Blender 3.0 will apparently enable users to have a Pose Library and save presets to it…
It’s still in development and looks very far from making Blender a drop-in replacement for DAZ / Poser, but it should be useful for some.
Release: new version of MeshLab
MeshLab 2021.05 has been released. Installer downloads are here. The leading free 3D mesh-wrangler can now do ‘pretty’…
“MeshLab now allows to load custom GL shaders”
And texture-map defragmentation, and multi-layer support on .3DS files. Plugins, too.
The fab new stuff we might get… in a few years
Coming up at SIGGRAPH 2021…
StyleCariGAN… “a caricature generation framework based on StyleGAN, which automatically creates a realistic and detailed caricature from an input photo, with optional controls on shape exaggeration and color stylization.”
AgileGAN, apparently an instant cartoon-ifer, less twisted than StyleCariGAN.
Auto-dance timed to the music beats and speed etc. Doesn’t the MikuMiku type software do this already? Well, if it doesn’t, it will soon.
Autocomplete for inking artists, ‘making several short curves to form a longer one’.
Smoke-ring fractal generation. Not exactly Gandalf-quality, but perhaps they can add modifiers for more complexity.
Realistic melting wax animation simulator.
Loose-mesh fabrics that behave realistically and can be ‘pulled’ onto a figure-part, like knitted socks being pulled onto feet.
Generate “real-world” ecosystems with balanced ecologies. Not sure if the animals get to eat each other.
Identify “internal structures” in a picture, auto-animate them as loops.
Better automatic pallette re-sorting.
Seamless manga inpainting, seemingly “for the first time”. Apparently to be used for auto-removal of speech-bubbles from old paper comics that are not in digital format. Not sure it’s that useful though, as mostly you’d just want to blank rather than remove the bubbles.
No advances in auto-coloring of greyscale paintings, by the look of it.
Vue scenes sale
Raffy Raffy has a 50% sale at ArtStation. I picked up three big Vue scenes I didn’t yet have. 430Mb in total, for the three. They all populate their ecosystems with items that should be standard library items for most Vue users.
Incidentally I discovered there are obviously two types of store on ArtStation, and for the same vendor. Click on the vendor name in a product, and you go to…
1. https://www.artstation.com/raffyraffy/store
Raffy has his older Vue scenes missing here. I did some tests and the missing items are not due to ArtStation removing my already-purchased items (I purchased them when he was on CGTrader) or because my Web browser’s uBlock was blocking a further page of the store. To see the full range, the URL then needs to be…
2. https://raffyraffy.artstation.com/store
At this version of the store URL you see no sale discounts, but you do see the full range, including Raffy’s older Vue items. Half are missing from version 1 of the store, in favour of Blender scenes.
Click through on one of these and… hmm, still no discounts…
But… if you copy-paste the desired product title into the main Marketplace search, it will then reveal the page for the same product… but this time it will have the sale discount.
It appears that ArtStation gives two versions of the store to a vendor. I’d suspect that one is search-engine friendly and shows up in Google etc, while the more dynamic one with sale discounts does not. Just a guess.
Thus, if you discover a vendor you really like and want to wishlist from their full range, it’s worth trying both store URLs and playing spot-the-difference. I’ve now been able to wishlist at ArtStation two further Vue scenes, that I thought had not made it across from the old CGTrader store. These are Path Forest in Vue and Dangerous Canyon in Vue, and will be picked up on Black Friday.
It’s all a blur…
Poser 12 Early Access has released another new version. The last looked at here was 12.0.484 (public on 17th April 2021). It’s now Poser 12.0.498 (dated 29th April on the download page, but new to me).
Not a great deal of change, but having motion-blur back may be cheered by some animators…
* Reimplemented Make Movie 2D Motion Blur.
Otherwise, only some foreign language fixes and Python scripting updates and upgrades…
* Added Python SaveLibraryPreview function to create thumbnails.
* Fixed crash when installing multiple Python scripts at once from the embedded store.
* Changed the time.clock() references to fix hack.py and more [move?] code from Py2.7 to Python3.7.9.
