And once again, I unchecked the "Hide Items..." box, and...
Victoria 5 Tank Dress? When did I buy that!!??? And Why!?

And why does the forum keep signing me out and back in?

Same, I (re) discover some stuff I bought by past, but it's also perhaps a past freebie, it was for me, check it out from your Product Library :)
​Anyway, for the Sign-in/Sign-off thing, I have sometimes the same issue: EDGE, Firefox (56+), WaterFox, Maxthon/Internet Explorer and even Chrome :p
​Why I have this so many browsers ? It's because I develop mobiles applications/social networks applications, so for check if it works, I need test on each ^^

And once again, I unchecked the "Hide Items..." box, and...
Victoria 5 Tank Dress? When did I buy that!!??? And Why!?

And why does the forum keep signing me out and back in?

Do you get the PowerLoader dialogue when loading Victoria 4?

On the digital creations celebs, CS03 is definitely adriana lima, one of the more popular/famous victoria secret models, not allessandro ambrosio (another VS model).

Agree on the other 2, kim K and Megan Fox.

If he does a jasmine tookes Ill buy it.

finallly got mannequin, Aiden for M5, Victoria 5 Elite Ponytail Hair and... Reby Sky :)

As I had Stephanie pro bundle I was very tempted to get Angela but your comments only mentioned Reby and on confirming it includes a skin I felt comforted to get it.

Genesis is great with Anagenessis.

The Egyptian Outfit for Genesis 3 Male and the Egyptian Outfit for Genesis 3 Female are, in my opinion, two of the best Egyptian-themed products Daz has ever released. They’re both realistic and come with a variety of beautiful textures. Yet Daz hasn’t released a full set of historically-based Egyptian armor (complete with a breastplate, spear, and shield) since it released the Egyptian Knight for David 3 and Keeper of the Veil in 2008. Perhaps the reason they haven’t released a new set of Egyptian armor is because that type of product doesn’t sell very well. Nevertheless, I’d like to suggest an Egyptian armor outfit for G3M and G3F and/or G8M and G8F. This set could come with changeable textures like these and these. And it could also come with a breastplate specifically for a pharaoh.

Also, Daz once offered an Egyptian chariot from Simon3D. It can now be found at Renderosity, and it contains not only a chariot but battle poses and weapons for Michael 4 and Victoria 4. It would be great to see a brand new Iray Egyptian chariot with battle poses and weapons for G3M and G3F and/or G8M and G8F. Would anyone else like to see any of these products? 

I was playing around a bit with Analia and doing a wee bit of kitbashing.  I thought the lighting in this came out pretty good.  On closer inspection, I do see a bit of grainyness.  Either more light or longer rendering might have been better.  I'm putting a slightly postworked version in the gallery.

Saige  (Gen3F)        Morduin Outfit (Gen3F)    Tammy Hair (Gen 2/3 V4) 

Note the generations on the hair, all the way back to Victoria 4. Very thoughtful of the vendor to span that range. The hair morphs let you bring the flippy sides down, and even designates the top and bottom. One thing it doesn't have is volume for just the sides (unless I am just not seeing it.)  I think I'd postwork and add a bit of jigjags to the middle part of the hair, so it's not quite so straight. The lighting may cause it to look harsher too. 

My outfit seems a bit more fluid in the skirt than the promos,and the neckline seems a lot lower. This was the default as it loaded. It comes with a bow and arrow, and a hat, but  this will give you a feel for the product.

Saige's mouth was slightly adjusted- the lips narrowed a bit.

Forums are doing weird with pictures again. The second one is darker here, than the popup- which is lighter than the original! I give up.

As for Monique 8: if you have the model, take a look and tell me what you think.

I don't know, she actually looks fine to me. This is a Monique render, no color correction, default skin settings.

Human skin does tend to come out a bit orange to me by default though, so I usually knock that out in Photoshop.

I don't think translucency should be necessarily low. In human skin a high amount of light is actually scattered through the skin. About 94% of reflectance comes from SSS. Problem is, this really looks the most right with Chromatic SSS, and that is bugged to high heaven in DS. So often when I am setting up skin I still use mono SSS and lower translucency to avoid a single-color takeover of my skin. This is preventing me from developing and releasing skin shader settings right now, I really wish it would get fixed. :\

For what little it may be worth: the difficulty I have with Monique 8's settings is that her translucency, in particular, should not be high. At the very least, it shouldn't be as high as Victoria 8/Michael/Olympia/Stephanie/Lucas, but every single Daz base character has translucency set at 0.9. Dark skin simply isn't as translucent as paler skin; that is quite literally one of the evolutionary reasons for its existence.

