SimTenero Randomizer (Amazing product - I love that you can select whatever morphs you want, adjust the intensity, rotate the figure to see it from all angles, etc)

Wear Them All (Awesome product - gives your character a HUGE variety of clothing since you can wear clothes from past generations)

GenX2 (Wonderful product by a HUGELY talented PA who is greatly missed. [Even though it's three products, I consider it one since you need all three to be able to transfer morphs to G3]):

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-generation-x2

https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-2

https://www.daz3d.com/genx2-addon-for-genesis-3

Elijah 7 (The best male figure release by Daz, IMO.)

Gwennili HD for Victoria 7 (One of the most detailed and beautiful characters ever, IMO.)

I can see a very subtle seam, barely notceable, but yes they do need to address if the SSS settings are consistent or not. 

Just tested and yes, when the figire is loaded 'Victoria 7' the settings are as you would expect, however, when loading the iray mats sss is set incorrectly on the legs, exactly how you describe.

It doesn't seem to have a HUGE effect, but it definitely isn't right and needs a fix.

Sorry, I had to take down the screen shots and cover Victoria 7 up. Here are the screenshots.

I was wondering if anyone has this same issue with the Victoria 7 default texture. I have uninstalled Victoria 7 and reinstalled it twice now but I keep getting it. I first started to notice that on many of my renders I could see a seam right where the legs texture meets the torso. I kept thinking that I was causing it. I finally tracked it down and it appears to be from loading the texture Victoria 7 for Iray.

You can load any G3F figure but then go into Victoria 7's product folder and load the texture called "Victoria 7 All MAT." You can also load the figure called "Victoria 7 HD" and it will have the same error. Oddly enough loading the regular standard Victoria 7 figure doesn't have the same error.

If you look in the surfaces tab and select all skin, then scroll down to the SSS section and look for the setting called "Scattering Measurement Distance." You should see a question mark. Look at all of the other skin surfaces and the Scattering Measurement Distance will be set to ".12" But for the legs it reads, for me at least, as being set to ".75" for the legs.

I have attached my screenshots and a render I did with some various lighting including the default Iray Environment Map. Because this is an SSS issue, you have to let it render in Iray past 3000 or so iterations before you can see the seam. Also, it doesn't show up in all lighting conditions because it is SSS.

I would love to see if I it is just my install. I am having a hard time with DAZ QA on this issue. They keep telling me that they can't see the seam in a render. They don't tell me that they can't see that the surface settings are different on that texture for the legs. It would be nice if they did tell me that then I could just keep trying to reinstall it. No, they tell me that they can't see the seam. So if other people can see the difference in the setting, then likely you will notice it in renders now too in certain lighting conditions.

 

So both cgbytes and Renderosity are both totally ok with selling a figure that includes a genital shape, and it is not in any kind of "pro bundle" packaging. It is not in way hidden, either. This flies directly in the face of the credit card argument and tears it to shreds.

 

Not really. Do we know what payment processing rate they're paying? We don't. 

I wouldn't be too quick to sing the praises of project E, the figure is pretty much vendor unfriendly with the massive amounts of JCMs (note JCMs are notoriously difficult in Poser; genesis has ways of handling them, especially for custom shapes), especially in that hip area where those gens are. So far the only products are 4 dynamic dresses, an erotic pose set, and a skin MR. Even though it's been out for a month, that's hardly a comparison to genesis. Project E is basically Victoria 4.7 that happens to be weighmapped. People can keep an eye on it, but with that nonexistent marketing rollout, I wouldn't bet vendor support is going to be any better than watching people use the fitting room to convert clothes they made for DAZ figures.

If that really is the case (and it isn't...) change payment processors. Processors have to compete for business like any other business. I see companies change processors all the time, bouncing from one thing to the next. They do not have a monopoly. That is very weak argument. Besides the payment processors, you overlook something else entirely.

Google Ads. We might not know their payment processor, but we certainly do know who hosts some of their ads. In ad supported apps and some websites, Google Ads will shoot me ads for Daz and Renderosity because I have been on those sites. If the site was flagged as porn it would not do that. So if perhaps the payment processor at Renderosity just so happened to be more open than what poor Daz uses, Google would not be so kind.

The quality of Project E is not at all relevant. The fact is that Project E has genitals included, and multiple web stores are going to be carrying the model. Those stores do not express any concerns over their payment processor flipping out.

