background said:

we are like the scorpion in the fable of the scorpion and the frog.

Problem is we're also the frog.

As I said above, AI isn't the actual issue. It's the lack of experience with doing the work. To get good results takes work. If someone is using AI to entertain their circle of friends, one of them is going to say "Tim, we saw the joke the first few times. We don't need 100 images." Trouble is too many people don't even do that much editing.

Jan_Scrapper said:

Oh, the bad things being done with AI is to no end AND will never be.  Using real people for obscene images and data harvesting is just lower than low!!!  :(

I am so afraid that one of my grandchildren is going to somehow be dupped into thinking their mom or dad said it's ok to go home with someone else.  And that someone else knows how to make a realistic AI voice of mom or dad.  People are being tricked every day with AI.  I have talked with my son and DIL about this.  They tell me they are taking precautions.  I hope so!!  I don't know what to tell a child who might get a phone call thinking the caller is his mom or dad.

My husband who doesn't know a lot about computers and such, asked me how do I know whether something is AI. 

One way  is something is too perfect.  However, sometimes I have to do a double take.

My husband and I will sit in the living room and discuss a movie and the actors in it.  He will ask how old an actor is or who did he/she marry.

Of course, I have good old "Alexa" to answer me with just a little call out to her :)

Then, I have it in the car, as well.

I was in a restaurant the other day and had to actually look up something on my phone to to find out about it.  I could have called out "Siri" however everyone would have looked at me LOL

AI in all of its forms, good and bad, is here to stay and will only get worse...or better depending on who is asking.

I think it's sad that the whole world loses some 'innocence' every day because of the actions of a very small number of evil people. These days everything seems to be 'weaponised', including AI. For every person doing research to improve things, there seems to be someone else waiting to turn it into something to make things worse, but I don't want to stray into politics.  AI could be a wonderful thing, and do a lot for humanity ( and I'm sure it does in some areas ) the problem is humanity, we are like the scorpion in the fable of the scorpion and the frog.

Raw Deals - Infernal Tails

https://www.daz3d.com/raw-deals--infernal-tails-for-genesis-9

Raw Deals Infernal Tails brings a collection of sinister, creature-inspired tails to your Genesis characters with a fully rigged, highly poseable tail figure designed for flexibility and dramatic expression. Whether you're creating demons, monsters, alien creatures, or nightmarish fantasy beings, Infernal Tails provides a versatile foundation for building powerful and intimidating designs.

The tail is fully rigged with 36 individual bones, allowing for ultra-smooth bends, coils, and dynamic posing. Seven high-density shaping morphs transform the base tail into a range of monstrous styles, from wicked barbed shapes to heavy, brutal creature tails, giving you a wide variety of looks from a single figure.

To complement these shapes, the set includes 14 detailed material presets, each with two unique texture variations. These materials provide a range of creature-like surfaces and colors designed to enhance the menacing and otherworldly nature of the tails.

Perfect for dark fantasy, horror, sci-fi creatures, or villainous characters, Raw Deals Infernal Tails is built to be lightweight, flexible, and easy to integrate into your character creations and kitbashing projects.

What's Included and Features

• Raw Deals - Infernal Tails for Genesis 9
  • One Infernal Tail Attachment
  • Seven Property Presets to change Shape and texture Styles.
  • Choose from: Devil, Dragon, Rat, Rock, Scorpion, Skeletal, and Tentacle
• Material Options:
  • Fourteen Material Presets (2 for each tail style)

WendyLuvsCatz said:

they pried open my tight purse with the outlet discounts 

I mostly stocked up on the dinosaurs I didn't have and Constellation warriors 

already had a few, thinking can crew a fantasy spacecraft with them maybe

or at least use them as guards in fantasy castles

I got the purple guys. I like their outfits and their scorpion mech. Mostly I got bundles!

Hahaa both were intentional. Its built with the same accoutrements an iron maiden has (spikes and chains) and i couldnt help but make the band pun in my descrip lol 

i call it my medieval scorpion chick lol i originally wanted to make nods to spawn, ghost rider, kratos and scorpion with the warheads, but i am skeered to get too close to ip.

I found out the hard way, after buying 260 credits, that the AI CANNOT make anything other than normal characters.  On the pictures for the product of course it shows that elf.  But in the documentation it says:
 Yellow plugin documentation.  In the Writing Prompts - & Best Practices section:

"Do not describe figures that have non-human anatomical features (e.g., mermaids, fairies, centaurs, cyclopes, mutilation, etc.)"

