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Hi guys!

I'm back with another shot of my skin shader - EcVh0 Skin Shader for Genesis 8 female, now released!

Click for the Product here!

This time it will come with two different shaders - Skin Shader Lite and Skin Shader Realistic

Skin Shader Lite is for ones who looks for fast renders with low memory and maximum realisticity, it is a improved version from the genesis 3 shaders, with additional properties included in the new version of Iray released with G8 figures

and Skin Shader Realistic is for ones who looks for maximum realisticity, using a complete new way of displaying skin details using SSS under any light conditions

Anyways, here's some previews for ya all! Hope you enjoy and feel free to ask any questions!

How to Apply Makeup on EcVh0 Iray Skin Shader

Due to the huge change on how the skin is constructed, (by literally ditching the diffuse map), some might find their makeup no longer works on this skin shader.

Don't worry, here is a detailed fix to get your makeup back again!

First, we need to have a look at how incompatible the makeups are! Some, are a bit harder to apply than the others, you will need to goto the place where the texture of your characters are stored, in most cases it will be (Your Content Library Location)/Runtime/Textures/VendorName (or DAZ3D)/Figure Generation (Genesis 8 Female or others)/Characters/Character Name

Now, you should see a whole list of .jpg images in the folder like texture maps, bump maps etc, great! You have located your character's texture folder! Now you just need to determine if your character is which of the following:

1. Texture with full LIE(Layered Image Editor) makeup: If you see a lot of transparent images with only the makeups (one of the best examples are the Victoria8's default textures), congrats you character's makeup is full LIE - which is almost fully compatible with the shader! Now to put your makeup on, you just need to do the simple steps below:
   • After applying all shaders onto your character, locate the surface you want to add makeup on (usually the "face" surface) by locating it under surface tab, or clicking the surface using the surface selection tool
   • Locate the texture in Translucency Color block (Should be amount the first chunk of parametters)
   • Click on the texture, selected Layered Image Editor - this should start up your LIE editor with the texture loaded in it
   • Locate the "+" button on the right side of the LIE editor, click and select "Add layer"
   • Now you should be able to see a new layer being created on top of the old layer. Locate the "Resource" parameter right below the + button, and click to select the makeup you want to add onto the texture
   • Poof! After accepting you should be able to see the makeup appear on the skin texture, position it to your likings with the position parameters under the resource parameter and hit accept
   • Now you should be able to see your beautiful makeup appear on the skin! Happy Rendering! 
2. Makeup embeded in Textures: If you see most of your makeups are embeded into the texture itself, then we will need to do a little bit of work to get them back! You need to check the following:
   1. Does your character has a colored SSS map?: simply browse through the textures of your character, and look for anything named something SSS/Translucency, if your character has a colored(actually skin looking) SSS map (not the grey ones like Genesis 8 Female default SSS map) with the makeup you want, then keep on reading, this is your section , otherwise skip to the next!
      • At here, you should have found a colored SSS map with the makeup you want in the texture folder, this is what you want to do: Check if it has the similar color to the diffuse map, or if it is similar to the SSS map from the skin Shader:
        • If it is similar to the diffuse map of the character: Oops! We might need a little work here! You now need to do the following:
          • Go through all skin surfaces, and replace the default SSS map from the skin shader with the character's diffuse map - now you are probably seeing an incredibly dark skin character in front of you - hold on! It's not done yet
          • Select Skin-Lips-Nails surfaces from the surface tab - you should be able to see all skin related surfaces are selected.
          • Scroll down the surface parameters to near bottom, and find a parameter called "Transmitted Color" with orange color next to it
          • Change the transmitted color from "0.95 0.20 0.10" to "0.95 0.54 0.51"
          • And now you are good to go! Happy Rendering!
        • If it is similar to SSS Map from the Skin Shader: Congrats! You character texture is fully compatible with the skin shader, now all you need to do, is to go through all skin surfaces, and replace the default SSS map from the skin shader with the character's SSS map, and you are good to go!
        • "It's not like your SSS nor it's like the diffuse map, it's weird af and I have no idea what to do...": Don't worry! we still have other ways to add makeup onto your character - Simply find a LIE supported makeup set, or simply the V8 default set, and perform the steps above on LIE makeups and you are good to go!
      • Here, you haven't found a proper SSS map in your character's texture set , but again, don't worry because we can still get your makeup back! You now need to check If your diffuse map has the similar color as the SSS map provided in the Skin Shader
        • "Yes they are similar!": Congrats! Again your diffuse map is fully compatible with the skin shader SSS map, so all you need to do is to replace all SSS map in the skin surfaces with your diffuse map, and you are good to go!!
        • "No they are different, they are much darker/oranger/stronger in color": Oops! We might need a little work here! You now need to do the following:
          • Go through all skin surfaces, and replace the default SSS map from the skin shader with the character's diffuse map - now you are probably seeing an incredibly dark skin character in front of you - hold on! It's not done yet
          • Select Skin-Lips-Nails surfaces from the surface tab - you should be able to see all skin related surfaces are selected.
          • Scroll down the surface parameters to near bottom, and find a parameter called "Transmitted Color" with orange color next to it
          • Change the transmitted color from "0.95 0.20 0.10" to "0.95 0.54 0.51"
          • And now you are good to go! Happy Rendering!
3. "Dammit! None of the above fits my character, what do I do??": No panic! There is still two ways you can get your makeup back!
   • Find a LIE compatible makeup: Simply dig through your character sets and find a LIE compatible makeup (transparent background with nothing but makeup), and repeat the LIE makeup step, and you are good to go! Simple and nice!
   • "No I just want this particular set, this particular texture to be on my character!": Sure thing! Send me an email at stevenyang0430@gmail with the skin textures, and I will try to make you the SSS map that works perfectly and return it back to you! (Note that it might take 1-2 days)

