My 2021 Matcap for Poser 11 post/tutorial, now updated with a Python script (see foot of the post). Use in the Material Room, after making a selection of the grungy material you wish to change to a flat colour.
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Poser 13 on Linux with Wine – some findings
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
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
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:
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
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.
Ecstasy motions for Poser updated
Ecstasy motions for Poser updated. The .ZIP file download now goes to a new Internet Archive page, where the .ZIP is now available again. Contains 2,600 .BVH motion files, cleaned and tailored for Poser figures. All public-domain.
DAZ Freebies
A good haul of DAZ freebies, for once. They just updated.
New for Poser & DAZ – October 2024
New for Poser & DAZ – October 2024. My personal pick of the new releases and similar for Poser, DAZ Studio and Vue, for October 2024.
Science-fiction:
We’re a bit future-lite this month…
Hologram for G8F and G8M and add-on.
Halloween:
A free Steampunk-Halloween Carriage.
Free Glowing Eyes MAT for DAZ Studio.
A very unusual podcasting desk, The-Author for DAZ Studio.
FPE Fantasy HD Skins Suite for Genesis 9.
Toon and semi-toon:
A new figure from Darkseal is always welcome. His latest is Mandrake-Root. Also new is his Bobbit-Worm.
Free poses and SuperFly materials for Toon Chicken for Poser.
A free One Eyed Spider, as a companion for the old Poser Eye-plants etc.
Mrs. Pumpkin for DAZ Studio. Also at 3D SHARDS.
Free Anime LIE Tattoos for Genesis 9 Toon. Also G9 To Toon Shaders.
Mirai Anime Hair for Genesis 9 Toon, one of the few that regular comic readers might not scream and run away from.
Characters (for non-commercial fan-art only):
A free James T. Kirk 2.0 for Poser and M3 LowRes.
Erik for Genesis-9 plus Outfit. Magneto, from the X-Men movies.
A free Vin Diesel For Genesis 8 Male.
Storybook:
Free, a Froufrou_Dynamic Clothing for Victoria 4.
Figure morphs and add-ons:
2nd Face for Michael 3, possibly useful for those who want to draw in the face later, e.g. in a comic-book page. Since you would then be erasing this prop, the no-commercial use thing would presumably not then be a problem.
Dawn 2 Expression and Viseme Morphs.
hisBodyFX Morphs for L’Homme2 and face morphs, for the current flagship Poser male figure.
Free Fiber Mesh Eyelashes for Dawn 2.0.
Animals and Plants:
European Otter by AM for DAZ Studio.
Nature’s Wonders: Frogs of the World Vol. 4. The Bullfrogs.
Corgi for Daz Dog 8, one of a selection of new breeds for DD8. The DAZ Store also has Buckingham Palce and interiors.
Poser Art Shader Series (P.A.S.S. Ultimate Bundle), still free on the ArtStation Marketplace.
Hedgerow Kit 3 – Fall Hawthorne Hedges Brambles and DogRose for DAZ Studio.
Historical:
Stonemason’s new The Streets of the Middle East.
dForce Louis Hair for Genesis 9, a loose periwig.
Free, the Kings German Legion KGL for DAZ, from the era of the Napoleonic Wars.
MS24 RAF FEb2 with Control Dials for Poser.
A 1930s dustbowl dForce Travelling Salesman for G9.
A 1950s/60s de Havilland Vampire Jet Fighter.
A cool van that looks like it’s from France in 1958, via a Bilal graphic-novel, XI NA Van.
A British Canal Narrowboat.
MD Classical Guitar for Genesis 9.
Scripts:
New this month, a free PoserPython script to batch render PNG animation frame-sequences, from a folder of saved Poser .PZ3 scene files.
Old but new to me, free DAZ Studio Rotation Scripts. Use an old-school gaming joystick to move figures, props etc.
Software:
On YouTube, PD Howler 2025 – What’s New? and Introducing watercolor FX in Howler.
HeadShop 2025 Full Bundle, plus an ‘Identikit’ based on G8 and G9.
Poser 13.3.864 is released (October 2023). I’m impressed by how much they’ve fixed and added since 13.0. And it’s currently just $99 for Poser 13, if you have a licence for any previous version. Which suggests that Poser 14 may be around the corner.
