Currently free, SpeedLights Outdoor Light Set 1, and usually $15. For DAZ Studio. For a limited time only.
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Survey of new content for Poser and DAZ studio, May 2015
Gosh, is it that time of the month again? Here’s my personal pick of the most interesting new DAZ Studio and Poser 3d content that has appeared in May 2015.
The top 3d stage-set this month is undoubtedly Stonemason’s The Streets Of Old London 3d environment, made with Stonemason’s usual professional attention to detail. Suitable for everything from Sherlock Holmes through steampunk to Edwardian-era intrigue and mystery. (By the way, if Stonemason is reading this, 3D Art Direct magazine would like to interview you, please).
Need male attire for Streets of Old London? New is the Grantham Hall Suit and Bon Vivant textures addon.
Need some crazy swivel-eyed Cthulhu cultists running around the streets of Stonemason’s Old London? There are new Monks Robes for Genesis 2 Males.
From the early Edwardian era as Old London is the very detailed Desert Pathfinders for Genesis 2 Males and Desert Pathfinder Textures set.
Secluded Shoreline looks like a potentially useful stage set / environment. Good to see the old Poser Dog getting an outing in the promo pictures, too!
Western Town also looks like a nicely detailed setting. A complete town, but all the samples images appear to have been rendered using Reality 4 rather than DAZ.
Fitting in well with the Wild West theme is the new Old Gold Mine…
Another lovely fantasy/sci-fi building at Renderosity, Swamp house…
Below is a 100% geometry landscape “in OBJ”, a classic fantasy lane in the Morrowind etc style, called Northern Soul. Complete with a demo scene for Poser with lighting and render settings already set up. Octane render material files are included. Would probably also look good in Vue / Keyshot / Reality etc…
Liquid Lab looks very detailed and useful for a wide variety of “oh, no, the experiment went wrong and released the Deadly Triffids!” scenarios…
Definitely not an olde scurvy dogg, there’s a complete Pirate Booty outfit for STAR!.
Bubbles, a charming new semi-toon character from CHK2033. Poser 10+ only.
Valandar’s Jabberwock II looks like a nice new body, but the face seems lacking compared to Valandar’s previous version of it — which stuck more to Tenniel’s famous original vision. I do hope the change isn’t due to some spurious copyright claim by the Dodgson or Tenniel heirs.
Droid Kit is a near-future humanoid sci-fi droid with lots of swop-out power tools.
I note that Geeksatplay are now on the Concucopia (Vue) store. Their new Light Up Screen tutorial shows how to create glowing holo-screen effects in Vue.
Also for Vue, the interesting Lonely Rocks setting.
Finally, the Bat Bike is free on Renderosity, for Poser and DAZ Studio. For non-commercial use only, as it’s Batman fanart.
That’s it! More next month.
Renderosity Holiday Giveaway Goodies
Cranky Christmas freebies
13 days of Xmas freebies, over at Runtime DNA… Update: This appears to be one of the items which vanished with the demise of the RuntimeDNA store.
Nursoda’s Merpal for free
Nursoda is offering a free low-poly version of his new Merpal character, plus poses and expressions. The textures are also low, at 512px, but free skins are already available for this new character.
New Daz Studio 4.7 – out now
The newest Daz Studio Pro 4.7 is out now.
There seem to be some quite interesting and possibly important new features, which include among others…
* UI interface and navigation streamlining
* Interactive Progressive Rendering (IPR)… “see near real-time camera, light and material modifications”. Even moderately accurate WYSIWYG previews of the final render lighting would be a 1000% improvement on the old versions.
* “Back to Base”… an easy way to safely strip out all the modifications you made to a base character/figure.
* Render Settings Pane overhaul… an improved layout for this important panel
* Extended Texture Format Support… “Added support for using .EXR, .HDR, .PSD, and various others directly as textures.”
* Render Engine Update… “3Delight render engine to 11.0.105”. But this just seems to be a bugfix advance. The last important speed change was back in August with 11.0.101, which added… “Ray-traced subsurface scattering now uses much less memory and is 5% to 7% faster”.