This is true, but melanin is mostly at the basal layer of the epidermis, not sitting on the surface, so dark skinned characters would still have a very significant SSS contribution. I would expect the scattering and depth to be different. I don't find much references on this when I look.

I have trouble trying to bring DAZ darker characters to lower translucency also. Like lighter characters they get much more pale, and it's harder to tint diffuse without flattening the skin tone. It might require actually editing the diffuse in an image editor which won't kill detail like that.

As for Monique 8: if you have the model, take a look and tell me what you think.

I don't know, she actually looks fine to me. This is a Monique render, no color correction, default skin settings.

Human skin does tend to come out a bit orange to me by default though, so I usually knock that out in Photoshop.

I don't think translucency should be necessarily low. In human skin a high amount of light is actually scattered through the skin. About 94% of reflectance comes from SSS. Problem is, this really looks the most right with Chromatic SSS, and that is bugged to high heaven in DS. So often when I am setting up skin I still use mono SSS and lower translucency to avoid a single-color takeover of my skin. This is preventing me from developing and releasing skin shader settings right now, I really wish it would get fixed. :\

For what little it may be worth: the difficulty I have with Monique 8's settings is that her translucency, in particular, should not be high. At the very least, it shouldn't be as high as Victoria 8/Michael/Olympia/Stephanie/Lucas, but every single Daz base character has translucency set at 0.9. Dark skin simply isn't as translucent as paler skin; that is quite literally one of the evolutionary reasons for its existence. But as soon as you set translucency lower, SSS Chromatic makes the character go translucent. Hopefully, someday, that issue will be fixed.

Honestly, even if SSS Chromatic weren't incredibly buggy, I'm not entirely convinced that the increased realism is worth the spectacular hit on render times. That said, if it weren't buggy, maybe SSS Chromatic wouldn't hit render times the way it does.

I get, to some extent, why Daz has handled things this way. They're using translucency as a major contributor for skin color. In fairer people, it may be -- I'm not entirely sure about that. In darker skinned people, it cannot be, at least not at the same level, and still be realistic. (Except maybe for soles and palms -- but those aren't separate surface areas, and so have to be handled with the rest of the texture -- and mouths, of course, which are separate surfaces.)

So far, all the changes I've tried with Monique 8 make her either dull and grayish, or trying to become invisible.

Hi everyone:

Could you recommend me a DAZ female realistic character that corresponds to an age between 6 to 8years? I have used some products to simulate growth for Victoria 7 but the proportions do not seem right to me. I want to do some illustrations about Christmas and my characters seem as ET around a Christmas tree. 

Thanks

When I took advantage of the "glitch", yes I did get Victoria 7 Pro, Tween Julie 7 Pro and Toon Generations 2 Mega Bundle (I already owned half of the products in it)
My purchased product was one of the higher priced new releases supporting a PA: Aging Morphs for Genesis 8 Female(s) (I already own the G3F version)

So, no.  I do not feel guilty.
Wasn't planning on buying the aging morph pack yet. 

https://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-libby-hd-for-victoria-8

anyone know what the grey tank top and pantie outfit is?

Thanks in advance!

Some PAs have included it in their models and you can use them on any G8. I think Saiyoness has them in some of her characters... This character has it https://www.daz3d.com/benita-for-victoria-8

I have it from somewhere else too, a morph pack maybe, sorry, can't remember....

https://www.daz3d.com/lainey-for-victoria-8 See the last promo image for details.

Ragazzi come sta andando il Black Friday? Sono riuscito ad accaparrarmi Victoria 7 e un sacco di altra bella roba. Solo non riesco ad alzarmi alle 4 di notte per le offerte XD

Alzati alle sette e mezzo, l'offerta è valida per quattro ore. Hai tempo fino alle otto per prendere le cose!

Ragazzi come sta andando il Black Friday? Sono riuscito ad accaparrarmi Victoria 7 e un sacco di altra bella roba. Solo non riesco ad alzarmi alle 4 di notte per le offerte XD

Also... erst mal herzlich willkommen.

Um deine Fragen zu beantworten (soweit ich sie verstanden habe)...

Du musst deine Runtime nicht extra neu installieren, sondern kannst Studio sagen, wo genau sie ist. DAzu gehst Du in den Content Directory Manager (findest Du unter Edit--> Preferences), und fügst das VErzeichnis, dass die Runtime Directory enthält, under "Poser Formats" und am besten auch unter "DAZ Formats" ein.

