Hello,

I just installed Sexy Sorceress for Genesis 3 and noticed a strange effect. When I turn off visiblity for the boots, I found that Victoria's shins and feet are not visible. Likewise, Victoria's forearam are also not visible underneath the gloves. Apparently, the outfit makes parts of Vicky invisible.

I checked the shins for visibility under Victoria7 in the Scene tab, and they are still turned on. I also checked Victoria's materials and found that there was nothing different, no transparency applied to the skin of the shins. I also found that when I deleted the boots, the shins reappeared.

I would like to make part of the boots transparent, and have Vicky's shins show up underneath. Is there a way to do this and make Vicky's shins, etc visible again?

Thank you, Brian Warren

Yeah - in fact, the last 2 coupons I've received from Daz, when I tried to use them in checkout I get a "coupon invalid" message.  I've sent in reports twice now and have received no satisfaction.  Since this time I actually had to spend money to get the $50 coupon I am not happy and I will NOT cease until they either refund the purchase price of Victoria 7 or send me a valid coupon.  My next step will be to file a complaint with the better business bureau.

Have you asked to return V7 and receive a refund?

OK. I purchased both Victoria 7 and Belle 7 on the dates that they were released. I have not received any notification of this coupon. First, I will ask where I am supposed to find it.

 

Que pasa?

 

Account --> Messages --> Exclusive Offers

But from what I've gathered, not everyone who bought them "in time" received that offer&coupon.

OK. I purchased both Victoria 7 and Belle 7 on the dates that they were released. I have not received any notification of this coupon. First, I will ask where I am supposed to find it.

Que pasa?

It's just headshop. So to ask the obvious then. How do you save a character? A character that is as stand alone as Genesis or Victoria say?

Yeah - in fact, the last 2 coupons I've received from Daz, when I tried to use them in checkout I get a "coupon invalid" message.  I've sent in reports twice now and have received no satisfaction.  Since this time I actually had to spend money to get the $50 coupon I am not happy and I will NOT cease until they either refund the purchase price of Victoria 7 or send me a valid coupon.  My next step will be to file a complaint with the better business bureau.

This coupon does work, as long as you are complying with the terms of the coupon. For this one:-  All items in the cart have to be DAZ Originals. Coupon excludes PC+ items, gift cards, memberships, and new releases.

DAZ Originals are products that show DAZ 3D as the primary seller, ie the first name in the list of vendors on the product.  They will also have the DAZ 3D icon on them, but not the PC icon.  New releases will show a green "New" band across the thumbnail and the promo images.

Yeah - in fact, the last 2 coupons I've received from Daz, when I tried to use them in checkout I get a "coupon invalid" message.  I've sent in reports twice now and have received no satisfaction.  Since this time I actually had to spend money to get the $50 coupon I am not happy and I will NOT cease until they either refund the purchase price of Victoria 7 or send me a valid coupon.  My next step will be to file a complaint with the better business bureau.

Shoes were always problematic with such conversions.

Below are renders of Victoria 7 with AerySoul's Masquerades Eve shoes for V4.

Clothes are from Arcebus V4 MMCVIII set.

Anna is part of the V6 HD add-on

http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-6-hd-add-on

Belle is part of V6

http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-6

Edit: To add, I did not buy the product, but would also guess that you can apply this to any character by holding down ctrl / cmd, no matter what original textures are referenced.

For you folks having trouble with iray lights and/or wanting a more normal looking skin, take a look at Destiny. Read what is included- that might have slipped past you (it did me!) Her skin isn't ruddy muddy and I'm assuming you can learn a lot from the light setup and tweak as you want. Also, she's 50% off.

"While Destiny was designed with DAZ Studio 4.8 in mind, and it's amazing Iray render engine, she will also work and look great in earlier DAZ Studio versions, as well as in Poser!"

I purchased the  Victoria 7 pro bundle which included the Gen 3 genitalia accessory and textures. I’ve also purchased several other Genesis 3 female characters. Some have included an additional  texture for the genitalia accessory and others have not.

 

My question is why isn’t this texture included with all genesis 3 custom skins? It can’t be a prudish thing as the content creators don’t seem to have any problem drawing a detailed genitalia  area on the torso maps so I can only assume it’s a matter of laziness to avoid the additional work required. 

 

Since genesis 3 female no longer has the additional genitalia  shaping sliders I find that the anatomy accessory is the only means to provide verity in this area and trying to match the default V7 genitalia texture to a custom skin tone is a PITA.

 

I won’t single the content creators that are not supplying these textures but am giving notice that from here on I am no longer purchasing your products. Sure I may only be a single customer but if you can afford to lose customers so be it.    

I'm sorry to hear that but I do understand.

There are some workflow issues regarding texturing the gens area.  I was not happy to pass it by on my one G3 release and plan on including textures for it in the future (not immediate, but soon).  My understanding is that several of us have had this problem.  We're not trying to slight our customers or be prudish... sometimes we just struggle too.

Be gentle with us and give us a chance.

