3D Art Freebie Challenge February 2019 "Strange Love"

 

"Shameful Love"

Starring: Anaya and Blake

The tale:

Rome 1867, Blake who lives in London (Victorian Era, 1837-1901) is visiting 'Templum Veneris et Fons Iuventatis' (The Temple of Venus and the Fountain of Youth) every year and just had some gulps of water from the Fountain of Youth. She is fifty (!) years old, almost 51 still not married and that was a shame in those days. She did not like men, she likes women, or rather she loves them! But that would be a huge disgrace for her family so she didn't tell anybody about it. Not yet...

Soundtrack:

Shocking Blue - Venus (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk

(Theme soundtrack)
Koop - Strange Love (2008)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW_NfXd47aA

COUNTABLE FREEBIES: (Alphabetic order)

#01! 3Stone Ring for Genesis 3 Female by AllenArt
http://www.sharecg.com/v/86396/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/3Stone-Ring-for-Genesis-3-Female  **

#02! AllenArt Iray Jewelry Shaders by AllenArt
https://www.sharecg.com/v/85120/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/AllenArt-Iray-Jewelry-Shaders  **

#03! Anaya for G3/G8 by hindudreams
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/anaya-for-g3-g8/78072  **

#04! Bas-relief (Lion's head) .3DS by Howlsofhatred
https://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=f6efc5f3

#05! Bezel Cut Ring for Genesis 3 Female by AllenArt
http://www.sharecg.com/v/88848/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Bezel-Cut-Ring-for-Genesis-3-Female  **

#06! Bracelets for Genesis 3 Female by ReneGMata
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/bracelets-for-genesis-3-female/80433  **

#07! Braid Bracelets for G3M, G3F, G8M, and G8F by Fisty
http://www.sharecg.com/v/92874/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Braid-Bracelets-for-G3M-G3F-G8M-and-G8F  **

#08! Braid Bracelets for Genesis, G2F, and G2M by Fisty
http://www.sharecg.com/v/92873/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Braid-Bracelets-for-Genesis-G2F-and-G2M  **

#09! Butterfly by Age Of Armour
http://www.ageofarmour.com/3d/free/butterfly.php

#10! CElegance Jewelry for G2F by Amaranth
https://sharecg.com/v/86783/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/CEleganceJewelry  **

#11! Chests & Chains by Mapps Graphics
http://www.freewebs.com/mapps/downloads1.htm (Item 4)
[Chain used on the Evening Clutch Purse]

#12! Classy Hat for G3F by Amaranth
https://sharecg.com/v/86794/related/21/DAZ-Studio/Classy-Hat  **

#13! Curiosities - Stand by Anna Benjamin, Lady Littlefox, RuntimeDNA
https://www.daz3d.com/curiosities_stand01  **

#14! Cyclide Ritual Earrings (OBJ Version) by LuxXeon
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/cyclide-ritual-earrings-obj-version-/75592  **
[Used on the Evening Clutch Purse chain]

#15! Dancing Loops Bangle for Genesis 3 Female by AllenArt
https://www.sharecg.com/v/88806/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Dancing-Loops-Bangle-for-Genesis-3-Female  **

#16! Elegance Dress for G2F by Bobbie25
https://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_01  (page 24)

#17! Evening Clutch Purse by Wilmap's Digital Creations
https://www.wilmapsdigitalcreations.co.uk/view_product.php?id=180  **

#18! Gated Courtyard Bundle by Daz Originals
https://www.daz3d.com/gated-courtyard-bundle  **  (DAZ3D Bi-weekly Freebie Feb 4 - Feb 18)
[Gated Courtyard used]

#19! Harmony Nest Earrings (OBJ Version) by LuxXeon
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/harmony-nest-earrings-obj-version-/75380  **
[Used on the Classic Hat]

#20! Labeled Whiskey Bottle by Area-50
https://www.sharecg.com/v/24358/gallery/11/Poser/Botles  **
[Retextured]

#21! Liquids - DS Shaders & Poser MT5s by Fisty
http://www.sharecg.com/v/82337/gallery/7/Material-and-Shader/Fistys-Liquids-DS-Shaders-Poser-MT5s  **
[Puddle prop used]

#22! Little Rose by klausdbg
http://www.sharecg.com/v/87286/gallery/5/3D-Model/Little-Rose  **
[Flower pot used]

#23! Midnight for Elegance Dress by Sarsa
https://issuu.com/philatdsc/docs/ds_creative_10  (page 57)

#24! Mlw-butterflyMats by Mike
http://www.sharecg.com/v/36437/Poser/Mlw-butterflyMats  **

#25! NeoIndia Veil Freebie for G2F and G3F by Aarki
https://www.deviantart.com/aarki/art/NeoIndia-Veil-Freebie-for-G2F-and-G3F-571209160

#26! Nose Ring 01 for G2F, G3F and/or G8F by AllenArt
https://www.sharecg.com/v/89353/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Nose-Ring-01-for-G2F-G3F-and-or-G8F  **

