Do you have any nested content directories? If you open the log (Help>Troubleshooting>View Log File) and search for nest you should be able to check.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

she still shows as a member so have to assume still on this earth

not wioshing to be a downer, but I think she had at least one or two additonal years by purchasing discounted memberships in sales, and as long as there was money in the payment method the auto-renewal would work anyway.

but I am worried how she is since her last post she was going to hospital for her heart issues

I sincerely hope she is just deciding not to frequent the forum etc

would prefer that to the alternative

Mc Gyver I know is Adsense Adverse and as you see from my sigline I don't blame him, my browsers holding them at bay for now but I too will be off if AdBlocking fails me

https://www.deviantart.com/6and6/art/Animated-Shape-Mask-545392810

This is a freebie on Deviantart. It loads as a prop for Genesis 2 Male, but I'm sure that can be easily adjusted. The mask design is built into the model, it's not a texture. (see my image) It's more for Batman, Bane, etc, but if you're good at Blender, you could probably export this out and smooth it and save it as a Prop.

edit: Oops, I forgot Destro had lips, etc. So the mask would probably not be satifactory to you. But, a quick search on CGTrader produced some possible results you may or may not be interested in.

When looking for something, it might be a good idea to include a pictur, so people know what you are looking for.

Also if it can be interpreted in different ways.

Based on a search I assume it is something like this

But do you want it as an actual mask, i.e. will not follow if the character does any expressions. Then it would be a prop, that might need scaling, dependent on which character you will use it on.

If you want it as a figure, i.e. conforming to the character, it will look differently on different characters.

Oh my word!  I see this thread was used in March last.  I hope it's still active.

Where can I now ask for freebies as put it up in Freebies forum it will be say its not a place to request freebies, only offering freebies?

she still shows as a member so have to assume still on this earth but I am worried how she is since her last post she was going to hospital for her heart issues

I sincerely hope she is just deciding not to frequent the forum etc

would prefer that to the alternative

Mc Gyver I know is Adsense Adverse and as you see from my sigline I don't blame him, my browsers holding them at bay for now but I too will be off if AdBlocking fails me

Seeker Stock Art said:

Do you know of a good tutorial anywhere on that?

If you're still looking for one, quoting @memcneil70 from another recent thread about metadata:

memcneil70 said:

The best metadata tutorial I found that managed to get through to my brain was by SloshWerks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FQQ9uLhMSKQ. It is older and if you search on the web for 'how to install metadata in DAZ3d' you can come up with a variety of other offerings, some newer that I haven't looked at. They might be more relevant for you now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FQQ9uLhMSKQ

Richard Haseltine said:

FC2C said:

Laurita said:

Which is particularly annoying when you search for knit shaders and these won't show up. I agree that they are nice. 

Hylas said:

https://www.daz3d.com/fc2c-woven-fabric-ms-shaders

99% of folks won't care, but I happen to be a professional in this specific industry so it buggs me to no end... none of the "woven" fabrics in this shader pack are woven! They are all knitted. Completely different technique, different machines, different yarns, different processing, different everything.

The shaders do look good though.

Thank you for the kind words! Yeah I had an internal dilemma when naming these haha, I over complicated it and then fumbled the tags as well. People may never find them but I'm glad at least that the people who have seen them seem to like the shaders haha 

I should think you could ask for the tags to be changed (knit might be a more likely search term than knitted) - possibly the name too, though after the wallpaper they may make a Genesis 9 clone of you and stick virtual pins in its feet (probably not its arms, since they would want you to keep making these materials). I was puzzled by the name, but they are very useful fabric types so they are safely in my cart.

Hahaha you know about the wallpaper mess up?? Haha I think they'd string me up if I had to change another thing but I really should ask because I royally messed up the tags this time! the only way you can find these is if you search something like "knitted shaders pack" which no one is doing aha XD, thank you for your support!

FC2C said:

Laurita said:

Which is particularly annoying when you search for knit shaders and these won't show up. I agree that they are nice. 

Hylas said:

https://www.daz3d.com/fc2c-woven-fabric-ms-shaders

99% of folks won't care, but I happen to be a professional in this specific industry so it buggs me to no end... none of the "woven" fabrics in this shader pack are woven! They are all knitted. Completely different technique, different machines, different yarns, different processing, different everything.

The shaders do look good though.

Thank you for the kind words! Yeah I had an internal dilemma when naming these haha, I over complicated it and then fumbled the tags as well. People may never find them but I'm glad at least that the people who have seen them seem to like the shaders haha 

I should think you could ask for the tags to be changed (knit might be a more likely search term than knitted) - possibly the name too, though after the wallpaper they may make a Genesis 9 clone of you and stick virtual pins in its feet (probably not its arms, since they would want you to keep making these materials). I was puzzled by the name, but they are very useful fabric types so they are safely in my cart.

Laurita said:

Which is particularly annoying when you search for knit shaders and these won't show up. I agree that they are nice. 

Hylas said:

https://www.daz3d.com/fc2c-woven-fabric-ms-shaders

99% of folks won't care, but I happen to be a professional in this specific industry so it buggs me to no end... none of the "woven" fabrics in this shader pack are woven! They are all knitted. Completely different technique, different machines, different yarns, different processing, different everything.

The shaders do look good though.

Thank you for the kind words! Yeah I had an internal dilemma when naming these haha, I over complicated it and then fumbled the tags as well. People may never find them but I'm glad at least that the people who have seen them seem to like the shaders haha 

Hylas said:

https://www.daz3d.com/fc2c-woven-fabric-ms-shaders

99% of folks won't care, but I happen to be a professional in this specific industry so it buggs me to no end... none of the "woven" fabrics in this shader pack are woven! They are all knitted. Completely different technique, different machines, different yarns, different processing, different everything.

