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  • Newbee Issues Applying MATS to V6 Figures-Poser 11

    Hi All,  I wanted to get back to creating after a long absence and updated my Poser 9 to 11. I'm experiencing all the newbee issues and slowly working through the cobwebs in my brain to get things in order. Wanting to try out the lastest figures I purchased Victoria 6, Genesis 2 Female(s) Morphs Bundle, Milena Bundle and Genesis Starter Essentials, a few DAZ figures and the latest DSON Importer for Poser. After loading V6 figure and Morphs things look to be OK  The figure has an OK caucasian flesh tone, when loading figure MATS, areas turns a carmel brown and the makup, etc. won't change anything when applied.  Also I have one figure, Carlene, that loads totally black becaue it can't findt the SabbyCarleneLashes02.  I think my MAT files may be in the wrong places even though I used the DAZ file manage to load to the default folders or I am doing some thing wrong.  I've been looking in various forums attempting to find the solution but to no avail.  Any help would be appreciated.  Hopefully you can point me in the right direction.  Thanking you in advance - Tom.

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    tbinder_5b3a09308b tbinder_5b3a09308b in Poser Discussion
  • Registering Online

    I think how it works now is that, ever since DIM was released, and they came up with that how we can sign one EULA for all purchases rather than for each item separately, the need to register has simply become obsolete.

    Enjoy your new Carrara 8.5 Pro, along with all of this added stuff:

     

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    Dartanbeck Dartanbeck in Carrara Discussion
  • Animation vs Still Art?

    Renderosity, cannot link, I am still waiting to see more using myself.

    me too, its $60 bucks for the standalone and another 15 for th bridge. I am sure its worth every penny but before i shell out $75 bucks for something  I too would like to ee more people using it as well.

    @ Mythmaker

    The reviews are great.  But if you look on the product page it says only compatible with poser 9 and up and Victoria 4, Genesis, Genesis 2 Female So I contacted VWD at rendo and asked them about compatibility. and they said it will work on almost anything. But  they were working on updating it.. Now seeming I am someone that does not own the VWD sim  and would like to . I also would like to know as much about it before spending $75   So you may say my comment was unfounded rumors.. But I am only going by what is is written in the product page it self & what I was told by the vender.   So you as a owner of the program would know more than someone just learning about it.  and going by the product description is not unfounded rumors

    It was 65 for the base VWD when I bought it (not realising a) the Daz bridge hadn't quite come out and b) it was 50 going direct to VWD website!)

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    KA1 KA1 in The Commons
  • Xurge 3d still active?

    ...I like his armour sets because they give full coverage that would actually protect the wearer.  All this bare belly deep cleavage rubbish I see here which leave the easiest parts of the body to hit (which often results in a fatal wound), totally unprotected is ridiculous.

    He's got plenty that are skimpy also (which I like!). I would LOVE to have Fantasy Amazon for Dawn redone specifiacally for G3F and IRAY.

    Barbarian for Victoria 4.2 works fairly well on G3F and in Iray

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    FSMCDesigns FSMCDesigns in The Commons
  • Star 2.0 for G3F!!! whoot!!

    I bought the original Star not so long ago but I couldn't resist genesis 3 Star with all the morphing possibilities and the clothes and hairs avaliable.

    Here is my first render, it's Retro Heroine by Fredel (from Renderosity) with 50 % of Star's body and body propotions, and 30 % of Stars head and 15% of The Girl 7s head.

    The outfit is  Retro Heroine outfit (a freebie) by Fredel.

    I used DG Toon Style Hair Shaders for the hair :)

    WHAT. That looks 100% like a modern rendition of classic Lara O_O

    Love this character.

    That is terrifyingly realistic.

    But fantastically cool. If you don't mind sharing, which characters did you combine?

    The body is 100% Star 2.0

    The head is a combination of Teen Josie and Toon Josie Slim (both 36%), Aiko 16%, Anime Head 100%, and scaled the head up and neck down a bit.

    I used the skin from the Vanessa character.

    Anime Head for Genesis 3 is a freebie morph (with a dial) that you can find on ShareCG.

    Vanessa is this one:  http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-vanessa-hd-for-victoria-7-and-her-jewelry

    Eric

    Excellent, thanks! I didn't know there was a Toon Josie...was that a typo or is there a morph for the Teen Josie character that creates a toon version?

     

    I'd like to know this too. Didn't realize there was a Toon Josie... 

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    mtl1 mtl1 in The Commons
  • Star 2.0 for G3F!!! whoot!!

    Love this character.

    That is terrifyingly realistic.

    But fantastically cool. If you don't mind sharing, which characters did you combine?

