I only found the updates for HedgeMaker and C66 Graphics Plug-In D|S 6 by doing my periodic search of DIM's Ready to Download tab by 'Package Date: Recent First'. While I had been seeing a number of updates for other products over the past few weeks, those two items had not shown up. I am glad I did this double-check today. I hadn't been over onto the Commercial Thread and wasn't aware of Totte's alert for the update. Glad to see them. Thanks Totte.

Cybersox said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Cybersox said:

It's technically a nice set, but a dungeon usually has cells, shackles, etc., as it's a place of imprisonemt, not a place to put a throne.  Really, short of the one window with a few bars, it's about the least dungeony dungeon I've ever seen.  Ghoulish and creepy, yes, but Dark Throne, Dark Throneroom, or Dark Chamber would have been all much more accurate names that would have at least made this set more likely to come up when some starts searching for what's actually in it.      

I assume this is "Dungeon" as in "s and Dragons", a generic term for an underground place for adventuring. As I understand it, dungeon derives from donjon, the central keep of a medieval castle, which might well have had a prison and a throne-room.

According to Websters, the two words Donjon and Dungeon diverged with the original Donjon still being in use to refer to the central keep area while word dungeon refers to the subset of prison.  I do take your point about the usage in D&D and other games, except the convention there defines a Dungeon as a "confined, labyrinthine environment—often a ruined castle, cavern system, or crypt—designed for exploration" and one would be extremely generous to apply that definition to the small setting here.  And either way, it does't change the secondar... and more important to DAZ and the PA... point that anyone who's actually looking for a sinister throne for a project is unlikely to stumble across this one via a store search.  Search for Throne on the DAZ store now and, guess what?  This product doesn't come up.  

It kind of does, because it looks like the same model is also in 3dLab's "Throne Pack" product (along with a few others, and without the surrounding environment)

purplebunnies805 said:

crosswind said:

What does the error message say ?  Better post your DS log ~

Umm I had to look up how to do that. Sorry for the late reply. I'll add some pictures. Hopefully it can be read. Thanks in advance. Like I mentioned before the actual genetalia does load in. It's just when I try to copy the texture from the character that it displays that there is a problem.

It's the issue that old copy material scripts doesn't support DS 6. 

You can go to the forum of Renderotica, Product Support page of Meipe, the vendor of this product, find the thread "Copy Material Scripts for G9 and G8 for Daz Studio 6" (on the 1st page). Use the scripts for DS 6 to copy materials. 

barbult said:

 

@squirt This expanded folder tree information is CRITICAL to get you the help you need. Just showing the top level folders, as shown in your screendshot, is not enough detail. You need to show what folders are within those top level folders, and maybe even what folders are within that next level down. NorhtOf45 is looking for teltale folder names within those top level folders. He knows his stuff! He can help if you give him the information he needs. 

Tech Support finally answered my help ticket.   They advised that I Uninstall all of the DIM installed content.   So I did... Now I'm trying to follow their instructions on how to proceed.,

I just wish somebody would have taken me up on the money offer.   This is going to take weeks It looks like because everything is going by snail forum posts or emails now.   This is what I was trying to avoid.  

What I'm thinking of doing is just Deleting everything and starting off clean.   That way I save myself weeks of tit for tat frustration which this has already become. 

are they textures or vertex colours

I don't use Blender but regardless the object needs UV mapping and the textures baked if vertex colours

Also, I do know GLB which I recall Meshy uses, doesn't export a separate texture but importing into other programs a map is created in my case Twinmotion, Unreal engine and PCon planner

Blender I have always had issues exporting maps for anything so no help there

I know this is the Blender forum so hopefully someone can help, I am only speaking as someone who has used Meshy

Richard Haseltine said:

Cybersox said:

It's technically a nice set, but a dungeon usually has cells, shackles, etc., as it's a place of imprisonemt, not a place to put a throne.  Really, short of the one window with a few bars, it's about the least dungeony dungeon I've ever seen.  Ghoulish and creepy, yes, but Dark Throne, Dark Throneroom, or Dark Chamber would have been all much more accurate names that would have at least made this set more likely to come up when some starts searching for what's actually in it.      

