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Release: AccuRIG 1.0, free
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Reallusion have a new free “automatic rigging tool” for 3D characters. Equivalent to Miximo, AccuRIG 1.0 users load a T-pose or A-pose figure and apparently get back a 19-joint .FBX with…
“full-body and finger rigs for biped characters”
Seems to be genuinely free, and independent of the rest of the costly suite of Reallusion software (although it can interface with Reallusion’s ActorCore system).
No mention of face or toes rigging though. So I guess mostly aimed at quick auto-rigging of “low-poly NPCs”, of the sort needed for games. I’m uncertain how many auto-riggers gamer developers already have, but I’d guess it’s not zero. Also, I don’t see any mention that the rig can take standard .BVH mo-cap motions, or your existing iClone motions. But I guess Reallusion will hope to sell new motion packs for the figures.
It’s Windows desktop software that you download, and then ActorCore “free registration” is needed for any sort of export from it. Might be worth trying, to see how well it can do, say… the free Big Buck Bunny rabbit figure from Blender. And then how well that moves in DAZ / Poser, and if .BVH motions work.
But otherwise Poser and DAZ people probably have enough in their runtimes to provide the standard extras needed for a large scene, without having to go all around-about via the .FBX format.
Soon, a free ‘temporally stable’ AI denoiser
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Pixar’s RenderMan 25 will for the first time feature its in-house AI denoiser, and this is “temporally stable”. Translation: when run on animation frames, this de-noiser is stable from frame to frame. When the frames are run as an animation, there’s no strange wavyness, jitter, or edges popping from sharp to blurred and back.
The devs and artist at Pixar report this feature reduces render times “two to four” times, and it also “has CPU and GPU implementations”.
But ‘what use is this to hobbyists’, you might ask. Ah, well… there will be a free non-commercial edition of RenderMan 25 by the end of 2022. The free version is reported to lack only RenderMan’s “XPU” feature — which is Pixar’s “new hybrid CPU + GPU rendering engine” that many are calling the future of high-end rendering.
Thus it sounds to me like hobbyists could have a pro-level ‘temporally stable’ AI denoiser, free and highly trained on 3D CG frames, by the end of the year. And presumably it will be able to process a folder of animation frames produced with other software. Poser 12, for instance, which has a superb Intel denoiser for stills — but this is apparently not “temporally stable” for animation.
Google is also reported to be working on an AI image denoiser, but it’s still in the Labs. Presumably this will be free and open source when it appears. Part of the larger NeRF from Google, a one-click quick image enhancer.
Kindle Fire HD – fresh OS, fresh apps
I cleaned my Kindle Fire HD (2017) tablet. In fact, a new fresh OS install and start over again. The Home tab’s Carousel is gone now, removed by Amazon. But it was jammed anyway, which was part of the reason for the fresh OS install.
New discoveries…
* DroidEdit. A Python code-writing tool for Android, with coloured text theme etc. On the Kindle Fire tablet version of the app store there’s only a paid version. The free version is only to be found on the Web Amazon app store, and once ‘purchased’ there it appears to be sent to your Kindle. But it never is. Oh well. No worries, as Archive.org has a Droid Edit Pro as a free .apk file to manually install. Not that I want to write code on a tablet, but if I gaze long enough at a script I can start to understand how it works. And in such a situation, I need the script to have pretty and consistent colour-coding. I’m a Brummie tinkerer who learns by looking at something that’s actually working, not from abstract ‘first principles’ and theory.
* The free Autodesk Sketchbook appears to be gone from the Kindle app store. But I had it in my Cloud library at Amazon in its £2.50 form and got it again from there. It’s also on Archive.org’s .apk stash as Autodesk Sketch Book Pro v4. Untested from Archive.org, but my old version works.
* No Clip Studio on the Kindle app store, but Archive.org has a 447Mb(!) archived copy of the app from November 2021. I assume this is the free .apk version, and you may well need to sign-in on loading it. Untested as yet. Can it perhaps be less annoying and fiddly than the desktop version? Let’s hope so.
* MediBang’s comics layout-maker MangaName is gone from the store, but can be had here. Although it may make a difference that I had it in my Amazon app library from years ago.