    The body is 100% Star 2.0

    The head is a combination of Teen Josie and Toon Josie Slim (both 36%), Aiko 16%, Anime Head 100%, and scaled the head up and neck down a bit.

    I used the skin from the Vanessa character.

    Anime Head for Genesis 3 is a freebie morph (with a dial) that you can find on ShareCG.

    Vanessa is this one:  http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-vanessa-hd-for-victoria-7-and-her-jewelry

    Eric

    Excellent, thanks! I didn't know there was a Toon Josie...was that a typo or is there a morph for the Teen Josie character that creates a toon version?

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    pds pds in The Commons
  • Star 2.0 for G3F!!! whoot!!

    Love this character.

    That is terrifyingly realistic.

    But fantastically cool. If you don't mind sharing, which characters did you combine?

    The body is 100% Star 2.0

    The head is a combination of Teen Josie and Toon Josie Slim (both 36%), Aiko 16%, Anime Head 100%, and scaled the head up and neck down a bit.

    I used the skin from the Vanessa character.

    Anime Head for Genesis 3 is a freebie morph (with a dial) that you can find on ShareCG.

    Vanessa is this one:  http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-vanessa-hd-for-victoria-7-and-her-jewelry

    Eric

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    bailaowai bailaowai in The Commons
  • Question for Dartanbeck

    For example, this is very much the quality of the shots before VFX and final editing. It did take me a long time (a couple years, actually) to decide upon a final decision on this, because I felt it is important to nail down the continuity of everything, so that I can continue to build and store the scenes - basically my production's sound stages.

    I have accepted, thought through, respected, etc., much criticism regarding this. That was awesome, because it really got me thinking about whether to keep this HD 720p format, jump up higher, increase individual pixel qualities... there's really a lot to consider. I rendered a lot of test sequences at higher resolutions and some at lower. Lower was completely out of the question, and higher (HD 1080p) looks so much more crisp that I almost made that change - but it takes so much longer at render time, the decision was made. If it ever takes off to where higher resolutions are needed, I can always (with the help of a team) switch up. 

    This one (right) has had some of my new vfx skills applied to it - but these techniques (I think) look so much better in action than in stills. And I'm still studying. Visual Effects for Filmmakers is a huge topic and can easily become a life's study, which will certainly be the case for me - along with my animation, music, custom stone work, and other things. 

    VFX has saved me from those times when a render is just right, except for one little thing - and that one little thing kills the entire sequence, so I'd go back and fix that one thing and render again. Well sometimes fixing that one thing isn't as simple as poking the object down into the ground - easy peasy. No. Some things that need to be fixed cannot be seen until certain, unknown parts of the sequence take place - invisible in the working environment! 

    Howler has changed all of that for me. Howler using VFX techniques help me correct these things in a few minutes - perhaps sometimes even a few hours. Much better than blindly rendering over and over again! 

    Being mostly self-taught, learning by asking questions, reading what other's ask and say... it's really different to start taking occasional online courses on the subjects - learning that there are 'basics' that all animators/filmmakers know, that I had no clue about. I discovered "Iris Gleam" through my own observations, and was always planningon getting my characters fixed to be able to display such a thing without special lighting - at least not a LOT of special lighting. My solution fell in my lap - I didn't need to persue altering the original iris mesh shapes anymore! ;) Funny how that happens!

    A forum pal bought and sent to me the latest edition of Jeremy Birn's Digital Lighting and Rendering book, which is a tremendous help. It was Jeremy who has illustrated the common ways that CGI professionals use to create this Iris Gleam, so I immediately went into my V4 Rosie character, saved as a CAR file, and did a quick edit to her Iris shape to make them concave instead of their default convex curve, which was kinda easy, but I did a very quick job of it - so to do a 'saved' version, I'd need to start over. 

    It was just that time when Daz3d added Runtime DNA to the store! Arki, an artist for both RDNA and Daz3d, had this great RDNA product (now at Daz3d), EYEdeas 3+ for Victoria 4 and Michael 4, which is modeled just the way Jeremy recommends! What a time saver, I bought them immediately! 

    Earlier on than the subject of Iris Gleam, Jeremy was talking about light-linking - the process where a light only affects certain (linked) things in the scene - and that it's common to adjust the mood of a scen by linking to the eyes alone. Well in Carrara, we cannot link to specific bones of a rigged figure. Not a real issue because we could just copy the mesh and paste it in separately - Carrara will let us link lights to items that are parented to specific bones!

