Jonstark said:

On the other hand, you could use something like PhilW's Bright Eyes to simply put a glow map in the glow channel, that gives very crisp fake specular effect.  The drawback is that the glowing 'glint' is part of the eye texture, and moves with the eye, so it doesn't work as great in animations.  But for still images it looks pretty good. Bright Eyes for Carrara | Daz 3D

Eye Surface for Genesis includes Bright Eyes for Carrara and the main Bright Eyes productr for free. Before finding this, I was using EYEdeas 3+ by Arki (as props parented to the hidden Genesis eyes)

Genesis is the only generation of Daz figure which lacks that additional layer - a layer that makes all the difference in the world, so Daz corrected that for every generation since.

Here's a quote from Eye Surface store page

When Genesis was launched, it offered untold flexibility in many areas, but one area that was missing from previous generation figures was the Eye Surface, which allowed special effects to be applied across the whole eye, especially to provide reflections and reflection maps.

 

It was so useful that it was re-introduced on the Genesis 2 figures, now called EyeReflection. Which left Genesis as the only figure without this useful extra eye surface.

 

Enter "Eye Surface for Genesis" which adds this feature in the same way as adding clothing, but fitted to the eye! And it follows Genesis shape morphs incredibly well, even for large eyed characters such as Aiko 3. I have included an Offset parameter in case an extreme morph produces any poke through with the underlying eye model.

 

As a bonus, I have included my Bright Eyes Bundle so that you can add 55 preset eye reflections in DAZ Studio, Poser and Carrara! But you are not restricted to this, you can add your own surfaces and shaders to use the Eye Surface for real reflections or use the EyeSurface shaders from Victoria 4 or Michael 4 products, etc.

 

Get Eye Surface for Genesis - and add a twinkle to Genesis's eyes!

Here's the figure of EYEdeas 3+

Yikes. Have an earthquake with a side order of rain water? No thanks. When I left Newfoundland, Canada for Ontario, in December of 1984 I thought I was saying goodbye to the friendliest place on earth with the worst weather ever. The footage is old (1983). Now,  I question what worse weather is. a tornado, a hurricane, a flood, a blizzard, a fire (lightning regions), sinkholes (rainy climates), or an earthquake. I honestly don't know which is worse. Sometimes inland is not always safer than coastal living. It seems no matter where you live the weather will always get you, one way or another, so you may as well live in the environment you love. Of all the places I have lived or travelled, Hawaii yanked on my heart strings but it is prone to so many natural disasters . . .  The rain today is fairly heavy, but I have seen heavier torrents in Victoria BC. The winds don't seem as bad as I thought they would be by now, and as mentioned earlier, the Santa Ana winds at this point, seem far worse than this. Our roof has 26 solar (electric) panels and the other side has six or so solar (water) panels for pool and I'm not hearing those tunnel noises from the roof yet. Hopefully it stays that way. The plywood is still staring at me as if to say, "Do you plan to leave us here?" I'm thinking yes, because the house has too many vulnerable windows. But, I did go out in the rain and get the Kolbalt, in case I change my mind.

Edit: Yikes!  Yikes! Yikes! Giving the wood a third-thought.

Stop wasting time and hard drive space converting pose presets, just use them! With Bone Minion, you can directly use poses for Genesis 9 for other generations without first converting and saving them to a preset. Your Bone Minion will do the hard work for you by acting as a bone "catcher" for a pose and then transferring (and converting if necessary) the pose to its parent Target figure.* Simply load the desired Bone Minion (i.e., Genesis 9 Bone Minion for Genesis 9 poses) on your Target figure (e.g., Genesis 8 Male or Victoria 4), select the Bone Minion, and start applying poses!

• On the fly conversion of Genesis 9 poses to your Target figure
• Directly convert from the Source generation to the Target generation without converting to intermediate generations 
• Works with Genesis 9 full poses, partial poses**, hierarchical poses***, and even AniBlocks!
• Automatically applies full poses when they are loaded**
• Supports pose properties (using the Create Heavyweight Bone Minion script)

Note that converted poses (and especially props if they are hierarchical poses) may not be perfect and may require tweaking. Facial Bones (i.e., expressions) except for the eyes are not transferred.

* Requires purchase of the correct Bone Minion product.

** Any pose that sets the hip of the Bone Minion will be automatically converted on the fly and applied to the target figure. The Apply Changes script can be used to transfer any pose (including partial poses) on the Bone Minion to its target figure.

*** Hierarchical poses require the props loaded on both the Bone Minion and the target figure. The prop will be properly rotated for the pose but may need to be manually translated to the correct location.  Genesis 9 has different bone names than previous generations.  You will need to manually move the prop to the correct bone on the Target Figure.

Victoria 2 rendered in iRay. I used the geo-shell to make her suit. Such a nice feature.

Is it just me or do these look like a version of Victoria?