I assume this is "Dungeon" as in "s and Dragons", a generic term for an underground place for adventuring. As I understand it, dungeon derives from donjon, the central keep of a medieval castle, which might well have had a prison and a throne-room.

According to Websters, the two words Donjon and Dungeon diverged with the original Donjon still being in use to refer to the central keep area while word dungeon refers to the subset of prison.  I do take your point about the usage in D&D and other games, except the convention there defines a Dungeon as a "confined, labyrinthine environment—often a ruined castle, cavern system, or crypt—designed for exploration" and one would be extremely generous to apply that definition to the small setting here.  And either way, it does't change the secondar... and more important to DAZ and the PA... point that anyone who's actually looking for a sinister throne for a project is unlikely to stumble across this one via a store search.  Search for Throne on the DAZ store now and, guess what?  This product doesn't come up.  

garrett_3d said:

Where is the character from? An AVN?

Google Image search says "you are correct." 

Both your links are for the same SE product. Do you have a link for the G8 item? It doesn't come up in a search.

EDIT: NVM, found it now. Store search function still buggered.

No idea, but you might want to delete the ones where nipples are showing as nudity isn't allowed on the forum.

DOUBLE. This forum needs a delete function :-/

List of some previous RRRR Contests

In the PC Members Only forum: 
RRRR Summer Edition ( 13 June 2012 - 15 July 2012) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/2065/
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/5053/

RRRR “Back to Reality / My Summer Memory (15 August 2012 - 23 September 2012) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/5759/
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/9315/

In The Commons: RRRR Commons Premiere (9 October 2012 - 18 November 2012) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/9325/
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/12867/

RRRR “Sayings” Contest (6 December 2012 - 31 December 2012) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/12867/
Entries-Only Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/12877/
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/15094/

RRRR Contest (18 January 2013 - 24 February 2013) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/15285/
Entries-Only Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/15307/
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/17908/

RRRR “April Fool” Contest (with “Mini” Contests) (21 March 2013 - 21 April 2013) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/19109/
Entries-Only Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/19108/ ;
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/21780/

RRRR Summer Contest (23 May 2013 - 4 August 2013) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/21780/
Entries-Only Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/22664/ ;
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/27864/

RRRR “Chain” Render Contest (15 September 2013 - 13 October 2013) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/29000/closed-rrrr-chain-render-contest/
Entries-Only Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/28997/ ;
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/31526/

RRRR “Chain” Render Contest - Round II (1 November 2013 - 1 December 2013) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/31615/
Entries-Only Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/31760/
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/33417/

RRRR “Story” Contest (4 December 2013 - 12 January 2014) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/33479/
Entries-Only Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/33478/ ;
Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/36407/

RRRR - One day in XXXs life Render Contest: 13 February 2014 - 16 Mars 2014) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/37042/
Entries only thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/37041/
Winners thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/39504/

RRRR Classic (19 May 2014 - 22 June 2014) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/41451/
Entries only/Winners; http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/9325/

RRRR Freak Accindents (15 July 2014 - 10 August 2014) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/43832/
Entries only/Winners: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/43830/

RRRR Back to renders ( 25 Aug 2014 - 28 September 2014) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/45619/
Entries only/Winners: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/45617/

RRRR Things to do before you die ( 13 October 2014 - November 9 2014) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/47518/
Entries only/Winners: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/47517/

RRRR Unleashed (3 December 2014 - 11 January 2015) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/49497/
Entries only/Winners: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/49496/

RRRR Not on the screen ( 29 January 2015 - 1 March 2015) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/52007/
Entries only: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/52006/
Voting & winners: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/53400/

RRRR Just Random (25 March 2015 - 3 May 2015) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/54371/
Entries only thread and Winners: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/54370/

RRRR Unlikely Occupations (20 Jun 2015 - 2 August 2015 )   http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/56841/contest-rrrr-unlikely-occupations-with-prizes
Entries only thread:http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/56835/
Winners thread:http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/61494/rrrr-unlikely-occupations-winners-announced

RRRR Stupid is as stupid does (September 1 2015 - October 4 2015) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/61970/rrrr-stupid-is-as-stupid-does-render-contest-closed/
Entries thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/61969/rrrr-stupid-is-as-stupid-does-entries-only-thread
Winners thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/64971/rrrr-stupid-is-as-stupid-does-winners-announced

