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New for Poser and DAZ – August / September 2025

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

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

I welcome your support via Patreon.

Science-fiction:

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

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

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

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

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

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

* A free simple SciFi Tablet.

Steampunk:

* Steampunk Display Pedestals for DAZ.

Fantasy:

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

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

Storybook:

* A free simple Rocking Horse.

* A free Sailor3 Winter Set for G8F.

* 1stB Backyards Pool, of the collapsable type.

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

* A free simple Piggy Bank.

Toon:

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

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

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

Halloween:

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

* Fangs for LaFemme2 in Poser.

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

* Monster Skulls and Back to Skull packs.

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

Figures, accessories, and everyday scenes:

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

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

Animals:

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

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

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

* Whale Shark by AM.

Landscapes:

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

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

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

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

Historical:

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

* Old Bakery Interior for DAZ.

* Obliterated. 22 urban warfare scene props for DAZ.

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

Tutorials:

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

* Comparing conforming vs. dynamic vs. dForce clothing.

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

* How to create a background speed blur in Poser.

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

Scripts and Plugins:

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

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

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

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

* BJ Selection History Plugin for DAZ.

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

Software:

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

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

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

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

AI software:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* A simple Photoshop connector node for ComfyUI.

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

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

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

Stable Diffusion learning:

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

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

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

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

That’s it! More later in the autumn.

Vue 2024 at last

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I’ve finally managed to get the free Vue 2024. The UK was region-blocked from the downloads, for some reason. But I’ve managed to get it, now that I have a stable fast VPN that doesn’t balk at a 2Gb download.

I can confirm that the Poser .pz3 scene import still works fine. Just tell Vue where the Poser 11 install folder is. It has to be Poser 11, as that’s the last one which had the required SDK. Vue can then import a .pz3 made by any version of Poser.


Two Poser ‘Andy’ test-dummies in Vue.

Real-world terrain-import works too, with world map. Just give Vue access to the Internet. Worth having just for this feature, even if you don’t think you’d use anything else.

Local Microsoft Azure AI voices

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The original Msty (1.9.2, not the flaky new Studio version) is a fine free desktop host for running local offline LLMs (‘AIs’). But it has no offline text-to-speech. Your AIs can’t talk, unless you get an API key and are always online.

One offline solution is the freeware Simple TTS Reader 2.0, which reads whatever gets sent to the Windows clipboard. Very very simple, it just does the job — anything copied to the clipboard gets read aloud. Great, but sadly it can only use Microsoft Speech voices, which are rather robotic and limited. It appears Microsoft has moved on from these, to its new and far better Azure TTS voices.

However, there’s a hack to get these Azure voices locally. There’s a handy NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter from GitHub, with a straightforward Windows installer. This freeware makes Microsoft’s Azure natural (aka ‘neural’) TTS voices accessible locally to any SAPI5 compatible TTS desktop software. On Windows 11, these more advanced voices are otherwise locked to the Windows Narrator for local use, and no other software can use them (booo…). But now Simple TTS Reader can use them too.

As well as NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter also get your target Azure voice from this selection of free voice downloads. Unzip it as directed and put it somewhere sensible. When you install NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter, you need to tell the software where the voice is on your PC.

After that, restart Simple TTS Reader 2.0 and you have a good local Azure TTS voice for automatically reading whatever is sent to the clipboard. Now when you hit ‘Copy to Clipboard’ at the end of a Msty LLM response, the text will be read in a reasonably good AI voice.

Regrettably Msty can’t automatically ‘Copy to Clipboard’ at the end of each LLM response. It has to be done manually, by clicking the icon. Ideally, Msty would add a “copy each new sentence to the clipboard, on completion” option.

Having Azure voices locally on your PC may also interest animators who’d like to have such quality voices without going online. Of course, there are also dedicated TTS AIs now… but they can be very fiddly to set up, require many Gbs of downloads and disk space, and also a good graphics card to run them. The above fast Windows 11 solution requires a mere 80Mb in total and no graphics card.