45% off the full Corel Painter 2021
The full Corel Painter 2021, currently with a healthy 45% discount and seemingly not a subscription…
It’s still a contender for natural media, since no other software yet provides a full ‘all in one’ natural-media painting software with fast brushes on a desktop PC. Best for those who want the full range of paint and ink types in one well-developed software, and who intend to get heavy with oils, impasto, textures etc. Painter 2019 could still load and replay Poser Sketch scripts, and I assume 2021 can also. Bear in mind it’s now “Windows 10 only” (ugh). Corel Painter 2020 seems to have been the last version to support older Windows, back to Windows 7.
The alternatives:
SAI 2 has incredible speed for speed-painting with big blending brushes on a big 7000px canvas, but… an antique UI that even lacks basic things such as a ‘dark mode’.
Paintstorm is not far behind SAI 2 in big-brush speed and has lovely blending. Its sister software Realistic Paint Studio does much the same, and has a charming UI that will appeal to many. See the recent review for the latter, in Digital Art Live magazine.
Krita is free and now sort-of has watercolour and oils, and Krita 5 may or may not bring the full caboodle in that respect. But aspects of the UI such as brush-handling, and especially the obtuse naming conventions, are difficult to love — especially if you’re coming from Photoshop.
Rebelle 4 has recently added realistic oils to its superb watercolour effects. Great if you’re scanning in lineart and then adding digital watercolour, but it is expensive for what it is and almost never discounts. But it’s so realistic that you basically need to learn to paint in watercolour like you would in real-life. Which is not as easy as it sounds. The software also develops very slowly.
Clip Studio is good for inking line-art, but it’s horribly complex and fiddly and that will constantly get in the way of your creativity. There are now inking options that are just-as-good. The $20 Paintstorm, for instance, does very nice inking, and also has adjustable gap-fill on colouring line-art.
Changes at the ArtStation Marketplace
ArtStation Marketplace has effectively won the race to make a new one-stop online mega-mall, I’d say. Other software-specific stores will still thrive, but ArtStation has beaten out CGTrader and several similar one-stop sites. And now there are some nice changes on the Marketplace, following the takeover by Epic (Unreal)…
* Seller feeds reduced from 30% to 12%, at least for now.
* Sellers can now make bundles of related products.
* Sellers can offer freebies or reviewer copies, via new 100% discount coupons.
All welcome changes. I’ve built up a small but nice WishList there as a customer, and the 12% commission would be enticing if I had anything to sell in future. The main problem is the vast size and overcrowding, though at least they don’t seem to allow the “I’ll just upload 1,000 variants of 3D bathroom taps” shovelware merchants to hog space. There was a time when that threatened to become a problem, but they seem to be on top of it now. You still have to watch out for fan-art though, that you don’t realise is fan-art. It’s “buyer beware” in that respect.
But there is still a lot to sift through. Unless you check it daily or every two days, and WishList items, you’re likely to miss stuff. And there is nicely-priced stuff in there that is useful for DAZ and Poser people because it’s .OBJ or .FBX, and even some Vue ecosystem landscapes from Raffy Raffy and a couple of others. A few brush-sets too for software like Paintstorm. The licences and prices are right, and you only occasionally see the sort of silly $100-200 prices you often encounter elsewhere for 3D models at sites like Turbosquid. I see that even Tafi has started uploading part of the DAZ catalogue there, at their Marketplace Store, and this is ongoing with new items arriving daily.
UI, load speed and scrolling are all fine.
So, all in all, provided Epic don’t ruin it with a UI makeover led by the office tea-boy (i.e. like DeviantArt), it’s now a welcome addition to the 3D content landscape.
What else would improve the Marketplace?
* It would be nice if you could elegantly block sellers from appearing in results. For instance, while I appreciate that “Zhanfeng” (current ongoing upload of what appear to be 30,000 individual landscape videogame plants and rocks) has products that are very pretty, well-made and useful to game-makers, I’d still rather not have them cluttering the pages of “New” items.
* Share your WishList in public, or create a new Public variant of it. WishLists could also be re-sortable and have personal comments added alongside.
