Note that buying 3+ of Today's New Releases results in an additional 20% discount on each item.

Edit:  If you received 2 orange banner discount offers for the Victoria 9 Mega bundle, one for owning Victoria 9 HD (15%) and another for owning Victoria 9 HD bundle (20%) both discount offers are stacking.

Robert Freise said:

I'm still waiting on the Victoria 9 HD Intro Bundle to show up in my Product Library been a week now and still isn't fixed

And you put a ticket in for this? If you did, do you have the date you submitted and the ticket number? 

I'm still waiting on the Victoria 9 HD Intro Bundle to show up in my Product Library been a week now and still isn't fixed

I'm planning to create a variety of immersive stereoscopic 3D VR-360 renders and videos, so feel free to check back on this post periodically if that interests you.

Jump to the latest post on this forum thread
(Hopefully, the VR renders have improved over time!)

From my perspective, stereoscopic 3D VR 360 content offers a more encompassing experience compared to VR 180, providing full 3D depth immersion in all directions. However, it's worth noting that creating 3D VR360 renders is more time-consuming. If you find any stereoscopic renders lacking in 3D depth, immersion, or if they appear blurry or doubled as though you're seeing double but are sure you're not intoxicated, then adjusting your VR media player's viewer/playback settings might be necessary.

You can download the VR renders from the provided Dropbox link and transfer them to your VR headset. For this, I use a standard "Quest 2 Link Cable". To view the VR renders, I recommend "Pigasus VR Media Player", an affordable app available on the Oculus/Meta store.

Each VR render file is labeled with the tag "_360_TB", indicating to Pigasus the correct display format for the images on the Meta Quest 2. Specifically, the stereoscopic 3D VR format employed is "360 over/under" (also known as top/bottom). This is important to note if you're using a different VR headset or media player.

All stereoscopic 3D renders I post here should seamlessly work when viewed with Pigasus on a Meta Quest 2. To start off, I've included some VR renders of Victoria 9.

Got a VR headset? Get the stereoscopic 3D VR-360 renders (over/under):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e9yg9ahkyq1rhyj/AAAbauxkqSa_qNZrrlRkws6Fa?raw=1

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

I did get on the 9 train, pre-ordering the Victoria 9 bundle. 

• The train arrived late (bundle contents not added to the library on time)
• Some carriages were missing (bonus items not added to the library as well)
• Some engine parts are missing (e.g. PowerPose templates)
• You have to pay extra to get an adjustable seat (Genesis 9 Character Essentials)
• You may have to buy new luggage, as the old one does not really fit (autofitting of hair, clothing)
• The train looks really nice, especially near view.
• Although it looks nice and shiny, the train is a bit dysfunctional, e.g seats adjust in the wrong way (certain natural poses just look totally off with G9, e.g. some writs poses, bending of limbs, etc.)

Do I regret it? Yes, somehow. I still have a very well done Victoria 9, very suitable for close up renders. But then? Will I stay on the train? Probably not. That release was really not well handled, and still is not (e.g. missing head and body morphs despite new items released that require them, no decent way to use G8 poses on G9, ...). 

I would say it was professionally handled, because amateurs would do it better (sarcasm off).

Thanks for riding that metaphor to the final stop. 

Nice work all,

My dip in the Victoria 9 pool with some G8F morphs moved over with a G8F clone.

WOW, OK, that's barely mentioned.  DAZ is really getting sketchy when it comes too an element of the male body like it's a dirty thing!  SHEESH. 

I also found that that Victoria 9 has something like that AND it comes with male nipple options so not sure if these are female elements or male elements to flesh out the pack more (no pun intended) https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-9-hd

I just tried the approach outlined in WP Guru's video on Faye (by bluejeante) and did a quick render (with Victoria 9 mats & defaut headlamp lighting ). I must say that I'm quite happy with how these basic renders turned out (just starting out with Daz3D) ...

