daveso said:

Phx Thandiwe HD for Genesis 9 Feminine | Daz 3D   I like this character a lot. Phoenix1966 does some great work overall. I have most of their products from that other store, and some from here as well. 

Thanks for highlighting this character. I didn't notice her initially, but looked after I saw your post and they did a great job with the promo images! 

barbult said:

Paper Tiger said:

barbult said:

Paper Tiger said:

Hey all. I'm attempting to use UltraScenery 2 for the first time. It shows loaded properly in plugins, it's up to date, but every time I launch it, none of the lettering is visible on the UI (as shown in screenshot). Anyone know where I can start to try and figure this out?  

Several of us have encountered that problem on the first install. Try reinstalling it. I hope you are using DIM. UltraScenery products do not work when installed from inside Daz Studio. 

Aye, I use DIM to install practically everything. I'll re-install and give it a try, thanks! :)

 

EDIT: HAHA! Problem resolved! Many thanks! :D

Great!

THAT'S A STRANGE THING ACTUALLY. i HAD IT INSTALLED AND ALL WAS WORKING, THEN A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO IT WAS BLANK. i DID THE REINSTALL AND IT WORKED. Strange.  

tsroemi said:

columbine said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Have you looked at the pricing of 3D content elsewhere? The Daz prices may be more than you are willing to pay, but that doesn't make them excessive.

Yes, I have, and I am perfectly prepared to deem them excessive more than I am willing to pay too :P

(Honestly, I am not always trying to put you on the defensive, though I realize it probably feels like that. But I do feel like, given that these are all completely intangible resources -- and, for me, completely sunk costs I will never recoup -- they could all stand to be a lot cheaper. I've said before, and will probably say again, that for most items in the store, the 70%-off sale price is usually about what I think they should have cost to begin with. I realize a lot of people disagree with me on this, and you are all certainly entitled to.)

Strategic strikeout in that first paragraph to show that I do get your point about the choice of language.

Well, from our side of things it really often is quite a lot of money that's asked for something intangible - it sure is for me as well as for you -  but then again, from the other side, there's usually a lot of work put into the products, and some PAs do make their living off of what they create.  And then the store is so well known for its sales, I guess this needs to be factored in as well. So personally, I think the prices are at least proportionate. And one really only needs to wait for a bit for a good sale on any item, so there's that.

Oops, just seeing we're in the Appreciation thread, sorry! Didn't mean to derail it. To reign it back in I can add I really like the Mopat product idea! Seems very useful.

DAZ products are tangibles. A true intangible is insurance, something you cannot see touch taste or feel. If DAZ products were intangibles, we would not need a 'mature filter' or a hard drive to put the products on. .

VDBs. There are some VDB products in the store, but I don't know if any of them are animated. There are definitely free animated VDBs you can download, and maybe you can find an existing one that fits your needs, but if not you can also use Blender or Houdini to create your own.

Cybersox said:

miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

HeavyRay said:

I keep having this hallucinogenic dream that while eating my daily breakfast omelette, I open the Daz sales page to see that ManFriday is the PA of the day and MeshGrabber 4 is the 'Golden Ticket.'
(Hey, I'm 72 - let an old man enjoy his simple dream ;-)    )

I'm sure most of us have been dreaming our own similar dreams even if the subjects vary. :) I'd love for the GT to be a modern SCUBA with standard air tanks (not rebreathers, nitrox, etc.) & a full face mask like I own, similar to this: https://www.scuba.com/p-oednsgk/ocean-reef-g-diver-full-face-mask-w-coms-ocean-reef-extender-kit. All the dive gear here (including the G8) is either vintage or high tech, not what I use.

You're not wrong, but given how DAZ has always had a bit of an aversion when it comes to producing items that are too close to replicas of products that might be protected by strong design patents, and modern SCUBA definitely falls into that zone... I wouldn't hold my breath for compensator

Don't worry, I know better than to hold my breath SCUBA diving. :) Maybe I will kitbash. If I can hide some parts of the head gear/mask from those tech diving sets, I should be able to get close.

Cybersox said:

Cyklone said:

Here's my choice for the bathtub : https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/151376

Hopefully you already have it then.  That's one that I didn't mention in my list because it's no longer available for sale... IIRC, it got pulled a while back when Pamawo purged a lot of thier older products from Rendo.  It MIGHT possibly show up here eventually, but if so it'll most likely be part of a larger bundle of all the Steampunk products in that series... 

You can get that exact same tub in this set: https://www.daz3d.com/insalubrious-sanitary
 

I have noticed several, single props of Ansiko sold by Pamawo at Rendo in the past. Given the similar promo styles, I just always assumed they are business partners. 

columbine said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Have you looked at the pricing of 3D content elsewhere? The Daz prices may be more than you are willing to pay, but that doesn't make them excessive.

