DavidGB said:

Yes! Thank you. Most PAs show all the parts separately. but that's so tucked away under the other clothes I might well have missed it even if I'd looked at that product. But that's had me squinting at the other Sixus1 Media products and ... Aftermath Parched for Genesis 3 Female(s) - can't see the front with the lacings, but on her sides there's another tube top visible under her main top, and it's the same colour and rucked type as the one on the left of the FSL Gia 8 Mix and Match promo. That's them! Thank you so much. 

Aw shucks, neither are in the sale. Well I don't need them just yet - here's hoping they go on sale before I need them.

Glad I could help :)

So nice of you, many thanks @memcneil70!

I believe Genesis 2 still has a lot to offer - we haven't even started to unfold its' potential, but that is true of every generation, our lives are too short to creatively keep up with the speed of new products being released!

Yes! Thank you. Most PAs show all the parts separately. but that's so tucked away under the other clothes I might well have missed it even if I'd looked at that product. But that's had me squinting at the other Sixus1 Media products and ... Aftermath Parched for Genesis 3 Female(s) - can't see the front with the lacings, but on her sides there's another tube top visible under her main top, and it's the same colour and rucked type as the one on the left of the FSL Gia 8 Mix and Match promo. That's them! Thank you so much. 

Aw shucks, neither are in the sale. Well I don't need them just yet - here's hoping they go on sale before I need them.

Yes, I'm not interested in the middle one. It's the other two as I'm after a strapless one and liked the fact the ones either side actually fasten in the front with laces., which woulr do very nicely for a project I'm assembling the assets for. I was wondering if the ones on either side might be the same one but with a morph pulling the vertical seam on the left one to make it diagonal on the right. I've found quite a few ones in the store that are just a plain loop of material. It MIGHT be texturing, but the laces on both do look modelled to me, and on the right-hand one a bit of a lace is hanging down. Might be kitbashed, I suppose. As I was still getting products I thought might be useful one dayl for many years after I became disabled and basically stopped actually producing anything, and then I had seven years when I'd given up, I've very little memory for what I've got, so I've even been doing file explorer seasrches on 'bra'. 'top', wraps' etc on my DS and even old Poser content libraries as well as here, and I do have several just simple loops of material ones. Then I'll find a PA whose stuff looks like it might be theirs and go through their whole cattaogue, but no luck yet. 

FeralFey said:

I've tried playing with it a few days ago and I was deeply disappointed. Especially after I put in my vendor name, as a test, and it only popped up about 40 products, half of which were not products I made, nor were they related to anything in my catalog - with the exception of the five or six hair products that came up next to my one Bedhead hair product. 

To note, the AI search will only ever return one page of results, which is by default 40 (although you can make it show up to 80 by setting the page to show 80 per page).

I will note that I don't think it is (yet) intended as a replacement for the main search, but can match based on the actual product promos rather than merely the product description.

It's rough around the edges - searches for clothes or hair will often turn up character products which merely use those in their promos - but it does seem that it's often able to find some matches for a description that the regular search can't.

And I will say that as a Brit, who often runs into frustrations because Americans use a different name for whatever object I need to find on the store or in my library, a search that can match on things other than the exact product text is welcome.

FenixPhoenix said:

nemesis10 said:

And now I have to happily buy a few more of your products; thanks for the list since there were some things I missed! Your stuff is the best! 

Aww thank you so much for that! I am always happy to see people enjoying my products and using them to achieve their art vision! 

I keep thinking of these demon hunter patterns, though. I had intended to do something similar back for G8, because these types of markings are common in Korean Manga (Manhua?) to depict a character being cursed. So I might just take a stab at it so it spans the entire body. It's right up my alley in terms of abstract body paint. :D

Thank you so much for all of those great recommendations! I can also tell you I would be first in line to pick up a product that's more specifically demon hunter patterns, lol. Many of the patterns in the options above are pretty symmetrical, and I'd like to hit closer to the mark if I can. If not, that's also fine. I especially like your Fantasy Scarification products and the Supernove LIE Makeup, so for now, I'll pick them up as my budget allows. And again, thank you so much for all your help!  You have no idea how much I appreciate it. ^_^

Hi! I've got a recurring issue with gen 8. It seems when I apply a second grp_scale in the scene, it will never recognize the node and I systematically get an error message.