* No Krita on the Kindle app store. I vaguely heard they now have an Android version? But I’m not sure that would run on a Kindle Fire.
* No ToonArt on the Kindle store. I’ve only just discovered it. Such a pity it appears to require ‘face/head and shoulders’, and can’t toon-filter other things. Why is there no Photoshop desktop equivalent, I wonder? Perhaps there are software patents on the AI.
* No AIMP on the store, for playing audio and easy playlist assemblage, but that can be had free from the website.
* In Web search, I found that eTools has a dedicated app on the Kindle store. It’s getting to be better than Google for some types of search, especially hobbyist and professional technical information.
* Microsoft Teams was briefly available for the Kindle HD 10″ toward the end of 2021, but it’s now gone. At least, gone from the my model (2017). The page listing for it can no longer be found when you search the app store from the Fire, only Skype. Microsoft Skype installs, logs in and works fine. Of course, many workplaces now fetishize Teams, but you’ll just have to firmly tell them that you’re ‘Microsoft Skype only’.
Also of interest and found over at the Archive.org .apk stash…
* Pose Tool 3D. Definitely not Poser, and has ugly icons. But it works.
* LongShot, a long-scrolling screenshot maker + stitching app. Works, has a discreet narrow ad at the bottom of the main screen which is easily dismissed. Nothing more worrying than that from it, so far.
* Both Pose Tool and LongShot may benefit from the Open Source Media Merger app which automatically… “moves ../sdcard/DCIM/* and ../sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots to user specified folder”. Works fine. Takes a moment before the file is transferred to your chosen folder. Can be turned on and off.
* Four ‘vintage camera effects’ apps were tried, but all failed. The Open Source VectorCamera also failed, even the latest from the maker’s site. Wrong type of camera?
* The old Samsung Paper Artist app also failed. But it’s from a decade ago, now.
* I couldn’t find a free pixel-art / voxel-art app that also offered an isometric view/grid. Just ‘icon-maker’ type apps.
* Surprisingly, nor are there any fractal creation apps on the Archive.org .apk archive. Possibly they’re too computationally demanding for Android? Or maybe they just have the sort of obscurantist names that the desktop software has, so I can’t find them?
* No Carousel replacement, that simply does “Newly-arrived documents + cover thumbnails + sliding carousel” and then launches the selected item. Such a thing does not seem to exist.
What’s New in July/August 2022
Time for another survey-pick of what’s new in content for Poser and DAZ, since it’s been a month now since the last one. I’m looking here at the tail end of July and most of August. As usual, freebies are listed only if “commercial use”, and there’s no “HD” stuff. Fan-art is listed only if obvious, such that you would not think to try to use it in a paid comic etc.
Science-fiction:
Colony Motorbike with both Firefly and Superfly materials.
A usefully generic Worksuit for G8F. Could probably be made silvery for a more futuristic feel, and could then serve as a rider suit for the Colony Motorbike.
Moonbase Wig for G8F. Jerry Anderson’s UFO TV-series fan-art, but obviously so. Also a MoonBase Uniform DS Texturing guide.
A cute little free retro Spaceship Landing Craft.
The inhabitant is probably Shooting Star. I assume this isn’t direct-copy J-pop / idol fan-art, but I guess it might be close.
Photo Props: Asteroid World. Hi-res, quality texture and modelling.
Wastewater Area. A nicely done ‘vignette’ area. Looks useful, in combination with similar DAZ settings.
Jail Talks. A grim high-security prison visitor centre. Could probably be given a more clinical white makeover, for a sort of ‘future madhouse’. See also the generic new XI Modular Futuristic Prison.
Taisha for Genesis 8, possibly of interest to classic Spock/Kirk-era Star Trek fans, as a base for re-creating the character of Communications Officer Uhura, for fan-art purposes.
Fantasy:
Blood Omen for Genesis 8. Note that this is “a small creature-feature material pack” with four materials, not the impressive figure on the main promo. Still, these kind of unusual MATs are always useful.
Medieval Wagon Train, with implausibly large mega-wagon which puts it in the fantasy category. Probably hauled by dragons or trolls.
Amun-Raw Mummy for Genesis 8. An Ancient Egyptian ‘Living Mummy’.