How to Restore Drag and Drop from the Poser and DAZ library software ‘PzDB’, if you’d lost it through Windows upgrades which affected MS Office 2007’s mso.dll.
DAZ Studio Premiere – a new subscription version.
Free, the ComicRack Community Edition. Your fave old-school comic-book reader desktop software, restored to life again.
Inkscape 1.4, the free vector drawing software. Filters gallery with adjustable thumbnail previews. Unified fonts browser. Opens Affinity Designer files. Now only for Windows 8.1 or higher.
The new 3DCoat 2024.12, now with “AI Assistant”.
Topaz AI Gigapixel 8.0, with much better ability to ‘recover’ faces that are turned to the side.
The free InvokeAI 5.3, for Photoshop-like (layers) local AI image-generation on your desktop PC.
How to get a Stable Diffusion 1.5 landscape to 1536px, easily and without horrible-ness.
Tutorials:
The AntFarm at Digital Art Live. 90 minutes exploring the capabilities and wrinkles of AntFarm’s great content, guided by the man himself.
On YouTube, fixing render crashes in Poser when rendering large scenes, and fix plant transparency problems and ambient light problems.
On YouTube, Improve the look of Poser skin textures by switching the lighting attenuation-mode away from its ‘Constant’ default.
And the Internet Archive is back online, which means old Poser manuals, how-to books and also some choice bits of old abandoned software.
That’s all for now, more in due course.
2024 Fantasy Attic’s Annual Halloween Gifts – page now online
Wow, is it that time of the year again? Yup, time for 2024 Fantasy Attic’s Annual Halloween Gifts page. Live now, but as yet unfilled. I imagine that, as usual, quality donations of Poser / DAZ content are welcome.
New for Poser and DAZ, July 2024
New for Poser and DAZ, July 2024. A month’s survey of what’s new in Poser and DAZ Studio, and in interesting AI tools. Not so much, as here I’m picking from just short of a month of items.
Science-fiction:
Steampunk:
Photo Props: Storage Collection
Zeppelin Hangar for Poser, with M4 poses. And a free set of HM Airship R34 Colors for the L-1 Zeppelin.
Luxury Casino Hall for DAZ.
Halloween:
People and clothes:
Donnie 9, a President Trump-alike for DAZ. And a Presidential Bundle.
M3D Reginald HD and Hair for Genesis 9. A semi-toon grandpa character.
Free, Indiana Jones 2.0 for M3 LowRes.
Free, Car Poses for LaFemme 2.
Free, More Crumpled Clothes Props for Poser.
Jepe’s dForce Omni Body Hair Sets For Genesis 8 Males. Hairy chaps, though I imagine your render times will also be rather hairy?
Animals:
Songbird ReMix: Prairie-chicken.
Art Squirrel’s new SketchFab animals, a dolphin and whale. Static OBJ sculpts, but you might give them a basic rig if you have the skills.
Animations and Still Poses for the DAZ House Cat. And a video trailer.
Best Cat Poses n Props for DAZ House Cat.
Seascapes and landscapes:
MS24 Shamrock III & Drydock for Vue, by London224. In 3D, “the big graceful J Boats of the early turn of the century America’s Cup races”. Useful for marine art, by the look of it.
A free Garden Gnome/ Lawn Ornament.
A free Shrub Alphabet.
Historical:
A free Lost Ark set for DAZ, from the Indiana Jones original movies, but suitable for any archeological dig scene. See also the new Ancient Labyrinth – Huge Environment for DAZ Studio.
Wood Chip Carving Set. Possibly useful for making a training booklet.
Soviet Architecture including iconography. Only linked here so I can comment on it, since it looks a bit low-effort. Would Nazi Architecture and symbols be allowed on the DAZ Store? Why does the just-as-evil communism get a ‘free pass’ in such things?
Vintage Industrial, Domestic and Commercial Weighing Scales and weights.
Scripts, software and special shaders:
HDRI Control for Poser 13+. And a Demonstration Video on YouTube.
Poser 11 compound node for creating random colour tiles. Think ‘swimming pools’ and tiled floors. There’s a thread about this at the HiveWire 3D Community.
