CJ 8

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  • AllenArt said:
    This will be the first Pro bundle I will skip since I am PC+. Even if the two fantasy dresses will eventually appear inside the bundle. I do not like the jaw bone line of her, and the supplement chars are not much better. Aside of the nice Double Dutch Braids the other hairs look kind of retro (Genesis 2 or even older). Playtime Chills I would not even add as a freebie in my cart. The other clothes look indeed really good, but the overall offer is not that good to buy the whole bundle to get four maybe six (if the fantasy dresses are part of the bundle) assets. And the twenty bucks for old assets are not tempting at all. Sorry @DAZ and the PAs, for my honesty.

    I agree with everything you've said, except I like the main character more or less and Michaela looks pretty nice. Other than that, the hair is awful, the clothes are just ok, except for that one outfit that is just so silly and goofy looking that I almost thought it was a joke. IF I get anything of this character it'll be just the base, the HD and Michaela.

     

    Whoa ... surely not meaning https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-double-dutch-braids-for-genesis-8-and-genesis-3-females? because that hair has so much detail it's mind boggling.... and, as someone with an age old computer that takes years to render and dforce stuff.... it loads and renders pretty quickly and has morphs if you can't or don't want to dforce it.... I kind of think this hair is the best part of the bundle IMHO.... 

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,238

    I read the hair comment, went back and looked at each one again. The only one I am iffy about is Pippa Hair for CJ8. And I am just not sure if it is the renders or what? Or if there is a modern hair style that has that kind of choppy style. I have too often been surprised to find DAZ PAs on the leading edge of a style that months later I see walking down the street or in Target. 

    Any outfit I do not care for that is included in the Pro Bundle, I just won't buy the texture set for. I really do wish the main outfits for the two texture set add-ons were on the page, either in the Pro Bundle or as Add-ons. 

    I like all the characters.

    I hate to wait to purchase and download, so that Daz can come into work and sort things out for us. Frustrating. 

  • DripDrip Posts: 1,237

    I definitely like the bundle and most of its contents, but I really hope for the BloodOath outfit to popup today.
    But, I'm also considering the possibility that the BloodOath Textures and Fantasy Cape Textures are going to be replaced with something like RockyShoo Textures and Sophisticated Jacket Textures.

    For some reason, the BloodOath and Fantasy Cape outfits give me a bit of a PC+ vibe. Might just be the style of the promo arts causing this, not sure..

  • Honestly, Michaela looks okay, for sure the best char for CJ 8, but somehow I doubt she is worth to buy the bundle. As a stand-alone char, maybe. As I cannot talk for AllenArt I can only remind you that I explicitly excluded the Dutch Double Braid hair. I was referring to Pippa and Teagan hair. I can really not say which I like less.
  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,388

    I am particularly interested in the accompanying DForce jacket product, X-Fashion Sophisticate, by xtrart3d.  Promos show the jacket with a great sense of thickness, which has been difficult for many DForce compatible outfits.

    https://www.daz3d.com/x-fashion-sophisticated-jacket-outfit

    But I don't see a texture expansion for it.  

    Seems like there are some hiccups in posting this bundle to the store.  I'll wait until it gets sorted out.  Probably won't get this bundle, but might get an element or two.  

  • Yeah AbyssalEros, I understood your comment... I just am kind of mind boggled at all the responses overall. Even if some of stuff isn't my style I think things were still quality. Michaela is gorgeous as folks have noted. I don't have Ophelia, so I was glad to personally add a tough muscular gal to my shapes collection and my char is kind of tomb raider tough movie star star inspired. I absolutely LOVE Chevybabe's dynamic hair and really really hope she keeps making more of them (and like i said, glad she also does all the extra work of including morphs for people who don't have powerful computers for draping- i've tried several hair and 9 hours later, still trying to sim... that's 9 hours of not being able to use computer! :( *gives computer encouraging pat to not give up).  As for hair style... No idea what the current style is in the US and I don't follow the styles in Asia (I have a kind of shaved hair cut... I hate having hair around my face/ears and after years of having long hair and then one day slamming it in a taxi door that was driving away..... I had ENOUGH and cut it all off and never went back... every time I go back in to buzz my hair the hair stylist frantically double checks- "You know that's a boy hair cut right???"  me" Yep....cut it all off" and they usually leave it an inch longer than i want anyway, lol. 

