Poser 11 Pro for just $52! Nice. Today only, one more day to go.
Update: it appears to be sticking at $52. The time-limit has gone, but the new low price remains.
Category Archives: Poser
Poser 11 to .STL
Newly on Archive.org, Poser -> Rhino -> RepG workflow test by Christopher Corrigan of PRYStudio, uploaded April 2021. May be of interest to those trying to 3D-print Poser props or figures, as it shows it is possible to get…
“a Poser 11 mesh sealed up and put through Rhino [to get printable] .stl and .x3g files”
“Rhino” is a robust old 3D modeller. “RepG” is “ReplicatorG, a simple, open-source 3D printing program”.
Meanwhile… 3D printing with sound waves. Busts of ultrasound insert tiny hot bubbles, that serve to form super-fine details on the figure.
New for Poser and DAZ in May 2022
Time for another monthly survey of selected new items for Poser and DAZ Studio. In the merry month of May we had, among others…
Science fiction:
Star Hauler Salvage Ship. Possibly fairly close to some branch of the Star Wars franchise? Check before you use it in a comic or book cover.
Pandora Greenhouse. Possibly close to fan-art? I hardly recall the Avatar movie at all now.
Fantasy:
Merlin 8.1 Pro Bundle and lots of related accessories. Merlin, ancient British wizard from the time of King Arthur, see the movie Excalibur, etc etc. But here pitched as definitely a bit Gandalf-y.
Don’t overlook the nice CDI Poses for Merlin.
The free Faerie-Folk 2 for Anime Girl Kristin. Also free is the toony Mer-Folk for Anime Girl Kristin.
Azumanji for Genesis 8 Female.
Myst-type Fantasy Structures vol.1 in .OBJ format. Will also interest Vue artists. Could be paired with the new free Orc Tent Addon for Orc Camp.
Steampunk:
M3D Chuck Hair and Mustache for G8. Modern hipster, 1910s Brooklyn bar-tender, or Aerial Board of Control airship captain.
Chuck Hair may work nicely with the new M3D Chuck.
A big Steampunk Cube from Coflek-Gnorg, which should fit right in alongside DM content in your runtime.
Mecha Fish and Phantoms Lair: Part 1 – Underground Lake.
Free spy stuff from the First and Second World Wars.
Halloween:
Ferryman To the Underworld by Cybertenko. Looks a bit Disney-cheesy “theme park” in the renders, but it could no doubt be made more realistic looking.
Great to see Poisen back with Hed-Bugs.
Faces of Fantasy for M4. Not new, but newly found. Also works with K4, and one hobbit-like body morph.
Toon and comics:
Jolly Mouse and Jollo and Jolly assets including some basic clothes. There are also commercial clothes being made for him, on Renderosity and also ShareCG.
Storybook:
Free ‘halo-phones’ earphones Head Gear for Victoria 4.
A free Garden Playhouse.
Could be a home for Popcorn the Goat.
A free mcjETBike, an E.T. style bicycle. Also has cycling-animation video tutorial.
Hobby Props Gardening, Hobby Props Sewing & Knitting, and Hobby Props Baking.
Doughnuts Props for DAZ Studio.
A useful go-to free Snow Terrain, at 98Mb, with panorama. Comments suggest it’s high quality.
Animals:
Songbird ReMix: Flamingos. Classics and variants.
Songbird ReMix: Hoopoes & Scimitarbills for Poser and DAZ.
Herdbeast Motions, an old set of AnimMate blocks. It would be interesting to know if this also works on other early four-legged lizard-beast-ish type of DAZ figures.
Free Jungle Props and Allosaurus in .FBX.
Characters, poses, expressions:
Free La Femme Comic Book Expressions, for the flagship Poser 11/12 female.
Free Simple Winter for L’Homme, American winter-wear. L’Homme is the flagship Poser male figure.
Soccer Juggling (football skills) for M4, V4, and presumably also K4. Useful for things like football comics, in the Striker! mould.
Historical:
Zyanya V4, a fantasy stone-age character currently free on DAZ.
Ancient Egyptian House, I’ve never heard they had houses like this, but it looks great.
V4lkyrie is available again.
Ruched Harem Pants for G8Fs, dForce.
Crafting Herbs, for a medieval herbalist.
Free Ferrier outfit for G8M. And matching free figure. From the first Pirates of the Caribbean, so fan art only.
Narrow Gauge Tracks Part 1, for some European lines and some British theme parks.
GWR 3 Plank Wagon for British railways.