* Block items if only supplied in a certain format. For instance, I have no interest in 3DS Max files, with no .FBX or .OBJ versions. Models that are not textured I would not want to block, as they may still have their uses in developing the base layer for a digital painting. For instance…
DAZ/Poser survey for April 2021
Slightly late, my survey of interesting new items from April and a bit of May 2021. For Poser and DAZ Studio, and few for Substance Painter or in .OBJ and thus easy to get to Vue. Plus some Blender.
Science-fiction:
M4 Patrick Stewart for Poser, via a ZBrush head morph. He was the Star Trek commander who came after Captain Kirk. No need for hair, which is nice. Obviously not for commercial use.
Free “Plug In limbs” for Genesis 8 Male and Female for DAZ Studio. “Does not contain robot parts” but is said to be “useful for attaching robotic appendages to the characters”.
For hibernation sleep on deep-space colony voyages, the Sleep-Sack for G8M and G8F.
Vehicles:
Future Bike, a new fantasy sci-fi motorcycle.
A free Mad Max style SpedBike monocycle in .OBJ format.
Soup up your SpedBike with Coflek-gnorg’s new Techno Tribes poles.
A complete modern Motorschlitten (Snowmobile) for Poser, with sled and many MAT options.
A free two-part dirt racetrack for scrambler bikes, junior speedway and suchlike. Part 1 and Part 2. DAZ Studio and also .OBJ so it can be used with other software such as Poser and Vue.
Storybook:
Ice Cream for DAZ Studio.
Free Cute Monster Legs for the Cute Monster. Or, more interestingly, for the above ice-creams. Runaway ice-creams on a hot day, now there’s a children’s storybook idea for you.
A free seat that could be retextured in playroom pastels. Or used as-is as a seat for the toon tortoise, seen below.
Toon:
Tank the Cartoon Tortoise, a new 3D Universe figure. For some reason they have not included 3Delight materials, just iRay.
Ninja Sprite One for All pose-set for the Ninja Sprite. Judging from the previews, for both male and female variants.
People and clothing:
A free Bed with dForce Blankets, with commercial use. 150Mb. Very generous of Sadrielxv, as this could have been sold commercially at $10.
The free Sheldrake for M4. Not sure who this is meant to be, but obviously an American screen celeb who does noir detective-type stories.
Aged Van Damme Megapack for Genesis 1 and up.
Fred for L’Homme. Both head and neck morphs, lightweight at a 2Mb download. L’Homme is the flagship male that ships with Poser 11 and 12, and the companion of La Femme.
See also the rather more expensive Stan L’Homme from character expert Tempesta3d. Great to see an older male from her.
Historical:
The Western Knight Series 01 for Genesis 8 Males. A classic Prince Hal-style storybook knight.
Wizard Beard, seemingly also with eyebrows.
6 Medieval Farm Scythe and Sickles in .OBJ and .FBX formats. Low-poly, so your slavering mob of yokels can be waving them dementedly at the local wizard.
The Colosseum, a giant Roman Arena for DAZ Studio.
Pole Station for DAZ Studio. A classic 1960-60s Cold War type station, of the type that finds something frozen in the ice.
Animals and related landscapes:
HiveWire3D now has their store up, on Renderosity. See also Ken Gilliland’s Store for his Songbird Remix series and more – such as Dragonflies and Tortoises (sold as “Turtles”).
AM’s Woolly Mammoth rigged with fur and rebuilt for Blender.
A free Roadrunner Run Animation for the Songbird ReMix Roadrunner bird.
Has your cat had too much catnip? Add even more bounce to your 3D cat’s day with Spring Thing.
Flink’s Pine Forest for Poser. And a Nordic Lumberyard from ShaaraMuse3D.
My Camel Camelia animations pack.
Free Side Saddle Tack for the HiveWire Horse.
Shaders and special materials:
Free Poser Wax for Firefly and Superfly. Waxy candle materials.
Hi-res Cobweb Effect Maker by ShaaraMuse3D for Poser and DAZ Studio.
