Agreed with all the above. Provided you're not redistributing your kitbashes, keeping them for your own use only, I really don't see why anyone would have to worry about getting into trouble about modding the things in their runtime. In point of fact, given that kitbashing is one of the fundamental skills of a 3D artist - heck, right now I have an ongoing thread in this very forum about the best way to go about kitbashing a single-mesh object I recently bought - it'd be kind of absurd to forbid it if you wanted artists to buy your products. I do a lot of work with an Edwardian/late-Victorian theme, and I HAVE to kitbash in order to get the right look on the dresses and such. (I don't know if you remember, Chohole, but we had a few discussions about that several years ago.) In fact, until Edwardian Hair for G2 came out, I had to kitbash to create the "Gibson Girl" pompadour so characteristic of the period (and I kitbashed that one to be able to fit it onto Victoria 4 by first loading it onto base G2 female, then separating it and saving the hair figure on its own, and then tweaking the size and X, Y and Z axes a bit to get it to sit properly on V4's head). Moreover, what else could you call applying new textures to an existing object but a form of kitbashing? If that were illegal, then we'd have to remove every single texture set from the market!

Judging by the beauty marks, this is https://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-imogen-hd-for-victoria-7 or https://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-saffron-hd-for-victoria-7 certainly another FW model.

I like modern crosses with nobody on them, but anyway, as said they models, wings, robes are all there to make your renders. As to why you don't see those in the galleries and in the DAZ store but instead see all the demon, devils, incubuses (am I allowed to say a word without having a clue as to what that word means?), and other fictional creatures; people must be buying them although personally I have more trouble telling those creatures apart then the various near Michael 7 / Victoria 7 variations that are in the DAZ Store.

Oh and let's not forget the endless zombie march... Yes, somebody must be buying them all but its not me although I do have a morph package that I got on the cheap 'just in case' LOL   You know what it is.. I think there is enough garbage in the world already.. I don't need to contribute more of it.. give me something beautiful to share... Help me create something that inspires people ..  Clearly,  I need all the help I can get. :) LOL

Thank you.

So if 'smart-parent' is applied to a wearable preset that is a set of clothing on a specific figure (say Victoria 7), then whenever I load that wearable preset it will automatically load Victoria 7 into the clothes and into my scene?

Would this also embed the morphs that were applied to V7 when the wearable preset was created? Otherwise I can't see the use in this feature as you'd have to do the morphs afterwards. So wouldn't you just be better off loading your character preset and then the wearables preset afterward?

If that's not the case, is it possible to save a combo-preset that includes other presets? Like character, with morphs applied to them, and the wearables on top (an all-in-one preset)?

Whilst looking just now for that answer within Daz's presets, I've noticed that 'smart-parent' is greyed out anyway and seems to want to stay that way. How do I even enable it?

Head Morphs

Victoria 4 Head 1

Aiko 4 Head -.5

FaceHeart .5

FaceLong .2

FaceRound -.5

FaceSquare -.5

CheeksSink .5

EyesSize -.2

EyesSlant 1.7

NoseBump -1

NoseSize -.5

Aiko 3 Morph

EyeRound .6

This is a more general question about getting the "hair band" or "visible scalp" in the Viewport.

I purchased the Kerry Bundle which included Rasta Tails Hair and the Kerry HD character. I figured adding the character, adding the base hair, and Fitting the hair to the character should just work.

But, I get a visible scalp that's the color of the hair. If I do an Iray render, I get this in my rendered image as well.

In the past when this happened, I usually just played with the Scale of the hair object, and I'd eventually get the scalp part small enough it would go into the characters head and be effectively invisible. But, particularly for this hair style, the corn rows start to look irregular if I try this trick. I tried the adjustments that came with Rasta hair, and I end up with the same problem - the corn rows start looking irregular; I guess I could get there with an hour of work, basically matching the transforms to the head shape.

I'm posting because this is a more general question about the hair/scalp band that is sometimes visible. I saw someone else had this problem, but it was only in their renders and it was because of the way their lights were set up. Mine occurs in the VIEWPORT, so light isn't an issue (BTW, I have a single Distant light).

This image is on that 'other' site... produced in 2009 by Yannek, who it seems did the DAZ promo images.  If the URL gets stripped, hope you can navigate there. 

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/lee/1949686/?p

Here's his info if you don't get there:    I don't see a Sport Baby items for V4 in DS store... I do wonder where all the old stuff goes!

...and the last one from the series, Lee. My personal favorite. The top clothing is a heavy edited Sport Baby hood for Victoria 4 with custom texture. The bottom is from some M4 set but I can;t remember what was it. Thanks for viewing ;))))))))

 Silene

It's on the other site, which is why you can't find it here.Some PAs sell at both if an item is turned down at one or the other.

I could not find the Sport Baby Hood for V4 either here or there....  S

This image is on that 'other' site... produced in 2009 by Yannek, who it seems did the DAZ promo images.  If the URL gets stripped, hope you can navigate there. 

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/lee/1949686/?p

Here's his info if you don't get there:    I don't see a Sport Baby items for V4 in DS store... I do wonder where all the old stuff goes!

...and the last one from the series, Lee. My personal favorite. The top clothing is a heavy edited Sport Baby hood for Victoria 4 with custom texture. The bottom is from some M4 set but I can;t remember what was it. Thanks for viewing ;))))))))

 Silene

It's on the other site, which is why you can't find it here.Some PAs sell at both if an item is turned down at one or the other.

This image is on that 'other' site... produced in 2009 by Yannek, who it seems did the DAZ promo images.  If the URL gets stripped, hope you can navigate there. 

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/lee/1949686/?p

Here's his info if you don't get there:    I don't see a Sport Baby items for V4 in DS store... I do wonder where all the old stuff goes!