Storybook:
Schip, looks very suitable as a storybook boat for a group of children and/or animals.
Simple dForce Summer Pajamas set.
A free G8 piggy-back paired pose set, which might be adapted for adult/child.
A cute Star Armchair for DAZ Studio.
Songbird Remix Finches of the Caribbean Add-on. A little free pirate hat for the new Finches of the Caribbean Songbird pack.
Toon:
Toon aircraft in .OBJ.
Cute flying Robot and Friends for DAZ.
Characters, poses, hair, expressions:
25 Expressions for Nursoda’s Eepo.
20 Expressions for Nursoda’s Doctor Pitterbill. Both Eepo and Pitterbill have custom face-rigs, so they can’t just take standard V4 type expressions.
Stylish Hair Mega Bundle. An appealing if expensive set, though what we really need are “looks nice + renders really fast” sets. But is it even possible to make nice hair that renders really quickly, unless it’s a displacement-mapped skullcap or has heavily been run through Scene Optimizer?
More free RAV Fredda Soft Fashion Poses Fredda. May require the paid Fredda, newly released in a new version.
Another catwalk animation set for G8F, this time with bobble… “add an animation of a female chest and change its intensity”.
A usefully generic newsreader-type dForce male suit.
Full urban hipster beard and hair. Possibly also useful for steampunk airship captains, ancient gods etc.
Animals:
Kitten For Cat Zeus. Cat Zeus is now only at Render Hub, along with the kitties.
More DAZ Dog 8 Animated Motions.
Landscapes, scenes:
dForce Dutch Milkmaid Outfit for G8F. This seems to belong more in “scenes”, as it’s a vital part of this sort of ‘old master’ painting of interiors. Purchasers of this may also want the new Studio Portrait Lighting Essentials for iRay tutorial set.
PW Mandrakia Island, a complete Greek Islands tourist resort. Really, it looks like everything’s here.
Vegetable Plot and Garden Flowers – Canterbury Bells for Daz Studio.
The Mount Olympus for DAZ Studio.
Sand and Beach Pebble iRay Shaders. Fine sea-grit and ocean-washed pebbles.
History:
Ancient battles MDBD Blood ‘n Dirt Bundle for DAZ. As geoshells, though.
Ancient Roman Simple Plebeian Domus. Generic Roman house, which might build out into a small district.
Ancient type dForce Angel Outfits. Possibly not all that authentic, but this looks like a good starting point for runtime-bashing. Great wings.
On ShareCG, a new flotilla of excellent sailing boats as .OBJ freebies. Boat06 is especially nice.
dForce U.S. Cavalry Outfit. See also Stonemason’s new Outlaw Alley Wild West town.
Agent civil 1940. Low-poly, accepts Poser M3 presets including face morphs. Good for Lovecraftian ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ type scenes.
Classic Second World War American Tank and Texture Pack.
1940/50s British Leyland Hippo Flatbed Truck and military version. For Poser.
1940s and 50s Vintage Vending Machines.
1950s American Diner Waitress outfit for G8F. A more modest and ‘home on the range’ top is in the new dForce MK Strapless Tight Dress pack.
Free, retro early 1960s Strand hair 2 and 3 for Genesis Females. Which may suit the waitress outfit.
Free 1930s-70s Hooded Nib Fountain Pens.
Later in time, and also free from the same maker are Disposable Ballpoint Pens.
1960s dForce Hippy Ponchos for G8F. Also new Hippie Dance Poses.
A free 1970s style Tufted Lip Sofa.
1970s Table Football.
Shaders, materials:
Universal Glow for Poser 11 and Poser 12, with light ‘spillover’. With Photoshop Action and full PDF manual.
A set of iRay Frosted Glass shaders.
Sand and Beach Pebble iRay Shaders.
Scripts and Add-ons:
Python script to disconnect all bump maps, for Poser 12. Also comes with matching render preset. The idea is to quickly get clean grunge-free line-art (only) from a Firefly render. May also be useful for Poser-to-Vue, since bump-mapping may not even be visible in a very big scene.
Bone Minion for Genesis 3 Poses Bundle. Apparently an on-the-fly pose converter. Try to load a non-G3 pose to a G3, and the script steps in and auto-converts it. Untested, but I assume it works.
