real cruise ship too, but I can't even imagine how big a nightmare that would be to navigate through something the size of the Pacific Princess. I've got Truform's Luxury Yacht from Rendo, which is set up with all the rooms fully furnished, and the only way I can ever find my way around in it to hide everything off, then turn on the rooms that are near where I want one by one. What that would be like with hundreds of cabins....
But... if you're going to ask for a real Cruise ship, then we first need to get a harbor and dockyard that's set up to support it. The best I know of is the one that's included with PW Productions' Airport Island set, but it's nowhere big enough to support a modern cruise ship and lacks a lot of the infrastructure needed like gangplanks... even if you kit bashed it together with the best of Dremland Model's harbour stuff from over at Rendo and First Bastian's Inland Marina, ther's still a lot of stuff you'd have to make from scratch...
All of which leads me to what I wish was more popular, which is real world settings and infrastructure. We fnally got modern fire fighter outfits and fire trucks for the newer figures, but the only firehouses are designs that come from the 1950s. First bastion's Police Station is nice, but while we have a ton of bus stops, there's no modern bus terminal and you have to go to Rendo to get a decent bus. And how about a modern military sub? There's a few exteriors but no interiors... Likewise there are a few big military ships out there, but do any have interiors? Heck, I can't even find a model for a modern Tudor style house...
Went on a Black Friday weekend shopping spree in Dinoraul's store at the rendo to satisfy my dino needs and finally bought the new DAZ House Cat (gonna see if I can transfer Lynes' wild cat morphs to the newer cat; wish me luck). Definitely would love more realistic animals. A ram to go with the DAZ sheep, cape buffalo to face off against my lion pride, a new rabbit and hare, a MOUSE... and a columbian mammoth and/ or whoolly mammoth with proportions closer to DR's mammoth which is no longer available since CP closed.
Polish's Deathpion Sci-Fi Scorpion Mech gives me hope we'll see more Zoids animal mechs for sale. I have CyberD Model-1, R.A.P.T.O.R., Mestophales Mech Dragon, Hailey's Comet and RoboRex for the Digital I Rex (plus more from CP), and the new mecha sets have me craving for more awesome mech animals such as ligers and sabertooths.
1. Cute stylized/toon males (like what Marcius, and the PAs who made the anime guys have been doing) so they can match the females better.
2. Elf/fairy fantasy clothes for males (pelts doesn't cut it)
3. Horse 2 because I'd love more skins for it and dForce hairs for it.
4. Cute medium-sized or little dogs for Dog 8. Even if they're "mutts."
5. Geografted paws and eyes for DAZ House Cat. I'd take a weird alien/monster cat morph with geografts too. This remake has potential.
...I'm still waiting for a large eccentric English country manor like this:
something like that might make a good construction kit too...
..yeah I was thinking sort of like the old Dream Home.
everything but women
Some variety of cars would be great. I also would think some more monsters would be cool, as well as more toon type characters. I've been finding every figure I put in, I'm either adding in Girl 8 by like 40%, cartoonize or something like that, and now with Yuzuru, he's being dialed into every guy character I put in a scene. Don't get me wrong, it's working what I'm doing, but I like to have more options.
dForce clothing with thickness, hems, stitching...
consistant scale for cars, buidings, etc
Good quality Male Clothing.
I'd like to see more neglcted areas without graffiti or obvious signs of vandalism. Environments that are just abandoned and left to the elements.
With the 80s still so big, I would love to see some 80s clothes (I would love a good ringer tee with a decal layer for images/sayings like you used to see everywhere, and could make custom at some places) mundane 80s settings (including an 80s mall, but also the local drug store, grocer, a theater, local burger joint, a real arcade with a prize counter and maybe even a place like Showbiz Pizza, etc.). I feel like we're at least getting closer on 80s interiors with the shabby chic kitchen, nearly everyone had a grandparent with a house like that around here. I miss that more than I miss anything, the random moments like sitting in the drive-thru with my family, birthday party at Showbiz or Aladdin's Castle, going through clearance at the toy store, seeing a movie to escape blistering summer heat, walking with my cousins to get shaved ice halfway across town (or so it seemed), being bored at the lawnmower parts place but glad to be hanging out with my dad. Stranger Things has a lot of what I loved, especially season 3, but I'd add some of those things too.
I also wish someone would go through the book Toilets of the World and make some of those (but those are at least on my list for once I get back into 3D once work calms down).
Another vote for clothing (regular or dforce) with more detail - realistic wrinkles, seams, hems, cuffs, flies, etc. modeled in, not dependent on textures.