I purchased the  Victoria 7 pro bundle which included the Gen 3 genitalia accessory and textures. I’ve also purchased several other Genesis 3 female characters. Some have included an additional  texture for the genitalia accessory and others have not.

My question is why isn’t this texture included with all genesis 3 custom skins? It can’t be a prudish thing as the content creators don’t seem to have any problem drawing a detailed genitalia  area on the torso maps so I can only assume it’s a matter of laziness to avoid the additional work required. 

Since genesis 3 female no longer has the additional genitalia  shaping sliders I find that the anatomy accessory is the only means to provide verity in this area and trying to match the default V7 genitalia texture to a custom skin tone is a PITA.

I won’t single the content creators that are not supplying these textures but am giving notice that from here on I am no longer purchasing your products. Sure I may only be a single customer but if you can afford to lose customers so be it.    

Great, money wasted...No support for this plugin in Keyshot, C4D, any program from Daz themselves, Maxwell, Vue, Poser, Lumion, Or even iClone!

The only programs are the bloated over priced Max/Maya, and Lightwave, even then it doesn't support materials, I'm sorry but I don't have thousands of dollars just lying around, otherwise I wouldn't be using a psuedo Alembic plugin...If I sound terse, then I have every right to be, as I spent money on this plugin, in order to support daz!

So what I have is a $70 plugin that saves a bloated 9gb 1500 frame file that only imports a texture-less OBJ file with no animations into Keyshot...Beautiful...

 

 

The format itself doesn't support materials. That is not what the format is designed to do. DAZ 3D can't require other companies to support an exchange format, so I am not sure what you are looking for. For something similar to Alembic, DAZ Studio also supports MDD export which is in wider use. I'm also not sure why you believe anything else will give you faster render times than Iray, especially if photoreal is not the goal.

Then Alembic is a moot plugin, and even though Daz has no control over 3rd party program support they do have control over their own programs. (Bryce,Carrara, D|S)..As far as MDD support, it's already included and assuming it does a much better job and is much more widely used, so what then, is Alembic even good for?

Not trying to be curt but it's a genuine question, as the only application that can use it is Maxwell and autodesk/Lightwave that cost thousands of dollars to be useful...What I was looking for was a alternative to Dae/FBX as they do not work for me...And a refund is pointless as I've already used a $50 coupon in it's purchase, so in essence, it barely even counts as a refund...I still love animating in Daz and for still imaging iRay is unparalleled in the hobbies field of 3D programs, so yeah, I'm a bit disappointed.

The Alembic format is used in production pipelines involving many of the top 3D modeling/animation applications.

With this exporter plugin for DAZ Studio you gain the ability to use DAZ Studio assets, as well as “Vertex Exact” animations, in your favorite 3D modeling/animation applications.

One possible pipeline where the Alembic exporter will be useful is when doing the following:

1. Animate a figure such as Victoria 6 in DAZ Studio
2. Export to Alembic format
3. Import Alembic file into preferred 3D application
4. Set up surfaces, lighting and cameras
5. Render

The animation of Victoria 6 will deform exactly the same in the target 3D application as it did in DAZ Studio due to the way Alembic handles animation.

Alembic allows you to combine the versatility of DAZ content with the functionality of your preferred 3D application, such as: physics simulation, advanced shaders and lights, physically based render engines, etc."

And why would you think I don't want photo real, iRay is indeed slow if you plan to render 1500 frames, so other than OGL display render it would take centuries vs other renderers out there.

IIRC, none of them have compatible UV maps already.  Given that you can use the shape as part of a custom dialed character, or use a different UV map, the only way to actually prevent that would be to take them out of the Genesis 2 Genepool and make them completely non-compatible with anything else.        

True. However, Belle and Brodie actually have thier own UVs.

True...

But who cares?

Belle and Brodie may use their own proprietary UVs, but all 8 characters based on Belle (Clair, December, FW Jennie HD, FWSA Gingersnap HD, Malia, Rochella, SASE Elize, Zahara) use G2F or V5 UVs. All 4 characters based on Brodie (FW Jake HD, FWSA Peppermint HD, Jayce, Ryk) use G2M or M5 UVs. Do any of those 12 skins look worse than the 2 based on the unique UVs? No?

Now, think about this. V5 doesn't look anything like Belle, but the painting process is agnostic to that, because skew is minimum. The quads keep approzimately their same aspects, only varying by a few percent, not enough to cause substantial smear in interpolation. You have to get close to 2:1 before it becomes a problem.

Unique UVs are BS.

Look at Bethany 7, Eva 7, and Victoria 7. They have proprietary UVs, but all 8 derived characters use G3F, and some of those skins are better (less oddly stretched, etc) than the skins on the proprietary UVs. And that's eveh taking into consideration that Bethany 7 is an "extreme" body type.

DAZ, time to end the silliness.

