On Renderosity -renapd- is retiring some items, with heavy discounts for those who want them while still available. The most unusual are the RTproductions Napoleonic-era military uniforms for M4, including British and French packs. I also see a Russian Cossack and a Cossack Peasants pack for M3. Very niche, but no doubt they have a certain appeal in Europe.
Time for another round-up of selected new items which have recent appeared for Poser and DAZ. As usual freebies are only linked if they’re commercial use for renders, unless obvious fan-art. I’m also not covering every item in the G9 tidal-wave, just a few selected items.
Fantasy:
Fantasy Helmet Alpha, a G8 fantasy helmet with styling morphs.
HF Blyzzard for Genesis 8 Male. An ice-man makeover.
Steampunk:
Mad Scientist Helmet and Spectacles for Poser. Now updated for DAZ.
RetroFutur Car, a three-wheeler for DAZ.
MJ Nautilus, a fishlike steampunk submarine from Cybertenko. For Poser and DAZ. Some nice detailing, up-close.
Halloween:
Better late than never, FPE Faceless for Genesis 8, a demon pied-piper with band.
Toon:
Nola toon for Genesis 2 Female. Free.
A free Aubrie Morph Preset for A4, a semi-toon for Poser, and the maker has several others. The maker notes the morph packs, skin and hair needed for the full look.
A free Chicken costume.
Free G9 Toon Eyes. I’m guessing these could also fit other Genesis base figures.
Storybook:
Tipol’s Judith for La Femme Anime and Flossie. Clothing in a Nordic fairy-tale style.
V4\A4 Platform Sandals for Poser. See also Cozy HomeBooties for G8.
Free Crayons for DAZ Studio, and a free Cardboard box prop, for playroom make-believe.
Enclosed Side Garden Winter Add-On, with Narnia style lamp-post. Seems suitable for a storybook setting in which a garden magically changes to summer when it’s winter. You may be needing your K4’s in the new V4/A4 SnowBoots.
SY dForce Rain iRay. Rain and ripples, apparently quick to set up. Also… “you can make droplets bounce from any character or creature in your scene”.
People and poses:
The free Mary for La Femme for Poser, to take La Femme away from the default look.
La Femme Cirque Props and poses for circus scenes.
Double Bass and Poses for Genesis 8.
12 Poses for Antonia, this being the latest free Antonia version which was released last month for Poser.
Transfer Morphs Genesis,2,3,8 to G9. Maybe. Not all will work.
Animals / humanimals:
Animal Juck, ‘alien planet’ wild animals. Might also enliven a prehistoric Earth scene, for those not fussy about authenticity.
Mr Pigle, will apparently take G8 poses with some adjustments.
Nekomata Bundle for G8M. A sci-fi kitty with a Japanese influence.
He probably wants to take over the universe, rather than snuggle and scratch on the new Cat Tree for DAZ.
Landscapes:
Metal Detecting Props and detectorist hand poses, for G8.
Floating Worlds from ShaaraMuse3D.
Sub Aquatic Landscape by ShaaraMuse3D. Looks suitable for river-beds as well as oceanic scenes, and may thus be of interest to fresh-water fishermen who want to create 3D illustrations of the fish.
Fallen Leaves Tileable Ground Prop Set, Looks useful in many circumstances.
Mega Terrain: Scottish Highlands for DAZ.
Predatron African Trees and Bushes for DAZ.
Road Markings and Potholes for DAZ.
Historical:
Ancient Egyptian Furniture for DAZ. Also painted pillars.
Wolmol is starting to roll out his Wild West / Old West railroad construction kit and trains. Also a freebie RCK_SidingTrackPoses for rail positioning of sidings.
Currently free at DAZ, Vintage Aviator Textures for the G2 Vintage Aviator outfit, circa the 1930s.
Ken Gilliland’s 1920-30s Safari Camp. Likely to go well with the new free Bush Walking Track and the slighly older Jungle Props set.