RRRR Murphy's Law (November 15 2015 - Sunday January 10 2016) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/66026/rrrr-murphy-s-law-render-contest-closed/
Entries Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/66025/rrrr-murphy-s-law-entries-only-thread
Winners thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/70820/rrrr-murphy-winners-announced

RRRR The sequel ( February 11 2016 to Sunday March 20 2016) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/71563/rrrr-the-sequel-render-contest-closed/
Entries Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/71562/rrrr-the-sequel-entries-only-thread
Winners thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/78321/rrrr-sequels-winners-announced

RRRR Story ( April 8 2016 to Sunday May 15 2016) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/78671/closed-rrrr-story-render-contest/p1 ;
Entries Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/78666/rrrr-story-contest-entries-only-thread ;
Winners thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/92406/rrrr-story-winners-announced

RRRR Twisted Lyrics (June 7 2016 to July 31 2016) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/92481/rrrr-twisted-lyrics-contest
Entries Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/92471/rrrr-twisted-lyrics-entries-only-thread
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/108966/rrrr-twisted-lyrics-winners-announced ;

RRRR What does it mean (September 11 2016 to October 30 2016) http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/112771/rrrr-what-does-it-mean-render-contest
Entries Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/112766/rrrr-what-does-it-mean-entries-only-thread
Winners Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/127361/rrrr-what-does-it-mean-winners-announced

RRRR Alternative Holidays Render Contest (November 17 2016 to January 15 2017)  http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/127526/closed-rrrr-alternative-holidays-render-contest
Entries Thread: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/127521/rrrr-alternate-holidays-entries-only-thread
Winners Thread:  http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/147326/rrrr-alternative-holidays-winners-announced

RRRR - It could be true - 5th anniversary contest (February 20 -2017 to Sunday April 2 2017): https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/149891/rrrr-it-could-be-true-5th-anniversary-contest
Entries Thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/149886/rrrr-it-could-be-true-entries-only-thread
Winners Thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/167426/rrrr-it-could-be-true-winners-announced

RRRR A long time ago or Far far away Contest (June 22 2017 to Sunday August 20 2017): https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/178416/closed-rrrr-a-long-time-ago-or-far-far-away-contest ;
Entries:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/178406/rrrr-a-long-time-ago-or-far-far-away-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/197491/rrrr-a-long-time-ago-or-far-far-away-content-winners

 RRRR They're ba..ack ( September 16  2017 to Sunday October 29 2017) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/198056/rrrr-the-re-ba-ack-render-contest
Entries: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/198051/rrrr-they-re-baa-ack-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/214026/rrrr-they-re-ba-ack-winners-announced

RRRR - What can go wrong? (Monday November 27 2017 to Sunday January 14 2018) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/214591/rrrr-what-can-go-wrong-render-contest
Entries: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/214586/rrrr-what-can-go-wrong-entries-only-thread
Winners:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/232941/rrrr-what-can-go-wrong-winners-announced

RRRR Judged by the cover ( Saturday February 17 2018 to Sunday April 1st 2018) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/233496/closed-rrrr-judged-by-the-cover-render-contest
Entries: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/233491/rrrr-judged-by-the-cover-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/249461/rrrr-judged-by-the-cover-winners

RRRR - Error 404 Not Found! (Sunday May 6 2018  to  Sunday July 22 2018) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/251026/rrrr-error-404-not-found-render-contest
Entries: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/251021/rrrr-error-404-not-found-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/277091/rrrr-404-not-found-winners

RRRR RRRR Muddled Maxims ( Sunday September 16, 2018 to  Sunday November 18 ) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/278006/closed-rrrr-muddled-maxims-render-contest/
Entries: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/278006/closed-rrrr-muddled-maxims-render-contest
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/302491/rrrr-muddled-maxims-winners-announced

RRRR Build it and they will come ( Sunday October 20 2019 to   Sunday December 15 2019 ) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/360136/rrrr-built-it-and-they-will-come-render-contest/
Entries: Entries only thread

RRRR - But you promised entries thread (this one was the last and we never got enough votes, thats why no winners were selected) (Wednesday December 25 2019 to  Sunday February 16 2020 ) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/374106/rrrr-but-you-promised-render-contest-closed