30 Ropes and Cables Base Material for Substance Painter.
Utilities, extras, plugins:
Noir Cyberpunk HDRIs for DAZ Studio. For a stark b&w look.
Light Dots for Poser 12, Note, Poser 12 and not 11. The new Poser 12 scripts are not backwards compatable.
Scatter Tool II for Poser 12. Glad I got the Poser 11 version from the Hivewire moving-house sale, as it seems it’s ‘Poser 12 only’ now. Update, June 2021: the 11 version is now on Renderosity.
A YouTube preview for the new IK Manager for Poser 12, offering “a much easier and centralized way of controlling IK on figures, and also allowing visual cues to what parts have IK on or off at any time”. The new script is now on Renderosity for $12. Poser 12 only, note.
MOM 3D Crowd Generator. Similar to the older 2D billboards version, but this one uses low-poly 3D figures.
Tutorials:
Fantasy Taverns: A Workshop on Multi-Character and Atmospheric Scenes in DAZ Studio.
iRay Lighting Solutions Tutorial Set for DAZ Studio.
Sixus1 has a new Painting With Texture tutorial, for 2D painters and overpainters.
Ok, that’s it for now. More as we head into the summer.
First thoughts on MetaHuman
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Hmmm… MetaHuman. First thoughts.
It’s obviously destined for semi-pro and small-studio videogames makers who want to shave a few days or weeks off a too-tight production schedule. It appears to output very good starting points for your hundreds of NPCs, that will later be optimised in-game for 60 frames per second. However, flip through the latest PC Gamer magazine for a second. Do you see any “uncanny valley” hyper-real characters, that look like the standard AAA humans MetaHuman is pushing? Very few, these days. In fact, the new U.S. edition has a manga/anime girl on the cover. She runs real-time in the latest hit game.
That said, the head-and-shoulders MetaHuman demo shows obvious superiority to previous “quickie avatar/NPC makers” for games, of the sort that now litter the bankruptcy registers. As such there’s also obvious potential for real-time motion-capture movie-making use, if (and it’s a big if) the mo-cap and AI-aided tweaking in postwork can get the footage past the “uncanny valley”. The average screen entertainment viewer wants Marilyn Monroe, not the 2020s equivalent of a Thunderbirds puppet. But 98% of digital art hobbyists have no interest in making storytelling movies, nor in the full-body motion-capture rigs needed to make that happen.
The MetaHuman tech-demo is set to evolve into a free ongoing cloud service, if the early reports are correct. As such I’d say they have two money making options which will dictate their add-ons…
1) make the exporter modules a paid item, if you’re not sending your figure to the Unreal engine. Exporters to push your 12Gb’s of .FBX figure to Blender, Cinema 4D etc, maybe even to DAZ. But, most likely, never directly to their competitors such as Unity, NVIDIA Omniverse etc. Since their build-a-human service is in the cloud, the exporters cannot be pirated. That sounds steadily lucrative, and for not much ongoing effort.
2) or build a vast sprawling content eco-system on this, complete with ‘anatomically-correct’ figures, skimpy frillies, ankle-bracelets etc. Then promise not to look at the ‘megaboobs’ and other naughty figures that people make and download. But that would damage their brand, and also be a big hassle to admin and do PR for. Why bother, when you have the money coming in via option one? For that reason, I can’t see that DAZ or Renderosity will have a great deal to worry about. The ‘silent majority’ of their users will not want to use cloud services, and will be content with clothes-swopping, kit-bashing and morph-tweaking in privacy. Even if it means staying a step below the current state-of-the-art in hyper-realism. Much the same is true of those who want the wealth of creative science-fiction and fantasy content that DAZ and Poser now provide, royalty-free. Not to mention toon, animals and monsters.
It also seems to me that the average dedicated DAZ user will fairly soon just say… “I got a new PC and a 30-series NVIDIA card, so I run DAZ iRay in realtime now”. True, there’s still a damnable graphics-card drought but that surely can’t last forever. This means the “ooh… it works in real-time” thing is a bit of a red-herring. The only caveat there is the hair. Adding 3D hair has always caused a huge drop in scene pliability, and it’s just possible that MetaHuman has done more than create awesome-looking ‘helmet hair’. Real-time hairs that are true ‘stranded grooms’ and which can be easily re-styled… that would be quite something.