In a nutshell : it's a gen 8 character morph with gen 3 hair and clothing on genesis 9.

Robert Freise said:

Catherine3678ab said:

@ Daz_Travis  or anybody that knows, WHEN are we going to get the products we so faithfully and trustingly preordered???????????

After a long time they arrived BUT then they vanished again! All product pages are nothing but java circles which one sees when the product is not in the library ... even though it appears on the list.

 

Still not in my Product Library and it will be a week tomorrow  

OK. Let me join here too. Are we three the only without Victoria 9 (edited: who bought it?)? 

Finally got https://www.daz3d.com/emotions-expressions-for-victoria-9

Below is an example render with it...

Rod Wise Driggo said:

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

I did get on the 9 train, pre-ordering the Victoria 9 bundle. 

• The train arrived late (bundle contents not added to the library on time)
• Some carriages were missing (bonus items not added to the library as well)
• Some engine parts are missing (e.g. PowerPose templates)
• You have to pay extra to get an adjustable seat (Genesis 9 Character Essentials)
• You may have to buy new luggage, as the old one does not really fit (autofitting of hair, clothing)
• The train looks really nice, especially near view.
• Although it looks nice and shiny, the train is a bit dysfunctional, e.g seats adjust in the wrong way (certain natural poses just look totally off with G9, e.g. some writs poses, bending of limbs, etc.)

Do I regret it? Yes, somehow. I still have a very well done Victoria 9, very suitable for close up renders. But then? Will I stay on the train? Probably not. That release was really not well handled, and still is not (e.g. missing head and body morphs despite new items released that require them, no decent way to use G8 poses on G9, ...). 

I would say it was professionally handled, because amateurs would do it better (sarcasm off).

Nice read. I had something similar cooking so I might just share....

A train riders guide to Artland

So you ask whether or not to go onboard the new Gen9-train. Maybe one should ask how riding those trains does generally work.
First of all there are already some trains underway. The rusty old V4 intercontinental, the Genesis-train which already explored those unisex carts. And of course the later iterations of the Gen2, Gen3 and Gen8-express which all features single sex carts. Not to forget some engine updates like the Gen8.1-supercharger of course. You can still ride all of those. They’ll take you to places, no worries.
But there are some important things to keep in mind:
First of all, all DAZ-trains share the same railways. So even the shiny new Gen9 can do no tricks. It has to follow the rails which may include some slopes which may slow you down or some tunnels which obscure the view. So you’ll still have to wait for some new tracks to speed and fun up your ride.

Also - and this is really weird - the overall pace is different for each passenger. Sounds strange but that’s how it is. If you bought a shiny new nVidia-front row ticket your ride will be miraculously faster then for the dude sitting right next to you but holding only a lousy CPU-pass probably obtained from Groupon.

But there are further limitations of course. Did you bring a large enough ultraportable SSD-suitcase for storing everything to entertain you while you are onboard or does your little HDD-backpack hold only the most necessary items and you need to repack for each and every trip.

Those are just some prerequisites. Now let’s look on the ride itself. You may recognize that the new Gen9 does currently only have one cart. There will be more in the future for sure but currently you have to be fine with coach.
Also riding to Artland is not only about the destination, it’s all about the trip. And this is also a thing where those 3D trains are special. To have a nice trip you need many things like food and entertainment. Thankfully you can have everything delivered to your place. Just leave your credit card with the steward and you are all set. There might be some caveats though:
- Whereas there is a huge selection on board of the older Genesis-trains, the menu and entertainment-selection on the new Gen9 is sparse right now.
- You can of course hop off at some stops along the road like Rendo-Rapids, Las R’tica or the RenderHub (to just name a few). But even those might not have much to offer right now. Plus it is a bit cumbersome to get things purchased there on board. But that’s a different story.
- What is also important is the onboard entertainment. Strangely each and every Genesis-train has not much to offer there from the start. Thankfully there are flying vendors on the train offering you everything you need to have a good time. You may for example get a Zev0nizer to adjust your seat to any position you can think of. Only problem is that all the things you might have bought on an earlier trip on a different train might not work here. So you need to get those adjusted, enhanced or replaced. But that’s the way it is. Sometimes there or other workarounds though. Once something is giving you a hard time chances are you could get it RiverSoftened. But probably not just right now.
So since you’ve learned a little more you may be able to decide if you want to already get on board and deal with the teethings all brand new trains are coming with. Or you just simply wait a little longer or use the Gen9-train only occasionally for some stages.
As they say: There are many ways to get to Artland but only a few shortcuts.