RRRRR - Coming Late Excuses (another one where we tried a new voting system, that worked, but then wanted a shitload of money to actually get the vote results (as it was past the 10 day free trial time) (May 3 2021 to Sunday June 13  2021 : https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/497476/rrrrr-coming-late-excuses-voting-thread-closed

RRRR - Back From the dead: (Monday April 3 2023 to Sunday May 28 2023) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/627661/closed-rrrr-back-from-the-dead-render-contest
Entries thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/627656/rrrr-back-from-the-dead-entries-only-thread/
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/642826/winners-rrrr-back-from-the-dead-contest

RRRR "Behind the scenes": (WednesDay September 14 2023 to Sunday October 29 2023) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/650126/rrrr-behind-the-scenes-render-contest-closed
Entries thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/650121/rrrr-behind-the-scenes-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/660276/rrrr-behind-the-scenes-winners-announced#latest

RRRR "That went well" (Thursday November 23 2023, to Sunday January 28 2024 ) https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/660851/closed-rrrr-that-went-well-render-contest/p1
Entries only: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/660846/rrrr-that-went-well-entries-only-thread

RRRR "As the story goes" (Saturday February 3, 2024, to Sunday March 31 2024 ) 
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/672471/rrrr-as-the-story-goes-render-contest-closed/
Entries thread:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/672466/rrrr-as-the-story-goes-entries-only-thread
Winners:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/683131/winners-announced-rrrr-as-the-story-goes-render-contest

RRRR "Picture or it didnt happen" (Friday April 19, 2024, to Sunday June 23, 2024)
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/683536/rrrr-picture-or-it-didn-t-happen-render-contest/
Entries thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/683531/rrrr-picture-or-it-didn-t-happen-entries-only-thread
Winners:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/695536/rrrr-picture-or-it-didn-t-happen-winners-announced

RRRR "Render Contest Summer 2024"
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/696321/closed-rrrr-render-contest-summer-2024/p
Entries thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/696316/rrrr-summer-2024-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/705816/rrrr-summer-contest-2024-winners-anncounced

RRRR "Weird Holiday Traditions"
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/706621/rrrr-weird-holiday-traditions-render-contest-closed/
Entries Thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/706616/rrrr-weird-holiday-traditions-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/719746/winners-rrrr-weird-holiday-traditions-render-contes

RRRR Good Intentions / Mixed up Mythology
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/727991/closed-rrrr-good-intentions-mixed-up-mythology-render-contest/
Entries Only: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/727986/rrrr-good-intentions-mixed-up-mythology-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/736086/rrrr-good-intentions-mixed-up-mythology-winners

RRRR - Unusual Laws / Refused Sports
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/737821/closed-rrrr-unusual-laws-refused-sports-render-contest/
Entries Only: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/737816/rrrr-unusual-laws-refused-sports-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/745691/rrrr-unusual-laws-refused-sports-winners-announced

RRRR -  The Lyrics
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/745966/rrrr-the-lyrics-render-contest-closed/
Entries Only:  https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/745961/rrrr-the-lyrics-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/753416/winners-rrrr-the-lyrics-render-contest

RRRR It was a great idea but...
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/753491/rrrr-it-was-a-great-idea-but-render-contest
Entries Only: Entries only thread
Winners:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/758766/rrrr-it-was-a-great-idea-but-winners-announced
RRRR Remale or Sequel
https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/758931/rrrr-remake-or-sequel-render-contest-closed/
Entries Only:https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/758926/rrrr-remake-or-sequel-entries-only-thread
Winners: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/766341/rrrr-remake-or-sequel-winners-announced
 

It's time for a new RRRR Render Contest!

The theme for this round is Turn the tide - The  challenge of making the best of a bad situation. Something went south, but how was it turned into something better, like the classic when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
RRRR stands for Random Runtime Roulette Renders, and it's a contest that has been running for over twelve years now, on and off. We invite anyone to enter, specially all those new users who have shown up the past years. This is not the usual make a very nice render contest but more like tell a really great story, often fun, with your render!

How does it work?
Make your pull of 4 items, and if your any Lucky Bastards, you pull one extra item per LB.

Who can play?

Anyone can play!

How do you prepare yourself for play?

