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New for Poser and DAZ and more – August, September, October 2026

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After a late summer break, that was waylaid by the release of the outstanding Minimax H3 and MOSS-image generative models, here’s my delayed survey of new Poser and DAZ items which have appeared since the late summer of 2026. As usual this is a personal pick, excluding ‘non-commercial use’ items, but including links to useful tutorials, software updates and a few choice options for free local generative image-making.

Science fiction:

Phoenix Rocket by Coflek-gnorg, a believable near-future planetary lander.

A big wide Sci-fi passageway for Poser from 1971s. Also available for DAZ.

Humants Colony, a nice believable shape for sci-fi desert scenes.

Xenovale Mycelium Wilds, fungi and tentacles combined, for an alien landscape.

A Fifth Element / Stargate style outfit AGoutfit for G9.

Horror and Halloween:

Skeleton Hands. Just the hands.

Witherjack for Genesis 9.

2026 Fantasy Attic’s Annual Halloween Gifts for Poser and DAZ. Note especially the big bundle of poses for Nursoda figures, and also for Tumbleweed the cartoon wild-west horse. And looking ahead, it’s the 2026 Christmas Gift Page Gathering Time! Deadline: 30th November 2026.

Twelve free poses for the Phenotype Hellhound.

Another legion of zombies are shambling through the DAZ Store, plus Mad Max style desert wasteland content.

Fantasy:

Mythical Pixie for Genesis 3 Male. Was at another store, now at Renderosity.

Monster Dreadtalon from Vanishing Point. I’ve avoided these until now because I wasn’t sure how good (if at all) the rigging was, and they looked too videogame-y until now. But the demo video makes it look fine, and incidentally makes it look great in Poser’s real-time comic-book mode.

Eight free poses for Sixus1’s Goblinz Troopz. Plus Swordz for the same. See also Orcish Totems 1.

Steampunk:

XI Steampunk Apartment for DAZ.

Need a butler for your new apartment? Try the Steampunk Robot. Rather similar to Star Wars though, so non-commercial use is probably best.

1971s’s Technomages Time Machine for DAZ Studio.

AJ Odisseus for Poser only.

Bock Bock Bot Cockerel.

Currently a freebie at the DAZ Store,, Zeppelin Star. Has interior cabin.

Rust Shader set for DAZ Studio.

Storybook:

Room of Wondrous Dreams, a psychedelic / Alice room for DAZ Studio.

Hippy style Brooklyn dForce Clothing and Accessory for Genesis 9. For the Brooklyn Character for Genesis 9 by 3DUniverse.

JW Younger Ages for Genesis 9.

Toon:

John & Jules for Poser and DAZ.

Stylized Caveman Complete for Genesis 8 Male. I’m fairly sure this was on another store, but now it’s on Renderosity.

The Count for DAZ House Cat, a Dracula cat.

UFO-style Stylized Hair for Genesis.

InfoMan.

Figures and parts:

Fab free Wave Hair for G8F.

A free MWall for Daz Studio, for measuring height. Originally on ShareCG. There’s now also a new MWall 2.0 for Daz Studio.

dForce Lotl Hoodie G8F, which looks like it could be re-textured for more of a Moebius/sci-fi look.

Animals:

Songbird Remix Shorebirds Vol 6 – Rails of the World and some Nature’s Wonders Crayfish if the birds are feeling peckish.

Songbird ReMix Waterfowl Vol 6 – More Ducks.

The prehistoric Marsupial Lion by AM.

Canine Course, an indoor ramps course for dogs.

Free kitty poses, Cat Zeus Standing Poses and Cat Zeus Twisting Poses.

Landscape:

Howies Horticulture – Elm Trees.

A classic The Rope Bridge for your jungle scenes.

Dread Cliff.

Historical:

Free Megalithic Structures.

Medieval Battlefield for Poser, low-poly.

Vintage Movie Theater

An excellent generic NYC Back Alley for DAZ Studio

20th century Archives for DAZ Studio.

1940s SoapBox Racers.

A typical 1950s-1990s Photography Dark Room.

A 1950s Classic Rebel Outfit for Genesis 9. Might combine nicely with Malakae for Genesis 9.

Hovercraft for DAZ Studio.

Shaders and lighting:

Hologram Shaders for DAZ Studio.

New on YouTube, a Mesh lights deep-dive for Poser users.

Scripts and helpers:

Catcher Plus 2 – Shadows and Reflections for iRay.

3DUniverse has a Basic Depth Map Maker for DAZ Studio 4/6. Very useful, in that MOSS-Image requires a depth-map for its basic Controlnet, albeit with a flipped dark/light. But the script has an option to invert. After install, it’s found under Scripts | 3DUniverse. Easy to operate, fast.

Look Direction helper for DAZ Studio, using the old invisible ‘non-rendering cube’ method.

Tutorials:

On YouTube, The difference between figures and props in Poser, and some hidden parameter tricks for Poser; Shadows and billboard tricks and tips for Poser; Why Poser needs geoshells; Squarenanigans Solved: Nvidia users need to know this; and When objects don’t rotate right: rotation order in Poser.

Resources:

Two Hivewire forum threads on Renderosity, Life after the Hive and Hivewire 3D forums… continued! (hopefully). See my last Poser/DAZ roundup for a link to my Internet Archive backup of the forums.

Software:

Bondware’s Poser 14 has had an update, the latest version being Poser 14.0.516 (9th October 2026). It’s almost all Physics/Cloth tweaks and fixes in the changelog, this time around.

The free Armor Paint 3D model painting software is now at version 1.0. It’s added basic sculpting and much more. It’s also been re-written in the C programming language, for speed.

World Creator 4, the real-time terrain and vegetation generator, is now in early access.

TypeR 3.0 is out. A free typesetting tools add-on for Photoshop, useful for comics — if you don’t use Comic Life 3 instead.

The free Affinity 3.3 has a new Deform Tool which enables partial re-posing of characters in still images, by pinning bone-chains onto limbs. You could do re-posing more quickly with a good local AI model like Klein, but there would be more first-time setup involved. The Affinity Publisher module apparently now also allows import of your old .INDD files from Adobe InDesign. No mention of Publisher finally having font-scaling for the UI, so you can use it without developing a nasty squint. Affinity now also has JavaScript scripting. All Affinity AI tools are behind a Cloud paywall, so AI-phobics can still use this free software without worrying that they’ll end up accidentally using AI.

The Cartoon Animator competitor Moho has a new 14.5 free update release which adds Showtime Live Playback. Check their Moho animation software YouTube channel for demo videos of the many new features. See also the paid SwitchTargets for Moho Pro 14, new at Renderosity.

The venerable free audio editor Audacity has at last updated for the modern age, with Audacity 4.

The free OpenShot video editor continues to get better and better, and is now in version 4.1.1.

Some news of a vibe-coded Poser Library manager, made with an eye to replacing the defunct and sadly-missed PZDB. See also Everything 1.5 which had an update in October 2026. The improved desktop software Everything can now serve as more-or-less a PzDB replacement, as it now drags and drops to Poser.

AIRE v1.2.3 – AI Render Engine for DAZ Studio. The AIRE add-on lets you ‘render’ your 3D figure/scene with a running background instance of ComfyUI, but you stay in DAZ. Comes with a bundled 70-minute video tutorial, which will be of help those new to the challenging DAZ user-interface. Appear to lock the user into a Qwen workflow, although due to the very fast moving pace of AI, a MOSS-Image workflow may be preferred by many. It’s also looks like the workflow is locked, so you won’t be able to add your favourite turbo accelerators for speed? Consider it carefully, before you plunk down a big chunk of money on it and its add-ons.

Generative software:

All free, as is the way of local AI tools.

NKD-Basic-Tools for ComfyUI. Includes a Face-rig which is a better version of Liveportrait…

“Poses a portrait’s expression by dragging handles that sit on the face itself: brows, eyelids, gaze, mouth corners, jaw, head. The result re-renders live while you drag. It’s powered by LivePortrait, but it’s a facial rig on the picture instead of inside a bank of number boxes”.