Daz search is a mess as well. Did a search for '8 HD Add-On' and checked Genesis 8 Female. Got a hit for Victoria 8.1 HD Add-On. They should definitely invest into a better search engine..

Hello Blender Bridge Team,

I have a issue when i'm trying to import my (Poser) model Victoria 4 from DAZ3D to Blender with the Daz to blender plugin.
When I assign a pose to the model and import it into blender, the legs cross and the limits seem inverted (left thigh limit to right thigh, Rthigh limit to Lthigh), even when the limits are turned off.

Any idea to solve this ? Thanks.

PerttiA said:

wsterdan said:

PerttiA said:

Based on accidental/unintended hints, I think we may see DS 5 this year.

Sounds exciting! By "this year" did the hints mean "some time in 2023" or did they mean "within the next year, starting today"?

Someone mentioned a hint (I think it was during the Victoria 9 demo) that we wouldn't see DAZ Studio 5 until spring, 2023...

Did the hints mention what features we might be looking at?

-- Walt Sterdan

One of the hints was the Nvidia Omniverse advertisement saying "Coming soon to Daz 5" another was a page saying the next update would come out with a stable DS 5 release and there are other smaller indications hinting that something big is going on.

Ah, right; Felis mentioned the Omniverse ad a couple pages back, on July 2. 

I hadn't heard that the next update would be a stable DS 5 release, that does sound promising, thanks! You couldn't point me to that page, could you?

Thanks!

-- Walt Sterdan

Hello,

I'm speaking about dForce Frost X Fashion for Genesis 8 Female, which is not marked as compatible with G8.1F, so maybe it's the normal behavior. It's also equally possible that I did something wrong

In the meantime, G8F is laughing while G8.1F is fuming because wearing the stocking make half of her skin look white

I loaded every 8 and 8.1 characters I own, a couple by PAs (including one with a preset for G8F and one for G8.1F), others by Daz directly (like Victoria 8.1). Each time, I followed the same process:

• select the character in the Scene tab
• click on the thumbnail for FXF Geoshell Stockings

The end result was the same: the stockings look fine on every 8 character while every 8.1 character ended with white skin.

As far as I can tell, the rest of the clothes of this product work fine with a G8.1F character.

Is there a way to solve the problem with 8.1 characters ? Did I do something wrong ?

Hi,

The diffeoMorphic looks awesome! Thanks for the work on it. 

Can I transfer my Daz character Blendshapes exported to Blender to the same(similar) Character Creator model exported to blender?

Why? I'm trying to get the best characters possible in Unity.

Daz has Blend shapes, but Character Creater does not allow you to export body/face morphs etc to Unity. Character creater has great Materials, skeleton setup and eyes in Unity, so I want to combine the two by adding the morphs "back in" in blender.

So I've tried exporting Victoria 8 to CC

Then Export both CC victoria and Daz victoria to Blender, and hopefully "Add back" the morphs from Daz Victoria 8 to the cc Victoria 8. Please let me know if there is a better way!

I tried using the transfers shapekeys to the new cc model, But it complain that that "CC_base_Body" parent is not the same as Victoria8HD"

wsterdan said:

PerttiA said:

Based on accidental/unintended hints, I think we may see DS 5 this year.

Sounds exciting! By "this year" did the hints mean "some time in 2023" or did they mean "within the next year, starting today"?

Someone mentioned a hint (I think it was during the Victoria 9 demo) that we wouldn't see DAZ Studio 5 until spring, 2023...

Did the hints mention what features we might be looking at?

-- Walt Sterdan

One of the hints was the Nvidia Omniverse advertisement saying "Coming soon to Daz 5" another was a page saying the next update would come out with a stable DS 5 release and there are other smaller indications hinting that something big is going on.

PerttiA said:

Based on accidental/unintended hints, I think we may see DS 5 this year.

Sounds exciting! By "this year" did the hints mean "some time in 2023" or did they mean "within the next year, starting today"?

Someone mentioned a hint (I think it was during the Victoria 9 demo) that we wouldn't see DAZ Studio 5 until spring, 2023...

Did the hints mention what features we might be looking at?

-- Walt Sterdan

Mousso List Part 3 of 3

Mousso List Part 2 of 3

Mousso List Part 1 of 3

NOTE: This was a two part text list that I resorted becasue the DAZ Forum crashed when I tried to post an easier to read table. There is a limit somewhere between 22-30 rows that will post. 

This is what I found in Parts 2 and 3 for mousso.  All of the artist's work is at the DAZ store.  This list includes dopplegangers (look-a-likes which could be someone else) so the following characters are listed more than once: Corin, Dior, Echo, Flavia, Gail, Lilianna, Lucia, Madonna, Mysti, Rei, and Sherilynn.  The character names are the full titles which makes then easy to find in the store, and to tell which Genesis version they are.