The rules are very simple, but first you need to have all your items in some kind of order in a text file, dumped from the itemized history into a text file or a spread sheet. Remove things like software, gift certs, and special plugins from the list and items that wil not work with the software you work with.
 For example if you have items for Poser, Bryce or Carrara, and want to use DAZ Studio, remove those other items from your list. If you have loads of older figures, M3, M4, a ton of non Iray stuff and you only want to use Studio with Iray, remove all the junk from you list. 

Then you use a randomizer to randomly pick items from your list (your Runtime/My Library) for your start pull . You can use items from any store. Now build a scene with those 4 items plus any other items you want to add to make a fun scene. For newcomers I heartly recommend looking at the previous contests below to get ideas how you can do this. 

Working randomizer:: https://www.random.org/integers

There are some situations where you allowed to redraw, these are:


- You pulled something that doesn’t work, broken thing, only works in a version / software not used etc etc, or you forgot to remove that item from you list even though you knew it wont work, or figure that out later.
- You pulled a software or add-on to a software or anything you should have filtered out from the list.
- You pulled only huge environment props and will not be able to render a scene without crashing.
- You pulled an item you already have been using in two RRRR renders in this content and that was picked randomly. Three is a curse - rule!

Lucky Bastard Rule!
I say this again: If you have Lucky Bastards, you pull one extra item for each LB you have, simple as that. 
Explaination of Lucky Bastards. 
Lucky Bastards, or LBs, are a form of handicap system which makes the contest a little more difficult for those who have won.

Current Lucky Bastards Standings

How to play?
You pull, you compose and you Render. You post your images and pulls in this thread (Don't miss that, entries without pulls and posts in this thread will be disqualified!!).
Then the entry should also be posted in the Entries only thread.

Bundles
If you pull a bundle, use two or three complete items from it, or more if you like, but you do not need to use all, but only picking a hairpin from Victoria 8 Pro Bundle is “too little”. Clarification: A bundle still counts as only one pulled item.

Poses, Expressions and textures/colors
If you pull a pose pack, an expression pack or a texture/color pack, you only need to use one of them, not all. For example if you pull 500 expressions for Genesis 8 Female, use one, if you pull 128 colors for Frappe Hair, use one.
Accidenty breaking the TOS
If your entry is removed by the forum mods because it accidentally, not deliberate, broke the TOS, you do not have to redo that entry but can move on and make a new pull. 

The rules of madness! 
Now you have successfully and randomly picked your items, make a scene, you can add other items as well but the one you picked should be prominent or cleverly used. Render it, post it and make us all laugh! Remember though that the renders must follow the TOS of the forum. As we have a theme on the contest, the render should in some way touch that theme. 

The contest categories! 
There are two categories Best and Funniest. Every image will compete in both categories.

Contest duration!
It starts now at Friday August 7 - 2026, and will go on until Sunday September 27 2026 at 23:59:59 local DAZ time. 

This months sponsors so far:
Totte (Code 66) is sponsoring with two items from his store
Dartanbeck is sponsoring with items from his store

We want more sponsors!

Do you want to sponsor the RRRR?
Please chip in a gift card sponsorship, sponsors can play, they should play, they are even extra encouraged to play, as sponsors always plays for keeps.

Maximum number of entries? 
For this round it will be a maximum of 12 entries per player.

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Cybersox said:

DasTri said:

Cybersox said:

paulawp (marahzen) said: Take Star Wars: ... "

The first Star Wars was also a heavy plot rip from Akira Kurasawa's The Hidden Fortress with other lifts from Herbert's Dune, Flash Gordon, and the climax of Dambusters stuck on the end, while C3PO is a blantantly obvious male version of the iconic Maria robotrix from Metropolis.   

I would say that "Valerian and Laureline" holds so much iconic similarity to many of Star wars "famours" originals that I always wondered that they were not sued on it.
Just do a search on "valerian star wars similarities" and put on the images...
Perhaps European comic artists are more relaxed about this then American movie lawyers...

