Where?

Try: http://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=pro+bundle 

Then click 'Show All' next to the top set of results, and scroll down to see the 70% off bundles.

Currently, I see Leo 7, Olympia 7, Michael 7, Arabella 7, Teen Josie 7, Scott 6, Karen 7, Bethany 7, Eva 7, Victoria 7, Ninive 6, Callie 6, Monique 6, Darius 6, Keiko 6, and Supersuit Pro Bundles.

The 70% off pricing puts the pro bundles at below the cost of the starter bundles (40% off), so if any of those are on your wishlist, get buying.

Thanks. I wonder if it will last or if it is an error that will tempt us and disappear.

There's now a banner that says "60% off featured pro bundles with any purchase over $1.00", 50% off without purchase.

Maybe the 70% off is for PC members only? Or maybe it's all a giant pricing mistake.

Where?

Try: http://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=pro+bundle 

Then click 'Show All' next to the top set of results, and scroll down to see the 70% off bundles.

Currently, I see Leo 7, Olympia 7, Michael 7, Arabella 7, Teen Josie 7, Scott 6, Karen 7, Bethany 7, Eva 7, Victoria 7, Ninive 6, Callie 6, Monique 6, Darius 6, Keiko 6, and Supersuit Pro Bundles.

The 70% off pricing puts the pro bundles at below the cost of the starter bundles (40% off), so if any of those are on your wishlist, get buying.

Thanks. I wonder if it will last or if it is an error that will tempt us and disappear.

Where?

Try: http://www.daz3d.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=pro+bundle 

Then click 'Show All' next to the top set of results, and scroll down to see the 70% off bundles.

Currently, I see Leo 7, Olympia 7, Michael 7, Arabella 7, Teen Josie 7, Scott 6, Karen 7, Bethany 7, Eva 7, Victoria 7, Ninive 6, Callie 6, Monique 6, Darius 6, Keiko 6, and Supersuit Pro Bundles.

The 70% off pricing puts the pro bundles at below the cost of the starter bundles (40% off), so if any of those are on your wishlist, get buying.

I like character's eyes from Godin, especial for Victoria 4.
http://posercontent.com/vendors/godin/307

Thanks very much for keeping us informed.  The download speed improvement is quite noticable.

Failing for me:

Nothern Terrace Kitchen  [IM00032373-01_NorthernTerraceKitchenDS.zip]

Legacie Hair for Genesis 2 Female(s)  [IM00024253-01_LegacieHairforGenesis2Females.zip]

Legacie Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s)  [IM00024253-03_LegacieHairforGenesis3Females.zip]

Legacie Hair for Victoria 4 Ps  [IM00024253-04_LegacieHairforVictoria4Ps.zip]

Got the Eva banner. Yay, now since I haven't picked up her for 1.80 without additional purchases, I'm allowed to pick her up for 5.00 with additional purchase. Let me see, how big is the chance I'll take advantage of that? Oh yes, zero.

(For those who want to tell me I'm ungreteful: It's a great price for a DAZ character, but I don't see any advantage from her shape and skin, there are only two characters based on her, so I'll pass. If it would have been Victoria, I would have picked her up. There are waaayyy more characters based on Victoria, and they keep popping up in the store. Eva seems just like generic skin and shape, barely away from Victoria. Plus I just picked up Arabella, with her beautiful goth makeups. What else does a girl need?)

The front page new releases keep doing the swirlie thing for me. I think the site is ill. Probably due to the flu season starting soon. 

Oh hey, I just got my orange banner. With TWO MINUTES left of the day. Thanks, Daz! 

As we launch this year's PC+ sale, we want to extend a special thanks to those of you who have shown so much support for us. 

Thanking us by slightly reducing the cost of an on sale item that most of your loyal customers who fit the criteria would have already bought - if they buy an additional bundle first?

 

 

I would have really liked this deal, so don't knock it! lol 

As someone who only has Victoria 7, getting Eva 7 would have been really nice. 

