What eyeshadow makeup is this, may I ask?

I used the character "Tara 2" by Kayleyss.
Definitely one of my all time favorite characters.
https://www.daz3d.com/tara-2-hd-for-victoria-7-victoria-8
Here is the same scene used in the thumbnails, zoomed out and without any of the Fantasy Skins effect.
 

Hi there it is indeed my GDN Lynn Skin that I used in these promo images and I used the head shape of Victoria 8 hope this helps. 

For Realism, besides the ones already listed,  I'm a big fan of these girls

https://www.daz3d.com/evelyn--lynn-hd-for-genesis-8-female

https://www.daz3d.com/albany-hd-for-genesis-8-female

https://www.daz3d.com/leony-hd-for-victoria-8

https://www.daz3d.com/emma-for-genesis-3--8-female

https://www.daz3d.com/andrea-for-genesis-8-female

Thank you all for your friendly comments. And sriesch and Horo for their suggestions how to achive the effect of flying dust articles. Frankly said, I did not think of a volumetric material nor a 2D face, which would be quite obvious, but these ideas came not in my mind. I just replicated 200 tiny cubes within a certain range and used a mirror material for them.

@Horo: both sketch pictures look good. Of the first one you could think its made with a pencil. The handshaking toon Victoria and the realistic Victoria is an interesting approach.

@Hansmar: Nicely done, the little mars rover should be careful not to go too close the shiny object.

@mermaid010: Beautiful render with a very convincing haze. The clouds look nearly as they were painted.

For once I did not make a scene with a female character :-). The scene is lit by IBL with a HDRI from hdrihaven.com (very good resource for HDRIs). The car is a Daz3D model. The texture for its body is from the original model. I tweaked the rims, the glass, and the chorme parts. The ground floor is a cube with one of David Brinnen's material. You as Bryce wizards will surely recognize that the shadow of the back wall is missing. With it the illusion of reality would be perfect, but I could not figure out how to create it. :-(

I'm not using GoZ anymore but I know of some issues I had in the past. ZBrush can't handle geometry issues like ngons or unconnected vertices while DazStudio simply ignores them.

My suggestion check that you "unfit" any geografts, hair and clothes of the Victoria 7 figure before using GoZ. Also if the figure is parented to a prop the whole thing gets imported to ZBrush.

If some figure attachments have issues in the geometry like ngones or unconnected vertecies GoZ dosn't work at least its giving you an error because vertex count dosn't match anymore if you try to get your sculpt back to DazStudio that is very frustrating at some times. On the other hand with quality assets there shouldn't be any geometry issues.

Thanks, Syrus. I tend to modify figures extensively with skin and morph utilities and I use a fair number of second-party items, so I'm probably going to run into this occasionally. Instead of trying to track the source of the problem I'll probably just use the workaround. In general Daz and Zbrush have been working well for me--I think Zbrush 2018 is more compatible with DS. Zbrush morphs haven't been distorted as they sometimes were in the past and I'm not getting a lot of crashes in either program.

Surely wish I could have used Nun's outfit for Victoria, but could not get the dress to conform properly in kneeling position. Till next time, cheers

If using the G8F for this, take a look in the forum for a tutorial an how to get V4 as a "Clone" for G8F. Once you do that process, Any clothing item for V4 will work on G8F.

Hi friend, thanks.  That was a long time ago, couldn't get nun dress to work in kneeling position

Surely wish I could have used Nun's outfit for Victoria, but could not get the dress to conform properly in kneeling position. Till next time, cheers

If using the G8F for this, take a look in the forum for a tutorial an how to get V4 as a "Clone" for G8F. Once you do that process, Any clothing item for V4 will work on G8F.

If I'm not mistaken, the Genesis Base UV is virtually identical the V4 (except for the eye); so, the V4 to G8F version of this product should work. Please double check and verify that the V4 UV is the same as Genesis Base.

Greetings,

I'm at a complete loss, unfortunately.  Can any of these products allow me to use a Genesis (base!) skin on G8?  I get the geoshell, which is awesome, but I can't seem to apply a _base_ Genesis texture to the shell.

I'm specifically trying to apply the Foxy texture from Foxy and Wolfy, but it seems not to work at all.

• Prepare Genesis 8 Female
• The UVs available on the 'Legacy UVs Geograft' are only Genesis 2 Female and Victoria 4.
• Try to apply Foxy texture anyway.  Looks like attachment.  Makes sense, because the UV isn't the Genesis base UV.

What product or process gives a base Genesis UV for a geoshell on Genesis 8?