AVFix fixed – now at Archive.org

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AVFix is now at the Internet Archive, following the demise of the PoserLounge domain in the Netherlands. The little fix was a vital one for Poser 11 users, and loading it then allowed a number of older Python scripts to also load. I’ve also gone through the MyClone blog and fixed all the URLs that were pointing to the now domain-expired poserlounge.nl site.

Not needed for Poser 12 or 13.

Release: Blender 4.5 final LTS

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The Blender 4.5 Long-Term Support (LTS) release is now available in its final version.

Yes, yet another UI makeover. Ugh.

But of special interest to Poser and DAZ users may be the new “robust” .FBX importer. However, note that the new faster importer is still “experimental”. Having moved away from using Python, it apparently doesn’t encounter many of the usual roadblocks encountered when trying to move 3D models + textures from one software to another. It can import “very old” .FBX files which may have been saved a decade or more ago, but can also handle newer OpenPBR textures. Can even handle animations. It’s many times faster. Nice.

Note that the OBJ import-export also gets an overhaul.

Potentially then this could open up a robust and much faster Poser/DAZ -> .FBX -> Blender -> ComfyUI rendering pipeline.

Update: I now find that ComfyUI has native import of .OBJ and .FBX and nodes that can visualise them rotating in 3D space. There is a question-mark over size and robustness, though, for me. Seeing a demo of a simple lightweight mesh of a garden gnome is one thing, but I suspect that displaying and manipulating a La Femme .FBX export is quite another.

Update: Yes, I tested the 3D node in Comfy. It imports fine, but the basic window is obviously not meant for anything big and complex. Thus Blender + Comfy running as an in-UI plugin seems worth exploring. Ideally we could do this with Poser, but the Comfy integration would likely have to be done via a script calling a set of real-time renders, rather than an in-UI window.

Exact 1:1 registration in Flux Kontext Dev

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Kontext is wayward in terms of wanting to resize things. But it’s a matter of getting the prompt right, for exact 1:1 registration.

Add a layer of simple black and white lineart, while showing the photo beneath and keeping identical subject placement, camera angle, framing and perspective.

Layer the result in Photoshop, and blend via Multiply. Brush a soft eraser over teeth etc. Then filter the base photo to lighten it up. I imagine it would blend nicely with a Poser real-time comic-book lineart render, for added line variation. You’re welcome.

Source image from the official test workflow. Using the official default GGUF workflow, but made compact by moving things around and with upscaling nodes removed.

Poser 13 on Linux with Wine – some findings

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Windows 10 support is ending on a cliff-edge, and 11 appears to be a nightmare of privacy intrusion + ads + hardware requirements + wonky updates.

Thus, many will be thinking of getting a new PC and installing Linux as the OS. It would be nice to stay with Windows 7, but the paucity of local AI support is going to be more and more annoying in the next few years.

Here’s what I found out, which may also help others.

The PC? Here in the UK, I see that one can now get a perfectly reasonable new PC, inc. a Saturday delivery, for a relatively modest £435 (Intel i5-14400 10-core CPU, 32Gb DDR4 RAM, 650W PSU – as specced at pcspecialist.co.uk). Then, on arrival, fit your existing SSD drive and graphics card. Then install Linux. I can’t afford that much at present, but it might be possible by September. So I’m thinking ahead here. Apparently a recent Intel i5 10-core CPU and 32Gb of system memory is perfectly adequate for Stable Diffusion AI work on Linux, since it’s the graphics card that matters for SD. I’d also like to try various other local ‘AIs’ such as speech/music generation, creative writing assistants, maybe a Python code-writing assistant etc.

