Elor said:

I would not, at least for products you really want: I had at least two outfits for which I got both the base clothing and the texture pack as free choice in my advent calendar. In one case, I had the outfit before the textures pack but in the other case, it was the opposite.

Regarding where an item ended (free or for cheap), off the top of my head, I think the threshold was around $30, items under that price could end as free items, items over, I don't think they could, and I don't remember having an item over $40 in my advent calendar.

Has anyone done any more "research" into the top price of the items? Or is there a consensus threshhold?

Out of curiosity, did anyone track their SKUs last year? Not just generalities (like "I got G8 stuff") but actual SKUs? I'm curious how it compares to this year's.

barbult said:

zombietaggerung said:

I hate to be "that guy" but a texture add-on for something that I cannot imagine everyone owns for the freebie today? That's a very odd choice. 

It is unfortunate, for sure. Get it anyway. Maybe the dress will be offered later.
Another odd thing is that yesterday they offered five G8 Mega Bundles for $3.99 each. Today they offer one G8 Starter bundle for $9.99. Huh?

This makes customers feel happy that they bought it yesterday.

However, yesterday's promotion didn't include many items, so the prices of those items may be the lowest this year. or NOT 

I'm definitely going to include "PW Boutique Villa" in my shopping cart today, and then I'll wait for Quick-Grab price to be fixed.

doubledeviant said:

3DSaga said:

Torquinox said:

First it was the crypto miners. Then it was the NFTs. Now it's the AI data centers. Always something with chip supply! And should we mention the vast quantities of water and electricity required for all this AI stuff? 

True. I live in an area that struggles to provide both, and I have yet to hear any investment by these companies to improve or expand the water or electrical infrastructures they draw on so heavily.  

The problem is that power and water are more-or-less closed markets, so when data centers drastically increase demand, prices rise for everyone. The effect is that we're basically subsidizing the effort to replace us with AI and take our jobs.

There's no reason these data centers need to be built in populated areas. Governments should force these companies to build far away from the cities, to pay for the necessary new roads, and to fund their own nuclear power plant and water system.
That'll also minimize the collateral damage of hitting these places with tactical nukes when the AI goes rogue and tries to kill us all. ;)

Just to point out that many areas of the United States, and the world have deserts where water is a finite resource and becoming too scarce each year as populations grow beyond the previous tolerances pre-AI. The Colorado River is a case in point. Right now Colorado is experiencing a drought and high temperatures in the 50-60sF in December, instead of snow and temps in the 20s/30sF and building the snowpack needed for said river this summer. This will affect every state that depends on their water supply for homes to agriculture, much less AI farms from here to So. California. And we no longer have a 'fire season' it is all year round. Last week was a nightmare for the western part of the Denver metro area as homes and businesses had their power shut off because of high winds to avoid fires and then 4 - 5 days later, still had no power. They didn't do this on the eastern side of the state and that is where the wildfires sparked off.

I bluntly have no desire to donate a drop of water to the AI industry.

...yeah in the last two and a half months the upgrade i was saving my nickels and dimes for more than doubled in price thinks to DRAM and to an extent NVME SSD prices spiking. It will now take years to fnish saving for it and by that time it will likely be at least two generations behind the times,

I'm still working on a 13 year old system built on an X58 motherboard with 24 GB DDR2 memory, a Westmere 6 core Xeon and Maxwell Titan-X.  The MB's BIOS is so ancient it wont recognise the 12 GB EVGA 3060 that I bought a few years ago (which I put back in the box). . 

Maybe Daz needs to look at adding another render engine that supports AMD (of course then we would need some way to convert Iray shaders to that render language) or reconsder going back to Renderman..

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A few days ago, I decided that to do a "crowd" with older gen figures because I couldn't easily hide lowpi figures (I love the lowpi products) in a hazy depth of field. I picked G3 as I had slightly more of it lying around. (I'm new and only buy G9 normally). Today's sale and yesterday's is eating the gift card from the other day.

