Working on a modular Space Brig, 16 individual props so far with preset set ups. Here's a sneek peek still woking on it.

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

Hello, this is the 1.2 update that should hopefully fix the 'black screen' issue occurring on some systems. Before sending it to DAZ and make installers/DIM I'd like to get some feedback. If you can try and report to info@alessandromastronardi.com I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

http://www.alessandromastronardi.com/downloads/IrayGeoLocator/IrayGeoLocator.Win64.1.2.zip

http://www.alessandromastronardi.com/downloads/IrayGeoLocator/IrayGeoLocator.macOS.1.2.zip

To install the Windows version, unzip and overwrite in your '/Program Files/DAZ 3D/DAZStudio4/plugins/' folder

To install the macOS version, unzip and overwrite in your '/Applications/DAZ 3D/DAZ Studio4/plugins/' folder

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Just released a new DAZ Studio plugin that I developed, the Iray GeoLocator: https://www.daz3d.com/iray-geolocator
Dedicated to all Iray users, GeoLocator will let you browse the world map or query the cities database, pick your preferred location, and set Iray environment settings accordingly.
Surf around the globe and see sky and environment settings automatically adjust as you change location, time and date: now you can simulate light condition occurring in every corner of the world in a matter of seconds, and render with accurate settings for each geographic location!

Manual PDF available also here: http://docs.daz3d.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/public/read_me/index/36921/36921_iray-geolocator-readme.pdf

New thread for this year 2017. 

Glimpse of what's coming in the not so distant future.  An easy to keep track of thread to answer questions, post screens, take requests,  that sort of thing.

All products will be for both Daz Studio 3Delight and Daz Studio Iray. 

Last Years thread is here:  http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/70393/firstbastion-s-2016-upcoming-lineup-commercial/p1

Update: 8 September 2017

Released today: Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Genesis 2 Male, Michael 5 and Michael 6

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-genesis-2-male-michael-5-and-michael-6

Update: 21 July 2017

Released today: Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Victoria 5 and Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Victoria 6

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-victoria-5

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-victoria-6

Update: 14 July 2017

Released today: Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Victoria 4

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-victoria-4

Update: 8 July 2017

Released today: Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Genesis 2 Female

https://www.daz3d.com/legacy-uvs-for-genesis-8-genesis-2-female

Original Post: 5 July 2017

Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Genesis 2 Female and Legacy UVs for Genesis 8: Victoria 4 will be released shortly.

Because of the differences in the eye geometry on Genesis 8 I have added an additional attachment which attempts to replicate the eye geometry of earlier generations.  This eye attachment loads with the geografts, though is itself not a geograft, and comprises surfaces which will take the MATs from legacy cornea and sclera surfaces.  Full details are given in the PDF documentation.

Also, the geografts now load as one piece, not five, so that should make things simpler to manage.

This is a new thread for the Genesis 8 edition of the Legacy UVs.  It is for issues, suggestions and questions which may arise.

Hi there,

well, to round up the EASY SHAPE line here is the last one of them for Genesis 3 Male. It will be released soon. 

Here an overview and some promos. The "LEG VOLUME" reduction morphs are already included here. 

Do you want to adjust the shape of Genesis 3 Male to make him younger or older? A more muscular or a chubby body shape?

Are you tired of dialing in and adjusting dozens of morphs to get what you want?

This product takes over this work for you by utilizing dozens of the Head- and Body morphs and making the needed adjustments to the character's shape.

Both head- and body morphs are utilized to gain most detail. 

You can either use the provided presets for age, body definition and chubbiness or use the provided dials to step less adjust the appearance of the shape and fine tune it to get the shape you like. The provided presets are only suggestions what we felt a shape at that age would look like. You can of course dial everything as you like and save your own presets too. 

The Daz Original Head- and Body Morphs work perfectly with Genesis 3 Male Characters and we take advantage here of this fact by intensively utilizing them. You can of course use other morphs as well to adjust the shapes even more. 

Age dials/presets can be mixed with the body tuning dials/presets (chubbiness/muscularity), so that you can have for instance a boy with strong muscularity or a chubby older lad etc. There are almost endless possibilities to mix and match the controls. 

