A Victoria 3 pantsuit for $8 is a good deal?
 

If it were $5 I would likely have bought them.  However, prices were once quite a bit higher than today; DAZ from 2001, thanks to the Wayback Machine...

Anyone know of any beehive hair? Preferably free or cheap for Victoria 4.

http://www.sharecg.com/v/51022/gallery/11/Poser/Rand-Ponytail-Hair-for-V3-and-V4

http://www.sharecg.com/v/50660/gallery/11/Poser/Rand-Hair-02

http://www.sharecg.com/v/53461/related/11/Poser/Chris-C-Hair

http://www.sharecg.com/v/53462/gallery/11/Poser/Chris-C-Side-Part-Hair

http://www.sharecg.com/v/53463/gallery/11/Poser/Palamas-Hair-for-V3-and-V4

http://www.sharecg.com/v/64723/gallery/11/Poser/Louise-Hair-for-V4-and-V3

http://www.ShareCG.com/v/48072/view/11/Poser/Romulan-Princess-for-V3/V4 and http://www.sharecg.com/v/62579/gallery/11/Poser/New-Textures-for-Romulan-Princess-Hair

http://www.sharecg.com/v/61148/gallery/11/Poser/TPau-Hair-for-V3-and-V4

http://www.sharecg.com/v/50661/gallery/11/Poser/Nancy-Hedford-Hair

http://www.sharecg.com/v/48275/gallery/11/Poser/Lt.-Moreau-Hair

http://www.sharecg.com/v/47415/gallery/11/Poser/Blanche-Hair

http://www.sharecg.com/v/38665/gallery/11/Poser/Trio-Curl-Updo

http://www.sharecg.com/v/16192/gallery/11/Poser/Lovey-Hair-for-V3

http://www.sharecg.com/v/15881/gallery/11/Poser/V3-Lady-Jane

http://www.sharecg.com/v/10631/gallery/11/Poser/V3-Annabelle

http://www.sharecg.com/v/9932/gallery/11/Poser/Vulcan-Female-Hair

http://www.sharecg.com/v/9121/gallery/11/Poser/V3-J-Rand

http://www.sharecg.com/v/4635/gallery/11/Poser/V3-Chris-Hair

Okay, that pose was really hard. It is designed for a man who is tall 104% and a woman who is 96% and I found that most of the male clothing distorted during such a simple back arch which was a disappointment it really isn't that extreme of a stretch.  I'll touch this up a bit later, but that is the closest I could get to doing the kiss.

Oh, I like that, especially the touch with the hat! And the percentages make sense from what I was working with before; Suleiman was 107% of scale and the other guy is based on Lee 6, who is 95% of scale. I only needed to do small tweaks to make them work together.

I like the expression on the lady in your picture, vwrangler. That makes the picture for me.

Thank you very much!

But, seriously, that's a great render, vwrangler.  I'll let everyone else do "the kiss".  Shore leave has finished and my sailors are headed for exotic foreign ports.  But, for exercise on the ship, they may take dancing lessons   Slow slow quick quick slow slow quick quick...

Thanks for the nice forum and gallery comments, too :)

Thank you, and you're welcome!

I'd actually like to know what vwrangler used to make the comical old lady and the sailor with oriental ancestry. They are good.

The old lady is just Victoria 6 with lots and lots of Aging Morphs. And the sailor is just FW Ja-Long for Lee 6 in Slosh's naval uniform.

New things in fastgrab: http://www.daz3d.com/fast-grab-3d-models/

WTF? Victoria 3 clothing for around 8 $ each ... in Fast grab ... they are kidding right? If this would be the regular price it would be high....

Different strokes... . .

I would have been happy as Larry to see any John Malis M3 products in Fastgrab any time in the last couple of years. 70% is pretty good if you want stuff from an artist whose work is seldom on sale.

This sale may have made a V3 and Uzilite fan or two real stoked.

Pretty much all of John Malis's store was 83% off a couple of days back (if you bought a new release), and I grabbed a stack of his stuff for just a few dollars each.

Anyone know of any beehive hair? Preferably free or cheap for Victoria 4.

There are some aniblocks in Daz which makes the model look like it's breathing... Although, I think they're for Victoria 4...

 

 

Victoria Alive, Genesis Alive, and Genesis 2 Alive are great for these little details (breathing, blinking, etc.)

