Elor said:

@nemesis10 > When he was released, I was tempted to see how he looked, because the description showed his creation took a lot of care and work, and I'm intrigged by Omniskin. Did you use it on this render?

You should be able to use Omniskin without having the product (you can search OmniSurfaceBase on these forums for some idea of how to implement) but it may take some time to set up and results will vary with other skin textures that were not made for OmniSurfaceBase (aka OmniSkin).  Most existing textures will be calibrated for either PBRskin or Iray Uber, so Surface settings may need fine tuning.   Generally, as long as the textures have decent color values and detail they should be able to be used on the shader by simply adding the textures to the Diffuse Reflection Color slot.  I attached two examples of using the default Masc01 and Masc02 head texture maps that come with Genesis 9.  

Well I hope it's the same for me.  I got it downloaded yesterday, but spent too much time on the Daz store and forum, so will get it installed today.

Lyonsman said:

Elor said:

Maybe it's the wrong selection of items: they are speaking about free flowers in the newsletter and the selection is the one from two days ago and is egg related.

It's definitely showing the wrong list. The code works on some Daz original 'flowers' search results.

+1 To that, Probably the list is wrong.

Yeah, I can confirm - If you want to play Daz detective, search 'flowers' and filter Daz originals. The FLOWERS code works on a bunch of results.

Elor said:

Maybe it's the wrong selection of items: they are speaking about free flowers in the newsletter and the selection is the one from two days ago and is egg related.

Update on the free Cross. It's now also on Renderosity, free stuff. Below are the updated links where you can download the cross as a freebie. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

This forum, at the top of the thread

Renderhub

Cross for Easter with Genesis 9 and 8 Male Poses - Free Daz Content by Emanu

Renderosity

Cross for Easter with Genesis 9 and 8 male poses

Ken OBanion said:

ANGELREAPER1972 said:

it's a tradition the pricing correct price shows up in your checkout

Way back in the Genesis 2 days, DAZ introduced a character, Bijou, as a special promotion for selected members.  Since she had to be in the catalog (for those select members to acquire), they had to put a price on her.

But, in an effort to keep her 'exclusive', DAZ put an insanely high price on the character -- $349 and change, if memory serves.  The move was intended to deter the 'great unwashed' from buying her

Well, that was back in the day when I had more dollars than sense, so I decided to buy her, if only to see if DAZ would let me.  (Spoiler alert: they did.)

I used the crap out of her for over three years bexause, goldarnit, I was determined to get my money's worth out of her!

So..., yeah.  Tradition.  Or at least a precedent.

I got her for winning a forum contest, IIRC. Too bad I never use characters as-is out of the box, but it did make me feel a bit smug. 

I would love to be able to filters sales and search pates by my DazDeals comments

Daz Deals is working better for me in Chrome than in Brave (built on Chromium).

Question: What is the practical value of comments on product pages for products that aren’t in your wishlist or product library? I don’t see any way to access that information anywhere but the product page itself. You can’t filter sale pages by them or search for them, can you?

Comment: The behavior shown on the options page for labels starting with + doesn’t occur for me in Chrome. +label acts just like #label or *label except for sort order. (In both Chrome and Brave.)

Easter freebie from emanuela1. 

I made a complete cross with nails and an inscription for anyone who wants to render the crucifixion of Jesus. The nails and inscription can be moved as needed. There are also three poses for Genesis 8 male and three poses for Genesis 9. The Genesis 9 poses are created on the base character and may require adjustments with other Genesis 9 characters depending on their body type. The Genesis 8 male poses seem suitable for most characters.
It is in DAZ and OBJ formats so it can also be imported in other software. I built it in Blender.

I hope you like them and that someone finds them useful.

The zip files and images are attached.

I'll post them on this forum. I'll also try to post them on the sites that usually host freebies, such as Renderosity and Renderhub, but I'm not sure if I'll be successful because it's my first time trying on those sites. If I succeed, I will post an update with links.

This is a very good explanation of what Wayland is without being overly technical:

https://kevinboone.me/wayland_ground_up.html

Gnome uses the Wayland protocol and, inevitably, every desktop eventually will. Do bear in mind that what I write is my opinion - it isn't established fact or law - and there are as many opinions on any particular aspect of Linux as there are distros.  Pick a distro you like working with and get everything you want up and running in it. If you start from the other end and build it from the ground up to avoid a problem that doesn't really exist you will be very much on your own if you run into a snag; you will undoubtedly be missing components and infrastructure that other folks will assume you have. Get it working out-of-the-box, join a forum or two and take it from there. 