Included are also several custom sculpted morphs to reduce the legs volume and smooth them more. Those are useful when dialing in the younger shapes to get better proportions for young boys.

The body tuning options keep active while switching the age presets, so you can see how the actual shaping looks on a young boy, a teen boy or men and old men.

This add on works best with the Genesis 3 Male Base Character without any morphs/shapes applied. However the controls work with any Genesis 3 Male based character, so you can turn Michael 7 into a teen for instance.

You can also make any shape more muscular or chubby in relation to their default shape.

Your settings can be saved as shape presets of course. You can use Shape Master also well for custom character creation. 

Please note that the actual effect of the controls may vary depending what character you are using and what other morphs/controls/shape presets are used/dialed in as well.

Morph Control Dials

• Younger Shape
• Older Shape
• Muscular Shape
• Chubby Shape
• Nipple Adjustment
• Face Age Adjust
• Knee Size Reduce
• Legs Upper Volume Reduce
• Legs Lower Volume Reduce
• Legs Volume All Reduce
• Navel Size
• Head Size Adjustment
• Neck Length Adjustment

Shape Presets

• Reset Shape Master
• Preteen Boy
• Tween Boy
• Young Teen Boy
• Mid Teen Boy
• Older Teen Boy
• Young Adult Man
• Adult Man 20s-60s
• 4 Chubbiness Presets
• 4 Muscularity Presets

Welcome to The Growing Up for Genesis 8 Support thread.

18 August 2017
Update 1.3, addressing error on loading the Caribou Calf model:

Windows 64bit Catalyzer 1.3 (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)
macOS Catalyzer 1.3 (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Applications\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)

If for some reasons you need to revert to the initial release version, you can obviously use the DIM or the original installer again.

In case of issues please email me at info@alessandromastronardi.com sending a brief description of the problem and:

• the Catalyzer log file (/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/LAMH2Iray Catalyzer/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerLogFile.txt)
• the DAZ Studio log file (menu Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File)

Thanks!

17 August 2017
Sorry for the confusion, I added another fix and so version 1.2 comes here:

Windows 64bit: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.2/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.2.Win64.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)
macOS: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.2/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.2.macOS.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Applications\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)

If for some reasons you need to revert to version 1.0, you can obviously use the DIM or the original installer again.

In case of issues please email me at info@alessandromastronardi.com sending a brief description of the problem and:

• the Catalyzer log file (/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/LAMH2Iray Catalyzer/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerLogFile.txt)
• the DAZ Studio log file (menu Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File)

Thanks!

16 August 2017
Hello folks, I didn't receive any information as to when the Catalyzer 1.1 update will be available through official channels, so for the curious one I am anticipating it:

Windows 64bit: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.1/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.1.Win64.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Program Files\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)
macOS: www.alessandromastronardi.com/QA/Catalyzer/1.1/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerPlugin.1.1.macOS.zip (copy and overwrite the zip content in your '\Applications\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\plugins\' folder)

If for some reasons you need to revert to version 1.0, you can obviously use the DIM or the original installer again.

This update should fix the lag issue (with the beta-testers we didn't catch this issue altough I think to know why it happens for some); also, now it should be safe to load Catalyzer item(s) on an existing scene.

In case of issues please email me at info@alessandromastronardi.com sending a brief description of the problem and:

• the Catalyzer log file (/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/LAMH2Iray Catalyzer/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerLogFile.txt)
• the DAZ Studio log file (menu Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File)

Thanks!

I'd like to introduce a new plugin called Catalyzer, soon to be released, that allows to render my whole library of furred animals and creatures effortlessly with the Nvidia Iray engine.

Simply load and pose the models and click the Render button available in the Catalyzer pane: the procedure will automatically prepare Iray compliant, optimized spline hairs and produce the render!
The process is multi-threaded and very fast, even with multiple characters loaded.
Additionally, the Catalyzer pane offers settings to modify fur density, spline quality and hair's physical shader characteristics.

As I mentioned all my models have been updated for Catalyzer compatibility and are offered for free. You will find those as free updates in your DIM.
You can now look forward to more and more of my furred animals and creatures finally working out of the box with Nvidia Iray.

