Daz Jack Tomalin said:

mr clam said:

duckbomb said:

I do like the character, but her toes look to be all malformed and have a ton of jaggies.  Maybe a morph problem?  I get that around fingernails when I load too many HD morphs at once...  Honestly, I'm dissapointed that not only did this issue make its way into the product, but even the promo images.

I mean, I'll just put shoes on her... but still.

That looks awful. She should have been named Broke 8.1. I would expect more from a $45 figure.

Also: Team Mom here. Who wants thick salami?

It's apparently a weird bug, which only affected a few people - but sadly it crept into the promo art.  It will be updated ASAP.

Oh, cool!  That works!  Thanks for the heads up :)

wmiller314 said:

benniewoodell said:

Sorry sweetie! It must feel like a kick in the gut. And I hope I didn't make you feel like I was making fun of you. Honestly, I think Daz needs to seriously take a step back and consider the future of this little experiement. It's not off to a stellar start and it's making customers feel like we have to watch Daz sharp so that they don't pull a fast one, which is unpleasant because I used to feel that there were really great discounts and super fair deals, especially for those of us who don't have a lot to spend on our art. Hopefully the next four characters are something perfect for you, though! 

Oh no, I didn't feel like you were making fun of myself or anyone else who got the pass. When I saw the character yesterday, I immediately knew there was going to be a lot of comments from folks saying how happy they were they didn't take the gamble and I wished I were one of them. I honestly thought Daz would bring their A game on this and wow us with five characters that were slam dunk hits, not niche characters that are great for some but not a fit for the majority. Like I said in the ticket I submitted yesterday after getting the character to complain about how underwhelmed and disappointed I was, I do a lot of toon stuff but I would never expect a toon type character in this pass because that's such a niche group of artists, and that's what Brooke is, a character for a very niche group. Hopefully they turn this around for the next four, but I'm not holding my breath anymore lol. 

I really thought they would bring the A game as well and I'd be thinking seriously about getting the next season pass if they did. I figured the next five figures would be really outstanding, and to those asking "how do you please everybody?" I respond: it's not that this character is not stellar, but that this character is very underwhelming. If you have a female character in your librarary, and a decent morph pack, you've got this character already. I understand you can't please everybody but you can at least make a stab at creating a unique and interesting character that will  appeal to a large portion of your customer base. If we took a pole of render artists, and asked how often people need middle age overweight characters for their current project, versus how many people need some heroic looking individual, I think the vast majority would say they need the heroic type for most of their renders. That's not always the case, and please, people, don't tongue lash me by pointing out the exceptions. I'm working on a piece where I needed an overweight female right now. What I'm saying is, its a very small percentage of my figure needs.

That and the skin is unacceptable. You're not just buying the character shape. You're buying the skin as well. 

benniewoodell said:

Sorry sweetie! It must feel like a kick in the gut. And I hope I didn't make you feel like I was making fun of you. Honestly, I think Daz needs to seriously take a step back and consider the future of this little experiement. It's not off to a stellar start and it's making customers feel like we have to watch Daz sharp so that they don't pull a fast one, which is unpleasant because I used to feel that there were really great discounts and super fair deals, especially for those of us who don't have a lot to spend on our art. Hopefully the next four characters are something perfect for you, though! 

Oh no, I didn't feel like you were making fun of myself or anyone else who got the pass. When I saw the character yesterday, I immediately knew there was going to be a lot of comments from folks saying how happy they were they didn't take the gamble and I wished I were one of them. I honestly thought Daz would bring their A game on this and wow us with five characters that were slam dunk hits, not niche characters that are great for some but not a fit for the majority. Like I said in the ticket I submitted yesterday after getting the character to complain about how underwhelmed and disappointed I was, I do a lot of toon stuff but I would never expect a toon type character in this pass because that's such a niche group of artists, and that's what Brooke is, a character for a very niche group. Hopefully they turn this around for the next four, but I'm not holding my breath anymore lol. 