--  Morgan

If you try installing soemthign else via DIM, such as the weekly freebie, does that work? It does sound as if either the directories don't match or there is a failure to communicate with the Content Management System.

Victoria 4 base, and the ExP expansions, cannot be isntalled via Connect at this time.

Hi Richard, everything else installs just fine via DIM...  Have attempted another go at it with these 6 installers - DIM shows they downloaded and installed just fine but Studio shows them as Greyed Out Icons with the same Triangle and ! symbol...  I can Right Click on those icons but there is no option to install them.  Only options showing are to update MeteData, which i did, Export MetaData, some additional options and viewing the file(s) location(s), which when clicked on does nothing...  Therefore I have downloaded all 6 files manually from My Product Library @ DAZ but do not know how to proceed as there are both DS & Poser software showing in the unzipped files and the Readme's are so old now that i am unable to make sense of the info as it is very sketchy...  How did you all do these installations prior to DIM?

Thanks for your prompt reply and hopefully we can get this resolved soon...

If you try installing soemthign else via DIM, such as the weekly freebie, does that work? It does sound as if either the directories don't match or there is a failure to communicate with the Content Management System.

Victoria 4 base, and the ExP expansions, cannot be isntalled via Connect at this time.

Note it adds the Victoria 7 head and body shape to Victoria 8, it does not let you use Genesis 3 Female morphs on Genesis 4 Female.

Help!  All of a sudden the complete Victoria 4.2 & Morphs ++ downloaded and installed via DIM will not run, show as being uninstalled in DAZ Studio 4.10, are greyed out and have a triangle with an ! in both Smart Content as well as the Content Library...   I cannot even access the installer(s) inside Studio as they are greyed out.  I have never manually installed content as it has always been installed via DIM so I do not know where to begin...  Especially since these files are so critical to be able to use any of my V4 content, which i have a lot of...

Please note the DAz Content folder is on its own drive (G), however it is not an external drive.   Also I have run the uninstall program via the Installed Tab for all 3 installers for both V4.2 as well as V4.2 ++ within DIM.  I then took the extra steps of deleting all of those installer Packages in the To Be Installed Tab.  I have rerun both the download(s) and installation(s) multiple times yet with the same results even though DIM shows the installations were completed!!  What's additionally starnge is all of the other Characters within this series have installed and run just fine!  Only V4.2 has this problem.  Therefore could there be something new within this 4.10.0.123 in the 64 bit version of Studio that would cause this as this problem has not occurred with prior versions starting with 4.8 and why all of a sudden would it be happening??  I have been using 4.10... ever since it came online as the full version...  I do not install Beta versions of any of my software especially when it involves such complexities as in Studio.

Therefore I am reaching out to you the experts on how to proceed as I am totally stumped realizing that since the installers have both Studio and Poser files within their respective installation progams.  I have looked all over the Forums but have found nothing pertaining to this particular issue.

Thanks in advance for anyway you can assist me in resolving this most perplexing problem.

Universal Pose Splitter will allow you to split Poses and Timeline Animations as Partial Pose Presets, or Partial Animation Presets. Those Partial Pose or Animation Presets will then apply only to the bones you defined when you created them. It includes batch tools so that you can create you own libraries of “lower body poses” or “upper body poses” or “head poses” or “eyes poses” or “wings poses” or “tail poses” or, etc, etc…

Single Save or Batch Process:

• Universal Pose Splitter can process either the current Pose or Timeline Animation of your scene, or you can decide to use a Batch Process on a large number of existing files. Using a Batch Process will be great to create full Libraries of "Left Arm Only" or "Right Hand Only" or "Head and Neck Only", or "Lower Body Only", "Tail" etc, etc.. Pose or Animation presets. This way you will be able to efficiently build new poses by combining the Partial Presets split from the Pose Presets already existing in your Smart Content or your Content Library.
• Many tools and options have been included to create and manage the list of files to be processed, and the characteristics of the output file names, with two level of details for the output path, an optional suffix to the names, and the possibility to re-use the original thumb.
• In all cases (Single Save or Batch), you have the opportunity to decide whereas you want to save the Type only of the file (Pose or Animation), or to add Smart Content information such as category and compatibility. You can even add sub categories if you want!

Any Figure you want, any Split you want:

• You can process this way any figure you want: human, animal, creature, robot, vehicle. The only constraint is that it must be a figure! The dynamic interface will adapt to your choices.
• Either you decide to work with the Classical Settings provided for Daz Human Figures (from Victoria 4 to Genesis 8 including all the Genesis generations), or you decide to work with the Advanced Settings interface parts exploiting your own custom list of bones and properties for any figure. In the Advanced case of figure, all the tools you need have been included to create rapidly your own presets of bones to be saved, and to save and reload them as soon as you need them. Lists of bones can be added to each other to create more complex lists. In the case of Human Figures, you can also set your current choices as default for the next sessions.

