Theme: Dead & Alive (well, living dead is, I think, the usual word for vampire ).

I wanted to publish it sooner in the month but I didn't found the time to work on it, so I'm a bit late for Halloween. Well, it's just another twisting of the rules, so what's one more, right? 

Tricks or kisses?

Victoria and Lacey waited for their friends before going to a Halloween party, sitting on the stairs, chatting and kissing.

While they were kissing, they both heard a burst of camera shutter sounds telling them at least one of their friends was here: the photographer.

Unfazed, Victoria waved her wand to make the photographer go away, but either she’s not really a witch, just disguised as one, or she needs to be able to speak to cast a spell.

Who knows, but while editing the photo, the cheeky photographer added a nice warm magical light on Victoria’s wand.

All is forgiven?

As usual, items bought from Daz should all be listed on the gallery.

Stezza said:

it sure is November 

Ying and Yang

I like the expression of the little boy in red and the angry tree yelling at them  Nice render too.

SofaCitizen said:

Never alone with a friend

It's both look great and cute 

Fae3D said:

Fire and Water

Fantasy horses having a little bit of a disagreement XD

I think there will be no disagreement that this render is great ! 

nattaruk said:

For Hard and Soft:

Alien Snails

I didn't have space exploration on my planning and I'm glad, these alien snails are creepy (the render looks great) 

Hi there, 

I recently replaced my DAZ drive and lost all my convertied figures. In the process of converting them again and I am getting an odd result. 

The character conversion reports as successful. I can load said character and get the expected resutls. Turn off comupter, and come back later loading same character and none of the morphs / dials are applied. For example I converted Victoria 7 and Hannah for Victoria. After a computer restart, I load Hannah, she has the Hannah skin applied with the base G8 body. I have to manually dial in both the Hannah and Viki morphs, and the additional morphs that Hannah uses. 

I have a "Conversions" folder where all the conversion are saved to, it is the "top" folder so all the data for the morphs is going into that folder. I have tried using both the Restore and Zero options with the same result. Any ideas how to fix this?

If that's not straight out of the box Victoria 9, then it's mostly her. 

Gypsyangel's Tempest for V4 converted to Aiko 3.

MDD Tonya for V4 converted to Aiko 3.

Find it here : https://www.daz3d.com/skin-randomizer

Lack of inspiration? Want your characters to feel fresh again?
Skin Randomizer is designed to instantly add variation and bring new life to any figure’s skin. (all generations)

What’s inside

• Three dedicated scripts:
– Base Color Randomizer
– Volume Randomizer (translucency, transmission, subsurface)
– Gloss Randomizer (bonus)

• A simple, flexible interface:
Define or reset the amplitude of each random variation in a few clicks.
Hue, Saturation, and Value ranges are controlled separately, giving you precise and safe control over how far colors can drift.
Lower amplitudes keep results in realistic human tones, higher amplitudes open the door to stylized or fantasy skins.

Universal Partial Presets

Skin Randomizer includes a set of scripted partial presets:
– 34 Base Color (Diffuse) presets
– 13 Volume Color presets
– 11 Base/Volume ratio presets

They let you instantly restore solid, reliable skin bases if your exploration goes too far — or serve as new starting points for further randomization. They will work on all generations and with many initial shaders (Iray Uber, PRBSkin but much more).

Compatibility

• Works with every Genesis figure (down to Victoria 4)
• Optimized for PBRSkin and Iray Uber
• Partial support for older standard shaders
• Fully compatible with both Daz Studio 4 and Daz Studio 6

Integration with other products

Skin Randomizer works on its own, but also integrates seamlessly with:
– Ultimate Iray Skin Manager
– Ultimate PBRSkin Manager
– Texture Booster and Shader Converter

Which were also all updated to be compatible with DS 6. When any of these are installed (DS 4 or DS 6), you can enjoy safe randomization directly from within their interfaces (no color ever pushed above 1).

Additional Tools

• Full PDF documentation
• A Geograft Transfer Tool to preserve shader coherence on figures using anatomical geografts (including Genesis genitalia)

In short:
Skin Randomizer can be your quick way to add variety when inspiration is low, a playground for discovering new skin ideas, and a complementary tool supporting the free DS 2025 updates of the main skin-related products it connects to.

CoXComics said:

Scrap bit trying out XI Spaceship Cockpit and Victoria 9 sporting Futuristic Guardian Outfit for Genesis 9.

Very well done! Thanks for sharing it, looking forward to more. 

Scrap bit trying out XI Spaceship Cockpit and Victoria 9 sporting Futuristic Guardian Outfit for Genesis 9.
 

They're just Corrective Blend Shapes (cbs) made by the vendors... in addition to the default cbs on Genesis 9 ~~ 

Usually, if a character vendor finds the area around a rotated joint has an unexpected deformation or not a good-looking shape, he/she will make a new shape to further correct the existing cbs... (which used to be called MCM: Morph Corrective Morphs, on Genesis figures before G9)

In below screenshot, it shows a character's cbs of Victoria 9 when her upper arm bends 90 degrees. The character product you mentioned above would work in the same way ~~

Edit: You can also find some useful info. in here: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/creating_content/assembling/tutorials/creating_morph_controlled_morphs/start

I decided to start a new thread for Older Figures that predates the Daz Millennium Figures, Posette, Dork, P4 Boy, P4 Girl, and P4 Infant, (Zygote's Nude Young Woman/NYW and Zygote's Nude Muscle Man if you have one).