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,749
    edited January 2020

    "Buy the CJ 8 Pro Bundle to get $5 WORTH of Select Daz Originals"  This one about choked me. You can't even buy most PC+ items for $5 anymore. Then I got a "double it" purple banner. If you look at the list you can choose from ... are any on the 1st page $10 or less? Pretty much a non-incentive to buy the bundle. I can't find 3 add on items I would buy. 

    The prices are going up more. The new stuff the last few days are high. As a hobbyist, I'm close to being priced out of this store.  
     

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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,343

    The dForce RockyShoo Outfit is not linked properly, keeps sending me to the front page.  If I hover over the link its not pointing to the outfit but yea, the front page! 

  • daveso said:

     You can't even buy most PC+ items for $5 anymore.

    'Most...'?

    There are tons of things 4.99 and under.. sure the dForce stuff is over that, but textures, shaders, and a lot of a models are all still 4.99 and under.

  • RAMWolff said:

    The dForce RockyShoo Outfit is not linked properly, keeps sending me to the front page.  If I hover over the link its not pointing to the outfit but yea, the front page! 

    This seems to be another sntacne of caching (or something like that) gone bad - the links are in fact there, and correct, other than one to the base CJ 8 but for someof us some of them (not always the same ones) are going to the front page. Add the item to your cart and the link from the cart will work (usually).

  • She's nice. Strong and versatile.But other than the double dutch braids, there's nothing in her package that interests me.The Serina and Grady add-ons have my attention, but I'm not going to buy a package just so I can also buy these add-ons. A shame Serina and Grady weren't just Gen8 without the need for a base figure.

    There are good pieces here that would be useful to me, but I'm not going to buy a whole department store for one outfit (metaphor alert, none of these clothing items interest me).

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,735
    RAMWolff said:

    The dForce RockyShoo Outfit is not linked properly, keeps sending me to the front page.  If I hover over the link its not pointing to the outfit but yea, the front page! 

    This seems to be another sntacne of caching (or something like that) gone bad - the links are in fact there, and correct, other than one to the base CJ 8 but for someof us some of them (not always the same ones) are going to the front page. Add the item to your cart and the link from the cart will work (usually).

    The links in the product description for the bundles work too.

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,343

    Not on my end.  See the two screen shots.  Notice the bottom left where the link is shown.  I can't add an item to my cart if I can't get to it.  I have no desire to own the Pro Bundle so adding that to my cart is not on my bucket list this morning.  

     

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,735
    edited January 2020
    RAMWolff said:

    Not on my end.  See the two screen shots.  Notice the bottom left where the link is shown.  I can't add an item to my cart if I can't get to it.  I have no desire to own the Pro Bundle so adding that to my cart is not on my bucket list this morning. 

    Not the "picture links", I meant the text links in the details

    And the "add to cart" button on the "picture links" does work, you don't have to open the actual product page.

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  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,749
    daveso said:

     You can't even buy most PC+ items for $5 anymore.

    'Most...'?

    There are tons of things 4.99 and under.. sure the dForce stuff is over that, but textures, shaders, and a lot of a models are all still 4.99 and under.

    yes, but ... the ones I need are >$5  OOPS THOUGH ... there are no PC+ items from which to choose for the banner,.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,263

    "Buy the CJ 8 Pro Bundle to get $5 worth of Select Daz Originals"

    wow.

    That doesn't even cover the TAX most people will have to pay for the Pro Bundle. 

     

  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,003
    edited January 2020

    ... ehhhhhhh... she's a maybe.