A free G3/G8/G9 Pose Converter Plugin for DAZ Studio 4.2x as a .DLL file.
A basic Face Control for Genesis 9 as an animator’s face-plate.
MD List of Products Used… “The script can track the products used in the scene based on the nodes, the materials, the geometry, and the modifiers used with more than 95% success”.
Archiving Your DeviantArt Favourites to locally saved pages. The workflow and the free tool you need to do it in an automated way.
Tutorials:
Using Bone Minion for Horse and Rider Poses.
The Ultimate Guide to Building Low Poly Figure Scenes with many characters.
How to create a wet material effect in Poser.
AI:
A video on Mastering the new ControlNet ‘Scribble’ for SDXL, in the free InvokeAI. And combining it with a depth-render from a basic 3D sculpt.
The “I battled through 20,000 anime girls… so you don’t have to” AI list for artists directory has updated. Links to free models, LORAs and more, all for SD 1.5 and 2.1 768 users making imaginative works in a western art style.
That’s it. More in September.
New for Poser and DAZ, May-June 2024
Here’s a round-up of what interests me, from the recent Poser and DAZ releases, and also from related software. The last such was back at the end of April 2024. I’m pleased to find that Renderosity has stopped their show-stopping captchas, so I can access it again.
Science fiction:
HF Bad Hym for Genesis 9, a sort of cross between The Silver Surfer and Adam Warlock.
Orbital! from Coflek-Gnorg. Build your own near-future space station.
Retro sci-fi:
Nitaka Aurora for Poser, rather cute anti-gravity scooters.
Atomic shelter for Poser by 1971s. Also available for DAZ.
Robby The Robot (Forbidden Planet), for fan-art although I think he may be public domain by now?
Steampunk:
Steampunk Bus for Poser. Also available for DAZ.
Giant pipes for Poser from 1971s. Also available for DAZ.
EV Flamethrower with animated flames. Don’t let it anywhere near the giant gas-pipes room… oh, too late.
Horror:
WyldWood, a new stylised trees set from Poisen.
A free Demon Chair. Looks fairly compatible with WyldWood, given some re-texturing.
The Metro, an abandoned metro tunnel entrance for DAZ. Could be used with the new End of Days for DAZ Studio.
Superhero:
Peacemaker For G8M. Yup, he’s definitely brave enough to go down the old abandoned subway tunnel.
SuperHero Speed for G8M Volume 6. More ‘running really fast’ poses. Also SuperHero Leap for G8M Volume 2.
People, clothes and poses:
Free Crumpled Clothes props for Poser, dropped and cast aside clothes.
El Zorro outfit for G8M.
Police Artist for Genesis 9. Work with a police identikit process, to accurately recreate the face/head of a historical figure in G9. Also available for G8.
Toon:
Waste Paradise for Daz Studio, just the sort of place you might find a discarded but oh-so cute ‘lil robot. Or cute aliens hiding their flying saucer.
Fantasy Mandrake for DAZ Studio.
Plushi Birthday Cake and Red Panda Plush with lots of materials.
A free PB Snowman Plushie for DAZ Studio.
Animals:
Smilo Poses for AM Smilodon. A type of prehistoric sabre-tooth tiger.
All the Rabbits by AM. Rabbits galore, and also what looks like a hare.
Nature’s Wonders: Grasshoppers.
Songbird ReMix: Flowerpiercers & Leaftossers.
Songbird ReMix: Mynas. The birds that can mimic talking.
Power Rat for Daz Studio, a standalone figure.
Photo Props: Fence Construction Kit is classic weathered white. Looks useful if you have a horse and pony collection.
Gorilla Motions for Genesis 1.
A free Waterfowl INJ for the free Poser Low-Poly Bird Prop. Put lots and lots of flying geese in the sky.
Plants, outdoors, ocean:
Bow Wave 1 and Bow Wave 2. Bow wave props for DAZ.
Photo Props: Potted Plants for Poser and DAZ.
UltraScenery 2: A Comprehensive Guide for DAZ Studio.
Jurassic Forest scene for DAZ. With HDRIs.
