Added to the sidebar Directory, on this blog: Stock 3D. Stock 3D which sells Poser World models individually, rather than via the $25 “all you can download” membership system that the Poser World website operates. A nice easy way to ‘top up’ with that latest ‘must-have’ model, even if your Poser World membership has expired.
Fluff your cat
Interesting new item at Renderosity from a new vendor, Fluffy Cat for Poser, for $25. Requires Poser, Millenium Cat, Classic Cats textures for MilCat, and RTEJava (for which Fluffy Cat’s readme has full instructions). The pictures are certainly nice, but the description is a bit vague and very minimal…
“Produces a lovely, fluffy and dynamic fur on the Millennium Cat […] made in the Poser hair room.”
Update: Now at Hivewire. The Java appears to be a utility needed to check if you have MilCat in your runtime, and if so then it unpacks matched hair-base geometries?
What’s in the Poser SR3 upgrade?
The Poser Pro 2014 Service Release 3 is out, and is now accessible on the Poser website (there was apparently a bit of a rush, which caused some problems but these appear to have subsided now). The upgrade was officially released on the 13th August 2012. The readme file gives the details of What’s New. It’s a long detailed document, but I noticed these items in particular:
* All-round general performance and stability updates and improvements.
* Import > Collada menu item is no longer missing on first launch.
* Fixed export of PNG to properly unpremultiply the alpha channel and correct for the background color. Fixes color fringing in transparent areas.
* Improved local Content Library search efficiency, for large numbers of Runtimes.
* Secondary reflections and refractions now respect softness.
* Improved quality when combining subsurface scattering, indirect diffuse light and displacement mapping.
* Enabled image sequence support for Make Movie.
* GoZ Plugin Support for working with ZBrush (the GoZ Plugin is free).
* Improved Python add-on support.
* Upgrades to the PoserFusion plugins.
Previous SR2 changes appear to be rolled into this new SR3 upgrade.
Poser Pro SR3 users to get free ZBrush plugin
New details of the Service Release 3 (SR3) upgrade for Poser Pro 2014 and Poser users…
“deep Poser Pro integration with ZBrush”
What’s more, the ZBrush GoZBrush plugin will be free. It’s the software that lets ZBrush ‘talk’ to Poser…
“The GoZ [GoZBrush] plugin is available within SR3 at no cost for Poser Pro 2012 users”
Here’s a video showing GoZ at work with DAZ Studio Pro. It now looks like Poser is set to get the same functionality, soon…
SR3 should be available from today, at the official Poser website.
3d Art Direct
A new issue of 3D Art Direct magazine, the free magazine with a focus on 3D sci-fi art made with hobbyist software…
Desperately in need of a better typeface, but otherwise a very good magazine.
Enchanted Island freebie
A nice freebie at the DAZ Store — Enchanted Island, featuring Easter Island -style ancient carved stone heads. Normally $11.95, but currently free. PC and Mac installers for Poser, 150Mb.
Reality 3 for Poser, at SIGGRAPH
Reality 3 has been announced for Poser at SIGGRAPH 2012…
“SIGGRAPH 2012 attendees can get a special sneak-peak of the upcoming Reality 3 for Poser, launching globally in November 2012. Reality 3 for Poser gives Poser users access to the power of LuxRender, providing unbiased, physically accurate, and GPU rendering to help artists produce gorgeous hyper-realistic illustrations and images.”
Price is mooted to be $59.95 at launch.
Talking of ‘physically accurate’, currently on a special sale at DAZ is the photoreal V4 Elite Texture: Amy for just $8.99. Her textures come with installers for DAZ Studio, Poser, and DAZ Carrara. If you already have the V4 Elite bundle, you already have the Amy textures packs.
3D Universe Toon Crab
A new 3D Universe toon character for DAZ Studio or Poser is always a treat, and the new Toon Crab is no exception. Available now, on the DAZ Store…
Brian Haberlin: creating dynamic poses, and over-painting 3D
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Can you inject dynamism and “life” into a DAZ Studio or Poser character pose, as easily as you can inject a morph? Only if you know the secrets of the pros. Commercial comics artists know more than most about this topic, and American comic-book artist Brian Haberlin (Spawn) has a handy and quality new article on the top 10 ways to bring your 3D character art to life.