The problem with that argument is that the Valerian comic started running in France in 1967, a full ten years before Star Wars, and the storyline that eventually became the movie, Ambssador of Shadows, started running in 1975, so any possible theft would have been going the other way. ;)  And, of course, both were building on a long tradition of space opera stories, with Lucas only coming up with the his idea for Star Wars after h'de tried to buy the rights to remake Flash Gordon in the early 70s only to find that DIno Delaurentis had already bought the remake rights in 1964 (around the same time that Dino had also bought the rights to Barberella and Danger: Diabolik.) Now, if you want to talk serious similarities, Luc Besson really wanted to make a film of Valerian back in the early 90s as he'd loved it as a kid, but he ended up making The FIfth Element first as a less-expensive to produce kind of homage eventually tackling the original when digital technology made it more possible. Ironic that 5th Element turned out to be a much better film, but there you go...    

DasTri  was aware of and saying that by my reading.

Hi folks, 

I've been setting up a number of new film sets with various Riversoft Now-Billboards but now its time to sort the camera movement and angles etc, I'm getting errors when clicking on any of the 3 Now Billboard scripts.     Having wasted almost a day trawling various forums, websites, YouTube etc etc, I finally landed on this forum.    Would anyone happen to know where I can find working scripts for Daz Studio6 version 6.25  (running on MacOS Sequoia, and Windows 11 Pro) ?     

Hoping we can get this resolved before Monday 10th August as we have the studio Execs coming in to catch up on the set builds :-).   Many thanks for any help.

Jon

Here is a dump of the errors in the latest logfile:

Loading script: /Volumes/PROD004_CGI/DAZ 3D/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library/scripts/riversoft art/now-crowd billboards/now-crowd move away.dse
2026-08-06 17:33:38.764 [WARNING] :: Script Error (/Volumes/PROD004_CGI/DAZ 3D/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library/scripts/riversoft art/now-crowd billboards/now-crowd move away.dse): Line 39
2026-08-06 17:33:38.764 [WARNING] :: ReferenceError: Could not load module at: data/RiverSoft Art/2025Common/RSConstants.dsa
2026-08-06 17:33:38.764 [WARNING] :: Error in script execution: /Volumes/PROD004_CGI/DAZ 3D/Applications/Data/DAZ 3D/My DAZ 3D Library/scripts/riversoft art/now-crowd billboards/now-crowd move away.dse
2026-08-06 17:34:30.413 [WARNING] :: /src/sdksource/fileoutput/dzassetoutfile.cpp(11618): No geometries match the vertex count of morph "PHMEyelashesCurl"
2026-08-06 17:34:30.419 [WARNING] :: /src/sdksource/fileoutput/dzassetoutfile.cpp(11618): No geometries match the vertex count of morph "PHMEyelashesCurl"
2026-08-06 17:34:30.426 [WARNING] :: /src/sdksource/fileoutput/dzassetoutfile.cpp(11618): No geometries match the vertex count of morph "PHMEyelashesCurl"
2026-08-06 17:34:30.433 [WARNING] :: /src/sdksource/fileoutput/dzassetoutfile.cpp(11618): No geometries match the vertex count of morph "PHMEyelashesCurl"
2026-08-06 17:34:30.441 [WARNING] :: /src/sdksource/fileoutput/dzassetoutfile.cpp(11618): No geometries match the vertex count of morph "PHMEyelashesCurl"

Hi All,

Has anyone had any luck creating an Iray Shader with an RGB mask?   

Specifucally I'm trying to create a shader that takes an RGB texture map as an input and have that drive 3 sperate materials within the shader.  In the past I've been able to do this with seperate Black and White masks as inputs for each of the materials (so 3 seperate image files) but I'm hoping to consolidate this down to a single map using each channel as its own mask.   

I'm coming unstuck becuase I can't seem to find a Get Component or Split RGB brick in the brickyard.    

As an aside, this may be user error but is there anyway to search for bricks by name rather than scrolling through 

Thanks 

LZY

DasTri said:

Cybersox said:

paulawp (marahzen) said: Take Star Wars: ... "

The first Star Wars was also a heavy plot rip from Akira Kurasawa's The Hidden Fortress with other lifts from Herbert's Dune, Flash Gordon, and the climax of Dambusters stuck on the end, while C3PO is a blantantly obvious male version of the iconic Maria robotrix from Metropolis.   

I would say that "Valerian and Laureline" holds so much iconic similarity to many of Star wars "famours" originals that I always wondered that they were not sued on it.
Just do a search on "valerian star wars similarities" and put on the images...
Perhaps European comic artists are more relaxed about this then American movie lawyers...