There are some aniblocks in Daz which makes the model look like it's breathing... Although, I think they're for Victoria 4...

I had wrote this post, and then didn't post it...
A Victoria 3 pantsuit for $8 is a good deal?
​I'm glad I wasn't the only one that thought that was kind of a silly "sale".
 

New things in fastgrab: http://www.daz3d.com/fast-grab-3d-models/

WTF? Victoria 3 clothing for around 8 $ each ... in Fast grab ... they are kidding right? If this would be the regular price it would be high....

Different strokes... . .

I would have been happy as Larry to see any John Malis M3 products in Fastgrab any time in the last couple of years. 70% is pretty good if you want stuff from an artist whose work is seldom on sale.

This sale may have made a V3 and Uzilite fan or two real stoked.

New things in fastgrab: http://www.daz3d.com/fast-grab-3d-models/

WTF? Victoria 3 clothing for around 8 $ each ... in Fast grab ... they are kidding right? If this would be the regular price it would be high....

A lot of items are naturally more expensive due to the market back then. If it's any consolation, they were just on Mega Fast Grab...

New things in fastgrab: http://www.daz3d.com/fast-grab-3d-models/

WTF? Victoria 3 clothing for around 8 $ each ... in Fast grab ... they are kidding right? If this would be the regular price it would be high....

With the PA sale going on, there doesn't seem to be too much attentoin on FastGrab items. The previous items were in fastgrab for several days without changing.
Which is okay for me, we have a couple of 80+% off sales during the festival, so a 70% off sale is not a big deal now. :)
I hope we'll see a better selection of items in fastgrab after the PA sales.

New things in fastgrab: http://www.daz3d.com/fast-grab-3d-models/

WTF? Victoria 3 clothing for around 8 $ each ... in Fast grab ... they are kidding right? If this would be the regular price it would be high....

tag: Renomista #1

Rasheed's Recently Refurbished Recreational-Assistants

Even though Rick really liked the merchandise, he was not so sure if the Recreational-Assitants Rasheed offered, where really so recently refurbished.

My Draw:

My Draw: Renomista #1

1. 389    DAZ    22539    Seductress Lingerie for Genesis 3 Female(s)    http://www.daz3d.com/seductress-lingerie-for-genesis-3-female-s
2. 1286    DAZ    24485    Flight Attendant for Genesis 3 Female(s)    http://www.daz3d.com/flight-attendant-for-genesis-3-female-s
3. 2187    DAZ    18725    Outpost Mercenary for Genesis 2 Male(s)    http://www.daz3d.com/outpost-mercenary-for-genesis-2-male-s
4. 2336    DAZ    15281    Marrakesh Souks 2012    http://www.daz3d.com/marrakesh-souks-2012

 

Additionaly used:

1484    DAZ    22437    Marrakesh Souks Iray    http://www.daz3d.com/marrakesh-souks-iray
1738    DAZ    32227    Tied Up! Genesis 3    http://www.daz3d.com/tied-up-genesis-3
596    DAZ    22465    The Bazaar    http://www.daz3d.com/the-bazaar
1840    DAZ    32409    Raoul for Ivan 7 HD    http://www.daz3d.com/raoul-for-ivan-7-hd
1502    DAZ    21697    Desert Pathfinders for Genesis 2 Male(s)    http://www.daz3d.com/desert-pathfinders-for-genesis-2-male-s
1596    DAZ    31266    Hinkyhunks Dae for Lee 7    http://www.daz3d.com/hinkyhunks-dae-for-lee-7
1227    DAZ    24183    Gothic Decor    http://www.daz3d.com/gothic-decor
1676    DAZ    31651    Jazmine HD for Victoria 7    http://www.daz3d.com/jazmine-hd-for-victoria-7
1675    DAZ    31697    Jazmine Hair    http://www.daz3d.com/jazmine-hair
1902    DAZ    33167    Kylie Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s)    http://www.daz3d.com/kylie-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s
2006    DAZ    31335    FWSA Filia HD for Sunny 7    http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-filia-hd-for-sunny-7
1617    DAZ    31495    A Touch of Dirt for Iray    http://www.daz3d.com/a-touch-of-dirt-for-iray
1338    DAZ    24370    Crescent Cove    http://www.daz3d.com/crescent-cove
1376    DAZ    14260    Dirty Street    http://www.daz3d.com/dirty-street

+ misc Poses and Expressions

You'll thank me once we have a working gauntlet.
Alright, now the tricky part.