I think I mentioned this in the anniversary pc+ thread, but it would have been really cool if we could buy Eva at the offer price and then gift her to someone else. Would give at least some of us a reason to make an extra purchase and make someone who actually really wanted it happy.

To be honest I'm pretty sure I got her for less than that offer sometime earlier this year >.>

Really!? Sweet! That gives me hope! :) I have my eye on a couple of the "7" figures and Eva is one of them. I've seen some great renders with her and she looks pretty good, and I hear good things about her. :)

Oh hey, I just got my orange banner. With TWO MINUTES left of the day. Thanks, Daz! 

As we launch this year's PC+ sale, we want to extend a special thanks to those of you who have shown so much support for us. 

Thanking us by slightly reducing the cost of an on sale item that most of your loyal customers who fit the criteria would have already bought - if they buy an additional bundle first?

 

 

I would have really liked this deal, so don't knock it! lol 

As someone who only has Victoria 7, getting Eva 7 would have been really nice. 

I think I mentioned this in the anniversary pc+ thread, but it would have been really cool if we could buy Eva at the offer price and then gift her to someone else. Would give at least some of us a reason to make an extra purchase and make someone who actually really wanted it happy.

To be honest I'm pretty sure I got her for less than that offer sometime earlier this year >.>

Oh hey, I just got my orange banner. With TWO MINUTES left of the day. Thanks, Daz! 

As we launch this year's PC+ sale, we want to extend a special thanks to those of you who have shown so much support for us. 

Thanking us by slightly reducing the cost of an on sale item that most of your loyal customers who fit the criteria would have already bought - if they buy an additional bundle first?

 

 

I would have really liked this deal, so don't knock it! lol 

As someone who only has Victoria 7, getting Eva 7 would have been really nice. 

I was lucky enough to get the Eva 7 banner, and the figure for $1.80.

Can't figure out how I qualified, though. As a Poser user, I can't use G3, so I can't imagine that I've got 5 or more G3 characters in my purchase history...

I bet you do. That's, as far as I can tell, what makes one qualified - as multiple people said it's something to do with buying "five or more G3 figures". 

Yeah, that's what I'm surprised about. My product library has Victoria 7, Katsu for Lee 7, and now Eva 7. That's all I can find. Certainly not five! :)

Hmmm That's very strange in deed. As far as I can tell you're the only person who I've been talking with about it who has gotten the $2 Eva 7 deal without having gotten the "five+ G3 figures" that has been mentioned. Did you spend a lot during the PA sale? Perhaps that's also a factor? *shrug*

I was lucky enough to get the Eva 7 banner, and the figure for $1.80.

Can't figure out how I qualified, though. As a Poser user, I can't use G3, so I can't imagine that I've got 5 or more G3 characters in my purchase history...

I bet you do. That's, as far as I can tell, what makes one qualified - as multiple people said it's something to do with buying "five or more G3 figures". 

Yeah, that's what I'm surprised about. My product library has Victoria 7, Katsu for Lee 7, and now Eva 7. That's all I can find. Certainly not five! :)

I really like HolbienC's items but somehow feel a little bit dissapointing with this later one.
Technically everything is there and it works great but why oh why are all the set up poses for toon characters only.
I don't use Aiko 7 nor the Girl 7. I use the "normal" G3F women of which there a large number so I find it odd that not even Victoria 7 has a set up pose.
I don't expect Eva, Olympia, Karen and the others to be done as that would be ridiculous but I would have though one pose set for a "normal" proportioned female would have worked well.
By all accounts it "feels" like a sprint race where at the last second the runner falls on his face just before finishing.
Shame as because I got to do fiddly setups a really great product is simply a "good" product.
 

I like Iray, and like most of my results these days, but think the 3DL one looks much better; maybe needs more light, but the overall image looks more believeable.

For me, believeability trumps real every time.

May I ask what you mean by "believeability"?

 

"More human than human is our motto here at the Tyrel Corporation."