Brian also has a cool long article on overpainting 3D renders for comics, using Painter… which comes from the book Secrets of Corel Painter Experts: Tips, Techniques, and Insights for Users of All Abilities
OBJ Import Plus for Poser
OBJ Import Plus for Poser. A new free plugin for Poser users, which extends your options for importing and handling 3d models in OBJ format.
Survey of 3D dogs for Poser and DAZ, realistic and toon
Survey of 3D dogs for DAZ Studio or Poser, realistic and toon:
The “DAZ Millennium Dog” is free on the DAZ Store, in the form of a MillDog LE (light) version that has 43 basic morphs. This DAZ MilDog sent the old Poser 4 dog to the retirement kennels. Renderosity has a pack of 25 poses that specifically work with the LE version of the Millennium Dog.
The “Millennium Dog Starter Pack”, also on the DAZ Store, injects 120 morphs into the MilDog LE, thus allowing a variety of popular large breeds to be created…
Also on the DAZ Store there is a “Real Fur for the Millennium Dog” pack (likely to send render times through the roof, if my experience of cat fur is anything to go by); the “Classic Canines Combo” provides a major textures pack; and the “Canine Journey Poses” pack….
Puppies and pup lovers are ably catered for by the DAZ Store’s “Millennium Puppy”.
If you want all the DAZ Store’s main dog and puppy packs, save by getting them in the combined “Ultimate Canine Bundle”.
A free MilDog accessory is a small dog crate.
There doesn’t appear to be a dog accessories pack, curiously. I’d have expected someone to make a dog toys / basket / brush / lead set by now. Nor do there appear to be any police & rescue services dog liveries.
The poor old Poser 8 “dog with no name” (a quality dog that shipped with Poser 8, designed by the famous Stonemason) doesn’t seem to have ever had much love. Content Paradise has a single lone pose set for him…
Lovers of small and toy dog breeds are not well catered for in the DAZ / Poser world. Some free morph sets were produced for the old Poser 4 dog — such as CloudCastle’s Dachshund; and Lyne’s Basset Hound which has also been extended with 3D Menagerie’s comprehensive set of Basset morps.
Meshbox has Mister Puggles which is a realistic pug dog for Poser 6…
Toon dogs (that are not too bizarre-looking) include 3D Universe’s Bacon…
Bacon has a Dog’s Life pose pack and Hound Dog textures packs on the DAZ Store.
Digital Creation’s Dawg is not too bad, but you may want to tone down the horrible specularity/bump-map combo that is supposed to be his hair texture…
Into science-fiction? Robot dogs include Renderosity’s Hell Hound Cyber-Dog which has very nice “worn” textures…
Need something sleeker? The OnTarget3D store has a free Mech Robot Dog Dinosaur…
Quality ‘demon dogs‘ include the DAZ Store’s “Gargoyle Hound” and its Demon Dogs Add-on Pack.
Renderosity also has this which might look good in darker lighting than it’s shown in here…
About ten years ago there was a very good stylised “Demon Dog” morph and texture pack for the old Poser 4 dog, but it appears to have vanished into the mists of history…
Similarly, there was also once an “Alien Dogs” pack of morphs and textures, along with a similar “Alien Cats” pack, but neither of these packs seem to be available anywhere now…
That’s it. Bow wow for now…
Suzi Amberson interview
3D Art Direct magazine has a cool podcast with a Poser Pro 2014 artist who actually quit her job to make 3D artwork full-time!
mp3 of the interview with Suzi Amberson.
Free ‘smart’ cane for Doctor Pitterbill
Renderosity has a free Smart Cane prop for my favorite DAZ 3D character, Nursoda’s Doctor Pitterbill.
Poser Pro and .lwo format
Did you know that Poser Pro 2014 can directly import Lightwave models? Normally the hardcore modelers who use Lightwave will export a 3d model from Lightwave to the universal OBJ format. But sometimes you’ll find a free or older model that’s only in .lwo format… Poser can handle these…
New Songbird ReMix pack
A beautiful new Songbird ReMix pack, just released and available now on the DAZ Store: “Cool and Unusual Birds 3” (the SR birds render best in Poser, I find)…
