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$10 and tooned

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I had a nice sub-$10 haul of three Halloween sale items for Poser today, picked from my Wishlist on Renderosity.

After install The Worm is found in runtime Characters under Coflek Gnorg / Worm, and it has a Nest prop in Props. No poses, but it’s easily posed. Dark and grungy materials, unsuited to tooning, but a simple Gamma shift of “2” (seen left), using the built-in Python gamma script, goes a long way towards making it suitable for tooning (seen right)…

1971s’s Halloween Ghost Lantern is a character rather than a prop, though not poseable. Found in the runtime under Characters / Halloween Ghost Lantern. Again, too dark and grungy for tooning, and it turns out that the shroud material is transmapped thus making it unsuitable for lineart. Oh well. Although it can start to look nicely graphic in b&w, kind of like an Aubrey Beardsley illustration…

Zeekenah is found under Character / Creatures / Zeekenah. With Zeekenah’s five poses found under Poses / Creatures / Zeekenah. Fully poseable. The material is not too dark and grungy, and with the right light one can get pure lineart (suitable for layering in Photoshop),

Although a bit of realtime Comic Book lineart and a Halloween light can also look good, as with this realtime Preview render.

I might have used one of them in the Renderosity Halloween contest, but sadly I see the deadline is today. Oh well.

New for Poser and DAZ – August / September 2025

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Welcome to another round-up of the new items for Bondware’s Poser and/or for DAZ Studio. This time I survey releases in the quiet month of August, together with the busier month of September. At the foot of this post there are also link to notable software updates, and some relevant AI developments that should not be overlooked.

As usual these are ‘just my picks’, and I also try to warn if something is (or may be) fanart and thus not for commercial-use.

I welcome your support via Patreon.

Science-fiction:

* A free Modular Sci-Fi MegaKit, 190 low-poly modular environment pieces, generic future-industrial and “designed to fit perfectly in a grid”.

* XI Salt Lake, potentially suitable for enhancing an alien landscape.

* The Cog Regime Bundle, being the robot and its repair-shop.

* Phogron for Poser. Now with Superfly textures. I’m surprised that DAZ have let a “pure Poser” figure on their store, and wonder if it heralds a change in policy? I see a range of other Poser-only sci-fi alien Vanishing Point figures are also newly on the DAZ store.

* Simple, but effective and believable. H1 Hauler is a deep-space cargo hauler for DAZ.

* The cargo-ship is probably manned by the Synthoids for Genesis 9.

* A free simple SciFi Tablet.

Steampunk:

* Steampunk Display Pedestals for DAZ.

Fantasy:

* Oso Hippochera for DAZ Horse 3. A feathered horse. Also includes optional bird-beak.

* Ruined Mage Towers 2 and matching Medieval Bell Towers 1 / Medieval Bell Towers 2.

Storybook:

* A free simple Rocking Horse.

* A free Sailor3 Winter Set for G8F.

* 1stB Backyards Pool, of the collapsable type.

* FG Camping Time for DAZ. Everything you might need for a DAZ camping trip, apart from sleeping-bags.

* A free simple Piggy Bank.

Toon:

* Rocksteady figure for Poser. Fan-art, so no commercial use.

* Free styles for G9 Toon Brows. Requires the “Toon Brows Paint” eyebrow prop found in the Genesis 9 Starter Essentials pack.

* Hanging Out Retro Space Lounge, in the early-1960s Jetsons style.

Halloween:

* Figaro, a theatrical horse head for Poser and DAZ.

* Fangs for LaFemme2 in Poser.

* Freak Show for DAZ. The waggon is suitable for adding to your Lenore and The Raven matching props collection.

* Monster Skulls and Back to Skull packs.

* 2025 Fantasy Attic’s Annual Halloween Gifts for Poser and DAZ. Fabulous freebies throughout October, one per day in an ‘advent calendar’ layout.

Figures, accessories, and everyday scenes:

* SY Free Morphs Merchant Resource G9 giving sliders for various body-builds.

* FM Cave Crawling Poses for Genesis 9 and 8 Female. Plus matching FM Claustrophobia Caves.

Animals:

* Songbird ReMix Characters v4, popular North American ‘character’ birds.

* A free standalone low-poly AMV_Fawn for DAZ. With 4k textures.

* Megatherium by AM, a giant hairy prehistoric Ice Age sloth.

* Whale Shark by AM.

Landscapes:

* Overgrown Outpost total makeover for Stonemason’s Ministry And Return To Enchanted Forest.

* A simple Sandbank for Vue. Aka an ‘eyot’ when a few bushes start growing on one. From the same maker, there’s also a worn concrete River Enclosure for Vue.

* An old Weathered Retaining Wall for Vue and Bryce, and there’s also an .OBJ file. Phototextures, but presumably these could be replaced with a matching Vue ecosystem.

