Complaint:  Why are modern keyboards so flimsy?   This is the second identical HP keyboard that has worn the "N" decal off of the "N" keycap, and developed a depression on the "Space bar".  I miss the old keyboards that had mechanical movements and went "click" when you depressed them and had molded two color plastic keycaps that would never wear through the letter, and could substitute for cricket bats.  I regret that I've actually discarded plenty of those old keyboards in my foolish youth.

It's not that I don't know where the "N" key is.  After all, it hasn't moved but I'm a neatnic and things out of place or unbalanced tug at my reality.

Non-complaint:  It's 8:30 in the morning and I'm listening to the Buffalo classical radio station over the internet (WNED https://tunein.com/radio/WNED-FM-945-s21414/) playing Beethoven Symphony #7.  Enough said!  (head 'splode; the guy was completely deaf at this point)

Beethoven: Symphony #7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

I think old keys were heat transfer printed... which melted the paint into the plastic surface slightly.

Some of my really old keys (70s or 80s) seem to be co-molded... the lettering is actually different color plastic filling a recess in the surface... here’s a pix...

You would be hard pressed to wear out that lettering... 

 

 

mann if you glued some gears to those, you could sell it as steampunk on etsy, Heaven to betsy, regretsy

Complaint:  Why are modern keyboards so flimsy?   This is the second identical HP keyboard that has worn the "N" decal off of the "N" keycap, and developed a depression on the "Space bar".  I miss the old keyboards that had mechanical movements and went "click" when you depressed them and had molded two color plastic keycaps that would never wear through the letter, and could substitute for cricket bats.  I regret that I've actually discarded plenty of those old keyboards in my foolish youth.

It's not that I don't know where the "N" key is.  After all, it hasn't moved but I'm a neatnic and things out of place or unbalanced tug at my reality.

Non-complaint:  It's 8:30 in the morning and I'm listening to the Buffalo classical radio station over the internet (WNED https://tunein.com/radio/WNED-FM-945-s21414/) playing Beethoven Symphony #7.  Enough said!  (head 'splode; the guy was completely deaf at this point)

Beethoven: Symphony #7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

I think old keys were heat transfer printed... which melted the paint into the plastic surface slightly.

Some of my really old keys (70s or 80s) seem to be co-molded... the lettering is actually different color plastic filling a recess in the surface... here’s a pix...

[*snip*]

You would be hard pressed to wear out that lettering... 

 

I see what you did there. "You'd be hard pressed..." I guess you would be pressing pretty hard on your kyboard to wear those out! 

Complaint:  Why are modern keyboards so flimsy?   This is the second identical HP keyboard that has worn the "N" decal off of the "N" keycap, and developed a depression on the "Space bar".  I miss the old keyboards that had mechanical movements and went "click" when you depressed them and had molded two color plastic keycaps that would never wear through the letter, and could substitute for cricket bats.  I regret that I've actually discarded plenty of those old keyboards in my foolish youth.

It's not that I don't know where the "N" key is.  After all, it hasn't moved but I'm a neatnic and things out of place or unbalanced tug at my reality.

Non-complaint:  It's 8:30 in the morning and I'm listening to the Buffalo classical radio station over the internet (WNED https://tunein.com/radio/WNED-FM-945-s21414/) playing Beethoven Symphony #7.  Enough said!  (head 'splode; the guy was completely deaf at this point)

Beethoven: Symphony #7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

I think old keys were heat transfer printed... which melted the paint into the plastic surface slightly.

Some of my really old keys (70s or 80s) seem to be co-molded... the lettering is actually different color plastic filling a recess in the surface... here’s a pix...

You would be hard pressed to wear out that lettering... 

 

For a while back in the early '80s I worked for a small software consulting company that had a contract with a branch of the Harris Corporation (specifically Harris Intertype) that manufactured newspaper printing equipment.  We were creating an early version of a professional word processing machine for setting newspaper type.  We had access to some interesting high quality equipment (phototypesetters, teletypes, linotype machines, etc).  One of the things that came our way was a good sized box full of miscellaneous keycaps.  Everybody in the software part of the project (about 5 of us) rummaged through the box to find letters to create various words such as our names.  Somewhere around here I have my name permanently emblazoned on a piece of oak in old fashioned plastic keycaps of the co-molded type you described.

Complaint:  Why are modern keyboards so flimsy?   This is the second identical HP keyboard that has worn the "N" decal off of the "N" keycap, and developed a depression on the "Space bar".  I miss the old keyboards that had mechanical movements and went "click" when you depressed them and had molded two color plastic keycaps that would never wear through the letter, and could substitute for cricket bats.  I regret that I've actually discarded plenty of those old keyboards in my foolish youth.

It's not that I don't know where the "N" key is.  After all, it hasn't moved but I'm a neatnic and things out of place or unbalanced tug at my reality.