I really thought they would bring the A game as well and I'd be thinking seriously about getting the next season pass if they did. I figured the next five figures would be really outstanding, and to those asking "how do you please everybody?" I respond: it's not that this character is not stellar, but that this character is very underwhelming. If you have a female character in your librarary, and a decent morph pack, you've got this character already. I understand you can't please everybody but you can at least make a stab at creating a unique and interesting character that will  appeal to a large portion of your customer base. If we took a pole of render artists, and asked how often people need middle age overweight characters for their current project, versus how many people need some heroic looking individual, I think the vast majority would say they need the heroic type for most of their renders. That's not always the case, and please, people, don't tongue lash me by pointing out the exceptions. I'm working on a piece where I needed an overweight female right now. What I'm saying is, its a very small percentage of my figure needs.

mr clam said:

duckbomb said:

I do like the character, but her toes look to be all malformed and have a ton of jaggies.  Maybe a morph problem?  I get that around fingernails when I load too many HD morphs at once...  Honestly, I'm dissapointed that not only did this issue make its way into the product, but even the promo images.

I mean, I'll just put shoes on her... but still.

That looks awful. She should have been named Broke 8.1. I would expect more from a $45 figure.

Also: Team Mom here. Who wants thick salami?

It's apparently a weird bug, which only affected a few people - but sadly it crept into the promo art.  It will be updated ASAP.

mr clam said:

duckbomb said:

I do like the character, but her toes look to be all malformed and have a ton of jaggies.  Maybe a morph problem?  I get that around fingernails when I load too many HD morphs at once...  Honestly, I'm dissapointed that not only did this issue make its way into the product, but even the promo images.

I mean, I'll just put shoes on her... but still.

That looks awful. She should have been named Broke 8.1. I would expect more from a $45 figure.

WTF! This is a new low in quality control LOL

duckbomb said:

I do like the character, but her toes look to be all malformed and have a ton of jaggies.  Maybe a morph problem?  I get that around fingernails when I load too many HD morphs at once...  Honestly, I'm dissapointed that not only did this issue make its way into the product, but even the promo images.

I mean, I'll just put shoes on her... but still.

That looks awful. She should have been named Broke 8.1. I would expect more from a $45 figure.

Also: Team Mom here. Who wants thick salami?

duckbomb said:

I do like the character, but her toes look to be all malformed and have a ton of jaggies.  Maybe a morph problem?  I get that around fingernails when I load too many HD morphs at once...  Honestly, I'm dissapointed that not only did this issue make its way into the product, but even the promo images.

I mean, I'll just put shoes on her... but still.

benniewoodell said:

wmiller314 said:

Oh wow. My BF bought me a hundred and fifty dollar DAZ gift card last night on discount and I thought maybe I should have bought the season pass after all, lame freebie item not withstanding. Then I woke up to Brooke! Bwahahaha! Seriously glad I passed on that season pass. Now I know everyone is going to say diversity, blah blah blah, but we already have diversity. I have an overweight character in the scene I'm working on right now. It's called a body morph. The Daz store is full of them. 

I think there are two people here in the forums this morning; those who didn't buy the season pass and are breathing a sigh of relief, and those who did buy and they are trying hard to justify thier purchase after the fact. But I'll predict this, regardless of what people say about Brooke, if the quality of the next four characters doesn't improve (drastically) no one will be buying next season's pass. 

Or there's a third group, like myself, that are absolutely disappointed and can't justify why they decided to take a gamble on this. 

I'm in that group with you. This character with this strange skin is practically one less character for me. And the bundle is not worth it. If only there was an excellent discount on individual items, the loss would be less.

benniewoodell said:

wmiller314 said:

Oh wow. My BF bought me a hundred and fifty dollar DAZ gift card last night on discount and I thought maybe I should have bought the season pass after all, lame freebie item not withstanding. Then I woke up to Brooke! Bwahahaha! Seriously glad I passed on that season pass. Now I know everyone is going to say diversity, blah blah blah, but we already have diversity. I have an overweight character in the scene I'm working on right now. It's called a body morph. The Daz store is full of them. 

I think there are two people here in the forums this morning; those who didn't buy the season pass and are breathing a sigh of relief, and those who did buy and they are trying hard to justify thier purchase after the fact. But I'll predict this, regardless of what people say about Brooke, if the quality of the next four characters doesn't improve (drastically) no one will be buying next season's pass. 