 

OpenPose Studio node for ComfyUI. An editor for OpenPose skeletons.

ComfyUI-Sonder-Editor, a proper video editor inside ComfyUI.

Pixal3D for ComfyUI. Text prompt to 3D object file, with textures.

OpenLayer for Photoshop, now in beta. Connects Photoshop to ComfyUI. Needs Photoshop 2024 or higher, and a running copy of ComfyUI Portable. Appears to limit you to using old SD 1.5 models? Not ideal, then.

The excellent commercial-use Flux.2 Klein 4B, now in a INT8-ConvRot format, for a big speed-up when used with the latest ComfyUI Portable. Winnougan also has a sam3.1_multiplex-int8_convrot.safetensors file for faster segmenting of images.

My new Minimax H3 organised directory, with special attention to what works on an entry-level 3060 12Gb card.

The main ComfyUI competitor, the more Photoshop-like InvokeAI 7.0 is now in alpha version 4, and it adds vital support for modern fast INT8 models and the amazing new MOSS-Image model.

llama.garden is a new site offering large llama.cpp-compatible AI ‘chatbot’ models on handy torrent files. For most people, llama.cpp models will be best run locally as .GGUFs in the Jan.ai desktop software.

That’s it for the August-October 2026 survey. More picks soon.

New for Poser and DAZ and more, July 2026

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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, since the last survey went to the middle of July.

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.

SV’s Whimsical Flowers.

80s Heart Galore Earrings.

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. Could also suit imps and similar smaller fantasy figures.

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.

SculptTool For DAZ.

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 model trainer for SDXL-derived 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!

New for Poser and DAZ, June and July 2026

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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:

Mask 021 MMKBProps.

Boldger Badger for Genesis 9

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:

Turn 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_Combined_v10…

“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:

Practical AI for DAZ users.

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…

Since it’s easy to get this sort of depth render out of Poser, it means that even ancient well-modelled figures and props become useful again.

* 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!

New for DAZ and Poser, May 2026

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Time for my regular pick of Poser and DAZ Studio items released in the last last month. I also add some software picks at the foot of the post.

Science fiction:

Trash Bot from TheAntFarm.

FAC-CH18-07 for DAZ Studio, a flying aircraft carrier. Aircraft not included, but you’ll probably want to add more futuristic-looking planes.

SE Cyborg Maintenance Bay for DAZ.

LI Space Cadet Hair for Genesis 9.

Gothic and horror:

Creature HD Morphs Collection for Genesis 9. Looks a bit more useful for horror than sci-fi.

Steampunk:

Steampunk Alley by Stonemason.

Fantasy:

RawArt’s Grundlebukk Troll for Genesis 9. Not HD, which is good.

Koara Koala for Genesis 9. Perhaps more ‘horror’ than ‘fantasy’. But you may be able to make the face less alarming.

Faeryl’s Horns for Genesis, M4 and V4. Free.

A fantasy Battlefield for DAZ, free.

Free Centaur 8 GF8 ‘skins’. Including giraffe and leopard.

Storybook:

Boutique Front Wonderland for DAZ.

dForce MB Peasant Dress for G9F including the shoes.

Toon:

Free TDSOA Toons poses.

Figures and parts:

James 9, a free figure preset for Genesis 9. Clothes not included.

Z Pose Library Old Age Mega Set for Genesis 9 and 8 Female. Despite the name, the previews also shows males taking the poses.

Swim Goggles for Genesis 9 and for G8 Male.

Shaders:

Wrinkle It! for DAZ Studio. A wrinkle cloth shader.

Landscapes and environments:

LOWREZ People At The Beach, for populating modern beach scenes.

Animals:

Sloth by AM. A real creature.

Songbird ReMix: Orioles of the Old World.

Historical:

Ancient Greek Wall Segments, only suitable for background use.

AJ Ancient Roman Pool for Poser. A touch basic, but now we have AI makeovers.

Wooden Church Ruins 1. A Viking stave church, collapsed.

400 BCE, though more useful for a Wild West scene ‘down Mexico way’.

Caribbean Street Bundle, also useful for the southern seafront cities of the USA.

dForce Long Sleeved Business Suit, 1940s style.

Building On Fire for DAZ Studio. Would suit historical events such as the London Blitz during the Second World War.

Scripts and helpers:

Auto Rigger Pipeline for DAZ.

The new SDK beta for DAZ Studio 6 beta, for plugin makers.

DAZ 2 RizomUV and back… “send any mesh from your DAZ scene directly into RizomUV for UV editing, then seamlessly reimport the updated UVs without losing your materials, morphs, pose, or Sub-D settings.”

Ghost Dynamics 2 for figure interactions that involve touching.

A free Nursoda figures and clothing filter for Everything v1.5 beta. Quickly view all Nursoda items in your Poser runtime, using Everything, with drag-drop to Poser.

Tutorials:

The freeware Everything 1.5 beta setup tutorial, for use with Poser and DAZ.

dForce Weight Maps in DAZ Studio: Better Cloth Control.

Resources:

Need inspiration for your movie / comic scene etc? Frame By Frame offers scene by scene breakdowns of well-known movies. For more inspirational screencaps see the websites at caps-a-holic and FilmGrab.

There’s a new Blender ‘open movie’, Singularity. Screengrabs are freely re-usable, but the source assets are only available to Blender Cloud members.

Five free commercial-use Tolkien fonts and a fine free Photoshop script to jitter the baseline for your lettering, so it looks more handwritten. Tested and works well.

Software:

DAZ Studio 6 beta (free) and Poser 14.0.372. (paid).

Poser 12 is still $29 at Clip Studio’s Graphixly store.

Everything 1.5 beta adds drag-and-drop to Poser/DAZ, tagging and more. Makes setting up a Poser scene so much more pleasant. Free, and effectively a replacement for the much-missed PzDB.

The venerable 3D software Modo is no more, but now offers a Modo End of Life Perpetual License to its paid users… “for a limited time, a Modo EOL perpetual license exclusively for perpetual licence holders who had an active Modo maintenance agreement as of November 7, 2024, the date of our wind-down announcement.” Not to be confused with the 2D animation software Moho, which is still alive.

Generative software:

All free, as is the way of local AI tools.

At last, the ‘holy grail’ for Flux2 Klein in Edit mode! ComfyUI-PixelDriftFix: a Comfy node that fixes pixel drift for image editing AIs. What goes in now matches what comes out, in terms of an exact 1:1 overlay when brought back into Photoshop, so long as you don’t add tiled upscaling to the mix. Tested and working nicely with Klein 4B GGUF (commercial use). 4B GGUF workflow is here.

Flux Klein 4B/9B Multiple Angles workflow for ComfyUI. Works wonderfully once you fix an OS-specific bug in the file-paths of one of the generation modules, which breaks the workflow in Windows. My fixed version of the ComfyUI workflow is here.

Untested by me as yet, ComfyUI-Image-Conveyor a… “ComfyUI image queue that lets you drag in unlimited images, organize them visually, and process them sequentially across queued runs”.

Also untested by me, but some reader may be interested in a working Flux2 Klein pipeline for real-time webcam stream processing.

ShrinkComfy, new software to shrink your ComfyUI .PNG output images while keeping your workflows inside them. For this also look at the mature Windows desktop freeware imBatch which does the same resizing, but can also blur or add a watermark if required.

In generative audio, the wonderful Stable Audio 3.0 Small SFX for prompt-to-SFX generation. Tested and working. Commercial use. The larger 9B also works nicely for electronica / Eno-style ambient music production (up to six minutes), and is super-fast enough to be fun.

The model Ideogram 4.0 has been released and is causing a lot of fuss for its exact typography and ability to place elements exactly in a picture composition. Sadly it requires large twin models running at once, as well as a huge Clip, plus a VAE. It can only sensibly be run by those with an expensive 24Gb VRAM graphics card.