Non-complaint:  It's 8:30 in the morning and I'm listening to the Buffalo classical radio station over the internet (WNED https://tunein.com/radio/WNED-FM-945-s21414/) playing Beethoven Symphony #7.  Enough said!  (head 'splode; the guy was completely deaf at this point)

Beethoven: Symphony #7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

I think old keys were heat transfer printed... which melted the paint into the plastic surface slightly.

Some of my really old keys (70s or 80s) seem to be co-molded... the lettering is actually different color plastic filling a recess in the surface... here’s a pix...

You would be hard pressed to wear out that lettering... 

 

Which bones? Some figures and morph packages do have the rib bones as a torso/chest morph, for instance.

You may be able to sink a bony structure to near/under the surface of a model's skin. Then you can use Smoothing Modifiers to try to flow the skin over the bone object.

Sorry if someone already asked these questions . Are there any tips or trick to quickly swap elements in our scene with other objects  ? Or just extracting some elements like pose - light - character morphs - cloths - material from one scene to another?

Just like Smart object in Photoshop or X refference in 3ds max

Reason I`m asking those question is to find  quick and efficent way to working with another persons in paralel workflow. 

Thats also intended for collaboration works without force everyone in team have same 3d library items or assets . 

ie: Scene compositor guy/gal only focus to work with character placement - light and camera , meanwhile the other prefecting character shape/morph and other team members trying fix material or mix and match every cloth items they have

Thanks

Also, if you have the Genesis 8 Female Body Morph set, there is a "height" slider. Personally, I like using that over scaling because I think it gives a more realistic result than just making her smaller, but that's an aesthetic choice not a technical one. :) In my screenshot below, the girl on the left is resized using Height whereas the one on the right is resized using Scale.

It would still be useful to have the option of having the tongue and especially the teeth as separatable (unwelded) meshes in DAZ Studio, especially for extreme morphs.

Then you need to use things like geografts and mesh add-ons - If you need to modify figure geometry, that is how it's done (Daz having to change how the base works would both be much more limited and would break every existing morph product - changing the number of vertices and thus the vertex order).

Can i convince someone to provide a morph for 3DU's Toon Alien (https://www.daz3d.com/toon-alien) to smooth out his belly button and butt crack?
Wish to use the figure in a kids environment and think adults might find those features a little too much for youngins...
Thanks in Advance!
-MJ

Push come to shove, i could live with the belly button however...
-MJ

Can i convince someone to provide a morph for 3DU's Toon Alien (https://www.daz3d.com/toon-alien) to smooth out his belly button and butt crack?
Wish to use the figure in a kids environment and think adults might find those features a little too much for youngins...
Thanks in Advance!
-MJ

Very cool, Carola!  Thank you for posting this!

Ok- so, I've had to make an executive edit on Tathar's scars.  I will keep working on the idea-but for a future project.  Right now, my skills aren't where I need them to be to get them to do what I envision in my head and I'm not going to put it into a product until it does.

Secondly; I've started John - the Sam Elliot inspired character.  I'll first post the basic front and 3/4 views for the base morph, my added details, and the last will be with my preset for Zev0's aging dials for his head morph.  The last two will be with him in an outfit, Changeling Chick's Beard Boss, and Victor 8's skin (which will show you the imporance of good textures over morphs).  His skin will take a while, since I want to get a really good quality base before adding in textures for the aged version of him.  I have a reference photo set I think I'm going to use for him.

Base head - these are all with Gage's skin textures:

Base and my add on: 

Base, my add on, and my dial for Zev0's Aged Preset:

Now with my base, my aged add on and Victor 8 Skin:

Again- with my base, my add on, and my dial for Zev0's Aged Preset (not fully rendered, I was impatient:

So- definitely will need to pay particular attention to detail in this one's skin set. :D 

Yes hat's off the morph on the horse is amazing !!!

Hello,

I have a question that I'm hoping someone can help me with.  I recently purchased a new computer and downloaded DS 4.11.  I was unable to transfer content from my old machine, as that one crashed, so I began to re-download my previously purchased items into the new one, through DIM.  The items downloaded and installed into DS, but they only show up under "my library" instead of in the "contents" pane, as they did in my previous computer.

Also, whenever I log in DS, I get the following "Resource Error" message:

"A valid PostgreSQL CMS connection could not be established.  Several DAZ Studio features that require a valid PostgreSQL CMS connection, such as context aware content views and loading content installed using the DAZ Connect service, will not be available.  Check your network, anti-virus, and firewall settings for conflicts."

I checked the settings in the computer and I don't see anything that would be causing the problem, but not being all that computer savvy, I could very well be overlooking something simple.  I'm not sure how to proceed from here, so if anyone can offer some advice, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Thank in advance,

Mark in VA

 

 

 

It's true, but I'd hate to point fingers because I wish all these creators nothing but positive thoughts and success.
But one of the main reasons why I cheer on celebrity-inspired faces is because they are practically the most diverse and often the most realistically shaped creations in their entire collection. Also yay for morph-makers in general and creative artists like JoeQuick and RawArt who show the width and depth these Genesis models are capable of.