Very nicely stated.  As I posted earlier, there really doesn't seem to be a pressing need to start using G9 now unless you simply want to be one of the first riders.  Unfortunately, DAZ having become what it's become, that means basically paying to be a beta tester while the users figure out where everything isn't working properly and we see if DAZ actually tries to fix them.  After riding the Gen3 and Gen4 trains for several years, I jumped immediately on the Genesis train when it came out, and while I loved the figure mixing capabilities, so many of my products made for DS3 were broken by the move to DS4... a program that I actually paid for since it didn't become freeware until a number of months later. And even then, the launch of Genesis was accompanied by a huge selection of reasonably priced Genesis products and it was specifically made to take advantage of all of the massive library of Gen 4 products.  I grumbled a bit at the abrupt discontinuation of service to the Genesis line, but there were definite improvements that made Genesis 2 attractive enough that I switched again.  Switching to Genesis 3 when the G2 line was termintated was a much easier decision, as G3 still stands as the biggest quantum jump in terms of appearance an usability of any of the Genesis lines, and while DAZ was still playing the "new UV" game, that issue was soon circumvented by PAs who were able to do what DAZ wouldn't and allowed full access to my entire library of textures.  I really wasn't happy with the shutting down of the Genesis 3 lines as the "improvements" in Genesis 8 were so minimal that the name G3.1 would have been more accurate, while I found the increased reliance on facial bones frequently produced some very unsatisfactory results even in DAZ's own promotional images.  For the first time, I felt that the cost of upgrading on release really wasn't worth DAZ's escalating prices, so I opted to sit back and wait for DAZ to get to their price-slashing/free giveaway games and ended up buying into G8 at the point where it's infratructure was actually halfway decent.  Even so, I continue to use the G3 products as often as the G8s, and I found the "improvements" in G8.1 to be... well, let's just say that I've yet to see a 8.1 figure that justified any of those claims, while the prices continued to rise dramatically.  Genesis 9 looks to be in the process of being shoveled out as quickly as possible... something that's made pretty clear in the promotional video with the number of times it's specifically stated that what's being demonstrated may not be in the finished product even as DAZ is asking for downpayments.  So, yeah, as I've  yet to see anything in the products released so far that justifies the even more inflated prices, and DAZ has still failed to resolve issues with what is by far the buggiest new base figure release to date, I'm quite content to stay back and continue to ride the lines that I'm already happy with until G9 gets reasonably debugged and DAZ marketing gets around to their usual game of slashing prices to the bone and giving away earlier products.   

I installed the update for Studio and Measure Metrics that showed up in my DIM.

I assumed that part of the update was for Genesis 9.

Measure Metrics does not have a preset for Genesis 9.  Is there something wrong with my install or is this another thing that is coming "soon", "someday", "whenever"...?

I noted that the product page for Victoria 9 does list measurements from Measure Metrics.

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

I did get on the 9 train, pre-ordering the Victoria 9 bundle. 

• The train arrived late (bundle contents not added to the library on time)
• Some carriages were missing (bonus items not added to the library as well)
• Some engine parts are missing (e.g. PowerPose templates)
• You have to pay extra to get an adjustable seat (Genesis 9 Character Essentials)
• You may have to buy new luggage, as the old one does not really fit (autofitting of hair, clothing)
• The train looks really nice, especially near view.
• Although it looks nice and shiny, the train is a bit dysfunctional, e.g seats adjust in the wrong way (certain natural poses just look totally off with G9, e.g. some writs poses, bending of limbs, etc.)