Bamboo Swamp Houses, which at one time were also part of the landscape in Florida.
Free 1940’s style Oxford heels for G8F
A 1950s Vintage Projector for a James Bond / 50s noir type briefing-room.
A 1950s/60s Swiss ‘Mountain’ Train for Poser and DAZ.
Scripts and Utilities:
Spinaround for Poser 11. Automated turntable animation setup helper for figures and props.
Loops three times. Click here to replay
A free Poser 11 script to tell you where you need to install your Python scripts. If you don’t install scripts frequently, it’s quite possible to forget where they have to go. There’s also a simple Windows .BAT file. Pop it into the folder with the scripts, and it will automatically detect the correct path and install any .PY scripts.
A demo of the new Runtime Scavenger for Poser 12, available at Renderosity.
A script for bigger fonts on some parts of the DAZ user interface.
Fisio: Physics Simulator, new for DAZ.
NVIDIA graphics card drivers are reported to have been fixed for most, as of 20th November, re: the problem that was causing dForce not to work in DAZ Studio. Though there may still be problems with RTX 3060 cards, according to some.
Tutorials:
Making Genesis 9 Auto-Fit Clones for G8. Also useful here may be the new freebie Genesis 9 Marvelous Designer Avatar.
Neural Networks in G’MIC: An introduction to the API. It appears you can now plug an AI into the free G’MIC filter, via its API module.
That’s the pick, expect another survey before Christmas.
Here’s my survey of DAZ and Poser content and other items, picked from the October 2022 releases. As usual, freebies are only listed if ‘commercial use’ for renders.
NOTE: One person has said links don’t work, but they do. If you can’t click through on Web links, then you probably have an over-zealous anti-virus software that also tries to police your links. Please try whitelisting www.renderosity.com and sharecg.com and www.daz3d.com.
Science fiction:
The stylish Mecha One Male for DAZ Studio. Also at CGbytes.
He probably drives the new Sci-fi Space Rover.
Protective Gear 011 for Poser and DAZ. Whacky retro sci-fi helmets plus G8 fits.
You may need one of those helmets if you go up against the mighty Toad cliff for DAZ and Poser.
Landing Leg, Morphing, V1 for DAZ Studio. Add bio-morphic landing legs to any craft.
ShaaraMuse3D Planetarium 2 for Poser and DAZ. A high-quality “planet seen from orbit” set. 8k texture maps and halo variations.
A DAH Natalya Space for G8F, a retro Russian space-girl. Appears to be a character from the old Destroy All Humans! videogame, so for fan-art only.
Retro Bicycle a stylised low-poly-ish Blender file, but nicely done.
Need something sleeker? Try the new Manga Anime Bike.
Colony Wellness Center, not something you see in colony sets every day. But such things will be vitally important, off-world.
Steampunk:
DryJack’s Steam Tank. Good to see him branching out from his superb model railway items.
An Old West Western Train for the presumably forthcoming “Railroad Construction Kit” mentioned in the blurb. With dial animations.
Another Street for The Streets of SteamPunk, A texture makeover for the recent big Stonemason scene.
Beach:
Still dreaming of summer and the beach? Try some free Cocktails for Poser.
A free Fast Boat 03a, with a nice look to it.
An unusual Hideout Armchair with wings adding privacy and also protecting from wind and sand-kicks on the beach.
Storybook:
Four Simple Boats for Poser, stylized and suitable for storybook / stop-motion type scenes.
A Snow White Gown for Fay Gown for G8F.
Fashion Kid Poses for Parah for G8. Requires CNB Parah which is a HD figure.
Toon:
Beagle for Melody & Micah for Poser. I have a “Furries Melody/Micah characters – how to load the head shapes” tutorial that may help with getting this up and running.
NIK Female Morphs for G8F has one that’s semi-toon.
Clothing:
Retro Biker for G8M sees Cybertenko moving into clothing.
A free D-Force Gothic Headpiece for G8F.
Halloween:
DAZ Crow and Poses and Gothic Crow Accessories.