Poser? But what about the 3D rendering in Poser, which I hope to pair with Stable Diffusion by using SD as a ‘style renderer’? The WineHQ directory – Poser information page(s) unhelpfully stops at Poser 2014 on Linux. But in the Renderosity forums in 2024, one usefully reads…

“I have installed Poser 13 successfully on Linux Mint Cinnamon with the latest version of Wine. Everything works perfectly fine, even the Firefly render engine does, which was not functional in Poser 12. The only downside is the dependency on CPU rendering only, because Wine isn’t able to pass through to the GPU.”

So, it sounds like Poser 13 should be fine… if you only want renders from Poser’s Preview, Comic-Book Preview, Sketch and Firefly. Fine by me in this case, as Stable Diffusion doesn’t need to be fed a Superfly render.

Wine runs Poser 11 too, according to a 2019 forums comment…

“newest Poser 11.2 worked right out of the box [with Wine, though also restricted to CPU Firefly rendering]”

11.2 was the first Bondware edition, and restored the .PSD output from the Firefly rendering panel. Meaning you could potentially maintain a Poser running old Python 2 scripts, DSON import of Genesis 1 & 2, E-on Vue compatibility etc.

Linux version? ‘Linux Mint Cinnamon’ is one of the most popular versions for Linux newbies, and has the slight variant Winux7 (which makes Linux Mint 20.3-Una look and feel exactly like Windows 7). Like Linux, Winux7 is free and comes with Wine pre-installed. Wine lets you stay inside Linux, but still run a large range of Windows software. Apparently the Linux version doesn’t matter, for running Wine. Winux7 also includes a “Windows 10 VM”, or ‘virtual machine’ (which requires a valid paid Windows key to activate). This allows Windows 10 and Linux to run at the same time, and to have basic things like clipboard cross-over with Linux-native software. Apparently vital for things like Microsoft Word, Excel and Publisher, since Wine doesn’t handle MS Office software well. And I assume a VM could also run Poser with Windows driver access to the GPU, for SuperFly renders. Update: an article in The Register suggests that’s not the case, and the VM can’t natively ‘see’ the graphics card. Thus a dual-boot Win/Linux system would be required, which is not ideal.

Drivers? Apparently the Linux NVIDIA graphics-card drivers were iffy and sniffed-at a few years back, but that’s changed in 2025. They’ve since embraced both Linux and open source. So I should be able to use the latest drivers, which have Stable Diffusion enhancements. Presumably the Windows 10 VM installs its own Windows NVIDIA drivers.

RAM: Linux OS ideally has 8Gb, a Windows VM a further 8Gb, and then add the software and extras on top. It thus seems like 32Gb would be the ideal, especially for those working with 3D + AI (who knows what may come along in a few months, that will need the extra?).

Photoshop? No longer a problem, apparently, as long as you’re happy to stay with Photoshop CC 2018. Which I am. Photoshop CS6 is apparently the fallback option, and works fine under Wine.

DAZ Studio too? Yes, apparently it mostly works on Linux. Install with Wine then also install nvidia-libs so it can see the GPU for iRay rendering. The downsides are said to be that the Viewport is sluggish when using iRay, and dForce clothing doesn’t use dForce. You also need to make Linux’s file-system not be case-sensitive (e.g. Dog is understood to be the same as dog and doG), since your runtime is likely littered with content creators who didn’t bother about case-sensitivity. It’s never been a problem on Windows, but can be on the default Linux (depending on version).

I’ve no idea if nvidia-libs would also work for Poser and Superfly rendering. I guess it’s “try it and see”.

Update: Also found wine-nvoptix which is… “a library to be used with Wine. It aims at allowing Linux users to launch Windows software using the OptiX API”. The maker also recommends installing nvidia-libs (see above, already mentioned). Also a couple of others, plus “WINE-NVML for hardware function detection from NVIDIA GPU”.

ShareCG Download Project

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The ‘Poser and DAZ Studio Free Resources Wiki’ has launched a new ShareCG Download Project page, listing ‘who has saved what’. This is in addition to the mega .torrent on Archive.org, which also includes the accompanying Web pages for the freebies (often vital for install and/or use instructions).

