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  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,441
    Torquinox said:

    Leana said:

    It's definitely not the norm, and has not been for years.

    There was a period after Iray was introduced where many vendors offered both Iray and 3DL materials, but most vendors have stopped offering 3DL materials years ago and only offer Iray materials (unfortunately for people like me who still like and use 3DL). Even Daz stopped offering 3DL materials with their core figures when they introduced G8.1, and even before that most of the clothes and characters offered in G8 core figures bundles only had Iray materials.

    It's reached the point where a color variation such as https://www.daz3d.com/sylvia-9-forest-skin is now a separate product - One more reason I've no use for Sylvia 9. Such a plain and boring character! The extra skin would have been a selling point. Compare to a well-appointed character like https://www.daz3d.com/nix-8 and one can see the difference in approach. Because without the extras, Nix would be just as boring as Sylvia!

    I boughtthe forest skin on release day, which I almost never do. It was an inexpensive trigger for a free G9 bundle I had wishlisted, and I've made good use of it & Sylvia. Guess those PAs who still do multiple shader sets in 1 package arguing to get more of my hobby budget.
  • NetherFalconNetherFalcon Posts: 885

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    Torquinox said:

    Leana said:

    It's definitely not the norm, and has not been for years.

    There was a period after Iray was introduced where many vendors offered both Iray and 3DL materials, but most vendors have stopped offering 3DL materials years ago and only offer Iray materials (unfortunately for people like me who still like and use 3DL). Even Daz stopped offering 3DL materials with their core figures when they introduced G8.1, and even before that most of the clothes and characters offered in G8 core figures bundles only had Iray materials.

    It's reached the point where a color variation such as https://www.daz3d.com/sylvia-9-forest-skin is now a separate product - One more reason I've no use for Sylvia 9. Such a plain and boring character! The extra skin would have been a selling point. Compare to a well-appointed character like https://www.daz3d.com/nix-8 and one can see the difference in approach. Because without the extras, Nix would be just as boring as Sylvia!

    I boughtthe forest skin on release day, which I almost never do. It was an inexpensive trigger for a free G9 bundle I had wishlisted, and I've made good use of it & Sylvia. Guess those PAs who still do multiple shader sets in 1 package arguing to get more of my hobby budget.

    Yeah, the Sylvia Forest Skin is an incredible add-on.  Very inexpensve, versatile and a great addition to the library.  Sylvia herself still stands as one of my favorite additions, and I did the same thing by getting her character bundle for free, it was a great Christmas present!

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,290

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    I boughtthe forest skin on release day, which I almost never do. It was an inexpensive trigger for a free G9 bundle I had wishlisted, and I've made good use of it & Sylvia. Guess those PAs who still do multiple shader sets in 1 package arguing to get more of my hobby budget.

    Ah, yes! The magic of trigger items... FWIW, when it comes up really cheap, I'll probably grab the green skin just because. And I agree! Cheers to the PAs who still do multiple shader sets in one package!

  • miladyderyni_173d399f47miladyderyni_173d399f47 Posts: 2,441

    NetherFalcon said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    Torquinox said:

    Leana said:

    It's definitely not the norm, and has not been for years.

    There was a period after Iray was introduced where many vendors offered both Iray and 3DL materials, but most vendors have stopped offering 3DL materials years ago and only offer Iray materials (unfortunately for people like me who still like and use 3DL). Even Daz stopped offering 3DL materials with their core figures when they introduced G8.1, and even before that most of the clothes and characters offered in G8 core figures bundles only had Iray materials.

    It's reached the point where a color variation such as https://www.daz3d.com/sylvia-9-forest-skin is now a separate product - One more reason I've no use for Sylvia 9. Such a plain and boring character! The extra skin would have been a selling point. Compare to a well-appointed character like https://www.daz3d.com/nix-8 and one can see the difference in approach. Because without the extras, Nix would be just as boring as Sylvia!

