The PA's went above and beyond with their very generous gifts!!!  Thank you so very much!!!

Also, thank you all for the wonderful sales!  I have over 200 new items in my purchases and have been busy downloading files and pics.  I install manually :)

I have Christmas freebies all of the way back to 2005!!!  

Daz3d, you have been the most happy part of my life for 17 years.  Daz3d is all of the wonderful PA's, forum coordinators and mentors, members, friends, everyone here.

I have seen people come and  then we lose them in real life.  Many deaths in the Daz3d family.  I think of them so often and have so many of their products.

I have seen PA's get better and better with their products over 17 years.  

I have actually spoken on the phone to some people I have met through Daz3d.

So, please know this website, this store, these forums....are more than just a hobby or business.  It means a happiness and an outlet.  

One last thing....please make certain you all look at your gallery likes....I don't always have a chance to leave a comment, but a like takes a second!!!  Your artwork is appreciated more than you know!!!

Daz3d is Family!!!  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

ArtAngel said:

barbult said:

@Mada what materials actually come with the Summer Santa? The promos show a lot of different textures, but the product page doesn't list any for the short or pool float.

Not sure if you got an answer but pretty much nada. The Umbrella prop comes with 3 material options for umbrella (red green and blue) and that's it. Had I known that I would have got the textures but I left them on the table for $4 and change. The question is do I really want to rebuy the Mega Bundle, and go for a credit, pay the few bucks extra or make my own? Leaning toward 2 or 3, but in hindsight I would have got the texture pack. Only thing I left on the table.

Edit: Drinking glass umbrella

Thank you. No, I didn't get an answer. The forum notifications have been broken off and on for days. Mada probably doesn't even know I asked.  I did the same as you - bought the bundle but not the additional textures, since so many were already shown in the Summer Santa package. I am disappointed in the marketing technique.

MelanieL said:

Mine are coming and going apparently randomly. I currently have 6 forum threads open in Chrome browser, of which this one has the icons but the other five do not. Weird!

Yeah, it's weird, all right. They were working when I viewed the thread, and they disappeared when I went to comment.

tsroemi said:

Shimrian said:

I purchased the Nikolai 9 HD Santa Bundle since I really liked the character, hair and the expressions! I think the hair should also look great on a female, but haven't tried that yet. Something seems wonky with forum uploads on images, so I updated it to my gallery to post here.

 

Edit: I uploaded it to my gallery, but it's not published. If you have any issues seeing it, please let me know and I can go ahead and publish it.

Not seeing anything unfortunately, want to go ahead and try to republish? 

Thanks, wasn't sure how saving images in the gallery worked. It let me post a link it without publishing it first so I thought publish might just mean show in gallery view. Lesson learned. :D

Saxa -- SD said:

See the new DS beta release today -- Am excited!  May finally update from beta 4.16.1.43.    

BUT question.  Are OOT hairs still being investigated?  ie. not addressed or fixed?  Think that was reported 2-3 weeks ago at least? 

Starting to think it's an Nvida issue, like Ghost lights.  In this case, seems pick a different shader as a work-around for Iray-preview? (will see how that goes).

Link to one OOT hair thread updated today:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/608501/crashing-issue#latest

Would appreciate guidance here. 

Or is this like an unofficial bounty, like DAZ store search help, where users get to help investigate? (think that was a good idea.  thx DAZ)

The crash occurs in Iray and not Daz Studio when "Transmission Color" has a map applied. To prevent the crash, remove any map applied to "Transmission Color". It has been reported to NVIDIA.

Mine are coming and going apparently randomly. I currently have 6 forum threads open in Chrome browser, of which this one has the icons but the other five do not. Weird!

Shimrian said:

I purchased the Nikolai 9 HD Santa Bundle since I really liked the character, hair and the expressions! I think the hair should also look great on a female, but haven't tried that yet. Something seems wonky with forum uploads on images, so I updated it to my gallery to post here.

Edit: I uploaded it to my gallery, but it's not published. If you have any issues seeing it, please let me know and I can go ahead and publish it.

Not seeing anything unfortunately, want to go ahead and try to republish? 

See the new DS beta release today -- Am excited!  May finally update from beta 4.16.1.43.    

BUT question.  Are OOT hairs still being investigated?  ie. not addressed or fixed?  Think that was reported 2-3 weeks ago at least? 

Starting to think it's an Nvida issue, like Ghost lights.  In this case, seems pick a different shader as a work-around for Iray-preview? (will see how that goes).

Link to one OOT hair thread updated today:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/608501/crashing-issue#latest

Would appreciate guidance here. 

