emanuela1 said:

The new biweekly freebies are available at this link: Free 3D Models and Content | Daz 3D. 

It' a good group of items.

The 12 new ones listed below

Battle Blades
Carmilla for Victoria 7
Divinity Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s)
i13 NEW Addition Living Environment with Poses
Eternal Desert Warrior Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s)
Attitude Poses and Expressions for Tween Ryan 7
Wicked Guardian Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s)
FW Phoenix HD for Victoria 7
Hathor for Hellenic
Collective3d Portrait Vignettes Old West 4
Mr. Cogsworth
Deco Downtime

 

Thanks for the memo 

Pool room is useful / one of the outfits (G3) is nice  

I still need a couple of Victoria 1 through 3 & Michael 1 through 3, I don't remember which I like, just that I don't have them all. It's more to have my Victoria & Michael collection complete than any need for them.

The new biweekly freebies are available at this link: Free 3D Models and Content | Daz 3D. 

It' a good group of items.

The 12 new ones listed below

Battle Blades
Carmilla for Victoria 7
Divinity Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s)
i13 NEW Addition Living Environment with Poses
Eternal Desert Warrior Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s)
Attitude Poses and Expressions for Tween Ryan 7
Wicked Guardian Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s)
FW Phoenix HD for Victoria 7
Hathor for Hellenic
Collective3d Portrait Vignettes Old West 4
Mr. Cogsworth
Deco Downtime

Hi there, 

this may be a noobish question - I just got Magic Brush's Xaria after being swayed by the nice promo pics. However, when loading her into DAZ, she has almost glowing skin. I've included a picture with Victoria as a comparison, using a Click'n'Render-Preset. A snippet from the promos is on the right.

I tried messing with the surface settings, looking for reflectivity and the like, but I don't really know much about how all the knobs and sliders work together. Is there something I can fix, or does the promo use a particular environmental setting?

Cheers!

Which G9 Core has the closest body type to Victoria 7, Victoria 8 repectively? What are the head-ratios for V7, V8 and V9?

thanks

daveso said:

miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

Daz still hasn't added Carter 9 to the Premier bundle selection, but did change some older bundles. Current crop is Audrey, Kiki, Lunardo, Vicky, Toshi, Zahara, Snow Queen, Ally, Amelia, Pixie, Victoria. 

******

Add me to the list of Folks Who Just Aren't Feeling It. I decided to take the 20% off 1 month of Premier offer (can't afford the discounted yearly), but if I buy anything, today, it will be a few Outlet/Quick Grab stuff.

you got 20% off a 1 month membership? I'm not seeing that at all.  

It was an orange banner & in messages. Also offered a code for 30% off DOs but the selection was mostly full price so I skipped that. I was going to rejoin toward the end of the month anyway.

miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

Daz still hasn't added Carter 9 to the Premier bundle selection, but did change some older bundles. Current crop is Audrey, Kiki, Lunardo, Vicky, Toshi, Zahara, Snow Queen, Ally, Amelia, Pixie, Victoria. 

******

Add me to the list of Folks Who Just Aren't Feeling It. I decided to take the 20% off 1 month of Premier offer (can't afford the discounted yearly), but if I buy anything, today, it will be a few Outlet/Quick Grab stuff.

you got 20% off a 1 month membership? I'm not seeing that at all.  

Daz still hasn't added Carter 9 to the Premier bundle selection, but did change some older bundles. Current crop is Audrey, Kiki, Lunardo, Vicky, Toshi, Zahara, Snow Queen, Ally, Amelia, Pixie, Victoria. 

******

Add me to the list of Folks Who Just Aren't Feeling It. I decided to take the 20% off 1 month of Premier offer (can't afford the discounted yearly), but if I buy anything, today, it will be a few Outlet/Quick Grab stuff.

DollyGirl said:

@emanuela1, thank you. Yes I am the same Dollygirl that gave out the jewelry. I am considering putting my stuff up on Rendo but I have obligations that are keeping me away from getting the freebies updated and presented better. It will be a while.

Here is the third installment of the use of some of the freebies being offered this month. I used EarwenM's Fall Backgrounds 2 as the background street. Victoria 4 is Demetria V4/A4 by shadow_dancer wearing Witch Hunter for V4 using Witch Wonder textures by panthia. The little girl is a Webboid wearing amyaimi's deforce dress and PeTeGe's hat. Kitty is wearing Little Dragon's t-shirt with The Machiavelic by Aelin textures.

