I seldom use any character as they are, but for base characters to start from, The Girl 6 and Ysabeau 6 are probably my favorites (both with some Victoria 6, and other morphs as well). But I also really liked Callie 6 and P3D Quinty (both with additional morphs morphs). IMHO the Genesis 2 Female Morphs Bundle is also a must with almost any character to get them perfect look.

Darius 6, Gianni 6, Stephanie 6, Ninive 6, everything by Raiya, especially the discontinued Liu Yan:

That's a really old jacket for Victoria 3. The vendor was Colm Jackson who did a lot with Poser over at RDNA before the merger. So, odds are he might have picked it up at a different store and not here. Some of the old timers might be able to give you a clue as to what hair, but it might not be available anymore for purchase. I have no clue what the hair is.

Thank you I think it might have come from Runtime, I thought I had it but for the life of me can not find it as yet.

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That's a really old jacket for Victoria 3. The vendor was Colm Jackson who did a lot with Poser over at RDNA before the merger. So, odds are he might have picked it up at a different store and not here. Some of the old timers might be able to give you a clue as to what hair, but it might not be available anymore for purchase. I have no clue what the hair is.

Hey guys! Noobie here!

quick question: Can The Girl 8 be merged with Mika 8 like Aiko 7 could be merged with Mika 7? Or can it only be merged with the characters in the photograph in The Girl’s prodocut page (Victoria, Stephanie, Charlotte, Penny, Aiko.)

I love the look of Aiko 7 and Mika 7, but looking for the benefits of Gen 8. I really wasn’t feeling the look of the Mika 8 morphs so I thought mixing it with The Girl might soften it up a little while keeping a stylized look.

I purchased 3 of Xurge 3D models...I can't get them to work properly in Daz3D on any of the models...is there someone or some tutorial that can show me how to get the clothing to work properly?  I also haven't been able to re download the purchased models.  I have sent two emails over the last 2 years with no response.

 

Cory

You need to load the very old Michael 4 or Victoria 4 models in Daz, then load the clothes and select "fit to" (...M4 or V4). If you have Wear Them All for Genesis 3, or RSSY V4 to G8, you can convert them forward to more modern characters pretty easily. If you only use Genesis 8 and are not experienced with converting clothes forward, you need to load Genesis, fit the Xurge3d clothes to them to trigger autofit, and then autofit again to Genesis 8. The results of the second method won't be impressive, especially if you haven't bought Ultra Templates or something else that would expand your autofit options, but it will work.

Some of his clothes use mtl files for the texture sets (which Daz can't read) rather than pz2, which it can. The good news is that all the clothes from one Xurge set usually are set up to fit on a single UVmap, which means that all you need to do is to select all the articles of clothing, go to the surfaces tab, select all the surfaces, and browse to the location of that outfit's textures, and apply the same texture to all pieces at once. (Then save out as a DS materials preset, of course).

a bit off topic as Carrara

but this is how the 8 generations of Victoria speak with the Carrara mimic plugin

sadly only the first 4 generations could be exported fully to DAZ studio as pz2 files using a plugin no longer sold at DAZ by Fenric

g3 & 8 can bone movements via BVH with that plugin but lacks morphs

Wonderful ear, Veronika.  The subsurface effect is amazing (assuming I'm identifying it correctly - if not, then it is even more impressive).

Happy 4th, Misty.

Welcome back, Andrew.  Great to see you posting again.

Thanks for the nice comment, UB and Headwax.

Here is the final of the world-gone-bad image.  I inserted David 5, Victoria 6, and Misty's Johnathan G3M figure with Veronika's Lukas skin maps.  Some post work with Filter Forge Steve J Dreamscape (mixed in at low setting) and some adjustments of levels in PSE.

Straight render

Adjusted

 

Really like the environment you created with this image. Thanks for the explanations.

Using the ITF Merchant Morphs on other characters

Because ITF Ears Remove, ITF Eyes Remove and ITF Nose Remove are made for the base Genesis 8 Female shape, adding another character shape will result in deformations such as these (Victoria 8):

The ITF morphs still get you most of the way there, so it is a quick process to export this mesh into a sculting application of your choice for a simple smooth of the affected areas. I use Mudbox, but Blender is a free option with lots of training materials. Another option to do it all in Daz Studion may be X-Morphs / Shape Splitter (https://www.daz3d.com/shape-splitter), though I don't yet own it myself to test:

HD details for characters can be applied, but the detail will still show up in the previously removed areas:

A quick fix for this when doing still renders is to blend a render with HD details applied with a render without HD details. I used photoshop to do this, but most 2D applications will allow this:

To make the textures work with the removal morphs, I used clone stamping and spot healing in Photoshop to remove the texture information surrounding the eyes, ears and nose. When rendered and combined as above, this is the result:

Is there a blush face effect for victoria 4 at all? I have seen ones mentioned for G3 and other later figured but not Victoria 4 ever. Can anyone suggest one I can get here or anywhere if there is one? thx.