Hope this text only tutorial is easy to understand! If you don't get anything or couldn't get it to work, simply comment below and I will help you, whenever I'm not asleep!

Happy Rendering!

Promo Images!

EcVh0

Hi Guys. Draagonstorm and myself have been slaving away to create something really cool and fun to use. Introducing Pose Builder. In a nutshell, it gives you the ability to mix and combine poses, or areas of poses from Genesis, G2F and G2M.

You can even mix areas of a female pose with that of a male or creature. You can also load up a full pose and zero out areas and add in different options from other poses. Also includes a one click Pose Mirror option and the ability to save your pose creations. Here are a few shots of the product. Will post more examples and how it works soon. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Medieval Hall and Garden for Daz Studio (3Delight + Iray) and Carrara. Includes long gallery/undergallery, exchequer/undercroft plus garden, courtyard, mill stream and props.

http://www.daz3d.com/medieval-hall-and-garden

Welcome to The Growing Up for Genesis 8 Support thread.

I have a new tutorial that just hit the market, I explain in complete detail the process of rigging mechs and vehicles inside of Daz Studio. With this tutorial you'll be able to rig anything you want! I go over:

• Hierarchies
• Figure Setup
• Joint Editor
• Dial Parameters and Properties
• Morphs
• ERC (Extended Remote Control)
• Morph ERC
• Keyed ERC
• Smart Parenting

Check out a YouTube trailer here: https://youtu.be/UyPvGv5EaGY

Product page is here: https://www.daz3d.com/rigging-vehicles-and-mechs-in-daz-studio

Hello, here is a small preview of a coop work, made with Td3D, who created the guitar.

 It's an original design, with plenty of customization options (basically each and every guitar parts can be tweaked to your taste, dozens of material presets available, plus shader presets for parts you would like to tweak with different colors).

 It comes with 16 poses, 8 for males, and 8 different for females, and most of the hands are available as partials, to make it easy to tweak/build your own poses. All left hands are hierarchicals, so the fingers will always stay posed right in place on the fretboard. And it's very easy to tweak, just move the hand (bend, twist or side-side), or the forearm/shoulder, the guitar will always follow the move.

 There are plectrum smartprops too, for male and female, they work on any of the playing poses.

https://www.daz3d.com/the-stellacaster-guitar-and-poses-for-genesis-3

 Here are a few of the pictures :

This is also in the works and to be released hopefully when Growing Up goes live. G8's expressions are fantastic. One problem, all those added wrinkle details don't look good on anything younger than an adult. This set aims to remedy that. You will be able to control the smoothing via a master controller and control the amount of wrinkle detail that are present on the expressions. It can also be dialed in the negative to exaggerate wrinkle details. More details to follow.