Do I regret it? Yes, somehow. I still have a very well done Victoria 9, very suitable for close up renders. But then? Will I stay on the train? Probably not. That release was really not well handled, and still is not (e.g. missing head and body morphs despite new items released that require them, no decent way to use G8 poses on G9, ...). 

I would say it was professionally handled, because amateurs would do it better (sarcasm off).

Nice read. I had something similar cooking so I might just share....

A train riders guide to Artland

So you ask whether or not to go onboard the new Gen9-train. Maybe one should ask how riding those trains does generally work.
First of all there are already some trains underway. The rusty old V4 intercontinental, the Genesis-train which already explored those unisex carts. And of course the later iterations of the Gen2, Gen3 and Gen8-express which all features single sex carts. Not to forget some engine updates like the Gen8.1-supercharger of course. You can still ride all of those. They’ll take you to places, no worries.
But there are some important things to keep in mind:
First of all, all DAZ-trains share the same railways. So even the shiny new Gen9 can do no tricks. It has to follow the rails which may include some slopes which may slow you down or some tunnels which obscure the view. So you’ll still have to wait for some new tracks to speed and fun up your ride.

Also - and this is really weird - the overall pace is different for each passenger. Sounds strange but that’s how it is. If you bought a shiny new nVidia-front row ticket your ride will be miraculously faster then for the dude sitting right next to you but holding only a lousy CPU-pass probably obtained from Groupon.

But there are further limitations of course. Did you bring a large enough ultraportable SSD-suitcase for storing everything to entertain you while you are onboard or does your little HDD-backpack hold only the most necessary items and you need to repack for each and every trip.

Those are just some prerequisites. Now let’s look on the ride itself. You may recognize that the new Gen9 does currently only have one cart. There will be more in the future for sure but currently you have to be fine with coach.
Also riding to Artland is not only about the destination, it’s all about the trip. And this is also a thing where those 3D trains are special. To have a nice trip you need many things like food and entertainment. Thankfully you can have everything delivered to your place. Just leave your credit card with the steward and you are all set. There might be some caveats though:
- Whereas there is a huge selection on board of the older Genesis-trains, the menu and entertainment-selection on the new Gen9 is sparse right now.
- You can of course hop off at some stops along the road like Rendo-Rapids, Las R’tica or the RenderHub (to just name a few). But even those might not have much to offer right now. Plus it is a bit cumbersome to get things purchased there on board. But that’s a different story.
- What is also important is the onboard entertainment. Strangely each and every Genesis-train has not much to offer there from the start. Thankfully there are flying vendors on the train offering you everything you need to have a good time. You may for example get a Zev0nizer to adjust your seat to any position you can think of. Only problem is that all the things you might have bought on an earlier trip on a different train might not work here. So you need to get those adjusted, enhanced or replaced. But that’s the way it is. Sometimes there or other workarounds though. Once something is giving you a hard time chances are you could get it RiverSoftened. But probably not just right now.
So since you’ve learned a little more you may be able to decide if you want to already get on board and deal with the teethings all brand new trains are coming with. Or you just simply wait a little longer or use the Gen9-train only occasionally for some stages.
As they say: There are many ways to get to Artland but only a few shortcuts.

and to be precise. I have the same problem as all(?)/some other guys, who bought the bundle earlier. The subitems are not resolved as bought. As some said the "spinning Java circle"(?) is shown, if you click any of the subitems links in the "Victoria 9 HD Intro Bundle" in your order history. 

AllenArt said:

ted-berlin said:

Robert Freise said:

Have the freebies still waiting on the Victoria 9 HD bundle to show in Product Library

No word from CS on ticket 

 

CS gave me the two freebies (again ) instead of the all the items of the Victoria 9 HD Intro Bundle. All items are still not shown as bought. Come on DAZ. Can nobody solve this error? I really want Victoria 9.

