The product is designed for Michael 4 and also fits Victoria 4. It is possible to use with other generations of figures, but takes a little bit of work. Please see the documentation supplied with the Dynamic Clothing Control plug-in for more information.

No typo, the Poser version is for Victoria 4.

http://www.daz3d.com/day-dream-cuffs-genesis-3-female-s-and-victoria-4

victoria-4 ??

Thank you L'Adair, I like those for that same reason. Variety is wonderful!

Hope folks who wanted Silo noted the Silo thread I started awhile back- it was on sale today for around $12 (from $119)   I didn't see the thread as I have been offline most the day, or would have told you.  I haven't done Silo recently but may piddle with it to refresh my memory.  There is a thread here in Art Studio about the Humble Bundle Clickteam Game Developer bundle (about $1100 of stuff for $15) if you want to putz making video games. See the thread that has making video games in the title.

Here's a few from today:

Elven is a DO so you get that extra discount if you have the orange banner. Add it to a New item and your price drops another 10% too. The movement morphs in the lower part look fluid.

Jolina has thicker eyebrows, probably would also be a good one to be a kid.

FWSA Imogen has freckles and a different material look- not a perfect babe. Eyebrows are thicker too, although a bit more penciled than the others mentioned previously. 

FWSA Eliya is a steal as a DO-(with banner, $4.24)  and I think she'd make an awesome bad-girl! 

Jurou for Lee 7- different looks, that's for sure. Note third thumbnail to see him as a regular guy.

Sport Sneakers   and Textures  (but if it's only colors, I wouldn't do the textures.)

Russian Clothing-  for men's clothing. Has a few open/close morphs for the jacket,  wrinkling in the pants and waist, etc.

All of Streetwear's store!  We've showcased that a LOT when it first came out. Well made, and practical.

Lauran Hair- can shrink that hair on top so seems versatile, can remove the bow and keep the band

Sally Hair- a lot of layers and in the side level- meaning, if you don't want to mess with long hair laying on the chest, this hair has a lot of layering in the lengths that are to the shoulders. Face it, sometimes you just don't want to mess with getting hair off the shoulders and chest. This gives you a lot of details above the shoulder level, but with length.

Hanna Hair has nice flow and thickness.

I have converted the one for Koshini with CrossDresser to Victoria 4 and then autofitted to Victoria 7. Not the best conversion (jacket, hat and hair).

Rendered in Daz Studio iray.

Artini, I haven't used CrossDresser in ages, so I can't remember exactly how the licensing works.  They say you need license to convert TO a figure from any supported figure.  But you converted FROM Koshini and I'm not seeing her listed in the From drop-down.  It sure looks like both the From and To figure list is what I've got licenses for.

You don't need a license for the FROM figure, but you do need to have it installed.

I have converted the one for Koshini with CrossDresser to Victoria 4 and then autofitted to Victoria 7. Not the best conversion (jacket, hat and hair).

Rendered in Daz Studio iray.

 

 

Artini, I haven't used CrossDresser in ages, so I can't remember exactly how the licensing works.  They say you need license to convert TO a figure from any supported figure.  But you converted FROM Koshini and I'm not seeing her listed in the From drop-down.  It sure looks like both the From and To figure list is what I've got licenses for.

Do you guys really think that there is an issue with Victoria 7 and it hasn't been reported / fixed by now? The OP said Victoria 7 / Jeanne, not some other PA product.

I have converted the one for Koshini with CrossDresser to Victoria 4 and then autofitted to Victoria 7. Not the best conversion (jacket, hat and hair).

Rendered in Daz Studio iray.

I understand the comment that it's easier to texture manually rather than go through the hassle, but the import with texture should work. I am a complete noob at Daz3D, so texturing manually will be very hard for me. I can load scenes, Genesis 3 and Victoria 4.2 figures, and pose them etc, but I want to create my own items, particularly jewelry and shoes.

On the other hand I am moderately comfortable with 3ds Max, and I have several decades in the software engineering world behind me, and back then I was a wizz at PD/PSI (Problem Determination/Problem Source Identification).

So ...

I created a minimal box in 3ds Max, converted it to an editable poly, and textured it with a free tilable skin texture I found on the interwebs. I saved it as max, but then I also exported it as obj, and I did set the image path to ./ as suggested elsewhere. I put the skin texture jpg in the same folder as the obj and mtl. I have screenshots, but how to post them here?

Still in 3ds Max, I reset to a blank workspace and imported the same obj file.  It imported correctly, with its texture. As it should. So 3ds Max can at least do the round trip, but that doesn't completely rule it out as a source of the problem, it just says look elsewhere first.

I went to wikipedia and the original doc from Wavefront, to read the definition of the mtl and obj files, and then looked at the actual files. They look to be correctly formatted and correctly related to each other.