Still free (for now), and still including…
Genesis Starter Essentials
Genesis 2 Starter Essentials
FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio
Texture Atlas for DAZ Studio
GoZ for DAZ Studio (ZBrush connector)
3D Bridge for Photoshop
Subsurface Shader Base
Content Creator Toolkit
Though those installing for the first time will find the above extras are separate downloads.
New freebies links on the sidebar
Following my recent checking and updating of this blog’s sidebar links Directory, I felt the need for some newly-added links to caches of Poser and Daz freebies…
Redviper
Herminio Nieves
Karth’s Freebies
Daybreak Studio
Lyne’s Creations
Slayer of Beautiful Evil
Childe of Fyre
Chohole’s Space
Didda’s Downloads
DAZ Store gets a big makeover
The DAZ Store just got a tablet-tastic makeover. I wasn’t sure about the new design at first, but after a few minutes I saw how much more logical it is. It also works well on a big desktop monitor. The only problem is that the Freebies page isn’t on one of the static menus. Freebies is actually still there, you just need to bookmark the page if you visit it regularly. And, what’s more, it now actually has genuine freebies on it — as it used to!
New 3D OBJs from the British Museum
The British Museum has just released a nice set of 3D scanned objects from antiquity, as 3D models in .obj, and with Creative Commons Attribution licences. You have to login with Google or Facebook in order to download.
DAZ and Poser freebies round-up
Time for a quick round-up of some recent fab freebies for DAZ Studio and Poser…
WitchyWoo House from PoserDirect…
This could work nicely with the Halloween cats for Patch I already mentioned in a previous post.
SteamPunk Goggles for Poser…
Little Vintage Camera, 1930s style…
From RuntimeDNA, toon voodoo doll Samedi 2… Update: This appears to be one of the items which vanished with the demise of the RuntimeDNA store.
Haunted House Poses set for M4 & V4. It looks like a lot of work went in to create these matching pose sets…
Halloween Gob Bats & Eye Bats, a makeover for the Eye Bat available at Runtime DNA…
Some ruins Update: This appears to be one of the items which vanished with the demise of the RuntimeDNA store. which might enhance a recent Stonemason ruined cities collection, or serve as a superhero battleground…
Freebies from DAZ
Genuine freebies, currently on offer at the DAZ Store…
The AniBlocks (pre-made animations) are for FM Solar System.
Freebie: Biolight
Currently free, Biolight for the Terrors of the Deep: Jellyfish pack. For the current version of Poser, and then only with “IDL/Raytracing enabled” activated in your render settings.
(See also my DAZ/Poser content survey: ocean creatures and lighting)
Shifter, follow-up to Anomaly
Remember Anomaly, the really cool graphic novel made with Poser and DAZ Studio and Poser content?
The follow-up, an interactive Android production called Shifter
9 Epic Chapters
200 Fully Painted Pages
65 Interactive Touch Points
875 Panels of Art
2½ Hours of Audio
“Even without the digital features, Shifter is an engaging tale. Kunrong Yap’s illustrations are vivid, and the story, written by Mr. Brittenham, Mr. Haberlin and Brian Holguin, is fast-paced and captivating.” — New York Times review.
Poser Direct’s freebies-with-purchase offer
New freebies for DAZ and Poser
Here are some of the freebies I’ve noted this month for DAZ Studio and Poser users:
Timbers are definitely ‘a shivering with Mortemvetus. A message in a bottle; the wheel of a haunted pirate ship; and a treasure map. (Aug 2017: link fixed)
Pirates vs. Vikings? In 3D-land, anything is possible! Viking Longboats as .obj models with textures. And the Gabare, which is more of a coastal trading vessel, and also done as .obj models with textures. The textures loaded up fine for me.
Xanadu looks rather good, if you need a “1940s USA” look for a scene. I guess you could also turn it 90 degrees, add another copy, and stick it far in the distance behind some haze — to serve as a sci-fi tower?
Gasbit is a Poser-rigged free character. I’m guessing that a bit of extra work, and some Photoshop magic, might also turn him into more of a semi-toon astronaut boy…
