Welcome to another personal survey and pick of the fresh content that’s been newly released in March 2019, for use with DAZ Studio and Poser.
Science fiction:
Nibiru Auditorium for DAZ Studio.
Meteor and Ship Crash Site. With the choice of either the spaceship or the glowing meteor.
Spaceship Wreckage, for a larger scale.
Sci-Fi Atmosphere Processing Deck. With 28 camera presets and camera-matched lights.
Assimilating Brain Unity, an unusual robot/cyborg production factory.
SOF-1A for Genesis 3 and 8 Female.
Steampunk:
Junkhead is a cute rigged robot, given away as a low-poly freebie.
At SketchFab, a new steampunk rifle, albeit at $29.
Wasteland Warriors – The Fighter by Cybertenko. A 1940 style fighter plane, converted. For Poser with M4 poses. Also has a Moebius vibe, re: The Airtight Garage.
Historical:
1920s and 30s style Flapper Cloche Hat.
1920s and 30s style Flapper Showgirl Peacock-Feather Headdress for G8F.
Curtain Call for G8F. Possibly also useful for storybook, re: a “doll’s house come to life”, and similar.
Suitcase Collection Vol I. Travel-worn vintage suitcases for DAZ Studio.
The Streets Of Asia 4 by Stonemason. As you can see clearly here, a choice of lots of possible camera angles and views, which is one of the great things about Stonemason’s 3D set design…
… and he’s probably after the Giant Cicadas or the Rare Orchids.
Mid 1960s-style freebie Accessories for LaFemme in Poser 11. Also Matching boots and heels.
Late 1960s Reel to Reel and Chair scene, and for added period authenticity some new Smoking Props.
A James Bond / Mission Impossible style Vault Room with lazers.
Late 1940s-style Gas Station Island, free in Vue and in .3DS format. The new 1960s style ZWorld Winter Gas Station could probably be adapted to fill out around these vintage pumps.
There’s also a new At the Car Wash expansion for a Gas Station setting.
M1919 Browning Machinegun for Poser.
Gatling Gun, with ammo carriage.
Old-style British Police Constable for M4 for Poser, aka a ‘copper’ or a ‘bobby’, from the days when they were still to be seen on the streets and without riot gear / paramilitary machine-guns. The puffy shoulders are a bit ‘meh‘, but a few flicks of the Liquify tool in Photoshop would cure that on still renders. The helmet could also be used as an Imperial pith-helmet with spike.
dForce Roman Cavalry for Genesis 8 Male and Daz Horse 2. Now there’s something you don’t see every day. Deacon215 has a variety of other authentic Roman items.
If you find you need some Roman deities to nebulously appear to your cavalrymen in the woods, look at the new Chronicles of the Gods Outfit for Genesis 8 Male and Universal Horns for Genesis 8 Male and Genesis 8 Female.
Fantasy and early medieval:
Moyra’s Classics – The Exotics, including a magical mage texture set for the earlier Desert Mage for Genesis 3 Male from a few years ago.
dForce Desert Robe Outfit for Genesis 8 Female. The plainer texture set also makes it suitable for Biblical and other scenes from antiquity.
dForce Inquisitor Robe for Genesis 8 Male.
dForce Fantasy Banner is a new freebie for DAZ Studio, by Greendragon And Smida at DeviantArt. Includes wind-tattered versions.
Vampiric Dark Mist Props and Poses for Genesis 3 and 8 Female. Seen here in solid, but the textures apply the mist effect.
Medieval Small Village Manor for Poser. Highly detailed and currently at a very reasonable $9. Also a matching Small House to serve as a side-building or (add windows up-top) a guard house at the moat.
Hr-216 Hair for V4 and Poser, for the Saxon shield-maiden look.
Aldwyn for Michael 4 for Poser. A MortemVetus figure which I seem to remember vanished with the sad demise of RuntimeDNA, and has now become available again at Renderosity.
Characters:
Mrs Chow 8 for G8F.
Ogrec for Genesis 8 Male, a characterful ogre with a dash of Hellboy.
Aurora La Femme for the free La Femme in Poser 11, with the same HD level of textures, plus an additional morph set for La Femme.
Toon:
Tess for Genesis 8 Female. A fine stylised semi-toon look for G8F, with the toon look accentuated here by the heavy eye-liner.
Grobot. Amazingly flexible and adaptable, and now free. Poser 11 not on the list, but she works well for me in Poser 11. There’s also a Poser 11 fix version if you find you need one.
Lolo Bot for DAZ Studio, a freebie.
Carnivorous Plant HD with iRay materials. And a vintage Glass House (greenhouse) to house it in.
Also of note in ‘toon’ is that Mr. Sparky’s Poser freebies are now available at Attic’s Free Zone.
Storybook:
Norfolk Windmill from DryJack, for Poser and DAZ Studio. And for the hill-crest on which the windmill stands, iREAL Animated Hybrid Tree for DAZ Studio. Complete with Animate 2 AniBlocks ‘blowing wind’ animations.
Poseable Swing for Poser, with new and aged materials. Free.
Granny’s pin cushion with pins, a freebie for DAZ Studio. Useful as a backdrop for mice characters and similar.
BBarbs’s ongoing set of free Small Child Poses, realistic and believable poses for G8, is growing larger by the day.
Creatures:
Crab. A realistic big crab for DAZ Studio. Presumably someone will now make some beautiful mottled textures for it.
Tyrannosaurus Rex 3. Fits with the latest scientific understanding, and also has optional 8k textures.
Hell Creek Modules. Highly detailed dinosaur terrain of 66 million years ago, complete with egg nests. Sections could also be made to serve as a backdrop for a desert oasis tent, by removing the redwood-type trees, and putting a water-well on the nest mound.
Landscapes:
The ArtStation marketplace is starting to get a bit interesting, for landscapes.
Sweet Spring for Vue at $12.
Lagoon for Vue at $12. Would make for a great setting for an early Babylonian lagoon city, such as Eridu.
FLUIDOS Presets: Waves for the FLUIDOS water simulation plugin for DAZ Studio.
The waves might be used with the new cute little Cave and waterfront for DAZ Studio. I’d have liked to have seen some close-ups in the previews, though, to see how well the textures hold up.
Weathered Civilization for Poser. An unusual terrain prop, with HD textures.
Moon Base tutorial, from 3D to 2D in Photoshop, at $6. The 3D software is left unspecified.
Tutorials:
Tinkering with Textures in DAZ Studio. Are you a DAZ Studio beginner, wondering what all those sliders and tweakables do for the materials? Break away from the presets, and discover step-by-step ways to make your scene’s materials unique.
New dForce Discoveries. I’m amazed at some of the things being done with the new dForce in DAZ Studio, but it seems much more can be done.
Scripts:
Universal Pose Splitter for DAZ Studio. Works with all Genesis types, and Victoria 4, Michael 4, The Kids 4. Select one part of a pose, split it out and save it.
Poser Python script to pick colour & assign to ToonID. Get a coloured mask for each prop and character in your scene. If working with the current fully-patched version of Poser 11, you may need a slight workaround to get a ToonID render out to Photoshop.
Poser Process Command dictionary for Python in Poser. Free.
And finally… a simple but multi-use dForce G8F Tie as a freebie.
That’s it, more picks next month.