I call the piece, Walking Though Town

A wonderful render, "Walking Though Town", that captured the Halloween atmosphere. Well done, DollyGirl! Thank you very much for using so many of our freebies. It is so motivating to see that the own freebies are used in renders. So lovely that you have added the female Webboid character with Amy Aimei's dress.and my hat. The Webboids are great free cartoon characters. When I have time, I will create more freebies for the Webboids. Very nice that you have the cat in too.

Welcome to yet another round of RRRR. This time we're having a theme, and the theme is The Lyrics. The idea is to render an image that pictures a piece of lyrics from a song, You can always, as usual in the RRRR, make your own lyrics and your own made up band and song, otherwise you post band/artist : song name with the post. Check the entries only thread, first post, for an example on how to post an entry.

RRRR stands for Random Runtime Roulette Renders, and it's a contest that has been running for over twelve years now, on and off. We invite anyone to enter, specially all those new users who have shown up the past years. This is not the usual make a very nice render contest but more like tell a really great story, often fun, with your render!

How does it work?
Make your pull of 4 items, and if your any Lucky Bastards, you pull one extra item per LB.

Who can play?

Anyone can play!

How do you prepare yourself for play?

The rules are very simple, but first you need to have all your items in some kind of order in a text file, dumped from the itemized history into a text file or a spread sheet. Remove things like software, gift certs, and special plugins from the list and items that wil not work with the software you work with.
 For example if you have items for Poser, Bryce or Carrara, and want to use DAZ Studio, remove those other items from your list. If you have loads of older figures, M3, M4, a ton of non Iray stuff and you only want to use Studio with Iray, remove all the junk from you list. 

Then you use a randomizer to randomly pick items from your list (your Runtime/My Library) for your start pull . You can use items from any store. Now build a scene with those 4 items plus any other items you want to add to make a fun scene. For newcomers I heartly recommend looking at the previous contests below to get ideas how you can do this. 

Working randomizer:: https://www.random.org/integers

There are some situations where you allowed to redraw, these are:


- You pulled something that doesn’t work, broken thing, only works in a version / software not used etc etc, or you forgot to remove that item from you list even though you knew it wont work, or figure that out later.
- You pulled a software or add-on to a software or anything you should have filtered out from the list.
- You pulled only huge environment props and will not be able to render a scene without crashing.
- You pulled an item you already have been using in two RRRR renders in this content and that was picked randomly. Three is a curse - rule!

Lucky Bastard Rule!
I say this again: If you have Lucky Bastards, you pull one extra item for each LB you have, simple as that. 
Explaination of Lucky Bastards. 
Lucky Bastards, or LBs, are a form of handicap system which makes the contest a little more difficult for those who have won.

Current Lucky Bastards Standings

How to play?
You pull, you compose and you Render. You post your images and pulls in this thread (Don't miss that, entries without pulls and posts in this thread will be disqualified!!).
Then the entry should also be posted in the Entries only thread

Bundles
If you pull a bundle, use two or three complete items from it, or more if you like, but you do not need to use all, but only picking a hairpin from Victoria 8 Pro Bundle is “too little”. Clarification: A bundle still counts as only one pulled item.

Poses, Expressions and textures/colors
If you pull a pose pack, an expression pack or a texture/color pack, you only need to use one of them, not all. For example if you pull 500 expressions for Genesis 8 Female, use one, if you pull 128 colors for Frappe Hair, use one.
Accidenty breaking the TOS
If your entry is removed by the forum mods because it accidentally, not deliberate, broke the TOS, you do not have to redo that entry but can move on and make a new pull. 

The rules of madness! 
Now you have successfully and randomly picked your items, make a scene, you can add other items as well but the one you picked should be prominent or cleverly used. Render it, post it and make us all laugh! Remember though that the renders must follow the TOS of the forum. As we have a theme on the contest, the render should in some way touch that theme. 

The contest categories! 
There are two categories Best and Funniest. Every image will compete in both categories.

Contest duration!
It starts now at Wednesday October 15 - 2025, and will go on until Sunday December 28, 2025 at 23:59:59 local DAZ time. 