Ich verstehe nicht, was du genau mit "Installerprobleme" meinst. Könntest Du das etwas genauer beschreiben? Und wo genau suchsts Du deine Athmosphere Cameras? Falls Du den Smart Content dafür nutzt, wirst Du wahrscheinlich wenig ERfolg haben; Älteres Zeugs findet man nur über den Content Library Tab.

UE in "alte" Lichter sowie Oberflächen: Um das zu nutzen, musst Du deinen Renderer in den Rendersettings von Iray auf 3Delight umstellen. UE funktioniert nämlich nicht in Iray, ebensowenig wie alte LIchtsets. Die Oberflächen müssen auch in der REgel angepast werden. Das betrifft alles, was älter ist als Genesis 3 (Michael7 und Konsorten). DAZ Studio hat zwar eine eingebaute Konvertierung, aber die funktioniert nur bedingt. Wenn Du was kaufst, achte auf "Iray" in den Materialbeschreibungen. DAZ Studio Materials sind in der REgel für 3Delight.

Die Berechnung der Bilder mit Iray dauert in der Regel länger als mit 3Delight, insbesondere, wenn Du keine kompatibele nVidea Grafikkarte zum Rendern hast. Iray ist ein kleines Hardware-Schweinchen, was das betrifft.

Die Namensgebung... ursprünglich war mal:

M4/V4

Genesis (G1) --> M5/V5

Genesis 2 (G2) --> M6/V6

Genesis 3 (G3) --> M7/V7

Weil sich die Leute immer aufgeregt haben, dass die Ziffer hinter Michael oder Victoria, oder wem sonst noch in der Generation, von der Ziffer der Genesis-Generation unterschieden haben, sind die DAZzler auf die Idee gekommen, dass die neue Generation Genesis 8 heisst, und dazu passend M8/V8.

Wenn du also Dante und Ivan nutzen willst, solltest Du auf jeden Fall die Genesis 3 Starter Essentials installieren. Die enthält die G3 Männer und Frauen Basisversionen und ist kostenlos. So kannst Du auch z.B. die anderen Genesis-Generationen ausprobieren.

Ein Wort zur Warning: Nur weil sie alle Genesis heissen, ist nicht alles mit jedem Kompatibel. Genesis 1 und 2 sind weitestgehend miteinander kompatibel. Genesis 3 und Genesis 8 können die Haut-Materialien von G1 und G2 nur mit Tricks nutzen, ebenso funktionieren Posen nur nach Konvertierung. Charactere kannst Du auch mit Hilfe von Konvertierungstools zwischen den einzelnen Generationen hin-und-her schaufeln; direkt aufeinander anwenden geht aber nicht. Ivan 7 würde also nicht mit Genesis 8 Male funktionieren, ebenso nicht mit Genesis 2 Male.

Versuche vielleicht erst mal mit den Base-Charakteren, welche der genesis-Generationen dir am meistn zusagt...

Arabella7 is a fantastic freebie . Thanks Daz. It's sad the glittch has overshadowed just how great the planned giveaways actually are.

I agree, I missed the whole crazy glitch craziness, but the planned freebies have been really quite nice in my opinion. 3 named gen3 characters in the last 2 rounds (Victoria, Bethany, Arabella) and those nice Dark Fantasy Weapons that I've had on my wishlist for ages.

And now I can't stop rendering Tori. Here with the Daydreamer outfit and Hawthorn hair - lighting from the Painters' lights. Iray ubershader applied to all.

Her skin is really excellent in Iray, and using all this older content is fun too. In a large runtime it's too easy to overlook all the good stuff that's there.

Victoria 7 and Bethany 7 in Freebies !
​Nice gift, thanks DAZ, (I already haven them, but I love them so much, I hope some who haven't yet can have them now! Go get them!)
Related to the Freebie (for no purchase), I hesitate between !
https://www.daz3d.com/sherwood-hunter-outfit-for-genesis-2-male-s
and
https://www.daz3d.com/tori-for-v5
​I have all the required product for Tori for V5.
​I like her skin, can some post/give me links to Tori for V5 renders Iray images (I'm not finding any in the gallery :/)
​I really like also the outfit, It will fit perfectly on girls ?
​I don't render so much guys in general. Due to the lacks of interests of them by my own customers.
Because in this batch I only have the choice between these 2 products :/ (as I own the left things)
 

Here's a quick render of Tori wearing the Sherwood outfit - there was a bit of pokethrough here and there, but that was easily fixed with adding the smoothing modifier.

 

Sorry @Nath it seems your post has been skipped by my eyes.. The fact to render the outfit renforce my position to choose Tori finally. Thanks also for the closeup face render! Have a nice day!

And thank you for motivating me to look at some of the older stuff I already have:)