Hey guys,
I just wanted to give you a heads up of a new product coming down the pipeline soon. Here is a demonstation video of it in action;

https://vimeo.com/thephilosopher/demo-lf

Please let me know what you think, whether the promos a clear enough. Any suggestions or tips you may have would be appreciated, as always.

I will also post a tutorial video in this thread once its ready.

I hope you enjoy this product.

           PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

• Wow, pure eye-candy for iRay!

  Now you can play with light in a new way! Make it dance; make it sparkle; add new life to your old scenes. With this dynamic lens flare and starburst set, you not only get a real 3D light set with real props (not just Photoshop brushes), but you also get full motion dynamics, meaning interact with your scene and dynamically move with the camera to simulate real lens flares.*  Incredible! Plus it comes with tons of extra features and options (over 82 textures to choose from), including camera glare (light leaks), light flashes, camera streaks, chroma-hoops, light fog, and more.

  And the setup is quite simple: There is one camera, and one light, and a lot of stuff in between that makes everything look pretty. As you move the camera or light source, the flares move accordingly, just like in real life. 

Product has been Updated with Official Genesis 8 Male support. Existing buyers please download update. Thanks.

Ren is for your Genesis 3 & 8 Male. He is slightly shorter than the base models.
His head morphs are custom built and do not require any other morph packs to utilize and the body morphs require Genesis 3 Male Body morphs and Genesis 8 Male Body Morphs to use.
Included for both Genesis Males are 3 Brow Presets with 1 No Brow Preset for each model. There are 4 Eye Material Presets, 4 Contacts combinations, 2 Lashes with 4 Material Presets each. With the Tattoo Presets, there are 2 for the Leg, Arm, Torso and a Preset for all, for both legs, or both arms along with Base Material Presets for each body area.
With the make up options, I've chosen to make them LIE Presets to use on any Genesis 3 Male UV and Genesis 8 Male UV based character. In them there are 3 Lip Presets, and 10 Make Up Presets, and 2 Eyeliner Presets.
Anatomical Elements are included.
Hierarchical Presets for the Base Material for both- With Anatomical Elements for Genesis 3 Male, and with the Lash/Tear and Anatomical Elements for Genesis 8 Male.
Materials are Iray only.
*Note: the piercings shown are from Diesel for Elijah 7

The Void

The Void is the concept of nothingness as an alternative dimension, an abyss that is infinite and empty…or is it? This set includes a glowing doorway portal with rays, opaque liquid ground, an expansive wall, two HDRs, an invisible light disk, bloom render settings, and five shaders. Props can be loaded individually, as scene subsets, or a multi-piece prop that’s fused together for easy scaling. The doorway prop can be scaled to the size of a large room, hallway, tower, or much larger structure.

Most of the scene subsets look best using one of The Void HDR render settings. These either completely darken the scene or add a very faint horizon line. The Void Infinity Hallway scene subset is an enclosed structure with cut-outs for the ceiling, so most HDRs or environment render settings will work fine.

I'm looking forward to your questions, comments, and renders (if you feel inspired to share). Here is the ReadMe.

Two big sets great for action shots. The curved back wall gives you more camera options to frame your scenes. Fun fact, The Lost Gate morphing water prop is a volume not just a plane. Figures breaking the surface can be viewed from the side with the lower half in the water distorted by the water volume.

https://www.daz3d.com/niflheim-s-gate

https://www.daz3d.com/lost-gate-texture-set-for-niflheim-s-gate

Hi all,

I've been trying to create a 3D model for some time now, but I just can't get it right. I'm really stuck, I don't even know what to change in theory, leave alone in the much limited practice.

So, basically the idea is a Sci-fi elevator, a device that is made to inspect unknown planets from a safe distance, behind the bulletproof glass. Basically you take the elevator as some kind of shuttle to go from your ship down to the planet surface to look at the planet. Or to go down, once you think it's safe, and explore the planet.

I attached some pictures off what I already have. What I would like is the following feedback:

1. Does this come even close to any quality work which you might (ever, with a perfect budget) consider to buy? Basically if you think it's garbage you could have assembled yourself in a couple of hours, just say so. I won't get offended. I have no idea what this level is, and I'm jumping between infiriority complex and grandness mania. (As in I'm very proud I did this small thing, but I suspect it's so much less than anything worth making.) Also, if you would consider downloading it as a freebie, that's information as well.