The shaders do look good though.

Aha yeah I found the naming of this product weirdly difficult originally I was going with Knitted Shaders, but some of these fabrics I'm sure you can only achieve with a machine and I thought if I called it knitted people would be expecting handmade style knitted things, unfortunately this is the name I settled on  i do have "knitted" in the tags but I think I might have messed up and always added a second word like "knitted Fabrics" so I've made a bit of a mess of these aha! I hoped that the search engine would recognise both words individually, and would bring people to them. But thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you liked the look of them 

There is the mcjLookAtTheCamera script from 2012. https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/242/ Scroll down this forum thread for a working link to a refined 2019 script in a .ZIP file, "suitable for Genesis 1 to 9". Might be useful re: hacking out a script to also work with 2D billboards. Possible also useful, Poser already has a 'billboard faces the camera script', available free at ShareCG in the Scripts section.

Laurita said:

Which is particularly annoying when you search for knit shaders and these won't show up. I agree that they are nice. 

Hylas said:

https://www.daz3d.com/fc2c-woven-fabric-ms-shaders

99% of folks won't care, but I happen to be a professional in this specific industry so it buggs me to no end... none of the "woven" fabrics in this shader pack are woven! They are all knitted. Completely different technique, different machines, different yarns, different processing, different everything.

The shaders do look good though.

Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't even thought about this. Will sort them accordingly in my own shader library. But yes, they do look amazing! 

Which is particularly annoying when you search for knit shaders and these won't show up. I agree that they are nice. 

Hylas said:

https://www.daz3d.com/fc2c-woven-fabric-ms-shaders

99% of folks won't care, but I happen to be a professional in this specific industry so it buggs me to no end... none of the "woven" fabrics in this shader pack are woven! They are all knitted. Completely different technique, different machines, different yarns, different processing, different everything.

The shaders do look good though.

SapphireBlue said:

Cross-posting from the DAZ+ forum. Used two of my lovely new buys this month: Stonemason's Jungle Crossing and RawArt's Dryanna.

Dryanna's Butterflies

Beautiful!

Always check the File List info. on product wiki before buying if you have such a need of the materials of genital elements: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/92261/file_list

If you search the key word: genital but find nothing, it means the product gives no mat. of this genital elements. Furthermore, I saw no info. on the product page saying it includes materials / texture maps of genital elements...

And, for instance, if you check the file list of Victoria 9: http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/87472/file_list, you'll see there're genitalia materials.

Indeed, the search field can provide some odd results. For instance, I've never seen Through the woods! But now that I can read the description, I can understand why. The author is not really talkative, but his products look really good! Thank you for pointed me out those packs!

I might try Ultrascenery later; I've read a lot of stuff on that topic, like it's pretty hard to use, crash a lot of time, so... yeah. 

Cross-posting from the DAZ+ forum. Used two of my lovely new buys this month: Stonemason's Jungle Crossing and RawArt's Dryanna.

Dryanna's Butterflies

Elor said:

memcneil70 said:

The best metadata tutorial I found that managed to get through to my brain was by SloshWerks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FQQ9uLhMSKQ. It is older and if you search on the web for 'how to install metadata in DAZ3d' you can come up with a variety of other offerings, some newer that I haven't looked at. They might be more relevant for you now.

I just watched it, and that video is exactly what I needed to understand how to do it

For now, I'll likely only change metadata to get all foot poses to appear in the Default/Poses/By Function/Fits category when I have a figure selected (some are either not linked to  the category or doesn't have the base figure among their compatibilities or both of course) because it's, right now, one of the most useful feature of Smart Content when I'm looking for a base pose for a figure, a base pose that's very likely to mess their feet poses and make a mess of their shoes.

So, again, thank you very much for sharing it

@Elor, you are most welcome. SloshWerks not only had some of the best products, but he provided this great tutorial for free and saved my crazy, over-organized brain. I hope others will review it and pass it on as well.

Mary

The store has a keyword search at the top right-hand side of the menu bar. You can search by keyword there but the results can be a bit odd sometimes. Your best bet is to use Google - search for 'daz3d.com keyword' as that can pull in things that are slightly more oblique and related rather than just a keyword match as you say.

For a forest environment I would consider Ultrascenery - https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascenery--realistic-landscape-system - to be the most versatile and realistic product Daz sells. You can make much, much more with it than just forests but there is a bit of a learning curve to it. Plenty of add-ons means you can tweak it just how you want it. It has a companion product - https://www.daz3d.com/ultrasceneryxt--expansive-landscape-system - for filling in the backgrounds of any scene.

(Edited to add: The forum thread for Ultrascenery is here - https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/380431/ultrascenery-commercial/p1 . It's 100 pages long at this point (!) but if you flick through it you'll see what other folks have managed to do with it and there's a handy reference of add-ons etc. on the first page.)

If you're new and just want a load-and-forget forest scene there are a lot of excellent sets available. Rather than a massive list I'll give you two of my favourites:

https://www.daz3d.com/bluebell-wood

https://www.daz3d.com/through-the-woods

Whilst you're looking at Through the Woods, click on the author's name (Stonemason) to go to his store page. You will find a lot of medieval/fantasy products there, both built-up and rural, and his reputation for quality is second-to-none. There is not a single thing he makes I would not hesitate to recommend.