A 1956 hairstyle, Cute Short Bob for GF8.
Concert Harp and Poses for Genesis 8.
1980s type hobby Craft Tools.
FX:
Fabric Folds PS Brushes for Photoshop. I had a look for others but these appear to be fairly unique. I found 25,000+ me-too ZBrush wrinkle brushes, but very little worth having for Photoshop and nothing at all free. So… these look great, but slightly swirly. I’d say we also need a set of more angular L-shape elbow-type creases too.
In Blender, Real Wrinkles.
Tutorials:
Abstract: Compositing with DAZ Studio, four hours with Drew Spence and Digital Art Live.
The latest free Digital Art Live magazine has a concise guide to making your old K4 into various ‘Little Monsters’.
Scripts:
A very nice wavering Candle flame shader (3D mesh) for Poser Firefly.
Animated (may not appear, due to a GIF-blocker in your browser)
Static, for those running GIF blockers.
Volumetric Clouds for Poser, as preset props.
A free Light Manager script for Poser 11 and 12.
A free Poser 11 script to disconnect all bump maps, along with a render preset to then make a line-art only render from Firefly. Bump maps are 95% of the cause of speckles which mar Firefly lineart renders in Poser. Useful for comics production and for painters planning large complex pictures. Update: Now also for Poser 12.
Script AutoLauncher for Poser 12 and Script AutoLauncher Demonstration video for Poser 12.
Sub-Level Maze, first in a series based on a DAZ script that apparently automatically randomly assembles a maze from seamlessly matching parts. In this case, a generic underground storage/pipes area. It’ll be interesting to see this series develop.
Camera Lock Script updated to work with the latest DAZ Studio. Also CamLock 2022, possibly the same thing.
That’s it, more next month. As always, my Patreon welcomes new patrons. Thanks.
The End of the Quest
A fun new animation by the Lone Animator (Richard Svensson), combining expert stop-motion with 3D rendered backdrops, foregrounds, and grounds. Including fractals and flame-fractals in some cases. DM’s Egyptian temple for Poser makes an appearance, toward the end.
“The End of the Quest” on YouTube.
More unusual K4
My Survey: Unusual K4 has been updated.
EZ Skin 3
My EZ Skin 3 post, with mini-tutorial and advice, has been updated. Including links. It’s also now available in a version for Poser 12.
On Predatron’s Goblin figure
I’m pleased to discover Predaton’s original Goblin figure for Poser, with Goblin Cleric outfit and staff. Still available at DAZ, along with an armour pack. Old, but works fine in Poser 11.
The Comic Book mode is ‘on’ in Poser, then a 20-second Poser Sketch render (painterly) is made from this at 1800px…
The Sketch render is filtered in Photoshop and Smart Blurred a bit to remove some remaining frosting on the clothing textures. A Firefly ‘Lineart only’ render is added to add the fine pen lines. Another Poser Sketch render (hairy inks) is applied, and the eraser manually removes all ‘hairs’ except for those on the skin. A SuperFly render could have been added at the top of the layer-stack (set to colour blend to restore the original colours) but in this case it wasn’t and I went with a warmer look. As usual, belts and buckles have problems taking inking lines even in Firefly.
Technical notes:
The robes are misleading when loading, in that they will appear not to conform after loading. However, if you slightly move the base figure after manually conforming the robes, they do snap into place and will then follow the figure’s poses. This problem will potentially cause compositing registration problems if using renders from different sessions. The robes have their own poses which match the lower parts with those that come with the Goblin.
If you have a Poser 7 expressions folder, then the face can be randomised. And there are so many head morphs that all the randoms look good.
The Cleric Robes have non-rendering drape-control boxes that show up in Sketch and Firefly renders, if not made invisible in the scene. Here we see a box I missed, appearing in an old-school lineart render from Firefly.
In the above, the bump-maps are auto-removed with a script to get rid of ‘the speckles’.
The Goblin also renders fine in SuperFly, though the eye pupils are reflective-white if light is shining into them. As you can see in this 20-second raw SuperFly (Cycles) render…
The Goblin accepts poses for older short figures such as Little Mummy, Sam and Sadie, NearMe, and the wealth of generics from Poser 1-8. So far as I recall, the latter still ship with the Poser native freebies bundle, so you won’t be short of poses.
The headcap of the robes can be removed, to test hair. Here we see that the free Troll Hair finally finds a use…
… and this hair also shows up in Comic Book mode. You can also add three such hairs for extra bulk. Or you could make some Poser strand hair as a simple mohawk.