#27! Old Metal Fountain (OBJ) by CGAxis
https://free.cgaxis.com/product/old-metal-fountain-free-3d-model/  *1

#28! Ostrich Road HDRI by HDRIHaven
https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?c=outdoor&h=ostrich_road

#29! Pavè Bangle for Genesis 3 Female by AllenArt
http://www.sharecg.com/v/85905/gallery/21/DAZ-Studio/Pav%C3%A8-Bangle-for-Genesis-3-Female  **

#30! Sparrow by AdamThwaites (Most-Digital-Creations)
https://www.most-digital-creations.com/sparrow.htm

#31! Statue Madonna (.3DS) by StDes
https://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=4aa8cca3

#32! Sticky and Stickier Messes - 100% FREE by squarepeg3d
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/sticky-and-stickier-messes---100-free/76360  **
[Used as water on the bottom lip and chin of Blake]

#33! Summer Top for Genesis 3 Female by Wilmap's Digital Creations
https://www.wilmapsdigitalcreations.co.uk/view_product.php?id=398  **

#34! Swimsuit Edition Poses for Genesis 3 Females by 3D Pixel Studios
https://www.3dpixelstudios.com/?download=swimsuit-edition-poses-for-genesis-3-females
[Pose t3Dw SE 22A used on Anaya, slightly adjusted]

#35! Venus sculpture OBJ-3DS by Bryce78
https://www.sharecg.com/v/68905/related/5/3D-Model/Venus-sculpture-OBJ-3DS  **

NO-COUNT ITEMS:

Blake for Victoria 6 by Daz Originals, Morris
https://www.daz3d.com/blake-for-victoria-6  **  (DAZ3D Bi-weekly Freebie Jan 7 - Jan 21)

---    Casual Outfit for G3F by Tab [Pants used]
---    Casual Outfit 2 for G3F by Tab [Sandals used]
---    Christmas Poinsettia Plants by MartinJFrost (The Holiday Loyalty Sale 2018 Free Item)
---    Free Iray Outdoor Lights by Dreamlight
++   Toulouse Hair for Genesis 3 Female by Daz Originals

PURCHASED/PAID FOR ITEMS: None.

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#x!   Countable Items (Bold ones are used by me for the first time.)
---    No longer available freebies
++   Free with DAZ Studio (or the Essentials)
$x.  Purchased/Paid For Item

Rendered with DAZ Studio 4.10.0.123 (nVidia Iray)

Other free software used:
GIMP v2.10.6, Irfanview 4.51 and conversion from .3DS to .OBJ with PoseRay v3.13.29

Postwork: used the AltaLux Image Enhancement Filter (Effect) by Stefano Tommesani that comes with Irfanview and the Lens Flare and Gradient Flare filters that come with GIMP.

 

"Shameful Love"

I'm still very new to daz (currently using 4.10 Pro) so I'm sorry if this question is asked before. So, I've been trying to setup a scene using outoftouch's charlene hair, but my GPU (GTX 1060 6GB) always failed to render it and end up using CPU which take time forever! At first, I thought because my scene was too complex and my GPU ran out of memory, so I tried a very simple scene with just Victoria 7 figure and the OOT hair with lighting come from default dome, but the render still end up with CPU. I already made sure that only my GPU was checked on render settings. I have another OOT Hair from outoftouch, Claudia Hair and the result is still the same, my GPU failed to render it. This problem only happened with oot hair, I've tried several other non OOT Hair and my GPU rendered it all just fine. My GPU using the latest nvidia driver I downloaded from nvidia official site. Here is the log file. I really have no idea what happened so any thought is welcomed!