That’s it for May 2026. More picks next month!

Release: DAZ Studio 6 beta

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DAZ Studio 6 is out in beta, going from 4.x to 6.x seemingly without a version 5. Still free. The new version is a surprise to all, and touts…

– smoother scene loading, with big textures continuing to load in the background even as you start to work with the scene.

– support for newer NVIDIA 50 series graphics-cards.

– newer version of iRay, 2025.0.3 (NVIDIA drivers update required).

– updated Texture Shaded mode, if you use that rather than iRay for your Viewport.

– ability to hide or show Library content, custom re-labeling, and apparently other content-finding improvements.

– adjust hair strands while still in your full scene, seems to be strand-based hair only.

– the Help system is now run by an AI chatbot. No other AI is in the software. No AI renderer or ComfyUI bridge.

Frankly, such a huge version-leap seems barely justified by the changes. If you work with huge scenes and textures, on a 50-series card, and fiddle with hair a lot, then it may be worth it. Many others will stick with 4.x.

Noted in the changelog…

– “Tweaked the minimum OpenGL version message”, though the newer version was not specified anywhere. Presumably an OpenGL bump is why Texture Shaded mode is now better looking in the Viewport?

– Some changes to formatting of scripts for version 6, and expansion of what they can do.

– A new SDK, so many older third-party plugins won’t work until updated by their makers, if they’re still around e.g. there’s said to be no Animate 2 plugin for version 6.

– “Fixed a regression in the script that backs the ‘Create Poser Companion Files…’ action!” “Backs” rather than “breaks”. That could just be a typo, or it could mean this script broke from version 4.23.1.42 onwards?

Gone with version 6, among other losses…

– 3Delight rendering
– the Collada Exporter (no great loss)
– Mimic and Mimic Live!
– the Photoshop 3D Bridge

Release: Everything 1.5 alpha adds drag-and-drop to Poser/DAZ, tagging and more.

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Well well… the latest Everything 1.5 alpha 5 (April 2026) can now drag-drop, direct from its search results, to the Poser stage. Tested in Poser 11 and 13. I thus assume any Poser version should handle this. Works for the latest DAZ Studio too.

Update: now in beta.

You just need to sort results correctly, so that the .CR2 to drag-drop is sitting next to its thumbnail in the search results…

Or other Poser file-types or the DAZ equivalent to a .CR2. You do of course also need to know your Poser/DAZ file types. No use dropping a Poser .FC2 face file expression file on a static prop, for instance. That fire-hydrant prop won’t ever smile. You also have to get used to dragging the neighbouring file of the same name, and not the alluring thumbnail. It takes a bit of getting used to at first.

A test with Poser’s Pitterbill figure shows that one can quickly load the figure, add expression, clothes and pose. And do it far quicker than when wrestling with the Poser Library. One can also see more options re: clothes and hair.

Indexing is blazingly fast. Despite the name ‘Everything’, you can just index a folder and all its subfolders, if you know here to look…

Set it up and then ‘Rescan now’ to do the first indexing of your chosen folder(s). I suggest ‘never update’, and then you can do manual re-indexing when you need to. There’s no need to have it re-indexing every day.

Then sorting your search-results by Date Created | Ascending should get you the main figure or prop at the top, then clothes, then extras such as expressions etc. Assuming you installed in that order, and that nothing has messed with your file datestamps. The sets of files should be clustered together in the results.

You can also reverse the search results order, for a quick scrolling view of what you’ve recently installed for Poser + DAZ.

You can try to set the default search-display results method (e.g. Date Created | Ascending) here…

And also here…

But your choice still isn’t respected. Search persistently defaults to ‘Date Modified’, which is very annoying because a Poser/DAZ user then has to switch it to ‘Date Created’. Restarting the software makes no difference. A bug?

Your Bookmarks can however have an embedded/fixed sorting method.

All this all assumes nothing has been tinkering with your ‘Date Created’ on your runtime files. These dates should carry over, even when porting the runtime to a new PC or external HDD.

Top Menu | Search | ‘Match Path’ needs to be ticked…

This lets the search pick up keywords in the file path, as well as from the file name.

The best way seems to have this activated and then to search across everything, but have a negative search-filter always active… e.g….

NOT *.jpg NOT *.xmp NOT *.obj NOT *.dso NOT *.rsr NOT *.dsv NOT *.pmd NOT *.db NOT *.tif NOT *.dsd

… and so on. As you can see, the wildcard * can now be used. Just keep on adding unwanted file types as you find them, until all you see is what you need to see.

You can add this negative filter at Top menu | Search | Organise Filters. Then…

To get NOT working you need to do a one-time activation of Boolean search. This is not on by default. Go to Top menu | Tools | Options and enable the cryptic ‘Allow Literal Operators’…

Despite there being no mention of NOT there, it is in use once enabled. With Boolean search operators activated you can use a search like M4 hair NOT chair and just get hair in the results. No chairs.

Some makers for Poser, e.g. great makers like Nursoda and 1971s, don’t use their maker-name in the either filename or file-path. Thus it’s difficult to see their range of installed content at one go. But now Everything 1.5 allows tagging.

It uses Windows own file-tagging system. You can thus tag in Windows without any extra software. Find a set of 1971s items by using Everything, shift-select all the .PNG thumbnails you want to tag, right-click them, then Properties | Details | Tags. Add a tag and… now they all have that tag in their Properties.

Everything can now read/find the new tag in the file properties itself. In Everything switch the search results to View Details, add there a new Column and choose ‘Tags’, OK. Now switch back to thumbnail view.

You can now search for tags:1971s and get only files you just tagged. It seems you can’t mix search methods with tag search, though e.g. 1971s tags:1971s Make sure the tag is unique, but you can also easily remember it.

Note that it can take a full closedown and reload of the software, in order for Everything to ‘forget’ about any tags you’ve just removed or changed.

An alternative to tagging would be to look at e.g. Nursoda’s online store at Renderosity, make a note of all the names of his characters, then use these to craft a positive filter for Everything. Then you’d search for nothing, with the filter enabled, and ‘Match path’ enabled, and the search results should just show you all your Nursoda characters. It would be more difficult for 1971s, and his names are more generic, and he has made more content. But it could be done.

So, there we have it. Everything 1.4 is still the version that’s being offered to the masses. But those in the know can get the latest Everything 1.5 alpha which adds drag-and-drop to both Poser and DAZ. Also tagging. Even faster search than before. It’s still completely free. With just a little customisation, and some user knowledge of Poser/DAZ file types, it’s now a reasonable replacement for the Libraries and also for the old and defunct PzDB.

New for Poser and DAZ, April 2026

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Welcome to another pick of Poser and DAZ Studio items released last month. Also some software picks at the foot of the post. As usual I don’t feature items that are not ‘commercial use for renders’, and I shy away from the great-looking but heavyweight/expensive ‘HD’ items for DAZ.

Science fiction:

An unusual cyber-Medusa Cyber Hair Kit and Script for Genesis 9.

Porter robot, for Poser and DAZ.

Black UFO for Bryce. Free.

A convincing near-future Mars Beetle transport and matching Mars Base. Which could also be a Moon Base. Both free. For interiors see the Hostile Surface series from Coflek-Gnorg, for Poser.

Free, a Totem Serge model which, when glowing and grouped in an avenue, could suit sci-fi scenes such as Moon Base landing strips.

Princess Series Star Explorer Outfit, a good-looking near-future dark spacesuit for G9F.

AB Simple Artificial Skins and Shaders for Genesis 9, suitable for alien humanoids.

Gothic and horror:

LOWREZ Zombies for DAZ Studio. Three groups, for massing in the scene.

Steampunk:

1971s’s Airship with interior for Poser. Also available for DAZ.

1971s’s Sky Boat, now available for DAZ Studio.