Sadly, ShareCG is now closed…

Looks like Blender Nation is also gone and deleted.

ShareCG is closing

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ShareCG is closing, which is very sad. “Important Announcement from Internet Business Systems, Inc.” (28th March 2025).

My Poser 11 scripts and Poser 12 scripts links-pages have both been updated today, and former ShareCG links now point to new Archive.org backups (not Wayback, the actual Archive.org).

I am in the process of creating a larger backup destined for Archive.org, but ShareCG is vast and this will necessarily be selective.

New for Poser and DAZ – January and February 2025

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Time for another survey of the new releases for Poser and DAZ Studio, and also a nod to other notable software, utilities and tutorials. My last such survey was at Christmas 2024, so this covers about the last seven weeks. Just my picks, as usual.

Science fiction:

DMs Hexa Zone, a rare sci-fi setting from DM. For DAZ. See also the new SE Futuristic Hall.

Hover Vehicle for Poser. Nice, in that I can almost believe that’s some kind of Hyperloop-compatible flying car of the future.

Retro-cycberpunk XI Neo Noir Car. Possibly going to gatecrash the new Sci-Fi Transport Tunnel.

Peep Box, for a sleazy ‘lower levels’ sci-fi setting. For Poser and DAZ.

Colony Meat Locker for body/robot storage on a space colony. Poser and DAZ.

Gothic and horror:

Poisen’s new Elysium. 30 different .OBJs for creating unique combinations for your celtic/tribal walls, shrines etc.

A free Catbus, sort of Miyazake fan-art, so I guess it shouldn’t be used commercially.

Currently free on DAZ, the i13 Library Pose Collection, half of which are non-sexy poses suitable for gothic libraries etc.

JW ShapelessM Morphs for Genesis 9. For when your guy gets stuck in the teleporter.

High-quality sheet Draped Ghosts.

Steampunk:

AJ Steampunk Lighthouse for Poser and DAZ.

Steampunk Mask for GF8.

dForce Princess Petra’s Gothic Dress for Genesis 9.

XI GSB Classroom, a Steampunk classroom. Possibly near to fan-art (? Harry Potter etc), so check before commercial use. Also a matching XI GSB School Courtyard. See also the new Punting on the River and Cathedral Hallway Restaurant which could easily serve as the headmaster’s office/staff-room. All for DAZ.

Fantasy:

DMs Hidden Treasure for DAZ Studio.

SY Essential Creature Morphs Genesis 9. Hooves, three fingers etc.

Storybook:

KT Child for G9.

Cozy Cartoon World Living Room for DAZ Studio.

RA Warm and Cute K4, warm winterwear for Kids 4 figures.

Toon:

Free Kappa-kun for Poser, a Japanese-influenced standalone figure.

Free, Tobby elfkin preset for Genesis 8 Male.

Free, toon vampires for Genesis 9 Toon.

Characters, figure clothing and figure animations:

Elon for M3 LowRes. Free.

Free hair and eyebrows meshes for Genesis 9.

Landscapes and environments:

Isis Lock, a classic set of British inland canal locks, with a Millennium-style cast-iron bridge.

Industrial Warehouse Environment for DAZ. Possibly useful for making workplace training videos and graphics. Though it’s quite small (no long aisles for the pickers to race around on electro-trolleys).

EVERYPlant US Great Basin Biome for Poser, a complete plant set. Also for DAZ.

EVERYPlant Great Basin Bristlecone Pine for Poser. Looking like just the sort of thing you might want to export to Vue. Vue export still works, you just need to also have Poser 11 on the PC, so Vue can see the Poser 11 SDK.

A free Dragons Lair and bridge. For DAZ.

Waterfall Builder kit for DAZ. See also the new Riverstone Gorge for DAZ.

Animals:

Nature’s Wonders Mantises and Nature’s Wonders Mantises of the World Volume 1 expansion. Biologically correct posable models. For Poser and DAZ.