    Much better than that (in my opinion), Arki's EYEdeas don't need to parent (but the kit includes models meant for that as well), but actually can be loaded as a single, conforming item, which puts both eyes exactly where they need to be, with a plethora of useful adjustment morphs, which then turn perfectly along with the eyes pose dials on the figure! Parented ones would too... but this makes it super-simple to select for light linking... Handy!

    As it turns out, with the special shaders I made and Arki's modeling, I don't need special light linking... they just work with whatever light is already available. Special tweaking of Highlight and Shininess was the real trick - well... along with this nice eye model!

    I've just added this to my characters in early August of this year... so you see how I'm still tweaking even my main figures. But I suppose full production still won't change that either. The cool part is that, even though I now render with full refraction and reflection enabled, it hasn't changed my render times! ;)   Love that!

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    Dartanbeck Dartanbeck in Carrara Discussion
  • Show Us Your Iray Renders. Part V

    I am going to do 25 renders: In military time from 00:00 - 23:00 and and indoor scene using the Windows Seat Freebie and and Incandescent Bulb at 8' (2700K Point Light) using:

    Left to Right:

    1) Genesis 3 Female with Victoria 7 iRay texture set and Toulouse hair (black texture set converted with iRay Uber Shaders)

    2) The Girl 7 with Girl 7 default iRay texture set and Toulouse hair (blond default texture set converted with iRay Uber Shaders)

    3) The Guy 7 with Guy 7 default iRay texture set with G3M Simple Short Haircut (black iRay textures) 

    4) Genesis 3 Male with Eddie texture set converted to iRay Ueber Shaders and with Keegan Hair (dark red orange texture set)

    They will all be wearing the black material Genesis 3 Starter Essentials underwear & also the top in the case of the females so the results can be posted. The female underwear will be converted to iRay Uber Shaders.

    I had wanted to use the default iRay texture sets for the Genesis 3 Female & the Genesis 3 Male but somehow now when I load either Genesis 3 character the texture sets are applied to the wrong Surfaces, eg the mouth textures are on their legs!. I think that happen after I installed all the products that were listed as installable in DAZ Connect despite those products already being installed via DIM.

    I changed the render settings to by Sun & Sky with the Dome at 0 degrees, the location to be Time Square, NYC, the date is June 21, 2017, and to not render the Dome. I am not trying to create the most flattering lighting but a series of renders that shows how the most popular skin textures react throughout the day to the changing light.

    The Windows Seat render with be the same but have one point light at 2700K 8' in the middle of the Window Seat model as you'd expect in a typical room. It has one window with light coming inside at 12:00 at Times Square, NYC on June 21, 2017 since the summer solstice typically falls on that date. The UTC for NYC on Jun 21 is UTC 5 and the sun at high noon should appear as if coming from directly overhead. Perhaps in the future I or someone can make a preset script that you enter the time, date, and click on a world map to correctly set all the DAZ Studio Sun & Sky settings.

    It will take a while for me to create these 25 renders since I am CPU rendering and I won't be doing this dedicated so lucky I cand just leave the render run each time. I will create a thread in the 'Art' section of the forums for the renders.

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    nonesuch00 nonesuch00 in The Commons
  • Saving a character preset

    I followed a tutorial elsewhere in these forums to make a centaur with Horse 2 and Victoria 6. Got a REALLY nice look, I think. Luckily, I saved the scene I was working on, because I also tried saving the figure as a character preset (since this isn't the only work I intend to do with that character), and ended up with an issue. Since Victoria is parented to the chest of the horse, I selected DAZ Horse 2 in the Select pane and chose to Save As a character preset. (First time, I had the amusing error of having selected the hair, so when I reloaded the "character preset", I had hair floating in mid-air. :D) When I went to reload the character preset, I had a horse body, but no Vicki. She is nowehere on the character preset figure. (I expanded the entire listing, just to make sure she wasn't playing Hide-and-Seek with me. :))

    I'm hoping that it's possible to save the entire figure (which I can get if I load the scene) as a character preset, and if so, what am I doing wrong currently?

    Steps right now are:

    1) get centaur looking the way I want

    1a) ensure Victoria 6 is parented to DAZ Horse 2 chest

    2) select DAZ Horse 2 in Select pane

    3) Save As Character Preset

    4) Open new file and load just-saved preset

    5) Marvel at headless, Vicki-less horse.

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    3D-Ladysmith 3D-Ladysmith in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)
  • What is the real life height of ANY of the models?

    The store product page sometimes tells the size. For example, this is an excerpt from the Victoria 7 product page..

    Victoria 7 measurements courtesy of Measure Metrics for DAZ Studio:

    • Height: 5' 10" (179.3 cm)
    • Bust Circumference: 35.9" (91.2 cm)
    • Waist Circumference: 23.9" (60.7 cm)
    • Low Hip Circumference: 37.0" (93.9 cm)

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    barbult barbult in New Users
  • What is the real life height of ANY of the models?

