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.

Lori Hair for Genesis 3 and 8 Female(s)
Jette Hair for Genesis 3 and 8
 

UV Tailor

Nerea Hair for Genesis 8 Female(s)

Natural Petite Morphs for Victoria 7

April Rain Undergarments for Genesis 3 Female(s)

The Secret Valley (Iray Worlds)

Riot Girl for Genesis 3 Female(s)

Ron's Winter Bundle

Sweater Shaders Merchant Resources

Horror Eyes for Genesis 8 Male and Female

The Morak Badlands
 

Planet Earth UTRA HD 32K for Iray

DA Real World Lighting

Rodent Base by AM

Breast Control Puppeteer Support for Genesis 3 Female(s) and Genesis 2 Female(s)
seems like more, but already cant remember what was 2.99 or not... 

 

`Yeah, it's sneaky. 2.99 is not much, and whoops, you've spent a whole bunch of money... again.

What did you get?

I've been very good so far and only got the modern barn and Aiko 7. But I'm still wondering whether I should have gotten Mykonos...

 

This is what I see in my product library, it fills a whole damned page 

• Terrain-Morphs-Vol1 For TerraDome 3
• College Dormitory
• aniMate Idles for Victoria 8
• Draupadi for Genesis 3 Female(s)
• Benita for Victoria 8
• Marc for Michael 8
• Ron's Winter Collection
• Ron's Magical Snow
• Ron's Frost
• Ron's Powder
• Ron's Winter Bundle
• Kibamusha for Genesis 2 Male(s) and DAZ Horse 2
• Airport Island - Mariana Trench Resort
• Airport Island - Sea Base (Inactive)
• Santa's Toy Workshop
• The Secret Valley (Iray Worlds)
• M3DTeen HD for Genesis 2 Male(s)
• Cole HD - Extension for M3DTeen Base
• M3DTeen Base for Genesis 2 Male(s) and Cole Bundle
• Vascularity HD for Genesis 2 Female(s) and Genesis 2 Male(s)
• Devin for Genesis 3 Male(s)
• Midnight Huntress for Genesis
• Karynna for Aiko 6
• Anarchy for Genesis 2 Female(s)
• Cory 6
• Cory 6 Bundle
• Island Boy Poses for Cory 6
• FWSA Kirk for Cory 6
• Jake Hair for Genesis 2 Male(s)
• i13 Casual Male Pose Collection for the Genesis 3 Male(s)
• Lori Hair for Genesis 3 and 8 Female(s)
• Shape Shift for Genesis 2 Male(s) / M6
• Veins HD for Genesis 2 Male(s)
• Dance Party Room
• The Meeting Lodge
• The Meeting Lodge Interior

Lori Hair for Genesis 3 and 8 Female(s)
Jette Hair for Genesis 3 and 8
 

UV Tailor

Nerea Hair for Genesis 8 Female(s)

Natural Petite Morphs for Victoria 7

April Rain Undergarments for Genesis 3 Female(s)

The Secret Valley (Iray Worlds)

Riot Girl for Genesis 3 Female(s)

Ron's Winter Bundle

Sweater Shaders Merchant Resources

Horror Eyes for Genesis 8 Male and Female

The Morak Badlands
 

Planet Earth UTRA HD 32K for Iray

DA Real World Lighting

Rodent Base by AM

Breast Control Puppeteer Support for Genesis 3 Female(s) and Genesis 2 Female(s)
seems like more, but already cant remember what was 2.99 or not... 

`Yeah, it's sneaky. 2.99 is not much, and whoops, you've spent a whole bunch of money... again.

What did you get?

I've been very good so far and only got the modern barn and Aiko 7. But I'm still wondering whether I should have gotten Mykonos...

Novica said:

The Randomizer 2 was just on flash sale and if you had the Victoria code it really was a steal. Got it for $9.59   Are all these previous renders using the first one? Anyone used the 2 ? 

This one was done with Randomizer 2 (same with my prior posts) and using Sickleyield's People of Earth: Faces of Europe Genesis 8 Female and People of Earth: Faces of Africa Genesis 8 Female applied to the G8F base character.  I think she turned out quite well.  Just love this tool and coupled with Sickleyiel's People of Earth series for G8.  You can get some really great different characters.  

if you're just looking to keep your costs down while maximizing variety

Yes! you understand perfectly :)
so it is not so necessary have Victoria character, all links in this thread are for genesis 8, right?

It's not a texture converter, it just creates a preset to apply the V4 texture to G2F. G2F has alternate UVs to use V4 textures thanks to the "Victoria 4 for G2F" product.

If you want to use a V4 texture on G8F you'll need this: https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-victoria-4

The G3F version is at Rendo: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-3-v4/113767/

Unfortunately DraagonStorm passed away a few years ago so she won't be able to help.

What is the error message you get? Do you have the required product for the convertor installed?

Wow, this selection is top notch. I think they were holding out for those Victoria coupons to expire! 

With all the money I spend here, I never got a single Victoria Birthday coupon and it was my birthday too...

Happy belated Birthday Alicia!! Hope it was a good one!

Wow, this selection is top notch. I think they were holding out for those Victoria coupons to expire! 

With all the money I spend here, I never got a single Victoria Birthday coupon and it was my birthday too...

I am in the same boat (except it was not my birthday), so you are not alone.

Wow, this selection is top notch. I think they were holding out for those Victoria coupons to expire! 