Save the Scene cause this might mess up the glove. We do not want to repeat this from the beginning.

1. After saving the Scene, select File - New to work on a new file.
2. Load Gen 3 Female figure into the scene. Just Gen 3 Female, no Victoria, no nothing.
3. Go to File - Merge. Select the Scene with the gauntlet. That will bring the file into this new scene, but the original Scene should be safe.
4. Go to Edit -> Object -> Transfer Utility.
5. There it will open a new window. Select Genesis 3 Female as the Source. The Mirrored Gauntlet should be the Target.
6. Select "Show Options" to see more options.
7. From "Projection Template" choose "Gloves".
8. As "Content Type" at the very end choose "Follower/Wardrobe/Glove/Left/Right" depending on whether the glove is left or right. 
9. Choose Accept. DAZ will do calculations. 

Now try posing the hand. Check if the glove functions correctly. If it works, do this:

1. Go to File - Save as -> Support Asset -> Figure/Prop Assets. 
2. Name it so you recognize the file for future use. A window will pop up now.
3. As Vendor Name, input the name of the Vendor that created the original Item.
4. As Product Name give it "White Knight for GF3 Mirror Gauntlet".
5. As item name you can give it any name you wish it to have.
6. In Metadata, set the Content Type as "Follower -> Wardrobe -> Glove -> Right/Left (depending on hand it is for)"
7. Set Category as Default/Wardrobe/Gloves (just copy this text and input it there)
8. As Set Compatibility Base choose "Genesis 3 /Female". You will have to search for it a bit, but its there.
9. Set Compatible With the same as above.
10. Unmark "Compress File". 
11. Accept. 

In case you have Poke-Through happening with the glove:
1. Select the Gauntlet.
2. Go to Edit -> Figure -> Geometry -> Apply Smoothing Modifier. 

Then just save the prop. 

Is there a Victoria 4/4.2 character that resembles Polly Walker (Rome, Mr. Selfridge, Caprica, Restoration, etc.)?  She has such a striking face (not to mention figure) that it'd be odd if no artist had yet essayed such a project. Actually, I do seem to vaguely remember some V4 characters that have her general facial look, but I can't remember who they're named, and a search of the forums didn't turn up anything.

...So if you put a diffuse map in that channel and then leave the color white, because you expected the map to be providing the color, your transmitted color is effectively white, because Iray hasn't got any color information to work with.

Transmitted Color, I'm gathering from the preceding, should be an RGB value (or whatever that decimal number that Iray uses is) that approximates that character's skin tone, or as close as you can get.

The decimal number is the color in linear space, its range from 0.00 to 1.00 is larger than that for the common RGB from 0 to 255. If you've got both a linear space and RGB value for a color, the linear space one is the one more accurate. DS's color picker tends to round linear space values, so when checking your color in that don't klick on "OK", or you might get slightly changed linear values in the process. Negligible if you receive a linear space value from directly putting in RGB color values.

It's even worse... Even if you have a specific color defined, Iray seems to get confused about to find a texture map where there really shouldn't be one and seems to use the default values instead.

Below a little render example: I removed the face's diffuse map and set Translucency Color and SSS Reflectance Tint to neutral (255-255-255), Glossy Layered Weight to 0.00 and Translucency Weight to 0.98 to get the normally faint transmission more visible.

SSS-1: the figure's color is now only of the color defined in Transmitted Color.

SSS-2: plugging a diffuse texture map into the Transmitted Color texture map slot the figure's color changes to white, since now albedo, translucence and SSS are set to white; for comparision SSS-3 shows the outcome if someone would set the Transmitted Color to 255-255-255 white in the first place.

Yes, too much grey on the back character in such a brightly lit room.

The "too much grey" is the result of too dark (wrong) Translucency Color, SSS Reflectance Tint and Transmitted Color for the default Genesis 3 Iray materials. Depending on the lighting, the "too much grey" can turn into "too much green". Which would be okay if you'd do a render of Star Trek's Mr. Spock, which's hemoglobin is based on copper instead of iron. 