Here is an introduction movie showing the Catalyzer in action:

And the PDF manual: www.alessandromastronardi.com/downloads/CatalyzerPDF.pdf

For the next 4 weeks I will travel areas with presumably intermittent internet connection: don't worry if I won't chime in immediately over here, I'll do as often as I can.

For support and inquiries, please contact me at info@alessandromastronardi.com

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Hello, after collecting feedback, here are a few tips and workarounds that might help:

- I think everybody was able to install and activate by now; if not, after you install the Catalyzer, check these instructions: http://www.alessandromastronardi.com/blog/lamh2iray-catalyzer/
- go for DAZ Studio 4.9+; lot of changes were done especially to Iray handling routines, and behavior on DS 4.7 or 4.8 is unpredictable and most likely to crash
- some have pointed out the fact that loading a scene .DUF and successively adding a Catalyzer item may lead to issues; I'm looking into it as we speak. A workaround, for now, might be to load the Catalyzer item(s) first, and then merge the scene.duf
- if for some reasons you crash while rendering, make sure you have DAZ Studio 4.9+. Also, please enable the 'Safe Mode' checkbox and try again; that should reduce the risk of data overflow especially on systems with low specs
- in order to pose Catalyzer models more efficiently and have a responsive Studio viewport, I suggest you configure preferences like in the attached image; also, you may want to enable 'Hide preview hair', so that is easier to grab joints and pose them.
- using the Aux viewport may also overload the system; if not really needed you might want to turn it off
- as mentioned in the brief manual, go easy on 'Hair density' and 'Spline quality', as they may cause massive use of memory. Go gradually, understand what your system can take (using a single Catalyzer item on an empty scene is usually the best way), so that you get an idea of how it works

This project is really new and I apologize if there are things that don't work well for some folks. With the beta-testers (which I thank for all their precious help) we spent several hours and efforts trying out all the possible combinations; but it goes without saying that no program is perfect and bug-free, especially at its initial release. If you have the patience to bear with it, I will improve things in further releases, and add more features as well.
If you need assistance or questions of any kind, don't hesitate to email me directly at: info@alessandromastronardi.com

PS: if you like to help with development and debugging, in case of issues please email me at the address above sending a brief description of the problem and:

• the Catalyzer log file (/Documents/DAZ 3D/Studio/LAMH2Iray Catalyzer/LAMH2IrayCatalyzerLogFile.txt)
• the DAZ Studio log file (menu Help->Troubleshooting->View Log File)

Thanks.

This is finally complete:) Re-did some of the HD details. This version now has master controllers added which can control all the vein details at once which you can tweak afterwards. Here are a few promos.

Finally released! Meet the Great White shark, the ocean's most feared predator, finely reproduced with detailed geometry, high-resolution textures and a full set of morphs and poses.
The texture set includes heavily scarred skin patterns, that really add to the overall realism of this creature. The morph collection allows to change several key aspects of the body, like the dorsal fin shape and size, make the teeth asymmetric, even hide some teeth, remove claspers, open/close gills to simulate shark respiration cycle and lot more.
As a huge plus, a seal carcass, 3 bubble particles props, a huge, detailed water splash and an awesome underwater CG HDRI based scene are provided to give the shark the habitat it deserves!
The bubble props and water splash can be easily combined to form more complex shapes and as such can be useful in several projects! Optimized for Iray.

https://www.daz3d.com/sharks-by-am-great-white

Salvatore is for your Genesis 3 & 8 Male.
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 Eye Material Presets, 2 Lashes with 2 Material Presets each.  There is one Tattoo Preset for the upper shoulder region, along with various scars; Arms, lower Torso/Back and Collarbone. There is also an option for the look of muted bruising along Salvatore's knuckles, hand and fingers in the mix.
All scars are based off of photos of research of real scars from various surgeries; His skin base is 85% photo resource material with the remaining percentage from either hand painting or various Merchant Resources.
I have included 3 Skin Gloss Presets: Base, High, and Low Gloss (For the Base Model and the Anatomical Element Geograft to match)
Anatomical Elements are included for both models.
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.