Personally, I would use the characters as background extras as though they were low poly models even though they are V3 M3 V4 M4 G123. Skin texture such as what you see from vendor SecondCircle is amazing. I still prefer the models as background extras especially if animating them in movies. They render faster when they are smaller. My machines (PCs) are old and so the background rendered first. Then characters rendered one at a time over that with shadow catcher. They are alpha key so drop in nicely onto the backgrounds in photoshop or after effects or final cut pro during the editing process. I add a live actor who was greenscreened in the foreground. Then add an adjustment layer on top of all those other layers to even out (blend or color correct) all layers to match the the scene.

Okay, just for fun I went an pulled Total Poly's from V1-4, Aiko, and G1-3F. The Lowest Total Faces is G3F when you Set SubDivision to 0. I was supprised to find V3 and Aiko 3 were actually the Highest.

For your crowd scene, use 10 Genesis 3 Male or Female and Instnce them. Total count for a Scene with one G3F and 50 instanced G3F's 77,910 Total Faces another advantage, if you change the pose on the master, they all change their pose, works great for the Advancing hord of Orcs! Or 500 Stella Mudd's. (Personally I'll face the Orcs)

Name	Label	Active	Base
blMilWom_27433	vicki	29,206	29,206
blVickiP4_27433	vicki 2 p4	29,206	29,206
blAiko3_72712	!aiko 3 default Map	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v3_72712	Victoria 3 SAE Iray	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v4b_68498	Victoria 4.2	66,830	66,830
Genesis	Genesis Base	75,488	18,872
Genesis2Female	Genesis 2 Female	84,358	21,098
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	68,000	17,000
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	17,000	17,000

I was going to mention that using Generation 3 or 4 figures for background figures would be counterintuitive since they are actually much higher poly than subsequent versions ;). Ya beat me to it. LOL

Laurie

Actually Gen 3 (ie V3, M3 etc) make very good background figures, since even though they have a lot of polys, they have lower resolution texture maps, and normally a lot less maps (just two main maps, plus maybe bump maps as well). Given that textures, rather than polys, eat up the bulk of the memory for both CPU and GPU renders, that is why Generation 3 figures make good background figures.

You do realize you can do the same thing with Genesis 3 and get both Low Poly count and good looks.
You can just reduce the size of the images. but you must maintain the same ratio if it is a 4000 x 4000 image you can Reduce it to 800 x 800 and it will work.

That is why you can work with a Low Res texture set, to get the Scene blocked and then replace the images with High Res for the render. As long as the image is the same ratio you are fine

Added.
But I will agree with Laurie, you would also add to the number of textures, your system needs to deal with at render time. It can only handle so many at once.

I like Iray, and like most of my results these days, but think the 3DL one looks much better; maybe needs more light, but the overall image looks more believeable.

For me, believeability trumps real every time.

May I ask what you mean by "believeability"?

 

"More human than human is our motto here at the Tyrel Corporation."

Personally, I would use the characters as background extras as though they were low poly models even though they are V3 M3 V4 M4 G123. Skin texture such as what you see from vendor SecondCircle is amazing. I still prefer the models as background extras especially if animating them in movies. They render faster when they are smaller. My machines (PCs) are old and so the background rendered first. Then characters rendered one at a time over that with shadow catcher. They are alpha key so drop in nicely onto the backgrounds in photoshop or after effects or final cut pro during the editing process. I add a live actor who was greenscreened in the foreground. Then add an adjustment layer on top of all those other layers to even out (blend or color correct) all layers to match the the scene.

Okay, just for fun I went an pulled Total Poly's from V1-4, Aiko, and G1-3F. The Lowest Total Faces is G3F when you Set SubDivision to 0. I was supprised to find V3 and Aiko 3 were actually the Highest.