Or is this like an unofficial bounty, like DAZ store search help, where users get to help investigate? (think that was a good idea.  thx DAZ)

I purchased the Nikolai 9 HD Santa Bundle since I really liked the character, hair and the expressions! I think the hair should also look great on a female, but haven't tried that yet. Something seems wonky with forum uploads on images, so I updated it to my gallery to post here.

Edit: I updated link after publishing in the gallery. The link was bad before.

I cannot upload images in the forum. It just gets stuck forever loading...

Forum icons are gone for me as well.

Also cannot load images.  It gets stuck in "uploading" mode.  Anyone else have that issue?

They are back for me now, as of a couple seconds ago. They had been missing for a few days.

Edit: Wait a minute! They are OK on THIS THREAD, but not throughout the forum. How does that happen? And now attaching a file is broken again. It just says "No file selected" when I try.

LeatherGryphon said:

DanaTA said:

Complaint: missing icons in the upper right...profile icon, forum menu icon, one other.  Can't even remember what it is.  Just little rectangles showing.  They work, but it just looks very wrong.  What in the world are they doing to the forum software now?

Dana

Fixing it? 

Seems to be.  If they keep fixig it like this, it will soon be totally unusable!

A friend used to joke about Road Construction Ahead signs, he'd say Road Destruction...and it was more accurate!

Dana

Imago said:

Ruthven said:

Io per il momento le vedo; qualcosa legato a versioni del browser?

Ah, può darsi... Ma le icone sono sparite dalla mattina alla sera senza che io abbia installato nessu aggiornamento del browser. 

A quanto pare il problema non affligge solot te:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/610936/forum-icons-missing-they-are-fine-in-store#latest

Forum icons missing--they are fine in store.

I am using latest FF browser, Win 11

(Title edited by mods to reflect all issues)

Exitof said:

SofaCitizen said:

The ones I have checked also include hair too which is very rarely included with normal Daz figures. Plus the original comparison to the base G3F is not fair since that is apples-to-oranges - there are plenty of other Daz-based characters/figures that also cost money.

So the real equivalent math would be more like below:

$58 Figure/Character + Interactive Licence

$72 Outfit + Interactive Licence

$53 Hair + Interactive Licence

---

$183 total

 

Bearing in mind that trying to find average values for figures, clothing and hair is not an exact science so there will be items that are higher and lower than these but hopefully those are a fair reflection. Also, you could probably argue that the included morphs could count as a separate item also.  Either way I would say that this disproves the "predatory" claim - especially since I have never seen these items promoted before and they are also non-daz products so probably not the sort of thing most people here would look to purchase.

In terms of pricing, we all know "there's always another sale" and that you'd be a fool to pay full price for any assets on the Daz store. Interactive license sales pop up too.

I've looked at the EULA in terms of the licensing but it's vague. Can anyone just resell the same item as their own without any attribution to the original artist? Can the licensing be combined such that a derivative work can be comprised of multiple license grants and then simply claim "no need for an interactive license, it's included, trust me!" How do we know that they paid for the interactive licensing in the first place? Weren't these products created before the interactive license option was made available on the Daz shop?

It is not permissible to resell the content or derivatives. The license is clear on this.

Interactive licenses do not grant any right to resell the ciontent as content - they grant the license to use the content within a game, to be sold (or given away) as a whole game package only.

Daz and the PAs may choose to grant additional licenses, permitting things which were not previously permitted, at any stage. The 3D printing licenses are even newer than the Interactive Licenses.

The Daz license allows users to create dependent products - clothes, hair, characters etc., as long as they essentially require the original product. So a character will be new textures and morphs 9possibly applied in combination with other morphs, as in the case of a character for a named Daz character) but will not be usable without the base character and any required additional morphs.

The Daz store should be for Daz assets, not Maya. Can you imagine if this person continued filling the shop with the near-infinite combination of characters/outfits/hair?

It's hard enough to filter out unwanted assets in the shop. I've looked into creating a store replacement or creating some JS code that would allos filtering out poses and textures. I believe it should be possible given that the first load of the shop page brings in all of product numbers and then pagination only swaps out the items. That data can be edited in the Dev Tools console easily, moreover, product numbers can be removed as well from the current search results. There are of course other options, such as all the custom URIs like people-and-wearables-genesis-8-female or dforce-hair.

Interestingly, they were a featured artist in a sale a few years ago. I searched "paleo" on the forum and there were a few threads about the store items. Someone claimed they were easy game assets, but that was quickly countered as the poly counts are way too high and not optimized for game usage.

To me, it looks exactly like someone got the idea to slap other people's assets together in an attempt to make a buck for little work.