120 Metal and Alloy Materials for E-on Vue.

Fantasy:

Palantiliths 2026, a remake of the old ones.

Nobleman’s Cradle for DAZ.

Storybook:

dForce PreT Aster dress.

Hr-282 for Poser and V4.

COS Mae for Genesis 9, a juvenile-delinquent / bully girl character.

Toon:

RA Maisie Scifi for Poser (requires Masie figure). Also a clothing tutorial.

Masie Sci-fi probably flies the cute new ScoTT-00 flying machine.

Buddy Burro for Poser.

Semi Faceless for Genesis 9. Potentially useful for comics, where you want to draw in the eyes / mouth yourself.

Figures and parts:

Width Adjusters for Genesis 9 Female. New characters, with a simple width slider.

Long leg morphs for Genesis 9 Female.

Hair Helper for Genesis 9. Free.

dForce FV Messy Rogue Hair for Genesis 9. Nice multi-purpose male hair.

Conforming Flak Vest for M4. The default M4 is seen in the preview, but know that an M4 doesn’t have to look so boring.

A general-purpose free Conforming Hoodie for LaFemme 2 for Poser.

Shaders:

Energy Effects VFX shaders for DAZ.

Silvia Shaders for DAZ, including a ‘thick fur’ and ‘lava’.

120 Metal and Alloy Materials for E-on Vue.

Landscapes and environments:

Mountain Stone House: Pool by the quality texturer ShaaraMuse3D.

Urban Weeds for DAZ.

Animals:

Short Faced Bear by AM for DAZ.

Theron The Wolf, a great semi-stylised wolf for DAZ and you need the base DAZ Dog 8. Currently on its introductory discount at a very reasonable $12.

Need a yappy mini-dog? Meet Abbey Rose for DAZ and Poser. In China, also know as “lunch”.

Free Cat Zeus Poses, including a chase pose for chasing the annoying Abbey Rose.

Nature’s Wonders Butterfly Garden 2. Butterflies and also their natural habitat plants.

Songbird ReMix Magpies and Orioles of the New World (plus a free nest) and Blackbirds & Grackles. For Poser and DAZ.

Songbird ReMix Cowbirds. For Poser and DAZ. Free!

Nature’s Wonders: Flies. For Poser and DAZ. Also a free Nature’s Wonders Fly Swatter.

Historical:

Porto Bella, a Venetian style town by Stonemason. See also the new KuJ Courtyard.

dForce Traditional Peruvian Woman’s Outfit for Genesis 9.

A Chinese Rickshaw for Bryce. Free.

FG Outbuilding interior from rural America in the 1920s/30s/40s.

WW2 C8A truck poses for Genesis 9. 22 World War Two poses for a truck team. Free.

Launch Tower for Bachem Natter Rocket Plane.

Vintage Guitar and Amp 2 for DAZ.

1970s Asymmetric Blowout Hair for Genesis 8 and Genesis 9.

Scripts and helpers:

Bluegene’s Talk Designer Viseme files for V4-M4. Free. The files enable V4/M4 to talk with TTS and lip-sync.

Automatically rename multiple cameras in DAZ.

Animation Doctor – Motion Control, speed up or slow selected keyframes in DAZ. Also, insert / delete frames anywhere on the timeline.

Tutorials:

How to include lots of fully posed, clothed figures in a Poser or DAZ scene.

Bad design practices to avoid at all costs, when creating 3D scenes in Poser or DAZ Studio.

My failed experiment, using OBS Studio + DAZ/Poser viewport capture via Spout to get a Poser viewport live in ComfyUI.

Software:

Poser 14 was reviewed in the latest Imagine FX magazine. A positive review, but let down a bit by hasty screenshots and by having no mention of Poser’s unique Comic Book Preview mode (the issue was comic-book creation themed).

The venerable 3D software LightWave 2026 is now in beta, with the full release set for the end of May 2026.

Another 3D sculpting freeware, which runs offline and for the desktop PC, Tamga. Aims to be simple and intuitive to use, unlike ZBrush.

Japan’s Clip Studio Paint Version 5.0 has been released. This over-complicated and fiddly comic-book production software now has: built-in 3D hand models; the ability to draw your own guide-lines on the basic 3D figure mannikins; and at last you can now group 3D items in a scene and move them as one.

DaVinci Resolve 21 (beta), with new AI features.

The freeware NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter lets you install and run Microsoft’s Azure ‘neural’ TTS voices locally, running them offline as if they were standard SAPI5 TTS voices. What’s new is that the latest version now supports Windows 7. There’s also a new video showing the secret control-codes you can use with these offline Microsoft Azure TTS voices in Balabolka.

Talking of audio and TTS, who knew that the go-to editing freeware Audacity can run Python scripts?

Dimensions 2 Folders. Windows freeware to auto-sort images into sub-folders, based on their dimensions.

A simple .JSX Photoshop script for zooming in to a set zoom level. No advanced AI could provide me with a working script for this, not even Grok. It means no more wrestling with that infernally slippy Navigator window/slider, if you have images of a set size and consistently need to get them loaded up at a specific zoom level. e.g. eBay postcards at 1600px, where the right-hand side of the card gets hidden under panels at the default zoom-level. Tested and working.

Generative software:

All free, as is the way of local AI tools.

ComfyUI-Image-Conveyor. A drag-and-drop UI to visually ‘queue up’ many images, for the workflow to then process one at a time.

For those with powerful graphics-cards, a free custom node that integrates the OpenCut video-editor freeware into ComfyUI.

A standalone local LavaSR-Fast-Enhancer with GUI, for quickly and automatically cleaning up noisy audio recordings.

Also, note that the free 400 credits a month at the ComfyUI Cloud doesn’t start on the 1st of the month, as you might expect. More like on the 8th of each month. So, don’t panic if it doesn’t roll over on the 1st. Update: Offer no longer functions, mid May 2026. “Subscription required” to run workflows, now, despite having free credits.

Censorship:

Those of us in the UK are now completely blocked from the popular Imgur image-hosting service, widely used on Reddit. It’s also now effectively impossible for us to access the full version of CivitAI (Google sign-in/sign-up doesn’t work if using a VPN). Both blocks are the result of our dismal government. I hear that the Russians have also completely blocked their citizen’s access to DeviantArt, along with many other websites.

Adobe-AVX2-Patch. Adobe software installers now throw a tantrum and refuse to install if your old PC’s CPU doesn’t fully use AVX2 extensions. Sometimes it will refuse even if it’s an old PC that does support AVX2. Yet their software, such as Photoshop, runs fine without AVX2. Bypass this nannying nonsense with a handy patch.

That’s it for April 2026. More picks next month!

OBS Studio > DAZ/Poser viewport capture via Spout > viewport live in ComfyUI

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Interesting. My searching this afternoon suggests there may be a no-coding solution to getting a live DAZ or Poser ‘viewport feed’ inside ComfyUI. Even when DAZ / Poser is underneath ComfyUI. Simply string together three bits of worthy freeware. I decided to try it out.

1. The free and venerable livecasting suite OBS Studio can capture video from any program’s UI, even when it’s under something else…

“Window [capture] – stays with whatever window you connect it to, even if it’s covered by something else. Just don’t minimize it, because the picture stops existing at all then, and so there’s nothing to grab.”

2. OBS has a free Spout 2 plugin which grabs just the target window’s video feed for Spout. Spout intercepts the video directly on the graphics processor GPU, and thus there’s no grinding heavy-lifting of rendered video files. Thus the video feed gets quickly pushed from one software to another.

3. The free ComfyUI has the free Jovi_Spout: ComfyUI Nodes for using Spout streams. Requires ComfyUI running the PyOpenGL-accelerate module, which will only install if Comfy is running on Python 3.12 or higher.

Windows only, though, so not for Mac users.