Yes, I have, and I am perfectly prepared to deem them excessive more than I am willing to pay too :P

(Honestly, I am not always trying to put you on the defensive, though I realize it probably feels like that. But I do feel like, given that these are all completely intangible resources -- and, for me, completely sunk costs I will never recoup -- they could all stand to be a lot cheaper. I've said before, and will probably say again, that for most items in the store, the 70%-off sale price is usually about what I think they should have cost to begin with. I realize a lot of people disagree with me on this, and you are all certainly entitled to.)

Strategic strikeout in that first paragraph to show that I do get your point about the choice of language.

Well, from our side of things it really often is quite a lot of money that's asked for something intangible - it sure is for me as well as for you -  but then again, from the other side, there's usually a lot of work put into the products, and some PAs do make their living off of what they create.  And then the store is so well known for its sales, I guess this needs to be factored in as well. So personally, I think the prices are at least proportionate. And one really only needs to wait for a bit for a good sale on any item, so there's that.

Oops, just seeing we're in the Appreciation thread, sorry! Didn't mean to derail it. To reign it back in I can add I really like the Mopat product idea! Seems very useful.

@SerenNight - thank you for this thread, I've just had a very pleasurable time reading through it, and making some additions to my wishlist, and some deletions too, thanks to your product hightlights and lowlights. Thanks also to those other contributors who shared their thoughts on various products. Also, it was fascinating to see the migration of Owen and Boyd to G9.

Richard Haseltine said:

It is a core application with much of its featuer set supplied by plug-ins, though - but theya re compiled, platform-specific, C++ code not scruipts (some features have been implemented as scripts in the past, e.g. Drop to Floor and Symmetry, but as far as I know most or all of those are now fully compiled).

Slow how? It is doing a lot of things that are not readily threadable, since there are mutual depenedncies, which emans single core perfomance often matters more than core count in inertactive use - simulation and rendering, for example, are multi-threaded.

Aside from the app data folder entries nothing in DS is tied to the boot drive, though some of the default content paths may be (Public documents for DIM installs, and the My Library folder if the user's Docuemnts folder has been left on C:, but those can easilt be changed). The database certainly doesn't care which drive the content is on.

If you are using Smart Content then Filter by Selection should already do what you need by showing only compatible figures, but you can drag-and-drop from the Content Library to a particular category in Smart Content if you want, or use the Filter by Context feature in Smart Content, select all, right-click>Categorise.

I have no idea what you mean by "the database we're harnessed to now is ancient, clunky, inefficient, and user-hostile." Though database are not designed for casual tinkering, beyond what is available 9carefully considered) through the UI.

As for alternative render engines, the SDK isa vailable - anyone is free to write their own connectors, though they will also presumably need to write content converters (to the extent that that is possible).

　I often find the interface response to be slow when operating DazStudio.

　When the number of objects in a scene is small, I have no complaints about the response time.
　However, when the number of objects in a scene increases to a certain degree, it slows down dramatically, making it difficult to work with.
　Since only a portion of the 64GB memory is used, I do not think there is a memory shortage, but as the number of objects increases, operations become extremely slow.

　Animation keys also slow down when the number of keys increases.
　When creating a 600-frame walking animation and trying to make 10 different people walk, the screen freezes for a while when the 600-frame key is selected on the timeline and the timing is moved.

　The figures are also slow to load.
　At one point it improved and became faster, but it is still quite slow when I have bought and installed many figures.
　Furthermore, if there is a pose control animation, the load save slows down drastically.

　I have learned my lesson and have refrained from buying many figures since Genesis9.
　With Genesis9, men and women have the same single fugure, so if I buy the same number of figures as I did in Genesis8, the number of morphs each figure holds is double the number of figures in Genesis8.
　Therefore, we are extra careful in Genesis9 to limit the number of figures we buy.

　I don't know the structure of the database, but finding content is always a challenge.
　I always have a hard time finding the content I want in Smart Content.
　I remember that I bought a product, but I don't remember the name of the product.
　I have bought more than 10,000 products, so it is not practical to remember all the product names.
　Many products I don't even remember buying.
　Products with cool names are often hard to find because the name doesn't match the product.
　When using a high-resolution monitor, the icons in a row are too small to be intuitive.
　Search filters and tags don't seem to be perfect, and many products are bought but not found when needed, so they are kept in dead storage.

　Right now, the fastest way to find a product is to first look for it in the catalog on the Daz site, then use the product name or its filename as a clue and look for it in Smart Contents or Contents Library.
　The fact that the thumbnails in the store catalog are much larger when lined up than in Smart Content also makes it easier to find the product.
　When I search for a product in DazStudio alone, without using the site's Shop Catalog, I often can't find it.