Illustratur Ad Mortem by MortemVetus. Olde books, skulls and candles for Poser.
Dracula Hair Long for G8. For the new Dracula.
A creepy-elegant Feast Of Bones table.
Figures and figure add-ons:
Antonia Polygon 1.3 Standalone base figure, and Free Nightie. Antonia was one of the base figures developed in the Apollo Maximus era, as a female companion for Apollo. Version 1.3 appears to have been fully updated for Poser 11/12 and is now under a generous permissive Creative Commons Attribution licence.
The free Sara for La Femme for Poser. A full-body makeover for the flagship female who ships with Poser 11/12.
Clarinet and Poses for Genesis 8.
WkD3D G8M Face Pack, great and non-generic male faces/heads. But note that “This product contains only the head morphs – no textures are included. The skin textures used in the promos are noted on each image.”
The DAZ Genesis 9 base figure is out, and also various packs of base shapes, expressions, essentials etc. It was said in the webinar that if you can run existing HD figures then you should be able to run G9. Also apparently requires the very latest DAZ Studio.
Landscapes:
Some basic Grass for Poser, as a small square prop. Flink’s Grass would usually be my go-to, but this may be useful for tiling in the distance or for a large low-poly soccer pitch.
Viking Town: Set 3. Old VanishPoint content, but still able to look OK at a distance. Also useful for Anglo-Saxon scenes, as the hut buildings were often much the same.
Underwater:
ShaaraMuse3D’s new Photo Plants: Plants of the Sea. Sea-grass for your underwater scenes.
Underwater reefs by RaffyRaffy, sadly only for Blender and not Vue.
Animals:
Songbird ReMix Parrots Vol 6 – Amazons of the World 2 for Poser and DAZ.
Love A Cat for the HiveWire Housecat and Hivewire’s Dawn base female figure.
Mutton, a stylised ram (sheep), perhaps especially suitable for a scene that looks like a stylised stop-motion scene.
Historical:
Viking Warrior’s Horn Helmets for Genesis 8.
Renaissance Astronomy Room, complete with the relevant papers, tools and so on.
Jolly Roger Pirate Ship for Poser and DAZ. Updated for 2022.
A free 1777 Musket, French Napoleonic type.
1970s glam-rock boots, Wedge Platform Boots for G8F.
Utilities:
AutoLoad Creator for DAZ Studio. Use a simple UI to generate scripts that will autoload items onto a figure. Looks useful for content vendors, who can thus supply standalone scripts that can reproduce their promo images for users. Would be great to see this also extended to lights and cameras and render-settings.
AutoSave for DAZ. A simple “save every…” tool.
A free DAZ Studio UI layout Industrial Layout.
A free DAZ script to List Products Used in a scene.
Camera Tracking Importer for DAZ Studio – HitFilm Composite Shot.
Regroup for Sketchup. UnGroup models, fix their axis, re-group. Might be useful for fixing badly-made models with good geometry, before getting them out to an .OBJ file.
A Photoshop Action to cleanly cut out Dream by WOMBO AI images and auto-heal the curved corners.
Tutorials and more:
Digital Comics Creative – volumes three and four. 100 pages packed with information and examples. This double-issue combo volume is aimed at those who want to use Poser to make line-art for comics and also make more storybook type pictures that emulate hand-drawn and watercolor. Also covers filters, and has a well-researched section at the end surveying the possibilities for mo-cap for comics production.
Making an Autofit Clone and Shape for Genesis 9. A basic starter tutorial.
Using Poser Constraint Groups for animation, a short tutorial by Nerd3D.
Scene Power Building: How to Quickly Build Content-Rich DAZ Studio Scenes.
Digital Art Live’s YouTube Channel is changing. Old videos are gone, and many new videos are coming. Be sure to subscribe.
Digital Art Live magazine #72. Newly expanded, with freebies, ten new additional features and 108 pages. The theme this month is “Costume”, with a focus on fun and futuristic clothes and an Elia Neck interview.