The problem with that argument is that the Valerian comic started running in France in 1967, a full ten years before Star Wars, and the storyline that eventually became the movie, Ambssador of Shadows, started running in 1975, so any possible theft would have been going the other way. ;)  And, of course, both were building on a long tradition of space opera stories, with Lucas only coming up with the his idea for Star Wars after h'de tried to buy the rights to remake Flash Gordon in the early 70s only to find that DIno Delaurentis had already bought the remake rights in 1964 (around the same time that Dino had also bought the rights to Barberella and Danger: Diabolik.) Now, if you want to talk serious similarities, Luc Besson really wanted to make a film of Valerian back in the early 90s as he'd loved it as a kid, but he ended up making The FIfth Element first as a less-expensive to produce kind of homage eventually tackling the original when digital technology made it more possible. Ironic that 5th Element turned out to be a much better film, but there you go...    

Hi Sky 

I'm only 2 years behind you and things creep up rather quickly. 

Yep, Hivewire closed their forums and website end of July, I was posting up till the end as were a couple of old faithfulls. There is a thread over in Rendo if you can find it, it has to be one of if not the worst forum to navigate. 

It sure was fun back in the day... the missus said to me the other night whilst watching MasterChef Australia on TV that we are saying 'back in the day' a lot more these days lol 

Keep safe and pop in here anytime you want for a chat or whatever 

Hi, I posted this in the tech support forum by mistake, I hope you can help me.

I use 'Ultimate Zero' by Riversoft a lot and it has stopped working in DAZ 4.24. I recently installed an update for the product and it now works in DAZ 6 but no longer works in DAZ 4.24. Log file details are shown below.

I share the same database for both DAZ 4.24 and DAZ 6 because I have a 5090 video card and frankly the viewport performance in DAZ 6 is simply not good enough. I do my work in 4.24 and then render in 6 and I'm sure I'm not the only one doing this. Since 'Ultimate Zero' no longer works in 4.24 I am really frustrated. How can I revert to the old version of 'Ultimate Zero' from before the update?

Thanks for your help, John

Here is what happens in 4.24.

In some cases when I run a script a message pops up saying "... file could not be loaded." Here is an example of what the log says in this case:

2026-08-05 10:06:15.024 [INFO] :: Loading script: D:/DAZ Content/My DAZ 3D Library/Scripts/RiverSoft Art/Ultimate Zero/Ultimate Zero Selected.dse
2026-08-05 10:06:15.024 [WARNING] :: Failed to load script: D:/DAZ Content/My DAZ 3D Library/Scripts/RiverSoft Art/Ultimate Zero/Ultimate Zero Selected.dse

For some of the scripts no message appears but nothing happens. Here is an example of what the log says in this case:
2026-08-05 10:02:18.494 [INFO] :: Loading script: D:/DAZ Content/My DAZ 3D Library/Scripts/RiverSoft Art/Ultimate Zero/Ultimate Zero Expression.dse
2026-08-05 10:02:18.496 [DEBUG] :: FOUND: D:/DAZ Content/My DAZ 3D Library/data/RiverSoft Art/2025Common/RSConstants.dsa
2026-08-05 10:02:18.496 [DEBUG] :: D:/DAZ Content/My DAZ 3D Library/data/RiverSoft Art/2025Common/RSConstants.dsa
2026-08-05 10:02:18.496 [DEBUG] :: Execute Script: D:/DAZ Content/My DAZ 3D Library/Scripts/RiverSoft Art/Ultimate Zero/Ultimate Zero Selected.dse <Settings> <Setting Type="String" Key="Title">Ultimate Zero Expression</Setting> <Setting Type="Bool" Key="Recursive">yes</Setting> <Setting Type="String" Key="Body Part">Expression</Setting></Settings>
2026-08-05 10:03:21.633 [INFO] :: Script executed successfully: D:/DAZ Content/My DAZ 3D Library/Scripts/RiverSoft Art/Ultimate Zero/Ultimate Zero Expression.dse

Just send him a message and ask. Lol

I need to knooooowwwwwww......argghhhh

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And don't hate me. I got the Wendys confused. It's Wendy Carlos the synthesizer pioneer.

Even a google search shows her with her cat. lol

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Correction: EVERY picture shows her with her cat.

Mystery solved.