If I load the first grp_scale on 3DU memphis, it works. 

Whatever I try to apply on the second figure (even a 1 sec face animation), it won't work. And the log says it's successful!

2025-09-07 20:44:04.024 [INFO] :: Loading script: C:/Users/A/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_72753/people/genesis 8 male/face mojo/face mojo - bake animation for g8m.dse
2025-09-07 20:44:06.862 [INFO] :: Script executed successfully: C:/Users/A/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/My Daz Connect Library/data/cloud/1_72753/people/genesis 8 male/face mojo/face mojo - bake animation for g8m.dse

Here are said products - sorry i got lazy!...

Mopat: Motion Path Animation for Windows | Daz 3D

Daz Studio Animation Tools - Set 1 | Daz 3D

Camera Director | Daz 3D

There is a product that does this by 3D universe but it might only support Genesis 8 (3D animation tools) .  Similarly if you use a path plotter (in same product for G8) or the new one by alvin bremnar (Mopat), at least you could see the path the character will follow to animate the camera either manually facing at it or you can plot a path for the camera itself as well, which respects the way the camera is facing I believe and can also follow the path itself...   ...camera director by lunarlume may similarly have a feature set, it has videos in the promo, as do the other two mentioned products...   ...one or all of these products might help, personally I don't mind keyframing by hand either, sometimes feels more immersive anyway, obviously depending on many factors.

GhostofMacbeth said:

There is a dial for male and a dial for female. Work from that

Just to second this point, I mean come on, dial out the figure you load in and dial in male or female base, and youre away! - G9 probably does take a bit more minor fiddling but its a much more 'pro workflow' ready figure and these things move forward all the time, it has to change to keep up and G9 has done so accordingly - the small amount of fiddling yield much more versatility and customisation potential with wearables and the bone structure is in keeping with industry standards.  I hope this helps you, but nonetheless I'm sure G8 will be supported for a long time, just new product creation for the figure will die out eventually and is already phasing out - its a fair amount of extra work to offer true like-for-like shapes for G8 on a new character since the G9 vertex order is different to G8 so the entire process has to be repeated to truly make an actual like for like version of the same figure.  In other words, these things can't help but move on with current DCCs (software that makes the products - 'Digital Content Creation [software]')

If nobody has said it already absolutely buy 'Dforce Archmage' by 'matew', its life changing stuff, you will never regret the purchase...

dForce Archmage | Daz 3D - absolute contender for product of the year!

Uninstall it from Daz Connect first, then install it via DIM if there's a downloadable package ~

I tried AI Search Beta for "Code 66". It found 40 items. The Artist filter on that page of search results showed 0 products for Code 66. I didn't recognize any of the displayed products as being his, either. AI Search Beta was a  total 100% failure in this test case.
So, I tried the regular store search for "Code 66", and it found 53 items. The Artist filter on that page of results shows 52 for Code 66. I couldn't recognize which one was not his.
Next I looked at the Code 66 Vendor page in the store. It shows that he has 76 products, so neither search was very useful.

Most of the time when I click on the AI Search Beta "button" on the web page, nothing even happens. 

why can't I find this artist?

links go to general store and their products I have are all still here with them listed

are DAZ Originals

 Nouschka Design

I am guessing because they are Russian but I want to find more sets I don't have 

using the texture folder to help, I have the following products

https://www.daz3d.com/aedis-catana

https://www.daz3d.com/aikanaro

https://www.daz3d.com/alatariel

https://www.daz3d.com/anarane

https://www.daz3d.com/charming-sensibility

https://www.daz3d.com/darkvault

https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-dome

https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-garden

https://www.daz3d.com/old-bakery

https://www.daz3d.com/old-bakery-expansion

https://www.daz3d.com/precious-girls

https://www.daz3d.com/tasadur

https://www.daz3d.com/telrunya

https://www.daz3d.com/the-attic

https://www.daz3d.com/the-attic-expansion

https://www.daz3d.com/wedding-day

and several of Faveral's sets are textured by them

I simply want to be able to filter by artist

hjake said:

FeralFey said:

I've tried playing with it a few days ago and I was deeply disappointed. Especially after I put in my vendor name, as a test, and it only popped up about 40 products, half of which were not products I made, nor were they related to anything in my catalog - with the exception of the five or six hair products that came up next to my one Bedhead hair product. 