Plus that still doesn't address the fact that the pro bundle is not an age gate. Why would a payment company be ok with a genital prop in pro bundles but then freak out if it was in starter bundles? There is no logic behind that argument at all. A genital prop is a genital prop, and it is openly available for a fee. And it is not remotely compatible to beer policy. Daz is not Dollywood. Daz is already selling genital props. It is not some moral thing because if it was the props would not exist at all and females would not have nipples. It is also not comparable to keeping people behind ropes, that's a safety concern. Nobody is going to trip over themselves and start a fire with Daz genitals, unless their PC lights up in flames perhaps while rendering something kinky.

The beer analogy would be like this: Daz Park charges you more than triple the standard ticket to have access to beer. And that ticket includes a bunch of extra stuff which you might not want at all, dog chew toys when you don't have a dog, balloons when you hate balloons, and so on. All to get a beer. That's not a cover charge, that's extortion. And if a park did this, people would complain like crazy, and be very much entitled to complain. You are right about one thing, people don't go to amusement parks for the beer. But people do come to Daz for human elements. The frequency of these threads should be an indicator. And most people do not post in forums, they just leave. So one must wonder how many sales are left on the table by such outdated policies. This is an art community, not a day care nor family amusement park.

And if people never stand up and complain, nothing will ever change for sure. Telling people to never speak out is downright horrifying. That is precisely the "It has always been this way" argument right there. Just because it has been always that way does not make it right.

100 years ago women were not even allowed to wear small swimsuits. They had to wear baggy clothes, even to a hot beach. Women had to stand up and make this happen. Somebody had to protest. Times change. And times have changed in just the past 10 and 20 years. If this was an issue before, it isn't now.

Elvis could not show his hips on Ed Sullivan. But who went on to become the King?

There is a serious problem with video games promoting gambling. The recent Star Wars Battlefront 2 game was going to have random "loot crates" which can be bought with real money. The entire game was built around this, and the game used every gambling psychology trick in the book in order to push players towards buying them. But you see, Star Wars is marketed towards children. People protested. And it was ONLY because of these protests that the publisher pulled back and removed these deceitful tactics from the game before its final release. (There was a beta, which had the gambling in full force.)

People pushed back against Daz Connect, and rightfully so. It was directly because of protests in these forums that Connect was not embraced as much as it very likely would have been.

So saying we should just keep our mouths silent and accept a corporation's dirty practices...well, I'm not going to finish that sentence.

That is why this and other threads like it will continue to pop up. Change will never happen if people don't ask for it.

Again the threads iwll pop up, but it won't change the business strategy. There's no compelling incentive to given how they sell it.. its not a front line item. You can't push back against something not actually sold ;) . Hasn't been for years. Gens aren't the main attraction, and connect in itself wasn't bad, it was marketed badly.  And you get your payment processors based on certain criteria, just like you get loans... you don't get to pick a better place if you intentially try to damage your credit, it doesn't work like that. 

And all the suggestions on how to sell it comes right back to, that's not our strategy and doesn't impact the bottom line. You do have options in other stores where it is their strategy, and DAZ pretty much leaves that area to them. So yes project E is sold at other places, but it's out of place here because ot the gens becuase that's an area really they don't want to get in on.

I'm going to bow out because there isn't more to say than that. 

 

So both cgbytes and Renderosity are both totally ok with selling a figure that includes a genital shape, and it is not in any kind of "pro bundle" packaging. It is not in way hidden, either. This flies directly in the face of the credit card argument and tears it to shreds.

 

Not really. Do we know what payment processing rate they're paying? We don't. 

I wouldn't be too quick to sing the praises of project E, the figure is pretty much vendor unfriendly with the massive amounts of JCMs (note JCMs are notoriously difficult in Poser; genesis has ways of handling them, especially for custom shapes), especially in that hip area where those gens are. So far the only products are 4 dynamic dresses, an erotic pose set, and a skin MR. Even though it's been out for a month, that's hardly a comparison to genesis. Project E is basically Victoria 4.7 that happens to be weighmapped. People can keep an eye on it, but with that nonexistent marketing rollout, I wouldn't bet vendor support is going to be any better than watching people use the fitting room to convert clothes they made for DAZ figures.

If that really is the case (and it isn't...) change payment processors. Processors have to compete for business like any other business. I see companies change processors all the time, bouncing from one thing to the next. They do not have a monopoly. That is very weak argument. Besides the payment processors, you overlook something else entirely.