2019-02-15 00:58:19.810 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating geometry.
2019-02-15 00:58:19.878 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using built-in ray tracing (1.0.0).
2019-02-15 00:58:19.891 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing scene graph.
2019-02-15 00:58:19.891 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Importing geometry.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.154 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Geometry import (1 object with 3352k triangles, 1 instance yielding 3352k triangles) took 1.262143
2019-02-15 00:58:21.154 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating materials.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.228 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Side2_49a_162.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.228 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Side2_49a_162' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.228 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Side1_4cc_230.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.235 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Side1_4cc_230' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.236 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Front2_4fe_299.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.236 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Front2_4fe_299' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.242 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__BackUnder_530_367.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.242 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__BackUnder_530_367' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.243 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Front1_562_436.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.250 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Front1_562_436' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.250 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Bangs2_594_505.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.250 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Bangs2_594_505' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.259 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Bangs1_5f0_643.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.259 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Bangs1_5f0_643' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.260 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend warn : At 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Back_622_711.volume.absorption_coefficient': unsupported function call: 'operator/(color,float)'
2019-02-15 00:58:21.271 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : Material instance 'DS_Charlene Hair Genesis 3 Female__Back_622_711' uses MDL JIT compilation.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.271 Iray INFO - module:category(MATCNV:RENDER):   1.0   MATCNV rend info : found 261 textures, 8 lambdas (1 unique)
2019-02-15 00:58:21.279 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating environment.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.279 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lens.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.288 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating lights.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.288 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating object flags.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.288 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating caustic portals.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.288 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Updating decals.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.290 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1 layer frame buffer
2019-02-15 00:58:21.305 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Using batch scheduling, architectural sampler disabled, caustic sampler disabled
2019-02-15 00:58:21.305 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Initializing local rendering.
2019-02-15 00:58:21.350 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering with 1 device(s):
2019-02-15 00:58:21.350 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info :     CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB)
2019-02-15 00:58:21.359 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering...
2019-02-15 00:58:21.359 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend progr: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): Processing scene...
2019-02-15 00:58:23.749 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Geometry memory consumption: 98.8422 MiB (device 0), 0 B (host)
2019-02-15 00:58:55.963 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : Initializing light hierarchy.
2019-02-15 00:58:55.970 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Texture memory consumption: 1.97154 GiB (device 0)
2019-02-15 00:58:55.970 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : Light hierarchy initialization took 0.00s
2019-02-15 00:58:55.971 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Lights memory consumption: 196 B (device 0)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.117 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Material measurement memory consumption: 0 B (GPU)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.167 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Materials memory consumption: 105.758 KiB (GPU)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.167 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : PTX code (8.16 KiB) for sm61 generated in 0.0491s
2019-02-15 00:58:56.409 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : JIT-linking wavefront kernel in 0.153s
2019-02-15 00:58:56.449 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend info : JIT-linking mega kernel in 0.039s
2019-02-15 00:58:56.455 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): Scene processed in 35.095s
2019-02-15 00:58:56.458 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): Allocated 21.094 MiB for frame buffer
2019-02-15 00:58:56.512 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): Allocated 1.65625 GiB of work space (2048k active samples in 0.054s)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.526 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): Kernel [0] failed after 0.003s
2019-02-15 00:58:56.526 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while launching CUDA renderer in core_renderer_wf.cpp:807)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.526 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): Failed to launch renderer
2019-02-15 00:58:56.532 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): Device failed while rendering
2019-02-15 00:58:56.532 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray WARNING - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend warn : All available GPUs failed.
2019-02-15 00:58:56.532 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : Falling back to CPU rendering.
2019-02-15 00:58:56.532 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while initializing memory buffer)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.538 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: All workers failed: aborting render
2019-02-15 00:58:56.538 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.538 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.545 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.545 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.545 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.559 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.559 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.559 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.565 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.565 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.565 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.571 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.571 WARNING: dzneuraymgr.cpp(307): Iray ERROR - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend error: CUDA device 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 6GB): an illegal instruction was encountered (while de-allocating memory)
2019-02-15 00:58:56.571 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : CPU: using 4 cores for rendering
2019-02-15 00:58:56.578 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering with 1 device(s):
2019-02-15 00:58:56.578 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info :     CPU
2019-02-15 00:58:56.579 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Rendering...
2019-02-15 00:58:56.579 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend progr: CPU: Processing scene...
2019-02-15 00:58:56.588 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : CPU: Scene processed in 0.009s
2019-02-15 00:58:56.595 Iray VERBOSE - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.5   IRAY   rend stat : Native CPU code generated in 0.0086s
2019-02-15 00:58:56.603 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : CPU: Allocated 21.094 MiB for frame buffer
2019-02-15 00:58:58.914 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.2   IRAY   rend info : Allocating 1 layer frame buffer
2019-02-15 00:58:59.005 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00001 iterations after 37.605s.
2019-02-15 00:59:01.261 Iray INFO - module:category(IRAY:RENDER):   1.0   IRAY   rend info : Received update to 00002 iterations after 39.861s.

It's great when Daz provides a simple, easy to use coupon. Not an "only valid if you buy 3-1/2 items and do 50 push-ups" type of thing.

Very handy for clearing out an item or two from the wishlist.

I'm sorry, but that should be "only valid if you buy 3-1/2 items and do 50 push-ups, and own Victoria 1 and at least 5 clothing items for the original Aiko."

There are 5 items for Aiko 1?

I hope so...

It's great when Daz provides a simple, easy to use coupon. Not an "only valid if you buy 3-1/2 items and do 50 push-ups" type of thing.

Very handy for clearing out an item or two from the wishlist.

I'm sorry, but that should be "only valid if you buy 3-1/2 items and do 50 push-ups, and own Victoria 1 and at least 5 clothing items for the original Aiko."

There are 5 items for Aiko 1?

It's great when Daz provides a simple, easy to use coupon. Not an "only valid if you buy 3-1/2 items and do 50 push-ups" type of thing.

Very handy for clearing out an item or two from the wishlist.

I'm sorry, but that should be "only valid if you buy 3-1/2 items and do 50 push-ups, and own Victoria 1 and at least 5 clothing items for the original Aiko."