For your crowd scene, use 10 Genesis 3 Male or Female and Instnce them. Total count for a Scene with one G3F and 50 instanced G3F's 77,910 Total Faces another advantage, if you change the pose on the master, they all change their pose, works great for the Advancing hord of Orcs! Or 500 Stella Mudd's. (Personally I'll face the Orcs)

Name	Label	Active	Base
blMilWom_27433	vicki	29,206	29,206
blVickiP4_27433	vicki 2 p4	29,206	29,206
blAiko3_72712	!aiko 3 default Map	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v3_72712	Victoria 3 SAE Iray	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v4b_68498	Victoria 4.2	66,830	66,830
Genesis	Genesis Base	75,488	18,872
Genesis2Female	Genesis 2 Female	84,358	21,098
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	68,000	17,000
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	17,000	17,000

I was going to mention that using Generation 3 or 4 figures for background figures would be counterintuitive since they are actually much higher poly than subsequent versions ;). Ya beat me to it. LOL

Laurie

Actually Gen 3 (ie V3, M3 etc) make very good background figures, since even though they have a lot of polys, they have lower resolution texture maps, and normally a lot less maps (just two main maps, plus maybe bump maps as well). Given that textures, rather than polys, eat up the bulk of the memory for both CPU and GPU renders, that is why Generation 3 figures make good background figures.

I would use the V3/M3 or V4/M4 LOD figures before I'd use the full resolution figures tho. I know with some of the scenes I've made, it's a toss up which is bogging it down more - the textures or the meshes ;). Too many textures and it just flips over to CPU rendering. Too many meshes sometimes (at least for me) and I have to turn on Box tracking mode or I can't even move a camera. Hehe. Granted, I can get a LOT more mesh in DS before it bogs down than I ever could Poser, but even I go overboard and try and jam more things in than my computer can really handle...heh. But I digress...

Laurie

I like Iray, and like most of my results these days, but think the 3DL one looks much better; maybe needs more light, but the overall image looks more believeable.

For me, believeability trumps real every time.

May I ask what you mean by "believeability"?

 

"More human than human is our motto here at the Tyrel Corporation."

Personally, I would use the characters as background extras as though they were low poly models even though they are V3 M3 V4 M4 G123. Skin texture such as what you see from vendor SecondCircle is amazing. I still prefer the models as background extras especially if animating them in movies. They render faster when they are smaller. My machines (PCs) are old and so the background rendered first. Then characters rendered one at a time over that with shadow catcher. They are alpha key so drop in nicely onto the backgrounds in photoshop or after effects or final cut pro during the editing process. I add a live actor who was greenscreened in the foreground. Then add an adjustment layer on top of all those other layers to even out (blend or color correct) all layers to match the the scene.

Okay, just for fun I went an pulled Total Poly's from V1-4, Aiko, and G1-3F. The Lowest Total Faces is G3F when you Set SubDivision to 0. I was supprised to find V3 and Aiko 3 were actually the Highest.

For your crowd scene, use 10 Genesis 3 Male or Female and Instnce them. Total count for a Scene with one G3F and 50 instanced G3F's 77,910 Total Faces another advantage, if you change the pose on the master, they all change their pose, works great for the Advancing hord of Orcs! Or 500 Stella Mudd's. (Personally I'll face the Orcs)

Name	Label	Active	Base
blMilWom_27433	vicki	29,206	29,206
blVickiP4_27433	vicki 2 p4	29,206	29,206
blAiko3_72712	!aiko 3 default Map	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v3_72712	Victoria 3 SAE Iray	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v4b_68498	Victoria 4.2	66,830	66,830
Genesis	Genesis Base	75,488	18,872
Genesis2Female	Genesis 2 Female	84,358	21,098
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	68,000	17,000
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	17,000	17,000

I was going to mention that using Generation 3 or 4 figures for background figures would be counterintuitive since they are actually much higher poly than subsequent versions ;). Ya beat me to it. LOL

Laurie

Actually Gen 3 (ie V3, M3 etc) make very good background figures, since even though they have a lot of polys, they have lower resolution texture maps, and normally a lot less maps (just two main maps, plus maybe bump maps as well). Given that textures, rather than polys, eat up the bulk of the memory for both CPU and GPU renders, that is why Generation 3 figures make good background figures.

