Poser has had its free monthly update for both the PC and Mac versions. Poser 13.1.518 adds…
* “Import and Export for Render Presets” (via Manage Preset for both Firefly and SuperFly rendering).
* “Disable Drag Docking For All Palettes” (as an optional toggle, via Top Menu | Window | Disable Drag Docking).
The earlier update added a number of PostFX fixes, and also rather usefully “Eliminated color shift at end of FireFly render”.
3D-GPT. If E-on’s Vue was a ‘text -to- 3D landscape model’ AI…
A much better-than-usual DAZ Freebies page, this month, as we head today Black Friday.
Wild Hunt: Wildenlander for Michael 3 is a fine go-to fantasy outfit if you’re still using M3.
Five chairs + quality Genesis 2 poses for them. Also FBX versions.
A fairly good set of sci-fi weapons for V4/M4, which are not too ‘videogame’ in looks. There’s also a .ZIP file with Blender versions.
DAZ Dimension Lights 2. HDRI lights with presets. Seems to be geared for larger scenes? (Dragons are shown).
IDL2 Burlesque for Poser. Saved ‘preset’ .PZ3 Poser scenes, with lights set up for you. Possible useful for Noir lighting as well.
Faces of Teens presets for the original Genesis (Genesis 1). With Poser CF files. Any Genesis 1 expression sets are worth having, and these look rather good.
Terra-Tropolis are future-city heightmaps for Bryce. 2D, which can be extruded into 3D. At a guess, they might also work in Vue or PD Howler?
Now on, Renderosity’s community 2023 Halloween Contest. Has an open theme, other than “Halloween”. Prizes include Poser 13 and store gift certificates. Deadline: 7th November 2023.
Have you ever thought, “I wish Windows and Windows apps had the equivalant of a browser’s UserScripts and CSS Styles”. Now they do, in the form of the freeware Windhawk for Windows. Version 1.0 released at Christmas 2022, and it’s now in 1.31 (April 2023).
Dark mode for Notepad? It’s here. Replace any text with any other text, in any Windows program UI? That to. Force dark mode in the new Microsoft Paint? Yup. There are many more mods, including ones that add much-missed Windows 7 functionality to later lesser versions of Windows.
Yes, it injects code into a running Windows process (not into critical system processes). Your anti-virus and PC may freak out at that, especially in Windows 10/11. But source code is available for all mods, and there’s a central repository which checks the code before adding the mod.
Possibly especially useful if you have a fine bit of creative software which lacks the dark mode that artists like. Dark mode for Poser, anyone?
Google’s .webP security debacle: how to fix it, or just block .webP as much as possible. Includes links for the fixed libwebp.dll for various software, and the fixed WebP.dll required by the popular IrfanView image viewer.
Coming in the new year, the glasses-free 3D screen called the Lenovo Thinkvision P27h-30. February 2024 is pencilled in. The monitor’s proprietary eye-tracking cameras nudge the lenticular lenses in the monitor, to seamlessly maintain a 3D view for one user.
I wonder what sort of depth you’ll get with that? Will it be like a ‘3D software viewport, seen in deep real-time 3D’? Or shallow, more like those lenticular 3D panels you see on the side of children’s lunchboxes?
The first model to launch, it seems, will be the 27″ one. At 1920 × 2160px. You’ll sit back at the sticker price ($3,000), and also when you see the actual monitor. Apparently the effect only works for a user with eyes at 24″ to 39″ from the screen. I’m used to having my eyes about 17″ from the monitor.