Victoria 6, Michael 6, Darius 6, Gianni 6, Lee 6, Darius 7 and Gianni 7 as Genesis 8 figures would be a good beginning.

Since I have transferred the maps with Legacy UVs and Map Transfer, only these morphs are missing.

There are some that can be used for that purpose; but they were made for other figures and they need to be converted and add iray shaders.  Here there are some.

For Genesis 2:

https://www.daz3d.com/serena-show-girl-for-genesis-2-female-s

For victoria 4:

https://www.daz3d.com/midnight-bird

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/show-girl-v4-a4-g4-elite/108479/

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/vegas-v4-a4-g4/88887/

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/black-feathers/92195/

This headpice is for G8F:

https://www.daz3d.com/feathered-fantasy-headdress-for-genesis-3-and-8-females

P3d morphs are gorgeous

Sorry Daz but I usually think PA characters and user morph mixes look better than Daz Original characters out of the box...

LOL and I'm the opposite. While some PA's are really good with realisim (hello Raiya, bluejaunte and Saiyaness ;)), I think most PAs tend to make a figure look more stylized and away from realistic to me. But some people really like stylized. I prefer realistic tho...most of the time :). Then again, some use this hobby to escape and want beautiful faces all the time which is perfectly fine. I tend to find beauty even in odd looking faces (melancholy or sadness or whatever) that gets something in me. I think whoever does the DO sculpts does a pretty terrific job most of the time :).

Laurie

I think several PAs are creating beautiful and realistic characters. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.,. Here are just a few that I find exceptionally gorgeous as well as not cookie cutter beauty but also very realistic. The only DazOs that I personally believe can compete are Victoria 7, Rune 7, Genevieve 7 (with almost any skin EXCEPT for the one she came with!) I’m probably one of the few that liked Genevieve 7 but I think she really has an editorial model style morph that looks great (and different!) with almost any skin texture you put on her except the awful one she came with. Anyway, here are some samples of some PA characters that I find truly gorgeous and realistic and in my opinion better quality and more reasonably priced than Daz O’s... There are tons more in the store from various PAs, but here are some recent ones I find exceptional from Mousso, Addy & P3D...

Are following products no-counts?

https://www.daz3d.com/200-plus-head-and-face-morphs-for-genesis-8-female-s
https://www.daz3d.com/fit-control-for-genesis-8-female-s
https://www.daz3d.com/sy-victoria-4-and-michael-4-clones-for-genesis-8

These are "Paid For"items @Hylas

I got sucked into G8 because of the promise of better expressions. But I have found that I have to custom-dial expressions for my main characters in order to make them look appropriate.

I also liked the look of Victoria 8's skin, and I presumed that would be the standard for all Core characters; (why didn't I learn from G3?). It's pretty much hit and miss for superlative skins, except whoever has been doing the G8M Core skins: Each one of those is consistently brilliant; which was not true of G3M. 

The amount of morph packs I have for G8 make it frustrating when I'm dialing a G3 character because I can't make the changes I've become accustomed to making. So, that's a big plus.

When G9 comes, there will be some alleged advances that make it better. But it will probably take awhile before we discover the real advances or until some vendors make products allowing us to access those advances.

Another game conversion by SquarePeg3D is Hacker G8F, who is the character Sombra. I also experimented on the hair textures and made her hair brown instead of the bluish/green ombre that's shown in the freebie promos. I also tweaked the character head-shaping preset, by adding some Monique 8 and Girl 8. The texture is FWSA Taia HD for Victoria 7.

There is a pose set that almost gives her that character select pose. It's Z Almost Human - Poses and Expressions for Genesis 8 Female and Zelara 8 from the Zelara 8 Pro Bundle. You just have to adjust it some and you’re set.

I DO NOT want things installed to my C: drive.

I would like DIM to handle installation of assets.

I set DIM to install files to my mechanical drive.

I open DAZ. Go to Preferences, and change the path for the Content Library to the same folder that DIM installed it to.

DAZ SEES NOTHING INSTALLED.

I reset the Database, as suggested. NO CHANGE.

My hatred for install managers only grows. However, without DIM, I can't seem to install Victoria 4.2, Michael 4, Aiko 4, Freak 4. Sure, I don't use them as often. Sure, I'm mostly doing stuff with GEN8. But that's besides the point. I do use these models occasionally, and I've picked up quite a bit of content for them through freebies.

Sure, I have space on my Solid State Drive to fit everything. For now. I have a lot more space on the 3 TB mechanical drive. I load custom content from it just fine.

From what I can tell, DIM installs a vastly different folder structure than DAZ internal. Now, I have installed on a different computer, entirely through DIM, but that computer only has one drive. It also proved to be too slow to work on. I had hoped to set up a render-only machine with it, but that's besides the point. On that machine, I didn't change any paths.