 

So essentially, it's only for making normal characters, like a human, which I find odd, since 99% of the character models are that already.  Anyway, I did not want others to buy it thinking their imaginations could run wild.  Just plain old vanilla type things.  For example for the monster girls I need for my erotic games it did not know what a wasp is, or a roach, ant, fly, scorpion, lizard, snake, cobra, manta ray, squid, octopus, crab, lobster... or any other monster women. Hope I help at least one person save an hour of their life.

To Daz my suggestion is make an AI called Red or something and you can upload pictures so it will just make 3D models of whatever art you upload.  But right now, with prompts, this thing does not have a clue what a wasp is, or a roach, ant, fly, scorpion, lizard, snake, cobra, manta ray, squid, octopus, crab, lobster... or any other monster women I need for my erotic horror games. lol

That works too. :) actually thinking of it, it fits a dark 'earth/stone' theme having a scorpion warlady look. 

TesseractSpace said:

Looking forward to it. Hoping for a plant/earth theme, but I know the outfit will be cool in whatever theme and I can shuffle a bit as needed to fit my group. :)

yeah, unfortunately not earthy. It isn't magicky either. It's more warmongery... something akin to a female scorpion lol but more medieval 

Good day all

I'm having trouble using the FilaToon Outline on the Scorpion figure in the Module Mech Squid product.  The Squid and Martian Walker both work fine, but the Scorpion has issues with it's claws and stinger.  After applying the FilaToon General shader to these components, there appears to be more geometry than I'd expect - and it takes two undo steps to restore as the attached screenshots show.

Not sure what might be done to work around the issue, besides avoid using the Scorpion figure.  I don't really need it, just exploring some ideas for now.

well intresting to have  ful or half or mixed beasts or animlal  moorghing , man or woman or young child terning from human to animal or beast of folklore or real animals  or anthorphic  or in form of  half bear and half dragon  or sharks tail with  lion claw with head of crow,  so have half  animal like bottom of crow ahd top half human,or  one par of an arm be like tiger  arm and rest human , so hole catalog to chooose ,in wat ever form you want or even dragon claw with tiger on same arm or hand or scorpion tail with that  of crockdile tail or even half of face like dragon and bear ever moghing to and form bear or dragon , so its like what will be ,a bear , dragon ............so could do as hole pagackage or  me  go throgh  all animals not done yet for gen 9  model me even so works with gen 8 and 8.1

NorthOf45 said:

Fae3D said:

Richard Haseltine said:

Fae3D said:

Has anyone mentioned yet that all the MightyMite products (at least all that I looked at) have no license information at all?  There's no way to add any licenses, but there's also no warning about them being editorial only.

All products have the standard daz License unless they are listed a having the Editorial License. They may also have Interactive and 3D Printing licenses as additional options.

Ok thanks, I was just confused because I thought for sure that some of those would be editorial only.

Browsing through them, I did see a couple with Editorial Licences:

98249 Kitbashers 045 MMG3M
98252 Bodysuit 085 MMKBG3M

 

That makes it even stranger. For example, Kitbashers 045 MMG3M has editorial licensing, but Kitbashers 034 MMG8M - a version with more recognizable details - has standard licensing.
Glancing through the first two pages, I see items that hew very close to 60s Batman, Jean Grey (X-Men), Imperial Guard (Star Wars), Red Robin, Nightwing, Daredevil, Shazam, Green Lantern, Shredder (TMNT), Deathstroke, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Wonder Woman, Scorpion (Spider-Man) - to name a few of the more recognizable examples. (There are more, but a complete list isn't necessary here.)
That's neither accusation nor speculation - just observation of visual similarities. I don't know their criteria for deciding license type, but Daz might need to hire someone knowledgeable in the history of comics if these items aren't being recognized as needing to be evaluated for potential editorial restrictions in the first place.

Thanks for all the help, seems I will have to use the old one in the waiting than either  Ken Gilliand or Groovy Patrol (I have their spider, it's awesome) shows interest in making a scorpion. :) 
The result on the pic doesn't look bad at all, thanks for showing ! 

I think this is the DAZ Scorpion it was rendered a while ago in DAZ Studio. 

Click on image for full size.

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I would *love* for Groovy Patrol to create a giant scorpion in the style of Giant Monster Spider. The spider was an early "priority buy" for me after discovering Daz. It's still one of the coolest products in the store. :)

The old scorpion should work in DS, though the materials may need adjusting.