    She looks like her materials are one of the better sets I've seen (several recent DO base characters have been particularly good other than, IMO, still needing their translucency turned down), Michaela seems very good, some of the outfits are pretty good when you can actually correctly guess their links ( https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-rockyshoo-outfit-for-genesis-8-females & https://www.daz3d.com/coco-outfit-for-genesis-8-females - okay, I admit, that's just their product names, but still), I actually like the hairs, and all in all, there's only a couple of things in there I don't like on some level. (No disrespect to the artists of Playtime Chills, but I don't think low necklines go well with winter wear - or at least very few of my characters would agree.).

    But dang, $20 of DOs, even with the purple banner, Pro Bundle and three add-ons... that's got to be the least inspiring deal in a long time. If I'm getting her, I'll have to wait a few days to see if any good discounts come up on things in the list to actually make that a borderline useable amount.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,714

    I like the smile on Michela HD and the makeup on the lady wearing the Pippi hair.

  • DripDrip Posts: 1,237

    I like the smile on Michela HD and the makeup on the lady wearing the Pippi hair.

    Oooh, thanks for reminding me! Did anyone get an ID on the character from the Pippa Hair promos? Or is it one of those Promo Artist Special Reserve cases again?

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,263

    I think she can best be described with a single word - "Butch"  She's not unattractive... I quite like her, actually, and RedzStudio's character , Michela, is one of the most stunning characters I've ever seen included in a Pro Bundle.. but between the multiple short hair styles, the action poses and what I can see of the clothing selection.. given that the Rockyshoo outfit link is still broken and the Blood Oath outfit is completely MIA... there's no doubt in my mind that this is the character meant to take on the "tough as nails, been around the block" woman role that Rune 7 played to G3F.  In fact, since she fills that niche and yet looks completely unlike Rune, I suspect those two are going to end up doing a lot of work together in my runtimes.  

    So DAZ, why no Dominatrix outfit?      

  • Matt_CastleMatt_Castle Posts: 3,003
    edited January 2020
    Cybersox said:

    given that the Rockyshoo outfit link is still broken

    To post them again more obviously, fixed versions of the links for Rockyshoo and Coco:
    https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-rockyshoo-outfit-for-genesis-8-females
    https://www.daz3d.com/coco-outfit-for-genesis-8-females

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  • Wow, that is a fix I would call unexpected.
    Now the textures of the fantasy dresses are not even part of the add-ons anymore.
    R.I.P. CJ, whatever your actual name might be. I just cleared my test cart I loaded with my mobile while I was at work.

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  • I like the character. Nothing to stretch my budget for in that deal though, so I'm going to have to pass for the moment.  I probably will pick it up somewhere down the line.

  • Another pretty white lady lol. Can't believe it's happening again :)

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,237
    edited January 2020

    I really like Michaela HD but not enough to jusify either the $33+ for her and the required CJ8 base or the $65+ for the Pro Bundle with 3 addons. So I'll pass on this one and save my pennies for another day.

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  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,321

    I have never seen a human with hair that starts millimetres above the ear. But there are several such hairstyles in the Daz store, and, invariably, they lack an ear height morph. I wonder what that's about?

     
  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,603

    I've been trying to get a look at the RockyShoo outfit, but I keep getting redirected back to the main page.

    I like the look of her, but I've been ruined by the better discounts over the past few months. Thanks to the overlords at Daz for a purple banner though. 

  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,222

    At least she has a little more personality than most of the skinny white ladies we had recently.

    Her overall packaging makes no sense though.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,923

    Yeah AbyssalEros, I understood your comment... I just am kind of mind boggled at all the responses overall. Even if some of stuff isn't my style I think things were still quality. Michaela is gorgeous as folks have noted. I don't have Ophelia, so I was glad to personally add a tough muscular gal to my shapes collection and my char is kind of tomb raider tough movie star star inspired.

    Serina was quickly put in my cart, really like her eyebrows and overall look. I LOVE that the blush option is added and not part of the default mat.  I hate blush that is built-in. Very nice job and love your gal!

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,923
    xyer0 said:

    I have never seen a human with hair that starts millimetres above the ear. But there are several such hairstyles in the Daz store, and, invariably, they lack an ear height morph. I wonder what that's about?

     

    I don't like that ear section either. The rest of the hair is an interesting combination of layering though, but note there are NO MORPHS to adjust by the ears. 

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