I just want DAZ to see the damn content that DIM installed. Is that too much to ask? After searching forums, I see several posts on this subject. Hasn't anyone figured out the solution to this yet?

Alisa

select Victoria 4

go to edit tab at the top and select under rigging  convert to weightmapping

it can be triax or general weights it doesn't matter, its just a temporary measure so you can fit the sleeves

now bring up the transfer utility under edit figure

and choose V4 as source the sleeves as the target, ignore any dialogues just fit them

you now can drape them with the top band at zero simulation and they will follow her arms

 

If you mean the purple underwear that Vicoria has when you first load her, that is painted onto the skin texture. If you load another skin texture it goes away. I think she came with some other textures without the underwear. Look for a folder called Daz's Victoria 4 in the Pose section under Poser Formats. Alternatively load the material from any Victoria 4 character.

Is there a way to turn off the Victoria 4.2 underwear?  It keeps showing under other wardrobe items.

Are following products no-counts?

https://www.daz3d.com/200-plus-head-and-face-morphs-for-genesis-8-female-s
https://www.daz3d.com/fit-control-for-genesis-8-female-s
https://www.daz3d.com/sy-victoria-4-and-michael-4-clones-for-genesis-8

It's really cool to see how advanced Daz Studio has grown over a few short years. It's an amazing toolkit for realizing most any dream into a 3d scene for rendering, animating, or even exporting to other software or other things, like 3d printers. But there's another incredible suite of amazing tools I'd like to remind every aspiring artist and animator about:

Carrara 8.5 and Carrara 8.5 Pro!

I came to Carrara from using Poser, and was delighted at the similarities in the interface, and even more delighted that those similarities were only the parts that I liked, while the rest was a marvel of fast and easy-to-use 3d animation/rendering Powerhouse!

I've loved working in Carrara so much that, even though I'm very excited about and interested in Daz Studio and all of its modern advances, I simply have a hard time putting aside Carrara long enough to really get to know DS. So I know Daz Studio as an amazing suite for creating content from transfering common rigging from figures to new models, adding new morphs to DAZ 3D's incredible figures, editing variables of content and saving anew to get better compatibility with other software, tweaking aniBlocks and reading animated files into aniBlocks using aniMate 2, and stuff like that. Iray came along and gave us the truly wonderful world of PBR-based rendering, now there's D-Force, and that's not to mention the world's top-technology in fully rigged Human assets in Genesis 3 and 8 figures.

There are folks doing PBR-based rendering using Carrara too, but that requires additional plugins and third-party render engines. I happen to be entirely content with Carrara's native Raytrace render engine. Coming from Poser back in 2010, I was completely awe-struck at the speed of Carrara's render possibilities. Even more, Carrara is utterly easy to use after a short period of looking around and getting to know the interface a bit. 

The main reason I switched to Carrara is the fact that it is a 3d modeling software that can load Poser/DAZ 3D figures with working morphs and rigging. In my animation endeavors, it was always commonplace to have poke-through and other issues. I wanted a modeling option without having to become a profesional figure maker. I needed to tweak, not to perform complete overhauls. I did some internet searches - only to find that some folks were struggling with trying to get Poser/DAZ 3D figures into LightWave, but it was a major workflow thing. When I saw a person in a hospital waiting room playing with a Victoria 3 figure in a strange, poser-esque 3d application, my jaw dropped! "Carrara 5 Pro", he said. I started saving immediately. By the time I was ready to buy, Eovia no longer owned Carrara - it was now at DAZ 3D!!! Joy!!!

It's been a blissful bunch of years. I've never been trained in 3D art. I went from drawing and painting to sculpting - first from clay, then alabaster stone with hammer and chisel. GMax was a free, watered down version of 3DS Max back when it was owned by Discreet, and I learned just a bit of that to perform some 3d edits to game assets. I basically just tweaked existing models. Texturing became my thing. My mentor bought a copy of Poser 5 for me, then he upgraded it to Poser 7 when that came out - skipping on Poser 6. I loved creating characters from premade assets, assembling scenes, posing everyone, etc., and finally animating them. Loved it! Still do, but now it's a whole lot easier for me!

Carrara has an actual full-blown vertex (polygon) modeler built in, also including a spline modeler, metaballs, terrain modeler, plant modeler and a whole lot of various types of primitive objects - each one being fully and easily animated, often simply by setting values or dragging sliders! So cool! Carrara Pro has an amazing Ocean primitive - set the wind direction, set the size of the waves and resolution of the detail... let the render engine take it from there! 

Powerful lighting options, Carrara has its own build in skies - basic and realistic. In both, we just drop in a Sun light and either rotate the light to set where the sun is in the sky as well as the direction of the sun's light, or go into the sky editor and drag the sun to the position we want (which will set the rotation of the Sun light) or we can enter in the time, date, and location and let history set how the sky looks. And, yes... it also includes a moon and Moon light, atmospheric effects, like fog, haze, clouds and god rays.