Google Ads. We might not know their payment processor, but we certainly do know who hosts some of their ads. In ad supported apps and some websites, Google Ads will shoot me ads for Daz and Renderosity because I have been on those sites. If the site was flagged as porn it would not do that. So if perhaps the payment processor at Renderosity just so happened to be more open than what poor Daz uses, Google would not be so kind.

The quality of Project E is not at all relevant. The fact is that Project E has genitals included, and multiple web stores are going to be carrying the model. Those stores do not express any concerns over their payment processor flipping out.

Plus that still doesn't address the fact that the pro bundle is not an age gate. Why would a payment company be ok with a genital prop in pro bundles but then freak out if it was in starter bundles? There is no logic behind that argument at all. A genital prop is a genital prop, and it is openly available for a fee. And it is not remotely compatible to beer policy. Daz is not Dollywood. Daz is already selling genital props. It is not some moral thing because if it was the props would not exist at all and females would not have nipples. It is also not comparable to keeping people behind ropes, that's a safety concern. Nobody is going to trip over themselves and start a fire with Daz genitals, unless their PC lights up in flames perhaps while rendering something kinky.

The beer analogy would be like this: Daz Park charges you more than triple the standard ticket to have access to beer. And that ticket includes a bunch of extra stuff which you might not want at all, dog chew toys when you don't have a dog, balloons when you hate balloons, and so on. All to get a beer. That's not a cover charge, that's extortion. And if a park did this, people would complain like crazy, and be very much entitled to complain. You are right about one thing, people don't go to amusement parks for the beer. But people do come to Daz for human elements. The frequency of these threads should be an indicator. And most people do not post in forums, they just leave. So one must wonder how many sales are left on the table by such outdated policies. This is an art community, not a day care nor family amusement park.

And if people never stand up and complain, nothing will ever change for sure. Telling people to never speak out is downright horrifying. That is precisely the "It has always been this way" argument right there. Just because it has been always that way does not make it right.

100 years ago women were not even allowed to wear small swimsuits. They had to wear baggy clothes, even to a hot beach. Women had to stand up and make this happen. Somebody had to protest. Times change. And times have changed in just the past 10 and 20 years. If this was an issue before, it isn't now.

Elvis could not show his hips on Ed Sullivan. But who went on to become the King?

There is a serious problem with video games promoting gambling. The recent Star Wars Battlefront 2 game was going to have random "loot crates" which can be bought with real money. The entire game was built around this, and the game used every gambling psychology trick in the book in order to push players towards buying them. But you see, Star Wars is marketed towards children. People protested. And it was ONLY because of these protests that the publisher pulled back and removed these deceitful tactics from the game before its final release. (There was a beta, which had the gambling in full force.)

People pushed back against Daz Connect, and rightfully so. It was directly because of protests in these forums that Connect was not embraced as much as it very likely would have been.

So saying we should just keep our mouths silent and accept a corporation's dirty practices...well, I'm not going to finish that sentence.

That is why this and other threads like it will continue to pop up. Change will never happen if people don't ask for it.

 

So both cgbytes and Renderosity are both totally ok with selling a figure that includes a genital shape, and it is not in any kind of "pro bundle" packaging. It is not in way hidden, either. This flies directly in the face of the credit card argument and tears it to shreds.

 

Not really. Do we know what payment processing rate they're paying? We don't. 

I wouldn't be too quick to sing the praises of project E, the figure is pretty much vendor unfriendly with the massive amounts of JCMs (note JCMs are notoriously difficult in Poser; genesis has ways of handling them, especially for custom shapes), especially in that hip area where those gens are. So far the only products are 4 dynamic dresses, an erotic pose set, and a skin MR. Even though it's been out for a month, that's hardly a comparison to genesis. Project E is basically Victoria 4.7 that happens to be weighmapped. People can keep an eye on it, but with that nonexistent marketing rollout, I wouldn't bet vendor support is going to be any better than watching people use the fitting room to convert clothes they made for DAZ figures.

I'm just going to point out bluntly that one can use credit cards at Renderosity. Speculation that they might be having invisible problems with credit card companies is completely out of left field and not evidence for an argument.

They also don't sell the "anatomical elements" for DAZ Figures like another site I can think of does. And I can definitely recall ads in certain magazines that if you wanted to use a credit card would be "discretely billed as" some other name.

Here's the thing:

A "Pro Bundle" is not an age gate.