I then switched to Daz and imported the obj file into an empty scene. It came up invisible, but it was at 0,0,0 and when I hovered the mouse pointer there, it showed up colored orange. I was able to select it. It showed up as just a bounding box. I set the workspace view to texture shaded, but that made no difference. At this point my Daz3d skill runs out ...

In my (former) world, if this had been the product for which I was team leader, before I retired, that information alone would have made me assign a developer to reproduce this problem and find out why it is happening, and at very least, document a workaround. I know Daz3d is free.

Chris Gage

-- Windows 10 Professional -- Daz3D 4.9 -- 3DS Max 2015 --

-- Core i7 4790K -- 16GB -- Nvidia GTX 970 -- Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD -- 2TB HD --

-- Benq 32" WQXD and ASUS HDPro Monitors -- Logitech G710 & G502 --

 

How are you loading/applying Victoria 7?

First from the Smart Content Section, afterwards from the Content Library (using DIM Installer to install Vicki 7), and as geometry with the textures selected in the file browser of the surface editor.

Thanks a lot for stopping by and answering me!

I really mean were you loading the figure with the character preset, or applying a materials preset to an already loaded figure, or did you try both? Anyway, mismatched gamma settings should certainly be reported as a bug.

I'm not really sure how texture seaming issues directly relate to whether the figure base is Genesis 3, Victoria 4 or an amorphous blob. Or how a seam issue relates to how one figure generation is better than the next. As they would all use very similar texture mapping systems and how they deal with UV borders or seams is pretty much the same method. If a texture or material zone setting has any slight irregularites across the seam it would create a seam issue no matter what model is used as the base. Most of the improvements from V7 to V4 in the area of skin representation would relate to newer Shader bases and utilising more detailed and varied map types such as normals, translucency or PBR based textures.

From my experience Daz QA checks for seaming on character texture sets are very rigourous and thorough. But on a rare occassion, with any texture seam, you may find a transition problem that was not picked up by the creator or QA. Use of different lighting or a different pose may make something stand out as obvious that wasn't possible to detect with other lighting.

What may seem as a direct increase in the issue you are describing may directly correlate to the complexity of the more modern figure skins which utilise many additional components to add higher levels of detail and photo realness to the skin in comparison to an older more simple V4 skin. These factors could make any slight issue that much more obvious to the eye when put in a scenario that highlights the issue.

As far as not purchasing character sets from Daz 3D that really is your decision, but with a money back guarantee and the fact that any seaming issue would be corrected by the creator once reported, I can't really see the risk.

My advice would be to report any issue you do pick up and to expect an update to correct it.

If you right-click on the entry in DIM and choose "Show Installed Files", see if there are files in the path "Runtime/Libraries/!DAZ/Victoria 4".  If there are, then it uses ExP.

In any event, please report the missing download options.

I may be wrong, but I don't think Vittorio had an OBJ file as it was tied to V4.2, meaning it's tied to V4's OBJ file. It's just morphs and textures for Victoria 4.2. I think you had to use RTE to decode it. http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/34349/how-do-i-decode-files-via-rtencoder

As I'm procrastinating on my other projects... I'm looking for good (and detailed) Asian mats that I can use for G2F -- so anything from G2F to V4. I have Mei Lin 6 and a couple of related characters, but they're not as good as I'd like them to be.

For reference, the fantastic Chiyo for V7 by Raiya (https://www.daz3d.com/chiyo-for-victoria-7) is extremely close to what I'm looking for. Skin tone is reasonable -- similar to mine after a Canadian winter! -- with tiny moles and blemishes.

Any suggestions? :) Thanks!

Open the legs reflection texture in the image editor (not Layered Image Editor) and check the map's set to a gamma of 1, or at least make sure the gamma's the same as the torso reflection texture.

Oh so nice, I didn't have my hopes up to get a quick solution for my problem so fast. Gamma value of the legs reflection map was set to 0 (beside others), while torso was set to 1. A quick test-render already produced a nice seemless reflection. Thanks for the help!

How are you loading/applying Victoria 7?

First from the Smart Content Section, afterwards from the Content Library (using DIM Installer to install Vicki 7), and as geometry with the textures selected in the file browser of the surface editor.

Thanks a lot for stopping by and answering me!

How are you loading/applying Victoria 7?

LOL, I was smart last night. I went ahead and shopped/wrote down the items from stores through N to get a head start on shopping today.  Watching the Ryder Cup!  I got two years of PC+ membership yesterday (two orders) as I wasn't sure how long that would be in play. For $14 a year- think about that. $12 of products every month discounted, x 12 months is $144 dollars off a year. Wow.  

So what are you folks buying from the featured stores? Here's some I picked up:

Peng Hair   Great for many time periods, very contemporary look

Z Summer Romance Poses   Great variety, remember you're getting two poses together already set up- and great starting points for individual poses to tweak/ use alone too. Think outside the box. Example: That one where he's "airplaning" her on the stomach- a GREAT flip-it-over- going in the water pose (being thrown in!) 