2. If this could get to some level, what changes would you suggest to add to this model to make it look proper and nice? Like what details would make it better? Textures, extra functions, extra parts. You name it. 

3. Are the attached pictures of decent quality? Or would you say I could improve on that as well? If the last: what do you think I should improve? 

Thank you so much for your help!

EDIT: Beta testers needed! Please read till the end of the thread to see the pictures of the finished product. 

Ok, guys, the set is as good as finished. Since most of the stuff I changed from the previously posted pictures is minor, I'm calling it done and am calling for beta testers. The full fleshed promo's will be done after the beta test is finished, in case I missed some major problem and need to change things.

So, I'm looking for about 8-10 beta testers. 

1. About 5 normal DAZStudio Iray users
2. 1-2 Users of Reality and/or Lux 
3. 1-2 Users of Poser to see how the .obj import into the program and render in Poser 

For the moment the set is Iray only. If you're using more than one engine - bonus points for you, means you can qualify for two spots on the list. 

Rules:
1.Don't share this product anywhere with anyone, especially not online (speaks for itself ;))
2.Don't share your renders with it publically until I've submitted it to the DAZ shop and at least got a positive response. I would like to keep it contained
3.You are more than welcome to make artistic renders with it and send it to me through private messages
4.You get the product for free, so no "delete after beta test" small print. If the product gets accepted to DAZ I'll try to make sure it will appear in your Product library as a gift.
5.I reserve the right to deny to beta test requests (in case the spots are full or I have enough testers for your render engine of choice)

If you're interested send me a PM with the mention of your engine choice either through forums or on DeviantArt (link in the sig). 

Current state:

Iray slots: full
Lux/Reality slots: full
Poser slots: 1 free

EDIT #2: The product is in the store now! See here: https://www.daz3d.com/futuristic-glass-elevator-and-building-kit

Word Tattoo allows you to quickly create custom Word Tattoos for your Genesis 3 Female and Genesis 8 Female characters!  Type in your tattoo message, set a few options, and Word Tattoo automatically creates a layered image and applies it to the correct Iray® or 3Delight materials and color channels!  Word Tattoo is extremely customizable allowing you to specify the location and orientation, font and font styles, opacity and crispness of your tattoos. 

For Finger Tattoos (or fingernails or toes), Word Tattoo automatically aligns the text so that each character is placed on a separate finger in the correct location and orientation.

Word Tattoo does not support wrapping your tattoos around the textures so you must avoid the edges of the materials in order to see the complete word tattoo.

Compatible with Assembly Line Pose Automation Kit by RiverSoft Art.  However, only single line word tattoos can be created in an Assembly Line.

For Iray® and 3Delight 

For Windows Only

Features

• Easily create custom Word Tattoos on any Genesis 3 Female or Genesis 8 Female material
• Specify exact position and orientation of your Word Tattoos
• Easily apply custom Word Tattoos to the fingers, fingernails, and toes
• Create single line or multiline tattoos with left, center, and right justification and custom line spacing
• Use Latin and non-Latin alphabets such as Cyrillic and Greek (Japanese and Chinese alphabets are not supported)
• Uses all Fonts available on your system
• Change Fonts, Font Sizes, Colors, and Styles (bold, italic, and underline)
• Change the opacity and crispness to give a faded look to your custom word tattoos
• Supports Iray® and 3Delight materials
• For Windows Only

Hi Guys. In the process of reworking a few products that will be on it's way for Genesis 8. Some of them are nearly done, and all are being reworked and improved.

Here is a shortlist of the initial ones that will be out first (In no particular order)

- Shape Shift

- Breast Control + Puppeteer support

- Glute Control+ Puppeteer support

- Fit Control

- Growing Up

- Aging Morphs

-Bend Control

-200 Plus Head Morphs

Thank you for your patience.

Coming Soon: Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 [Commercial]

The king of tyrants returns with feathers, age and sex variations, higher resolution detail, more accurate anatomy, and more!

Adult male and female variations include different anatomy shape and scale adjustments, different feather displays, and different skin colors. The juvenile comes with even more distinct anatomy changes along with its own feathers and skin color. Adjust the scale of the juvenile to make it feel more like an adolescent or hatchling.