SimDataSaver for Poser 12, specifically for Dynamic Cloth. “Always wanted to be able to save the Dynamic Controls Data as a Simulation pre-set? Now you can.” Sounds handy, if you use that Room in Poser.
Light shadow-blurring script for Poser. One-click to add soft ray-traced shadows to all your scene lights.
mcjHelpMeAssembleThisMachine, now in version 2, released 2021. Helps you “precisely position an object onto another object” in DAZ. Also updated, the related mcjLinks.
MCJ’s Neural Nets. Apparently with this you can train DAZ figures to auto-animate, using an AI. Now with a new Mac version. Updated a while ago, but I’ve only just noticed it.
fSpy Project Importer. Seems to be a way to import a Blender scene and also have your cameras match up in DAZ? Nice to see people wanting to go from Blender to DAZ, rather than the reverse.
A script to automatically create a DAZ ToolBar from a directory/folder of scripts.
Tutorials and magazines:
Free, Digital Art Live magazine #70 (August 2022).
Brian Haberlin’s Hellcop comic, made with Poser. About to conclude its second story-arc.
Studio Portrait Lighting Essentials for iRay as a tutorial webinar.
Poser to Vue, a quickstart guide. A more detailed guide will be in the next Digital Art Live magazine, along with a look at Poser 12.
Add an overlay on any existing texture in Poser.
Add tattoos and overlays on characters in Poser (may be out-of-date in parts).
Some practical tutorials for Poser figure rigging (may be very out-of-date in parts).
That’s it for now. More toward the end of September. As usual, if you like what I do here, please consider becoming my Patron on Patreon.
Scene shadow blurring scripts for Poser
One-click to improve your scene render in Poser! Poser Python scripts to instantly switch your scene lights to use softer ray-traced shadows, or to switch back again to the default Depth-map shadows. Working in Poser 11 and 12. In just one click, they save you having to fiddle around with each of the lights to turn on softer shadows across a scene.
Note that you can also soften shadow intensity manually, with the dial found on Light / Parameters / Shadow.
In both scripts the shadows are softened from the defaults (defaults = 0.0 for Ray-traced, 2.0 for Depth-map). Here the softening is increased to 6, but you may want to go to 12 or so. The free PASS Poser watercolor shaders on ArtStation Marketplace work best with even higher shadow blurring.
Change the script’s “(6)” to the shadows softness setting you want. If you want a full reset script, just set the “(6)” on the second script to the default (2) setting.
Set Ray-traced Shadows:
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# SWITCH TO SOFT RAY-TRACED SHADOWS FOR YOUR POSER SCENE # A small script to have all lights in a Poser scene move from using Depth Map Shadows # over to Ray-traced Shadows (with SOFT shadows set at 6.0). All scene lights are # assumed to be on and casting a shadow of some sort. Script is tested and working in # Poser 11 and Poser 12. # # Also boost sample size when rendering, for less grainy shadows. # You can also soften shadow _intensity_ with the dial on Light / Parameters / Shadow. import poser # Tell Poser we expect a scene to be loaded. scene = poser.Scene() # Get a list of lights in the Poser scene. lights = scene.Lights() #Run the script on all lights in the scene. for light in lights: # For some reason this old line needs to be above SetRayTraceShadows - or the switch over won't work. light.ParameterByCode(poser.kParmCodeDEPTHMAPSTRENGTH).SetValue(1.0) # Ok, now we can set the Light to cast Ray-traced shadows. light.SetRayTraceShadows(1) # Now we can set the amount of softness for the Ray-traced Light's shadows. # Note that here we do not use SetShadowBlurRadius() but rather SetShadowRaytraceSoftness() light.SetShadowRaytraceSoftness(6) scene.DrawAll() |
Set Depth-map Shadows:
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# SWITCH TO SOFT DEPTH-MAP SHADOWS FOR YOUR POSER SCENE # A small script to have all lights in a Poser scene move from using Ray-traced Shadows # to using Depth Map Shadows (with shadow softness at 6.0, from normal 2.0). All scene lights # are assumed to be on and casting a shadow of some sort. Script is tested and working in # Poser 11 and Poser 12. Also boost sample size when rendering, for less grainy shadows. # # Also boost sample size when rendering, for less grainy shadows. # You can also soften shadow _intensity_ with the dial on Light / Parameters / Shadow. import poser # Tell Poser we expect a scene to be loaded. scene = poser.Scene() # Get a list of lights in the Poser scene. lights = scene.Lights() #Run the script on all lights in the scene. for light in lights: # For some reason this old line needs to be above SetRayTraceShadows - or the switch over won't work. light.ParameterByCode(poser.kParmCodeDEPTHMAPSTRENGTH).SetValue(1.0) # Ok, now we can turn off Ray-traced shadows, if they are on. light.SetRayTraceShadows(0) # Now we can set the amount of softness for the depth-map shadows. # Note that here we use SetShadowBlurRadius() rather than the ray-traced SetShadowRaytraceSoftness() light.SetShadowBlurRadius(6) scene.DrawAll() |
Especially useful for soft indoor “old masters” type portraits, not so useful for hard-edged sun-baked beach scenes.
