Here's a render of G8F default skin and Toulouse hair. I had fun with Power Pose morphing her face and giving her a smirky smile. 

I've been resisting Victoria 8 all day but after another look I'm weakening. She is so beautiful and has fibermesh eyebrows!

RGcincy, I love the Economatics renders you have bee doing. I bought it when it first came out and haven't used it much. Great background trees and awesome grass!

Sonja,  Thanks for pointing that out.  I left the updates un-downloaded.  I did however grab Victoria 8 Pro bundle and some add ons since they are quite inexpensive.

Hopefully you have a backup of the previous or earlier version.

I'm sure V8 will sell quite well. Victoria always does. The real question is if the lineup -after- her sells or not. And that I think is highly questionable due to product fatigue. Genesis 3 was JUST RECENTLY starting to get really interesting, and now...G3 is done. It is highly unlikely there will be any new G3 releases on Daz.

I actually really like Victoria 8's eyes. I prefer the slender long look of them. I've never liked the oversized lips and eyes.

So far, I haven't seen that Victoria 8 offers anything that I need not already provided by Victoria 7, and far too little of what I do need. Really, eyelash movement? Only if I stick the camera in the girl's face. Backwards compatibility? That isn't the truth when V4 clothes are not supported, and it takes a convoluted series of odd steps to get G3F clothes to fit. Thanks to Sickleyield for that tutorial. And V8 has an even more primitive game-developer-friendly and still-artist-unfriendly mesh. I suppose we'll have to subdivide by 4 now to get her to look as round as a human.

I won't say no. But I can't say yes until HD, muscularity morphs, vascularity morphs, and especially Shape Shift 4 is out, assuming that poor Zev0 feels like making one more script package for yet another blatant marketing ploy. If all those come out, then I can test V8 to see if upgrading my central characters once again (for the fourth time) is worth it. Which means I'll be withholding final judgment until December.

Yes, I know. No one is forcing me to buy V8. I can still keep using V7, or V6 for that matter. But we all know that V7 items will now slow to a crawl, and be gone from the DAZ store within a month. I'll have to buy older items (perhaps there's a reason I haven't picked them up already) or shop at one of the other stores just to get cool new gear for my obsolete Vickis.

 

 

Except for the fact that we will almost certainly be offered a G8 clone for G3 ;). I'll even buy that even tho I've gotten Vicky 8. I still love and will use the G3s

Laurie

A lot of you know me, but this post is not what you might think it is.

I personally think the new Vicky 8 looks fantastic!

I also love the backwards compatibility AND the incredibel buy V8 Pro Bundle get V5, V6, & V7 Pro Bundles Free!

I'm a Carrara user, and V8 won't work  for me.

My reason for this post is to ask WHY?

WHY do we need V8 so soon?

Just look at some of the new characters for V4 (in one of the other stores), look what they can do with THAT technology.

Daz has yet to fully push its Victoria 6 to the limits of its technology! 

Not to mention Victoria 7.

I just wish you guys let the technology breathe a little. I have no doubt in short order you could have gotten V8 quality renders out of V6!

I'm not saying don't try to make great looking figures, just use what you have and make it stretch.

Honestly, things like flexing musculature as you pose G8 make it something I want right now.

So far, I haven't seen that Victoria 8 offers anything that I need not already provided by Victoria 7, and far too little of what I do need. Really, eyelash movement? Only if I stick the camera in the girl's face. Backwards compatibility? That isn't the truth when V4 clothes are not supported, and it takes a convoluted series of odd steps to get G3F clothes to fit. Thanks to Sickleyield for that tutorial. And V8 has an even more primitive game-developer-friendly and still-artist-unfriendly mesh. I suppose we'll have to subdivide by 4 now to get her to look as round as a human.

I won't say no. But I can't say yes until HD, muscularity morphs, vascularity morphs, and especially Shape Shift 4 is out, assuming that poor Zev0 feels like making one more script package for yet another blatant marketing ploy. If all those come out, then I can test V8 to see if upgrading my central characters once again (for the fourth time) is worth it. Which means I'll be withholding final judgment until December.

Yes, I know. No one is forcing me to buy V8. I can still keep using V7, or V6 for that matter. But we all know that V7 items will now slow to a crawl, and be gone from the DAZ store within a month. I'll have to buy older items (perhaps there's a reason I haven't picked them up already) or shop at one of the other stores just to get cool new gear for my obsolete Vickis.