You can customize the look of your Rex by adding or removing feather groups to fit the look you want.

A saliva attachment is also included that fits any of the variations to help their mouths look gnarly and realistic giving your renders that extra edge of detail. 18 poses are included to help you dive right into rendering.

Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 was created using multiple UV maps for higher resolution detail on close up renders. Surface material groups include Body, Head, Legs, Eyes, Mouth, Teeth, and Claws.

Both Iray and 3Delight material presets included!

Check out more Images attached below

Coming Soon: Gore Pack for Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 [Commercial]

The Gore Pack comes with a large, bloody, and mostly devoured Alamosaurus carcass complete with Iray and 3Delight material presets.

The Gore Pack also includes a meat chunk that is fitted to the mouth of Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 complete with bloody drool and textures for the male, female, and juvenile Rex. The meat chunk is universal and fits all 3 Rex types and comes with Iray and 3Delight material presets.

Check out more Images attached below

WIP: Rip and Tear Pack for Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 and Dakotaraptor [Commercial]

The Rip and Tear pack allows you to create some gruesome and spectacular dinosaur fighting scenes with the Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 and Dakotaraptor complete with Iray and 3Delight material presets.

This pack comes with a wounded skin for the Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 Male. It also includes two new variants, the Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 Male Heavily Wounded (which is heavily wounded with a missing finger), and the Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 Male Veteran (that is battle-hardened with many scars to show off). The Veteran features a bitten off tail, a chewed apart arm with no hand (and custom arm feathers to match), a slashed eye, chipped and broken teeth, and a more pale feather material.

It also includes complete poses for three battle scenes, including all poses needed to recreate the Dakotaraptor vs Rex scene above.

Check out more Images attached below

Coming Soon: Dakotaraptor [Commercial]

The raptor that lived along side Tyrannosaurus Rex is now available with feathers, age and sex variations, high resolution detail, accurate anatomy, and more!

Adult male and female variations include scale adjustments, different feather displays, and different skin colors. The juvenile comes with more distinct anatomy changes along with its own feather display. Adjust the scale of the juvenile to make it feel more like an adolescent or hatchling.

You can customize the look of your Raptor by adding or removing feather groups to fit the look you want. You can even remove all feathers if you want allowing you to create your own feather display.

A saliva attachment is also included that fits any of the variations to help their mouths look gnarly and realistic giving your renders that extra edge of detail. 20 poses are included to help you dive right into rendering.

The Dakotaraptor was created using multiple UV maps for high resolution detail on close up renders. Surface material groups include Body, Head, Arms, Legs, Eyes, Mouth, Teeth, and Claws.

Both Iray and 3Delight material presets included!

Check out more Images attached below

She's finally here!  My first female Zombie, just in time for the Haloween season...

Thanks for checking her out :)

71 props not including the base MICK Tiles.

Have you wanted to learn how to create compelling characters for your comics, graphic novels or illustrated narratives ? What makes a character convincing or captivating. How do you provide an obvious first impression with a still artwork character?

This is a new two-part tutorial, first to be broadcast live as webinars starting this Saturday the 30th of September, with the tutorial recordings available in the DAZ store within a few weeks afterwards.

Special for DAZ PA's : you can use this Discount code "characters20" to save $20 at checkout for this:-

These two tutorial sessions are for you if you have wanted to tell a story visually with convincing characters. We'll be using DAZ Studio as the primary tool to construct our character art. We include essential information on:-

• Body types
• Basic Face Shapes
• Character relationship maps
• DAZ Studio Deformer tool
• Adding scars and cuts to a character
• Factors that shape a story!
• Setting First Impressions
• Our understanding of the characters is shaped by the actions they take
• Elements to understanding a character
• Key Properties of Characters
• The Characters Populating Your Storyworld
• Major, Minor and Placeholder Characters
• Character Archetypes
• Avoiding Clichés and Stereotypes
• Raising the Emotional Stakes
• Why is it important that characters be distinctive?
• What makes a character distinctive looking?
• What keeps characters from looking distinctive?
• Purposeful Resemblances
• Challenges In Distinctive Features
• How characters are typically differentiated
• Ways to test your cast’s distinctiveness