Edit: This is one of the reasons I would like Caymen Studios to support Generation 3 texture maps for Genesis 3, then you can have the lowest resolution maps on the lowest poly "full functionality" figures.

I like Iray, and like most of my results these days, but think the 3DL one looks much better; maybe needs more light, but the overall image looks more believeable.

For me, believeability trumps real every time.

May I ask what you mean by "believeability"?

 

"More human than human is our motto here at the Tyrel Corporation."

Personally, I would use the characters as background extras as though they were low poly models even though they are V3 M3 V4 M4 G123. Skin texture such as what you see from vendor SecondCircle is amazing. I still prefer the models as background extras especially if animating them in movies. They render faster when they are smaller. My machines (PCs) are old and so the background rendered first. Then characters rendered one at a time over that with shadow catcher. They are alpha key so drop in nicely onto the backgrounds in photoshop or after effects or final cut pro during the editing process. I add a live actor who was greenscreened in the foreground. Then add an adjustment layer on top of all those other layers to even out (blend or color correct) all layers to match the the scene.

Okay, just for fun I went an pulled Total Poly's from V1-4, Aiko, and G1-3F. The Lowest Total Faces is G3F when you Set SubDivision to 0. I was supprised to find V3 and Aiko 3 were actually the Highest.

For your crowd scene, use 10 Genesis 3 Male or Female and Instnce them. Total count for a Scene with one G3F and 50 instanced G3F's 77,910 Total Faces another advantage, if you change the pose on the master, they all change their pose, works great for the Advancing hord of Orcs! Or 500 Stella Mudd's. (Personally I'll face the Orcs)

Name	Label	Active	Base
blMilWom_27433	vicki	29,206	29,206
blVickiP4_27433	vicki 2 p4	29,206	29,206
blAiko3_72712	!aiko 3 default Map	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v3_72712	Victoria 3 SAE Iray	74,510	74,510
blMilWom_v4b_68498	Victoria 4.2	66,830	66,830
Genesis	Genesis Base	75,488	18,872
Genesis2Female	Genesis 2 Female	84,358	21,098
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	68,000	17,000
Genesis3Female	Genesis 3 Female	17,000	17,000

I was going to mention that using Generation 3 or 4 figures for background figures would be counterintuitive since they are actually much higher poly than subsequent versions ;). Ya beat me to it. LOL

Laurie

I like Iray, and like most of my results these days, but think the 3DL one looks much better; maybe needs more light, but the overall image looks more believeable.

For me, believeability trumps real every time.

May I ask what you mean by "believeability"?

 

"More human than human is our motto here at the Tyrel Corporation."

Personally, I would use the characters as background extras as though they were low poly models even though they are V3 M3 V4 M4 G123. Skin texture such as what you see from vendor SecondCircle is amazing. I still prefer the models as background extras especially if animating them in movies. They render faster when they are smaller. My machines (PCs) are old and so the background rendered first. Then characters rendered one at a time over that with shadow catcher. They are alpha key so drop in nicely onto the backgrounds in photoshop or after effects or final cut pro during the editing process. I add a live actor who was greenscreened in the foreground. Then add an adjustment layer on top of all those other layers to even out (blend or color correct) all layers to match the the scene.

Okay, just for fun I went an pulled Total Poly's from V1-4, Aiko, and G1-3F. The Lowest Total Faces is G3F when you Set SubDivision to 0. I was supprised to find V3 and Aiko 3 were actually the Highest.

For your crowd scene, use 10 Genesis 3 Male or Female and Instnce them. Total count for a Scene with one G3F and 50 instanced G3F's 77,910 Total Faces another advantage, if you change the pose on the master, they all change their pose, works great for the Advancing hord of Orcs! Or 500 Stella Mudd's. (Personally I'll face the Orcs)

It might not be bugs. It's probably some sort of randomly generated for customers...perhaps there's another one coming over the sale duration and it'll go to different people? Like, if there's another base figure sale bit during the PC sale. I already own Eva 7 and I got it - so it obviously doesn't take into account previous buyers of her. Wish I could "pass it on" to someone else cos I obviously won't be taking them up on the offer.  