* Derelict Dune Outpost, a total makeover for Stonemason’s Urban Future 3… “Gone are the neon-filled streets at night and futuristic glamor. Instead, you’re facing an abandoned outpost in a desert setting with a cinematic feel.”

Historical:

* Viking Churches 1, Christian-era ‘stave’ churches built purely of wood.

* Old Bakery Interior for DAZ.

* Obliterated. 22 urban warfare scene props for DAZ.

* A classic usherette Cinema Tray for DAZ with G8 pose.

Tutorials:

* Efficient Crowd Animation in DAZ Studio: A LowPoly Workflow.

* Comparing conforming vs. dynamic vs. dForce clothing.

* Six things that ruin your Poser scenes… and how to solve them.

* How to create a background speed blur in Poser.

* Now that iClone has embraced AI, they have a new video tutorial on how to AI Render Custom Workflow with Flux and their 3D figures. Free on YouTube. Flux is not to be confused with Flux Kontext.

Scripts and Plugins:

* Structure’s Easy_DoF for Poser, now working in Poser 13. Easily setup camera focus and depth-of-field blurring.

* Structure’s Light Manager for Poser, free and fixed for Poser 12 and 13.

* AVFix for Poser 11 is now at the Internet Archive, along with a small tutorial on how to get it to load at startup along with Poser. It enables other older Python scripts to run in Poser 11. Not needed for Poser 12 and 13, due to the move to Python 3 for scripts.

* Free, Discomfort (alpha): Control ComfyUI with Python. “With Discomfort, you can write simple scripts to automate complex image generation tasks, turning your workflows into reusable, programmable components”. Another possible tool for integrating with Poser’s Python, to make a one-button Poser-AI render system.

* BJ Selection History Plugin for DAZ.

* 3D Universe’s Idle Designer for Genesis 9… “generates fully randomized, organic idle animations in seconds”. An “Idle” animation means subtle motions when at rest, such as a blinking and breathing.

Software:

* A video review of Go Physical which converts older Poser Firefly materials into SuperFly ready PBR materials.

* 3D clothes designer Marvelous Designer has a new Linux edition, which also incudes a “Python API” for studio work. Sadly it’s only available at their Enterprise-tier subscription level.

* Newly released is PD Howler 2026, with AI enhancements.

* n8n is an free open-source Zapier alternative which can be self-hosted. Zapier is commonly used to create custom workflows that automate complex repetitive tasks, especially across different online services. Likely to be especially useful for small production studios.

AI software:

Note that some links here are unavailable in the UK, due to what is effectively government censorship of CivitAI.

* Topaz has seen ‘the writing on the wall’ re: the threat to it from local AI, and is going subscription-only before Topaz becomes irrelevant. Topaz Gigapixel, Video AI and Photo AI are no longer available standalone and offline, and all of their software is now subscription-only.

* The free AI image auto-editor Flux Kontext now has controlnets of a sort, via a free LoRA and workflow. Also works with an Openpose render as the control image, which can be had from either DAZ or from Poser (with hands) via Ken’s plugin.

See also the new free Kontext LoRA RefControl which… “fuses a reference image with a lineart map, preserving the identity and style from the reference while following the lines and contours from the lineart control image”.

* The new free Kontext LoRA Change Camera Angle v2 moves the camera around the subject while auto-filling background. Working from a 2D image, which is auto-projected into 3D and rotated, then flattened back to 2D.

* Also for Flux Kontext, Game2Reality is a free LoRA plugin that may be of special interest to even the most AI-phobic Poser and DAZ users. It’s a LoRA that helps to give a more faithful result when using Kontext to make a 3D figure render into a ‘reality render’.

Also appears to fix the “must… stare… at… the… camera” problem.

* A simple Photoshop connector node for ComfyUI.

* Selector and switch ComfyUI nodes to make the ComfyUI UI interactive. See also the ComfyUI custom node to pause a workflow.

* Comfy’s more Photoshop-like rival InvokeAI is now at version 6.8. Now supports Segment Anything v2. Still free.

* An easy local LLM-assisted prompt generator, by using the free Msty 1.9.2 desktop (not the flaky new ‘Msty Studio’) with the Mistral-7B model.

Stable Diffusion learning:

* A free StableDiffusion CheatSheet 1.2. 833 Artist-Inspired Styles known to exist as named entities in Stable Diffusion 1.5, and their prompts and visual look.

Models used for the demos are either Deliberate v2 or DreamShaper 3.2 (current equivalent is 3.31 Baked VAE), two of the best early SD 1.5 models. This was before DreamShaper versions got pushed toward anime and photoreal to please the mob. Also, note that later Stable Diffusion base models (e.g. 2.1, SDXL and 3 etc) removed most artists and celebrities.

* A good set of ComfyUI extension tutorials with free workflows.

* Basic fast inpainting using any SD 1.5 model. Simple workflow, with no extra nodes or dependencies required.

That’s it! More later in the autumn.