ArtAngel said:

Rod Wise Driggo said:

OK, probably all the things I would like to have are part of the DAZ Deals Pro plugin. But I am just reluctant to pay a monthly amount for something I think DAZ should provide for free to get (more of) my money like...

# include a checkbox "only show wishlisted"
Should not be so hard and would make scrolling to shop listing much easier
# allow to sort DAZ+FAD by discount %
With the new $4.99/$3.99 pricing and no token stacking that category became rather unattractive to me recently. But there are things with a rather high price tag like tutorials in there which profit from the fixed DAZ+FAD amount. But it's hard having to manually scroll through those all the time.

And if they did, I have no doubt they would get more of your money. But I like to save money so I am more than willing to pay the DAZ Dealz fee. It, like the platinum or DAZ+ subscription, pays for itself repeatedly.

I think asking DAZ to implement this would be like asking my husband to review my books, a biased result because he loves everything I do. The thing is you hit the nail on the head except for the fact DAZ DEALZ pays for itself repeatedly. When the sales look awesome but you see (via DAZ Dealz) that you are paying 12.99 for something that went on sale at  2.99 you recognize the deal is not so great and wait, and it pays for itself.. Would DAZ show you that? Be that transparent? My guess is no. If Daz ever wiped out DAZ Dealz I would bail. The search engine is bad enough who needs another shopping clusterf@**k experience. Seriously!

Unless I'm missing something, this function of DAZ deals is free? So Daz is missing out regardless, though I understand your point I don't think anyone should expect Daz to have a thing that tells people 'this has been cheaper previously'

What I think Daz does need to add is a way to filter a selection to just show wishlisted items, like the other day it was "38,000"  items on sale, but I'm not scrolling through all of that, whereas a quick filter would have probably highlighted some things I did want to buy.

Rod Wise Driggo said:

OK, probably all the things I would like to have are part of the DAZ Deals Pro plugin. But I am just reluctant to pay a monthly amount for something I think DAZ should provide for free to get (more of) my money like...

# include a checkbox "only show wishlisted"
Should not be so hard and would make scrolling to shop listing much easier
# allow to sort DAZ+FAD by discount %
With the new $4.99/$3.99 pricing and no token stacking that category became rather unattractive to me recently. But there are things with a rather high price tag like tutorials in there which profit from the fixed DAZ+FAD amount. But it's hard having to manually scroll through those all the time.

And if they did, I have no doubt they would get more of your money. But I like to save money so I am more than willing to pay the DAZ Dealz fee. It, like the platinum or DAZ+ subscription, pays for itself repeatedly.

I think asking DAZ to implement this would be like asking my husband to review my books, a biased result because he loves everything I do. The thing is you hit the nail on the head except for the fact DAZ DEALZ pays for itself repeatedly. When the sales look awesome but you see (via DAZ Dealz) that you are paying 12.99 for something that went on sale at  2.99 you recognize the deal is not so great and wait, and it pays for itself.. Would DAZ show you that? Be that transparent? My guess is no. If Daz ever wiped out DAZ Dealz I would bail. The search engine is bad enough who needs another shopping clusterf@**k experience. Seriously!

You're right, @Cybersox, that explains it. Fortunately, like you, I've already bought all the existing stuff I need, but I sometimes use the store search to audition assets, and I miss the pre-scamdemic search engine.

Richard Haseltine said:

NylonGirl said:

I don't know if they call them functions or methods or whatever now. But I mean if you have a function called exactMatch() that only returns an exact match, and another function called partialMatch() that only returns partial matches then how hard is it to make a third function that calls the other two?

allMatches()
{
     exactMatch();
     partialMatches();
}

Seriously, how hard is it?

What makes you think there are such functions?

I think that because one or more people have said, a search query with an exact match returns one result while a search query with no exact match returns multiple results. It seems to me like there are two separate mechanisms, one of which is invoked if the first one returns no result. 

McGyver said:

General complaint: Step By Step How To Instructions that go like this: (example: custom water slide decals)

1- So wanna do the thing... Great!

(ad for miracle elixir make from pigeon feathers)

2- It's fun and you can make lots of designs!

(ad for gutter repair)

3- Use a graphics program like photoshop or illustrator to make your graphics 

(ad for a reptile dysfunction pills)

4- print the graphics on decal paper.

(Ad for "free" money the government "owes" you)

5- cut out the decals.