BSDF Painter
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A free Blender add-on for layering and painting BSDF materials.
Poser 12 uses Principled BSDF now, so presumably it wouldn’t be too difficult for this Blender add-on to have an “Output straight to a Poser material file” button? I believe the setups are identical to those in Blender, except for being ‘mirror-backwards’ in their direction of node-flow.
iRay to 3Delight
The free iRay to 3Delight script. A converter script that works. May be useful for those trying to make comics with DAZ, but who have a thingamajig that only adds lines to old-school 3Delight and not iRay.
1. Download and install script and its icon to ..\content\Scripts\iRay_to_3Delight (script is iray-to-3dl.dsa)
2. Load iRay thing into the scene, which for some reason you want to convert to 3Delight materials.
3. Add some old-school scene lights, so your 3Delight render won’t just be a black silhouette when rendered.
4. Go to the DAZ Studio “Surfaces” Tab/Room. The script can only do its thing from there. Select, open all items in the surfaces tree, then select the required surfaces on your figure or pop. Shift + click for “All”.
5. With the surfaces still selected, now run the script now found in Scripts | iRay_to_3Delight
6. Ensure you are in 3Delight as a renderer, and render.
There are also commercial scripts, that toggle your scenes between iRay and 3Delight. But if you only need 3Delight conversion for a few things, this freebie may be what you want.
From the Attic
Added to the Links page, the new location for Fantasies Attic Freebies.
Digital Art Live #70
Now available, the latest free Digital Art Live magazine, this month at a chunky 96 pages. Free as “pay what you want” on Gumroad, but a small donation is certainly encouraged to help keep it going.
Get issue 70 (August 2022) in .PDF at Gumroad.
Duplicate and Scatter for Poser 12
Duplicate and Scatter for Poser 12, a free script meant for low-poly props.
New low-poly M3 compatible ‘extra’, for Poser scenes
A new Poser freebie today, a low-poly 1940s scientist / investigator type to populate the background of your Poser scenes. Especially important for noir / pulp-crime comics and Lovecraftian RPG games artists, I’d say.
Once installed, found in the Library under: Figures | !DieselPunkUniverse | Character Male | Agent the Forties.
Judging by the poly-reduction tool in Poser (perhaps not a good guide?) the figure is just under 3,000 polys each, including clothes, but still looks good. So you could have 12 of these in a scene, and your higher poly heroes. You could even have a scatter script set to load and scatter 12 of them, and auto-apply poses.
The figure is found to work with poses from the main M3 partial-poses constructor pack (‘Dynamic Pose Construction Set’, no longer sold, found under ‘M3 DynamicsPCS’ in the Library).
The head accepts M3 character dial morphs (seen here is “HdFrankentn”), so you can quickly get away from the ‘stock M3 face’ which everyone goes “ugh!” at. There is absolutely no reason that any M3 has to look like a sad Poser 4 left-over.
Adding a head morph does not appear to increase poly-count, and does not need any prior INJ injected. So basically… poses and head morphs for M3 will all likely work with these figures. Aren’t you glad you kept all that M3 stuff, now?
My raw Poser test renders in real-time Comic Book. Stock Poser light preset.