    I boughtthe forest skin on release day, which I almost never do. It was an inexpensive trigger for a free G9 bundle I had wishlisted, and I've made good use of it & Sylvia. Guess those PAs who still do multiple shader sets in 1 package arguing to get more of my hobby budget.

    Yeah, the Sylvia Forest Skin is an incredible add-on.  Very inexpensve, versatile and a great addition to the library.  Sylvia herself still stands as one of my favorite additions, and I did the same thing by getting her character bundle for free, it was a great Christmas present!

    That's exactly what I did! Picked her character bundle as my free one, saw the Nikolai Santa bundle was free with a New Release & NO coupon, saw the amazing skin for like $4. There was my Christmas Day cart!

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876
    edited March 29

    well MM's final weekend is now upon us (we'll see if it gets stretched  out to Monday or beyond).

    One item on my wishlist I've been waiting for was just released from "new" status so I can use my Daz+ PA coupon on it.  Forgot to buy something Thursday so lost the Gold Star bonus discount which on this item would have been helpful,  The trick is do I wait until Sunday and hope it remains in the sale as I pickled up an inexpensive item just after 23:00 (for which the credit for that purchase won't apply today).  It isn't so much the final; price as it is a difference in how many tokens needed.to get it as close to 18 USD I can get it before using the coupon.

    Cutting it real close both time and finances side as it is the end of the month.when finances are tight.

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  • ANGELREAPER1972ANGELREAPER1972 Posts: 4,556

    soooo in todays grab bag there is no discount code showing so noone is gettin Daz+ $3.49 for 1 item, did a check it does work for 3 items with new release

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876

    ...don't Grab Bag items only require a new release purchase?

    The Door Prizes require a coupon code which is is WRAP-UP-MADNESS

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    kyoto kid said:

    ...don't Grab Bag items only require a new release purchase?

    The Door Prizes require a coupon code which is is WRAP-UP-MADNESS

     Yeah, they seem to only require that cheeky

  • theflarftheflarf Posts: 197

    Yup, I haven't used either of my codes this month, then of course realised that the $18 one cannot be used with a new item, so the only thing slightly tempting me to buy something and get the grab bag things has now gone.

    The only thing i'm interested in from the new stuff is the carpark, would be really helpful, but can't justify it unfortunately at 18, with the grab bag ones at 3.49 with it, so looks like my month mind end without using either voucher and no significant purchases at all.

    The irony of the tagline being 'amazing' today is quite something, oh well March Non Event will soon be over...

     

  • Marty3DMarty3D Posts: 52

    For the grab bag items put the newly, still mad item in first to cart and then add the grab bag items after to get the discount working.

  • ANGELREAPER1972ANGELREAPER1972 Posts: 4,556
    yes adding mad item does reduce price of a grab bag item or as it says up to three items like every other day if you add a mad item release but previous days they also had a code like the mad door its own code of course and you could select one item with the promo code without having to buy a mad release got some this way during the sale guess don't really matter more of a impulse buy than must have which I've probably done too much of during march madness if being honest I do that too much with many of these sales and lightning deals nearly filled up 3TBhard drive + main drive with daz stuff I've got problems I know
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876
    edited March 29

    ...trying to figure out how the 51% discount was arrived at for the 2025 Madness Catch Up sale.  Daz Math always messes with my head (and I used to be a  math wiz in high school and college

    _________________

    ETA

    Could someone with an active  gold star check the discount percentage they see (the one have doesn't take effect until Sunday)?

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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 3,488

    kyoto kid said:

    ...trying to figure out how the 51% discount was arrived at for the 2025 Madness Catch Up sale.  Daz Math always messes with my head (and I used to be a  math wiz in high school and college

    _________________

    ETA

    Could someone with an active  gold star check the discount percentage they see (the one have doesn't take effect until Sunday)?

    I'm seeing 30 % off for the new items of the sale, and then 55% off in the cart. Am DAZ+ with active gold star. Hope this helps you!

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,776

    kyoto kid said:

    ...trying to figure out how the 51% discount was arrived at for the 2025 Madness Catch Up sale.  Daz Math always messes with my head (and I used to be a  math wiz in high school and college

    _________________

    ETA

    Could someone with an active  gold star check the discount percentage they see (the one have doesn't take effect until Sunday)?

