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

alicesacco_d28bc20fdb said:

I didn't see adult pro bundle in the shop.
I goty the male genitalia (for G8Male) from The brute

Victoria 8 Pro Bundle, or pretty much any other Name 8 Pro Bundle that isn't a teen or stylised character - also some of the themed bundles that seem to have replaced the Prro bundles for new named characters include the Anatomical Elements.

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.

Cheers, I get a lot of questions and speculation from my users about the background of that character and the other lead lady in the game. I shant spam this conversation with links though, it's available for free out there.

Sadly it's not a problem with exposure flipping from default. I'd already set the exposure on that scene when I originally saved it (by modifying the film ISO) so that was saved with the image.

I'm wondering now if it's the exposure per se, because looking at the clothes, they seem to be pretty similarly lit, so I'm wondering if it could be a skin issue (skin's Elizabeth for Victoria 8 with some teaks to the color and translucency to change the skintone). I'm wondering if that's started to react differently to lighting recently.

Attached an image lit up with the same (homebaked) HDRI and (nearly) identical lighting setup, and you can see it even more clearly there.

The character skin's Rebekah for vic 8 with similar tweaks. There's almost no discernable seam in the sweater between the old and new render where they join up, but with the skintone it's a very striking difference. 

Zilvergrafix said:

Rod Wise Driggo said:

Like this. Some more details on shaders and lights applied?

Nothing from the outer world:

1. Simple Genesis 8 female
2. Iray Uber Shader
3. a free HDR from HDR Haven https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=studio_small_03
4. and 15 years of experience. 

Zero Victoria 8.1, Zero Daz PBR Skin shader, no HD textures and no postwork, raw render as my iray viewport confirms. 

The only (remotely noticeable) thing that 8.1 has over 8 is the eye movement.  

Rod Wise Driggo said:

Like this. Some more details on shaders and lights applied?

Nothing from the outer world:

1. Simple Genesis 8 female
2. Iray Uber Shader
3. a free HDR from HDR Haven https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=studio_small_03
4. and 15 years of experience. 

Zero Victoria 8.1, Zero Daz PBR Skin shader, no HD textures and no postwork, raw render as my iray viewport confirms. 

Zilvergrafix said:

jd641 said:

Leana said:

Go to Edit > Preferences > Content tab, and check what option is selected for "when loading a .duf character" option, my guess is that your preference is set to "always load a new figure".

Yep, that's exactly what I had. I have a big problem though, I've tried the other two options and I do get the dialogue but for some reason when it's not set to "always load a new figure" Studio hangs/crashes when trying to apply the presets.

468 users don't have this problem anymore:

Hilarious... nothing more! No Maps were worked over nothing... so basicly it's just the shape and the shapes are useless without the possibility to upgrade the skin textures itself. A character is a set of shapes AND textures to get an overall realistic or artistic look. Sure, we could just take the victoria skin and change the skin tone with psd or gimp, but thats not the same. Skin textures have often a ton of information in them. To port a whole figure or character one would have to create new 8.1 maps, by using the 8.0 figure, putting the maps on it, mark new seams and bake new textures... If the textures would just "stay" as they are. With real shaders from the real skins, as they were created, this would be an easy task to do... but it seams NOBODY the **** cares that sells charecters here... at least i see no updates in my DIM since i bought 8.1 victoria and michael! 
 

Does Victoria 8.1 Eyebrow have morphs so you can customize its shape?

If not, has anyone made a series of morphs for her eyebrows that lets you mold it into many shapes; from thinner to thicker, longer & shorter, move the outer up & down, move mid up & down, move outer up & down, etc.

melissastjames said:

Luciel said:

melissastjames said:

So has anybody found visemes for G8.1? I had them for G8 but can't find them on G8.1...

The only way i've found to get visemes on 8.1 is to load an 8 character onto the 8.1 base. 

This will add the visemes in the normal place (head/visemes, and they still work), and then you can load an 8.1 character over that.

So basically, load basic 8.1, load any Genesis 8 ontop of that, and then load the 8.1 character after for visemes. 

Ok, so I loaded a base G8.1F and then tried to load Angharad 8 over that...and DAZ is like NOPE. Hangs. Cntrl+Alt+Delete. 

I suppose the question remains...ARE THERE SUPPOSED TO BE VISEMES FOR 8.1 AND IF NO, WHY NOT? 

I would really like to know that too.  I have Anilip 2 and the visemes it provides do appear on an 8.1 character, however the product page doesn't list 8.1 as supported whereas G8 wardrobe items seem to list 8.1.  I don't want to commit to 8.1 characters if Anilip doesn't work (it's on my to-be-tested list).

I have seen the slow "overload" time of a G8 character on a G8.1 base; it's significantly slower to load a G8F over Genesis 8.1 Basic Female than to load either Victoria 8.1 or Victoria 8.  I assumed it was because of the fix-ups for the torso texture.

