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  • MasterstrokeMasterstroke Posts: 2,390
    edited March 27

    Adela said:

    I’m really happy to see a charaacter as well crafted as OCN Holden HD for Genesis 9, and to see Uncanny Valet again. It’s so refreshing when every aspect of a product screams NEW, new handcrafted textures, new handcrafted morphs, new handcrafted hair... and believable and different facial structures than X cheek Y brow Z jawline.

    Vadim was excellent, and the Gopniks were too, they could be integrated with any character, even when dialed as females, and their textures are unmatched. It’s incredibly rare to find a set of matched Diffuse, Normal, Roughness, SSS and Specular maps. You study the texture set and the moles, the wrinkles and the creases all are there in all of the textures. The JMCs also look remarkabely realistic and even the promo quality is stunning.

    This is exactly the kind of work worth supporting, and I really hope we see much more from him in the future.

    Holden looks absolutely stunning. So what is this "Omni Skin" ?
    I've never heard of it. Given the amazing results on Holden, I don't understand, why this skin shader is not standard yet.
    EDIT:
    After some testing I can say, this is the best character from the DAZ store yet, period

    Post edited by Masterstroke on
  • 3DIO3DIO Posts: 350

    Just wanted to let the mods know that clicking on the artist link whilst on Holden's product page, doesn't work.
    I get a lizard saying "OOPS!" if I click on the artist name of "UV Rapt".

    Quality stuff.  Couldn't click the username quick enough (hoping to see what else they released).

     

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,823

    Adela said:

    I’m really happy to see a charaacter as well crafted as OCN Holden HD for Genesis 9, and to see Uncanny Valet again. It’s so refreshing when every aspect of a product screams NEW, new handcrafted textures, new handcrafted morphs, new handcrafted hair... and believable and different facial structures than X cheek Y brow Z jawline.

    Vadim was excellent, and the Gopniks were too, they could be integrated with any character, even when dialed as females, and their textures are unmatched. It’s incredibly rare to find a set of matched Diffuse, Normal, Roughness, SSS and Specular maps. You study the texture set and the moles, the wrinkles and the creases all are there in all of the textures. The JMCs also look remarkabely realistic and even the promo quality is stunning.

    This is exactly the kind of work worth supporting, and I really hope we see much more from him in the future.

    I bought him, but I have a question for anyone who knows about this "Next generation skin shader: powered by NVIDIA's OmniSurfaceBase Iray shader, the included OCN Omniskin material preset..." I am totally lost on this reference and even with my Nvidia updates have not seen a reference to it. Do I need some new essential products for this to work?

    I have an RTX-4080 card on my Windows 11 but also use my MacMini M4. Will he work on both?

  • escrandallescrandall Posts: 514

    I'm waiting until Sunday until I have a gold star again to get Stonemason's Main Street USA.  I'm a sucker for his products and this should be great for 1950s moive scenes.

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,362

    ecks201 said:

    jmucchiello said:

    Did I miss it? How is there no overhead pic of https://www.daz3d.com/main-street-usa ?

     Any use?
    I've literally just loaded, zoomed out and added a different render present to tone down the sun.

    Bless you. Cool. That's bigger than I expected. Time to drain my wallet.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,639

    jmucchiello said:

    Did I miss it? How is there no overhead pic of https://www.daz3d.com/main-street-usa ?

    Maybe it was removed under the new image rules because there was too much of the model exposed?  (Yes, that was a joke.)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,894

    Cybersox said:

    jmucchiello said:

    Did I miss it? How is there no overhead pic of https://www.daz3d.com/main-street-usa ?

    Maybe it was removed under the new image rules because there was too much of the model exposed?  (Yes, that was a joke.)

    all the shoulders on those roads too 

  • StonemasonStonemason Posts: 1,253

    Cybersox said:

    jmucchiello said:

    Did I miss it? How is there no overhead pic of https://www.daz3d.com/main-street-usa ?

    Maybe it was removed under the new image rules because there was too much of the model exposed?  (Yes, that was a joke.)

     laugh

    The overhead that was included is to show that this is where all the detail is focused, the outer streets are just to add depth to renders that are focused on the main street, but you shouldn't expect there to be any interesting details in those areas

  • FrankTheTankFrankTheTank Posts: 1,565

    Stonemason's Main Street USA is my new favorite set. I'm so glad this got released before my membership ran out.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,639

    Stonemason said:

    Cybersox said:

    jmucchiello said:

    Did I miss it? How is there no overhead pic of https://www.daz3d.com/main-street-usa ?

