Male or female, or both? Do you have just the bases or do you have any additoonal morph sets?

This page has a description of NVLINK:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080-ti/

No mention of memory pooling. Surely they would tout that if it was a feature. So yeah I think it'll just act as a better SLI and not double memory, hence the lower cost too. 

 

That page and almost every other preorder page also fails to mention anything about Tensor cores. But we now know that Tensor is indeed a part of the die, and they have a big role what is taking place. So just because this page lacks that info is not an indication of a lack of memory pooling. If you watch the conference, the CEO mentions NVLink and memory pooling right before jumping to name prices of the RTX cards. That's some weird timing to talk about NVLink if it isn't going to actually do what he says for the gaming cards. He pretty much said the same words I did, that the NVLink'ed GPUs are like single big GPU. We don't have confirmation, but we also don't have a denial. We need to get this question answered outright.

...the only time he mentions pooling memory resources between two cards is when he brings up the Quadro 8000 (10,000$ ea).  As I mentioned there is different pricing between the Consumer RTX NVLinks and the Quadro/Tesla NVLinks (see attachments below).  For the GeForce series it mentions multiple card bridges which pretty much seem to be configured like as the old SLI ones.  They may allow faster data transfer between cards than SLI but nothing about pooling memory in the description.

It makes perfect sense why the GeForce series would not have memory pooling as one, do gamers rally need that much VRAM (?), and two, it would seriously undercut the Quadro series (particularly the 2,300$ RTX5000 using two RTX2070s which would provide more CUDA and Tensor cores than the single Quadro while offering the same combined amount of VRAM [16 GB])

I was kind of amused by his comments comparing 2070 performance to the Titan-X/Xp as the latter has 4 more GB of VRAM and again, I see VRAM as the single most important feature for GPU based rendering (the more the better).  If your scene winds up being say 9 GB, suddenly that old 12 GB Titan-X or Xp is looking pretty good even if it is "slower" than the 2070.

I quite like the Dwayne shape but in the promos he looks very angular to me. Lots of fairly flat areas around the cheeks, chin and chest with sharp creases at the edge. Not so much a toon, more like an old fashioned video game from when computers could only render a few polygons per object. I'd like way to round off the edges a bit. I know you can do this by dialling down the morph and adding other morphs but that dilutes his basic shape.

But some of the other stuff in the pro bundle looks very good both for Dwayne and more realistic figures. I haven't been through the matrix of addons and extras to see if I want any of it and how much it would cost it I did. Not a definite buy for me right now but I am thinking about it.

"Strange - a lot of people waits for male characters, but when such item appears - just complaints."

+1. Why would a vendor want to put the immense amount of time required to create a male product when those asking for more want something so specific that there's very little chance of pleasing them? Mixing toon head morphs at very low values can really bring personality to a figure - I've done this for years with my own character, and now I think she looks bizarre without a toon morph -  so I don't think Dwayne is completely useless to male figure renderers. I also still don't get people who are yelling for David or another Freak when you can make your own with any of the the dozens of morph sets also available here. These oddball characters are important releases specifically because you can't duplicate these results with existing morph sets. 

I've got a bigger problem with this discussion though - why the need to tell everyone that you're NOT buying this? Whoop-de-frickin-doo, I'm not buying it either because I only render fantasy females, but I don't feel the need to criticize something that I have no intention of purchasing. DAZ could release a David 8/Lee 8/Jason Momoa 8 megapack and the release thread would be full of complaints that there's no Jason Momoa 7.

I think the Daz maxim: "Male characters/products don't sell," should be re-thought. Daz Core males will probably never outsell even the lowest-selling Core female, but that is not a negative in and of itself. If male Core characters recoup the investment and have a modest profit, then they should be considered a success, sort of affirmative action for 3D males. Don't compare the males to females: Consider them as a separate category.