Paleo is in fact Daz under another name, as Tafi is, so they have the right to use their own content in this way.

Lindsey said:

The "edit: A colored product icon with a" white circle with the arrow pointing down indicates you install products with DIM. 

Open up DIM and enter sku::86958 in the search box. 

Take action depending what tab the two installers are displaying in: Ready to Download, Ready to Install or if it's already installed.

It shows as installed but should I also see it listed as a product the same as previous Gen's in the product library as shown in my graphic above? The screen shot in that original post is from when using Smart Content in Daz Studio.

Artini,

Thank you. This thread is open to anyone who wants to showcase their NPR work. I personally welcome and enjoy the images people have shared. But as more and more people post, it makes sense to moderate ourselves. Instead of posting immediately after someone has shared their work, I propose that we each hold back for at least 24 hrs before doing so.

Whenever we post to this NPR thread, our work "headlines" the discussion. Visitors to the Daz Forum follow particular members ... because they like their art style, for example. Once too many people follow up with their own posts immediately, the "headline" moves on, and a person's work loses its potential audience. Think of it as a situation when people talk together, over one another: the discussion becomes cluttered, noisy and difficult to follow.

Personally I try to hold back for 24 hours after someone has posted before following up, or submitting a new post of my own. Sometimes I stay away at least three or four days, allowing the last person to have their time in the limelight. I'm not always true to that rule ... but that's what I try, as a matter of civility in a public forum.

Cheers!

Artini said:

I see, that your favorite are black & white images.

Please continue with that - after all, at least for me, it is to have a good time

and have someting else to do in my free time.

 

DanaTA said:

Complaint: missing icons in the upper right...profile icon, forum menu icon, one other.  Can't even remember what it is.  Just little rectangles showing.  They work, but it just looks very wrong.  What in the world are they doing to the forum software now?

Dana

Fixing it? 

Exitof said:

SofaCitizen said:

The ones I have checked also include hair too which is very rarely included with normal Daz figures. Plus the original comparison to the base G3F is not fair since that is apples-to-oranges - there are plenty of other Daz-based characters/figures that also cost money.

So the real equivalent math would be more like below:

$58 Figure/Character + Interactive Licence

$72 Outfit + Interactive Licence

$53 Hair + Interactive Licence

---

$183 total

 

Bearing in mind that trying to find average values for figures, clothing and hair is not an exact science so there will be items that are higher and lower than these but hopefully those are a fair reflection. Also, you could probably argue that the included morphs could count as a separate item also.  Either way I would say that this disproves the "predatory" claim - especially since I have never seen these items promoted before and they are also non-daz products so probably not the sort of thing most people here would look to purchase.

In terms of pricing, we all know "there's always another sale" and that you'd be a fool to pay full price for any assets on the Daz store. Interactive license sales pop up too.

I've looked at the EULA in terms of the licensing but it's vague. Can anyone just resell the same item as their own without any attribution to the original artist? Can the licensing be combined such that a derivative work can be comprised of multiple license grants and then simply claim "no need for an interactive license, it's included, trust me!" How do we know that they paid for the interactive licensing in the first place? Weren't these products created before the interactive license option was made available on the Daz shop?

The Daz store should be for Daz assets, not Maya. Can you imagine if this person continued filling the shop with the near-infinite combination of characters/outfits/hair?

It's hard enough to filter out unwanted assets in the shop. I've looked into creating a store replacement or creating some JS code that would allos filtering out poses and textures. I believe it should be possible given that the first load of the shop page brings in all of product numbers and then pagination only swaps out the items. That data can be edited in the Dev Tools console easily, moreover, product numbers can be removed as well from the current search results. There are of course other options, such as all the custom URIs like people-and-wearables-genesis-8-female or dforce-hair.

Interestingly, they were a featured artist in a sale a few years ago. I searched "paleo" on the forum and there were a few threads about the store items. Someone claimed they were easy game assets, but that was quickly countered as the poly counts are way too high and not optimized for game usage.

To me, it looks exactly like someone got the idea to slap other people's assets together in an attempt to make a buck for little work.

People can't just upload things automatically; Daz reviews everything that goes in the store and from what PAs have said it's a fairly rigorous process. These are made from Daz Original items that were originally in character pro bundles, so there's basically no way the creator didn't have permission from Daz. 

The EULA is pretty explicit about the fact that you cannot redistribute assets to other people, so no, you can't resell items as your own. That's one of the major "absolutely do not do this" things. 

This person did not fill the store with near-infinite combinations of outfits and hair. These are several years old and the only items of their kind in the store. I don't understand the purpose of speculating on the artist's motivations when they haven't actually done any harm.