Destructable clothing (male and female) - think hulk out - with modeled stress points, rips, tears with detailed textures/trans maps to match.
an emu
Dforce strand mane for DAZ horse 2 (and tail hair)
Dforce human strand hair pieces like pony tails to attach to any head or as tails too (grown on an invisible base)
Dforce strand clothing and accessories like tassels, pompoms, headdresses, feathers (quills with strand based hair) fringes on clothing,
and most importantly Dforce clothing that is rigged well enough to use without Dforce for animation because if it isn't it will explode, my main problem with most of the stuff in store is its only good for one frame.
most stuff really only needs dforced hems, cuffs etc, I like Dforce and use it on conformed clothing a lot creating separate surface areas to dforce with simulation zero on the rest but most the new stuff is dforced all over and useless to me.
Not saying there cannot be Dforce only clothing BTW but it needs to be clearly labeled Dforce only non conforming unsuitable to use without dforce because too much I buy lately is just that and I don't mean flouncy loose things either, I have been very frustrated by some of the male outfits I bought.
Retro stuff. Retro hair styles, retro clothes. Retro props, 1950's kitchen, etc. etc. etc. All we keep cranking out is fantasy and sci fi stuff and it's all redundant, unrealistic, and weird. Great if you do fantasy art but I need realistic stuff across multiple eras.
Wildlife found in back yards and pet stores. Squirrels Rabbits Chipmunks Deer Skunk Fox Raccoon Possum etc. Some of these may already exist, but I want those already with fur, that don't rely on additional products to make they look like they already should. Rabbits top my list of backyard critters that most people will have.
For a pet store and therefore in people's homes as pets- A Ferret Sugar Glider Tarantula A variety of geckos and skinks and their cages/aquarium setups.
How about a four legged genesis, with all sorts of real and fantasy animals derived from it.
...hmm a quadruped Genesis figure built on the weight mapping used for G3/G8 that can have different creature types, similar to the add on characters/figures based on the human model, would be a great idea. That just makes way too much sense. Crikey, they sort of did it with Horse 2, and even managed to turn G8F into a hedgehog as well as G8M into a chimpanzee.
Maybe we could finally get new updated domestic cats that pose and bend more like a real cat.
it is more or less what Hivewire3D has done with their quadrupeds
Regarding quadrupeds, the best way to approach that, IMO, would be having a free base quadruped that vendors can build on.
Requiring people to buy some other product before using a product limits things a lot.
Animals - Novica has a good starting list; both animal kingdom and anthro characters
Birds
Still waiting for someone to come up with something amazing with feathers - perhaps along the line with how amazing UltraTrees is with leaves.
I've got you covered there
(Daz even responded with 'looks interesting, tell us more about this, that, and your other' - I replied but that was a week ago...I'm beginning to think they changed their minds...)
As for other stuff - wish cyberpunk+steampunk+magipunk were more popular (though there's stuff around that fits for kit-bashing).
Technical items that have their design based in fact, instead of the "I couldn't be bothered to research/this sort of looks okay" attitude that affects so many designs these days. General attention to details.
Examples:
1. The compressor - it has no output, and a safety valve jammed in the whole where the output would go. The compressor itself is too small for its tank.
2. Car engines. What a load of codswallops the things that pretend to be engines are. Sure, some people get it close. Most are awful.
3. Steam driven anything - trains, weird transports, river barges. None of these have any hope of actually working. The steam barge (or whatever it was called) is the worst offender of the lot- a boiler, but nowhere for a fire. No actual engine - the drive belts connect directly to the boiler! Sure some of these are old, but the new ones are often not a lot better.
4. ceiling lights in rooms. A pet annoyance of mine. So many houses/rooms don't have ceiling lights!
5. Space suits that wouldn't kill the wearer the moment they step into vacuum! Come on folks, space suits don't leave legs bare!
Maybe not quite the gyst of the question, but hey...
A few that may be closer to the question:
1) versatile primitives with inbuilt morphs. I wanted a hemisphere recently. I could not find even one.
2) Sci-fi (or not) corridors that HAVE JUNCTIONS. Straight bits of corridor are useless. Corridors need to go from somewhere to somewhere else, and/or give access to rooms along their length. T juctions, cross junctions, doorways. removable service panels so you can put interesting stuff inside. Pipes, pipes and even more pipes is so boring.
3) male clothes of the sort people might actually wear! (Look at grandpa in his skateboard outfit - it was the only thing the shop sold!)