Spot lights with volumetric options and other realistic and non-realistic effects, directional lights, bulb, tube and shape lights, "anything glows", which can make glowing objects also cast light, and we can also use (and create) Image Based Lighting (IBL), use and create spherical maps with global illumination, and load HDR images for use with global illumination. There's also more options to explore with lighting.

Cameras are really (Really) easy to use - one of the hardest parts about me using Daz Studio is that Carrara's cameras and navigation is so fluid and simple. I set up several cameras to render each of my animations from several points of view for getting just that right edit in the final stages of making a movie. Carrara's Batch Queue Render makes this a breeze. Set the render engine to render as many saved scenes as we want in the Batch Queue, each instance allowing full control of every aspect of the render settings, then launch - it will render everything in the queue while we sleep, go to work, take the dog for a walk, etc.,  I love this feature!

Carrara's Spherical camera combines very well with Carrara's ability to handle incredibly vast scenes - so even if we prefer to work in Daz Studio, or like some of us, work in both, we can use the spherical camera to render multiple spherical images of the same scene with different lighting (exposures) for use in image editors to create HDR domes for use in Iray and/or Carrara. Likewise, these spherical images don't even have to be HDRI to work in either engine. I've tried using png, tga, tiff, and jpg spherical renders in Iray and it works fine, we'll just want to add some additional illumination.

I like to use Daz Studio as a toolkit for Carrara. Carrara only supports Genesis up to version 2. Misty from our Carrara Discussion Forum, here at DAZ 3D has working files to get Genesis 3 and 8 figures to work in Carrara with a small dose of work-around, but it only truly supports Genesis 2 and earlier figures. I still find a lot of life left in Genesis 1 and 2 and even still enjoy using generation 4 figures as well. 

With Genesis Generation X, by Dimension3D I add Genesis 2 and Generation 4 morphs to Genesis 1 figure and have a blast having compatibility (via auto-fit) from Generation 3 (V3, M3, A3, H3, etc.,) through Genesis 2 on my Genesis figures. A cool thing about Carrara: I can edit what is contained in my Genesis morphs directory and load in Genesis, set it up as the character I want and save it to my Carrara browser and then return my collection of Genesis morphs back to the directory. Unlike Daz Studio, this Carrara-saved Genesis figure will only retain the morphs I had in the morphs directory at the time of creation. So I can limit the number of shape dials, etc., on each figure I store!

With the aniBlocks plugin for Carrara, I love using aniMate 2! I went ahead and bought the actual aniMate 2 (for Daz Studio) instead of just using the free version that comes with Daz Studio, so now I can bake to and from the Daz Studio timeline as well as use all of the other functions that come in this amazing plugin.

Carrara's dynamic hair is some of the most realistic 3D hair I've ever seen without applying any post work to the render. It can take a bit to get used to, but there are some wonderful tutorials (free) available to get us up-and-running without headaches.

Carrara's Terrain modeler is not only really simple to use, it is also very powerful in very simplistic ways. Just dragging around a few sliders and adding, swapping, or removing a few simple drag n' drop parameters changes everything about the terrain. The possibilities truly are endless. I know its common to hear that, but it really is endless! Same with the plant editor - commonly known as the Tree modeler, since most people use it for making trees - as its default arrangement​ is based around tree structures. We have the ability to add multiple type of 'leaf' which doesn't have to be a leaf at all. It could be fruit or even a car, bicycle or spaceship! LOL   Carrara comes with a bunch of really nice presets for this plant editor, even actual preset, premade trees we can just drop into the scene without editing anything. Every one of Howie Farkes Carrara products that come with trees also includes new presets in the editor​ along with new materials that really make up some real-looking trees. Remember I said that most everything has animation built in? That also applies to the Plant editor! Wind direction, speed, rustle frequency... we can just set a few simple values to have our trees sway during our animations, and the settings are animate-able too.

Modifiers are really neat in Carrara. So simple. Just go to the (you guessed it) Modifier tab on the easy to use interface, click the + sign and select any from a large number of modifiers, a list that differs depending upon what i selected. Very powerful. Very easy.

Plugins Galore for Carrara, and some of our wonderful Carrara discussion forum frequent users are on the path of keeping this list growing! I have a LOT of plugins and Carrara's open architecture makes using these plugins a real breeze. Digital Carver's Guild (DCG) has now made all of their profesional plugins for Carrara Open Source - so they're absolutely Free! With all (or even just some) of the plugins available for Carrara, our suite has grown to a very formidable and complete CG VFX department all on its own!

There's a lot to talk about regarding Carrara. I've run out of time for now, but I'll be back!