Release: Material Maker 1.0
RodZilla’s Material Maker 1.0 is now available. It’s standalone desktop software for making PBR materials and more, and is a simpler-to-use open-source alternative to Adobe Substance 3D Designer and Substance 3D Painter. Version 1.0 (July 2022) adds 13 new nodes (inc. noise: dilate, erode, mask), undo/redo system, animated materials, sprite-sheet output, and more.
Free as ‘name your own price’ as a download on itch.io, but of course donations are encouraged for this very worthy software. For Windows, Mac (now ‘signed’), and Linux.
The nodes display will look familiar to anyone who knows the Poser Material Room.
Video intro at YouTube.
New for Poser / DAZ in July 2022
Welcome to this month’s survey of recent Poser / DAZ content and scripts. Yes, it’s a week early. But I may be busy at the end of the month.
I’m pleased to say that the DAZ Store seems to have fixed their slow loading / no loading problem, which had persisted for over a year. The store is now loading delightfully fast, for me.
As usual there’s no “HD” character stuff here (most people can’t run it) and non-commercial freebies are only mentioned if obvious fan-art.
Science-fiction:
Jepe’s WonderPlantZ 3 for DAZ Studio.
A free Space Girl Outfit for Genesis 8 Female.
The free CyborgHarry for Hivewire Horse. The horse ships free with Poser 12, with both Firefly and SuperFly materials.
A usefully generic DZ G8M ZSuit, though look at Xurge’s future-suits before you buy this.
A free Vorlon Alien. Only for non-commercial Babylon 5 fan-art, obviously.
The free SY Body Sockets for Genesis 8. Cyborg body plugs. Now it just needs someone to make the tangle of fitted pose-able connectors.
The unusual alien HF Prystine for Genesis 8.
Steampunk:
Hat Couture for La Femme & L’Homme, for Poser.
The free Syncope Round Glasses for Genesis 8.
Free Fitted Pipes for Bryce. Ready-made gnarly pipework for a steam-room.
Fantasy:
A free pack, FP Iconic Makeups for Genesis 3 & 8 Males. Non-commercial use, but that’s presumably because most of it is obvious fanart.
A free Sandclock, aka an hourglass. For DAZ Studio, and also an .OBJ version.
La Femme Warrior for La Femme and LF Warrior Poses. Pretty good. I don’t care for the warrior thing, but having a more Aiko 3 look for the flagship Poser female figure can only be a good thing.
Storybook:
Sweet and Sleepy Pillows for DAZ Studio. Probably destined for a cushion-fight in this new room for DAZ Studio.
Dynamic nightie for Diva for Dawn, for Poser.
Free socks for G8M, and textures.
Flink’s Rolling Hills – Daisy, new for Flink’s Rolling Hills base. Likely to be home to the naughty Storybook Mole.
Floppy Beach Vacation Hat for Genesis 8 Females, and a more formal straw boater hat in the new dForce Summer Tourist Set for G8F.
Toon:
Almost nothing in toon this month. But over on ArtStation, 20 Stylized Aircraft Base Mesh with .OBJ and .FBX formats. Free, but $25 gets extended commercial use.
A free Marshmallow Man for GM8. Not sure how close this is to a once-famous 1950s U.S. marketing figure, so beware of commercial use.
Hair and character:
dForce Gentleman Suit for Genesis 8. Looks usefully generic.
The DAZ Store temporary freebies page has updated. Capsces pose sets are always worth having, and here we have Ethereal Lady poses for Ninive 6. Also for G2F is the toony The Girl 6 Hair.
A free Telescopic Walking Stick of the sort given out by modern hospitals.
Free stylish Syncope Sunglasses for Genesis 8.
Lusitana. A free re-release of a universal Poser girl from 2011, made to work in “for all Poser versions”. Presumably if for some reason you have to use Poser 4, she’ll work there.
60 x Low-poly hat and headwear base meshes. With commercial use.
Gaming Poses for G8F, a set useful for those needing poses for tabletop role-playing and card/dice games.
Animals:
Songbird ReMix Birds of Prey Vol 6 – Eagles of the World 2. A Spanish eagle, among others. For Poser and DAZ.
Nature’s Wonders Lizards of the World Vol. 5. For Poser and DAZ.