　It would help me if I could select larger thumbnail sizes for Smart Content and Content Library.
　If I were a young person, I would probably not have a problem if I looked closer to the screen.

Cyklone said:

Here's my choice for the bathtub : https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/151376

Hopefully you already have it then.  That's one that I didn't mention in my list because it's no longer available for sale... IIRC, it got pulled a while back when Pamawo purged a lot of thier older products from Rendo.  It MIGHT possibly show up here eventually, but if so it'll most likely be part of a larger bundle of all the Steampunk products in that series... 

Here's my choice for the bathtub : https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/151376

Quasar said:

Pendragon said:

Hi, Marcius is my uncle, I inherited his work, and since he taught me everything, I acquired the same style. I kept the store on RenderHub under his name, but he no longer makes the products. He ended up leaving 3D art a few years ago and now works with another type of art, he is an actor and has a film school here in Brazil. But I am very flattered that my work is a continuation of his. Thank you very much.

Well then ... Hello and welcome Pendragon! You've done a great job implementing what you learned. Even though it is recognizable, I do see you have added your own touches to the new characters. I really like the unique faces you create. Good luck to you and your uncle in each of your artistic pursuits.

Thank you very much, I'm trying to find my own style, however I really have a strong influence from Marcius.

Pendragon said:

Hi, Marcius is my uncle, I inherited his work, and since he taught me everything, I acquired the same style. I kept the store on RenderHub under his name, but he no longer makes the products. He ended up leaving 3D art a few years ago and now works with another type of art, he is an actor and has a film school here in Brazil. But I am very flattered that my work is a continuation of his. Thank you very much.

Well then ... Hello and welcome Pendragon! You've done a great job implementing what you learned. Even though it is recognizable, I do see you have added your own touches to the new characters. I really like the unique faces you create. Good luck to you and your uncle in each of your artistic pursuits.

Paper Tiger said:

barbult said:

Paper Tiger said:

Hey all. I'm attempting to use UltraScenery 2 for the first time. It shows loaded properly in plugins, it's up to date, but every time I launch it, none of the lettering is visible on the UI (as shown in screenshot). Anyone know where I can start to try and figure this out?  

Several of us have encountered that problem on the first install. Try reinstalling it. I hope you are using DIM. UltraScenery products do not work when installed from inside Daz Studio. 

Aye, I use DIM to install practically everything. I'll re-install and give it a try, thanks! :)

 

EDIT: HAHA! Problem resolved! Many thanks! :D

Great!

barbult said:

Paper Tiger said:

Hey all. I'm attempting to use UltraScenery 2 for the first time. It shows loaded properly in plugins, it's up to date, but every time I launch it, none of the lettering is visible on the UI (as shown in screenshot). Anyone know where I can start to try and figure this out?  

Several of us have encountered that problem on the first install. Try reinstalling it. I hope you are using DIM. UltraScenery products do not work when installed from inside Daz Studio. 

Aye, I use DIM to install practically everything. I'll re-install and give it a try, thanks! :)

EDIT: HAHA! Problem resolved! Many thanks! :D

Paper Tiger said:

Hey all. I'm attempting to use UltraScenery 2 for the first time. It shows loaded properly in plugins, it's up to date, but every time I launch it, none of the lettering is visible on the UI (as shown in screenshot). Anyone know where I can start to try and figure this out?  

Several of us have encountered that problem on the first install. Try reinstalling it. I hope you are using DIM. UltraScenery products do not work when installed from inside Daz Studio.

I'm not sure what you did (sorry, your explanations are a bit vague), but if you want an actual (flat) silhouette, rendering the figures in canvas with Material ID for all their parts turned to black.

There are also the following products that might help:

https://www.daz3d.com/easy-light-and-render--silhouettes

https://www.daz3d.com/fpe-faceless-for-genesis-8-and-81

https://www.daz3d.com/fpe-faceless-for-genesis-9

The two latter contain shaders that can also be used on clothing etc.

What is the difference between Instances Plus and Ultrascatter?

Can instances be created with either one of them?

Is one of them easier to use than another?

Can they create instances like...animals?...cattle, in a field?  (If someone already has a Daz product that has cattle, I assume.)  -I was thinking of a ranch, for example.

I don't know if both of these products are required, or just one.

....of course there is also a product called: Instances To Objects.  (I believe I already have Ultrascatter and Instances To Objects.  Would that do the job?

Phx Thandiwe HD for Genesis 9 Feminine | Daz 3D   I like this character a lot. Phoenix1966 does some great work overall. I have most of their products from that other store, and some from here as well. 

Nice. i have your other products. they work very well and look stunning.

So this will be a very welcome outfit.

I also hope your thinking of add ons for this?

Out of interest who is the female figure in the first image?