I tried it out. Works, though only with this fix…

But the basic problem is that while OBS can happily isolate and stream only a section of the target Window…

… the Spout plugin cannot. It can only take the whole target window…

And thus what you get in ComfyUI is that window with a black mask around the bit you want…

Which is not what is required. Nor can it hook into the Viewport window when detached from the Poser UI. Oh well.

What’s New for Poser & DAZ & software, for March 2026

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Once again, my round-up of items for DAZ and Poser that caught my eye during the past month, plus links to interesting software. Only listing items that allow commercial use for renders.

Science fiction:

Ferro for Genesis 9, a retro Asimov-style robot.

Alien Sentinel props.

The Foreverstones 2.0

Fantasy:

AJ Fantasy Hut for Poser.

The Cave Dweller for Barnabus Ragwort, for DAZ.

50 Magical Objects Collection for DAZ Studio

Werewolf for DAZ Studio, looks like it was designed for a game, rather than being made for DAZ, but an AI restyle of a render would probably fix that.

Furry Full-Body SBH Fur for Genesis 9.

Steampunk:

A Steampunk Snail. Seems to be a set of static .OBJs.

Storybook:

Free Scissors for DAZ Studio.

A free cute Bunk-bed.

Seedlings – Cute Flower Creature Plant Pots. Seem to be static .OBJs, but nicely done. See also the Cute Uglings by the same maker.

A free toony Pot of Gold and hat.

People, clothes and pose sets:

Free Floor Sitting Poses for G8M.

25 Female Animations Pack-2 for G9.

Writing Stuff Down, props and poses for DAZ.

Bubonic Plague for Genesis 9.

Animals:

Cap for the HiveWire HouseCat

Rozsakert has free Millennium Dog poses, and circus horse-riding acrobatics.

Horse Poses for Millennium Horse.

Nature’s Wonders Worms & Grubs, because your birdies need to eat!

Landscapes:

Free Wooden Fences for Vue.

XI Underwater City, and there are plenty of mermaids this month at the DAZ Store.

Historical:

Ancient Greek Theatre for Poser.

German Tavern Maid Dirndl outfit for Genesis 8.1.

Stonemason’s new Main Street USA, circa the early 1940s.

AP Archaeologist Tent Add-On (interior) for the AP Archaeologist Tent.

Utilities:

Look at Me III for DAZ, now including upper body re-positioning.

LowPi Reposition Crowd for DAZ 3D.

Tutorials:

* New on YouTube, a tutorial on how to go about “Including dozens or hundreds of figures in your scenes” in DAZ Studio.

* Potentially a new article-series on Renderosity, “Beginning Your Graphic Novel Journey with Poser 14”.

* A DAZ Studio quickstart cheat-sheet for ComfyUI users who are clueless about the software.

* I guess this one counts as a tutorial also, in a way. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that AI-generated images cannot be copyrighted if no human authorship can be demonstrated. Actually demonstrated in court that is, not simply ‘claimed’. Nor is it enough to claim ‘I wrote the text prompt that generated it, therefore…’. That won’t wash either. So if you want to claim U.S. copyright you’ll need to keep process-notes, screenshots of the process, details of your postwork edits, your assembly of the final work, etc. So you can demonstrate how it was made, in court and in front of a skeptical copyright judge. Sadly I suspect that what most people will do is simply not tell anyone that they used AI as an assistant, and the quality of AI (if done right) is increasing so much now that no-one will know.

Software:

* There have been a slew of releases from the ‘big beast’ 3D software developers this springtime. Maya, 3DS Max, Blender 5.1 and more. Nothing with new features of any real relavance to Poser/DAZ users, that I could see in the changelogs. Lightwave 2026 is still awaited, though a long technology preview was released on YouTube a week or so ago.

* After being moribund since early 2022, I see that the venerable ‘3D Swiss Army knife’ freeware utility MeshLab sprang back to life at the end of summer 2025 with a new version.

* UnitedAdobeEditor. A mature utility to change your Adobe Photoshop splash-screen, with relative ease.

* The free and powerful G’MIC Photoshop .8BF filter plugin is now at version 3.8. Changelog and download.

* The new blog post “More findings on auto-translation of comics”, with links to the software and plugins. Includes a new free Photoshop Action + scripts.

* NovelForge 4.0 is now available, a $50 script and novel-writing software from the Mediachance stable (maker of Dynamic Auto Painter and others). Now with excellent local TTS voices (Kokoro via an ONNX wrapper). The NovelForge demo is non-expiring and has nearly all features.

* Voicebox 0.3, a fully offline and open-source GUI for text-to-speech using advanced (but slow) models such as Chatterbox and Qwen3-TTS. Not tested, and it’s an early alpha, but it already has a Windows installer and a nice slick GUI.

Local generative AI and Photoshop:

* The new Comfyui-photoshop-bridge, which apparently supports any “Adobe Photoshop with CEP support (CS6+ / CC 2015+)”. Previously such Photoshop bridges to/from ComfyUI required the latest Photoshop.

* On the backend, the new Photoshop-Python-API-MCP-Server. Enables AI models… “to execute image editing operations, automate workflows, and manage Photoshop tasks”.

* Comfysketch Pro is a highly polished Sketch node for ComfyUI which provides a complete Photoshop-like sketch/paint/edit UI inside Comfy. Costs 15 euros on Gumroad. New in the latest version (end March 2026) is “Viewport sync” with your 3D software… “Live camera sync with Blender, Maya, or Houdini”; “Stream the 3D viewport directly into ComfySketch via WebSocket”; “Paint over your 3D scene in real-time”. DAZ is not supported but I believe it offers websocket, while Poser doesn’t. Note there’s also a more basic ComfySketch for free on GitHub.

* re: Comfysketch Pro’s new viewport feature, note that there are also other free ‘viewport viewers’ such as Schoen-Peek and Live-input-stream. These can work with any software that offers a Viewport or Canvas.

That’s all for now, more next month.

A DAZ Studio quickstart for ComfyUI users

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A quick tutorial for those new to DAZ Studio and wresting with lighting, aiming for a nice image to take into a Stable Diffusion model. Solution: Don’t add preset lights at all! Auto-headlamp, and then adjust Exposure and Shutter Speed to get a nicely-balanced and real-time viewport. This provides a good evenly-lit starting render, better than Smooth Shaded.

Things change here (expressions, head-angle, hair added), but it’s possible to prompt to get more of a 1:1 match. Thus enabling re-colouring with the DAZ render in Photoshop, for consistent colouring in comics.

What’s New for Poser, DAZ and more, in February 2026

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Welcome to my regular pick of goodies for Poser and DAZ, and my round-up of other interesting software. This covers February 2026. As usual, just my picks, and with a focus on commercial-use items.

Note that Renderosity’s website is becoming very flaky, to the extent that the site is often unusable. You may need several tries to get a page to load, or just have to wait for several minutes. The same also goes for DAZ…

Science fiction:

An old-school Cryo-Vault: HS-2000 Command Center, perhaps of use for Doctor Who scenes?

Fantasy:

No fantasy picks this month.

Gothic and horror:

The Eldritch Sovereign Throne, with G9 pose.

Gothic Lamps Collection for DAZ.

Stitched Scars-for-G8F-and-G8M.

Jadis for G9F, a lookalike for the young Tilda Swinton.

Steampunk:

Pistolero Automata, a robo-cowboy.

Police Enforcer Helmet for DAZ Studio.

A free Ensemble Dress for G8F, potentially suitable for steampunk.

Chronos Mechanica Watch for Genesis 9.

Storybook:

A free Woodmood Coffee Table, potentially adaptable for a woodland tea-party scene.

A free simple-but-pleasing Witch Hat for Poser.

Free simple Toyboxes for Poser.

Toon:

The Cog Regime Robo Bin.

Somewhat stylised Underwater Toon Props 2, suitable for toon and semi-toon fish.

Free, a bumper pack with a decade’s worth of poses for Nursoda’s Poser characters. Also some facial morphs.

Figures and parts:

A free C. Lloyd head for G8M.