Some Derivatives/Characters are Zygote Faerie, Mermaid, Merman, Centaur, Merbaby,  Lemurtek's Furries (Like Wolfgang, Lionheart, and others) Zygote Demon and others are included.

Freebies for P4 Stuff:

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/P4_Woman

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/P4_Man

Posette Forever (need registration): https://www.posetteforever.com/dload.php

Similar Threads:

Genesis 2 Appreciation Thread:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/734706/genesis-2-appreciation-thread/p1

Genesis 1 Appreciation Thread:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/467826/genesis-the-early-years/p1

V2/3 and M2/3 and children Appreciation Thread

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/108001/the-older-generation-victoria-2-3-michael-2-3-and-their-children-renders/p1

Aiko 3 and Hiro 3 Appreciation Thread:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/8629/generation-3-aiko-and-hiro-appreciation-thread/p1

K-Gang Appreciation Thread: Koshini, Krystal, Ichiro, and Kyle (the Forum I created):

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/746196/k-gang-appreciation-thread-koshini-krystal-ichiro-and-kyle/p1

Looks like a Poser render, so I'd guess it's a Genesis 2 or a Victoria 4 figure.

Casting an Icy Spell

Postwork: Light retouch on PS

Freebies:

G8F Character and morph: https://www.renderhub.com/vfoxgames/vfox-victoria-for-genesis-8-and-9-mothers-day-2025-gift

G8F Skin Material: https://www.patreon.com/posts/emma-frost-for-139200528

G8F Outfit & Hair: https://www.patreon.com/posts/emma-frost-for-139200528

Ghost Cloth: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/99287/ghostly-apparitions-halloween-props

Cauldron & Paddle: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/90667/cauldron-with-stirring-paddle-and-ladle

Paid:

Snow Terrain: https://www.daz3d.com/winterland

Snowy Trees: https://www.daz3d.com/rpc-volume-2-winterland-trees

Fire/Flame: https://www.daz3d.com/oso-vdb-magus-effects-volume-1

Lip sync does exist in 4.24.0.3, but only the 32 bit version.

The millenium characters(victoria 1-4, michael 1-4 etc) and genesis 1 have native support included in studio.

Genesis 2-8, have a starter essentials file that needs to be installed. The file ends with Mimic in the name, such as IM00021630-03_Genesis3StarterEssentialsMimic.zip, genesis 2 uses IM00016280-03_Genesis2DMC.zip.

Genesis 9 is not supported, afaik, as there's no Mimic file. I'd say it's because of the differences in rigging in G9, but someone with more knowledge can correct me if i'm wrong.

3d universe characters based on genesis 1-8 should work, but may require some tweaking to get the best results. Stand alone characters, are probably not supported, as i can't find the DMC file in any of my collection, and don't see any indication on the product pages i checked. 

I'm pretty sure that's just Victoria 7

I'm obsessed with this design, I tried to find it on my own but I wasn't successful, so I'm turning to you. Please, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

It's originally a pose pack for Victoria 7. Here's the product link; https://www.daz3d.com/prvktr-poses-for-victoria-7

@jmucchiello reason I asked is I've just submitted a Genesis 8/9 product for testing that allows you to change skin color but still retain saturation and detail - if you add color to the base and translucency channels with the color picker, it tends to muddy the result and make skin darker than it should be. I've attached a promo which shows a comparison using Victoria 9's Vitiligo skin.

Obviously not as comprehensive as skin builder, but if you were looking for alien/fantasy skins for Genesis 9, my product could help once it's released. You can use it with any skin, so really versatile and will give you different results based on the skin chosen.

ok now I see the Victoria AI icon at the bottom if I choose to disable uBlock Origin extension. Thank you for the clarifications. Does not seem to be beneficial for my searches.

I use AdGuard ad blocker in Firefox but I still see the Victoria AI icon. 

FrankTheTank said:

hjake said:

FrankTheTank said:

The Daz website built-in Victoria AI is surprisingly good for finding answers in the forums as well as finding products in the store. I use it all the time now. (I didn't even know it existed until I turned off my adblocker). Turn off ad-blocker and you'll see an icon for it in the lower right hand corner. And it's better than the moderators tbh, and that says a lot because Richard is a wealth of information. I even asked it your question and it gave me some items, then I asked for discussions on this topic and it gave me this:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/505596/3d-art-freebie-challenge-july-2021-wild-wild-west-main-thread-only

 

I am not sure where Victoria AI is, but as seen by the attached images it is not the DAZ search icon. Typed in gore filter and got this search result.

as I stated above turn off ad-blocker (many browsers now have it on by default) and the icon for Victoria AI is in the lower right hand corner, click on that icon to bring it up (see pic)

Oops, didn't notice you posted a screen cap

hjake said:

FrankTheTank said:

The Daz website built-in Victoria AI is surprisingly good for finding answers in the forums as well as finding products in the store. I use it all the time now. (I didn't even know it existed until I turned off my adblocker). Turn off ad-blocker and you'll see an icon for it in the lower right hand corner. And it's better than the moderators tbh, and that says a lot because Richard is a wealth of information. I even asked it your question and it gave me some items, then I asked for discussions on this topic and it gave me this:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/505596/3d-art-freebie-challenge-july-2021-wild-wild-west-main-thread-only

 

I am not sure where Victoria AI is, but as seen by the attached images it is not the DAZ search icon. Typed in gore filter and got this search result.

In the store, it is here in the bottom Rt hand corner

In general, Victoria AI is pretty good, IMO.