Finally, the ‘elephant in the room’ is AI. We’ve recently seen the Deep Nostalgia service very ably auto-animate a still 2D vintage photo with head-turns and eye-blinks. How much further will that go in the next few years? We may yet see Reallusion popping out a ‘CrazyTalk AI’, so don’t count them out yet either.
Darkseal un-sealed
Of interest to comics-maker using Poser, Darkseal now has stuff on the DAZ Store that I’ve not seen before, or which I assumed had vanished along with Content Paradise. He also has a sale on, right now.
Sadly no Neo Navigator or Rift Guardian, but we do get Rift Walker and Boon. His Boon toons reasonably well and takes M4 poses. Quite possibly Warframe, so think twice about commercial use of either. Also, the Rift Walker is vaguely similar to a Warhammer Genestealer, so commercial use in a comic etc could also be iffy.
Bugboy is even better in terms of tooning, although… you need to manually remove the eye-catching nipples and other distracting tackle that he loads with. But this is easily done, just make them invisible.
I never purchased the matching female version, as the megaboob-iness is a bit naff and I can’t think where I might use the figure. But I assume it toons to lineart in Poser 11 Smooth Shaded + Comic Book B&W just as nicely. I assume both BugBoy and Girl are original characters, and so could be used commercially?
Frye can toon reasonably well, but is more of a cartoonists’ aid for overdrawing. Probably best not to make him a flame-creature though, re: Howl’s Moving Castle. He comes with an additional ‘ice’ MAT.
Be warned that Darkseal’s Alien Podz don’t toon at all well in lineart, because they have few edges, and I recall I was also disappointed with his BioSkin series for tooning too. Painted details, rather than geometry.
No NearMe outfits or Cherry, or Squiddy. I’m fairly sure they’re all off the market now. On DAZ is one I’ve never seen before, though. There’s a ChupacabraP8Dog MAT for Stonemason’s Poser 8 Dog, a base animal figure which shipped free with Poser way back. As it was a flagship figure it has masses of morphs and dials.
He toons surprisingly nicely and has an expressive face. I’d always assumed he was just an old Poser Doberman. He can take DAZ sheep and pig poses, though not all that well. ChupacabraP8Dog is just the useful “ghost-dog” skin, and also note that CG Bytes has a Dalmatian skin and possibly some additional posing morphs.
Of the Space Bugs trio I only have the Drone, and it toons fairly well. Good for background decoration in big sci-fi scenes, and it doesn’t appear to be from Warhammer, Warframe etc. You could probably fit a saddle to it for a spaceport scene…
No poses but the Drone will take poses for the old DAZ Sheep, Pig etc very nicely.
Zulaynear for Cookie is also on the Store, though under a different vendor name.
Poser 12 Early Access 12.0.484
There’s been an unexpected update to Poser 12 Early Access, out of the usual monthly loop. Last was 12.0.469 (public on 7th April 2021), blogged about here. The latest is now 12.0.484 (public on 17th April 2021), which has two additional rounds of bug-fixing in it.
Two Walk Designer fixes, four Shortcut Editor fixes, and what look like two fairly vital fixes…
* “Texture Manager correctly updates gamma value on the texture, when using “Replace All Textures” feature.”
* “Changed PoserPython poser.ScriptLocation() to ensure return of path in fully native format”.
Cycles gets a big animation rendering boost
Very interesting news for Poser, via Blender’s Cycles…
Cycles has just got a massive performance boost when rendering animations and re-rendering images thanks to Brecht Van Lommel’s latest patch adding persistent data functionality to the render engine.
Poser’s SuperFly is Blender’s Cycles re-branded and slightly tweaked, so there seems no reason this improvement won’t be coming to Poser in due course. More system memory appears to be assumed, in order to make this work. No actual benchmark yet, in terms of what “massive” means in time-saving.