Poorly constructed clothing will sell for females because the physical form of women/girls makes the outfit work. Men's clothes cannot usually be skin tight, and they must be proportioned to create an attractive silhouette rather than relying on the human figure to supply an attractive silhouette. Men's clothes can't be cylinders and tubes. They need modeled creases and folds to be convincing. Also, Daz needs to sponsor an in-house seminare on making unattached collars/dickeys as static props with morphs rather than as part of conforming shirt meshes. Mushy collar meshes are ubiquitous in Daz Originals male clothes.

I only like the Pompadour Hair (which thankfully has a lower top morph, the absence of which would have been a dealbreaker) and chungdan's boots (chungdan is the royalty of 3D cobblers, but I wish they would separate the surfaces). Shout out thanks to @BadKittehCo for her new Engineer Boots that I just picked up yesterday. The main thumbnail promo should be switched with the product page main promo because I almost didn't investigate them based on that thumbnail.

I did get the Pro bundle as there is that ONE guy in there (Brandon) that makes Dwayne look the way many think he should have looked from the get go. Dwayne out of the box with that strange square cut sort of body morph, which looks quite strange on the pecs btw, IS a bit off putting.  There were other aspects of the bundle that appealed to me (Pomp hair and the facial hair, Brandon and a couple of the outfits) that made me go "OK, I'm in". 

I MAY take a stab at a morph for Dwayne that will soften up his musculature and reduce those ridiculous forearms of his!  I was also in the Guy camp and am dissapointed that he probably won't show.  Another posted said is right, this Genesis 8 generation is quite the odd bunch, Esp for the male releases.  

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know to what extent the Masculinizer Morph works? I know in some clothing products that have morphs, the pictures won't always show examples of ALL of the morphs. Especially the more "racey" ones. So i was curious if the effects shown in the product page were all of the achiveable effects or if they "extend further" than what is shown.

A picture would help. I don't get anything like that. It sounds like some other morph is being activated.

With those arms, I'm thinking about doing a Popeye morph!

I would love to know how you solved the four-arms thing.

I thought that was near impossible. And don't you need a whole new menu for the parameters to list everything for the new arms?

Or, is one pair the real figure's arms and the extra parts a sub-menu ....morph?

I would have sworn there was something lost or omitted since genesis that kept anyone from making mult-limbed figures......

Well! I seriously doubt that I'll ever use that morph at 100%, but I rather like the option to blend him into fgures already in my library. 

(Definitely like the hair, too, and the Brandon addon. The clothing has bits that might be useful.)

Kind of the Freak crossed with Morpheus, with a bit of Ivan in the face.

I'm a little hesitant about the pose pack addons, the morph is so extreme that I don't know how some of them are likely to translate to a different base. Some of them do show how they work with G8M, but not all of them.

Have to wait until tomorrow morning before the cart shows the discounts.

Ok, looks like it won't be a morph issue, which I was hoping was the case, either un-HD it or something.  I can probably smooth out the border between lip and skin in photo shopping but my skills are not that great. I've decided to pick up Ai HD instead. Her lips graduate into her skin "normally". Thank you, nicstt and Dave230 for your suggestions. 

 

Mammoth - is a morph of the DAZ African Elepant, can't find where I got it, if I do will post it.

You probably mean the one that  was a Mech4D freebie at DAZ at one time and is still available on her website at a very low cost

Just found it - yes that's the one !!!!

 

Mammoth - is a morph of the DAZ African Elepant, can't find where I got it, if I do will post it.

You probably mean the one that  was a Mech4D freebie at DAZ at one time and is still available on her website at a very low cost

Ai is really nice, especially since I am a sucker for Mousso's Asian women. This image is 100% Ai head morph and textures, although edited a bit with Altern8. The body morph is all mine though.

Oh my!  Nice

Well, I guess I figured part of it out. There was a dropdown near the top where you select the figure. I chose Genesis 2 Male and set the output as a Genesis 3 male. Then I loaded a pose and picked the head and body for the G2M Dusty. I used control click to apply them both at the same time. (Maybe you can't do that?I set the other settings according to the video. I wanted one morph to load the body and the head. Or should I have a separate morph for the head and the body since that how the G2M character was set up. In any case, it ran and now I have one shaping morph for Dusty when I have genesis 3 male loaded. When I dial it, I can see it changing the face, but I'm not really noticing the body change.