Cheers fellow artists and animators! I'll leave you with a few of my Carrara renders

Dartanbeck

Okay guys I'm not exactly a newbie to all of this however I have always had difficulty in getting clothing to fit exactly with characters that either I create or combined several different morphs to create or purchase from an existing vendor. is there an existing utility that will allow me to take a full body morph from a character that either I have created or a vendor has created and allow me to inject that into an existing article of clothing? Primarily I work with Victoria 4 and Michael 4. I have all of the base morphs plus the plus plus package and other bars that either I have created or have purchased from vendors to help change figure shapes looking for an easy way to add these combinations to clothing that won't leave me spinning dials for hours on end only to end up frustrated because they just don't work

It's been a long time (at least it feels that way) since I've disappeared. Things settling down on the home front now, so I'm slowly but surely getting back into things. I've been using Carrara in my free time all along, but I haven't been able to access the internet where I was, so I only got very limited strolls in and out during that whole period.

Anyway, during that whole time I've let my PC+ membership lapse - but I think I did so even a little earlier than that.

I was amazed at the difference the PC+ makes. Check Out what Platinum Club + can do for You! As a person who would rather spend more time assembling scenes to render and/or animate, I value the ability to beef up my content libraries by purchasing more than creating from scratch. It just gives me the opportunity (and stamina) to then create original assets when I want, how I want. Most importantly, I can still assemble, animate, and render without being hard-pressed to complete my assets first.

I mentioned all of this to Rosie, my reason for living, treasure of my heart, mother to my children, and she got me back onto the yearly PC+ plan, just like that. Again, Amazed at the price difference and the sheer amounts of stuff a person can collect with the coupons combined with the savings - savings that are still there after using the coupons.

Although I started back up toward the end of January, I didn't have to wait another thirty days for more coupons - they just get awarded at the beginning of each month. Makes sense - keeps things simple. Well after just spending my February coupons, I've already saved enough to pay for my PC+ membership twice over!

Why am I saying all of this? Well... because I consider you all to be my friends/family and, just in case there are others like myself whom might feel the need to collect a large library in a hurry by some of the industry's finest artists, I wanted to share the facts. 

PC+ items are NOT lower quality products on clearance. Quite the opposite. PC+ is loaded with truly amazing products across all genres in the store by some truly talented people, too many to name without my accidentally excluding someone, so I won't. But the product images I'm showing here are all content additions I've just added with two month's worth of coupons without spending more than a minimal amount to use the coupons - and I'm on a very (Very) tight budget right now as I need to build a new computer in order to use any of it - or I'd be showing renders instead of product page images. I didn't incude images of everything I got, and none of the content I got as Free PC+ items, which have also been pretty cool too.

I know it's valuable to learn the skills to build one's own content. It's just a healthy thing to know how to do. But in my case, I'm one guy trying to make a series of movies, all in 3DCG. Studios that do this stuff have many people, each making parts of one thing - most only responsible for one aspect: Conceptual Design or Modeling or UV Mapping or Texturing or Rigging or Animating or.... you get the idea, right? Well I've said this years ago: I consider DAZ 3D artists to be my studio of teammates doing their parts to get my assets ready for me to do my part - and my part is already taking on a LOT more than any one person in an animation house.

Besides, the more we buy - even at these insanely low price-points, the more we contribute to this whole marketplace cycle of life. I'm more than happy to help feed this amazingly talented artists! Truly! 

Check Out what Platinum Club + can do for You!

Something that I've also said a while back which no longer rings true with me: I used to look closely at each item before buying to see of it's DUF-Only. I never bought that stuff thinking that I'd have to jump through hoops to work with it in Carrara. Well, we have a "Buy Something that Doesn't Work in Carrara" thread, so it's obvious that not all content does work - and it's virtually impossible to know for sure unless we recognize it from such a thread. But since I've made those comments I've purchased quite a few DUF-Only products that work just fine in Carrara, and since I treat them the same as Poser items (Load them in, optimize them for Carrara, save to my Carrara Browser), I usually only have to load them as a DUF once. For products that don't work as expected in Carrara, and I don't have a convenient work-around for it, I can easily trade it back to DAZ 3D for a refund and just get something else. More than fair.

Platinum Club (back then there was no +) was one of my first purchases from DAZ 3D. I started the yearly membership since I knew I needed to build a content library to get going. I used the membership's savings to buy Carrara and a huge pile of goodies to get me started - again, thanks to my beautiful, sweet and wonderful Rosie, and I've been a member all the way up until that dark and silent time of recent. It's really neat to go back through my Product Library in my DAZ 3D account and look at the purchases I've made from being a total newbie, and still using Millenium Environment to flesh out my scenes, to becoming more inquisitive about certain aspects of Carrara by making specific purchases to learn from, and then growing from there. Purchase habits have changed quite a bit over the years and, all the while I've built an incredible library of assets to animate and render!

Heh, I remember when I bought "Advanced Carrara Techniques", a video learning course through Infinite Skills by PhilW. I had the audacity to actually believe that I was even too advanced for that course! I had learned a lot by then, and could only by one of the video courses, so I skipped the Basic one. I actually bought the Advanced course as enjoyable entertainment. I wanted a sort of Carrara TV. Well, I still refer to that course when I want to pick up on doing something that I don't ordinarily do - and that course taught me an awful lot! Did I still use it as "Educucational Entertainment", "Carrara TV"? Yes I did! Still do! But I also use it as a way to go in and learn amazing new things about Carrara - it's such a vast software. So I went back later and bought the Basic Learning course - and learned a LOT from that as well. Then he came out with more, so I bought those too. I love PhilW TV! 