But apparently Blender’s Eevee also benefits. It was supposedly “real-time” anyway, but now is said to be twice as real-time. Erm…
Apparently the big Cycles push forward — with a whole new turbo-charged NVIDIA-only ‘Cycles X’ engine set for Blender 3.1 — is being funded by a major Facebook partnership. Not sure what Facebook get out of that? Perhaps something related to games running in their VR headsets.
Snigel demo
Here’s a quick demo of Nursoda’s new Snigel character, real-time tooned to various render layers and blended. Once installed, found under “Snigel” in both Figures and Poses.
I also discovered an interesting way to get a partial silhouette in Poser, and it works in real-time with all figures and props.
What’s new for DAZ and Poser, March 2021
Slightly late, here’s my survey of what’s new and notable in DAZ and Poser content in March 2021. Plus I also look at a few other sources. As usual freebies must be “commercial use” to be noted here, or else such obvious fan-art that no-one would try to use them commercially. “HD” stuff also tends to get skipped past, as so few users have the supercomputer to run it.
Update: Thanks to Kevin M. I’ve solved my problem with the infinite scrolling on the DAZ Store, which after a while causes the thumbnail loading to freeze. This had caused me to have to skip some DAZ Store items that were too far back in time. Setting “Items Per Page” to 60 brings back the paginated browsing.
Science-fiction:
CKV-01 for Dawn and Poser, now on Renderosity (was on HiveWire). Not all geometry, as I recall, and so does not toon well in Poser’s Comic Book mode.
Android X02 for G8M. A good generic suit and looking good with the back-view as well. Also at CGbytes. Apparently done wholly in geometry.
Colony Hive for Poser and DAZ. A curious blend between a nightclub and bio-lab/greenhouse. Still, it has a number of nice mini-scenes within it.
A useful free Shoulder Pad Morph for Genesis 8 male.
A new Starship corridor by 1971s. His scenes always toon well in Poser.
As hover-bikes go, Futuristic Hover Bike looks very nice, and also has dirt and dings. Also a new hoverboard.
A very cool SciFi Ocean Explorer, of movie-quality in OBJ and FBX. So far as I’m aware this is not fan-art, and seems to be a studio sell-off from a game that was never made?
KX SciTech Runner for G8F. Complete outfit, and the helmets have a Moebius feel to them and might be combined with other outfits.
Free Bone conduction headphones for G8.
Free in-ear Hearing aids for G8F, which might offer a base on which to adapt something more futuristic.
ShaaraMuse3D’s Laser Effect Maker props, for various forms of lazer-tripwire scenes.
10 Commando poses for Genesis 1. Free.
Mega Building for Poser. For when you need a big low 3D pyramid-like building at the back of your spaceship.
Steampunk:
MB Toon Steampunk Mech Bot for Poser. Likely to have a single texture-map rather than material zones. Also a more toony TB Toon Steampunk Mech Bot for Poser.
Fantasy:
LoREZ Pig 2 Bundle, being the pig and cart and sty.
Sixus1 now has an ArtStation store where you’ll find his Gladeling and other G8 figures.
dForce Twiglet Outfit for G8F, including crown.
The Log Housefor DAZ Studio. A nicely done miniature.
La Elven Boots for La Femme, and DA-Femenin for La Elven Boots for La Femme.
Toon:
Snigel by Nursoda, with poses.
A toony / semi-toon Half tied Back Ponytail for Blender.
The free anime toon figure Noname Doll is now at Update 3.
Storybook:
Free Candy Braids Hair for Genesis 8 Female. A big chunky braided ponytail. With colour zones.
A free Long Dress for G8F. Also free Pastel styles for a more birthday party feel.
Dessert Dreams and Dream Donuts for DAZ Studio.
Happy birthday sunglasses in FBX.
A free Sisters Kiss pose for G8. Also a free Crown for the Nature’s Wonders Frog, should you wish a storybook character to kiss a frog, who then becomes a prince etc.
Animals:
Coral Reef PBR Tileable Material for Substance Designer 2018 and higher.