...and the last one from the series, Lee. My personal favorite. The top clothing is a heavy edited Sport Baby hood for Victoria 4 with custom texture. The bottom is from some M4 set but I can;t remember what was it. Thanks for viewing ;))))))))

 Silene

Sorry to hear that,  Sonja. Thanks for the warning! 

Here's a quick look at Ingenue Vickie for V3 and her bikini. I finally caught a good deal on the bundle, which is normally $100. It was in fast grab the other day at 70% off and stacked with the Wear Them All sale. It's a nice set, but she comes with no textures at all. Seems like all of the Gen 3s are like this. I'm not sure what texture she's wearing in the promos, but here she is with Skin 1 from the International Beauties set. Her bundle didn't come with hair either. In the promos, she's wearing the Las Vegas hair, but that's not in any of her sets. So here she is in Geneva Hair for G3F. Not a perfect fit, but she is petite and many hairstyles seem to overwhelm her. I also picked up Glamorous Vickie and Glamourous Aiko.

Looks good!  I wondered why that was so cheap to start with.  I didn't realize it was also in FG.  I picked it up, too.  It was kind of hard to resist picking up a bundle that cheap when it is normally that expensive.  I don't think any of the original figures came with textures back then.  Everything was separate which boggles the mind consider the price of everything.  There is no way I could have afforded to do this hobby back when DAZ was first starting.  Prices and what you get with a figure are so much better these days.

Sorry to hear that,  Sonja. Thanks for the warning! 

Here's a quick look at Ingenue Vickie for V3 and her bikini. I finally caught a good deal on the bundle, which is normally $100. It was in fast grab the other day at 70% off and stacked with the Wear Them All sale. It's a nice set, but she comes with no textures at all. Seems like all of the Gen 3s are like this. I'm not sure what texture she's wearing in the promos, but here she is with Skin 1 from the International Beauties set. Her bundle didn't come with hair either. In the promos, she's wearing the Las Vegas hair, but that's not in any of her sets. So here she is in Geneva Hair for G3F. Not a perfect fit, but she is petite and many hairstyles seem to overwhelm her. I also picked up Glamorous Vickie and Glamourous Aiko.

Updated April 16 2017

Its in Poser Format: Figures > Victoria 4 > Clothing > Bast

Why it was put under Clothing, who knows?

The problem is that when you say mature, people tend to think you mean old.   They aren't necessarily the same thing. Daz has a character FW Joanie which I felt came to the closest to hitting that sweet spot right out of the download, but she was Gen2.  Both Mei Lin 7 and Monique 7 look mature in many renders and aren't that difficult to get believeable mature characters out of using Zev products.
The Jun character looks interesting, and I may give it a try.  I fear that mature characters are never going to be the rage in present day Dazland,  where characters tend to go from 18 to 80 without passing go,  and there will never be as  much variety as you have with model perfect base figures (at least where women are concerned).  Though they say male figures don't sell, it's amazing how much variety you can get with the amount of figures that you have in both age and appearance.

 

Oddly enough,folks seem to disagree with me when I say that Victoria 7 is a mature character, for precisely the reasons you say; they expect them to look older, when that's not going to always be the case.

I just got Biston's Old Gas Station. Cool rig. Tried a Iray and got only black! But the 3d Delight is so good, almost real. Here is a render with the 56 Victoria.

Last Chance Gas isn't set up for Iray, too bad, it would be easier to actually render it that way, its a beautiful set to be sure, but it does work fine with 3D Light. As does the old Warehouse 56 Vicky.

I just got Biston's Old Gas Station. Cool rig. Tried a Iray and got only black! But the 3d Delight is so good, almost real. Here is a render with the 56 Victoria.

Thanks SixDs and scorpio for your replies. I cannot find the Genesis 3 female figure in my Genesis 3 starter content library though I can find the Genesis 3 male figure. In the past I've used the Victoria and Michael 4 models so I confess, I'm ignorant of most features of the Genesis 3 models. Could you please help me to locate the Genesis 3 female base model? 

Thanks for your time and help, 

Dale

I recently bought Elven for Genesis 3 but cannot get the costume to fit either the Genesis 3 default figure or Victoria 4. Could anybody please advise me on how to get the costume to fit any female base figure? I also get an error message when I try to use the Pose included in the product. I've had the problem with another product in the past (and had no product support and which turned out to be a Poser product) which is why I've been away from Daz Studio for  while.

Many thanks,

Dale

This one is a bit tricky. It's basically Melody 2.0 on G3F.

It's tricky only because I had to save the original material preset as .DUF on Genesis 1 and then use Cayman Studio's Legacy UVs for Genesis 3: Victoria 4, which is sold over at Renderosity, to apply them to G3F. Not only that, but I ended up having to parent the Melody head to G3F because the autofit distorted her snout. And then, I had to shrink GF3's head so it wouldn't poke through. Since the head was so much trouble, I just went straight to parenting her tail. XD

The set is Aikinaro, which apparently comes free with DS (at least I think it does, since I have no idea how it got there. O_o) Then I added the caverns from The Alchemy Chasm which I do know comes free with DS because that's where the freebie scenes are set in. And finally her outfit is Dark Storm for G3F which is another included freebie. Her pose, however is not a freebie. It's from Z Heavenly Poses and Expressions for Genesis 3 Female.

I like modern crosses with nobody on them, but anyway, as said they models, wings, robes are all there to make your renders. As to why you don't see those in the galleries and in the DAZ store but instead see all the demon, devils, incubuses (am I allowed to say a word without having a clue as to what that word means?), and other fictional creatures; people must be buying them although personally I have more trouble telling those creatures apart then the various near Michael 7 / Victoria 7 variations that are in the DAZ Store.