A little late, here’s my regular personal pick of Poser and DAZ Studio items recently released. I also add some software picks at the foot of the post. This time it’s covering June and the first half of July 2026.
Science fiction:
Beetle Bot by The AntFarm.
Industrial Sci-Fi Corridor by 1971s.
An unusual Black Kiln for Poser and DAZ, by Coflek-Gnorg.
Moebius-style dForce Fuzz Outfit for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Female. Also has a Textures Add-On pack.
Betelgeuse Mission for DAZ Studio, a near-future rocket launch with rocket, pad and gantry.
Staticon has various alien artifact packs on Renderosity Freestuff.
Sci-Fi Head Gadgets and hi-tech glasses.
Horror:
Steampunk:
Parisian Backstreets by Stonemason.
PW Zeppelin exterior and also a luxury 1930s interior.
The Cog Regime Creepy Robot Bambino.
Steampunk Hall Kit for Poser, by 1971s. Also available for DAZ.
Heavenly Zeppelin converted for DAZ Studio.
dForce Dandy Andy Outfit for Genesis 9.
Pants 007 in a steampunk style.
Art Deco Balcony 2 for DAZ.
Fantasy:
Arah3D Cottage Girl For G8F And G9.
JMR dForce Afron Medieval Outfit for Genesis 9 and 8 Male.
There’s another round of Centaurs and Minotaurs on DAZ, and related animal armour.
Storybook:
Seabreeze Coastal Tram for DAZ.
GNBD Beach Toys and Sand Castles.
Get a health-and-safety nightmare (how did we ever survive?), in Retro Playground Set, with Vintage 1950s-70s Park Equipment.
Toon:
Lucy the toon chicken, for Poser and DAZ.
The Fantasy Tree Prop For DAZ Studio. Basic, but looks compatible with Lenore and the Raven, if given a texture makeover.
3D Universe have converted nine toon animals for DAZ Studio, including Noodle the Toon Cat.
Figures and parts:
Hr-284 for Poser and V4.
GNBD Soccer Player Poses and Fan Expressions for Genesis 9.
Shaders:
DAZ Studio Hard Surface Shaders.
Animals:
Tur your horsie into a cow! Bovine DAZ Horse 3 Character Bundle.
Dove for Poser. “Incredibly realistic”, with textures and poses.
Historical:
Classic Film Projector Set for DAZ.
Fusion Motorcycle for Poser, by Cybertenko.
Retro Pinball Machines. A pack of retro 80s arcade games is also available.
Also, note that lots of Bryce freebies are coming through Renderosity Freestuff, many of them historical or vintage in nature.
Scripts and helpers:
“Poser Packer v10 is a powerful and user-friendly packaging tool designed specifically for Poser content creators. It dramatically speeds up the entire product preparation process by automatically collecting all required files (.cr2 characters, .obj geometries, textures, .pz2 poses, .pp2 props), creating the correct Runtime folder structure (with optional Author folder level), fixing all internal paths, and copying thumbnails.”
Smart Content Finder for DAZ Studio.
BatchFlow Render for DAZ Studio 6.
iRay Light Manager Pro for DAZ Studio 4.2x. Also available for 6.x. There’s also a Scene Manager.
A free G9 to G9 Pose Copy/Mirror Script.
The free dForce Material Master – Updated.
DAZ Script Linter. $99 seems a lot for just a linter, but it may be of use to some.
Tutorials:
Texture tips and two texture mistakes you should NEVER make in Poser and DAZ.
David Revoy has a new free one-hour tutorial “A Comic strip from A to Z with Krita”. Krita being the free painting software, that incidentally integrates nicely with ComfyUI.
Resources:
As announced earlier on this blog, “HiveWire Forums to close” at the end of July 2026. But now the most important parts of the HiveWire3D forums are safely backed up at Archive.org, as Hive Wire Forums Backup June 2026.7z (250mb, expanding to 2Gb). Download, unzip, keyword-search it locally using AnyTXT Searcher or similar. Also on Archive.org, you’ll find similar archives for the Smith Micro forums, the RuntimeDNA forums, and a selection from the ShareCG website.
Software:
A few months later than planned, but it’s here now. LightWave 2026 final is released.
iClone Personal, a free version. See also the 2026 Reallusion 3D Character Contest.
PD Howler 2027 pre-orders are now open, and there are some details about what’s being added.
Comic artists note that the free Krita Next 5.4.0 (the unstable alpha version of Krita painting software) has the following new feature… “Comic Panel Editing Tool: Close all shapes cut with the tool”.
The open source Blender is now at version 5.2 LTS. New nodes system for hair and cloth, new ‘Thin Wall’ mode for paper and glass emulation (I’m thinking: “shadow puppet theatre”), ‘texture caching’ for the Cycles render engine cuts memory use by “up to 80%”, more changes to Grease Pencil, you can add 3D primitives when sculpting, and there are major Eevee real-time rendering improvements.
A new release for ArcGIS CityEngine 2026.0. Which auto-generates 3D cities. Among others things, it now moves to Python 3 scripting.
The open source DigiKam plans to plug in an AI to help with complex asset searching.
Generative software:
All free, as is the way of local AI tools. This month it’s all about add-ons for Germany’s excellent Flux.2 Klein model, used in ComfyUI.
* Klein Edit Composite is another major Klein breakthrough, as a custom node for ComfyUI. Works with Klien 9B or 4B. With this you can do multiple iterative edits on an image, without the rest of image shifting about or changing. Works fast, too. Tested and working, and my 4B GGUF (commercial use) ComfyUI workflow is here.
* Refcontrol for Flux.2 Klein 4B. Use a depth-map to help guide ‘the style and look’ of your source image into a new shape. it’s best explained as an image…
* Flux.2 Klien 4B Zoom LoRA. Draw a red box around the area of an image you want enlarged, and generate a new image that pseudo-zooms into it.
* Flow-upscaler for Flux.2, for when you need slightly better upscaling than normal. Trained on Flux.2 Klein 4B.
* InvokeAI 6.x development continues. Various FLUX.2 Klein LoRA formats are now supported, since version 6.12.
And finally, the Halloween Gathering for Fantasy Attic’s Holidays has started. Got DAZ or Poser freebies, for the Halloween give-away pages? Send them in! Submission deadline: 25th September 2026.
That’s it for June-July 2026. More picks next month!