Raptor Bird for Poser. A sort of fantasy cross between a tortoise and dino-bird, with some especially nice MATs. Also for DAZ, but there the MATs are not so fab. If this is the same as his recent Mammoth, with its crazy-huge textures, you will need Scene Optimizer to be able to render this in DAZ Studio and manually re-size in Poser.
Some Grass as Grass can be. DAZ iRay grass clumps of excellent realism.
See also Lisa’s Botanicals: Elephant Grass for big ‘corn-crop’ like African grass.
Useful Feline Grace Poses for Hivewire Big Cat, and they may also fit the House Cat?
And a free Pet Bird Playpen for KenG’s many birds, which we’ll hope to see on Renderosity soon but in the meantime can be had at Ken’s own store.
People:
The free G8M Walther 2.0 a hyper-real DAZ Studio ‘adventure in the wilds’ boy for G8M, now in v2 for Daz Studio. Also has free Summer Casual clothes.
A free Lucy for Genesis 1 character.
A free Mitch for M4. Modelled on a young Robert Mitchum, the 1940s and 50’s film-star.
Anime Hairstyles Pack for Blender.
Also Real Time Female Pony Tail Hair. Apparently works in real-time despite being complex and mussed up.
Historical:
A free Roman Galley ship.
Khaly for G8F. The Indian goddess. Warning: hair, clothes and accessories NOT included, but it would give you a base to work on. No indication of where you might find the clothes used in the promo.
WkD3D Ulaan for G8F. A Mongolian princess for DAZ Studio.
Ancient Persian Guards, seemingly wholly static in OBJ but in various poses. Can thus also be easily used in Vue. Also a Ancient Persian Armor set, also in OBJ.
17th century Fouquet Loose Curls Wig and Thin Moustache for G8M, including a pompadour rise.
A classic dForce Sailor Cadet Outfit for Genesis 8 Male.
1920s style VYK dForce Demure Dress and Hat. Also some matching olde-time underwear.
1920s Ziegfeld Follies Kit. This is a “Headdress & Hand Plumes Kit” NOT the full kaboodle ‘n corset.
A classic beat-up DustMaster 1950s Land Rover for the African colonies and English farms from that era.
A late-1960s / early 1970s house, in the very late-modernist style. Nice attention to detail. Like most modernist architecture this stuff only really worked in a hot sunny climate, and was otherwise depressing — so crank up the sunlight on this one.
80’s Arcade Poses, for amusement arcade game cabinets.
Architecture and exteriors:
Washing Line For DAZ, and the clothes have wind morphs.
Flink’s Ice, for Poser and DAZ.
Path in the Dunes. I seem to recall that this was once on another site, possibly one that has since closed. So some may already have it in their runtimes. But this version is for DAZ and iRay.
A free Entrance, which would suit a “path to the dunes”.
Earth Magic Maker various hi-res rising pebbles and rocks props for Poser and DAZ. Note that “some of the items are transparent planes”, so they will likely not toon well in Poser.
3DStaff Floating Island for Poser. Could be re-arranged for a Moebius-style desert scene, and should toon well.
Utilities and plugins:
Eyelash/Eyebrow Brushes for postwork on forward-facing portraits.
Ultimate iRay Skin Manager for DAZ Studio. Note this can also do what Poser does natively — lift gamma across textures, which is useful for quickly burning grunge off for subsequent Photoshop filtering and tooning. Although, looking at the manual, it seems to be a bit of a fiddly four-step process to do it.
Pose Swissknife for DAZ Studio. Claims to quickly find poses that will fit your figure, while also swiftly locking certain body parts if needed. Free. Not yet tested by me, but people seem to like it.
Wagasani’s Emissive Builder for DAZ Studio… “aims make obsolete going into the shader settings to add emissions” and glows.
iRay RTX Benchmark Scene. A non-commercial use freebie, but it’s just for testing and seeing how uber your new PC/card really is with the latest DAZ Studio.
Ok, that’s all for this month. More as we move into the summer.
Nursoda’s Snigel – new character
At Renderosity, Nursoda has a new character…