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3D content survey: spaceship interiors

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Here’s my survey of human spaceship interiors for DAZ Studio or Poser. There are a great many available, so here are what I think are the best.

I’ve avoided those that could too-easily double as a 20th century factory or a submarine interior, and the starship bridges and freighter/fighter cockpits. Mostly this is starship corridors…

The famous Stonemason has a nice selection. His The Tin Can has a retro pulp-era feel to it, and Nightshift’s Argos Hangar can serve as a matching third-party addition for the Tin Can…

tincan

argos

Stonemason also has his excellent new range of CryoTube and Sci-Fi Consoles, plus his new Sci-Fi CryoEnviroment and Sci-Fi Corridor 2013 to put them in…

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Stonemason’s new sci-fi content could match nicely with this…

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Stonemason also has earlier spaceship / space-station corridors: the 20th century industrial style The Arc; the wide vehicle-friendly Skyline Hall; the flexible (though overused by now) Dark Star; and the smooth Mass Effect -style Utopia Deck C (seen here)…

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Saros 7 has a nice 1970s retro look to his corridor…

saros7

Applejack’s AJ Research Center is similar to Saros 7 and might complement it…

research

Starcarrier and Powerstar Final offer a good shiny hangar deck with depth. They match well with the well-known Vanguard and Stinger smaller spaceships.

LuxuryStar can ship your elite passengers to the stars…

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With its cathederal-like windows the GIS Nova, part of the GIS series, could make a good observation deck for that Thruxian alien you have on board as your mystical star-navigator…

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The GIS series also has a good flight deck called GIS Terminal, which has an add-on Future Flight texture set…

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Andromeda Station is very affordable, but you may need to swop out the system-intensive lights and fix a few materials…

androm

Hull Breach is an unusual space-ship interior from Coflek-Gnorg…

hullbreach

And finally, Dreamland’s Movie Sets Hypersleep Chamber has nicely designed sleep-chambers, though it has the odd addition of a 20th century lavatory. Don’t 22nd century deep space-o-nauts have bio-engineering in them that removes that need?

dreamland

That’s it. Happy voyages!

Stickman for DAZ

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Stickman is a new addition to the DAZ character range, just released. Comes with a variety of accessories. Useful for custom stock pictures for business promos and in-house / specialist trade magazines.

stickman

Maybe it’s just the render but he looks a bit plastic, and not quite as cute/attractive as the similar iClone Mr. Pose character…

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Tutorial: export an FBX from DAZ Studio

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Toon Boy Sam from DAZ Studio to the real-time animation software iClone — complete with face morphs/phenomes, and eye movements made compatible with iClone’s 3DXChange character bone-rigging.

Part one of the tutorial is more generally useful for those who need to export FBX files for non-standard toon characters from DAZ…

Part two shows you the steps needed in 3DXchange Pro 5 and iClone…

More quality from London224

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London224 continues to produce quality 3d sci-fi and steampunk content for DAZ and Poser. His latest at the Renderosity store is hard sci-fi. It’s a nicely Kirby-esque MS13 Cyron Chamber that would also suit superhero scenes very well (it reminds me of Jack Kirby’s vision of the interior of the Baxter Building in Fantastic Four)…

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There’s also his matching MS13 Search Helmet and MS12 Prometheus Two spaceship.

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helmet

Content survey: academic types for V4

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Inspired by today’s free lecture theatre here’s my quick survey of bookworms, librarians and teacher types for V4 for DAZ Studio or Poser. Such characters and accessories are pretty rare, but here’s the few I found — followed by some similar semi-toon items.

Characters:

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Poses and expressions:

The Teacher poses and expressions for V4…

teacher

Ex Libris poses (for DAZ Genesis only), including the classic librarian “shhhHH!” pose…

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Clothing:

Cosmopolitan Girl Suit for V4 and its Stylish addon has the right sort of modern vibe…

styl

V4 Ruffle is a ruffle-front chiffon blouse of the sort that lady librarians might have worn back in the 1960s and 70s…

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Accessories:

Some nice old-fashioned steampunk style Pince-Nez Glasses for V4…

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Late Nights at the Library has bonus props such as books and bookcases, pens, and chairs, as well as V4 librarian poses.

Semi-toon:

Corporate Shuffle 1 and Corporate Shuffle 2 would make good semi-toon teachers (requires various K2 Mix-n-Match clothing items) for the Krystal character.

corp

Granny for Toon Gramps could make a good old-school librarian, if you removed the pinafore …

granny

There’s also The Librarian, a set of old-fashioned librarian clothes for Lenore.

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Decimator plugin now for DAZ Studio 4.5 and higher

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Now available is Decimator for DAZ Studio for DAZ Studio “4.5.0.114 or higher”.

I bought this a few years ago as part of the set of Game Developer Kit suite of plugins for DAZ Studio 3, to get DAZ content to iClone. I used it a lot and it’s excellent, and does the job: reducing huge 3d meshes down to a much lower number of polygons. It’s very flexible and easy to use (once you find how to launch it in the menus), and its great to see it being kept updated to work with the latest versions of DAZ Studio.

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