 

I just tried it and nothing happens when I click the AI Search BETA button.

When I filtered the main store page by your products only 208 showed up. When filtered to your vendor page 209 show up. I own 50 of your products.

 Oh that's sweet to hear.  Thank you for your patronage! (Seriously!!) (I'm currently working on a big project, which I hope to have submitted very soon - just to pique your interest. )  I was discussing the AI Search Beta with Code 66 last week and he noticed the same thing when he used it to search for his name. Half the products were his and the other half were Daz O's or unrelated other PA's products. Very weird and definitely a major step below the "non-AI" site search that we've all come to know and loathe. (Yes, Google is the best way to search the site, I'm afraid.) If this is the Beta, I'd hate to see what the Alpha version was like....

Not sure what to think, website is here:

https://www.bentley.com/software/e-on-software-free-downloads/

"we are offering free downloads and usage of VUE, PlantFactory, and PlantCatalog as perpetual versions to anyone interested in continuing to utilize these products and technologies! Simply download the product and acknowledge the new end-user-license-agreement (EULA) agreeing to using the software without support."  The word "maintenance" is not on that page.

I am still using my 2023 version which seems to be working fine.  Here is a short trailer with shots @ 5 and 13 seconds that I could not do any other way than VUE:

FeralFey said:

I've tried playing with it a few days ago and I was deeply disappointed. Especially after I put in my vendor name, as a test, and it only popped up about 40 products, half of which were not products I made, nor were they related to anything in my catalog - with the exception of the five or six hair products that came up next to my one Bedhead hair product. 

I just tried it and nothing happens when I click the AI Search BETA button.

When I filtered the main store page by your products only 208 showed up. When filtered to your vendor page 209 show up. I own 50 of your products.

felis said:

Or see this https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/609556/creating-a-ghost-light-daz-studio-4-21-1-26#latest

Thank you for this link, I'll check it out, its definitely exactly the kind of thing i'm looking to collate here in the thread....

Just to add to the original request with some reassoning...   ...I'm already aware of how to make a true ghost light in terms of what would be understrood as a ghost light accross multiple 3D software communities i.e an emmissive primitive that has a very low cutout opacity, in turn meaning the light itslef as well as being invisible also casts no shadows as a result (along with other properties, perhaps we will come to make a comprehensive list of comparatives in this thread?).  The purpose of me bringing this up is just that it feels like an area that can be tapped into, progressed/expanded upon and the core principle can transfer to other creative lighting solutions, so I was trying to put the feelers out as to what as a community we are understanding to be a ghost light, since I noticed some ghost light products, although 'camera view to render' invisible, also do not have a low cutout opacity, which means they do actually cast shadows which technically is a different, although closely related emmissive object - so that notion led me to wonder what else the community is using and understanding to fall under the umbrella of the term 'ghost light' - It feels like there is a lot of potential worthy of time spent gaining education, since the use cases are already brimming with potential with just the two variants I've mentioned here....

Any and all additions and examples very welcome, lets tool up our arsenal with lighting solutions and tips and techniques for this extremely valuable and somewhat elusive area of lighting...

I haven't had a chance to use it and I do like the style. Thank you @crosswind for a fix. I may not be able to work with any products for weeks right now, but I am glad I saw this thread.

Mary

I am not clear where the (very limited scope of) fair use is relevant here? If you wish to be able to use your renders commercially you need to avoid Editorial License products. No license allows you to share the products (the content from the store) with others.