@Haruchai: Please feel free to edit the list as you like (you have over 10 years more experience with this than I have). I don't need to recieve credit for the list becasue it is based on finding by contributors to the forum.

KNOWN FOR: The Known fors are based on, in many cases, when the character was released. So, Margot Robbie (Harper HD) is not know for Barbie (2023) because the character was released in July of 2018.

I was thinking about her maybe ? https://www.daz3d.com/sabrina-hd-for-victoria-8
It's very close but is it the right answer ?
It's not easy because Emrys ( wich I congratulate for his work !!) has few models that are very very close to each other....

The image has an unmodified generic G8F (orange hair), Marigold for Victoria 8 (blue hair) and my custom G8F character (purple hair).

Every time I attempt to load dForce Lea Hair 2 for Genesis 3 and 8 Female(s)  on my custom G8F the plait is detached and hovering above the bun (as seen on the purple hair).

This does not happen with the generic G8F/G8.1F or purchased G8F models (granted, I have not tested it on every purchased model, my patience is not infinite).

If I choose to change the hair via "Fit to" from the models it works on to the custom character, the plait immediately levitates out of position.

The hair is composed of four objects with bones:

Lea Hair base Genesis 8 Female 

► Lea Hair dForce (parented to the Hair base)

► Lea Bun dForce  (parented to the Hair base)

► Lea Plait Base  (parented to the Hair base)

          ► Lea Plait dForce (parented to the Plait base)

If I manually parent the Plait base to the Bun instead of to the Hair base on my custom character the plait attaches to the bun as if it was supposed to be that way, but..

The regular pose presets for the plait stop working, and the Hierarchal Pose presets for the plait start behaving like regular pose presets, where they will work only if you select the Plait directly.

I have the sinking feeling that i might be doing something really stupid to be having this much trouoble with this asset, and i can't figure it out. 

MeneerWolfman said:

Richard Haseltine said:

MeneerWolfman said:

Any reason why we're still forced to get an annoying pop-up every single time we try to Zero _anything_. 

It is intended - it is to avoid the issues caused by people zeroing figues that have visible controls for things like correctives, as happened a lot with Genesis 9. It is not planned to be removed, though it is possible to script to avoid it.

Why not just have a checkbox to disable the message in the future like the other pop-ups that ask you to confirm? Like if you want to add new figure or replace the current one. I get asking us once, because we may have made a mistake, but if we obviously then choose Zero and select a check box to not prompt in the future that gives you a better solution.

Making us force to confirm that we actually want to do something that we haven't been forced to confirm for like 10 years now seems a bit much because Daz's newest figure, and none of it previous gens, requires so many fixes and corrective to bend like Victoria 4 

The chnage is discussed here https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/7926841/#Comment_7926841

see http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/actions/action_trigger/start?rev=1692029684#example_with_settings for the script option I mentioned

He seldom posts here, but my friend Mapper combined elements from several sets, particularly the "Phenotype Monsters" and some pieces from Mab and Will Dupre's "Foxy Ladies (from the G8 line) to achieve to two selections linked below.

https://www.deviantart.com/mapper/art/Kit-bash-1-976447752

https://www.deviantart.com/mapper/art/Mad-Cat-976725325

He's been creating anthro' characters since the days of Victoria 1 (the Millennium series), so he has grown very skilled!

!!! - Issue Status Update as of 8/14/2023 - !!!

- Problem has not been completely resolved by Daz3D or by the PAs as of yet, but there is a fix.  Zevo did update Shape Shift in June, reportedly.  Several issues are solved.  One remains.

- The duplicate formula error occurs because the morph ID for 'abdomen length' is the same for two morphs, thus the duplicate error.  The error log identifies Vinme which means it is the second to load with that name.

- I uninstalled the Vinme morph package and loaded G9 again (Victoria 9).  There was no duplicate formula error.  Yay.  Confirm issue.

- I reinstalled the Vinme morph package.  When I loaded Victoria 9, I got the duplicate formula error.  Booo.  Not resolved by the powers that be.

- The thread at the link provided by @PerttiA describes the issue in more detail and has the fixes and tips.  Use a text editor to adjust the ID reference in the abdomen length file.  If problem persists, try using F2 in Daz Studio and 'clear the cache.'  Yay, thank you forum participants.

....

repeat copy of link to thread with more detail.  - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/609436/duplicate-formula-found-genesis-9/p1

--- There are two products causing the problem, obviously, if there is a duplicate issue.  The products are by two different PAs.  I don't know Daz's protocols so I don't want to make any assumptions about who is responsible for doing a product update, other than to say Daz3D is ultimately responsible.  Here are the two products.

https://www.daz3d.com/vinme-morphs-for-genesis-9

https://www.daz3d.com/shape-shift-for-genesis-9

---

Thanks to everyone for insights.  I appreciate that you generously share your time and experience.