Nope. You have a couple of choices. By default everything is off. Otherwise, a whole bunch of people would probably be super annoyed with me.

If you don't want to mess with morphs, you can choose to just apply the presets: Corneo ON, Iris Shape ON etc. which are under the utilities folder. I consider them convenience presets.

You can also choose to dial in a little or a lot under the morph dials. They will start with Natural Eyes II and will be under the eyes portion of the figure on the shaping tab.

Iray PBR renders fairly quick. If you have tried out the new Victoria 8.1 you know just how quick they render. I think they are lovely, and look wonderful under regular bright lighting.

The Iray settings take a lot longer to render. If you own the old set, you will know just how much longer they take, but boy do they look beautiful under dramatic lighting. 

For best results, use the cornea bulge preset no matter the setting you choose : Iray or PBR

Use the Iris Shaping preset no matter preset you choose as well. Iray or PBR

The Iris Convex is more scene/preference related. This is meant to be used in conjunction with the cornea bulge. Use this if you want a more defined Limbal Ring and are using the IRAY presets. Use this if you are using dramatic lighting and what the irises to light more correctly.

By default, the sclera normal is just kinda bumpy. There is an alternate sclera normal available that kinda adds a veiny appearance instead if thats your thing.

The material thumbnails: I dont think Ive ever rendered so many thumbnails for a product ever. They also show the difference in appearance between iray and pbr so theres a whole lot less guessing on which way you want to go.

Love em!

Romina does, too! Just ported her over to 8.1 about a week ago, but slapped on Victoria 8.1's eyes as a placeholder. Honestly, knowing this product was coming I didn't even bother to try and edit them - I knew this would have what I needed, and it's got all that and more! Thanks so much!

Not sure if people saw it and not sure either it fits the topic as it's not Iray. But the gal behind Victoria 8.1, Hyeseon Oh, posted few (awesome) renders done with Maya :

Her artstation : https://www.artstation.com/hyeseonoh

Mark_e593e0a5 said:

JamieM said:

JamieM said:

Well - I can't get the Free offer to work - no matter what I put in the cart!

 

Is this another non-working offer? Has anyone successfully managed to claim the free items by buying eg Victoria and and "Eye" product?

Yes, it is working. One of the "8.1" labled products, anything that gets the cart over the required limit, and then add the G3 items. It works even more than one time. With today's three "8.1" labled items, you can run that three times. 

Thanks for the info. I cleared my cart and retried.  Took multiple variations before I found a combination that added up. I'm quite used to confusing Daz sales - but this one scrambled my brain. 

JamieM said:

JamieM said:

Well - I can't get the Free offer to work - no matter what I put in the cart!

 

Is this another non-working offer? Has anyone successfully managed to claim the free items by buying eg Victoria and and "Eye" product?

Yes, it is working. One of the "8.1" labled products, anything that gets the cart over the required limit, and then add the G3 items. It works even more than one time. With today's three "8.1" labled items, you can run that three times. 

JamieM said:

Well - I can't get the Free offer to work - no matter what I put in the cart!

Is this another non-working offer? Has anyone successfully managed to claim the free items by buying eg Victoria and and "Eye" product?

And bought. My thanks for the 20% discount for owning the other package for Gen 8, which I love. I also had an extra 15% off for owning either Michael 8.1 or Victoria 8.1 or their bundles. So that was nice of Daz.

I woke this morning, no idea this was coming and saw the promo pages, my breath caught in my throat. When I can finally get back to rendering, I will absolutely make this my first product to work with!

Mary

xyer0 said:

owners of Micheal (sic) 8.1,Victoria 8.1, individuals and bundles, to get an extra 15% off any featured new releases and today's artist stores

Not working for me either.

Reported.

owners of Micheal (sic) 8.1,Victoria 8.1, individuals and bundles, to get an extra 15% off any featured new releases and today's artist stores

Not working for me either.

Rod Wise Driggo said:

Well todays promotion (extra 15% off) is at least not working for Vicky 8.1 (bundle) owners. As soon as I removed Michael 8.1 from card the discount disappeared.

I own both Michael 8.1 bundles and one of the 2 Victoria 8.1 bundles but the orange banner (15% off on  featured artists and new releases) isn't working for me either.

I can't get the free Genesis 3 deal to work at all. I have over $30 in my cart including an Eyes new release and Victoria 8.1 but the Genesis items remain stubbornly unfree!

justanother__boy_ca94588ae2 said:

Serious question;

Please do let me know if you've got any tips/tricks/advice/techniques/whatever that you've picked up from here or came up with yourself or whatever :)

For photorealistic tips on Daz3D, these 52 pages are quite full of tips, tricks, advice, and techniques.

Here are a couple of tips if you want the cliff notes:

1. Use high resolution skin textures that include good details in bump, sss, normal maps. If you need a specific example, try Daz3D Victoria 7 or 8.