Wombat by AM, with wearable fur preset.

Quoll by AM, with wearable fur preset. Apparently these are real, but with a little recolour could easily be fantasy/sci-fi.

Herbie, a sandy desert style chicken.

Emperor Penguins for DAZ, with furry chicks.

Historical:

A huge but rather believable castle for Bryce, Bryce_Castle_1. Free. Could be exported to Vue.

MS24 Abandoned Train Depot for Vue.

BV141 Asymmetrical Reconnaissance Aircraft. A wartime German spy plane. For Poser and DAZ.

Tutorials:

Creating texture overlays in Poser and fixing any broken Python scripts.

Optimize iRay Renders in DAZ.

Tutorial: Where and How to Install Poser Content for DS – Part 1 and Part 2.

How to photobash (combine multiple assets into a final image) 10x faster using the ‘Photoshop of AI’, the free Invoke AI.

“Weird black and white blobs might be the secret to controlling AI images”. Again, a tutorial for the free Invoke AI. Stark contrast changes can ‘guide’ the underlying image formation process, along with correct prompting.

David Revoy tells you all about All about LIQUIFY in Krita on YouTube. Krita is the free painting and drawing software, and now quite mature.

Updated, the AI list for artists using Stable Diffusion 1.5. New LORAs which offer particular non-photoreal styles in painting, sketching, illustration etc.

Scripts and other auto-helpers:

A script for DAZ Studio that tells you what version of Genesis character is, in your saved scene.

A useful Python script for Stable Diffusion users who have collected large local LORA stashes. The script reads the LORA name from the plaintext .PNG metadata, as found in an old image you might want to recreate. It then looks in your local LORA library, finds the LORA required to recreate that image, and copies it into your active Stable Diffusion LORA folder. You’re then ready to go, without a lot of faffing around trying to manually find the required LORA.

Got an Amazon WishList? Your personal notes on your items all became unreadably small and grey, recently. The browser UserScript ‘Amazon Wishlist item user-comments / user-notes – fix’ fixes the problem.

New software releases:

The new release Audiblez 4.0, now with a graphical user-interface. Free and open source. Create local AI audio voice readings and audiobooks, using the CPU rather than your graphics card. Possibly useful for animators who require non-robotic voices and long-form audio, produced locally.

The excellent freeware Anytxt Searcher has a new release and can now also run on Mac and Linux, as well as Windows. It quickly searches across the text inside your desktop PC’s documents. You can use regex for proximity search, by selecting ‘Regular Match’ in the search-type drop-down and then using (for example)…

\b(?:billboard\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,9}?script|script\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,9}?billboard)\b

This regex will find all instances of billboard occurring within nine words of script. You can see how useful proximity search might be if you have one of the local archives of Poser forums, such as those available on Archive.org.

The Poser 12 for $29 offer is still on, at Clip Studio’s web store Graphixly.

That’s all for now! More picks in the springtime.

Release: Audiblez with GUI

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Audiblez is a free open-source AI audiobook maker using AI voices, and (as of this week) it has a graphical user-interface (GUI). It runs locally and installs on pure Python 3.x with no CUDA or PyTorch dependencies (unless you want them). It runs on the PC’s CPU not the graphics card, and (though slow) even older PCs should be able to ‘read’ a book to an audiobook audio-file overnight.

This may interest those otherwise unable to run local text-to-speech AI systems, for instance because they have an antique graphics card or Windows 7 on the target PC.

Requires: Official Python 3.7.1 64-bit or higher, or use the current Python fork for Windows 7.

Background information: Windows 7 users are blocked from running almost all local AIs due to the impassable combination of requirements for: i) NVIDIA graphics cards drivers, ii) CUDA; and iii) the PyTorch add-on for Python. The above audiobook-making software only requires pure Python 3.x and enough CPU power.

Use case: Generating AI commercial-use audio voices at length, for free, to accompany an animation, videogame, motion-comic etc.