Interstellar Officer-  one of the rare "sleek" looking sci-fi outfits- that doesn't have accentuation on the crotch with a piece plastered there (not a fan) The back is also great. Very family friendly.

Eliza-   you already know this is coming- love the brow thickness. If you haven't explored Godin for women, browse that store!

Divided Highway- been waiting for this to go on sale as I didn't need it immediately. I love the bridge underpass section!  I'm putting trees in front of the concrete walls in the background. Add more vegetation to provide interest, etc.

JP Sport Convertible-  a contemporary car to put on those highways- and the white car looks like my white 350Z convertible!  Check out Russo's store for more cars- but read the description.I think some are low poly, some aren't. (and some doors may open and some not, can't remember.)

Coders Haven-  obvious choice for a computer setup that has some extra goodies / common sense things that are around computer stations. You can Photoshop out the yellow sticky note messages and add your own for humor or make it relevant for your scene.

Hospital Emergency-  a must for every city- practical. 

Biker Bandit-  A Daz Original (and if you got that orange banner, you get additional discount) and the textures    Love the sleek look and flat footed boots. 

Plaster PBR-   make your own walls. This is the vendor I used for the Mega Grass/Stone wall example. Picked up most of the images. The tree bark, leaves, stone- good stuff!

and as I mentioned, Fangtastic to make quick, easy changes to teeth to get away from square teeth. (Linked to bundle.) 

 

P3D Angel

Oriental Breeze Pool (thanks to your renders of it)

Yuki Outfit

i13 Implications

LOL, I was smart last night. I went ahead and shopped/wrote down the items from stores through N to get a head start on shopping today.  Watching the Ryder Cup!  I got two years of PC+ membership yesterday (two orders) as I wasn't sure how long that would be in play. For $14 a year- think about that. $12 of products every month discounted, x 12 months is $144 dollars off a year. Wow.  

So what are you folks buying from the featured stores? Here's some I picked up:

Peng Hair   Great for many time periods, very contemporary look

Z Summer Romance Poses   Great variety, remember you're getting two poses together already set up- and great starting points for individual poses to tweak/ use alone too. Think outside the box. Example: That one where he's "airplaning" her on the stomach- a GREAT flip-it-over- going in the water pose (being thrown in!) 

Interstellar Officer-  one of the rare "sleek" looking sci-fi outfits- that doesn't have accentuation on the crotch with a piece plastered there (not a fan) The back is also great. Very family friendly.

Eliza-   you already know this is coming- love the brow thickness. If you haven't explored Godin for women, browse that store!

Divided Highway- been waiting for this to go on sale as I didn't need it immediately. I love the bridge underpass section!  I'm putting trees in front of the concrete walls in the background. Add more vegetation to provide interest, etc.

JP Sport Convertible-  a contemporary car to put on those highways- and the white car looks like my white 350Z convertible!  Check out Russo's store for more cars- but read the description.I think some are low poly, some aren't. (and some doors may open and some not, can't remember.)

Coders Haven-  obvious choice for a computer setup that has some extra goodies / common sense things that are around computer stations. You can Photoshop out the yellow sticky note messages and add your own for humor or make it relevant for your scene.

Hospital Emergency-  a must for every city- practical. 

Biker Bandit-  A Daz Original (and if you got that orange banner, you get additional discount) and the textures    Love the sleek look and flat footed boots. 

Plaster PBR-   make your own walls. This is the vendor I used for the Mega Grass/Stone wall example. Picked up most of the images. The tree bark, leaves, stone- good stuff!

and as I mentioned, Fangtastic to make quick, easy changes to teeth to get away from square teeth. (Linked to bundle.) 

I was very eager to start using Victoria 7 after the long time I've tinkered around with the Genesis 3 Base Model, but soon I've noticed some problems with the reflection/roughness map of Vicki. I couldn't explain first until I deleted all surfaces and build it up setting one map after another. I've redownloaded Vicki and unpacked and placed all parts of her manually to make sure there was no bug while installing in the Smart Content System or with DIM Installer, but without any change. Finally I've replaced the torso and the leg reflection map with Jeanne's (slightly modified) and now it worked.

The thing is, I've seen many Victoria 7 renderings which doesn't have the problem I get so, is there anyone out there who can help me out here?

There is a little pic attached to this post that shows two renderings one with the original reflection map from victoria 7 and one with the one from Jeanne.

Cathy, Anna & Awan because Raiya's skins make my life so much easier and fun.

Myrna Textures for Myrna Outfit because Shox-Design's textures are the bomb! She has saved many an outfit.

Urban Survivors G3M&F because Luthbel makes the most realistic male clothing I've used; (now if I could get him to add some morphs and use Shox-Design to do add-on textures...)!

Kaia for Kalea 7 because her morph looked so real and cute, and she was inexpensive.

And the forementioned Genesis 3 UVs for Genesis 2 Female(s) so my G3F characters can wear all the G2F heels; (if only CaymanStudios would do a G3F UV for V4 I'd be set).