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Postwork: Adobe PS

Freebies

Hand: https://www.renderhub.com/vfoxgames/vfox-victoria-for-genesis-8-female-mothers-day-2025-gift

Lake: https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/96105/free-deep-ocean-for-daz

Sword: https://www.renderhub.com/dazinbane/excalibur

Water Splash: https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/17567-water-splash-brushes

Lens Flare: https://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/57376-free-lens-flares-photoshop-brushes-4

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Not much on the viewport (texture shaded) front, it's still very underwhelming in pretty much every situation I tried. I was curious so I tried to run fps stats on the viewport with a 3090 (576.52) @ 120Hz. It's very possible I made mistakes. So far it doesn't seem texture related, so Preference>Interface ain't gonna do much, if anything. Instancied nodes have a significant heavier impact on fps than duplicated nodes o_0. Doesn't feel it has been optimized yet, so any scenes that rely on instancied nodes gonna tank hard. But more concerning is sometimes the viewport seems to be degrading the more I open scenes:

1) Open Daz 6.25.2025.21308

2) add Victoria 9 HD (~120fps cap)

3) Open multiples more or less complex scenes

4) Create a new scene and add Victoria 9 HD (~55fps cap?)

5) If I close Daz and reopen, I'm back to 120fps

That said, a native show_fps on the viewport pane could be cool.

I have been updating to each new Genesis model since I begain working with DAZ back when Victoria 5 came out.  I have invested quite a bit in the subsequent models but finally have stopped with Genesis 8 & 8.1.

I get that each new model has had some great improvements, and think that is great, but it is also become an expense for me I can't absorb.

I would just like to mention this because i suspect I am not alone and would like to suggest to the community that they continue to create new items for the older models, I am sure they all get used a lot.

I use a variety of them in my work, mostly because I like them and the personality each one has.

I hope the creators will continue to improve things but also remember that there are some of us that would love to have new items created for our older models.

Thanks.

I would like to recommend a nice freebie scarf for g2f and g3f at rendo. With morphs to adapt it to clothing (neck and body) and 4 IRAY Materials (EDIT: Commercial use allowed)

https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/76875/winterscarf-for-g3f-amp-g2f

This is LY Sherri (1$ in Outlet Store atm)

https://www.daz3d.com/lyfw-sherri-hd-for-victoria-6

Wearing https://www.daz3d.com/frivolous-forties with a texture from  https://www.daz3d.com/forties-fatale-for-frivolous-forties

The hair is https://www.daz3d.com/thalia-hair

backstory: I like to watch my cricket and footy ( NRL ) so I stream using KAYO here in Australia. I looked into yearly subs to get it cheaper and the only way to get KAYO yearly was through an AFL club which I don't follow at all..

However, as membership and 12 months subscription to Collingwood Club was cheaper by a long way than monthly KAYO subscription I joined the Collingwood Football Club ( in a different state to me ) as my grandson lives in Victoria and follows the Magpies ( Collingwood ) so I just send all the membership perks that come with it to him and I enjoy watching my cricket and NRL to my hearts content on KAYO.

So I got a surprise the other day when Collingwood Marketing rang me and asked how I was enjoying the Magpies season so far ( unbeknown to me they are on top of the table ) .... ummm... yeah..... 

Thanks so much @mding & @richardandtracy (you really make V3 look like, "Victoria 9 who?!")

CastingDownImaginations

Stephanie 6 once again wearing The Outlander (AlfaSeed defunct) and riding Battle Boar (@AntMan you are the bomb, mate!) warding off The Dweller (so hideous that I had to turn his back to the camera; heebie jeebies!) and Blind Demon(s) attacking at twilight.

Martinjfrost said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Martinjfrost said:

felis said:

@Martinjfrost have you seen in the Ultrascatter Pro thread that Ultrascatter Pro under certain conditions crashes Daz Studio?

I am aware that there are crashes sometimes,. but these have been quite well tested and should be ok, as with everything to do with scattered objects, its always best to use the fewest possible instancees that helps avoid freeze ups and crashes.  