This months sponsors so far:
acb is sponsoring with $50 in Daz GC
Totte (Code 66) is sponsoring with two items from his store
Elliandra is sponsoring with two items from her store
3Diva is sponsoring with two items from thier store
Dartanbeck is sponsoring with items from his store

We want more sponsors!

Do you want to sponsor the RRRR?
Please chip in a gift card sponsorship, sponsors can play, they should play, they are even extra encouraged to play, as sponsors always plays for keeps.

Maximum number of entries? 
For this round it will be a maximum of 12 entries per player.

So, good luck and start your render engines!

Havos said:

30 days is nothing, I am still waiting on a sales ticket I submitted in March when I upgraded to premier. That is 6 months, and no response at all in that time. In the past sales tickets where answered in a day or two. DAZ owns me 20 odd dollars due to not discounting my premier membership by the amount I had paid for the year of DAZ+ I lost. I expect tech support tickets to take a long time, but not sales support.

If they feel I am not entitled to the money, the least they could do is anwer the ticket and say so. Instead I got 6 months of silence. We were told back in March to be patient as DAZ had many similar tickets to resolve, but I feel 6 months is stretching the patience a bit far.

I am not sure what to do now. I could raise the ticket again, but that would likely be ignored again.

Don't feel alone I have been waiting for six months also. Already had Premier monthly but took them up on yearly when it was offered. They started yearly before my monthly was over so I didn't get my monthly bundle yet. I requested a monthly bundle from them. No reply at all. 
 
I also asked Daz's AI about this. AI Victoria was going to make a ticket on this for me. Never heard from anyone on AI's ticket either. I finally looked and that ticket was in with my unanswered one but that ticket was completely blank!  Thanks  AI!  

@emanuela1, thank you. Yes I am the same Dollygirl that gave out the jewelry. I am considering putting my stuff up on Rendo but I have obligations that are keeping me away from getting the freebies updated and presented better. It will be a while.

Here is the third installment of the use of some of the freebies being offered this month. I used EarwenM's Fall Backgrounds 2 as the background street. Victoria 4 is Demetria V4/A4 by shadow_dancer wearing Witch Hunter for V4 using Witch Wonder textures by panthia. The little girl is a Webboid wearing amyaimi's deforce dress and PeTeGe's hat. Kitty is wearing Little Dragon's t-shirt with The Machiavelic by Aelin textures.

I call the piece, Walking Though Town

No idea.  I CAN tell you that, in the DAZ store alone, the store counters show that I own nearly 11,000 of the character sets that are currently in the store... but that's not really accurate as 1.) there are a huge number that I'll never purchase here as I already purchased them back when they were being sold at one of the other stores, 2.) that there are also quite a few that I've bought here that are no longer currently in the store so the store calculators can't "see" those, and 3.) that there's a certain amount of "shrinkage" in cases where the same figure is listed as both a bundle and an individual figure, or where there's a standard and HD version listed in the store seperately, or whrere the's another vairant like a young or old version sold seperately, and where a morph only pack is counted as a figure.  And, of course, that's before one factors in all ove the other ones that I've bought at Renderosity, RuntimeDNA and many other stores, and a massive number of ones that I picked up as freebies or in vendor sponsored BOGOs over the years.  So... my guess is probably in the teen-thousands but I can't get more specific than that....

As to what I use... Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 as a tag team combo have been my go-tos for years and will probably continue to be my prefered figure bases, as there's very little that can't be done with the morphs, textures, and other assests available.  That said, I still regularly pull out other generations for specific uses... like Gen 2 still has one of the best selection of morphs and textures for young male chacters, the original genesis is incredibly useful for non-humans and crowd creation, especially since it easily uses most Victoria 4 generation assets, and Genesis 9 has arguably the best selection of toon-ish type products. 

starting way back in time...with Victoria and Michael--1,2,3,4 and all that generation..then Genesis, 3,8,8.1, and now 9 .... I can't even count...how would you even count all of them? 

daveso said:

so many core figures. How many of them are basically twins?