No freebies, no Crossdresser licence. So the expansion possibilities are limited. But it’s a great little semi-toon figure with a ton of morphs, and a good story-opponent for some of the Nursoda figures. Predatron also has a matching and larger Troglodyte troll-like figure, with a large range of accessories, poses and armour.
What’s new for Poser and DAZ in April 2022?
What’s new for Poser and DAZ in April 2022? Time for another survey of the new items released for Poser and DAZ Studio users. As usual, freebies are only featured if commercial use.
Science fiction:
SpecOps Helmet by Cybertenko, for M4. With various MATs.
Shadow Market. I’m guessing this may be close to fan-art, and looks Star Wars -ish. So check before commercial use in comics etc.
Intercept for Genesis 8, a futuristic fighter-pilot outfit.
Cryo Stasis Deck for DAZ Studio, which might fit well with similar items.
No steampunk this month, but a fab dieselpunk super-villain, Juggernaut for G8M.
Fantasy:
Nursoda has released an unusual one, Servants Of Apollyon. They’re one of the various monsters cryptically mentioned in the Bible, and were probably large flying locusts likened by Near East folk tradition to “little horses” in speech. Here we get an unusual ‘horse-a-locust-a-scorpion’ for Poser.
There are also free Feltlocks For Apollyon, and Poses for Nursoda’s Fehn that fit with Apollyon.
A wolf-man LoboMan for Genesis 8 Male.
Scyllah, a Scorpion Lady for G8F.
RDNA Victoria Bone Armor 1 for V4, currently free on the DAZ Store.
Meshbox’s Dungeon Halls, Walls and Doors construction kit for Poser. Old but new on the store and thus possibly now with a texture makeover?
EV Bonfire for Poser.
Iron Scale Armor for G8M, part of a range. Nicely done.
SWAN Song Violin Kit and SWAN Dance Costume Kit for G8F. Looks good, but I couldn’t get the picture previews to work on this for some reason, and the main promo is impossibly dark.
Storybook:
A free Stork Family for Central European rooftops, where they nest. Low-poly but that won’t matter to those who want to overpaint their picture-book renders.
Simple cute Easter Eggs and Fluffy Chicks.
Hr-250 from Ali, for Poser.
Animals:
Songbird ReMix: Puffins and Auks.
Also from Ken G., Songbird ReMix Australia Vol. 3, Songbird ReMix Pelicans (updated) and Songbird ReMix Jacanas. The latter being South American ‘lily trotter’ birds akin to the English coot.
Anniemation’s Flying Dove Animation for Songbird ReMix Gamebirds Vol. 3. Has a video preview and looks very well done.
Mountain Lion Poses for Big Cat 2 Cougar.
Landscape:
People:
Free L’homme Dark Glasses for Poser’s flagship male figure.
Ghostship Hair Shader System for Poser 12.
Martin Hair for Genesis 8 Males. Usefully generic and modern.
Pose Me Unique Vol.5 for G3F and G8F. Based on classic Japanese manga comic poses, and it’s building into quite a series.
French Horn and Poses for G8. Poses to have your character play the orchestral instrument.
Female Cat Walk Construction Set for fashion catwalks. Also an Animation Set. Jazz up your catwalk with the new Cyber Tunnels.
Generic G8F Walking Poses 21 to 25. Here they’re unusually modelled on idly kicking a ball about in a lacklustre manner.
MoonDust for AS Fable Hair, an unusual release for 2022, as this Aery Soul V4 hair is now totally unavailable. These are just colours. Perhaps the pack was just something someone found in a dusty drawer and decided should be out there?
Props:
Sewing Machine, a complete set for Poser. Could be useful for those who want to make a instruction manual, together with Poser’s Comic Book mode.
Free G8F Hurdles Poses and Sports Ground: Hurdles props.
A free very Low Poly Umbrella Kit for a crowd scene in the rain. One of a number of similar freebies.
Historical:
A free Norman Helmet for Micheal 8.
A free Maciejowski Helmet and Knight armor, and a Helmet Kapalin.
Also free are Helmet Crusader 1 and Helmet Crusader 2.
dForce Seljuk Turkish Princess Outfit and iRay Medieval Fantasy Shaders (Merchant Resource).
Joseon Era Hanbok for G8M and hat. I think this is Korean. South Korea is having a heritage and museum boom, as their middle-classes mature. With a small makeover I guess the hat would also suit ye olde Welsh ladies.