Free floppy Hair For G8F.

Free, 2,600 Carnegie Mellon .BVH files for Poser, as animated .GIF previews.

Landscapes, seascapes and environment props:

Stonemason’s The Classical Gardens.

Spring Daffodil Flowers for DAZ.

A dramatic XI Root Bridge.

Animals:

Songbird ReMix Antpittas. Cute little ant-eaters.

Songbird ReMix Parrots v7: Pacific Parrotlet Breeds.

Cat got your birds? They’re probably wearing one of the new T3d Meow Xpress for DAZ House Cat expressions.

A free Cat Wheel Pro for your Poser / DAZ moggies.

3DV Cat Accessories Big Bundle For DAZ.

Historical:

Classic Mature Hair Set for Genesis 9, looking suitable for ‘Biblical patriarch’ art.

The Templar for DAZ Studio and Templar Horse.

A free Waterpipe.

A Outpost Ruins Standalone for jungle scenes. Plus Outpost Kitbash for additional clutter and decay.

1930-50s dForce British game shooting outfit.

German Anti-Aircraft Searchlight for DAZ.

Scripts and other auto-helpers:

A free POV-EyeCam for Genesis 9.

DAZ LOD System and Cleaner. LOD is one of the methods by which videogames load huge scenes into a relatively small PC memory.

Tutorials:

* At YouTube, the new How to manually download and install DAZ content.

* Also useful is this image (see below), for those who install a new DAZ Studio version and find all their content has gone AWOL. It shows the convoluted process of getting your content library back again.

Software:

* Poser 14.0.227, with the new ‘Poser Cloth’. There’s been another release since then. The changelog suggests that Poser Physics has been getting a lot of attention, presumably to align it with the new Cloth.

* A wholly free desktop YoutubeDownloader that works. Useful for getting tutorial videos running locally and offline.

AI and similar helpers:

All free, as is the way with local AI.

* A group-test to discover which Z-Image Turbo style LoRAs work with the fast Z-Image Turbo Nunchaku r256 variant.

* ComfyUI LayerDivider for automatically creating layered .PSD files inside ComfyUI. Looks a bit hit-and-miss, but potentially it gets you Photoshop layers containing auto-masks for skin, hair and shadows. These then have obvious uses in postwork.

* A 360-degree VR image maker for Flux.2 Klein 4B. Uses automatic outpainting to seamlessly fill gaps between several images.

* Have Flux.2 Klein 4B extract Color Palette from an image. Just a basic one. See also 2020’s detailed survey “Some tools for extracting a limited colour palette from a picture”.

* Also for the amazing and fast Flux.2 Klein 4B, an Attach Outfit & Try On LoRA. Presumably it should work with Poser /DAZ renders, potentially opening up a whole realm of new free costumes?

* Restyling demos for Poser to Klein 4B and iRay to Klein 4B. 100% repeatable characters for comics production. Though it’s only likely to interest a few people. As with the 3D crowd, the Stable Diffusion crowd are overwhelmingly interested only in hyper-realistic 8k skin and animations of dancing girls with jiggling breasts.

* ComfyUI-Execute-Python: A single ComfyUI node for executing arbitrary Python code. Don’t worry… the node gets the PC’s unique GUID when installed, and thus makes your install of it unique and far safer. This means a shared workflow (i.e. downloaded from the Internet) can’t use it to run some nasty Python code. The legitimate use-case is obvious… you can have ComfyUI load external software as part of the workflow, and have that software run its own script on the ComfyUI output image. For example…


import subprocess
subprocess.call([r'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop\Photoshop.exe',r'C:\do_something.jsx'])

* ComfyUI-Yedp-Mocap, for capture from your webcam. Lightweight javascript extracts openpose frames from your video feed, and sends the frames to Controlnets, leaving your graphics-card free to run the image generation / restyling.

* A font generator for Flux.2 Klein 9B. Smart generation of… “1280×1280px font atlases from a single reference image and using the same font style”. Stable Diffusion for fonts, basically. Sadly, one needs a 16Gb card to run 9B and its Clip.

* The free Nichey, the only software I could find that automatically generates a full wiki from a set of local documents. You can plug in any capable online AI that has an “OpenAI compatible API”, and which isn’t going to freak out at being asked to ingest the documents and make a wiki from them. Potentially very useful if you have obscure creative software that needs a wiki, but you don’t have the time to make one.

Coming soon:

* Official massive RAM optimization fixes for ComfyUI Portable. And the new official NVIDIA Studio driver should greatly speed up the already-fast Flux.2 Klein, though I’m unsure if it will only benefit the latest 50-series graphics-cards. Releases soon, for both. Already here in speed-ups, ComfyUI-CacheDiT.

Qwen 3.5 is out and now has GGUFs.

That’s it for now.

iRay to Klein 4B – tested with leaping leprechauns!

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Following last night’s Poser test of Klein 4B, someone asked ‘Do we need Poser’s real-time Comic Book linework?’ in the source image. Well, here’s a test with the Genesis 3 Madgloom figure and some quickly applied steampunk clothing, rendered in pure iRay in DAZ Studio. As you can see, a relatively dark iRay render of an unoptimized figure doesn’t phase Klein.

I added additional prompting to get the green hatband, green eyes and skin, to thus make Madgloom into a sort of ‘Leaping Leprechaun’ comic-book super-villain. The unwanted invented strap across the waistcoat was later removed with an additional prompt telling Klein to retain the clothing exactly. The fixed seed of ’42’ ensures restyling reproducibility.

So, no. When promoting for a comic-book style at least, that’s what you get. Comic-book. With other styles, the comic-book lines from Poser may matter more in the end result.

What’s New for Poser & DAZ & AI – January 2026

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Welcome to my regular pick of goodies for Poser and DAZ, and my round-up of other interesting software.

Science fiction:

Robo Pack. Lovely looking bots, and currently a lovely $14 price too. But… then you find out that they’re “props” and not rigged, which explains the price. Still, very nice designs.

Need your Area 52 UFOs repairing? dForce Tech Engineer Outfit.

Fantasy:

Stonemason’s Lakehaven, which could make a pretty good Laketown in Middle-earth.

Arboriel for Genesis 9.

Ashkin for Genesis 9.

Ashkin and Arboriel probably run the new Lumina Botanica market wall-stall.

Gothic and horror:

Gharton for Poser. Not sure if it’s a D&D monster, so beware of commercial use.

Snake Man for Poser and Blattodacid for Poser. Again, possibly D&D monsters?

Steampunk:

Elven Zeppelin by 1971s. For Poser and DAZ. I don’t recall seeing this one before, and I don’t think it’s a re-release?

Fire Fly by 1971s. Another new release? Moon Observatory not included but it’s here.

Steampunk Operator HD Stylized Clothes for Genesis 9. It seems you don’t also get the stylised hair and beard, so I guess they’ll be in another pack yet to be released?

An unusual Tinheart Clockwork Set.

Storybook:

Cooking Kitchen, a semi-toon kitchen.

The Cog Regime Tinsel Void Automaton. A mechanised helper for Santa.

Toon:

Christmas Delight toon props for Poser.

Pumpkin Ride toon prop for Poser.

Free, Skylab’s Complete Collection of poses and morphs for Nursoda characters for Poser.

Free, Poses for Gruggle Monk from 3D Universe.

Figures and parts:

Free, a collection of Skylab’s pose sets for Poser, that were on the old ShareCG website.

Currently free at DAZ, two large sets of G3 male poses, i13 50 Essential and i13 Elite Collection.

Free, Update: G3/G8/G9 Pose Converter Plugin for DAZ Studio.

Landscapes, seascapes and environment props:

A modular Mountain Pathways set for Poser.

Free, 3D .OBJ models of raindrops on windowpanes.

Animals:

Songbird ReMix Parrots Vol 7 – Parrotlets of the World 2. For Poser and DAZ.

Nature’s Wonders Slugs & Snails. For Poser and DAZ.