As a purchaser of at least five G3 Core Characters I get an offer to add a character to build my own bundle - shame I already own it; at that price I might have done it. I'm not even getting the bundle.

Hmmm I have 13 G3 core characters and I didn't get any offer :/ 

 

I really am curious how many people are missing out on these orange banners due to bugs and not knowing they were meant to be offered them in the first place. Such a stupid concept.

 

Having them randomly select people as thanks for completing specific conditions (with a reward offer for something they already own) is some of the most "imaginative" marketing concepts I've ever heard of. I'm sure Daz would never be that "imaginative."

Also, I already have her too AND she's already on sale today for super cheap what are they thinking.

I just put her in my cart to test and I'm seeing her for $1.80 (with a new release)

I'm not even gonna try understand

Whaa? You can get Eva 7 for $1.80?? How!? That would be AMAZING - the only G3 figure I have is Victoria and I would love to get more for a good price. 

I have no idea. I put Absolution in cart, added Eva 7 (who I own already anyway) and it came up as 1.80 for her. No orange banner. It was like 96% off.

Makes no sense at all.

Yeah that makes no sense. I put a new release in my cart along with Eva 7 and it's only 78% off (which is still nearly $10). Are you using a coupon too?

It might not be bugs. It's probably some sort of randomly generated for customers...perhaps there's another one coming over the sale duration and it'll go to different people? Like, if there's another base figure sale bit during the PC sale. I already own Eva 7 and I got it - so it obviously doesn't take into account previous buyers of her. Wish I could "pass it on" to someone else cos I obviously won't be taking them up on the offer.  

As a purchaser of at least five G3 Core Characters I get an offer to add a character to build my own bundle - shame I already own it; at that price I might have done it. I'm not even getting the bundle.

Hmmm I have 13 G3 core characters and I didn't get any offer :/ 

 

I really am curious how many people are missing out on these orange banners due to bugs and not knowing they were meant to be offered them in the first place. Such a stupid concept.

 

Having them randomly select people as thanks for completing specific conditions (with a reward offer for something they already own) is some of the most "imaginative" marketing concepts I've ever heard of. I'm sure Daz would never be that "imaginative."

Also, I already have her too AND she's already on sale today for super cheap what are they thinking.

I just put her in my cart to test and I'm seeing her for $1.80 (with a new release)

I'm not even gonna try understand

Whaa? You can get Eva 7 for $1.80?? How!? That would be AMAZING - the only G3 figure I have is Victoria and I would love to get more for a good price. 

I have no idea. I put Absolution in cart, added Eva 7 (who I own already anyway) and it came up as 1.80 for her. No orange banner. It was like 96% off.

Makes no sense at all.

It might not be bugs. It's probably some sort of randomly generated for customers...perhaps there's another one coming over the sale duration and it'll go to different people? Like, if there's another base figure sale bit during the PC sale. I already own Eva 7 and I got it - so it obviously doesn't take into account previous buyers of her. Wish I could "pass it on" to someone else cos I obviously won't be taking them up on the offer.  

As a purchaser of at least five G3 Core Characters I get an offer to add a character to build my own bundle - shame I already own it; at that price I might have done it. I'm not even getting the bundle.

Hmmm I have 13 G3 core characters and I didn't get any offer :/ 

 

I really am curious how many people are missing out on these orange banners due to bugs and not knowing they were meant to be offered them in the first place. Such a stupid concept.

 

Having them randomly select people as thanks for completing specific conditions (with a reward offer for something they already own) is some of the most "imaginative" marketing concepts I've ever heard of. I'm sure Daz would never be that "imaginative."

Also, I already have her too AND she's already on sale today for super cheap what are they thinking.

I just put her in my cart to test and I'm seeing her for $1.80 (with a new release)

I'm not even gonna try understand

Whaa? You can get Eva 7 for $1.80?? How!? That would be AMAZING - the only G3 figure I have is Victoria and I would love to get more for a good price.