 

 

I'm wondering if DAZ might have caused themselves a marketing problem.

Genesis 8 consists entirely of technology advancements. This time (perhaps to save money) they are using the same mesh (with a few tweaks) as the previous generation. And it shows. If you were casually glancing through the pics in the store and didn't notice all the mentions of "8", you'd just see another day in the cycle of Genesis 3. If you go back through the store there's a very clear visual demarkation between G2 and G3; but Victoria 8 looks no more significant (parhaps less so) than, say, Rune or Ophelia.

Will enough people buy into a new generation that doesn't look like one?

I think this is because the G3 figures were such a step closer in realism that any steps past that will seem insignificant in comparrison :P. Vicky 6 was very stylized. Vicky 7 looked like a person. Vicky 8 looks like....a person ;). Subsequent generations are going to be more for tech than for looks since the G3s looked so nice.

Laurie

But the tech is the important thing.  It's the underlying tech that allows you to make the character look pretty much any way you want it to.  Bring on the tech I say!

So far, I haven't seen that Victoria 8 offers anything that I need not already provided by Victoria 7, and far too little of what I do need. Really, eyelash movement? Only if I stick the camera in the girl's face. Backwards compatibility? That isn't the truth when V4 clothes are not supported, and it takes a convoluted series of odd steps to get G3F clothes to fit. Thanks to Sickleyield for that tutorial. And V8 has an even more primitive game-developer-friendly and still-artist-unfriendly mesh. I suppose we'll have to subdivide by 4 now to get her to look as round as a human.

I won't say no. But I can't say yes until HD, muscularity morphs, vascularity morphs, and especially Shape Shift 4 is out, assuming that poor Zev0 feels like making one more script package for yet another blatant marketing ploy. If all those come out, then I can test V8 to see if upgrading my central characters once again (for the fourth time) is worth it. Which means I'll be withholding final judgment until December.

Yes, I know. No one is forcing me to buy V8. I can still keep using V7, or V6 for that matter. But we all know that V7 items will now slow to a crawl, and be gone from the DAZ store within a month. I'll have to buy older items (perhaps there's a reason I haven't picked them up already) or shop at one of the other stores just to get cool new gear for my obsolete Vickis.

I'm wondering if DAZ might have caused themselves a marketing problem.

Genesis 8 consists entirely of technology advancements. This time (perhaps to save money) they are using the same mesh (with a few tweaks) as the previous generation. And it shows. If you were casually glancing through the pics in the store and didn't notice all the mentions of "8", you'd just see another day in the cycle of Genesis 3. If you go back through the store there's a very clear visual demarkation between G2 and G3; but Victoria 8 looks no more significant (parhaps less so) than, say, Rune or Ophelia.

Will enough people buy into a new generation that doesn't look like one?

I think this is because the G3 figures were such a step closer in realism that any steps past that will seem insignificant in comparrison :P. Vicky 6 was very stylized. Vicky 7 looked like a person. Vicky 8 looks like....a person ;). Subsequent generations are going to be more for tech than for looks since the G3s looked so nice.

Laurie

Hello,

I am exporting V8 as an .obj and importing it into Octane 3.06.2 for rendering.  I used this workflow for years with no issues on any other DAZ character.  I find there is a weird shadowing or something going on with the eye.  It looks like there is an internal eye structure or something with the eyes that is creating this problem.  If not for the eyes, I would have to give V8 a 10 out of 10...I really love this model.  If I can't get her eyes to render correctly I can't use her.

Thanks,

I'm wondering if DAZ might have caused themselves a marketing problem.

Genesis 8 consists entirely of technology advancements. This time (perhaps to save money) they are using the same mesh (with a few tweaks) as the previous generation. And it shows. If you were casually glancing through the pics in the store and didn't notice all the mentions of "8", you'd just see another day in the cycle of Genesis 3. If you go back through the store there's a very clear visual demarkation between G2 and G3; but Victoria 8 looks no more significant (parhaps less so) than, say, Rune or Ophelia.

Will enough people buy into a new generation that doesn't look like one?

The people who are complaining represent a minority of the shoppers at DAZ store. Most buyers never use the forum. Numbers will tell in the end, and I suspect Victoria 8 will be a big seller.

I don't think so. Other people are reporting that whhile they have everything in the pro bundles, they bought them separately and it doesn't count as a "Pro bundle" purchase. Also it only counts Genesis line of Victoria pro bundles - not a Victoria 4 pro bundle.  