That’s it for the October survey.
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Human Motion Diffusion Model is new text-based AI for generating mo-cap animation for a 3D figure. Still a science-paper + source code at present.
But it can’t be long before you type in a text description to generate a rigged and clothed 3D figure (plus some basic helmet-hair), and can then also generate a set of motions to apply to the figure’s .FBX export file. Useful for games makers needing lots of cheaply-made NPCs, provided they can be game-ready.
But for Poser and DAZ users, the ideal would be to have reliable ‘text to mo-cap’ exist as a module within the software. Even better would be to have an AI build you a custom bespoke AI-model by examining all the mo-cap in your runtime, thus gearing it precisely to the base figure type you intend to target.
New and available now on Gumroad, Digital Comics Creative, Volumes 3 & 4 – Secrets of Poser 11 and Line-art Filters. Both volumes are bundled together as a bumper 100-page magazine-style PDF, great value at the introductory price of $15 (will soon be $18).
The earlier Volume 1 (Introduction) and Volume 2 (focused on DAZ Studio for comics) are also available. Volumes 5 and 6 are set for release in 2023.
Time for another survey of the new and recent 3D content for DAZ Studio and Poser, for other related software, plus links to other goodies. Not quite monthly, as the last such was back on 20th August. So it’s roughly a six-weekly survey this time.
Magazines:
Available now, the new Digital Art Live magazine #72 (October 2022). Newly expanded, with ten new additional features and 108 pages. The theme this month is “Costume”, with a focus on fun and futuristic clothes.
It this sells at $5 then the following issue will be on AI image generators.
Science-fiction:
HF Asterya for G8F. Looks great. Hellfyre71 now has quite a nice line in humanoid aliens.
Car Viter, a Syd Mead-like personal vehicle of the future for DAZ Studio. Looks “very Mead”.
Cafe Racer for DAZ Studio.
Car Tork for DAZ, suitable for sandy and swampy places.
IBOT D2, floater bots for corridors.
The IBOT D2’s are probably hunting for Coflek-gnorg’s Critter. A bionic dino shark-bot!
The classic AirFish, now for DAZ Studio.
1971s Sci-fi interior kit for Poser, and he has another separate page for a DAZ version. 8 modular parts. His content always toons nicely in Poser’s real-time Comic-book mode.
Planning to help Elon take his Boring Company tunnel-digging to Mars? Then you’ll be needing the AtoZ Mobile Dual Beam Gantry Crane and tunnel sections.
Fantasy:
Broomhelga for La Femme for Poser.
Cirque De Lune Texture Set for La Femme. Plus poses.
Cybertenko’s new Atlantean King For Michael 4. Who could perhaps find a use for a D-Force Fur shoulders cape/wrap.
Photo Props: Bottles by ShaaraMuse3D. Pop all sorts inside, from micro-moss landscapes to pesky imprisoned imps.
The classic Steam outpost, now for DAZ Studio.
Halloween:
1971s has a new Underground Place kit for Poser and DAZ. A classic type environment which reminds me of the waterworks under the city of Vivec in the famous videogame Morrowind. There’s another separate page for a DAZ version. Suitable for Halloween revels with the monsters.
A dForce Stage Outfit for G8F. Unusual, and I imagine you could make the web pattern glow.
Fyrboil and his bat cousin Nibbles Bloodfang, both by Anniemation.
Halloween Hair. Fun, but could also form part of an unusual ‘yeti-type superhero’ kitbash for a new addition to your comic-book team.
Scruffy Hair Set for G8M. Always useful to have this sort of Gollum-hair, since it’s so rare.
Cheapskate’s free 3D Candle Flame for Superfly in Poser.
Everyday items, fruit and vegetables. I guess this sorts of counts for Halloween, as these days some think you should give nice healthy broccoli (eew…) to kids instead of candy. The potatoes and tubers looks especially nicely done.
CW Jospeh for Genesis 8, a handsome vampire with just the right sort of face for a less photoreal look (e.g for a 3D comic).