(ad for software that will clean your computer- DOWNLOAD NOW!)

6- apply the decals to your project.

(ad for "free" solar panels you doctor doesn't want you to know about)

7- wasn't that fun!  
 

Literally that... like no details, no sources for materials or techniques or anything useful... just useless nonsense bookended by clickbait.

It's like "How to climb a mountain safely"...

1- Go outside

2- Find a mountain.

3- Climb up it.

4- Don't fall off.

5- Climb back down.

6- Go home and have hot chocolate.

7- Wasn't that fun! 
 

There should be a minimum fine of 300 days community service for writing crap like that... and that includes idiots on Reddit who actually post links to articles like that when someone asks a question... they are time wasting land mines that you come across when reading what seems to be a serious thread. Most likely posted by some smug buttnugget who didn't even read the article, just googled it because they think they are the only ones who can use a search engine... meanwhile you can see the OP is asking for a legitimate reference, like a source someone may have previously found useful, not "I'm too lazy to read through 4000 clickbait articles and watch 40 hours of useless YouTube videos"... legit asking "can you suggest a good information source?".

The internet is getting worse and worse and thanks to employing "AI" to make suggestions it's getting dumber and dumber.

It's only a matter of time before one of the AI assistants reads your post and starts offering a modified version of it as instructions for people looking to climb decals out of order to slide down a mountain and make safety. 

4.22.1.161 (June 26, 2024)

• Content Library pane
  • Added support for an "Advanced" Search Type
    • Allows a subset of the Advanced Filtering syntax previously only supported by the Smart Content pane (and Presets pages of several property-centric panes) to be used in the Search Field
      • Keyword - key::
      • Name - name::
      • Group - group::
      • Date Created - date::crd::
      • Date Updated - date::upd::
    • A Custom Action can be created for search results from the context menu for the Search DB+ container
  • Added a clear ("X") button to the Search Bar when there is a value in the Search Field
  • Clicking a tag on the Content Library > Information Panel > Tags Page now populates the Search Field, if the Search Type is set to Database or Advanced, and starts a search
  • Search containers now provide a tooltip (includes the search string)
  • Added a "Clear Search Results" action to the context menu for Search containers
  • Added common convienece actions to the context menu for tree-based container views (i.e., View as Tree, View Side By Side)
    • Added an "Expand" submenu for containers that have children
      • Added "Expand Selected", and "Expand from Selected" actions
    • Added a "Collapse" submenu for containers that have children
      • Added "Collapse All", "Collapse Selected", and "Collapse from Selected" actions
• New Scene dialog
  • Added an "Add License Tag(s)" action to the context menu for assets that can be identified as being from the Daz 3D store on the Templates and Favorites pages
    • Requires login
      • Does not require the "Update Metadata" option to be checked
    • Creates user-owned tags (keywords), per license type, based on data retrieved from the Daz 3D store
      • dzLicense_standard
      • dzLicense_3dprinting
      • dzLicense_interactive
      • dzLicense_editorial
    • When triggered for an asset, all user-facing assets in the product that the asset belongs to are each automatically tagged
    • Each license keyword (above) can entered into the Filter Field, prefixed by key:: to filter the respective view
    • Filters can be saved and/or managed from the Filter Menu Button (magnifying glass icon, left of Filter Field)
      • Any filter saved here is available when viewing: (and vice versa)
        • Smart Content > Files page
        • The Presets page of the following panes:
          • Posing
          • Shaping
          • Surfaces
          • Lights
          • Cameras
          • Render Settings
          • Simulation Settings
• Documentation
  • Added a "Show Documentation..." action to the Option Menu for various panes
    • Install
    • Smart Content
    • Content Library
    • Draw Settings
    • Render Settings
    • Shader Mixer
    • Measure Metrics
    • ...
• Message Boxes
  • ...
• ...
• Scripting API
  • Made additions in various areas; see the Change Log for more detail
• Fixed bugs and/or made improvements in various areas; see the Change Log for details

Artini said:

Your characters looks interesting, @Dark45

I also prefer Genesis 9 versions, if possible, and in Daz 3D shop.

If you can do both realistic and toonish, it would be even better for my taste.

Thank you for your feedback, it is greatly appriciated. Below this reply I am going to compile a list of what I am thinking I will do. As far as realistic. I can do that the problem with getting too realistic is that uncanny valley but I have done that in the past with people seeming to like what I came up with. One of the issues here is that I respect Oso3D alot and they already take a more realistic approach to their work. The idea thus far has been to add a different variety to the shop rather than encroaching onto what has already been made. With this said, if more and more suggest such an item, you can be sure that I would have interest in creating it for you guys.