2. Use high quality hair on your character. If you need a specific example, try something from vendor OutOfTouch.

3. Use well crafted lighting in your scene. If you need a specific example, try something from vendor PaperTiger.

4. Play with camera and render settings. For specific examples try 50mm camera lens and Spectral Rendering on.

Tricks: If you spend the time to go through steps 1 through 4 above, you will find yourself with "something" as a result. Now take everything you learned and pick a different character, like Mousso's Louisiana HD and go through steps 2 through 4 and you will find "something different".

Advice: At that point you will be caught up to begin at Page 1 of this topic. Hopefully your curiosity will be piqued and you are excited enough to devour these 52 pages to glean the tips and tricks you may not have understood at the beginning of the journey. Everyone here will welcome your questions and discoveries that you can share.

Techniques: I haven't even mentioned poses, environment, storytelling, or asked you what it is you want to do. Show us :)

I think it would be really helpful if Daz created official language PAs can use to indicate how their 8.1 characters are organized. It doesn't have to be witty or complex, just standardized--similar to how a light set can exist in multiple forms and PAs usually indicate in their titles or description copy that they're offering mesh lights or HDRIs, etc.

The main issue I see without that is that functionally, an 8.1 character can easily be no different from an 8 apart from being built on the base with different facial expressions. Or they can be like Victoria and Michael 8.1 and use the new shader and new UVs. Perception-wise, since the new UV is a part of the character no matter what and the shader was very much promoted as an 8.1 feature, officially separating out the expressions, use of the UVs, and the shader setup into distinct features would probably cause less confusion (and less pressure on PAs). 

Zilvergrafix said:

Why we need a new product or character?, G8.1 uses all your previous G8 characters and textures can be created too, I'm having a lot of emails asking for my fake ImmaGram and me answering "no, she is not a daz product, no she is not for sale, no no and no!"

https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/user/4954432911441920#gallery=popular&page=1&image=1121872

and is only Victoria 8.1 with low SSS value, a heavy Headlamp, and Perspective OFF.

if no new characters are comming that evidences something...Genesis 9 is on the way.

 

All no new 8,1 characters mean, is that there are so far no new 8.1 characters.

It isn't evidence. It is data, and you need a lot more data to form opinions - opinions that are going to be, well: off.

Why we need a new product or character?, G8.1 uses all your previous G8 characters and textures can be created too, I'm having a lot of emails asking for my fake ImmaGram and me answering "no, she is not a daz product, no she is not for sale, no no and no!"

https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/user/4954432911441920#gallery=popular&page=1&image=1121872

and is only Victoria 8.1 with low SSS value, a heavy Headlamp, and Perspective OFF.

if no new characters are comming that evidences something...Genesis 9 is on the way.

daveso said:

Big hoopla over 8.1 new features, but I see no products utilizing those features.
I suppose lots of character products have been in the pipeline for awhile that don't use them, but you would think they would be popping up in abundance. 
Or does 8.1 specific textures not matter? 

Other than Victoria 8.1, nope.

I returned the only character claiming to be 8.1, which I'd bought hoping to see what the PA had done.

Never Mind!  It's Victoria 8 skin. I totally missed it in the corner.

https://www.daz3d.com/frost-maiden-hd-for-genesis-8-female

A couple of the promo shots show her with non-frosty skin, and it's definitely not part ofthe product. I know it's a long shot, but I'd love to know what/whose skin mat that is.

I also use Michael/Victoria 8.1 material presets as a base and apply the diffuse/specular/normal maps of my custom figures.

For a better quality I use Map Transfer to convert G8 Torso maps into G8.1 Head maps. The figures with shaved hair are no longer suddenly blurred.

nicstt said:

melissastjames said:

nicstt said:

I wouldn't save a material preset personally.

I'd want to at least try out the new shader with 8.1 and the V8.1 if you have the new Victoria.

Just plug the textures in the appropriate slots and change the UVs to Basic Female (iirc its name).

It's a matter of personal preference, but I have highly customized my Uber Shader presets and they look better than what the new PBR shader can provide in its current state of lacking scatter and transmit intensity. They added a couple new features, but took away something essential (to me). 

I have NGS2, and have been using it in preference to whatever was provided during G8, although I am now experimenting with V8.1 and like it.

Yeah, I have NGS2 and...well, I'll leave it at that, lol. I know some folks love it. I do a lot of custom tweaking to maps and shader settings, and I have the Uber Shader working exactly how I want it to work for what I want to do with it, and unfortunately, while Daz added some new toys with the PBR Shader, they also took away other stuff that I consider essential (to me).  

alicesacco_d28bc20fdb said:

So, any charachter who is adult and who have a pro bundle contain genitalia? I don't necessarily need to buy Victoria 8?

No, just check the What's Included section on the product page for the bundle.