Another Vulture Mask for G8F.
Toon:
Not much in toon this month, as everyone switches to Halloween and Christmas. But Norbert the Nerd for Genesis 8 appeals, as a photoreal semi-toon.
Storybook:
Cutie Cloud Bundle studio set for DAZ Studio.
A generic Bicycle for Poser. Looks to be electrically assisted, and the sort of town run-about you might see in Japan.
Steampunk Submarine SeaMaid, possibly useful for a storybook adventure.
Hobby Props Art Supplies for DAZ Studio, including crayons.
Handmade Textures for Use with G’MIC’s ‘Artistic Stylize’.
Poses and AniBlocks:
Skydive G8 poses. Unusual, and possibly very useful if that’s what you want for your scene or animation. Could perhaps also double-up as outer-space weightless-ness poses? But for that see also HF Outer Space Poses for Genesis 8 Female.
Loiter Motions 2 for G1 and G2. Slightly mis-named, as one involves the figure having a heart-attack (see video)! There’s also a Loiter Motions 1 for G3F & G8F. Who knows what lurks in that one?
MultiGroup IV – Poses for Genesis 3 and 8.
Characters and clothing:
DZ G8F FemmeFataleZ. Looks similar to the Catwoman character, but not being any kind of a DC Comics or movies fan I’m not sure how similar. Be wary of commercial use, as DC Comics are very protective of their IP. For G8F.
Hard Work for M4 and V4 Hi-Vis Top and Pants for Poser. Useful if you make work-safety training videos for companies, and need the right gear. Also matching Work Gloves.
Victoria 9 HD, pre-order, for the forthcoming Genesis 9 free base figure. Apparently you need to be able to already comfortably run HD figures, to run this one. Also needed will be the very latest DAZ Studio.
Sexy Leotardo Classic for G8. And it is indeed, since it looks like a ‘instant classic’ go-to for many.
Layered Strand-Based Hair Shader and Merchant Resource for iRay.
Animals:
Songbird ReMix Parrots Vol 5 – Amazons of the World 1. Another triumph for Ken’s line of birds packs. See also the Songbird ReMix Perching Places and Eggs and Nestlings for garden birds.
DS Cadichon for DAZ Horse 2. Strange name, but it’s a donkey with pack gear. The gear probably needs a dust and wear pack for a makeover.
Texture Pack for the Hivewire Winged Horse and Poser.
Steampunk Pirate Octopus. A static model, but nicely done. Would be fab to see something akin to this made for Poser / DAZ.
LoREZ Horse 2 Bundle, a useful looking general cart-horse.
Landscapes and environments:
OpenWater, a block of open sea with waves. Looks useful, when you don’t want and can’t really control a big plane of water that might try to take up your entire scene.
Also a matching Wading model.
3 Beach Materials in SBS and PBR.
Raffy Raffy’s new Four biomes, though for Blender rather than for Vue.
Historical:
BW Primitive Weapons Bundle. Also digging and skinning tools.
dForce CH Greek Mythological Armour for Genesis 8. And a Medusa shield. See also the dForce Ares War Outfit.
Far From Home – Roman Legionary. Looks like it has just about everything you’d need to build your own legion, provided you can get more than four G8s in a scene. For G8M.
Viking Town Set 2. Older content from VanishingPoint, and showing its age, but now available for DAZ Studio. Also suitable for a Saxon settlement, seen from a distance or in a bird’s eye view. May also interest Vue users who can put an ecosystem on parts of it.
Napoleon’s Polish Lancer Bundle for G8. Specialist military historical content, no doubt a big hit in Poland.
Battleship Variations, an add-on pack for the Massena Pre-Dreadnought Battleship from the 1900s. Real-world, but suitable for steampunk.
Classic Silver Age retro Comic-book helmets.
1930s/40s hard-working Farm Livin’ outfits for Poser. Requires the Work and Leisure set.
A 1930s German Nurse for Poser.