Mr Gibbs Hair, Eybrows and Beard for DAZ Studio, and the earlier Captain Barbossa returns. Not lawyered by the Disney megacorp, after all, but just removed by the maker for a fix. Both are free, and the beard and whiskers alone are worth having for use with other figures.
Vintage Navy Recruiting Poster Outfit for G8F. Probably needs to be paired with a skirt for the proper ‘1938’ feeling.
A complete 1960s Retro Bowling Alley for DAZ Studio.
Scripts:
Pose Me for G8F. “154 Morphs with sliders for total control of your character’s Arms, Shoulders, Hands, Fingers, Legs, Foot and Toes!”
Mesh to Volume… and Back for DAZ. Takes advantage of the volumetrics in the latest iRay, which needs the latest DAZ Studio.
Substance Painter Assistant. Said to help with sending DAZ content to Substance.
A free Collision Target Creation script for DAZ. “In DAZ you can only specify one collision target. But sometimes you want to target both skirts and shirts. Then let’s make the skirt and shirt into one object!”
Ken’s new script Figure to Prop for Poser 12. Also a DUF Morph Converter for Poser 12 (“DAZ Studio 4 DUF props/figures to existing converted PP2 files”).
Unimesh Exporter for Poser 12.
Blender to Poser automatic converter Python script.
That’s it for April. Strange how the trends go… no steampunk or toon this month.
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Synthetik Studio Artist 5.5 and Poser 11
There are plenty of bits of software that will take this sort of lineart and filter it. This unfiltered example of source lineart is from Poser 11, with the real-time comic book option set to b&w and simple lighting.
Such lineart can be filtered by, for instance, the free G’MIC which has a big range of filtering options. The new G’MIC 3.1 will be out for Photoshop in a few days, and will add another comic-oriented filter. Then there’s Digital Auto-Painter (DAP), though only its graphic-novel preset is of real use for lineart — and with a bit of twiddling that can be emulated with the free G’MIC. A nice one I rate is Redfield’s Sketchmaster, especially if you want a kind of soft pastels look. Some people even work wonders with the native Photoshop filters, chaining them together in an Action. AKVIS Charcoal I tried some years ago, and though kind of nice it was slow. It may have improved since.
Topaz Clean 3 is also useful for cleaning off the bump-map and muddy-texture grunge, prior to any filtering. That can also be emulated with the free G’MIC. Though the sadly-discontinued Topaz Clean 3 is more than twice as fast, on what is a very slow process.
Now I’ve found another new way of filtering. I discovered that the maker of DAP had launched a new Style Animator 1.0 at $40. It vectorizes lineart, and can then apply a preset style. Kind of like SketchUp’s line styles, which many readers will be familiar with. I tried it, it’s nice, it works, but… is somewhat limited in its range.
Yet the idea of Style Animator 1.0 led me to discover software that’s been hiding in plain sight for the last 20 years. So much so that I don’t think it’s ever had a review. At least, I can’t find one. It’s Synthetik Studio Artist, which is from developer John Dalton and recently had a major update to 5.5.5. If the $40 Style Animator is a cute little furry Bush Baby, then the $200 Synthetik Studio Artist is a massive chest-beating 500lb Mountain Gorilla. And just as fearsome to approach, as it’s not easy software to learn despite the 560-page manual and a wealth of video tutorials. ‘Autopainter’ it may be… but it sure takes some getting used to. Yet recent intensive testing shows it has at least half a dozen great possibilities ‘out of the box’, when fed Poser lineart. When I say great I mean ‘looks relatively hand-made, without being cheesy’. The next edition of VisNews will have the details.
There’s a generous non-expiring free trial for it, and I’ve made two free preset actions for it which are on Dropbox.
1. Open File | New Source and Canvas (Ctrl + N), and select some Poser lineart.
2. Type number 100 in the h Mult box on the import parameters, to get the Canvas the same size as the Source image you’re loading onto it. Sadly this step can’t be automated.
3. Run one of my preset actions. If you loaded a .PNG with an alpha mask, then run the main action. If you loaded a render from Poser’s Sketch (no alpha possible), then run the Sketch one.
4. Either should result in the output of a cleanly masked .PNG file , when you use “Save Canvas as…” to save a .PNG file.
The Poser inks after my preset
A Poser Sketch render after my preset
There are of course just starting points. The idea is you bring the output into Photoshop. Output should be the same size as the source, and so easy to composite. Here G’MIC has added a finishing touch, seen most clearly on the toes. Not one line of this was inked by hand…
Figure is ‘BioBot’ by AntFarm.
