I’m getting back of track for an end-of-month post, so here’s my regular personal pick of Poser and DAZ Studio items recently released. Plus links to interesting software, tutorials etc. Just two weeks worth of goodies, this time.
Science fiction:
A simple scene from 1971s, Tunnel of Technomages for Poser.
Alien plants are always welcome. Fantasy Plants of de Altus Saltus, by quality plant maker Martin J. Frost.
Horror:
Gothic Gargoyles including a waterspout that would also suit steampunk street scenes.
Fantasy:
* A well-designed ‘Conan-era’ style Sacrificial Ritual Dagger Prop with Poses.
Sacrificial Ritual Book Prop with Poses. Also a Sacrificial Stone Altar Prop.
Need even more mediaeval stuff for your runtime? Powerage has 130 Medieval Props Collection for DAZ, currently at a bargain $10. AI-generated 3D props, but good enough for background clutter.
Storybook:
Lyra Character for DAZ, from 3DUniverse.
Summer Vibes props for Poser and DAZ.
Ice Cream Configurator for DAZ.
Toon:
JAF Pear for DAZ.
3DUniverse are now selling on Renderosity. Only the Lyra Character for DAZ and accessories, at present (see above). But they say… “The Entire 3DUniverse Catalog of Products will be added in the coming weeks!”. Which should mean all the toons.
Figures and parts:
dForce Timmy Hair for Genesis 9. Convincing boy hair, which you don’t see every day.
Free Moon Men Poses for Genesis 8/8.1, for a classic pulp art scene.
C66 Figure Splitter. A script set to convert 3D figures and props into kitbash / greeble libraries.
Animals:
Terror Bird by AM. A prehistoric bird from the Miocene megafauna era. Very savage apparently, and not a friendly cute duckie.
Landscape:
Arboreal Pond Exocab for near-future pond living. Just invent an electrostatic force-field to keep the insects out!
Historical:
* Babylonian Priestess for Genesis 8 Female. Apparently authentic.
* Lots of free 20th century industrial props for Poser, from TryNationArtist71.
Shaders:
Free ODF’s Skin Shader for Poser 12, 13 & 14… “This package contains the original ODF Skin Shader together with an Enhanced version by hborre, both provided as easy to use standalone material presets for Poser.”
MMX VDB Smoke FX 03, for steaming cauldrons and similar.
Scripts and helpers:
DC Texture Transformer 2, M4 Bundle. Convert M4 body textures to fit Genesis (all) and L’Homme.
BJ Pose Zone Plugin. Easily… “combine full-body and partial poses for all Genesis figures.”
BioFrom – Procedural Biological Materials as a plugin material-maker for Blender. Presumably the materials you make could also be imported into Poser, since it’s the same Cycles engine?
Currently free at DAZ, RunTimeDNA’s Render Studio Modular 1-4 + Scenes for Poser.
ND Cloth Simulation Toolkit for DAZ.
Tutorials:
Poser Meshlight Weirdness and how to fix it.
Want to make a ‘wobbly hand-held camera’ YouTube video watchable, by converting it to a slide-show of extracted stills? There’s a simple tutorial here that uses freeware.
Resources:
Sadly the Hivewive 3D forums were closed on 31st July 2026. On the Renderosity forums, there are currently two continuity threads, “Life after the Hive” and “Hivewire 3D forums… continued!”. Also, note the backup on Archive.org as Hive Wire Forums Backup June 2026.7z (250mb, expanding to 2Gb).
Software:
* Poser is now at Poser 14.0.439 (30th July 2026). I’ve picked out the most notable changes from the changelog.
* Windows Movie Maker 6.0 Setup for Windows 10 and 11. Yes, the classic Movie Maker, now working again on modern Windows!
* The free G’MIC 4.0.x has been released. Includes the usual .8BF Photoshop plugin, which also works with other graphics software that supports the .8BF plugin format. As usual, turn on the internal Internet switch and update after install, to get your custom presets back if they were based on experimental filters. Your custom G’MIC presets are stored in the Windows Registry.
* CorelDraw 2025, currently in a Humble Bundle for charity.
Generative software:
All free, as is the way of local AI tools.
* Aozora Trainer, a free local LoRA trainer for SDXL models, and the software is designed to run on a entry-level 3060 12Gb graphics card.
* Another ComfyUI <-> Photoshop bridge. Looks rather complex, but may appeal to some, and it apparently round-trips.
* Marlin-2B (GGUF) automatically indexes video thus…
Marlin-2B should be supported by the latest freeware Jan.ai local LLM/GGUF runner, as this now supports video input at last. However, note that back-end config is needed. Jan’s underlying llama.cpp requires both ffmpeg and ffprobe installed and on your system PATH in Windows… “without them, video requests will fail”. Theoretically Marlin/Jan.ai can then describe entire videos, but memory limitations mean that clips fed to Marlin 2B are best kept short on local desktop PCs.
* ComfyUI’s competitor InvokeAI has had an important security update. Also, among other important items it adds…
– Video generation support via Wan 2.2.
– Anima controlnets and inpainting.
– Multi-GPU support.
* Voicebox 0.5, a major release for this standalone portable Windows software. The slick GUI-based… “Voicebox stops being just a voice-cloning studio and becomes a full AI voice studio.”
That’s it for the mid/end July 2026 survey. More picks next month!