Scripts and Utilities:
Ken K’s new script has been released. One-click to fit clothing to body morphs on figures in Poser 12 (only). There’s a video demo.
AutoSave and AutoLoad Creator for DAZ Studio.
OBJ Companion, “makes creating morphs using OBJ files easier”. Seems to be a helper for content makers switching between DAZ and Blender.
D-Talks! Realtime Talking Chatbot for DAZ Characters. Works with SAPI5 voices.
Legacy Set Converter. I’d always be wary of letting an autobot loose on a big runtime, but this apparently goes through on automatic and converts everything to the current DAZ .DUF format.
Bone Minion for Genesis 8 for Generation 4 (V4 and M4).
Tutorials:
Digital Comics Creative : Volume 2, for DAZ users. The Poser volume of this six-parter is due shortly. Update: it’s here.
dForce Case Studies : An In-Depth Tutorial Guide. Break through your dForce learning roadblocks.
Fixing Marvelous Designer Clothing Objects for DAZ Studio.
An easier and better way to do displacement in Poser 12.
Creating a hand grasp from one main dial in the body of the Poser figure.
Creating Scripts for Moho, the 2D animation software that uses Python. Formerly Smith Micro’s Anime Studio. No longer interfaces with Poser, sadly, put perhaps someone could whip up a new Python script for that?
Ok, that’s it for the latest round-up. Be sure to pick up the new edition of Digital Art Live magazine. More next month!
Now available, free on Gumroad, the “Battle” issue of Digital Art Live magazine. Also has a 12-page centre section on the Poser 12 software, to give some light relief in the middle. And a two-page technical primer on Poser-to-Vue.
Poser 12 has updated. Now at version 12.0.1029 in Windows. The Mac version stays as it was before, for now. The forthcoming Digital Art Live magazine #71 (Sept 2022) has a detailed install guide and guide to what Poser 12 has that Poser 11 doesn’t.
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).
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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.
It’s not wise to judge Cybertenko’s items wholly by their store previews. His Short Sunderland British Empire flying-boat for Poser, for instance.
What you think you’re getting (store preview picture)…
What you get…
Here seen in Vue. And as you can see, the off-puttingly prominent bumpy rivets on the previews are not so much of a problem on whole-plane renders. Although they are perhaps a bit too prominent on the front base (the ‘planeing step’) and I could have cleaned them off there in Photoshop.
Problem: In E-on’s Vue, the Camera Zoom / Pan controls and Nudge are way too sensitive for Poser scene imports to Vue. The settings there appear to be intended for vast three-mile wide scenes, where exact artistic framing of the picture is not so important.
Former solution: Pressing down Crtl while moving the camera used to work to damp down the camera, but now no longer does. The old manual had: “You can slow down the camera controls by holding down the Ctrl key as you move (this can be customized using the Operations tab of the Options panel).” This was good for Vue 11, Vue 2016, and still is if you have them. Not for the latest version(s).
New solution: The answer is “w” for the new versions of Vue. It is the new keyboard modifier for slowing or ‘damping’ the camera. Who knew? Not E-on’s Learning Center, certainly. No results for a search there for ‘Camera Controls’ and similar.
Customised as before with: Top menu | open Options panel | switch to Operations tab | scroll down the long list to find ‘Trigger Modifiers’.
There doesn’t seem much to be done about Nudge, though I guess a Python script could “move currently selected item down by X units” in a far smaller increment. I expect my nudge to be like Photoshop, one pixel at a time. Not 50 feet at a time.
Vue users could also use a Python script that runs through all possible settings that could have the damnable ‘Lens Flare’ enabled, and turns it off. Ideally permanently. It still takes forever to run at the end of a completed render, if enabled. You may think you’ve turned it off, but always seems to find a way to sneak back in. As Vue renders are now so fast, this is a big drag.