DA Bull Terrier for Daz Dog 8.

Torajin for Big Cat 2. A giant fantasy kitty.

Historical:

Free, Skylab’s Decade of Bible Themed Poses, formerly at ShareCG.

Free Holy Spirits for G8F+G8M.

Mediaeval Grindstone, rigged and with two G8 poses.

LOWREZ People 17th century, low poly baroque people.

Camera Noir for Poser, a classic 1930s newspaperman camera.

A Moebius / 1970s style VYK La Pouf for Genesis 9.

Scripts and other auto-helpers:

LowPi Formations Builder. Auto-build formations of military men (low-poly), for large scale battle scenes.

KBXF Slow Motion Player for DAZ. Seems to be a helper for animators.

Software:

* Alpha-Trimmer, a new free… “Windows tool that automatically trims excess transparent areas from .PNG images, via the Windows context menu (i.e. the right-click menu)”.

* Nikse is a free open-source subtitle editor / extractor / converter, able to convert between 300 subtitle formats.

* Blender v5 is now at v5.1. Also note the free Blender-ComfyUI-Bridge, promising… “real-time, bidirectional communication between Blender and ComfyUI” in a round-trip. Python, so one wonders if it could be adapted for Poser.

AI and similar helpers:

All free, as is the way with local AI.

* SD-ppp one of the best known ways to connect Photoshop to ComfyUI, now updated to a late December 2025 version. Sadly it requires the very latest version of Photoshop. There appears to be no ComfyUI connector for Photoshop versions lower than CC 2019.

* Collection of simple fixed user-interfaces for ComfyUI, for the node-phobic.

* Flux2 Klein is the latest hot Edit model. It’s a marvel, and its 4B GGUFs (working workflow) can be run fast on low-spec hardware. See also the vital Official prompting Guide for Flux.2 Klein.

* Flux2 Klein can do face-swaps on its own, with a simple prompt (e.g. “Extract the face from image 1 and paste it into Image 2, completely replacing the face. Retain the exact facial features in image 1.”). But there’s also a dedicated Face-Swap and Head-Swap(!) assistant for Flux2 Klein 4B, with workflows.

* Also for 4B. Flux2 Klein 4B Spritesheet generator, which looks like it may be of interest to those in the early stages of modelling an object in 3D. Since it outputs top-down and side views from a simple photo of an object…

* SAM-3D-Pose-Analyzer is a Python software with GUI. Drop in a photo of a pose, get a .BVH pose output that will then pose a 3D figure in Clip Studio. The possibilities for adapting this to do the same for Poser figures are obvious.

* ComfyUI-face-shape. Detects the face shape/features in a 2D image, then sets these up for your warping. Offering… “extensive control over individual facial features including outer head outline (with separate jaw and forehead controls), eyes (with independent rotation), irises, eyebrows, nose (single merged object), and lips (upper and lower with direction-specific scaling)”. I’m fairly sure there was Windows face-morphing funware that did this, back in the day. But it’s good to see AI catching up.

* “Inochi2D is an open standard for real-time 2D puppet animation”, and it now has ComfyUI-Inochi2d nodes. Never heard of it, but possibly useful for 2D puppeteers.

* ComfyUI nodes for “overlay alignment, colour correction based on a reference image”. In Russian, but easily auto-translated. Related is FluxKontextImageCompensate, an attempt to fix the problem of unwanted image shifting, cropping and zooming. The problem is not unique to Flux Kontext, as all Edit models suffer from it to an extent.

* A huge Celebrity LoRA browser with preview images and links to the whereabouts. Sadly it uses .PNG for images, so loads very slowly.

* ComfyUI-Align, a simple intuitive way to straighten up your messy ComfyUI node workflows.

* And finally, Fixed Clean Styles – DAZ Studio, a LoRA that renders your Z-Image Turbo images like it’s 1999 and you just made a DAZ render that took four hours.

Coming soon:

* TeleStyle, when implemented for ComfyUI. Complete style makeovers for video files (e.g. live-action to rotoscoped-style drawing) with temporal stability (i.e. no flicker / wobble between frames). Some say this can already be done, but this appears to make it much easier to do. Probably in ComfyUI within weeks.

* Intel OIDN 3. Already integrated into Poser, OIDN nicely denoises grainy 3D renders and thus reduces render times. The new 3.0 version promises temporal stability for de-noising of video frames rendered from 3D, which should interest Poser animators looking to render quickly. Due in Q3 2026.

* VNCCS Pose Studio node for ComfyUI. Currently in early beta (see the 0.4 release) and untested by me as yet, but potentially it looks like having a basic mini-Poser inside ComfyUI. Could be a game-changer?

Character reference -> ‘pose and position’ window -> generated image with posed character in the desired position.

That’s it for now.

What’s New for Poser & DAZ – December 2025

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Welcome to another page of picks for the Poser and DAZ Studio software, plus some links to other useful new software.

Science fiction:

PN Havek for Genesis 9.

He probably pilots the Aetherpod for Poser and DAZ.

XI Sci-Fi Industrial Factory, a complex DOOM-like factory environment.

Neon Bazaar by Stonemason. A futuristic desert cyber-bazaar. The new XI Cyberpunk Hotel Lobby might serve as one interior.

Free G8M-hand poses for Pulp Scifi Pistol and for Pulp Scifi Pistol 2.

Gothic and horror:

A free Vampire Hunter for G9M.

The vampire hunter possibly to be found near the Forgotten Tunnel Entrance, currently free at DAZ.

Steampunk:

Free FTTV (flying tactical transport vehicle) in three parts.

Need a pilot for the giant fly? Just slap on the new Heila Drifter Helmet for GF9.

Montgolfiere hot-air balloon, currently free at DAZ.

Fantasy:

Ephraim for Genesis 9.

NDFP Woods Druids for Genesis 9 and they also have various accessories and pose packs.

Storybook:

Christelf for Kids 4. An free elf head morph.

Lumberjack House for DAZ Studio.

Toon:

Need toon beavers? The McKenzie Brothers might be what you want. For Poser and DAZ.

Flinks Rolling Hills – Snow Forest and Flinks Snow Trees pack, for Poser.

A free Christmas Wind Up Mouse for Poser.

Figures and parts:

Free Genesis 9 Headmorphs, including elf style heads and ears. See also the free Dawn 2 Fae Faces and Ears.

Free Ski Stuff for Poser.

Landscapes, seascapes and environment props:

Photo Props: Rolling Waves for DAZ Studio.

Free Cracked Soil strips for E-on Vue, with displacement.

Flinks Icicles, 60 different icicle props.

A realistic Winter in the Forest, a wide scene for DAZ containing a sparse pine forest with frozen pools.

Animals:

Nature’s Wonders Beetles of the World: Volume 2. Including cockroaches, Colorado potato beetles, and lightning bugs.

Free Dinosaur Equipment for Poser, with fits for some RP and DR dinosaurs.

Prehistoric Anomalocaris for Poser, for underwater scenes set in ancient seas.

A modern GCJ Crayfish for DAZ Studio.

Historical:

Poser Firefly Mats for Snood Hair, a mediaeval hairstyle.

1971s’s Coffee Corner for Poser and also available for DAZ. Part of the scene might be adapted as an 18th century London coffee-house entrance.

Wild West Workshops 1 for DAZ. A big wide covered barn, perhaps also suitable for tinkering with Wright Brothers style flying-machines.

An outdoor Ice Skating Rink for DAZ, of the sort common in the Edwardian period.

1930s sci-fi movie style Apex Noir Body suit for G9F.

A free Statler Speedboat (part, of 5). A classic one-person speedboat that also looks retro-futuristic.

Vintage Guitar and Amp, 1960s Country Music style.

Scripts and other auto-helpers:

A new script to help with Poser camera management. Scroll down to the bottom of the thread for V3.

Visibility Helper for DAZ Studio.

DAZ Anilip 2 First Impressions video and Workflow Demonstration.