    Not sure which items you're referring to, but 51% off would correspond to two 30% discounts combined.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876
    edited March 30

    ...interesting, As I am a Daz+ member I signed out to test that but the item still showed with 51% on the sale page and in my cart. I even closed all the tabs with he store and forums, reopened them and still saw the 51% even though I had not signed back in yet

    @tsromei, you have a gold star and are seeing a total of 55% in the cart? When I figured everything out taking 30% off for the membership the 45% for the gold star I came up with an aggregate discount of 61.5%. The difference here on the item I am looking at is between using 5 tokens today or none tomorrow to get the price as close to 18 USD on the item to use my Daz+PA coupon. Yeah on a tight budget here and it is a 50 USD item.

    Daz Math makes my brain hurt.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876
    ...apologies for the block of text as I entered the reply on my phone and have no Idea how to do paragraph breaks.
  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,938

    kyoto kid said:

    ...apologies for the block of text as I entered the reply on my phone and have no Idea how to do paragraph breaks.

    Maybe shift-enter? (Spitballing. I don't actually use a smartphone, though I do use a tablet.) 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876
    ...sadly no such thing on my phone. I need a real keyboard.
  • anepheranepher Posts: 140

    To the section Applies to license 85% legacy items, there are a lot of products which do not have any license activated
    one example is 
    https://www.daz3d.com/lullaby-tails
    does that mean that the license is free, or why is this product being added to that sale?

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,938

    Unexpectely awesome score for me today!

    Spent my DO coupon for two things, and one of them was purely for the fridge. (https://www.daz3d.com/mobile-home) I've been kitbashing the European Style Apartment as the living space for two of my main characters. It's been a great set to work with, but as it says on the tin... well, it's European-style. A lot of it passes easily for the converted old houses in the city where they live, but the appliances do not. Especially the fridge/freezer. The mobile home, however, has this fabulous harvest gold beast that looks just like the one that was in my house when I moved into it. It looked like a static prop, and I was all set to crack my knuckles and mess around with geometry editor to Frankenstein the two together -- but wait! 

    I loaded the thing in, and IT COMES WITH MOVING DOORS AND AN INTERIOR!!!

    This is not at all obvious from the page. And it's stinking amazing Soooo much cussing averted.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,256

    SilverGirl said:

    Unexpectely awesome score for me today!

    Spent my DO coupon for two things, and one of them was purely for the fridge. (https://www.daz3d.com/mobile-home) I've been kitbashing the European Style Apartment as the living space for two of my main characters. It's been a great set to work with, but as it says on the tin... well, it's European-style. A lot of it passes easily for the converted old houses in the city where they live, but the appliances do not. Especially the fridge/freezer. The mobile home, however, has this fabulous harvest gold beast that looks just like the one that was in my house when I moved into it. It looked like a static prop, and I was all set to crack my knuckles and mess around with geometry editor to Frankenstein the two together -- but wait! 

    I loaded the thing in, and IT COMES WITH MOVING DOORS AND AN INTERIOR!!!

    This is not at all obvious from the page. And it's stinking amazing Soooo much cussing averted.

    Congrats on an unexpected find! My husband and I had an avacado green just fridge like that at one time, too. I think we bougt it used at the time when we bought our first house in Iowa in the 1970s for $22,000. We had to get a loan from the company credit union, with both cars as collateral, to afford the house. Can you imagine buying a 3 bedroom house with full basement for $22,000 today? Ha!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876
    edited March 30

    ...got home and fixed the post. 

    I rarely ever bother with the forums on the phone because they are hard to read and there is no formatting when entering posts.. 

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,938

    barbult said:

    SilverGirl said:

    Unexpectely awesome score for me today!

