{"id":22247,"date":"2023-12-12T16:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=22247"},"modified":"2023-12-13T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:06:07","slug":"whats-new-for-poser-and-daz-studio-november-december-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2023\/12\/12\/whats-new-for-poser-and-daz-studio-november-december-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s new for Poser and DAZ Studio, November\/December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

New for Poser and DAZ Studio, November\/December 2023, Here are my latest picks from the latest goodies for Poser & DAZ creators, and with some overlap with AIs at the end. Though there is<\/em> increasingly overlap, as people start to use Poser and DAZ to produce the poses and depth renders that guide the AI generation.<\/p>\n

As usual, freebies are only featured if the renders are ‘commercial use’.<\/p>\n

My last round-up was 3rd November, so we’re looking at six weeks worth here rather than just a month.<\/p>\n

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Science fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n

LBLC_Desert Portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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UltraScenery – Planet Taira<\/a>, a set of alien plants.<\/p>\n

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Bugekko for Genesis 9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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G…Glitch<\/a> is a new near-future sci-fi ISS Space Station like interior from Coflek-gnorg.<\/p>\n

DD PBR Alien Rock Shaders for iRay Vol. 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sci-Fi Octopus<\/a>, obviously for Matrix<\/em> fan-art only rather than commercial use.<\/p>\n

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Fantasy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Army Of The Dead<\/a>. Plus ogres lugging rocks.<\/p>\n

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Medieval Village Destruction Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Demonarium<\/a> by Poisen, for Poser. 3D models.<\/p>\n

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Free, More Conforming Tails and Tentacles<\/a> for Poser. Including what appears to be a squirrel tail.<\/p>\n

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Steampunk:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free, a Pirate Outfit for Genesis 8\/8.1 Female<\/a>. With steampunk runtime-bashing potential.<\/p>\n

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New free Poser Shaders: Corrosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Beach:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heading for the beach in January? Don’t forget the Castle Made of Sand<\/a>, in two parts.<\/p>\n

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Beach bar set for Poser<\/a> from 1971s.<\/p>\n

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Free Summer Casual Deck Shoes for La Femme 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Storybook:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moonlight<\/a>, three free Moon \/ Sun figures in 3D.<\/p>\n

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A free playroom Wigwam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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More conventional modern play-tents are in the new Backyard Playset Bundle<\/a> for DAZ Studio. Or can be had as TF Playground Tent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

B.E.T.T.Y Teen Accessory Pack<\/a>. Backpack and smartphone for young teens.<\/p>\n

CNB Calvin for Genesis 9<\/a>, a young boy.<\/p>\n

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Toon and semi-toon:<\/strong><\/p>\n

RA Chull Christmas<\/a>, a Xmas outfit makeover for Nursoda’s Chull figure.<\/p>\n

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He’ll be dancing around the new Steampunk Christmas Tree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Possibly with pixies. Currently free at DAZ, over a hundred Power Pixie<\/a> morphs for the 3D Universe Pixie.<\/p>\n

Need ‘a right Charlie’? King Charles<\/a> for M3 LowRes.<\/p>\n

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Superhero and comics production:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new series of pose sets, SuperHero Dexterity for G8M Volume 1<\/a>. Specifically intended for the new Red Devil<\/a> (Marvel’s Daredevil) Set for G8M.<\/p>\n

Grid Suit G8M<\/a>, an overlay of guide-lines for those producing rough layouts and pencils for comics.<\/p>\n

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See also the “AI” section.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Character helpers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free, Reset the face V4<\/a> and Reset the Hand V4<\/a>. It “also works on M4”.<\/p>\n

Cheryl for V4<\/a>. Free and definitely taking V4 away from the ‘usual look’.<\/p>\n

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Animals:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Songbird ReMix Cuckoos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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DS Fantasy Owl Species<\/a> for last month’s DS Fantasy Owl.<\/p>\n

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Landscape, oceanscapes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mediterranean Juniper High Resolution Plants and Trees<\/a> from Martin J. Frost.<\/p>\n

Ultrascenery : The Ultimate Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maelstrom<\/a>, for when you need an ocean whirlpool or river sink-hole.<\/p>\n

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Remote Mini Sub<\/a> for underwater landscape exploration.<\/p>\n

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Historical:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Complete Roman Tavern<\/a> from the Ancient Roman period, in .OBJ and .FBX formats.<\/p>\n

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Roman Villa<\/a> with garden, interior, pool, for DAZ Studio.<\/p>\n

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The Three Wise Men (The Magi)<\/a> for the Christmas story.<\/p>\n

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Viking Jewellery for Genesis 9 and 8<\/a>. Not something you see every day.<\/p>\n

Medieval Tinker – Package #1<\/a> and Package #1 FBX<\/a>, with basic metalworking tools said to be accurate for the medieval period.<\/p>\n

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dForce Monk for G9<\/a>. I can’t tell if you also get the character morph or not. The pictures suggest so, but the inventory doesn’t mention it.<\/p>\n

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Renaissance Gloves for G8M, G8F and G9<\/a><\/p>\n