 

 

MimicMolly said:

I like this cartoon style of anthro. But I also would prefer it in G9. I've gotten disappointed with G8 (actually, G2 and G3 too) that the anthros or cool-looking aliens are stuck to one gender base. But then, I like to mix and make varied characters.

Thank you, Molly. I will be adding some informotion under this reply with my thoughts of what I will be sending to Daz. The plan is do all G9 at first and maybe G8 later now that I have received feedback from several sources wanting the same as yourself. Kit bashing a bunch of morphs together and seeing what we can come up with is 90% of the fun ;).

FirstBastion said:

Best way to find out if Daz is interested is make some great promos and submit.  It is a niche genre  but the quality would be appealing to customers.

That's the plan. I have a ticket in with Daz now about my use of SBH. With me not being a PA and having many SBH assets per character, I'm curious how they want me to package that prior to becoming a PA (for example, my submission for approval). Turning it into geometry and then making the hair or fur an attachment just isn't a very optimized way to do it as it's just too heavy at that point. Our workstations have 128 - 256 gigabytes of ram but I know most people use ~32Gb's so I try and keep it to where 2 - 3 of my characters + a simple environment can fit on that allowed amount of ram and render on a gpu with ~ 12 - 16 Gb's of ram. I guess in other words, I  agree with you, and plan on submitting some really nice promo images to Daz once I have all the G9 assets built. Under this reply I am adding my thoughts of what I will be doing thus far if you are interested. Thank you for your feedback @FirstBastion , it's good to hear feedback from you.
Okay, so, I have recieved some really good feedback here on what I should and maybe should not or wait to do on here. I thank you all for your time thus far and it is extremely helpful. The more feedback, the better I can make assets for us all to enjoy. I have also made posts on some private discords that work more into this niche genre and both daz and non daz users are finding interest (so new comers to daz maybe!). It is seeming more and more apparent to me that maybe my work really would benefit other creators out there which is the idea behind this in the first place, to offer something to everyone that will benefit them with the art and creativity that they wish to explore.

Even though most of my work has been built around G8, everyone has since switched over to G9 (very understandably). Being able to have both sexes / genders (and more) on a single model is just too appealing not to explore, not to mention the quality of G9 assets. With this said, I will be converting and reconfiguring my assets onto the G9 architecture. It'll take some time but I believe that will be most beneficial for everyone including myself.
Below I am going to list some of the things I plan to do for those interested in this. If there is anything else you can think of, I love hearing the feedback whether postive, negative, or additive to what I am thinking. Thank you guys for that.

Things I will be adding to packages or releasing possibly in the near future if Daz approves any of the ideas / assets I have in mind.
- Anthro Characters - Canine, Feline, Equine, Vulpine, and Cervidea are guarenteed at this point for submission. Dragon Anthro characters may come next.

- With each package, full fur / hair assets will be included, as hair from the shop for human characters will not be compatible with my character morphs since the headshape is very different (the hair will go onto the ears if it were made for a human character). For each package, there will be a forum for people to request more hair styles if they would like. The fur assets included will be eyelashes, body fur, extra fur layers like cheek tufts, paw tufts, chest tufts, etc., fur for the tail, eyebrows, head hair (much like a humans), and whiskers. If / when I am approved for PA status, the longer hair / fur will be dforce compatible, until then, I will be making all of these assets Virtual World Dynamics ready for simulation. Please note that other assets like Ulitmate Brows, MMX Beautiful Eyes, and Lashes Utilities are used during the construction of these morphs so they will be compatible however you will have specifically created assets included in the packages as well hopefully giving you a bit more freedom to create your desired look.

- Since these characters are designed / sculpted very differently from your typical characters, I will be adding tutorials about their uses and how to make your own assets for them. These tutorials thus far are not planned to be sold as an extra item, instead, there will be a YouTube page for them so everyone can take a look, as well as I plan to transcribe all of the tutorials so those who do not wish to watch through a long video can skim through reading to find what they need. Those transcribed versions will be availble on the Daz Forum. Some will even be included with the packages. An example of a tutorial is how I make my hair assets to work with Virtual World Dynamics or Dforce and be optimized to run smoother than most other hair assets. Many have found interest in how I use push modifiers to blend the fur nicely with clothing so I will be making a tutorial for that as well as blending fur layers together (just in case you want to make somemore fur in areas I did not).