    Spent my DO coupon for two things, and one of them was purely for the fridge. (https://www.daz3d.com/mobile-home) I've been kitbashing the European Style Apartment as the living space for two of my main characters. It's been a great set to work with, but as it says on the tin... well, it's European-style. A lot of it passes easily for the converted old houses in the city where they live, but the appliances do not. Especially the fridge/freezer. The mobile home, however, has this fabulous harvest gold beast that looks just like the one that was in my house when I moved into it. It looked like a static prop, and I was all set to crack my knuckles and mess around with geometry editor to Frankenstein the two together -- but wait! 

    I loaded the thing in, and IT COMES WITH MOVING DOORS AND AN INTERIOR!!!

    This is not at all obvious from the page. And it's stinking amazing Soooo much cussing averted.

    Congrats on an unexpected find! My husband and I had an avacado green just fridge like that at one time, too. I think we bougt it used at the time when we bought our first house in Iowa in the 1970s for $22,000. We had to get a loan from the company credit union, with both cars as collateral, to afford the house. Can you imagine buying a 3 bedroom house with full basement for $22,000 today? Ha!

    This house was built in 1979, so I've no doubt the fridge was original issue. The dryer was the same shade, though the washer was white, obviously replaced at some point. By the time it got to the point where the washer started smoking (!!) and repair parts were nearly the cost of a new unit, the dryer was still going strong as long as you were willing to wedge something in front of the door to keep it shut, as the latch had given out. 

    The fridge, on the other hand, kind of sputtered and died over the course of a week. The replacement is far easier to clean (glass shelves instead of wire)  but I kinda miss the old gold monster. Makes me extra happy it can live on in my renders now. I still have to mess around with the cabinetry around it to make it fit, which is proving a bit irritating just because of how the polygons are laid out, but at least I no longer have to frankenstein the fridge.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876

    barbult said:

    Congrats on an unexpected find! My husband and I had an avacado green just fridge like that at one time, too. I think we bougt it used at the time when we bought our first house in Iowa in the 1970s for $22,000. We had to get a loan from the company credit union, with both cars as collateral, to afford the house. Can you imagine buying a 3 bedroom house with full basement for $22,000 today? Ha!

    ...crikey a Honda Civic costs more than that today. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,876
    edited March 30

    ...well went ahead and pulled the trigger tonight (Saturday) as it is hard to interpret whether this item would be on sale just for the day or all weekend and didn't want to lose it if the former was the case.

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,938

    kyoto kid said:

    ...well went ahead and pulled the trigger tonight (Saturday) as it is hard to interpret whether this item would be on sale just for the day or all weekend and didn't want to lose it if the former was the case. 

    That was me with my fridge set. I had an immediate use for it, and the other DO to bring it up to $6 was going to be a "meh, whatever, someday" regardless.

    Looking forward to Tuesday and hoping that they actually mean it with that "final 48" thing on the sale page today. 

  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 3,488

    SilverGirl said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...well went ahead and pulled the trigger tonight (Saturday) as it is hard to interpret whether this item would be on sale just for the day or all weekend and didn't want to lose it if the former was the case. 

    That was me with my fridge set. I had an immediate use for it, and the other DO to bring it up to $6 was going to be a "meh, whatever, someday" regardless.

    Looking forward to Tuesday and hoping that they actually mean it with that "final 48" thing on the sale page today. 

    @SilverGirl, great catch with the fridge! I have that mobile home, too. @kyotokid, it IS weird with the sales prices of items, because I DO actually see some things at 51% off as well. I just noticed this morning. Mostly earlier offers of the sale, but not too early - like Esha's garden set for example. I'm not bothering trying to understand this anymore, just chuck what I like in the cart and see if the price is okay with me in the end. 

    By the way, did anyone get the Romantic Backgrounds set by Polish (https://www.daz3d.com/romantic-photoshoot-backdrop-bundle)? I think it's so cute, but I just can't seem to find a way to justify buying it, as I don't really see what one would use it for, except photoshoots and such, which I don't do. What are other people planning on doing with it?