    Maybe it was removed under the new image rules because there was too much of the model exposed?  (Yes, that was a joke.)

     laugh

    The overhead that was included is to show that this is where all the detail is focused, the outer streets are just to add depth to renders that are focused on the main street, but you shouldn't expect there to be any interesting details in those areas

    Sigh.  So I guess we'll have to continue waiting for Stonemason's URBAN NUDIST COLONY... 

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,703

    Cybersox said:

    Sigh.  So I guess we'll have to continue waiting for Stonemason's URBAN NUDIST COLONY... 

    Any environment can be a nudist colony.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,639

    Gordig said:

    Cybersox said:

    Sigh.  So I guess we'll have to continue waiting for Stonemason's URBAN NUDIST COLONY... 

    Any environment can be a nudist colony.

    Some less sucessfully than others,  For example:  https://www.daz3d.com/muelsfell-modular-hellscape  or https://www.daz3d.com/asteroid-belt-kt15

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,894

    FrankTheTank said:

    Stonemason's Main Street USA is my new favorite set. I'm so glad this got released before my membership ran out.

    silly question

    but how is it cheaper with DAZ+ membership?

    I do need stars so had to buy something today and will have to tomorrow before getting it

    but that just meant I get less of that extra stuff for my money

     

  • FrankTheTankFrankTheTank Posts: 1,565

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    FrankTheTank said:

    Stonemason's Main Street USA is my new favorite set. I'm so glad this got released before my membership ran out.

    silly question

    but how is it cheaper with DAZ+ membership?

    I do need stars so had to buy something today and will have to tomorrow before getting it

    but that just meant I get less of that extra stuff for my money

    Its cheaper because its much easier to accumulate Tokens with Premier. When I don't have Premier, I rarely have any tokens at my disposal. So I only buy a month of Premier during the big sales and I plan all my buying during those times so that I can usually apply 6 to 8 tokens to a cart on top of whatever other discounts are going on at the time.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,894
    edited March 28

    FrankTheTank, I do the same, mine actually ran out 2 days before hit the store, did 2 months 

    but I never spend enough for many, if any tokens, so there's that wink

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  • TarantanamirTarantanamir Posts: 106

    https://www.daz3d.com/dz-viper-straps-for-genesis-9

    I have no words...Please, give us the option to filter out certain PA's. 

  • FJM1977FJM1977 Posts: 308
    edited March 28
    Put it on the Unforgettable HD model and you have Sean Connery in Zardoz!
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  • TimbalesTimbales Posts: 2,439
    https://www.daz3d.com/writing-stuff-down--props-and-poses-for-genesis-9-and-8-female Men don't write things down, I guess
  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,823

    Timbales said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/writing-stuff-down--props-and-poses-for-genesis-9-and-8-female Men don't write things down, I guess

    Didn't you know only women are secretaries? (Heavy sarcasm. Every time I tried to study a profession in college, a couselor told me "Honey, you should focus on office administrative skills." Or I shouldn't go because I was just going to get married and would be waste the money my 'daddy' would spend on me.)

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,884
    memcneil70 said:

    Timbales said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/writing-stuff-down--props-and-poses-for-genesis-9-and-8-female Men don't write things down, I guess

    Didn't you know only women are secretaries? (Heavy sarcasm. Every time I tried to study a profession in college, a couselor told me "Honey, you should focus on office administrative skills." Or I shouldn't go because I was just going to get married and would be waste the money my 'daddy' would spend on me.)

    Ouch! I have a friend in her 80s who was told in school that if she learned to use a comptometer, she would have a job for life. We saw one in a museum once.
  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,823

    I actually liked the poses and agree that there should have been a base and masculine versions for G9 done. So many men are teachers, or in professions where white boards and writing on them is routine. But I could see where a guy might hold himself different, even if we disregard the mess high heels does to a female's stance. I believe I have it on wishlist.