Mmoir, GKDantas, MAT Creator, Dimension Theory, Howie Farkes, 3DLust, 3dage, Magaremoto, Ringo Monfort, Tim Payne, Phillip Drawbridge, Larsen, (I'm sure I'm missing some) - I've learned a LOT from buying products from these folks who have made Carrara-specific products and included wonderful ReadMe files and/or tutorials. It's a shame to see that many of them have been culled (no longer have a store) from DAZ 3D, but being a culled PA myself, I completely understand and agree with the process. Just that I feel sorry for all of the Carrara users who will never have the opportunity to purchase these wonderful products anymore. They were great products in their own right, but also fun and valuable to take apart, bit by bit, and learn from how they were put together, etc.,

But the amazing magic of Carrara includes the fact that it can work with files specific to Poser and Daz Studio. Most other 3d suites cannot do that - especially as well as Carrara can!

So my PC+ membership continues to grow my collection of DS and Poser products along with new Carrara material.

TangoAlpha - I remember when he first came to the forum asking for opinions on the start he had for a 3D project he was planning on submitting to DAZ 3D. Now DAZ 3D has purchased some of his items and made them PC+! Bravo! He has an amazing store filled with content that works in both Daz Studio and Carrara! Boon to all, I say!

I remember when Vyusur first stopped into the forum. Amazing renders! Amazing! Little did I know she was such an amazing, talented modeler/photographer. Now she has a store here at DAZ 3D with amazing realistic content!  Bravo!

Some of the Carrara-specific content creators are still with us making things for Daz Studio, some for both Daz Studio and Carrara. Some artists have always made content for Poser and other software, but still made a thing or two for Carrara as well. Keep an eye open... you may find Carrara products that you haven't seen before - or even Poser or daz Studio products that include Carrara-specific files, like Stonemason's first Greeble City Blocks product, which includes Carrara shaders.

So I tend to babble off the main topic a bit... I always have and likely always will. I think I was born this way. But the point is, I just want people to know that, even though Carrara is a formidable modeling software, we don't have to feel obligated to use it as one. Carrara is also an amazing content using facility, and there's nothing wrong with using the wonderful store to gain amazing content. 

I'm so glad to see threads regarding building models in Carrara. When I first started, the vertex modeler in Carrara was really quite shunned by many. I bought Carrara in the first place because I wanted to be able to tweak the mesh of content that I bought. I did that right from the start and never had issues doing it. But somehow I let the negativity get into my head and never really used it as a start-from-scratch modeler. It wasn't until I posted a thread asking what modeler I should get (which was answered with many suggestions from Blender to Modo, and beyond) when 3dage came in with the wonderful advice of just trying Carrara, since I already own it!

I love modeling from scratch in Carrara! It rocks! Its plethora of tools, modifiers and operations makes it pretty darned easy for me to realize my needs directly in my favorite tool.

So I shop with confidence. Back in the Victoria/Michael 3 days, poke through, especially for animators, was commonplace. It became second nature for me to enter modeling mode and tweak clothing to fit. Nowadays, with the advent of Genesis and the legacy shape clone products, I'll buy generation 3, 4, 5 (Genesis 1) and 6 (Genesis 2) products knowing that I can make them work. GenX made that even better for me. 

PC+ is going to help me even more with that now. I am so glad to be back to PC+, and I'm so glad to be back home... here in the Carrara Discussion Forum!

Cheers all!

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I like Tasha 8 because she looks quite different from the typical Daz female (which are great, but I don't need the same kinds of facial types) a group including Penny, Stephanie, Olympia, & Victoria 8---Gia is on the cusp. I hope Daz will give us at least two more women in this generation that break the mold like Tasha does, but most people want the same thing, then more of the same thing, then some more. There seem to be two main camps: Those who ask, "Why is it different?!" and those who ask, "Why is it the same?!" I'm the latter.

I put Tasha 8's morph under Gia 7's skin and got a Hispanic or light-skinned Black woman. So, those who are pegging her as just another skinny white girl should give her another look.

OT, I was wondering why someone doesn't make a breasts morph with a natural bridge between them for shirts that need it, as well as a uni-buttocks morph with an indentation instead of a cleft. Zev0's and SickleYield's fixes don't always work the way I'd like.

Thanks again for your service, Divamakeup. I always look forward to your renders to see the characters out-of-the-box and with Altern8 (which has so many options that it triggers OCD for me, and 3 hours later I know which one to use---and don't let me start futzing with the Girl 8 version or I'll never get renders done.

Awww Thank you! 

And yeah, I have to agree, to me she's definitely doesn't look like "just another white girl".