The issue is that importing Victoria 4.2, and possibly other ExP figues, crashes DS if Ultra Scatter 2 is installed. This has been posted to the US 2 thread.

Good to know as general info, this product wont be affected by that (unless you do import v2 ) as it has no relation ship to those things.    

I guess the hope was that you would make sure Howie was aware of the issue, since it is with the plug-in not content like yours.

Richard Haseltine said:

Martinjfrost said:

felis said:

@Martinjfrost have you seen in the Ultrascatter Pro thread that Ultrascatter Pro under certain conditions crashes Daz Studio?

I am aware that there are crashes sometimes,. but these have been quite well tested and should be ok, as with everything to do with scattered objects, its always best to use the fewest possible instancees that helps avoid freeze ups and crashes.  

The issue is that importing Victoria 4.2, and possibly other ExP figues, crashes DS if Ultra Scatter 2 is installed. This has been posted to the US 2 thread.

Good to know as general info, this product wont be affected by that (unless you do import v2 ) as it has no relation ship to those things.    

Martinjfrost said:

felis said:

@Martinjfrost have you seen in the Ultrascatter Pro thread that Ultrascatter Pro under certain conditions crashes Daz Studio?

I am aware that there are crashes sometimes,. but these have been quite well tested and should be ok, as with everything to do with scattered objects, its always best to use the fewest possible instancees that helps avoid freeze ups and crashes.  

The issue is that importing Victoria 4.2, and possibly other ExP figues, crashes DS if Ultra Scatter 2 is installed. This has been posted to the US 2 thread.

@richardandtracy: That is an incredible V3 Render!! It really shows the unused potential we have considering our old assets!

If I look at the Outlet Store, the https://www.daz3d.com/ranger-bundle-for-genesis-2-female-s seems to me especially useful, as it includes many assets, and also, if you don't own it yet, the https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-2-female-morphs-bundle for 1$ (several characters require the two morph packs included).

Then DAZ Core Characters: 

https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-6

https://www.daz3d.com/michael-6

https://www.daz3d.com/aiko-6

https://www.daz3d.com/keiko-6

https://www.daz3d.com/minotaur-6-hd-for-genesis-2-male-s with the https://www.daz3d.com/minotaur-6-hd-premiere-add-on-bundle

If you already own https://www.daz3d.com/reptilian-6-hd-for-genesis-2-male-s then there is the https://www.daz3d.com/reptilian-6-hd-premiere-add-on-bundle for 1$.

The rest depends on what you are looking for / what you like,

There is this 

https://www.daz3d.com/v4-skins-auto-converter-for-genesis-2-female-s

oh and this ( I forgot ) 

https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female

On my MacMini M4 I have installed both the Millennium SubDragon, Millennium Dragon, and Millennium Dragon 2.0, but when I click on the SubDragon a window pops up 'The "SubDragon" support folder could not be found.' And then a window with PowerLoader : Import is there. The window is blank. Millennium Dragon crashes DAZ when you try to load. Millennium Dragon 2 is stable and loads. I do have UltraScatter2 Plugin. I do not have Victoria 4.2, Michael 4 or the The Kids 4 installed. Did not want to deal with the files. 

I did not install Victoria 4.2 or Michael 4 on my new machines because of the massive number of files that need metadata, but with this issue, is it still possible for someone who wants to use the characters to move them up to Genesis or Genesis 2 with GenX? I am not sure, but I thought I had read GenX was not working any longer? But if you uninstalled your plugin long enough to load the character and move her up to a newer model, could you then reinstall the plug-in and use both at the same time?

Yeah, I could reproduce the issue. I wonder if the vendor wanted the user to manually dial the morph... but that seems to be wrong.

It's easy to fix as below:

- Locate the Victoria 9 Body.dsf, rename it to Victoria9_body_bs_Body.dsf.
- Open it with Notepad++. Ctrl + A. Go to menu: Plugins > MIME Tools > URL Decode...
- Ctrl + H to Replace All: Victoria 9 Body with Victoria9_body_bs_Body.  Ctrl + S to Save.

Then reload the skirt on G9, it'll work.