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 2,092

    Timbales said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/writing-stuff-down--props-and-poses-for-genesis-9-and-8-female Men don't write things down, I guess

    Some men never ask for directions either . . .  maybe that's because they don't like to write things down (giant grin) devil

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,884

    ArtAngel said:

    Timbales said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/writing-stuff-down--props-and-poses-for-genesis-9-and-8-female Men don't write things down, I guess

    Some men never ask for directions either . . .  maybe that's because they don't like to write things down (giant grin) devil

    That's gotta be it! 

  • FJM1977FJM1977 Posts: 308
    Am a Man, can confirm. (I do take mental and digital notes though) ;)
  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,851

    I can probably count on one hand how many times I've read instructions and that was disassembling and boring cylinders to the proper tolerances on an aircraft engine. Writing on the other hand, I was a police officer and 90% of the job is paperwork. I have to write everything down now and set a dozen alarms to remind me I need to do stuff.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,689
    edited March 29
    https://www.daz3d.com/writing-stuff-down--props-and-poses-for-genesis-9-and-8-female Again, no fountain pens (FP's) that I can see. Dreadful omission to dedicated FP user. There are left hand poses, which is good. As for the absence of male writing poses - somewhat unimpressed, but it goes with what I've found with my own freebies, I've never once been asked for male versions or male wearable presets. Males are comparatively rare in DS images, and images of intellectual pursuits are also rare. This makes the probability of wanting an image of a male doing 'thinking stuff' as opposed to 'grunt stuff' vanishingly small. Shame , but a recognition of reality as it is compared to what we'd prefer. Regards, Richard
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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 3,597
    edited March 29

    richardandtracy said:

    images of intellectual pursuits are also rare.

    Unless they're SEXY intellectual pursuits!

    I liked that the writing stuff poses at least had the figures in sensible shoes.

    On the subject of poses, I admit the belly dance poses and shape gave me a grin today. The figure is very nearly a dead ringer for how one of my friends looked in the 90's-00's, when coincidentally she was doing a lot of belllydancing shows at Renn Faires and such. The likeness is close enough -- including the makeup and hair -- that I wonder if the PA was using an old photo as a reference.

    Definitely going to pick it up at some point and give her a cameo somewhere.

    Post edited by SilverGirl on
  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,823

    'Sexy intellectual pursuits' started a train of images of 'geeky aerospace engineers' of the early space period who worked to rescue Apollo 13, the men (and women) who are aerospace engineers and test pilots in the US Air Force and test tolerances on new craft, the crazy number of senior military officers and senior NCOs I knew with PhDs, combat engineers, and the men who are being encouraged to be public school teachers (at little pay) so kids have positive male role models at all levels of their education, just as women teaching STEM courses. 

    Yes, today there are pads and laptops to record data, but still that pad of paper, pen, pencil can easily record a quick note and not use limited battery power in the field. And looking at my desk now, it is littered with postette notes where I have written notes of problems, issues, reminders, versions, ... that I don't want to lose in the bowels of my computer's file structure.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,639
    edited March 29

    richardandtracy said:

    https://www.daz3d.com/writing-stuff-down--props-and-poses-for-genesis-9-and-8-female Again, no fountain pens (FP's) that I can see. Dreadful omission to dedicated FP user. There are left hand poses, which is good. As for the absence of male writing poses - somewhat unimpressed, but it goes with what I've found with my own freebies, I've never once been asked for male versions or male wearable presets. Males are comparatively rare in DS images, and images of intellectual pursuits are also rare. This makes the probability of wanting an image of a male doing 'thinking stuff' as opposed to 'grunt stuff' vanishingly small. Shame , but a recognition of reality as it is compared to what we'd prefer. Regards, Richard

    I've pretty much given up on ever being able to do much with G9 males, as the vast majority of pose packs really only seem to be designed for the female form, while the G9 males themselves tend to take on more femine body shapes at times, especially around the hips.  Isn't ironic how so many people thought that having a unisex base would encourage more male products to be developed and the exact opposite seems to be the actual result?    

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,689
    Can I point out that the diminution of male content was predicted when G9 was announced? And that prediction was comprehensively rubbished on every side by those who believed they knew better. Ahh well, water under the bridge. As for G9 males.. I have never used the freebie ones given by DAZ due to what they looked like on loading, and my only regularly used male is Scar 8. He fits the role of intellectually outclassed lunk, doting boyfriend or boorish builder as necessary in my images, no real need for another bloke. Regards, Richard
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