Anybody can buy a pro bundle. Anybody. There is absolutely nothing stopping me, grandma, or a 10 year old from buying a pro bundle that contains a genital prop. It does not matter if the genital prop is sold with one item, or if it is sold with a thousand items, a genital prop is still sold here. So it is nonsensical that the prop is segregated to certain bundles.

And even if a character does not have the prop, they may have the textures. So anybody looking through the textures is going to find -OMG that is a penis!- in their texture library.

Additionally, while Renderosity does not sell the gen prop itself, YET, it is pretty hard to believe that what they do otherwise is not adult oriented. With promo pictures of full frontal nudity, and allowing users to upload pictures of nudity. And some of them are rather...explicit. I would believe that this practice alone would be far, far more likely to be flagged than selling the genital prop. After all, Daz does not allow nudity anywhere on the site. Nobody in this thread is saying that should change.

But wait, there's more. So Renderosity does not sell a genital prop. Well that may change soon! Project E is coming to Renderosity. Project E is one man's attempt at making a new Poser figure that is fully modern, and is not constrained like Genesis (no HD morph nonsense, no genital prop nonsense, I can go on...) She is already available at cgbytes. Project E has genitals included. Not to mention, Project E also has a fit to Victoria 4, which allows V4 to take on Project E's shape...I am not certain but that may include the genital shape as well. So it may be a round about way, but this could be imported into Daz Studio.

So both cgbytes and Renderosity are both totally ok with selling a figure that includes a genital shape, and it is not in any kind of "pro bundle" packaging. It is not in way hidden, either. This flies directly in the face of the credit card argument and tears it to shreds.

With everything posted above, it should not be any wild speculation that credit card companies are out to get our genitals. There is no excuse to keep a genital prop segregated from other products. There is no age gate. The ONLY gate from the props is a higher price tag. The policy is anti-consumer. And as the first post stated, props from 'the other place' can be very rudimentary. If you want the male genital that is not ridiculous, you pretty much need the one Daz makes.

P3D Leora HD        Ayala Outfit (Gen3F)         Belinda Hair (Gen2/3/V4) 

Another P3D gal.

If you haven't given Ayala Outfit a look, you'll really like the materials. Belinda Hair has nice morphs to plump/ volumize the hair, and a lot of other morphs. 

Hi Selene,

IIRC new morphs don't show up in saved characters, but I couldn't find an "older" one to test and verify my less than trustworthy memory.

For your other issue, the Natural Petite Morphs for V6 might work.

P3D Patricia For Victoria 7    Belle Tails (Gen3/8)     Betty Outfit (Gen3F)  

Here's another P3Designs gal. I wanted to show you her teeth, they are realistic as they vary nicely. The brown line of the bottom lip I'm getting here varies with different lights. We've discussed this before regarding lips fading into surrounding skin, and lips do vary. You're going to get different results depending on the lighting, so this is one to watch for and definitely test some light sets to get the look you want.

Her skin is quite lovely, that sheen comes as the default, no metallicity added. I think Patricia has the perfect level of bump on her lips. The lines look very natural.

The hair has nice "thicken" options for the tails, and many movement morphs. It's a fun, messy, casual hair and good for adults and kids. The bands come in many colors, it wasn't hard to match them to the outfit color. @swam  You have the wrong name for the hair for the folder name! You have it as BellaTails.

The Betty Outfit is one which has several material options. Tired of outfits having only one, then having to buy other materials. I just use shaders for the most part when that happens. But I'm more likely to buy an outfit when it has multiple choices of materials.

https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-morphing-primitives
https://www.daz3d.com/real-lights-for-daz-studio-iray
https://www.daz3d.com/pd-iray-shader-kit-2
https://www.daz3d.com/pd-iray-shader-kit-1
And Tom's iray auto and military paint shaders, Parrotdolphin's leather iray shaders.

And I'll toss this in, just to make 5 DAZ products (And because it's cute and it seems to work on every figure):
https://www.daz3d.com/janna-hair-for-genesis-2-female-s-and-victoria-4

And I purchased the beautiful Jazmine by Raiya while in fastgrab https://www.daz3d.com/jazmine-hd-for-victoria-7 and made some adjustments to the skin and a some morph tweaking. I think the character is gorgeous! With Pascale hair. https://www.daz3d.com/pascale-hair-for-genesis-3-8-female-s

Absolutely stunning render! 

Thanks @FirstBastion!

Re: my cat-- I often go to sleep with the laptop running on my bed. One time I woke up to some bank page on the internet. Is my cat starting a secret account? Is that where all my money is going? No, actually, I guess it's to Daz...

