Freebie Repo!

Hello there chums Both myself and my captors run the monthly freebie competition right here on these very boards, and it would be nice to have a lovely list of freebie resources that is (mostly) up to date. I will add my own entries, or any other resources that should be safe for the freebie competition. If you have a wicked resource for freebies (that isn't dodgy), please shoot me a PM, and i'll add it here.

Thanks Pals!

Websites: 

Polyhaven - Using any individual models, textures, or HDRIs from these sites will count as a freebie, and they do stack. If the competition requires 3 freebies, and you use 3 models, you're golden.

Renderhub - Not sure if these are rotational. It's probably fine.

Daz3D Freebies - Yes, Daz freebies.

Renderosity - Rendo, up to date, decent stuff.

3Dassets.one - Lots of textures, models and HDRIs. Not daz ready, but takes minimal effort to import.

Wilmap - Sight for older genesis clothing, but still a great repo.

sdeBStore - Lots of good quality modern G8/9 clothing.

3dShards - @FrankTheTank submitted this, looks good.

Cgbytes - The family friendly area.

Destroy! - A pack of props and crowd generator tools submitted by @FrankTheTank

Carrara:

Carrara Freebie Index - Submitted by @Stezza

KA Freebies:

Camper Van

News Room

Laptop

A Curious Christmas Gift

Polyhaven Bundle:

Polyhaven Vol 1 (These models are from the good folks at polyhaven. I have simply repacked them for daz, with data/runtime paths.)

...Again, please reach out to me if you have more current freebie resources.

KA

wikitime said:

Work in progress of a 3D model for a Unity game. :)

nice work love the tyres. this is carrara ?

see https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/8916/buy-something-that-doesn-t-work-in-carrara-post-your-questions-and-workarounds-here-please

greywolf said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

oh by the way, one thing to bear in mind, while DAZ studio is faster when everything fits on your GPU

Carrara is considerably faster than D|S if it does not

which for me is often the case with those big Howie Farkes scenes

coupla questions:

* Can one import a ds scene into Carrara?
* Is Carrara slated for discontinuation (thus its currently very low price)?

no longer in development but yes it loads duf files with some caveates

Genesis 3, 8 & 8.5 crash it due to a mismatched typo in the several bone/node namings

Genesis 9 needs conversion to blended weight and resaving as a new character preset as does all the clothing

Strandbased hair won't import as mesh only useless lines

but Carrara has dynamic hair of its own

dforce doesn't import you can use dforce2morph though to create and save matching cloth poses

many props need to have the U on the UV map tiling unchecked

however Sparrowhawk made a plugin to do this

those are some main ones

the CPU based render engine is not bad, it's better than 3Delight but not as good as iray but if you don't have a Nvidia card it is much faster than iray CPU

you can always just use it to render backgrounds 

greywolf said:

* Is Carrara slated for discontinuation (thus its currently very low price)?

"Discontinue" isn't really the right word, Carrara just hasn't been developed in a decade or so. I don't know that Daz has developed it (or Bryce) since they bought it.

WendyLuvsCatz said:

oh by the way, one thing to bear in mind, while DAZ studio is faster when everything fits on your GPU

Carrara is considerably faster than D|S if it does not

which for me is often the case with those big Howie Farkes scenes

coupla questions:

* Can one import a ds scene into Carrara?
* Is Carrara slated for discontinuation (thus its currently very low price)?

tsarist said:

I personally enjoy using Carrara. It can handle most Poser props, DAZ props. It can handle Poser people thru Poser 7 & Daz people (Genesis 2 & below). The animation capabilities are amazing.

I second that.  I do all my animation in Carrara, using all the timeline features but especially "clips" (mocap files) of which I have many dozen in my Carrara browser (many are imported Animate files saved as clips).  I am getting more serious about DS due to the amazing renders with iRay, but the render time limits use to backgrounds in Carrara. Impressive backgrounds, yes, but no camera motion.  When the new version of DS is ready, I'm planning to get a new nVidia GPU with way more VRAM. But I suspect the render time will still not match Carrara (usually <5sec per frame).

I want to belatedly apologise to mavante for the atrocious way I spoke in this thread

I happened to come upon it searching the World Gardens Maze as having issues in Carrara 8.5

release build (got it to load in the Beta)

I am shocked by the attitude I showed here

I do know I was going through a lot at the time with Covid lockdown unable to escape and my neighbour spray painting and giving me my one and only ever asthma attack

I did in fact break lockdown and stagger to the next block so I could breathe

rang the EPA who were no help

called the police even, less help

went to my doctor a day later when lockdown ended and got ventolin

which saved my arse next time (was able to prevent almost suffocating and passing out)

Stezza said:

cool... I now have to find links to my Carrara freebies 

 Haunting.

cool... I now have to find links to my Carrara freebies 

oh by the way, one thing to bear in mind, while DAZ studio is faster when everything fits on your GPU

Carrara is considerably faster than D|S if it does not

which for me is often the case with those big Howie Farkes scenes

it's coming.....  

modelled from the Carrara Organic Command.... 
a fun tool you don't hear much from ... untill it comes into our galaxy! 

I am of course a Carrara user 

but ...

I buy Bryce stuff too

rarely use it but grab stuff while I can because one day it might be gone

we lost a huge amount of Carrara content one store cull 

just saying for those who don't use a program now but might one day try it

greywolf said:

I'm just surprised to encounter assets in the Daz store that aren't compatible with Daz.