Hello, is there, somewhere out there, a normal scorpion (the animal, not some robot scorpion :) ) that is recent enough ? I would need normal scorpions and upscaled giant scorpions, but the only one I find seems to be very ancient, and for Poser (https://www.daz3d.com/scorpion ) 

 

hi one and all well it might sound , well lets get to things then , i just got my self first vr head set quest 3 good price 512 model  any way i whant new Environments 

so at moment i found matrix code one its cool but but i think could be better in some parts but i am trying to work out  how to make from scratch or inport  matrix code on to and into daz  

so has any one made matrix code with in daz yet ? if so how  ,if not     can some one   that would be better  than me  make   modulaer matrix   kit enviroments  so we could  make any  and all ideas be that of matrix also  main point is animation  of matric  code be that up and down and or back and forward  and even glitching  ........

 another one i downloaded into quest 3 was that of  stary night  sky ,nice its  just  flat 360  but  be nice if we can build 3d concept of   deatpth  so like moving painting 360 

so  with   vr   coming into fold  in next coming year   vr enviroments will be new thing i think as theres only handfull out there  and with daz   3d  could be  new way to get more into  vr systems  even  make   online ai  daz 3d enviroment  using all that das  can do  make work into meta enviroments  builder kit 

 

 i was thinkin as  3d enviromets go  ,.........

. parts from 12 monkeys tv show   would be so cool i think 

teenage mutant ninja turtles concept  

me  even  3d  mortal combat   ones like sub zero or  scorpion  lair  , be  own master  watching   the ninjas train  or eaven  be watching  other  fighting   for the prize 

on  sidequest  that were i downloaded  matrix  there is  doctor who but some how  dosent work  but ,   new doctor who concepts   ,........i was thinking liks  of 1 main tardis room but many slpit  door ways looking into  few random or picked out  other doctor whos rooms me even  each doctors for each room or somthing like the one were all tardis  hid the planet so all face of doctors 

thats  i have in my head rightnow 

 

 

 

Great, fun, creative work from the gang!  Some of my new favorites:

Gopherus #08 The Mad Woman of ChaIllot
The kings musketeers and quite a diverse group.  Yes I'd run from a pop quiz on astrophysics!

tag:luci45#8  The Baron's New Suit
Aha!  Never trust a tailor.  Fun tack on a classic tale.

Gopherus #07 The Last Butterfly War
Wow - a lot going on.  Yes butterfly liberation was long in the making.  Really like the salute - nice touch.

katywhite:#1  Crashing the Scorpion Folk's Party
I really like the unique perspective of putting a character back to us center stage - it's well done here while still giving us full view of the mahem of the scene.  Well done!

luci45 #7 The Anthropology Student
Hands down, hysterical!  What a really great concept for a sitcom!  The expressions are perfect and the smoking manbaby is so outrageously wrong it's right.   You've done Mrs. Chow as a baby before and I still find it wonderfully disturbing - it's becoming a motif  for you.  Top of my list for funniest so far.  Can't say enough about how much of a tickle this gave me to start my day! 

Tynkere #02 A Cold in Paris: Them NyQuil Blues
Great idea for a Country Western Song, for sure.  There's a lot going on in the scene and you handled all the elements well while still paying really close attention to detail.  I can just hear the twang.

Thanks for kind comments.  Art imitates life?  Had a bit of a flu bug over the holidays so maybe it came to mind.   

Entries in no particular order & hopefully not accidently leaving anyone out.

Damien's Fiance

Foul language and a nasty attitude can come in handy.   Helps that he probably gets 'bad' performance reviews at work too.  I like the little creature btw.  Demons probably wouldn't have a cute little Spaniel.  ; )

Anthropology Student

Granny (the child wearing the round glasses) is probably hiding gin and a White Owl cigar under the table.   Poor Lin Mei.  Got more than she bargained for!

Crashing the Scorpion Folk's Party

Didn't know Scorpion folk order takeout just like everyone else.  Like where one of them seems as interested in the sandwich on the floor than bowling over the angel.  Fun!  I wouldn't want to be the delivery driver from the local deli tho.

Last Butterfly War

That's one very disciplined soldier.  Stand at attention, salute, and have to ignore the bird on your hat.   You know it's going to leave a 'deposit' on your dress uniform, but 'disipline before dry-cleaning!'   Poor butterflies though.  The birds want to eat them so hopefully the snake can have some nice feathery treats too.   

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All of them very imaginative. Hopefully will hve time for a third one.   Ends 27th?

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Anyway, here are results. 

Tynkere Pull 3

671 - Matilda Hair for G8F

236 - Daciana for G8F

1160 - Z Paradize Poses for Monique 8 & G8F

575 - Just Josh for G3M