Or there's a third group, like myself, that are absolutely disappointed and can't justify why they decided to take a gamble on this. 

Sorry sweetie! It must feel like a kick in the gut. And I hope I didn't make you feel like I was making fun of you. Honestly, I think Daz needs to seriously take a step back and consider the future of this little experiement. It's not off to a stellar start and it's making customers feel like we have to watch Daz sharp so that they don't pull a fast one, which is unpleasant because I used to feel that there were really great discounts and super fair deals, especially for those of us who don't have a lot to spend on our art. Hopefully the next four characters are something perfect for you, though! 

Mystiarra said:

Vyusur said:

Dual Quaternion would be very nice in Carrara. I'm not so interested in Genesis 8 because now I mostly use my own figures. I wonder how the auto-fit feature will work with standalone figures?

i think it goes by if you have the clone.  and you need smoothing iterations

often bikini strings dont sit right in carrara.  i go back into ds, save the autofit as morph asset and then dial it in carrara. or slider it  

I meant, how it will work with dual quaternion.

For now the autofit feature works with my figures like a charm. No need for any additional efforts.

I do like the character, but her toes look to be all malformed and have a ton of jaggies.  Maybe a morph problem?  I get that around fingernails when I load too many HD morphs at once...  Honestly, I'm dissapointed that not only did this issue make its way into the product, but even the promo images.

I mean, I'll just put shoes on her... but still.

wmiller314 said:

Oh wow. My BF bought me a hundred and fifty dollar DAZ gift card last night on discount and I thought maybe I should have bought the season pass after all, lame freebie item not withstanding. Then I woke up to Brooke! Bwahahaha! Seriously glad I passed on that season pass. Now I know everyone is going to say diversity, blah blah blah, but we already have diversity. I have an overweight character in the scene I'm working on right now. It's called a body morph. The Daz store is full of them. 

I think there are two people here in the forums this morning; those who didn't buy the season pass and are breathing a sigh of relief, and those who did buy and they are trying hard to justify thier purchase after the fact. But I'll predict this, regardless of what people say about Brooke, if the quality of the next four characters doesn't improve (drastically) no one will be buying next season's pass. 

Or there's a third group, like myself, that are absolutely disappointed and can't justify why they decided to take a gamble on this. 

PerttiA said:

No need to wipe the content library for one ill-behaving character. Check first if LY Rory has been updated, since probably someone else has already reported it to DAZ.

To fix any ill-behaving morphs, do as follows;

1. Open DS and load "Genesis 8 Basic Female" (to an empty scene)
2. Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File (clear the log, close it and select "Save" when asked)
3. Left Click at "Active Pane Options" tab->Preferences->Choose "Show Hidden Properties" (part 4 zeroes only 'visible' dials)
4. Right Click at Parameters Tab->Zero->Zero Figure (Zeroes the value of all the 'visible' dials)
5. Right Click at Parameters Tab->Memorize->Memorize Figure (Sets the current value of all the dials as their default value)
6. Edit->Save As->Support Asset->Save Modified Assets (Writes the changed default value to the morph files that were changed)

When saving "Modified Assets" DS shows a dialog and asks for confirmation;
"The following file(s) will be permanently modified:" - "Accept/Cancel" - Choose "Accept"

Close DS and wait -> Open DS again and load "Genesis 8 Basic Female"

Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File (Save the logfile somewhere you can easily find it)

If the procedure doesn't help, attach the log to your post with the "Attach a file" under the "Leave a Comment" window, that way we can have a look at it.

I'm having trouble finding the "active paine options"  can someone direct me where to find it?

Tessallation alone will do nothing, because how should it know how to use those additional triangles+all morph targets, it gives just a higher polycount. And I've got only Blender.

Oh wow. My BF bought me a hundred and fifty dollar DAZ gift card last night on discount and I thought maybe I should have bought the season pass after all, lame freebie item not withstanding. Then I woke up to Brooke! Bwahahaha! Seriously glad I passed on that season pass. Now I know everyone is going to say diversity, blah blah blah, but we already have diversity. I have an overweight character in the scene I'm working on right now. It's called a body morph. The Daz store is full of them. 