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Napoleonic Scottish Highland Infantry for G8M<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ilya Muromets WWI Bomber<\/a> for Poser, a First World War bombing plane. With detailed interior and accessories.<\/p>\n

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Need air defence? Try the new Pom-Pom Gun for Poser<\/a>. Also available for DAZ.<\/p>\n

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Bridport West Bay Station<\/a>, a classic British train station by Dryjack.<\/p>\n

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Skippy Racer<\/a> in two parts. A nice 1940s\/50s children’s push scooter.<\/p>\n

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dForce Picnic Pinafore Outfit for Genesis 9<\/a>, a classic 1950s \/ early 1960s girls outfit.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Aircat prop for Poser<\/a>. Amphibious assault craft. <\/p>\n

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And finally the Snow System for DAZ Studio<\/a>. Because “snow is a thing of the past”. Or so we’re supposed to believe, as it falls abundantly from the sky.<\/p>\n

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Coding for scripts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beginners Guide to Scripting in DAZ Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Camera-facing billboard script for Poser<\/a>, working in Poser 12\/13.<\/p>\n

Starting the Mac OS finder with Python<\/a> in Poser. Seems to be the equivalent of Windows Explorer.<\/p>\n

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Tutorials:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DAZ Studio Render Engines : Essentials Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On YouTube, What you need to know about the five types of Poser\/DAZ hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poser eyes – a deep dive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Bondware continues making small but meaningful Poser improvements”<\/a> and there’s a video summary of what they are. Who knew that the latest Poser 13 apparently no long needs Snarlygribbly’s EZSkin for rendering older V4\/M4 etc figures in SuperFly? They kept that one quiet, if correct. However, my tests just now suggest you’ll still very much want the new and latest “EZSkin 3.2 (Updated version maintained by Y-Phil)”<\/a>, for the realism it adds to the skin of older figures. I don’t see Poser 13 adding that in the same way, if at all. It may well handle recalcitrant old textures better, as the video seems to suggest… but no nicer skin. I find EZSkin 3.2 works fine with Poser 13, but note that you will need to import the older figure .def definitions file from the 3.1 .zip file. The definitions are not also in 3.2, so you will need both files<\/strong>. My test: M3 + Draguul dragon-rider, plus EZSkin in Superfly…<\/p>\n

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How to create fog, mist, spotlights and ‘god rays’<\/a> in Poser.<\/p>\n

DAZ Studio Techniques – Rendering in Layers for Faster Results<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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AI items of interest:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The freeware InvokeAI standalone installer 3.2.0 at the Internet Archive<\/a>. It’s otherwise a single 32Gb non-resuming .zip file, which many find impossible to download due to line-drops.<\/p>\n

DAZ Studio G8F to Openpose<\/a>, tested. For use in ComfyUI, InvokeAI and others. Pose in DAZ, export the special pose picture, then have the AI image conform to the same pose. Free, but doesn’t do hands.<\/p>\n

There’s also a free Openpose Editor<\/a>, online, with hands. Or an offline Windows Openpose editor<\/a> free on Itch.io, for which 1.0.9 came out last month. Poser 12 and 13 also has a paid Openpose plugin, which can do hands.<\/p>\n

AI can also use depth map renders to guide the image generation. New this month, the paid Basic Depth Map Maker for DAZ Studio<\/a>. Poser will get you a depth map for free, either in a .PSD after a Firefly render, or as an automated real-time Preview render<\/a>. These are used in a ‘depth T2I-Adapter’, not a Controlnet’s depth slot.<\/p>\n

Reposer<\/a>, a free and relatively simple ComfyUI workflow for “Consistent Stable Diffusion Generated Characters in ANY pose from one image”. Basically, it does a quick face-swop and pose in one easy workflow. The developer has his stuff here<\/a>. Obvious potential for comics makers who have lots of ‘talking heads’.<\/p>\n

A free Render To Real batcher<\/a> workflow for DAZ Studio and ComfyUI. Render in DAZ, pop out photographic photoreal. For advanced users, “this is a ComfyUI workflow to batch image-to-image process rendered scenes from something like a Ren’py game with DAZ3D-rendered graphics to photo-real scenes.” Tagged as NSFW, as the guy is making a ‘nudist colony’ game. Thus it may not show up if your site settings forbid it. But it can of course be reworked for other storytelling such as comics.<\/p>\n

Green Screen LORA<\/a>. Does what it says, in three flavours of greenscreen. Again with obvious potential for comics makers, with the resulting generated images being used with Photoshop greenscreen knock-out plugins such as Primatte.<\/p>\n

But since animation seems to be all AI users can think about at present, now real-time generation can be done, I’ll also add a couple of related links…<\/p>\n

Chromox – Transforming Ideas into Visual Stories<\/a>. A new online service. See also the free MagicAnimate<\/a> demo.<\/p>\n

DiffusionAvatars: Deferred Diffusion for High-fidelity 3D Head Avatars<\/a>. Impressive.<\/p>\n

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That’s it. More picks and links in the New Year! Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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