I read through most of this post and I am confused about Anatomical Elements for Genesis 8.1.  I have found Female Genitalia for Female G8  and Male Genitalia for Male G8, nothing new there.  Now I find new elements that are Female Genitalia for Male G8.1 and Male Genitalia for Female G8.1, these are very new.  But what I don't see are new Female Genitalia for Female G8.1 or new Male Genitalia for Male G8.1   I bought both Victoria 8.1 and Michael 8.1, no bundles just the characters.   Am I to assume that the Genesis 8 Female and Male Genitalia work on Gensis 8.1 Females and Males?  Or am I missing something?

I hope they recatagorize the Genesis 8.1 Starter Essentials, as where some of the new G.1 stuff is located makes no sense to me.

I know I can buy Victoria 8.1 here: https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-8-1 - But where is Genesis 8.1 Female to download or purchase?

Greetings,

Don't read that wrong, I am not looking to quit using it; however, I am running into an issue where Studio does not know where it is, nor any of the content. I have uninstalled it now so many times, through the basic unistall, but I come back to the same issues.

What is happpening is the main site doesn't recognize that it IS installed, and makes me re-install it before I can do any sort of update, I do that, but still cannot update due to needing to install again... there appears to be a mis-direction loop someplace that is causing Studio to not recognise where it is. I've come to the conclusion that my only true solution is to remove it completely and start fresh.

Issue I have there, is that I "thought" I had done that a couple of times, but it just continues to loop back around. It would appear that there are registry settings that do not get removed durring an uninstall? I'm not sure, but to be honest, the constant install uninstall re-install is driving me nuts. I should note that this also happens for any sort of content that has an update, or that I want to purchase. Can't update because I need to install it, if I do install it, I get the new content, but have to install DAZ Studio again so it knows where it is, that leads to me having to re-install the new content... see the loop here, it's driving me nuts.

My Downloadable content table is CONSTANTLY full of items all the way back to Victoria, download and install, and it's shows in content library, but can't be used until I re-install Daz Studio... and around and around we go...

Anyway, if anyone knows how to completely remove Daz 3D Studio so my system no longer knows it ever even had it installed, so I can try to fix this issue, I would sure appreciate the help.

Thanks,

V

Leonides02 said:

fred9803 said:

I really like what can be achieved with V8.1 and the new shader. These pictures look stunning. I'm curious though about the slow uptake by PAs of the updated model and its new features. Usually after a new release there's a flood of products in the store.

Agreed. I feel like I won't buy another figure unless it's PBR / 8.1 !

Huge thumbs up on this!  Any new character has to be at least at the Victoria 8.1 level for me.  I just absolutely love the new 8.1 and PBR shaders!  For the first time I don't have to do major fiddling with the shaders and now I am just having fun posing and rendering.  Huge hats off to the DAZ team!

DustRider said:

One last example that I think improve on the base G8F. I tweaked the skin shaders a bit (still not really happy with it, but it should give you an idea what can be done), and adjusted levels and added a bit of sharpening (un-sharp mask) in Gimp.

The background is not the HDR used, am I right?

Now I know why many users avoid Vanilla Victoria, is more difficult than a paid one!, this setting is named Keyshot SSS emulator

To some Savvy:

Why when I import Victoria for use in another 3D app does not import all the textures?, somebody knows? are the mighty new channel/parameter textures used in the "new" PBR Skin shader a Top Secret Military Grade?

I had to get inside directly on the Victoria Runtime textures and collect all such textures.

Serene Night said:

My question is: what purpose does the Genesis 8.1 folder serve, if M8.1 and Base Male 8.1 are in the generic 8.0 character's folder?

None whatsoever, at the moment. Literally none. Since I use the Content Library and rearrange stuff, I put the Base Male 8.1 stuff and the M8.1 stuff into that directory, since that's where I'd normally think to look for him anyway.  Same with the female stuff.

It's worth noting that this weirdness extends down to the functional directories that we're not supposed to touch. There are directories for 8.1 textures, for example, and Base Male/Female 8.1 have textures in there ... but Michael and Victoria 8.1 are off in the older Genesis8 directories.

This really does feel like a release that wasn't entirely thought through.

Not sure if it has been mentioned before: Victoria 8.1 is not as tall as Victoria 8, which is more realistic.

In Iray preview, her teeth look a bit too yellow.

The vellus hair (especially mouth) can be shortened.

The Genesis 8.1 default map says all maps but doesn't include anatomical elements.

Ohai, I can support this! Let me see what I have...

Here's Belle and Josie 6, out for a walk in a mysterious nightly forest. Please to disregard Josie 7, who's tagging along on the left.

Brodie and Jaden wonder if they're lost.

Victoria 6 and Bree.

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 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).