Hello,

According to the store description, 'dForce Hot Caribbean Nights for Genesis 9' has Victoria 9 among the supported shapes:

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-hot-caribbean-nights-for-genesis-9

But when I'm loading it on Victoria 9, the body morph used is an auto-generated one (as shown by me being the author and the absence of the file path field):

Studying the situation a bit further, there is indeed a 'Victoria 9 Body' morph, but the file is name 'Victoria 9 Body.dsf':

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/110736/file_list

On the clothes themselves, it's appear as a visible morph and when dialing 'Victoria9_body_bs_Body' (which is what Daz Studio is looking for if I'm understand how things work) down to zero and Victoria 9 Body up to 100%, everything seems to fit perfectly:

Is there a solution to solve the problem (outside of having to fill a ticket, which I'm planning to do later) and to get the morph created by Sveva to be used automatically by Daz Studio when fitting these clothing items on Victoria 9?

Using 4.24 without Power loader this is what I get in the log

2025-07-27 23:12:26.992 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: hip:PBMGluteus <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMGluteus while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.992 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: hip:PBMRectusFemorus <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMRectusFemorus while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.992 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: hip:PBMSartorius <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMSartorius while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.992 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: abdomen:PBMExternalOblique <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMExternalOblique while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: abdomen:PBMRectusAbdominus <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMRectusAbdominus while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: abdomen:PBMSerratus <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMSerratus while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: abdomen:PBMErectorSpinae <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMErectorSpinae while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: chest:PBMTrapezius <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMTrapezius while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: chest:PBMDeltoid <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMDeltoid while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: chest:PBMPectoral <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMPectoral while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: chest:PBMTeres <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMTeres while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: chest:PBMTeresMajor <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMTeresMajor while importing Poser File
2025-07-27 23:12:26.993 [INFO] :: Attempted to create a circular link: chest:PBMLatissimus <==> Victoria 4.2:PBMLatissimus while importing Poser File

And that is on a clean install of V4.

Yes, Victoria 4.2 in a saved scene doesn't seem to be an issue, it is just loading the Poser fromat version (at a quick test). I don't have M4 or the SubDragon installed to see if it affects any ExP figure, but I would not be surprised (on the other hand, it could be dForms - in which case Victoria would be the only one).

barbult said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Sorry to bump this with bad news, but Ultra Scatter 2 seems to crash DS when loading Victoria 4.2. The figure appears to load OK, then the application crashes after a few moments. I tried a few other Poser-format items, props and figures, without issue - Victoria 4 is going through Power Loader, I don't know if that might be an issue (perhaps relating to the ability to load new morphs in place). Edit: disabling Power Loader and the V4.2 .dsb loader script didn't help.

Are you saying that just having UltraScatter2 plugin installed causes the crash when loading Victoria 4.2? Would disabling the plugin while using Victoria 4.2 be a workaround?

To disable/reenable a plug-in you have to restart DS after making the change in Help>About Installed plug-ins. I didn't test to see if V4.2 would load from a saved scene with the plug-in enabled - let me try.

Richard Haseltine said:

Sorry to bump this with bad news, but Ultra Scatter 2 seems to crash DS when loading Victoria 4.2. The figure appears to load OK, then the application crashes after a few moments. I tried a few other Poser-format items, props and figures, without issue - Victoria 4 is going through Power Loader, I don't know if that might be an issue (perhaps relating to the ability to load new morphs in place). Edit: disabling Power Loader and the V4.2 .dsb loader script didn't help.

Are you saying that just having UltraScatter2 plugin installed causes the crash when loading Victoria 4.2? Would disabling the plugin while using Victoria 4.2 be a workaround?

Sorry to bump this with bad news, but Ultra Scatter 2 seems to crash DS when loading Victoria 4.2. The figure appears to load OK, then the application crashes after a few moments. I tried a few other Poser-format items, props and figures, without issue - Victoria 4 is going through Power Loader, I don't know if that might be an issue (perhaps relating to the ability to load new morphs in place). Edit: disabling Power Loader and the V4.2 .dsb loader script didn't help.