Daz3D, the company, owns multiple programs, of which Daz Studio is the most prominent. A product that's compatible with Carrara, or Bryce, is still compatible with Daz even if not Daz Studio.

you can always buy Carrara 

changed this post to share a mixture of Ai animated 3D renders

previous one is posted in the Carrara forum as not wanting to spam the forum with my renders 

So I just found a wonderful set of landscapes which would perfectly suit my needs for a scene.  At a great price, too (<$10 for a 4-scene bundle).  Fantastic.
...except that it's for Carrara.  Only.  There is no DAZ installer, DIM can't find it , and DAZcentral can't find it
I'd consider requesting a refund but it's almost more trouble than it's worth to do that, so I'm going to let it sit as a reminder of a lesson learned, but it would be a boon if there were a note somewhere, like
NOTE: This product is not directly compatible with Daz Studio.
so that idiots like me don't jump with glee, drop it into our cart and then wonder why it's not showing up in any of our content installers.  Just saying.

ah the move to Blender 

I wasn't trying to steal your thread BTW, just showed I hadn't abandoned Carrara quite yet for Ai  or DAZ studio but using both

but

Blender is definitly a more worthy challenge to move on to

Freebie Challenge October 2025 - THE MONSTER MASH!

As I slide open my coffin, and dig through fistfuls of earth to breach the salted ground above, I find myself in good company. My fellow dead, my faithful undead, my kindred spirits from cradle to grave, it is time to gather once more. After faking my own death, and laying low in a Congolese graveyard to avoid significant parking debts – I have returned. For the next three months, 'Puff-daddy Kindred' (working title) will be guiding his flock through our seminal competitive slate. The prizes are bigger, the memes are fatter, and the good times are guaranteed*.

We're kicking off this Halloween, with the annual 2025 Monster Mash. Your task this month is to join me in making some of the spookiest, kookiest creations you can possibly conjure. A werewolf sipping a latte perhaps? A vampire doing some photocopying? A race of fluffy aliens taking over earth?! These are just some ideas I scrawled onto my coffin lid, i'm sure they will inspire someone. Post your horrific creations in the entries thread, and 'puff-daddy K' will review. If I find they have the correct levels of juice, you will be rewarded. Look at these spiffy prizes...

Spiffy indeed. Anyway, i'm mid-way through embalming, so there's no time like the present denizens. Crack those knuckles, shake out the rigor mortis, and show me what you've got!

Rules:

1. Minimum of 3 freebies.

2. A Maximum of 5 purchased items.

3. Genesis and its standard morphs are fine.

4. If you postwork your images, provide the base image.

5. You can use AI for post-work, upscaling, colour work etc, just go easy and stick with the spirit of the competition. 

6. All Daz ecosystem programs are allowed – Bryce, carrara etc (Even poser, If you behave yourself)

7. Images pictures are subject to Daz TOS.

8. No max Entries on this one. I can't count. Do as many as you want.

This Freebie Challenge will end October 31st, 2025 @ 23:59 Daz time.

INFORMATIVE VIDEOS!

First Place: $20 store credit from KindredArts
Second Place: $15 store credit from KindredArts
Third Place: $10 store credit from KindredArts
HM: $5 store credit from KindredArts

Please post your entries in the entries thread below...

ENTRIES THREAD

A LOVELY LIST OF FREEBIES YOU CAN USE!

*Legal notice - the good times are not, in fact, guaranteed. 

Beginner challenge - "Atmosphere"

• Evoking a particular emotional or aesthetic quality
• Atmospheric perspective, also known as aerial perspective, refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance
• In addition to creating a sense of depth, atmospheric perspective can be used to express environmental conditions and time of day in a work of art

Creating atmosphere in art is more than simply using some godrays, fog or dust in an image.  It is creating a feeling; a sense of place or time.  It needs to enhance and bring attention to the subject matter.

Tutorials

for DAZ Studio Iray:

http://sickleyield.deviantart.com/journal/Tutorial-Creating-Dust-And-Atmosphere-in-Iray-522291773

http://rawart3d.deviantart.com/art/Raw-FogCam-535959358 free product

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/334586/tutorial-adding-atmosphere-with-a-depth-canvas - this tutorial explains how to use a Depth Canvas

DAZ Studio 3Delight:

http://www.omnifreaker.com/index.php?title=UberVolume

Linwelly's Simple Atmosphere Tutorial for 3Delight ( may also work in Iray ):  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1654176/#Comment_1654176

for Carrara:
https://carraracafe.com/atmosphere-tutorial/

for Bryce:
Artist’s guide Sky Lab page 759
Bryce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahiyabdeUBI DOF in Bryce by David Brinnen

Bryce 7.1 Pro Easy - Spooky trees in Dan's fog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lDcqH78Is

Bryce Basics - Free content cloud over Big Sur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9490Co-XE

Atmospheric Basics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLOZWevi8g A Blender tutorial but the first 46 seconds really give you an idea of what atmosphere can be like.

What are some other elements for creating atmosphere:
https://prezi.com/dmvb-nlsj_wr/creating-mood-in-art/
http://www.zevendesign.com/mood-lines-giving-designs-attitude/

Don't forget to look at previous themed contests where information and hints are available.

October 2015's contest

October 2016's contest

October 2017's contest

October 2018’s contest

October 2019’s challenge

October, 2020's challenge

October, 2021's challenge

October, 2022's challenge

October, 2023's challenge

October, 2024's challenge