Being a smart-donkey, these are actually Core Characters.
Core figures are Victoria, Victoria 2, ect... Victoria 4, Genesis, Genesis 2 Female, ect... Genesis 9 

Here are all the Core figures shapes add-ons I could find (in no particular order)

• Kara: Buff, Heavy and Thin
• Karmen: Young adult, Elder, Thin
• John: Emaciated, Muscular, Skinny
• Zahara: Muscular, Model, Curvy
• Death: Elder, Toned, Toon
• Maryam: Elder, Portly, Toon
• Wagner: Dark Elf, Demon, Greater Demon
• Amelia: Young adult, Elder
• Olympia: Young adult, Elder
• Walter: Younger, Heavy, Thin
• Neandertha!: Dwarf, Skinnier, Female
• Wukong: Chimp
• Cecelia: Buxom
• Lucas: Portly
• Jennie: Thin, Lean, Curvy
• Harlow: Swole, Elderly, Dad bod
• Hanako: Voluptuous, Ample, Taller
• Sophia: Slim, Curvy, Athletic
• Xola: Portly, Elder, Feminine
• Mira: Young adult, Elder
• Julius: Young adult, Elder
• Van Helsing: Young adult, Elder
• Olivia: Young adult, Elder
• Snow Queen: Child, Teen, Elder
• Zack: Heavy, Buff, Elder
• Thomas: Elder
• Wang: Anime, Elder, Heavy
• Calypso: Toon, Older, Plus size
• Cheyenne: Plus size, Thinner, Muscular
• Dain: Emaciated, Toon, Young adult
• Brianna: Full figured
• Calum: Tank
• Madison:Toned
• Asha: Stylized
• Bishop: Slim
• Audrey: Lithe
• Victoria: Masculine
• Michael: Feminine
• Joan: High Elf
• Kiri: Dark
• Tabitha: Atheletic, Curvy, Elderly
• Kaede: Spinning Bird
• Lycan: Plantigrade
• Ashlety: Petite
• Mateo: Mountain man
• Elena: Slender body
• Charlie: Foxtrot
• Chloe: Curvy
• Xiao: Sporty
• Julian: Surfer
• Sylvia: Dryad
• Ava: Harpy
• Tara: Succubus
• Kayla: Athletic

Julia and Angela have a Teen Skin add-on too. 

Which core figures have official age alternative shapes besides Olympia 9 (base, elder, young)?

I am surprised there is one for Olympia but not Victoria. The third party Young Victoria promos looked really off to me https://www.daz3d.com/young-victoria, and there is no elder Victoria.

Thanks

Make-up scripts work as expected on my side. I tested a couple of scripts on Victoria 9. They work fine on the character as well as the settings of LIE stacks. (ss1~2)

However, Remove make-up scripts didn't work 100% correctly.... they didn't reset Metallic Flakes Enable to Off...(ss3)

I installed the product with DIM ~~

I was working on an old RNDA old freebie thought it was pretty cool.

This is Victoria 2 with CDI's Roxanne injected. Her hardware, wings, crown, bracers and neck collar are Dreampaint's Yarishan. Her train is Jepe's Sheetz for V4 sample. Boots are Cyber Boots for Victoria by gps. Rendered in iray. The texture on V2's body and Sheetz is RNDA's DNA Dragon Scales-V3. I just updated them to work in iray.

I preferred the Pro Bundles to be honest. For example when Victoria 9 was released, I purchased the Victoria 9 Mega Bundle which had the character w/HD, two hairs and their texture packs, two environments, four outfits, and two pose sets and an expression pack. All very useful for a first release character of a new generation. Better yet, all were of incredible usefulness and quality. While that package was marked at $132.29, I paid $76.09 for it. It has now been broken down into smaller bundles.

But with Genesis 9 it seems that a lot of the repetitive add-ons to a DO character were put into https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-starter-essentials, https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-starter-essentials-expansion, and recently https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-toon-starter-essentials-expansion. That seems to avoid a lot of padding.

But, when I do work with a DO character, I don't go to the essentials, I have to search in Smart Content for makeup or cosmetics or eyes or brows...

I do know that I am more often buying the character, HD, maybe a hair and wishlisting clothing/textures. I do not like bundles being filled with environments that have little to do with the character, or I will have no use for. Poses/expressions, well I have a lot of them. So many of them are a hard pass. I am also wishlisting and am prepared to wait for better prices.

I also don't want to bog down G9 like I did with G8/8.1 with characters, morphs, poses, expressions. One thing about G9 versus previous generations, we are not getting extra characters often padded into the bundles.

Mary