Do you create poses?  Do you own a lot of poses?  Then the Assembly Line Pose Automation Kit is for you!  Save time and money as with the click of a button, Assembly Line Pose Automation Kit can easily process your pose library to create mirror poses, top half poses, bottom half poses, hand poses, and more!  The Assembly Line Pose Automation Kit provides batch execution of pose actions to quickly and easily create new poses and pose presets in your library.  Assembly Line supercharges Daz Studio by enabling easy automation of complex pose control tasks, and it is even more powerful if you own other RiverSoftArt scripting products like Bone Doctor, Pose Blender, or Pose Randomizer.  Assembly Line allows you to chain actions and other RiverSoftArt scripts together to create superscripts, which are called Assembly Lines.

Features

• Powerful Automation of common posing tasks such as mirror poses (and saving them), saving hand poses from full poses, and saving Female Poses as Male poses (or vice versa, within the same generation only), which can be applied to the current figure in your scene or to entire directories and lists of pose presets.
• Create "Assembly Lines" using the Assembly Line Editor. Assembly Lines are a sequence of supplied actions that can be executed and applied to an input figure or a series of pose presets.  All Assembly Lines are easily editable.  If they do something you don't like, or don't do enough, you can change them.
• Over 10 pre-built Assembly Lines for you to use or customize
• Integration with RiverSoft Art scripting products, such as Bone Doctor, Eye Clock, Pose Blender, Dragon Master Pose Control and Pose Randomizer, so that you can automate posing using those products. If you own Bone Doctor, you can automate conversion of your library of Genesis 3 poses to Genesis 8, or vice versa.
• Over 30 powerful actions such as Apply Preset File, Mirror Pose, Select Body Parts, and Save Pose Preset
• Includes a very easy to use Save Pose Preset script which you can use by itself to eliminate the tedious clicking required to save poses
• Save Assembly Lines as presets that will automatically load and be ready to execute
• Extend Assembly Line Automation Kit by creating your own Action scripts that can be integrated seamlessly (Recommended for Script writers only)

Benefits

With the Assembly Line Automation Kit, you can:

• Convert a folder of pose presets from Genesis 3 Female to Genesis 3 Male with new icons and catagories (Assembly Line Included). Alternatively, you can quickly just update the metadata in the Daz Studio database to mark existing presets as compatible with other figures (Assembly Line Included)
• Convert a batch of hand pose presets from Genesis 3 to Genesis 8 (Assembly Line Included)
• Create mirror poses for a folder of poses in seconds (Assembly Line Included)
• Fix poses which have incorrectly applied transformations to the figure by moving the transformations to the hip (Assembly Line Included)
• Quickly create top-half or bottom-half poses from a folder of poses (Assembly Line Included)
• Add or Delete Categories from a folder of presets, leaving other categories unchanged
• Convert an entire folder of pose presets from Genesis 3 to Genesis 8, or vice versa (Requires Bone Doctor) (Assembly Line Included)
• Create new poses by combining a folder of pose presets with a specific leg pose (or arm pose) (Requires Pose Blender) (Assembly Line Included)
• Automate common setup of figure (e.g., add the same hair, makeup, clothes, and pose) (Example Assembly Line Included)

Assembly Line Pose Automation Kit creates normal poses only; hierarchical poses will be converted to normal poses. 

No poses are included with package.

I wanted to take skateboarding to a new level and adding more power seemed like a fun idea. But I may have gone to far.

https://www.daz3d.com/power-board

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

Available here! https://www.daz3d.com/high-fantasy-volume-1-fantasy-animations-for-genesis-3-and-genesis-8

High Fantasy Volume 1 brings brand new animations for your Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 figures, for use in your next swords and sorcery animated adventure. From marching in battlefields to slinging spells and arrows, High Fantasy has what you need to enhance your animations!

Fifteen motion captured files, along with their mirrored copies, with several still poses, can now be used for your Genesis 3 Male & Female characters and their Genesis 8 Male & Female counterparts. As always, the motions are available in aniBlock, DUF, PZ2, and BVH formats for your convenience. BVH files are included in all of our packs as a means of providing un-optimized animation support for alternate characters.