Any Frame you want:

• You can save either the current frame, or a custom list of frames from an animation, or an animation within the Frame Range you decide. For Batch Process of Animations, you can choose to process the whole animation for each file, or to keep the current Frame Range you set.

Designed for a Maximum Efficiency:

• Universal Pose Splitter has been conceived to save a maximum of time.
• All the key settings can be set as default for the next sessions, so that you don't lose time doing the same steps over and over from one session to another.
• Even better: you can save a huge amount of time by saving full configuration files for your interface, including absolutely everything! You can this way create configuration files including the output path for the files -also remembered from one session to another-, your choice in term of "Human" or "Advanced" settings, your choices for the bones and properties to be saved, the list of bones if they exist, all the "frame" options, the Smart Content options, for a batch process the list of files to be processed, the Batch options, etc, etc.., well, everything!
• You can create as many configuration files as you want, and reload any of them totally or partially thanks to check boxes allowing you to define exactly what you want to reload. And you can even set those check boxes status as default! This way you can for instance save and reload bones and properties configurations (for instance Dragon Wings, or Dog Tail, or Genesis 8 Left Hand). You can also reload only the list of files for a Batch Process and/or the Batch Process options if you want to. You can reload in any session anything you want from any configuration file finally, which is a huge time saver!
• Many other options are available such as buttons to remove an animation, or to add this script to the Main Menu of Daz Studio.

The product is well documented with a full pdf documentation, and I added two quick start videos, one concerning the classical way to work with Daz Human figures, and the other one to show how to work on any figure, or on very specific bones selections.

For Human Figures:

For Any Figure, any bones:

 @FSMCDesigns  Ok got it, thank you.

Youi need victoria 7 to get the full effect of the V7 addon products. You can also use the V7 addon products with genesis 7 female, but you don't get the V7 parts that were used with the addon character.

The V7 for V8 product it to bring in the V7 morphs and textures over to V8.

Youi need victoria 7 to get the full effect of the V7 addon products. You can also use the V7 addon products with genesis 7 female, but you don't get the V7 parts that were used with the addon character.

The V7 for V8 product it to bring in the V7 morphs and textures over to V8.

The PoserDazFreebies wiki has a list of a TON of free female characters, free textures, free clothing and hair, etc. What generation do you want to work with?

Genesis 3 Female:

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_3_Female/Faces_and_Morphs

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_3_Female/Materials_and_Shaders

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_3_Female/Wardrobe

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_3_Female/Hair

Genesis 2 Female:

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_2_Female/Morphs

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_2_Female/Materials_and_Shaders

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_2_Female/Wardrobe

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Genesis_2_Female/Hair

There is also a few freebies for Genesis 8 Female and they have quite a few listed for Genesis as well. I think the figure with the most freebies is probably going to be Victoria 4 - since she was the main figure for longest. However she's pretty old, so her bends and stuff aren't nearly as good as the new generation figures. BUT if you know what you're doing you can still create some beautiful art with Victoria 4 figures.

https://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/wiki/Victoria_4

They have a ton of poses, props, and environments listed as freebies as well. When I first started out with 3D art I had a teeny tiny budget so I relied very heavily on freebies. That PoserDazFreebies wiki was a Godsend for me. :) I never would have been able to learn nearly as much about 3D art without the generosity of those who've made and given away those freebies to the community. :) I hope you find that wiki as helpful as I did. :D

Does this product https://www.daz3d.com/victoria-7-for-victoria-8 work with all Victoria 7 add-on characters too? Or would I need the actual Victoria 7 model to work with add-on characters such as https://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-hannah-hd-for-victoria-7?

Two general questions, with Victoria HD and Gia HD as examples, but it could be any HD:

1) When I use Victoria HD on Gia instead of the Gia HD, what is the difference?

2) If I dial out Gia from Gia HD and Victoria from Victoria HD, they should be identical?

welll.... since the contest isn't officially closed I'll give it a shot I'll post it here and add it into the Entries only if the Grand Marshall declares an extension ;)

Bohemian3 #1 - Moving Into the First Home

The Commander and his wife move into their very first home with their son Dammie, born the Sixth of June, coming into the world at six am sharp, punctilious like his dad.

• Parkside Passenger Car
• Old West Saloon Interior
• Subtle Poses for Victoria 6
• Brandan Hair