I think there are two people here in the forums this morning; those who didn't buy the season pass and are breathing a sigh of relief, and those who did buy and they are trying hard to justify thier purchase after the fact. But I'll predict this, regardless of what people say about Brooke, if the quality of the next four characters doesn't improve (drastically) no one will be buying next season's pass. 

will2power said:

You probably wouldn't if you're not a history buff, or from Japan. Yuki's character actually started off in 2d in Kutsugi Kenichi's manga "Libido" which was published in 1997. (Don't quote me on the actual date though --her history isn't complete.) There was one figure that pre-dated her as a digital idol called Kyoko Date. Kutsugi then recreated his work in 3D and Yuki begain her life as a digital idol in Japan. She's kind of a spiritial pre-curser to the Vocaloids. Studios were toying with the idea of replacing life talent with 3D and she appeared in music, Artbooks and even released a few album singles as I understand. She was ported to Poser by E-Frontier back before they sold Poser to Smith Micro. They sold the rights to use her in Poser, but kept the rights to the figure itself, so While Poser progressed, sadly her figure did not. Geometry wise, I have to say her facial expressions wer ahead of her time but because Poser chose not to purchase the rights to the Model and E-frontier went on with Shade, she kind of languished in an inescapeable Hell of null development. I actually started reasearching and collecting some of her old materials as I think they shouldn't have written her off like they did. I guess you could say she's my new hobby.

So did you ever complet thr head morph? TY2 as far as I'm concerened is the only actual anime / manga character that has ever been produced which was "native" to Poser or DS -- Aiko and Sakura included. {I'm not including the characters that were "ripped" from video games since they were not actually Poser or DS models in the first place]

Any plans on releasing the morph?

No need to wipe the content library for one ill-behaving character. Check first if LY Rory has been updated, since probably someone else has already reported it to DAZ.

To fix any ill-behaving morphs, do as follows;

1. Open DS and load "Genesis 8 Basic Female" (to an empty scene)
2. Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File (clear the log, close it and select "Save" when asked)
3. Left Click at "Active Pane Options" tab->Preferences->Choose "Show Hidden Properties" (part 4 zeroes only 'visible' dials)
4. Right Click at Parameters Tab->Zero->Zero Figure (Zeroes the value of all the 'visible' dials)
5. Right Click at Parameters Tab->Memorize->Memorize Figure (Sets the current value of all the dials as their default value)
6. Edit->Save As->Support Asset->Save Modified Assets (Writes the changed default value to the morph files that were changed)

When saving "Modified Assets" DS shows a dialog and asks for confirmation;
"The following file(s) will be permanently modified:" - "Accept/Cancel" - Choose "Accept"

Close DS and wait -> Open DS again and load "Genesis 8 Basic Female"

Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File (Save the logfile somewhere you can easily find it)

If the procedure doesn't help, attach the log to your post with the "Attach a file" under the "Leave a Comment" window, that way we can have a look at it.

Hi.

I don't know if there is a better place to report bugs in the DS2UE plugin, but the Streets of Venice by Stonemason don't transfer correctly. Several buildings are missing and in some cases parts of a building are also missing.

Just FYI.

Vyusur said:

Dual Quaternion would be very nice in Carrara. I'm not so interested in Genesis 8 because now I mostly use my own figures. I wonder how the auto-fit feature will work with standalone figures?

i think it goes by if you have the clone.  and you need smoothing iterations

often bikini strings dont sit right in carrara.  i go back into ds, save the autofit as morph asset and then dial it in carrara. or slider it  

Vyusur said:

Dual Quaternion would be very nice in Carrara. I'm not so interested in Genesis 8 because now I mostly use my own figures. I wonder how the auto-fit feature will work with standalone figures?

I've no idea. Actually, I don't use autofit that often. I don't like it because it distorts the UV maps and is not very natural in places like breast or  buttocks. 

Usually, I fit clothes using VWD which doesn't have those drawbacks. If I were to write a plugin on the subject of autofit, it would be using the result of the VWD static simulation to create a morph for the cloth.

And yes, dual quaternion would be nice, even if it would be only for rigging created in Carrara.