 Maybe I didn't make myself clear. That is what I was talking about; translucency weight maps(b&w) have such details as veins. I just thought Laurie had removed them.

I guess you're talking about those texture maps which carry a "SSS" in their name, which do have those blueish veins painted in. That are no "Weight Maps", that are additional texture maps (some are simple "Mask Maps", which's dark parts are thought to prevent that darker parts of a Diffuse Map (hair, hairstubs, brows...) getting tinted by Translucency Color). And most of them are not B&W, they're RGB color maps. You can't put blueish veins on a greyscale B&W map.

Except for very few exceptions (Victoria/Michael 5's and Genesis 2 Base Female and Male's "Bree" and "Phillip", and Stephanie 5's "Michelle", named texture sets) DAZ's Base Figures and Characters aren't shipped with a special "Translucency Weight" map (carrying a "TL" or "T" in their names) anymore.

What you get with a Genesis 3 figure/character nowadays is Diffuse Maps ("D"), Bump Maps ("B"), Specular Maps ("S"), Translucency (Mask) Maps ("SSS") and normal Maps ("NM"). And some Transparency Maps ("T"/"TR") for eyes and eyelashes. Which are currently created to work in both 3delight and Iray, altough current Diffuse Maps are now free of additional lighting, reflection or shadow content directly painted in. Specular Maps still don't meet PBR requirements (wrong colors, too bright, so they're abused as "Gloss Weight" maps).

A PBR renderer doesn't work very well with "traditional" texture maps, and altough I understand (and stronlgy support) the OP's call for a skin-specific PBR shader, without appropriate Specular, Gloss/Roughness Maps we'd still have to counteract wrong outcomes by tweaking and fiddeling... sometimes including a "primal scream therapy" and/or almost eating your keyboard.

Genesis, and all other Daz3D products,. should be installed into your (Public documents /My Daz3D Library )

to have compatibility with older products like V4, and earlier,. that folder also contains a folder called "Runtime" 

So,. what you need to do,. is point Carrara's browser to the main MyDaz3D Library folder.

Creating Genesis has also added a new concept of "Smart Content" where instead of manually browsing through folders to locate Figures, clothing etc,. a Database running in the background displays content in the browser related to the item you have selected,. eg: select the figure in your scene,.and all of the items for that figure, show up in the browser.

The Postgre database should be avaliable in DIM if it's not installed,. please install it,. Carrara uses that database to display all "smart content"

Older content,. such as Victoria and Michael 1, 2, 3, 4 all use the older, manual system which was developed with Poser,. with the "Runtime" structure.

DIM installs your products into your "MyDaz3D Library" whether you have Daz3D Studio installed,.. or not.

Carrara doesn't need daz studio installed,. ..however,. it's free, and Daz3D's only child,. it does have some useful features,. such as converting objects modelled in carrara into conforming clothing items for genesis 2,. which can then be loaded back and used in carrara from the smart content browser.

Carrara can display all of your content,. you just need to point the Browser to your "MyDaz3D Lbrary" folder.

In Carrara's browser pane,. at the top right hand side,. there are a few little icons,. one of these allows you to "Add Runtime",. and "Add Folder" 

Pic..

I am going to ignore installation issues for a second and just focus on finding Genesis.  You can find it in either of two places, the Content tab and the Smart Content tab.  Both work.  I am going to focus on the Content tab.  Start a new empty medium size scene.  At the bottom of the screen there will be a little handle.  Click and drag the handle upwards to open the browser tray.  You will see two tabs on the left of the tray, one called sequencer and one called Browser.  Click the Browser tab and you will see a row of tabs across the top of the tray.  It opens on the "Scenes" tab.  Click on the "Content" tab.  By default, you will see three subfolders.  By default, they have My Daz3D in the name.  *** My screenshots are  little different because I did a custom install and installed Studio to "Stuff for Studio" ***   By default, Genesis is in the 3rd folder.  That folder is one of the two that do NOT have the word Runtime in the title.  Click the folder to open the subfolders.  Scroll down to the "People" subfolder.  Click to open.  Scroll down to the Genesis subfolder.  Clik to open.  A blank Genesis figure is on the top level.  There are subfolders for characters and other features.  Presets for Victoria 5, Michael 5, and other characters based on the Genesis mesh can be found there.  If you just want to start with a blank Genesis, click and drag the Genesis icon from the top folder to the instances tray (box in lower right side of interface).  Genesis will load at coordinates 0,0,0.  Alternatively, you can click and drag one of the character presets from the subfolder to the instances tray.