Millennium Dog Motions 2 as AniBlocks. I seem to recall that Millennium dog / cat / sheep / lamb etc motions were cross-figure, so they may also work for other early animals.
Landscapes:
Just Beachy – Underwater Kelp Forest for DAZ Studio.
Underwater Seabed for Blender. I wouldn’t normally mention Blender stuff, but this is especially made to be “very light and easy to manage” by the expert maker RaffyRaffy.
Modular 3D Kits: Craterscape by ShaaraMuse3D. Shallow small crater impacts, lots of photoreal detail. For Poser and DAZ. Cover them with ocean and they could be underwater nests.
Modular 3D Kits: Sandwashed Desert Ruins by ShaaraMuse3D. For Poser and DAZ.
Ancient Ruins – Lost Civilization, a useful set of mixed generic props.
Mega Terrain: Swampland for DAZ Studio. ‘Beware of falling magicians’ (old Morrowind joke).
Historical:
Stonemason’s new Temple Of The Sun, a classical Chinese hilltop town setting.
Yo ho! ho! me harties, it’s free Pirate Treasure for DAZ. See also the older free Beach Cave as a setting to try out your treasure. You’ll also be needing your new free Flintlock Pistol, m’ lad.
The Eiffel Tower for DAZ Studio. Annoy ze French copyright trolls…
Free Pilot for Michael 4 set. Appears to be American, Second World War. For Poser.
A 1950s female office suit, dForce Basic Jacket Outfit for Genesis 8.1 Female.
Utilities:
DAZ to Cinema 4D Bridge, updated. “Improved UI, better GUI”, and “Basic support for earlier versions” in the form of C4D R22 and R21.
Bone Minion for Generation 4 Poses Bundle and and useage video. Apparently a seamless on-demand pose converter. No need to have a script chug through your 15Tb runtime, for a week. The poses get converted one at a time when you try to load to a figure.
Free Node Navigation Tools for DAZ Studio. DAZ has nodes? Who knew?
dFast for DAZ Studio. Jiggling body-bits for animations, done without dForce… apparently. Don’t blame me if you spend $20 on it and then don’t like it.
A free four-layer iRay shader.
My Technical Search for Poser and Daz Studio, a search-engine for those needing technical information. Now drawing on and searching across 173 sources.
Scripts:
P12 – free Python scripts for Poser 12, my new mega-list page. Poser 12 moved to Python 3, so the software needs these new scripts.
The free SnapTo for Poser 12. A simple object-mover script for Poser 12, and should also work on a Mac in Poser 11 (unless Apple’s Weird Foibles Dept. decided to ban Python this week).
A free Poser 12 Script Starter. A neat little panel to pin stuff to, including one-click render-size settings.
Small script demos on how to Load and Render a Sketch Preset in Poser 11 and Store and Restore Render Size Settings for Poser 11 and 12.
A free pack of Poser 12 helper scripts & a perma-palette, and More Poser 12 helper scripts.
Tutorials:
Digital Comics Creative : Volume 1. A new how-to part-work publication for digital comics makers.
How to Master Material Zones webinar recording, for DAZ Studio.
Expert Compositing with DAZ Rendered Backgrounds webinar recording.
Free, the defunct Artzone Wiki 2012 archive – 50 selected pages that could still be useful for Poser / DAZ people in 2022. The Wiki is no longer online.
How to fix the ever-accumulating lights in Poser 12 scenes. A default behaviour that seems likely to be a key show-stopper for new users.
That’s it for this month. As always, please consider becoming my patron on Patreon. Even pledging a few dollars a month is a great help. Thanks.
Fake Poser updated
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adp001’s Fake_poser is now updated for Poser 12. His Fake_poser3a.py “supports editors while writing Python scripts” for Poser. See the free Digital Art Live #56 for a short practical plain-English tutorial on getting the free Microsoft Studio Visual Code editor installed (a good replacement for Notepad++) and then this Fake_poser3a.py installed to run in it and help you with the PoserPython bits.
Also, my P12 scripts page is now many times larger than it was at launch a few days ago. Also my Technical Search tool has grown further as I’ve found older Poser 12 relevant pages, tutorials, scripts etc.