- These characters will work quite different from what you typically see. They have to have very specific changes to work correctly. For those who are familiar with anthro anatomy, feet and ears especially bend much different than a base G9. So the weighpainting and joint corrections will be applied already to make the paws bend naturally when you use the "Toes" bend slider or the ears rotate sliders. This will give users a range of freedom I'm not sure many other products approach to give much more emotion to your anthro based characters as well as realistic movement.

- Last but not least is that I am an animator (yes with daz). I know the typical consensous is to not use daz for complex animation but maybe I just like the challenge lol, or I'm just masochist. Face it, we are all here because Daz is the closest thing ( yes even over blender or iclone ) to giving us a full suite of design choices as artists that can be easily assessable but can be difficult to master. The last hurdle Daz has, if they are ever interested imo, is to add rigid, soft, and liquid physics directly into the software, but that may never happen and that is the Daz Studio creators choice. Whether we ever get that or not. My pursuit as an animator is to show that Daz is capable of such things. All of the assets I plan to release have animation in mind and it is something I have studied on how to do in Daz for several years now so rest assured that if you want to make animations with the assets I am planning to release, it will be possible but maybe difficult in some cases. Understand that, that is my objective as well and currently I have several methods of achieving most things directly inside of Daz thanks to several wonderful creators out there. Thank you all for you work.
And thank you all for your time. I look forward to hearing more from you all on this.

Torquinox said:

Before the last big store "upgrade," the site had a better search system. It would recognize terms, give related terms, and make it far easier to find the desired items. That's all gone now, of course. In the current store, each item in a page of listings has a bar that's supposed to be loaded with these little icons  that are supposed to give at-a-glance insight into what an item is. Recently, it seems no one is filling in the blanks beyond noting generation (eg g8, g81, g9) on some items. A lot of the icon bars are now completely blank. Guess that was too much trouble or something.

The categorisation is now way better than it was. For example, previously a lot of clothes were tagged people and if a promo picture had an animal in it, the product was tagged animal even when it wasn't.

Before the last big store "upgrade," the site had a better search system. It would recognize terms, give related terms, and make it far easier to find the desired items. That's all gone now, of course. In the current store, each item in a page of listings has a bar that's supposed to be loaded with these little icons  that are supposed to give at-a-glance insight into what an item is. Recently, it seems no one is filling in the blanks beyond noting generation (eg g8, g81, g9) on some items. A lot of the icon bars are now completely blank. Guess that was too much trouble or something.

For all the fancy graphics and daily sales, it's a very primitive store catalog where a large portion of the product has only the most rudimentary data.... note that most of the recent products brought over from Renderosity, for example, or how most of the older 3Delight textured products aren't indicated as such.    As for why they haven't fixed it after all these years... 1. DAZ doesn't really seem all that interested in investing the time and manpower required to go back and revise and update the older data in the store, period... note that the Users manual only mentions the old 3Delight render engine and presents Genesis 2 as the default figure.  2.  Just a guess, but from a purely retail marketing point of view, the more time one spends shopping in a store, the more likely one is to find something else that one wants to purchase in addition to what you originally came for.  In other words, the same reason that Amazon's search engine is so bad in the media sections.      

General complaint: Step By Step How To Instructions that go like this: (example: custom water slide decals)

1- So wanna do the thing... Great!

(ad for miracle elixir make from pigeon feathers)

2- It's fun and you can make lots of designs!

(ad for gutter repair)

3- Use a graphics program like photoshop or illustrator to make your graphics 

(ad for a reptile dysfunction pills)

4- print the graphics on decal paper.

(Ad for "free" money the government "owes" you)

5- cut out the decals.

(ad for software that will clean your computer- DOWNLOAD NOW!)

6- apply the decals to your project.

(ad for "free" solar panels you doctor doesn't want you to know about)

7- wasn't that fun!  
 

Literally that... like no details, no sources for materials or techniques or anything useful... just useless nonsense bookended by clickbait.

It's like "How to climb a mountain safely"...

1- Go outside

2- Find a mountain.

3- Climb up it.

4- Don't fall off.

5- Climb back down.

6- Go home and have hot chocolate.

7- Wasn't that fun! 
 