Peaches is adorable! I picked up Peaches, Expansion 1, and Cheetahs for $2.99 each since they're on sale right now. I really like her. The description says that she can use Cookies hair, clothing, etc, so I'll have to see about snagging a few of Cookie's clothing items and hair when they're on sale. :) Also, she appears to do ok with Victoria 4 poses, with some minor adjustments needed. So far though the V4 poses I've tried with her work pretty well. It looks like mainly just feet and fingers need some adjustment after applying the poses.

I've been seeing mentions of Save with Victoria, but never saw anything about the actual deal; I guess I was unworthy....

To celebrate Victoria's birthday each week during June there were discount coupons of either 20% or 10% off depending on how much you spent the week before. But purchases made with store credit didn't count toward getting the discount.

 

I did use store credit, butIf I'd known I might have paid with money if it resulted in a good coupon.  I read my DAZ emails so I don't know how I missed hearing about it.  Ah well...

Victoria

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

since I used your audio for comparison I unlisted it

I may try one with each Vicky later individually using my voice

Entry: #23

Title: World Gone Bad

Artist: Diomede (Ted Murphy)

WIP:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/4713071/#Comment_4713071

Comments: Credits to Misty for Johnathan (G3M compatible with Carrara) and Vyusur G3M Lucas character, David 5, Victoria 6.  All clothing available in Daz store, including Tow and Country fo Genesis, TS Jacket for Genesis, Wildmane hair for Genesis, Hikari hair for G2F, 70s Romper for G2F, Toon generation pants and shirt for G3M.

Wonderful ear, Veronika.  The subsurface effect is amazing (assuming I'm identifying it correctly - if not, then it is even more impressive).

Happy 4th, Misty.

Welcome back, Andrew.  Great to see you posting again.

Thanks for the nice comment, UB and Headwax.

Here is the final of the world-gone-bad image.  I inserted David 5, Victoria 6, and Misty's Johnathan G3M figure with Veronika's Lukas skin maps.  Some post work with Filter Forge Steve J Dreamscape (mixed in at low setting) and some adjustments of levels in PSE.

Straight render

Adjusted

And some of us always pay with store credit. :(

If you bought decent size GC's (don't know what the threshhold was) which were available pretty much each week, those had to have counted.  Bought GC and used GC's to buy items.  Got all coupons but 1, cos I didn't buy a GC one week.  And ya, my impression was Victoria Bday was for June only, that's why they made the last coupon a bit longer to June 30th.

The impression I got about those Victoria Bday coupons was Daz wanted to reward and incentive-ize current bigger spenders that allow the next generation of DAZ products to go forward, like Next Generations of Victoria etc. and the software environment to support it, like SBH, RTX support, anim developments.  That meant you gave Daz more money now, after a certain threshhold, you got bigger incentives now.  Just like brick n' mortar stores do with bigger buys.  It is unfortunate for some bigger buyers that buy really big GC once, that they couldn't figure out a resource-effective way to account for this.  If they have future events like this going forward, maybe they will find ways?

Well I bought a $132 GC in the qualifying week and got no coupon at all ...

And some of us always pay with store credit. :(

If you bought decent size GC's (don't know what the threshhold was) which were available pretty much each week, those had to have counted.  Bought GC and used GC's to buy items.  Got all coupons but 1, cos I didn't buy a GC one week.  And ya, my impression was Victoria Bday was for June only, that's why they made the last coupon a bit longer to June 30th.

The impression I got about those Victoria Bday coupons was Daz wanted to reward and incentive-ize current bigger spenders that allow the next generation of DAZ products to go forward, like Next Generations of Victoria etc. and the software environment to support it, like SBH, RTX support, anim developments.  That meant you gave Daz more money now, after a certain threshhold, you got bigger incentives now.  Just like brick n' mortar stores do with bigger buys.  It is unfortunate for some bigger buyers that buy really big GC once, that they couldn't figure out a resource-effective way to account for this.  If they have future events like this going forward, maybe they will find ways?

Is the Save with Victoria thing already over or are my spendings just not meeting the threshold? Had hopes for a final gift card option. The current pro bundle extra $ doesn’t cut it so a gift card would definitely sweeten the deal.

I think it is over now. At least I didn't get a coupon this week.

I've been seeing mentions of Save with Victoria, but never saw anything about the actual deal; I guess I was unworthy....

To celebrate Victoria's birthday each week during June there were discount coupons of either 20% or 10% off depending on how much you spent the week before. But purchases made with store credit didn't count toward getting the discount.

I've been seeing mentions of Save with Victoria, but never saw anything about the actual deal; I guess I was unworthy....

Is the Save with Victoria thing already over or are my spendings just not meeting the threshold? Had hopes for a final gift card option. The current pro bundle extra $ doesn’t cut it so a gift card would definitely sweeten the deal.