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Hello everyone!

Without making an hour of speechless I ask, why I got this eyes (look at "my shaders" pic) while the Victoria 8 shaders are more clear? (look at "Victoria 8 shaders")

Some shader setting to set?

P.S. V8 has a glossiness over the eyes also.

Thank you

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

https://www.daz3d.com/sakura-8

https://www.daz3d.com/marcel-for-genesis-2-male-s

This is rather dated, but: https://www.daz3d.com/catgirl-for-aiko-4-and-victoria-4

https://www.daz3d.com/toonytigers-for-genesis-bundle

(WillDupre in general)

https://www.daz3d.com/animated-for-genesis-2-male-s-bundle

 

Very nice, thank you

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

https://www.daz3d.com/sakura-8

https://www.daz3d.com/marcel-for-genesis-2-male-s

This is rather dated, but: https://www.daz3d.com/catgirl-for-aiko-4-and-victoria-4

https://www.daz3d.com/toonytigers-for-genesis-bundle

(WillDupre in general)

https://www.daz3d.com/animated-for-genesis-2-male-s-bundle

It's been awhile since I used DAZ Studio. Maybe even a year. In the meantime, the interface has changed. I'm currently using DAZ Studio 4.10 Pro. In an earlier version of DAZ Studio, there were options to modify hair, bodies and other things. For hair, the options used to be in the parameters. You could change things like the length, the direction the hair was flowing (wind), etc. For the head, you could also make adjustments under parameter. For example, you could tweak expressions. Then for the body, I believe it was under shape, you could combine figures. For example, I could dial a bit of the Girl head onto a Victoria body.

Now I look for the dials under parameter or shape and the features are missing. Where can I find them?

By the way, I loaded Gen 2 and Gen 3 characters. Both seem to be missing the parameter or shape features I'm talking about.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

I mostly work with Genesis 3 right now, and I have the "Wear Them All" addon for Genesis 3 Female. While it's been rather handy in a number of cases, I've noticed that it doesn't work well with Genesis 1 shoes; there's quite a bit of distortion in the soles and the general shape of the shoe. It fares a bit better with Genesis 2 Female shoes, but there's still a bit of much-less noticeable distortion.
The reason I'm asking is that I noticed that there are a number of very nice footwear options for Victoria 4, and "Wear Them All" does have fitting for V4 > G3F. But my issue is that if they don't look well, then I won't bother with buying any of them and wasting my money on something that won't work well with it.

Interesting development: When I right click on Victoria, as used above, or other things, and tell the system to open with Daz, the actor or prop displays fine, though I cannot bring anything else in or use poses when I click on them, as it still claims to be unable to find the file.

Does anyne have any ideas at all?

Thanks

Can you show us a screenshot of your Content Directory Manager with the DAZ Studio formats and Poser Formats expanded to show the content paths?

If we are talking about missing files for the Daz Studio app (not the content), maybe try reinstalling Daz Studio with the antivirus turned off, and/or running the installer as Administrator.

If we are talking about content files missing, maybe use the Content Directory Manager (on PC it's under Edit > Preferences > Content tab) to make sure all your paths are listed.

Tried reinstalling Daz with running DIM as Admin, no joy. Directroy trees are correct. 

Reinstalling something should always be your last last resort. Figuring out stuff is teh way forward. Now i know DAZ installes into a few locations it seems. When i manually install files it goes to my C:\Users\Public folder same as yours.

Your best bet just after you get the cannot find error is to go to the log file. In here copy where the file is suppose to be and find that directory and troubleshoot from there.

But yes as SixDS said show us screenshot of the error and Content Directory manager

As Requested. The #1 file shows where DIM installed the content and what-all, the #2 file is where Daz itself is installed.

In my case, it is going to C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library where it's split up among props, characters, and what not. 

I've spent the last couple of hours looking for duplicate files and directory paths and come up dry, I cant get any characters to work with the exception of the base Victoria, Michale, Hiro, and Akio actors, but none of their ad-ons will take. Computer continues to clain it cannot find the files.

Split up as in that is th eway it is isntalled, or split up by you moving the files or telling DIM to use sub-directories?

Where DIM is installing them.

EDIT: Just about forgot, the error message reads "Could not open file:/People/Genesis 8 female/Victoria 8.duf. File does not exist." Obviously I was picking Victoria 8 at the time, but you get the idea. Whatever I pick, is claims "File does not exist."