Maybe I should explain this a little more clearly. I recently installed DAZ3D, and purchased and installed Poser 10, as well.   I then purchased Michael 4, as well as several items that say they can be imported to Poser, through the use of the the DSON Importer. I would like to use these things in Poser, but don't know how to transfer them, ANY of them, with or without the importer.  The website states that the DSON importer will work with Poser 9(+), but any attempt to install it results in a message that the DAZ Installer can't find the path to Poser Pro 14 or Poser Pro 12 (64 bit).  I do appreciate your speedy response and attempt to help, but just telling me that the DSON Importer isn't needed for Michael 4 or other old items, doesn't tell me how to solve my problem.  

I have had a (very) little experience with both DAZ3D and Poser 7 in the past, but lost everything a few years ago to very lethal malware. I don't even remember how I got Michael and Victoria into Poser back then.

Please help!

Thank you!  =)

About $100 of general stuff. A lot of it would be (in my opinion) 'old stuff', Gen 1 and some Gen 2 stuff. Perhaps Daz defines "New Releases" as anything after Victoria 3.

I am glad I used a charge card, I can charge this back.

I like Daz in general, but I have never had a good experience with these 'special offers'. Sloppy marketing.

 

There is no need to charge it back, you simply file a help ticket and ask DAZ 3D for a refund.  DAZ 3D has a 30 day refund policy.

do the nipples poke through or does the top move with them ?

a lot of garment is not moving with the nipples so thats a big annoyance to me

About $100 of general stuff. A lot of it would be (in my opinion) 'old stuff', Gen 1 and some Gen 2 stuff. Perhaps Daz defines "New Releases" as anything after Victoria 3.

I am glad I used a charge card, I can charge this back.

I like Daz in general, but I have never had a good experience with these 'special offers'. Sloppy marketing.

Well, if your items indeed are all DAZ Originals, and neither of them has the "new" banner (Currently latest item with the new stamp is SKU 22096, which was released about two weeks before G3/V7), and also matches the other criteria, I would contact customer support and have them manually applying that coupon, rather than the other way around. 

Also, if you let us know which items you are trying to apply this on, we could help you sort out things.

I did another biker girl last nite.This one took 15 hours to render.

btw,,it's not easy to get a photo taken outside in harsh sunlight when everything is white.Wedding photographers make it look easy.

15 hours???? Man, are you sure did you not use Luxrender by mistake?. The render its impressive, anyway.

Now, seroiusly, you mean that you personally photoshoot the enviroment. Its used as a plain backdrop or its converted to an HDRI enviroment?

Thank you :)

The photo shoot part was supposed to be joke,,I'm just bad at telling them. :)  The background is an HDRI called "parkinglot" . The scene has mostly white in it , so the glare was so bright it was covering up all the details in the bike and suit. so I had to google how to fix that.Oddly enough I was taken to a photography blog about taking wedding photos.

I started the render yesterday after noon.There was a lot of noise in it near the tires and chrome parts after about 5 hours.So I set the progressive render settings to 15k samples and 100% convergance and went to bed.When I checked it this morning, it had about 13k iterations complete and was 97% converged.I stopped it there because it looked to have all the noise gone.I don't have an Nvidia GPU.I went with an all AMD solution for this build.I doing all of this on CPU so it's a bit slower.

Well, youre not good at telling jokes and english it´s not my native languaje so were done... 0_O XD

But I pretty know what youre talking about and that´s a rarity of Iray, sometimes he don´t want to render correctly some areas of the scene no matter how much samples you set up. In my first autocensored Victoria 7 image I had to manually remove the skin noise in postwork because it seemed that Iray employed all samples in rendering a fine hair but forgiving about the skin and incresing sample rate was not the solution.

 

This is the only solution I always use to deal with Iray noise problems, instead of oversampling and have to wait several hours for just a little noise I use this program, which haves a digital camera removal tool which comes very handy. And the best of all it´s now freeware. I´m a heavy postworker and I don´t need more than this to do what I want. http://www.oldversion.com/windows/download/paint-shop-pro-9-0

 

And, yes, It´s very difficult to find a nice hdri enviroment wich not floods your image with just a flat white colour. The hdris Im using are form the IRadiance Studio hdris, but it are just blabk-grey-white studio lights wich not gives you a nice enviroment if you turn on the draw dome option.

I hope in future updates Iray will let you choose one hdri for just lightning and another for visual enviroment as other softwares do.

 

Have you tried making your own HDRi's & IDL lights using free stock images, once you do learn how to make your own  you have ab better understanding of rendering HDRi images . I'll admit it takes a little practice to learn it

 heres a good resource for free HDRi images and tutorials that you can use to create your own. http://www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

Thanks Ivy, Ill take a look at this page. But just let me tell you that some of my unsucessfull image enviroment based hdris comes from pages like that.

About $100 of general stuff. A lot of it would be (in my opinion) 'old stuff', Gen 1 and some Gen 2 stuff. Perhaps Daz defines "New Releases" as anything after Victoria 3.

I am glad I used a charge card, I can charge this back.

I like Daz in general, but I have never had a good experience with these 'special offers'. Sloppy marketing.