Any questions, comments, and requests can always be sent to us via the contact form at http://www.posermocap.com

Enjoy!

A quick post to let you all know that a collaboration between Titan XI and I was released Today. https://www.daz3d.com/luxury-watches-for-genesis-8-male-s 

This product consists of two wrist watches and a pocket watch.  It provides many styles for the watches, from traditional to very modern.  The materials presets include metals, leathers, precious stones, neon emiters and two engraving options. We also provided universal shaders that can be used to customize the watches to your taste or use them on other products. These watches support all of the DAZ Body Morphs for Genesis 8 male and Michael 8. We created custom watch morphs to fit the most extreme DAZ morphs, those custom morphs are applied automatically when you apply the corresponding DAZ morph to Genesis 8 male, so you don't need to apply them manually to the watch.

Many of you don't know that Titan XI and I live in Puerto Rico and our country was recently affected by hurricane Irma and was later devastated by hurricane Maria.  That is the reason I am posting this announcement almost at the end of the day.  Right now I am posting from a borrowed device because I don't have Internet connection in my house yet, for that reason I am not able to post additional promo images and my posts to this thread are going to be very limited. We ask for your patience if we can't answer to your comments quickly

Thanks for your support.

Hi Guys. Just a heads up these are basically finished. Will be separate offerings as well as a bundle option. Breast Control will also have puppeteer support built in and wont be a seperate product. Glute Control will now be a merchant resource as well.

The morphs were also refined in areas I felt could be improved. Will have more details as I move forward. Here are some vids from the Genesis 3 versions for those who have not seen the products in action.

Released: Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 [Commercial]

Get it Here!

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

Released: Gore Pack for Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 [Commercial]

Get it here!

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

Coming Soon: Rip and Tear Pack for Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 [Commercial]

The Rip & Tear Pack brings the ferocity out of the Tyrannosaurus Rex 2 model by adding wounds, scars, and an Alpha Rex variant.

The Alpha Rex reigns king among the tyrants and brings back the classic look of the T. rex. The Alpha is increased in size and features scales, spikes, scars, and gnarly looking jaws that will tear apart any dinosaur in its path. Custom fitted saliva is also included.

Then there is the Veteran who has survived many T. rex fights in his lifetime. The Veteran has many scars including a bitten off tail and arm, a torn eye, jagged broken teeth, and an aged feather look. Custom fitted arm feathers are included for the deformed arm.

Next up is a morph and material for a heavily wounded male Rex that adds deep cuts and wounds along with a mutilated arm.

Last but not least is a second wounded material preset for the standard male Rex that also adds a lesser wounded version.

Both Iray and 3Delight Material Presets included!

Check out more Images attached below

Released: Dakotaraptor [Commercial]

Get it here!

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

UltraScatter is an advanced instancing tool for DAZ Studio. Instances are somewhat like clones of objects in your scene that take up very little memory. Using UltraScatter you can place thousands of instances over the surface of another object in your scene quickly and efficiently.

UltraScatter has a large number of options for automatically setting the distribution, scale and rotation of the instances. Perfect for placing trees and plants in a landscape or populating a street with figures.

Version 1.0.1 released (free update to all current owners)

Changes in 1.0.1

- UltraScatter now compatible with Daz Studio 4.8
- User created surfaces now able to be used to limit the scatter
- User created surfaces do not cause the script to error when used to limit the scatter
- Selection sets on high poly/complex target objects now work correctly
- When restricting the scatter to a surface/material zone the correct surface will be used
- Choosing a rotation point other than "origin" should now work properly
- UltraScatter now compatible with Daz Connect

Version 1.1 released (free update to all current owners)

Changes in 1.1

- up to 10x faster than version 1.0
- live preview changes (no need to re-scatter to change preview type)
- scale x, y, z axes individually

Also - you can see some examples of UltraScatter in TangoAlpha's thread here -> TangoAlpha's Coming Soon [Commercial]

The popular 200 Plus series will make it's return for Genesis 8. I have partnered with my buddy DogZ for this version release.