New for Poser and DAZ in March 2022
New for DAZ and Poser in February 2022
Post lost in the move, but there’s a PDF backup of it with links…
What was new for Poser and DAZ in January 2022?
Post lost in the move, but there’s a PDF backup of it with Web links…
Poser’s 25th Anniversary
Just a ‘heads up’ for a 25th Anniversary, for those inclined to plan a year ahead (museum curators, magazine editors, software developers, etc). Poser 3.0 appears to have shipped May 1998, which makes summer 2023 the 25th Anniversary of the Poser software that we know and use today. By the end of the year the street price was around $120, and the mass-market 3D figure revolution was underway.
What’s New for Poser and DAZ in December 2021
It’s getting toward the end of the month, so… it’s survey time for new Poser and DAZ content. As usual freebies are only noted if they are also commercial use, or are such obvious fan-art that no-one would think of using them commercially.
Also, no ‘HD’ items are covered here since they adjust your render settings without asking (and in ways that are difficult for newbies to reverse), and are only useful for a few people with incredibly powerful PCs.
At risk of sounding like a moaner, I have to say that the DAZ Store is still very slow to browse for me, despite the new smaller thumbnail previews. Even scrolling down the Wishlist too far now stalls loading for 20 seconds or so. This is the only such site that has these problems for me. I try to bypass this problem by bookmarking into my Wish List, but may still have missed a few at the DAZ Store.
Science-fiction:
A useful free tech Display Band for DAZ and with wearable presets for G8. It also seems fairly easy to add your own wording.
A cool super-villain Helmet 048 for G3. Not fan-art, so far as I know.
Dubrock for G8M. Not fan-art, so far as I know. Though it looks a bit Guardians of the Galaxy.
The free Dystopia Props and Dystopia Props 2, good for cluttering the middle-distance of wide and city scenes.
Steampunk:
A free Steampunk Mask for G8.
Add Blimp, a middle-distance cyber-city blimp that could be fairly easily adapted for steampunk. Just replace the advert-hoarding with hydrogen-tanks.
FPE Tentacle Arms for G8M, good for a Captain Nemo-type submarine or airship crew. The crew probably hail from the Pirate Shipping Village.
Toon:
Little Mummy for G8F and poses and expressions. Somewhat similar to the old RDNA toon Ancient Egyptian mummy-boy, but not the same.
A free set of toony String Lights (Christmas Lights) for DAZ.
Storybook:
Christmas Pixie for La Femme for Poser.
Disco Stomp Trainers for G8F. Requires the base Stomp Trainers.
Animals:
3DU Toon Mouse Fur Long, a Look At My Hair preset.
Songbird ReMix Hummingbirds v3 for Poser and DAZ.
Love Kitty, 28 3D cat props of various types (bowl, toy mice, dangler, etc).
Landscape elements:
A free Wooden Cross for DAZ and also in .OBJ, ‘Boot Hill’ style and with Wild West style bootlaces.
A free Hang-Glider for DAZ and G8.
Let’s hope your hang-glider pilot doesn’t land in the Stinging Nettles for DAZ. Definitely not a British stinging-nettle, and so perhaps an American variety? Quality and also in .OBJ, so likely to interest Vue users.
Historical:
Primitive Norse Structures 2 including two ramshackle windmills.
Joseon Era Hair for G8F. What a girl might wear in the 1400s-1900s in Korea. Also a paid dForce Hanbok dress from that era.
The useful and adaptable free medieval Headscarf Outfit for G8F. Not dForce but has some control morphs. Previews suggest it’s capable of turning into a sort of short cape, so may also be of interest to makers of super-heroine comics.
L’HommeHat 2, a sort of German / Austrian / Swiss / Italian hat of the type that might be seen on an Alpine summer guide in the 1920s and 30s. Also L’HommeHat 1 which is more of a classic British workman’s flat-cap.
A free Antique Harbour Telescope in .OBJ format.
A Royal Opera Stage from the early/mid 19th century, with side boxes.
A Fountain Pen Ink Bottle, Pen Accessories, and 1916 Fountain Pen Prop. See also the new Cardboard And Paper Shaders pack.
British vintage 3D railway expert Dryjack has a new Sopwith Pup biplane, a classic British plane.
dForce Aran Sweater Outfit for G8M, of the sort a Scottish crofter or early pilot might have worn.
A somewhat 1960s K-Roller petrol-scooter, free. Also note the helmet which could be used in other types of retro scenes. I guess it may actually be a modern electric scooter, with a retro design?