I have a very specific but very important problem that needs solving. I'm trying to send two clothing items from DAZ Studio to Zbrush through GoZ (which has always worked just fine until recently), and one of them (the padded coat from this set) always tries to return back from Zbrush to Studio as a new object, saying the geometry has changed. I do not change it, only push things around using the Move tool, and I also do it with other dForce clothing items without any issue. I've tried deleting the additional dForce addons and even changed it into a prop; Zbrush always tries sending it back as a brand new object. Does anyone happen to know why this might be happening with this particular clothing item? I need to get this solved for a commission, so any assistance would be appreciated.

paulawp (marahzen) said:

FizzleMyth said:

Today’s 3.99 sale for 8.1 items (coupon code STOCKING-3 ) is wild… I picked up some big bundles:

• Kola 8.1 Mega Bundle
• Michael 8.1 Campus Life Bundle
• Necromancer 8.1 Mega Bundle
• Arcadia 8.1 Pro Bundle
• Victoria 8.1 University Bundle

Be sure to check the items in your cart before adding the coupon. I had one item that, without the coupon, was cheaper than the 3.99 price, but jumped up to 3.99 when I added the coupon (I bought it separately to get the lower price).

You talked me into the Kola bundle. I'm not doing anything with G8/8.1 anymore, but for $3.99, there's plenty in that bundle that I might be able to use somewhere.

the hair, clothing autofit G9 for the most part. The poses can be converted over to G9 as well, maybe only with 3rd party software, but I have a feeling that probably can be manipulated from within DS without additional products 

and so this is Christmas and what have you done...

another year older

and a render just begun 

nomad-ads_8ecd56922e said:

Ah, why am I getting that, and not getting the actual 4.5+ beta?  I don't remember signing up for the regular beta, anyway. (Goes to the DS Public Beta product page.)  Hmmm... maybe I turned on the related for it in DIM when I enabled for DS 2025. (Checks the setting in DIM...)  Okay, looked in Download Filters and oddly I had DS 4.5+ checked, but didn't have DS 4 checked.  Enabled DS 4 and some more products showed up in there, mostly XYZ Legacy and the like.

What DO I get if I "buy" the DS 4.5+ beta?  Beyond seeing what new features might be in it, I mean.

if you need to open a second instance of D|S it comes in very handy 

Ah, why am I getting that, and not getting the actual 4.5+ beta?  I don't remember signing up for the regular beta, anyway. (Goes to the DS Public Beta product page.)  Hmmm... maybe I turned on the related for it in DIM when I enabled for DS 2025. (Checks the setting in DIM...)  Okay, looked in Download Filters and oddly I had DS 4.5+ checked, but didn't have DS 4 checked.  Enabled DS 4 and some more products showed up in there, mostly XYZ Legacy and the like.

What DO I get if I "buy" the DS 4.5+ beta?  Beyond seeing what new features might be in it, I mean.

I wish you well, and thanks for the high-quality products you have offered over the years!

Found the discussion link for the Daz Deals browser extension mentioned above. Thanks for pointing it out.

The “filter Product Listing to show only Required Items or Add-on Items for products you own” feature is available in the paid Pro version of the plug-in.

SofaCitizen said:

Both of those are filters provided by the Daz Deals browser extension. Not sure if there is another way.

only what you own or addons AFAIK not the vast numbers of products needed for the orphaned texture sets they gave out as freebies over the years 

AsuCafe said:

I can't believe I haven't bought any of them yet. These ships and vehicles are so exquisite. Although I don't work with military themes, I really want a few of them. I hope I can get one in time.

I don't know why it's closing, but anyway, good luck.

same, but unfortunately none of it is genres I use, don't do military or such stylized toon

(only semi toon, though I do use 3DU Gramps occasionally but always just as is in his overalls without a shirt, never any other clothing as part of the narrative of a channel I have,)

the products themselves look awesome  and I wish you well

Is there a way to have the store show me items I don’t have that are required for items I do have?

(I’ve picked up some bundles that include items that require items not in the bundle.)

Similarly, is there a way to have the store show me items that are add-ons for items I have?