With all the money I spend here, I never got a single Victoria Birthday coupon and it was my birthday too...

I can already see the 0-star excuses:

"Bad, the textures are bland and the windows are black" (on a pre-iRay product)

"Do not buy, this outfit clips everywhere, shoes don't fit at all!" (on every Victoria 4 outfit)

"This outfit didn't show up in my Smart Content" (on add-on textures for some actual outfit)

"These buildings kept giving some error about Veu path not found on installation! Will not buy again from this artist!"

"This figure doesn't have any genitals, I want my mothers' money back!" (on every figure that's not purchased in a pro-pack or is clearly of minor age)

I'm sure many people can figure out way more "ratings" from "experienced users".

And even then, some set may turn out perfect for one user, and totally unfit for another. I personally love the I13 bundles, simply because they're very versatile in their use. I rarely use those scenes "as they are", but do use the props, outfits and poses everywhere. They can be great as they are, especially considering their general pricepoint, but some people might still find them too limited or too much of a hassle to use (since many aren't iRay). Does that make them bad products? No, they're probably just not what the purchaser wanted or expected out of them, which is something different.

Wow, this selection is top notch. I think they were holding out for those Victoria coupons to expire! 

Hi,

I bought the https://www.daz3d.com/victorian-innocence-base-outfit package. On the Victoria birthday sale i missed to by the Virtoria 4 bundle. I find the Victoria 4.2 Base and bought it. But the innocent outfit doesn't appear and dont loadet on the lost and found to the Victoria 4.2 Model. Where can I get the Viktoria V4 Base?

This past month i've been messing around with the Diffeomorphic and this is the way the model looks.

There are some materials that the plugin can't do fine and you have to tweak them yourself. All the common materials in the G1-G8 basic characters and outfits packages seem to match fine. While some characters using advanced materials may not be fine. This happens for Victoria 8 for example, using diffuse overlay, dual lobe specualr and choromatic sss that are all not documented features in the daz uber shader documentation.

In the latest updates of the development version plugin Thomas was able to add support for diffuse overlay and dual lobe specular but the chromatic sss stills not supported.

https://bitbucket.org/Diffeomorphic/import-daz/issues/316/no-eyebrows-on-victoria-8

Did the bonus coupon program end or did I just not spend enough last week? (Actually I spent quite a bit but it was mostly from store credit)

I think it's ended. It's July now, and the bonuses were for Victoria's b'day in June.

I'm not hostile to Genesis, would welcome the support, but it should not break anything. Poser 11 broke a lot of things that worked in Poser 10 (especially in the shader and python department) and caused al lot of people, like Dreamlandmodels, to leave. Restoring compatability with older Poser versions - if possible already in a next Poser 11 fix - would be a good idea.

Both applications have been drifting apart for years and years, especially when they decided on different weightmapping technology and different render engines/shaders, and later different cloth and hair simulation technology. I'm a bit sceptical how close they can get together again. The only render engine I know of they still share is an external one; Reality/Lux.

They could go far a plugin system; an optional iRay exporter with DAZ shader support for those who'd like it. (No idea how the copyrights should be handled) Programs like Maya also rely on external render engines. Both DAZ and Poser could work on developing an external render plugin that supports both programs. But that's supposing they would even want to.

How well a program can handle two different weightmapping techonolgies at the same time; I have no idea. Dropping compatability with Dusk & Dawn, ProjectE, Bella, La Femme and the native Poser Characters would not sit well, either.

I would welcome better native Poser characters. Ever since Poser 5 the characters have been too mundane, and lacking in anatomical correctness and rigging. Good characters should be morphable from nerds to fashion models to super heroes to alien monsters. DAZ delivered, Poser did not.

I have no idea where Poser should go. (Personally, I hope not the way of ever RAM heavier content wiht the need for ever more powerul GPUs. Can't afford that.The need for ever more expensive graphics card made me drop DAZ Studio and iRay all together. I would need a render engine that is fast enough on CPU only.)

Poser needs better animation tools, particles, a better and faster render engine, better characters with better support. Better and more diverse content for Poser; the old stuff is good but some of it is getting old. Content creators that support all Poser render engines (SuperFly support is rare, even years after its launch)

DAZ has content that fully supports Studio's technology at the push of a button. Poser - well, not really. Especially where SuperFly's concerned.

Let's just wait and see where it goes.

 

You can have more than one type of weightmapping in a program. DAZ has had two since the beginning of DS4; "General" was the Dual Quaternion weightmapping so the program was set up to switch from the Triax by using the dropdown box when you're weighting the figure/object. The thing that allowed that happening is the fact that DS4 was a total rewrite of the code base; Poser is still sitting on the code from its inception. To move the program forward, it may be necessary to rewrite the code so that you can compartmentalize sections of code so you can add different weightmapping, use industry standards and make it easier to make changes. Getting the code to a point where it can handle changes and make user workflows easier may be the thing to do first before talking about importing 3rd party figures. Dumping fairly recent content that works would not be a good idea, however there may be some 20 year old content and tech that may need to be jettisoned so that new features can be supported. So while the Dawns, Roxies and Lafemmes, Victoria 4s should still be supported, they may not want to keep 20 year old features that no one hardly uses around. 

But that requires a major investment of money, hopefully they have that or it may be that Poser may just be around for maintenance fixes to keep the current version going. But again, they have to see if there are able (via manpower and finances) to dig in and properly modify the code better than the former Portugal team.