Question: If you have all of the items in a Pro Bundle for for a past Victoria, but didn't actually buy the Pro Bundle outright, does that count towards the discount for V8? I got some of the Pro Bundle stuff on various sales over the years and completed the set. But I don't see any discount for V8 in my cart. She's sitting at $66.13.

 

That's what I have, namely V5's complete set.

I suppose with the offer of free pro bundles, I could add the V5 pro bundle to my cart even though I have it all. This way it will count towards any future weirdo promos that Daz likes to do that might count such things. Gotta game somehow. It certainly wouldn't hurt.

That's assuming I get this. I still haven't decided.

I don't think so. Other people are reporting that whhile they have everything in the pro bundles, they bought them separately and it doesn't count as a "Pro bundle" purchase. Also it only counts Genesis line of Victoria pro bundles - not a Victoria 4 pro bundle.  

Question: If you have all of the items in a Pro Bundle for for a past Victoria, but didn't actually buy the Pro Bundle outright, does that count towards the discount for V8? I got some of the Pro Bundle stuff on various sales over the years and completed the set. But I don't see any discount for V8 in my cart. She's sitting at $66.13.

oh i LOVE the look of VYK Raine! she's on my wishlist for purchase in the next week or so. The really good thing is that she ONLY requires the head and body morphs - I took me a bit to realize you DON'T need Victoria 8 for her - just the head/body morphs. 

I'm not planning on getting V8, but I do want to pick up the head morphs at least - body morphs later on when I have more spare change.  

@jakiblue  Normally I reduce the bust some, but I left her at the default so her chest is larger than what I normally render. The shirt is a bit clingy but some of that may be the leaning forward.

LOL, Llynara's Elizabeth also shows you her large chest. (Those wings look good!) 

Here's VYK Raine For Genesis 8 Female  with Perrin Hair for Genesis 3 & 8 Female(s)  and Sci-Fi Samurai for Genesis 8 Female(s)

I think Raine is going to be one of my favorites. A lot of unique makeups (such as zippers pulling down the cheeks) and a neat skin color. Very classic profile too, sleek nose. She's elegant, but can look deadly too.

 

I am currently using DAZ Studio version 4.9.2.70 and am reluctant to upgrade further until I get updated Nvidia drivers which I'm waiting to upgrade to when I get a new video card next month.

So, OK, I realize I will need the new version of DS in order to use the new Power Pose; but meanwhile  will Genesis 8 and Victoria 8 otherwise work with the version of DS I am now using? Or is DS 4.9.4 absolutely essential to using them?

Maybe this has already been covered in the forums and I didn't see it; but there are an awful lot of posts to wade through.

It's Genesis 8 because people were getting confused with Genesis 1 / Victoria 5, Genesis 2 / Victoria 6, etc.  Since the new version of Vic and Mike are going to be 8, they upped Genesis' number to 8 as well.

I absolutely loathe baked beans. It's like little fat maggots squishing between my teeth. My go-to "utterly broke, but need to eat" is generally bananas on toast - but I often get funny looks when I mention that, so I substitute "baked beans" as they seem to be a universal food item.  And I don't think we have ramen noodles over here, but they are possibly similar to the Maggi's Two Minute Noodles which are dirt cheap, but I can't abide them LOL. 

 

Oh and welcome to the "I need that new shiny thing, but I'm tight on my budget so can't buy it...but I CAN eat baked beans for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next two weeks, so I'll buy it anyway" club. :)

jakiblue...

I resent your implication that I must eat only baked beans. I will have you know I have over 40 ways to make ramen noodles for 3 meals a day too. :)

 

You've obviously never had my wife's baked beans! Green peppers, onions, and bacon. Sooooo good.

Ramen can be good sometimes. Rinsing the noodle brick off can get some of the junky stuff out of it. But what I used to do, was crush up a ramen brick in a bowl, and place the bowl under a coffee maker, and run two cups of water through the coffee maker. Let it sit a few minutes to thicken, add whatever you want...boom, a 3 minute super lazy and cheap meal.

Question: If you have all of the items in a Pro Bundle for for a past Victoria, but didn't actually buy the Pro Bundle outright, does that count towards the discount for V8? I got some of the Pro Bundle stuff on various sales over the years and completed the set. But I don't see any discount for V8 in my cart. She's sitting at $66.13.

Right here...

https://www.daz3d.com/06-15-victoria-8

It is a sweet deal.

Yep, saw it on the main page shortly after my previous post.  (slaps forehead)  Thanks!