Historical:
Neanderthal 9 Starter Bundle and XI Neanderthal Cave.
Servi Domini – Monks for G8M. Medival monks and a variety of outfits.
Free, Aircraft Leonardo Da Vinci. With ceiling hangers.
An Edwardian style Circus Ringmaster for G8M. And a matching Circus Strongman for G8M.
A classic pioneers / woodsman Log Cabin for Spruce woodland.
Uncle Sam for Genesis 8 Male & Genesis 9.
Elegant Movie Room from perhaps the late 1930s.
Hr-262, a late 1950s bobby-socks hair for V4.
Late 1960s Hippy Van, anniversary edition.
GWR Sleeper Wagon by DryJack, another fine addition to his ‘model railway in Poser’ collection. Also a 20 Ton Coal Wagon.
The Pool Hall with an early 1980s vibe.
Movie Theater, again with a 1980s vibe.
A free Nuclear Explosion and an .OBJ file.
Tutorials:
Using colour to change the mood of your 3D scenes.
Improving Firefly render speed in Poser. Not that it’s slow, but you may want it to go even faster.
How to convert DAZ tileable shaders to Poser.
How to access your Poser content in DAZ Studio. Easy, when you know how.
The Hidden DAZ Studio Master Light Switch. Yes, there’s an ISO film setting few know about.
The Creative Cart: TangoAlpha’s Modular Super Sets.
Tutorials for other software:
Vue: Export anything with the new Export Central in E-on VUE 2024. 2024 is now supposedly free, but download attempts always fail.
Vue: Seamlessly Integrate Vue and DAZ Studio.
PD Howler: Scripting with AI.
Clavicula: Cavicula : Physics I.
TinkerCAD: Tinkercad – Easy Modeling to Create DAZ Studio Assets.
AI:
Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL): ControlNets for SDXL models. Still not great, but apparently better than previous attempts.
InvokeAI: How to Get Regional Control In Images using layers and a few other items.
Camera-control example: Place angled camera view, seen from (slightly above:1.9), at or very near the start of your prompt. Vary as needed. Adding the opposite – e.g. seen from below – in the negative prompt can also help. Better with some models than with others.
It seems the perma-offer of a Poser 12 licence for around $50 has vanished, presumably ahead of the planned Poser 14 release. The bargain licences had been sold via Graphixly, the Clip Studio Paint store. I guess we may see Poser 13 on a similar perma-offer once v14 is out, but that’s just a guess.
That’s it for now. More next time.
Stable Diffusion in 3DSMax
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tyFlow 1.111 adds Stable Diffusion in 3DSMax, with its tyDiffusion module “matching simple guide geometry” and “depth” from the 3D scene, to make “detailed” generated images that closely follow the 3D scene. The SD UI being used is ComfyUI. SD 1.5 Models, LORAs and ControlNets are supported.
Interestingly, it appears to be free…
tyDiffusion is available in both the Free and Pro editions of tyFlow, with users of the Free edition getting support for GPU acceleration.
Requires 3ds Max 2018 or higher[tyFlow = “Max 2018”, but tyDiffusion = “Max 2023+”].
Yup, and on an open 435Mb download.
Theoretically then, one could take a Poser scene to Vue, then to Max, then ‘render’ it with AI. Though you can do something similar manually, rendering line-art and a depth map from a Poser scene and using them in ControlNet slots. Unless tyDiffusion is extracting some extra ‘secret sauce’ from the 3D scene, such as PoseNet poses from figures, or light maps for scene lighting.
However, I’m still hoping Renderosity has the sense to save Poser, by making a similar free and robust SD ‘rendering’ plugin for Poser 12 through 14.
Stable Audio Open
From the big-name Stability.ai, the release of Stable Audio Open… “an open source text-to-audio model for generating up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects”. Potentially useful for makers who require sound FX or short loops that can be guaranteed to be pass copyright checks on YouTube, Rumble etc.
Update: Portable on Archive.org, and can now also work in ComfyUI.
ElevenLabs now generates sound FX
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Leading audio generator ElevenLabs now offers an AI Text Prompt to Sound Effects Generator. Possibly useful if you can’t find what you need on the FreeSound website or similar. A 20 seconds limit, at present.