Figures:
The Corinna La Femme character/skin makeover. Appears to need La Femme Pro, rather than the free La Femme which ships with Poser?
A more basic but free alternative look for Poser’s flagship La Femme, to nudge her away from the Princess Di look, is the new Helena for La Femme.
Still prefer V4? A free SuperFly Skin shader for V4, so V4 can render in SuperFly, and with a bit of automatic ‘sweat gloss’ too.
Genesis Clones (aka ‘Genesis Clones for Genesis 8 and 8.1 and Vice Versa’). Genesis 8 Male and Female Clones for Genesis 1, so you can fit G8 clothes and items to the original Genesis figure. Shows in the fitting list for G1 as ‘Vyusur…’.
Straightforward Catwalk Animations for Clothes Presentation for G8F. It seems this is not the same as last month’s “Runway Animation” pack from the same maker.
Hair:
Free 1950s ‘The Fonz’ style strand based hair for G8M. With front cow-lick.
Free SBHBeards for G8M. Strand-based hair and eyebrows and moustaches. Looks useful.
A simple free Genesis 1 skull cap. Shows up in the Library under My Library | People | Genesis | Hair | Willq, not under People | Genesis as you might expect.
Scripts:
DUF Pose Converter for Poser 12. Convert your DAZ .DUF poses to Poser 12 and apply them “to any figure you may have on stage”, apparently. Not tested by me.
FlockIt for DAZ Studio. Looks similar to ‘Send in the Clones’ and the various Scatter scripts for Poser.
ArchangelFirewolf’s free Pose Control Converter for G3 and G8. Seems to add a set of sliders that allow tweaking for fine adjustment of poses.
Installing PIP in Poser 11. PIP is a package manager for installing further Python packages that have components needed for scripts to run. So… if you had a need for some specialist Python module that doesn’t already ship with Poser, this might get it installed.
Tutorials:
A three-part in-depth Comic Book Creation Kit Bundle of tutorials and guidance, which seems to be aimed at photoreal comics makers using DAZ.
Noted elsewhere:
For Blender, Grease Pencil From Mesh, with an edge-sharpener.
3D maker Sixus1, also a fine digital painter, has a new Platinum Brush Pack for Photoshop and PaintStorm. It appears to be his current working brushes set, honed and weeded over many years.
Ok, that’s it for December 2021 and for 2021. Onward to 2022!
Top of the pops in 2021
So, what are the top items on Renderosity? Rendo provides a page where you can find such things out. The top four are pretty much as you might expect.
Followed by a superstore’s-worth of skimpies and silkies, page after page, and just a couple of other quality G8 female characters. You have to scroll a long way down to get to something like “STZ Cleaning accessories”. It takes a while to puzzle that one out, but then the penny drops: hardware accessories for the maid costumes.
Way way down after many pages you start to see occasional other things, like “Photo Props: Fire Effect Maker” and the “Poser 12 – Upgrade”. Eventually, after a very long time of scrolling the first male item appears. G8M realistic body-hair strips, and then after another few pages another in “Karl for Genesis 8 Male”. Hurrah for Karl, but… he has no other mates down there.
Eventually we start to get a couple of animals, with the HiveWire Horse, Songbird ReMix Corvus (crows). Also a few very scattered sci-fi sets. Even further down up pops La Femme Pro V.2, along with more Hivewive Big Cats, Hivewire Housecat. Also Poser 11 at the Renderosity price.
So basically it seems that if you want to sell to the masses, G3F and G8F is where it’s at. Specifically clothing and the slinkier and more enticing the better. However, it’s obviously a very crowded market. I’m guessing the ‘work to hit product’ ratio might be high, and you could have to produce and shout about twenty or more items of new clothing to get one breakthrough product that sells well. The rest are likely to be lost in the tidal waves of similar items, because back of these best-sellers must be thousands of others that didn’t get the traction.
Hair obviously has to be really really good to make it up the charts. I guess many people already have their favourite go-to hairs. Also, hair is a risky buy, so buyers may be averse.
There’s a surprisingly lack of scripts and add-ons, but I guess such things are beyond the ability of the mass market and so don’t sell a lot.
Of course, all this does not necessarily mean that the kind of stuff that sold twenty years ago is no longer selling. It probably is. It’s just that such things are being drowned out in the charts by the new mass market.
What of the DAZ Store? So far as I can tell the DAZ Store’s “sort by most popular” is not an all-time or yearly tally, and only seems to give you the most popular this week.