Couple of notes for the future.

For this to work, Genesis must be installed properly, which will sometimes depend upon your setup so blanket statements are difficult.  However, there is a thread stickied at the top of the forum for the release of Carrara 8.5.  It has a number of issues and resolutions that came up for various people.  If genesis needs to be initialized or is not recognizing morphs that you know you have, it may be an installation issue with solutions recorded in that thread.  Also, ask in the forum. (Screenshots help people try to answer)

Some people prefer to load content from the Smart Content tab rather than the Content tab.  I encourage them to chime in.  You might prefer that as well.  For one thing, it allows finding everything by its name, which can be very useful.  However, for me, nothing good ever came from initiating the smart content database, but that may be because I have a custom installation.

The folder with RUNTIME in the title.  Yes, it is important to pay attention if loading from the Content tab.  The 1-4 generation figures are loaded from here.  This includes Michael and Victoia 1-4, but also a lot of the props and other figures developed at the same time. 

Welp, I'm now a Platinum Member, and have Carrara 8.5 Pro registered! Managed to get it on the $45 deal, so all good there!
I like photo-realism, but I like stylized, cartoony, etc.. as well. I was just really impressed by how much detail they got on the Genesis 3 character, and was amused that the second one I linked looks like Vampire Tori Amos.
Can't type long here, gotta get ready for work, but just wanted to drop in and say that I've taken the plunge, and have my water wings on :p
Thanks for the info/advice! 
 
 

Just my opinion (but I'm 100% right and anyone who disagrees obviously hates babies/worships Satan/eats their bread butter-side-down) but Genesis1 is the best all round figure out there, and best of all it comes with Carrara pro (along with Michael 5 and Victoria 5, which are Genesis1 shape morphs).     So I wouldn't sweat it that you can't use Genesis3 natively with Carrara, and in fact you may not need to do a whole lot of searching among even Genesis2, as you can do pretty much anything with Genesis1, including put whatever clothes for any other figure on Genesis1 and have it fit (this takes either some of the clothing clones for the other figures, or alternately you can just pop the clothing into the Carrara modeling room and adjust it to fit Genesis1, then re-rig it in Studio so it works great on Genesis1; it's so easy even I can do it.  I'm thinking of putting together a tutorial vid showing how, if I can ever find the time...)

 

Judging from the renders you linked, you may be into realism rendering, and yes Carrara can definitely do that.  Those renders you pointed out were both done in Iray, which is an unbiased render engine.  Carrara's native render engine is not unbiased, but with the correct settings you can get similar realism (and since Carrara has dynamic strand hair, you can actually get even better realism in some respects) but do remember that it is not an unbiased render engine.  If it's really important to you to have an unbiased render engine like Iray, then there are plugin options for Carrara including Luxus, Luxcore, and Octane.

Just my opinion (but I'm 100% right and anyone who disagrees obviously hates babies/worships Satan/eats their bread butter-side-down) but Genesis1 is the best all round figure out there, and best of all it comes with Carrara pro (along with Michael 5 and Victoria 5, which are Genesis1 shape morphs).     So I wouldn't sweat it that you can't use Genesis3 natively with Carrara, and in fact you may not need to do a whole lot of searching among even Genesis2, as you can do pretty much anything with Genesis1, including put whatever clothes for any other figure on Genesis1 and have it fit (this takes either some of the clothing clones for the other figures, or alternately you can just pop the clothing into the Carrara modeling room and adjust it to fit Genesis1, then re-rig it in Studio so it works great on Genesis1; it's so easy even I can do it.  I'm thinking of putting together a tutorial vid showing how, if I can ever find the time...)

Judging from the renders you linked, you may be into realism rendering, and yes Carrara can definitely do that.  Those renders you pointed out were both done in Iray, which is an unbiased render engine.  Carrara's native render engine is not unbiased, but with the correct settings you can get similar realism (and since Carrara has dynamic strand hair, you can actually get even better realism in some respects) but do remember that it is not an unbiased render engine.  If it's really important to you to have an unbiased render engine like Iray, then there are plugin options for Carrara including Luxus, Luxcore, and Octane.