 

 

FFS! You still don't have it yet??? o.O 

Nope 

AllenArt said:

ted-berlin said:

Robert Freise said:

Have the freebies still waiting on the Victoria 9 HD bundle to show in Product Library

No word from CS on ticket 

 

CS gave me the two freebies (again ) instead of the all the items of the Victoria 9 HD Intro Bundle. All items are still not shown as bought. Come on DAZ. Can nobody solve this error? I really want Victoria 9.

 

 

FFS! You still don't have it yet??? o.O 

Exactly. Nothing from the Victoria 9 Bundle yet. Even not Victoria 9 itself. It's very shamefull for DAZ and even CS coudn't help yet. I think they even don't understand the problem. They gave me the 2 freebies again instead. And not only for me e.g. for Robert it's the same thing I think. Ok, we have some time differences to Europe but if they don't fix it today the best think woould be to file for a refund and buy it again so long it's available for the same price. Of course DAZ could do the same internally but hey... Don't wan't to be abusive.  Maybe Richard can give some hints to the CS Team? Please....

ted-berlin said:

Robert Freise said:

Have the freebies still waiting on the Victoria 9 HD bundle to show in Product Library

No word from CS on ticket 

 

CS gave me the two freebies (again ) instead of the all the items of the Victoria 9 HD Intro Bundle. All items are still not shown as bought. Come on DAZ. Can nobody solve this error? I really want Victoria 9.

 

 

FFS! You still don't have it yet??? o.O 

jhogenboom_da69c035a9 said:

This is new in the writeup: "Textures are not included in this product and are provided by certain character products". Will these "certain character products" include textures that match the base textures from Starter Essentials or whatever it's called? And how much more are they going to charge us before this product we've already paid for will be usable? 

It will be nice for those that have a shtick about completing sets symmetrically if they added those 8 textures to that set but I guess they feel it has the potential to erode sales too much, after all those are very generic textures and there are 8 of them. 

The Victoria 9, as became customary in the G8.1 human products, does include textures for both male & female. It's more than just the genitalia materials they had to alter to do that. Since Genesis 9 is now unimesh, Victoria 9 is essentially two products, Victoria 9 and Victor 9, like that old movie Julie Andrews was in Victor/Victoria.

kervala said:

I also think genitals textures are missing :( What is the point by providing base textures for Genesis 9 (in a free bundle), but not textures for genitals if we paid for them ?

Because apparently we just paid for the anatomical elements and not their textures since the base textures (apparently on purpose) don't come with genital mats. This is supposedly "how it has always been" but in the past it wasn't so obvious since the genitals were part of the pro bundles that actually came with genital textures that matched the bundled character (which is actually true even now... well, so far at least).

Actually I guess strictly speaking we didn't even pay for anatomical elements. We paid for character *essentials*... I mean "Starter Essentials for Genesis 9" (not to be confused with Genesis 9 Starter Essentials) with the anatomical elements coming as a sort of bonus because naturally people purchased the character essentials just for the iris colors and eyebrows and definitely not because of  the anatomical elements.

Now we have character... I mean starter esentials for genesis 9* with anatomical elements that don't have textures and a Victoria pro... I mean intro... bundle that is conveniently priced similar to pro previous pro bundles but is content wise more like a starter bundle, and has textures but not anatomical elements.

*again not to be confused with genesis 9 starter essentials... though if you ask from me, I guess someone probably botched the orange info bar and the update was not related to change of name but the content prerequisites

Edit: Now don't get me wrong. I think it was smart to move the genital grafts into a separate product since that way you are not forced to buy a pro bundle. It's just that I'm a bit salty they didn't come with mats that match the base textures even though I technically should have expected this because of some historical precedent

1234MATT said:

That answered my question....your artist have been severly cheated.

What do you mean exactly? Victoria 4.2 still works perfectly well in current version of DS....