  • AsuCafeAsuCafe Posts: 213
    edited March 30

    tsroemi said:

    SilverGirl said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...well went ahead and pulled the trigger tonight (Saturday) as it is hard to interpret whether this item would be on sale just for the day or all weekend and didn't want to lose it if the former was the case. 

    That was me with my fridge set. I had an immediate use for it, and the other DO to bring it up to $6 was going to be a "meh, whatever, someday" regardless.

    Looking forward to Tuesday and hoping that they actually mean it with that "final 48" thing on the sale page today. 

    @SilverGirl, great catch with the fridge! I have that mobile home, too. @kyotokid, it IS weird with the sales prices of items, because I DO actually see some things at 51% off as well. I just noticed this morning. Mostly earlier offers of the sale, but not too early - like Esha's garden set for example. I'm not bothering trying to understand this anymore, just chuck what I like in the cart and see if the price is okay with me in the end. 

    By the way, did anyone get the Romantic Backgrounds set by Polish (https://www.daz3d.com/romantic-photoshoot-backdrop-bundle)? I think it's so cute, but I just can't seem to find a way to justify buying it, as I don't really see what one would use it for, except photoshoots and such, which I don't do. What are other people planning on doing with it?

    Some people with a taste for the ultimate lifestyle might live in a dreamy, simple house like this, or Instagram models.

    Incidentally, I ended my March shopping today and I didn't even buy a discounted gift card, I just didn't want to follow the DAZ sales game.

    Last year I spent a lot of money on cheap stuff that didn't work and it was very frustrating, so I bought something I desperately needed today that was on sale without using any tokens(but used monthly coupon), it wasn't the lowest price but I'm happy with it.

     

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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 3,488

    AsuCafe said:

    tsroemi said:

    SilverGirl said:

    kyoto kid said:

    ...well went ahead and pulled the trigger tonight (Saturday) as it is hard to interpret whether this item would be on sale just for the day or all weekend and didn't want to lose it if the former was the case. 

    That was me with my fridge set. I had an immediate use for it, and the other DO to bring it up to $6 was going to be a "meh, whatever, someday" regardless.

    Looking forward to Tuesday and hoping that they actually mean it with that "final 48" thing on the sale page today. 

    @SilverGirl, great catch with the fridge! I have that mobile home, too. @kyotokid, it IS weird with the sales prices of items, because I DO actually see some things at 51% off as well. I just noticed this morning. Mostly earlier offers of the sale, but not too early - like Esha's garden set for example. I'm not bothering trying to understand this anymore, just chuck what I like in the cart and see if the price is okay with me in the end. 

    By the way, did anyone get the Romantic Backgrounds set by Polish (https://www.daz3d.com/romantic-photoshoot-backdrop-bundle)? I think it's so cute, but I just can't seem to find a way to justify buying it, as I don't really see what one would use it for, except photoshoots and such, which I don't do. What are other people planning on doing with it?

    Some people with a taste for the ultimate lifestyle might live in a dreamy, simple house like this, or Instagram models.

    Incidentally, I ended my March shopping today and I didn't even buy a discounted gift card, I just didn't want to follow the DAZ sales game.

    Last year I spent a lot of money on cheap stuff that didn't work and it was very frustrating, so I bought something I desperately needed today that was on sale without using any tokens, it wasn't the lowest price but I'm happy with it.

     

    Ah, like an artificial indoor garden? Interesting idea ...

    By the way, some of the things that are 51% off on the store page turn to only 37% off in my cart, this one for example:  https://www.daz3d.com/alo-anitta-hair-for-genesis-9-8-and-81-females. I'm not much interested in buying anything today so I'm not much bothered, but this sure is weird, isn't it? Is the sale broken again?

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,938

    tsroemi said:


    By the way, did anyone get the Romantic Backgrounds set by Polish (https://www.daz3d.com/romantic-photoshoot-backdrop-bundle)? I think it's so cute, but I just can't seem to find a way to justify buying it, as I don't really see what one would use it for, except photoshoots and such, which I don't do. What are other people planning on doing with it?

    That sort of garden looking one looks like something that might be in a children's museum... 

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