    I'm looking inches standing of Victoria 4, 5 or 6, or Stephanie.  1/8th inch or 5" is not what I'm looking for.  Hard to believe anyone would design a figure that becomes a standard and does not put out the size of the design.  I can then gladly open other figures and compare, if this is X then this may be Y. I'm a painter trying to use these in creating a model in a painting.  It would be a time saver.  

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    nitespirit nitespirit in New Users
  • Animation vs Still Art?

    Renderosity, cannot link, I am still waiting to see more using myself.

    me too, its $60 bucks for the standalone and another 15 for th bridge. I am sure its worth every penny but before i shell out $75 bucks for something  I too would like to ee more people using it as well.

    @ Mythmaker

    The reviews are great.  But if you look on the product page it says only compatible with poser 9 and up and Victoria 4, Genesis, Genesis 2 Female So I contacted VWD at rendo and asked them about compatibility. and they said it will work on almost anything. But  they were working on updating it.. Now seeming I am someone that does not own the VWD sim  and would like to . I also would like to know as much about it before spending $75   So you may say my comment was unfounded rumors.. But I am only going by what is is written in the product page it self & what I was told by the vender.   So you as a owner of the program would know more than someone just learning about it.  and going by the product description is not unfounded rumors

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    Ivy Ivy in The Commons
  • Mimic Pro 3.0 and Victoria 4.2

    Ok, never mind. Got it figured out. I just saved a new Victoria figure into my Custom figures folder in Poser of which the morphs are working. I Loaded that cr2 file into Mimic and now it is working like a charm.

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    williebouwer.mail_fed69a20c4 williebouwer.mail_fed69a20c4 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)
  • Mimic Pro 3.0 and Victoria 4.2

    Hi, can someone please assist me. I have always used M4 in Mimic 3.0 pro without any problems. Now I wanted to use V4.2 and for some reason I can't get the morphs to work. She nods her head but that's it. No expresions or eye blinks. I have loaded the Victoria4.dmc and 4.2 cr2 files in the Mimic session manager but nothing happens. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

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    williebouwer.mail_fed69a20c4 williebouwer.mail_fed69a20c4 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)
  • Body By Sublime IV Fantasy Edition

    As I happen to have all "Body by Sublime"-Packages, some information on those. Only pack III comes with custom morphs, the other packs are only shapes, so from my understanding completely dialed.

    Regarding Body by Sublime IV the following figures are dialed in as far as I can see:

    01: Gia, Aiko

    02: Gia, Aiko

    03: Gia, Aiko

    04: Aiko

    05: Aiko

    06: Aiko, Girl

    07: Olympia, Victoria, Aiko, Girl

    08: Olympia, Victoria, Aiko, Girl

    Think you can use shapes 1-3 also without Gia and Aiko.

    Thank you for taking the time to list these!

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    Kerya Kerya in The Commons
  • Body By Sublime IV Fantasy Edition

    As I happen to have all "Body by Sublime"-Packages, some information on those. Only pack III comes with custom morphs, the other packs are only shapes, so from my understanding completely dialed.

    Regarding Body by Sublime IV the following figures are dialed in as far as I can see:

    01: Gia, Aiko

    02: Gia, Aiko

    03: Gia, Aiko

    04: Aiko

    05: Aiko

    06: Aiko, Girl

    07: Olympia, Victoria, Aiko, Girl

    08: Olympia, Victoria, Aiko, Girl

    Think you can use shapes 1-3 also without Gia and Aiko.

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    Rod Wise Driggo Rod Wise Driggo in The Commons
  • G3F Skins render Chocolate....

    First: Thank you for the time it took for your response.

     

    I am using DS 4.9.

    ONE of the skins that is giving me choclate is: http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-eliya-hd-for-victoria-7

    Admittedly it is a skin that is a little tanned. Here is my render (it does not use the character morph included with the skin)

     

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    naxuam_66429eb97e naxuam_66429eb97e in New Users
  • Question regarding Heat Wave

    was hoping for a genesis 2 compatible one. 

    It should autofit, if you have http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-for-genesis-2-female

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    aspin aspin in Daz Studio Discussion
  • Carrara Sale Email Message Alert thread

    This item seems a bit of a bargain at the moment:

    http://www.daz3d.com/carrara-8-5-pro

    Though only if I'm logged in.

    PC+ promotion?

    (Hat tip: Overdrawn)

    Wow! And it comes with ALL this stuff!!!

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    Dartanbeck Dartanbeck in Carrara Discussion