There should be a minimum fine of 300 days community service for writing crap like that... and that includes idiots on Reddit who actually post links to articles like that when someone asks a question... they are time wasting land mines that you come across when reading what seems to be a serious thread. Most likely posted by some smug buttnugget who didn't even read the article, just googled it because they think they are the only ones who can use a search engine... meanwhile you can see the OP is asking for a legitimate reference, like a source someone may have previously found useful, not "I'm too lazy to read through 4000 clickbait articles and watch 40 hours of useless YouTube videos"... legit asking "can you suggest a good information source?".

The internet is getting worse and worse and thanks to employing "AI" to make suggestions it's getting dumber and dumber.

Fettbemme - three very nice renders. I started 3D with Terragen, later I purchased Bryce 5.0 from Corel and I still discover options in Bryce - some seem to be bugs that can be exploited for the advantage, others are annoying. Do not forget that Bryce has two (2) separate render engines built into the program and can render using several computers on a home network, even mix Windows and Mac (up to 12.6 if I remember correctly). By the way, my first renders I had uploaded to a Vue forum and the peers were surprised how great Bryce results can be.

richardandtracy said:

I'm a pretty novice programmer, and doing a search with various match co-efficients is within my capability (done it for a spell checker, and it's directly applicable for searches), so I find it impossible to believe that programmers as good as those who come up with DS can't come up with a better one. Getting the budget and time to do so is an entirely different matter.

Regards

Richard

Entirely different people - I'm sure they could overlap a bit if they wanted, but the skillsets are not the same so they would need to work at it.

frank0314 said:

If you made them yes. If they are from someone else and not published somewhere that you can link too, then no. Only the owner has the rights to distribute without getting expressed permission.

It is from the dissolved company Metacreations. You have in fact the rights from Corel. But you guys from Daz never took the opportunity to make a desent Helpfile. What good is a Bryce HTML (!!!) Help if you can't even search what you looking for. The Outdated PDF Help is at least searchable. And until you guys actually make a proper help for all the stuff you selling, a little appreciation please for giving the Bryce-Folks something you can't or unwilling to do!

ps.: it doesn't help if you always lock my discussions! If you got the hump with me say so and I'm outta here!!! Others have noticed that already...

who wants the PDF for self help can PM me

- where is that promised search field? well it is obviously again just thin air!

- how many years have passed already from promise until non-realisation?

cheard said:

@ati or whoever happens to know the answer. I am brand new to Daz Deals; just learned about it yesterday and added a monthly pro sub today to check out all features. One thing that is not clear to me: do my hidden items and comments sync across multiple browsers? To be more specific, I switch frequently between a Mac and PC (using Brave on both). I already did a lot of customizing on the Mac. If synchronizing comments and hidden flags between the two computers is possible, I have not yet discerned how to do that. I suspect this has been asked and answered before, but could not find an answer just by browsing through the forum. Please advise, and thanks!

While hidden items are synced to our system (to ensure you don't get notifications about items you are not interested in), they are not synced between different browsers. 

I'm a pretty novice programmer, and doing a search with various match co-efficients is within my capability (done it for a spell checker, and it's directly applicable for searches), so I find it impossible to believe that programmers as good as those who come up with DS can't come up with a better one. Getting the budget and time to do so is an entirely different matter.

Regards

Richard

In the town of Colchester in Essex there is a zoo that's somewhat notorious for accidentally giving zoo animals their freedom. In 2012 there was another full scale emergency about an escaped male lion that had been seen in the town. It had happened frequently enough that helicopters, police vans, the lot, were scrambled before even contacting the zoo. Nothing was found, and the zoo (when finally contacted) said all lions were accounted for. It's thought a ginger Maine Coon with a Lion Cut for summer had been spotted. Here's the article from the UK national Newspaper 'The Daily Mail':  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193984/Essex-Lion-picture-revealed-police-search-admit-probably-large-domestic-cat.html  And a Maine Coon's not even as big as a Savannah cat.

Regards,

Richard

I find that often the Daz search engine is like internet searches back in the day... if you confuse it, it gives you random skimpsear.

You can also do the tried and true google search tagging site:www.daz3d.com/shop in the search. There are other ways to search using google as well.

nonesuch00 said:

Exactly why I won't dump my humongous and unweildy wishlist. I'd never find that material again if I had to rely on the store search.

^^^ This. It's not so much a wishlist as a repository for things I might someday in the far future need and don't want to spend three hours trying to locate.