It's a common phenomenon that artists tend to create a certain look in their artwork. There are lots of articles researching this for famous painters. Even if artists use completely different merchant resources and build characters of different ethnicities this might still happen ... even if the likeness is not intended. Sometimes it might also be that the character are actually quite different but look similar due to the presentation. Similar hair, similar render settings, poses, background ... I never render characters out of the box and usually I'm not even interested in the morph but only interested in the skin texture, the shaders and the HD details. So character likeness by one artist is no problem to me ... if I prefer another look i can look for other artist catalogues. Luckily we have so many really outstanding artists with great characters to choose from.

Curiousity for anyone who picked up Maxx...
Can the tail and feathering of the hooves on Maxx easily be used on Daz Horse 2?
How does the Maxx settings look if you only have the base centaur, and not the Brute?
As a side note, the transition from horse to human looks excellent on him. :-D

I have had Maxxtaur in my paddock all afternoon and I am still so very astounded by the extremely high detail and quality of this product. I've been tweaking and changing so many things. It really is top tier and should have been the standard Centaur 8 that was sold. Here is just a really quick render with the Brute taken out and a bit of a bodybuilder morph added to it and with the Markos character features.  

What in the world is happening here? I checked deleted and re-added the only dForce Weight Node to the uniform top but it insists on dForming the character too. This looks like something out of Stranger Things which would be cool if that's what I was going for but it kinda isn't. Does anyone know what's causing this?

That's very cool=)) You should save as a morph for future use. I've no idea what's happening,what if you unparent the clothing before running the sim?

I'm obsessed with DAZ and have created a character I would love to share. I've been a portrait artist for over thirty years and retouching for a decade, my 2D drawings have been mistaken for photos, but I'm just learning the 3D ropes. Forgive me if my questions seem a bit foolish. I've read so many conflicting scenarios regarding the preparation for sale of a character.

1. The character head I have created uses hundreds of varying percentages of Rarestone's Facial Morphs (MR) and very few alterations of parameters using a Genesis 8 female base figure.

• Is it okay if I bake the character?
• Should the character be saved using an alternate method?
• Am I allowed to use both of these resources separately or together?
• Assuming the character is for sale, does the buyer need to purchase Rarestone's morphs?

2. The character body I have created uses parameters and Zevo's Glute and Breast Control (MR) bundle.

• Is this permissable?
• Does the buyer need to own Zevo's morphs?
• Is it permissable to sculpt a body for selling using parameters only? (I read somewhere that one cannot use parameters/shaping for this (or head shaping) when selling) 

Because I am proficient in Photoshop, the skins I am creating distinguish the character, adding realism. Several of my photographer friends thought she was a model (human) when they saw my (unretouched) renders. I know it is not common for morph dial-only characters to reach the Daz store, but she is quite lovely.  That said, I am exploring Blender to further enhance her and future creations.

Any information regarding the questions above would be greatly appreciated!

(By the way has anyone ever collapsed from Daz addiction? I feel like those kids who play video games for days on end when I'm doing this! )

Thanks!!

 

If you created a tutorial on how to use GIMP/Photoshop to create textures as good as the ones you said fooled your friend I think that would be a big seller in the DAZ Store.

I created a custom figure (hair in this case) not to be used with any Genesis figure meaning I did not use the Transfer Utility feature. It was created using Figure Setup.

I wanted to test out if I can fit clothes (or other items) on top of my custom figure so I basically duplicated the custom figure and hit "Fit To:" my original custom figure. And then everything exploded. Please see images for references.

What step am I missing?

Centaur Maxx for Genesis 8 Male Centaur

 

DETAILS

Transform Maxx into an imposing mythological creature with this set of detailed HD morphs, fibermesh add-ons and photorealistic textures, including a smoother transition from human to animal.

The included shape and HD details will make the perfect companion to the big frame of Maxx.

Includes the HD shape (separate base and details), multiple fibermesh items (including two feathering styles), a new set of tattoos for the custom layered shader, separate body and face war paint presets and a bonus fantasy ear morph.

For a complete list of what this set comes with, please read the Feature list.

 

WITH AND WITHOUT MAXX

While the product is made specifically for Maxx HD, it will work on other characters with certain limitations:

On other characters:

• The HD Shape (a bonus scale morph is included to adjust the proportions to your character)
• The textures
• All fibermesh pieces
• Default transition from human to horse

Maxx Exclusive:

• The soft transition from human to horse
• The war paint
• The tattoos

In short, the horse section works on other characters and the human skin options are exclusive to Maxx