You said you liked Mint - it's a great choice. The Cinnamon desktop is not the snappiest when it comes to Studio in WINE but it works fine. Again, this was my experience with my hardware under my testing conditions. You may find none of the lag that I encountered but you won't find out unless you get something actually installed rather than diving into the weeds from the outset and dismissing everything because they happen to come with some applications pre-installed. I recommend the KDE desktop for Daz Studio users because, again in my testing and my experience, it worked flawlessly. So did Fedora/Cosmic, but Arch/Cosmic was appalling so there's no hard and fast rules here! There are other considerations that may apply: Studio is not the only application you will need and this may influence your choice in another direction - perfectly valid.

I wasn't sure, but so many do. I had a hope they did. But maybe someone on the forum knows?

Some more options in non-DS format:

More Chernobyl content at fab.com: https://www.fab.com/search?q=CHERNOBYL+

Turbosquid has some, for example:

• https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/chernobyl-ferris-wheel-1915704
• https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/zgrls-duga-pripyat-chernobyl-2-game-ready-1455693
• https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/abandoned-merry-go-round-ferris-wheel-in-chernobyl-1592384

You can find more searching pripyat or chernobyl. Some of it is quite expensive though.

Kitbash3d has a "soviet blocks" set: https://kitbash3d.com/products/soviet-blocks?_pos=1&_psq=soviet&_ss=e&_v=1.0 (quite expensive but there are lots of models included)

I figured you and a few other folks were heavily invested in their AL library structure.

Maybe I should look into adding a 'search' for exe for Poser also. I have Poser 7 installed and use that to test. If it's put in the 'Runtime\Plugins' folder, it will search up to find a poser.exe.

Do you use Poser also ? Or just load Poser files into DS.

I found the syncronize button. But I don't really know how AL works, so I don't really know what to do.

Glad it works for you.

garrett_3d said:

I don't see any issues with any of the stuff in your galleries, AngelReaper.

thanks well the only place I have left is Deviant Art everywhere else no longer can sometimes might get to on a forum thread here 

https://www.fab.com/search/channels/unreal-engine?q=soviet

It was already explained in the forum thread about Filament usage.

Try to search for it.

Robertl said:

I love the program, so nice to see all my stuff, even nicer to put it in folders but I installed the update and tried to add new purchases and append them and they can't be found in any search. I thought maybe because I deleted folders and such I goofed it up so I removed the program through dim and reinstalled it andafter renaming my USER folder I had it create a new USER folder which went fine but when I had it scan it said it couldn't find files or something like that so I looked in the log and seesaying it was starting scan of C:/user/public/documents/My Daz 3D Library which I have never used, all my content is on my E drive and I checked the EZFINDER in the scripts folder and it is in the the DAZ folder on the E drive and works for the old content just not the new and  I don't get the chance to tell it which library to scan, it just scans it and the new stuff  isn't there. Am I doing something wrong?

Note: For other EZFinder users, do not change any settings in DIM if everything is already working fine.

 Hello Robert, first, uninstall EZFinder. Then check both your E: and C: drive Scripts folders - the entire Scripts/EZFinder folder can be safely deleted from both locations to ensure a clean slate. Then open DIM and go to the Installation tab, next, set the "Content Updates" dropdown to "Install to the currently selected path", change the Content Path Shortcuts dropdown to your E: drive library, click Accept, and reinstall EZFinder. You may need to remove and re-add your toolbar icons in Daz Studio after this. If you have it listed, don't remove the C: public path from DIM - some of your content may have been installed there by default.

If that fails please send me a screenshot of your DIM installation tab like I have done in the attachment. You can blur out your "Content Database Base" like I have done for security purposes.

EZFinder should probably be installed in your main library listing.

usually whenever someone posts in the forum here about this subject either on characters or clothing and say with hatred and contempt about it I try to defend the product/s and creators and mention how I see many wearing revealing stuff open blouses, mini skirts extra including women of all ages young and old and I get abusive negative replies so it is nice to see a few here tha think like this stuff too

Hi,

When I open a saved Daz file, I get "Duplicate Formula Errors."

I believe the cause is that I added a door open/close property at the top level of the hierarchy. If I remove this morph, the error does not occur.

The door open/close property itself belongs to a different group, but to make it easier for users (so they don’t have to search through the hierarchy), I collect open/close morphs for doors and windows at the top level.

I have previously added window and other door properties using the same method without any issues, but this time, adding a new door property causes this error.

Below are the exact steps I followed. Please let me know if I made any mistakes:

1. Created a door that opens and closes using a hinge on the Y-axis.
2. Created a new property using "Create New Property" with the following settings:
   • Path: General/Transforms
   • Type: Modifier
3. Opened the Property Hierarchy tab, located the newly created property, and added the Y-axis rotation property (for opening/closing the door) to sub-components.

Up to this point, saving the file does NOT produce a Duplicate Formula Error.

1. Opened the ERC Freeze options for the newly created property, checked the "Keyed" option, removed all properties except the door’s Y-axis rotation, and executed ERC Freeze.

After performing this step, the "Duplicate Formula Errors" occur.

Thank you in advance for your help.