I only just noticed that Brian Haberlin has a new comic, Hellcop. Same style and wild sci-fi as the earlier Sonata and Lighthouse (collected Nov 2021), and I definitely recognise that Poser monowheel, the steampunk rifle etc. So I’m 99% certain the production is still Poser + his usual studio workflow.
Seems to have debuted October 2021 and then raced through the issues, possibly monthly? Hellcop is already in a trade “Vol. 1” which collects issues #1-5, and I see that issue #9 just came out last week. So I’m guessing the title’s second 5-issue story-arc will be finished by the end of the summer. I’m not used to such a fast pace, and often hand-drawn comics issues are glacial in appearing and you wait ages (sometimes years) for an actual concluded story. But I guess that’s what Poser does for you, speeding up production.
I was prompted to take a quick look at Texture Paint Helper 1.3 aka texturepainterhelper. Long marked as “Unavailable” at Renderosity. No videos though there is a helpful short user-guide, and the software itself has a step-by-step workflow built in.
If you want to see if you have it archived somewhere, the DAZ Studio installer was DS3_TexturePaintHelperLoader_1.0.0.0_Win64.exe (possibly DAZ 3 only) and it was ps_ap204b_TexPaintHelper.exe for Poser. Windows only. I find I have a copy of the latter installer. Re-installs and runs fine for me. Works with any Poser figure, is not restricted to a base V4 or just DAZ figures.
It doesn’t appear to be a re-texturer / re-painter as such, but an overlay-builder (think ‘tattoos’, ‘body-paint’) which lets you use regular Photoshop to do the painting of the overlay. There may be better tools now. I guess 3D Coat, and I recall many used Blacksmith3D at one time, and a simple node setup in the Material Room can also work with any Poser version, and don’t overlook that Poser 11 had new Material Room features in that regard. But it’s nice to know that ye olde standalone desktop software dedicated to working with a Poser runtime can still run. It only requires the ../content folder and not access to Poser, so does not require a specific Poser version due to scripting etc. It knows about Poser runtime structures and presents these quickly and well.
Pitterbill in Texture Paint Helper, 2022. A fine use of structured workflow with incorporated buttons for the user.
No drag-and-drop from its loader library, over to the Poser stage. Lack of drag-drop or any keyword-search means it can’t be re-purposed for use as an alternative Library. Still, if someone can access the source code today, there seems no reason those features could not be added.
A 10-step Poser to Vue guide in 2022. Yes, it still works.
1. Install Poser 11. If possible, tell its Library about your Poser 12 runtime, if you also have Poser 12.
2. In Poser, make a scene with Poser.
3. Save the scene as a normal .PZ3 Poser scene file.
4. Install Vue (Vue 2016 R5, or latest subscription Vue R6, or both).
5. In the Vue “Options”, find the Poser button and set the path to the Poser 11 .EXE file’s folder. The Poser SDK version will be automatically set.
6. In Vue, New Scene, File, “Import Object…” (NOT “Import entire scene…”). Find and load Poser .PZ3 file.
7. On the import options pop-up: Group figures as single meshes. Render using Poser Shader Tree. Single Frame at “0”. (Research the other import options, as needed).
8. Ignore Vue’s legacy warning notice about your puny under-powered PC — it appears to say the same thing regardless of if your PC is a 1876 steam-driven abacus or a modern workstation with oodles of RAM and many cores. Just say “No” to having Vue over-ride your Poser scene import options with settings that it thinks are best.
9. Vue imports the Poser scene. Should not take too long. There’s a Progress Bar.
10. Frame the Poser scene nicely (Vue does not import Poser cameras), apply a Vue Atmosphere, Vue plants etc. Save file. Render.
There should be no materials tweaking required. Vue knows about Poser textures. The only thing you have to watch out for is spectacular on the lights and the sun in Vue.
Crtl is the camera movement damper key for Vue 11, Vue 2016, and W is the damper for the current versions. With this key pressed down on the keyboard, the camera moves in far small increments, more suitable for artistic framing of a Poser scene that’s smaller than the vast landscapes Vue is mainly used for.