In the video, he set set set the V4 morph for Genesis to 1 and then set the morhp for Scarlett to 1 (that was the figure he transfered.

Nice work bunyip02! what dinos/environments did you use? Some of them look like video game stills instead of DS.

Thanks, all are Carrara renders, your renders are very nice as well.

Apatosaurus - https://www.daz3d.com/apatosaurusdr

Dicraeosaurus - https://www.daz3d.com/dicraeosaurus

Brachiosaurus - https://www.daz3d.com/brachiosaurus

Stegosaurus - https://www.daz3d.com/stegosaurusdr

TyrannosaurusDR - https://www.daz3d.com/tyrannosaurusdr

KentrosaurusDR - https://www.daz3d.com/kentrosaurus

CeratosaurusDR - https://www.daz3d.com/ceratosaurus

Mammoth - is a morph of the DAZ African Elepant, can't find where I got it, if I do will post it.

Plesiosaur - Look in Real Prehistoric Creatures, link at the bottom (also more critters on the page)  http://www.morphography.uk.vu/dlscott.html

Pteranodon - https://www.daz3d.com/pteranodon

Chicken - http://www.lynescreations.com/lynesfree8.htm

Caveman with Chickensaurus - https://www.daz3d.com/homo-erectus-m4

Caveman character - Genesis with a heap of morphs dialed in

Scenery

Some of the scenery was created in Carrara, others that were used:-

https://www.daz3d.com/maple-meadows

https://www.daz3d.com/secret-lake

Badlands by Dartanbeck - no longer available at DAZ

Woodlands by Dartanbeck - no longer available at DAZ

https://www.daz3d.com/ultrumarine-ocean

Not 100% certain but I think I used this one for the Pteranodon enironment - https://www.daz3d.com/green-hills-skydome-and-hdri

https://www.daz3d.com/willow-creek

https://www.daz3d.com/forest-primeevil-2-megapack

https://www.daz3d.com/mesozoic-badlands

Here's a much better video of the experience of the Washington Metro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-apHkNUhX4 

Most of the underground stations are essentially identical and simply expanded tubes.  Except for the transfer stations which are two 90 degree intersecting tubes with the trains on one of two different levels. 

The above ground stations are bacically identical simple platforms with a small covered area and some covered bus-stop like areas at the extremes of the platform.  Although a few of them have fancy glass enclosed walkways that permit you to walk from the parking lots on either side of the highway to the Metro station that runs up the middle of the highway. 

The big underground transfer stations in the middle of the city are very busy and some of them have direct entrances to major department stores or other shopping malls.  There's an underground station at the big railroad station "Union Station".  (It was so cool that I could get on the Metro, change to the train and be in Manhattan in about three hours).  There's a busy underground station at The Pentagon, and there's a nice above ground station at the in-city "Reagan--National Airport" just across the Potomac river into Virginia.  Apparently despite the silver line not going all the way out to the big airport "Dulles", 27 miles west of Washington, it does go to Reston, Virginia and from there there's a dedicated fleet of buses to take you the last 7 miles to Dulles airport.  At some of the stations in the suburbs there are some large parking buildings that hold a lot of cars but never enough, so at certain times of day you have to cruise around in the lot, like a vulture waiting for a space to open up.

If we'd had the Metro in Reston when I lived there I could have walked to the station in 15 minutes by taking a shortcut across the golf course. 

Ai is really nice, especially since I am a sucker for Mousso's Asian women. This image is 100% Ai head morph and textures, although edited a bit with Altern8. The body morph is all mine though.

Really great render and just barely TOS safe pun intended

You need to save your new shape as a morph asset with "autofollow" on in the morphs parameters if you want conforming items to adjust to it automatically.

Hmm…I went into Edit Mode on the Properties tab, favorited the morph, selected Enable Auto-Follow from the right-click menu, then saved it as a morph and they eyelashes still don't follow. I also did and ERC freeze after that to no avail. Is there another place I should be enabling Auto-Follow? I didn't see if as part of the morph save options.