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New freebies for DAZ and Poser
Here are some of the freebies I’ve noted this month for DAZ Studio and Poser users:
Timbers are definitely ‘a shivering with Mortemvetus. A message in a bottle; the wheel of a haunted pirate ship; and a treasure map. (Aug 2017: link fixed)
Pirates vs. Vikings? In 3D-land, anything is possible! Viking Longboats as .obj models with textures. And the Gabare, which is more of a coastal trading vessel, and also done as .obj models with textures. The textures loaded up fine for me.
Xanadu looks rather good, if you need a “1940s USA” look for a scene. I guess you could also turn it 90 degrees, add another copy, and stick it far in the distance behind some haze — to serve as a sci-fi tower?
Gasbit is a Poser-rigged free character. I’m guessing that a bit of extra work, and some Photoshop magic, might also turn him into more of a semi-toon astronaut boy…
“Meet me at the Abandoned Warehouse…”
Yet another great new scene from Stonemason, in his growing abandoned city series. Abandoned Interiors: Warehouse joins the set.
Firefox gets native 3D via bundled Unreal Engine 4
A new Firefox feature is rather cool…
“You’ll soon be able to stream and play highly realistic three-dimensional video games from within the Mozilla Firefox [Web] browser. … Firefox’s gaming capabilities don’t even require a Web browser plugin to function … ability to run the Unreal Engine, even the new Unreal Engine 4”
Firefox joins Google Chrome in this, as Chrome has had the same HTML5 3D gaming ability for a while now.
Given the pace that Firefox is developing it can’t be long until we see it in the latest Firefox downloads. In fact, those with the 64-bit developer Nightly build of Firefox can already play Monster Madness. Or, they can if they play it if can get past the dreadfully unintuitive UI interface which serves to hide the buttons that actually starts the gameplay. I clicked the main play button, but was then presented with nothing that would actually start the game. Though the game’s interface elements loaded fine…
Such teething problems aside, we’ve come a long way from those far-off years when a clunky Java browser applet would load… and load… and then… crash and freeze your entire PC.
Heavy Metal puts Poser on the cover
This is great to see, and shows the graphics world what DAZ Studio and Poser content can do in the hands of talented artists. The famous comics magazine Heavy Metal has used a Poser render created by Isikol, on the latest issue’s cover no less! #268 is the April 2014 issue.
His foreground character was rendered in Poser. The background is Stonemason’s The Enchanted Forest + Return To The Enchanted Forest + Jungle Ruins, all sent over from Poser to be rendered in Vue. Then the two renders were composited together in Photoshop.
Poser and Daz: new releases round-up
After a break from 3D for a couple of weeks, I’ve been looking through all the new DAZ Studio and Poser content that’s been released recently.
Oskarsson’s Neon character is another movie-quality character, a more organic looking variant of one of his earlier characters…
Stonemason keeps delighting 3D sci-fi artists, and he has a new robot out called Prototype. This character has a nice “Iron Man meets the school science project” feel to it.
The Prototype could look rather good in Dreamlight’s new The Pit sci-fi environment…
This large-scale environment probably works best with Dreamlight’s Light Dome PRO-R lights/render/composite system, so you can get the distance fogging (this requires Photoshop and the ability to use it).
Rather more twee, but also of amazing design quality, is The Unicorn from LittleFox. There are also poses and there’s already a small avalanche of texture addons for this one! Just search RuntimeDNA for “unicorn”.
Also rather unusual is Moscowich’s Shamaness (for Poser) which is a semi-toon standalone character. She might work well with some of Nursoda’s standalone characters.
Let’s not forget steampunk. The Steamway (for Poser) is a nice bit of quality steampunk transportation, with a number of different configurations.
Steam-heads should also take a look at the new Technomancer Mask, for which there’s also a Victoria 4 edition…
On a more mundane level Loft for Lease looks like a very useful multipurpose environment. Suitable for everything from a H.P. Lovecraft “Shadow Over Innsmouth” comic, through to just about any city crime stakeout scene.
Loft for Lease can also be given a makeover to make it into a very nice looking Dance Studio or Gym Hall…
And last, but not least, Millenium Cat aniblocks animations. Go, kittee!
Sixus1’s Void Prime: Dakari
Cool new alien 3d figure for DAZ Studio / Poser, from Sixus1: Void Prime: Dakari.
Scene it all
Renderosity has a big 50% Off architecture and scene sale for Daz and Poser users, 3rd – 9th February 2014.
Stonemason abandons us
Two major new sets from the excellent Stonemason, to add to his urban ruins series.
Abandoned City 1 and Abandoned City 2.
A big scene made with these packs might need a lot more young birch trees and ground shrub cover, erupting through the roadways, if there had been abandonment of twenty years or more. The new Nature – Trees Pack 1 may be useful in that regard, as they’re low and medium poly models and look fairly convincing.
“Mirror, mirror, on the walls…”
Unusual 3D scene, a mirror room for Poser, apparently with “working” mirrors.
Xereb DR
Now even the Daz/Poser dinosaurs are going “semi-toon”! This cute dino is new from dinosaur expert Dinoraul…
Video: Tour of the Poser Pro 2014 Interface
New Renderosity video tutorial, for Poser Pro beginners, A Tour of the Poser Pro 2014 Interface, and How to Reset It (10 minutes)…
It’s part of a premium series of video tutorials intended to get users started with Poser Pro 2014. These are set to be released soon…
“Beginning in January, we’ll be releasing a new tutorial each month that will build on the knowledge you developed in each of the previous lessons.”
New freebies round-up
So what cool free stuff has been released for DAZ Studio and/or Poser, over the Christmas break?
Simple Wood Sign is a nice example of the species. Could be combined with the werewolf above, maybe pointing the way to granny’s house?
Granny’s Old Sewing Machine, ready to animate. Are you sensing the Little Red Riding Hood theme, yet…? 🙂
Nubian Complex looks impressive and has lots of nice comments, although I haven’t loaded it yet and the maker rather ominously states… “textures do not load appropiately, the textures are located in the texture files.”
Unusual Melted Snowman at Poser Direct, along with other new toons. Including the Tremblin’ Terrors for Halloween which I must have missed back in October/November…
I also seem to have missed Poser Direct’s huge Toon Train set.
PzDB updates
I’m pleased to see continuing development on the PzDB DAZ/Poser content library management software. (My review of PzDB). Version 1.3 is currently in public beta testing…
“We’ve expanded to PzDB to work with more of your favorite CGI programs, so many in fact, we have introduced a new File Types window to enable you control which files PzDB indexes for you. You can now index more kinds of bitmaps and CGI Content files from Anime Studio, Corel Creative Suite, Google Sketchup, iClone, Maya, Quindam, Softimage, Wings3D, and even movies and audio files.”
Yep, iClone content indexing, as well as DAZ/Poser! Nice. Plus better indexing of those annoying new-fangled DAZ 4.x file types. It has a new and more polished look, too…
Turbo charge your Daz or Poser
Got your racing snails in good shape? Powerage has released a complete and massive new Power Speedway set for Poser (not tested in DAZ Studio).
You can get Racing Snails here for Poser and Daz, although they’re not as cool as those in the excellent new movie Turbo. But you could probably have a lot of fun customising them with jet packs and suchlike, scavenged from other content.
And I’d suggest Ollie the toon octopus as the perfect TV race commentator for your racetrack.




