An update for the free G3/G8/G9 Pose Converter Plugin for DAZ Studio 4.2x.

Sighmoan1’s Colourchanger. Change the background colour of a batch of images with a simple Python script. Many uses, e.g. if your old greenscreen backdrop wasn’t quite compatable with a new greenscreen remover?

A paid Creative Pipeline Bundle. Apparently includes Blender to DAZ “Transfer custom characters, rigs, textures, and animations with perfect material fidelity”, and Photoshop .PSD to Blender. Expensive, but presumably aimed at character creators for the DAZ Store.

Blender 5.0 final is out, and among other things bumps up the ‘micropoly displacement’ in Cycles from experimental to official and also appears to have re-named it. Sadly 5.0 came out only about nine days before Poser 14, so apparently Poser’s newest Cycles doesn’t have this feature yet.

AI and similar helpers:

All free, as is the way with local AI.

ComfyUI 3D Index… “A curated index of 220+ ComfyUI nodes for 3D generation, processing, and visualization.” Last updated December 2025.

The new model Qwen Image Layered, for Img-to-PSD (layered). Automatic extraction of elements in a single image, to layers.

The latest InvokeAI now supports Z-Image Turbo. Invoke is the main competitor to ComfyUI, but hides the nodes and is more Photoshop-like.

Z-Image Turbo demos for some of the artistic styles that can simply be prompted for. Note also that Z-Image Turbo, fast though it is, can be more than doubled in speed with the Hunchaku 256 version (NVIDIA only). Nunchaku and other speed-ups are worth investigating, before you buy a new graphics-card — it may be that the 2X boost you want from the card can be had from free speed-ups.

My tests show the following SDXL LoRAs also work with SD 1.5: SDXL Syd Mead | SDXL Inkdrawing | Watercolour comic-book (Gabriel-Ba style) | and Scifi Fantasy Book Cover – SDXL (Peter Andrew Jones style).

Radeon graphics cards now have much better compatibility with ComfyUI. The new AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Preview driver is now officially supported by the very latest ComfyUI Desktop/Portable (v0.7.0), and workarounds like Zluda are no longer needed. This may be important for some because the 24Gb Radeon cards (especially important for video generation and use of large LLMs) are significantly more affordable than NVIDIA.

Houdini 21 is out, and there’s a Houdini ComfyUI bridge 0.5 (Jan 2026) to use ComfyUI image generation within the pro-level Houdini software.

ComfyUI-NAG restores your negative prompts for fast / turbo / DMD models that require CFG 1.0 (and thus don’t ordinarily allow negative prompting).

Liveportrait lets you adjust eye-gaze direction in any image. Especially useful for comics.

In audio, the new TTS Chatterbox Turbo in ComfyUI, with batch. Chatterbox produces high-quality AI voices, based on voices you supply as reference .WAV files. There’s also Stable Audio with batch, for making sound FX files from text prompts.

That’s for now!

New for Poser and DAZ, November 2025

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Once again here’s my regular page of picks for the Poser and DAZ Studio software, as released more or less in November 2025. I also add in a small survey of other useful software and tutorials etc.

Science fiction:

1971’s Diesel Disc, now for DAZ Studio.

Sci-Fi Submarine Ship.

The ships probably deploy Military Heavy Mechs.

Want to escape from the mechs? Don the Gravity Boots for G8. I assume they do anti-gravity, as well as clamping you to a metal spaceship.

Gothic and horror:

1971’s Futuristic Temple for DAZ and Poser.

And behind the door? Possibly the Theta Black alien display cases.

The Curator of this alien museum? Perhaps the new AB Master of Horror for Genesis 9. Hmmm, now there’s a familiar face. Which could no doubt be tweaked into even more of a resemblance to the master, especially by adding suitable new hair and a 1920s suit. Neither of which yet exists for G9 specifically, I find.

Fantasy:

Hogwarts style FG Magic Classroom. I forget the movies, so I’m not sure how close to fan-art this is. But maybe not for commercial use?

Dragon Wings and Tail for Genesis 9. Plus an impressive Dragonscale LIE Textures Add-On.

Toon:

Bernard the Hermit Crab for DAZ, free.

Basted, a toon turkey for Poser.

Free Polly – Morph Preset for Aiko 3.

3D figures, poses, parts and clothes:

Fully opening dForce Classic Umbrella with materials, poses and hand poses.

Free Chorus poses for K4, Christmas carol singing poses for Kids 4.

A free female Santa Costume for G8F.

Landscapes and environments:

Shattered Ground, possibly especially useful for super-heavy superhero landings.

UltraScenery2 – Snake Bridge, a sort of English Midlands canal-bridge with a twist.

Simple Debris mound props in .OBJ and E-on Vue format.

Free, 75 crop circles in .OBJ format.

Giant Kelp for Vue, for your underwater ‘kelp forest’ scenes.

Animals:

Songbird Remix Shorebirds Vol 5 – Storks of the World.

Free Songbird ReMix Bundle of Joy, for storks bringing babies.

Historical:

XI Desert Port, nicely done and could be slightly adapted for Conan by hiding the minarets and adding some fantasy-style clutter.

Free Firefly Mats for Snood Hair, a mediaeval hair style. Also for Poser SuperFly.

A free Early 18th Century English Martial Musket.

A pleasing small Painter’s Workshop for DAZ Studio, for starving artists everywhere.

Want to keep your starving artist warm? Just add the free Ross Stove 01 stove and props.

DryJack’s GWR Saddle Tank Engine, complementing his extensive railway range. His Share CG freebies are in the ShareCG-backup bundle.

Tutorials:

A new 45 minute YouTube tutorial on Understanding Lighting and tips on lighting 3D scenes in Poser.

Scripts and other auto-helpers:

DAZ Studio 4 Scene Tools 4 – Morph Tools.

BJ Shelf Plugin for DAZ.

New software releases:

Poser 14 has been released. Has the latest version of Blender Cycles (aka SuperFly in Poser), and more. The $100 Upgrade for Windows is here. Last I heard it should upgrade from any paid licenced version of Poser, but that may have changed with 14?

* The Poser-friendly E-on Vue, now wholly free, has a further chance to go open-source if enough potential guardians/developers are interested.

* A new Web page for all the free/libre fonts used for David Revoy’s Pepper & Carrot Creative Commons comic-strip and books.

* The desktop edition of ZBrush is finally getting a new User Interface. The notoriously unintuitive UI seems set to gets its makeover early in 2026. The new UI will also be customisable.

* Those with large websites may be interested in LibreCrawl: free open-source desktop SEO crawler. Similar to the go-to Screaming Frog software, it can auto-check for bad or redirected links and output a spreadsheet.

Local generative AI:

All free, as is the way with local AI.

* Stable Audio 2.5 Official Prompt Guide. Most of these will also work for generating audio clips with Stable Audio 1.0, which can run in ComfyUI or there’s a slower Windows standalone on the Internet Archive.

* Flux Fill. Who knew? It seems this Edit model got lost and forgotten about in the tidal wave of new models in the summer/autumn of 2025. An Edit version of Flux dedicated to perfectly erasing (‘infilling’) items in a picture, or expanding (‘outpainting’) the picture by taking into account what’s already there. There’s a Flux Fill Workflow Step-by-Step Guide and note also the GGUF’s at OneReward-GGUF. This offers not only .GGUF files for those with lesser graphic-cards, but at the same time also a slightly later fine-tune by ByteDance Research — which greatly ramped up the model’s abilities to reach the paid-for Flux ‘Pro’ levels! (Update: My tests show it’s not a way to shift eye-gaze direction, and thus reliably get around the “must stare at the camera” problem).

* The new Gausian Video Editor, which looks like the first “local video editor for AI video production”.

* The amazing Z-Image Turbo was released last week, and such is the community enthusiasm that a unified Controlnet and over 300 LoRAs are already available.

That’s for now, more after Christmas.