My biggest library gap - and the number one reason I look outside of the Daz shop for items to adapt or kitbash - is historical buildings, props and clothing. Anything that allows me to tell a grounded story as opposed to be stuck rendering fragmented fantasy scenes.

Urban city environments and residential housing of the Romans, Ancient Greeks, Meso-Americans, Endo Japanese, Imperial-era Chinese, Ancient Egyptian and early Semitic and Sumerian populations. I think we have enough monumental architecture for most of those civilisations, but it's difficult to tell a story in temples and bath houses or on streets of gold. Thankfully, some of Enterables' Daz+ releases this year have been filling this gap. They may not be Stonemason detailed nor entirely authentic, but they're very useable. I wonder if Daz are using our store searches to inform what they put out as Daz+ - if so, you can probably blame me in part.

But it's the clothing gap that is the most glaring to me. The clothing we do get tends to be sexualised over everyday for the ladies - either in fantastical ways or, when subtler, with a far too modern aesthetic. For gents, it can be even worse if they're not a warrior or king. Can get by on historical Asian, middle-Eastern and Medieval European clothing, but authentic Ancient European is very sparse and pre-colonial American - particularly South American - is practically non-existent. I buy clothing from CLO-SET to fill the gaps, although there's a noted lack of any historical South American clothing there too. I've been trying to dress an Inca character all year and have been through my entire clothing library several times. Nothing is suitable, and I have a lot of clothing. The cuts are simply nowhere near close. I've the shaders needed several times over but not the models!

What's most frustrating is that I'm not looking for absolutely perfect - clothing, for me, only need be good enough to evoke an era without looking like Comic Con does Tinder cosplay. And be varied enough that not everyone has the same clothes on.

Lala-Rabbit has put a few nice outfits out recently. I'm still missing https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-lala-ethnic-costume-for-genesis-9, which is probably my must-buy before the end of the year.

Richard Haseltine said:

Morph deltas are not loaded until the morph has a non-zero value. It is the name and group (so it can be displayed in the Parameters pane) and the links (so that it responds correctly to chnages in other properties, potentially triggering a vertex load) that are kept in memory at all times.

Yes, resolving the links will have an impact on figure responsiveness - and setting them up does impact load times, though DS was updated several versions ago to improve that (especially with regards to erroneous set-ups) so it is desirable to reduce the load where possible. You can make use of content directory sets to help - have a directory set with all shapes installed and use that for character building, then switch to a set with the minimum selection installed, load your figure and allow DS to install any missing (Daz store) products.

Richard, as always, thanks for your responsiveness! That's unfortunate to hear about the links but I appreciate the info. Unfortunately, it sounds like this is not something DAZ3D wants to solve so I'll have to live with Turbo Loader/Content Manager for now. My current Genesis 9 stats from Turbo Loader should give you an indication of why (and if product managers from DAZ ever read these posts) an idea of why the current solutions are less than ideal and I would love some functionality added to DAZ in the future to assist folks:

Products: 1265, Morphs: 46,631, Checked Morphs (enabled in Turbo Loader, I.E. not renamed extensions): 43,203, Unchecked Morphs (disabled by Turbo Loader): 3,428  

This doesn't take into account all the products I have not installed for Genesis 9 because I would possibly never use them or the PA has not properly setup stage 2 and stage 3 morphs and I removed the product to prevent it from always starting active when I load Genesis 9. Having to manually manage (by Content Manager or Turbo Loader) this many assets for each scene is a terribly inefficient and frustrating experience. Hopefully my feedback might make it to the right people who are willing to offer some other 1st party solution here.

Thanks for your time Richard and here is hoping this is something eventually addressed!

There isn't much to it.

Start with a 6-year-old HP Envy PC that my Dad bought for me. It has a humble mVidia 1650+ with 6GB RAM,

Place a monitor on a rolling desk at my powered recliner.

Across the room is a 55" 4K TV that is connected to a mini PC and a QNAP box containing 4 hard drives and 40TB (I'm too lazy to try calculating it right now.)

The apartment is a mess, full of stuff.

I live in a humble apartment in a Senior citizen building.

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