A new pack of Easier Pose Creation has arrived, this time for Victoria 8, with over 600 possible combinations, you can create your own poses in seconds. This pack contains 25 lower body poses for Victoria 8 (+25 mirror), 25 upper body poses (+25 mirror) and 25 full body poses (+25 mirror). As a bonus, this pack includes all the poses adapted for Genesis 8 female, this means you get 150 extra pose presents.
How does it work? Just load your favorite top and bottom poses, mixing the different parts and trying different combinations.
When you load a partial upper pose, you are NOT going to lose the lower pose or expression previously loaded, and vice versa, if you load a partial lower pose, you are NOT going to lose the upper pose. This lets you save time adjusting just small details pedending of the combination used, additionally gives you the chance to try different possibilities to get a new pose quickly, without wasting time to adjust your character to the floor or begin a pose from zero.
This is a simple fun set of props. Land props with optional water puddles and Space Wreckage that can be used alone or together for large crashes. Also load them into a star field for floating debris. I want to do a ship hull but I'm not sure which way to go. Alien or something more Federation like. It will be mostly hidden or just be a large chunk but let me know if there is a bias for one or the other.
I have a new product which should hit the store in the coming week - Ultimate Make-Up for Genesis 8 Female(s). G8F introduced make-up sets using Diffuse Overlays, but each character only comes with a handful of choices, so I thought it would be good to have a product that can be applied to any G8F character (and also any G3F character which uses the default UV set) and which gives a huge range of realsitic make-up choices. it contains 50 choices of eye shadow color, 50 lip colors and 50 matching nail colors, and there are also options to make each one lighter or darker, subtly shoft the tone or to fade the colors so that it sits comfortably with your character. There are also 5 eye shadow shapes for every color, and you can have them with or without blusher. So there are literally thousands of combinations.
Just a note that it is for iRay only and because it uses the overlay channel, it either needs the eyebrows to be part of the base face texture, or the use of the fibremesh eyebrows which many new characters have - I also have a product in the works to address this, but more on that later! Oh and you won't be surprised that I also used Hair Lustre Shaders in the promos!
I had a lot of fun making this product - and I hope that you will have a lot of fun using it with your characters to give them a unique look. Let me know what you think - and I'd love to see what you do with it once it is available.
Enjoy the good life under the rays of a golden sun at some faraway exotic location in this private pool. Sit back and enjoy a lazy vacation where no one else can bother you.
Includes a full pool with attached lounge, working gate, Iray emissive light surfaces, and hideable components so you can get that perfect camera angle. Props include a lounge chair, flowers, trees, and paper lanterns.
Environmental preset is included as well as a scene to quickly set up and render with two included camera positions.
Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
Btw, this is the first time I've created an Iray-only product (in the past, it's always been 3DL only, or Iray with some simple 3DL versions). I'd appreciate feedback about the absence of 3DL material presets. Making 3DL presets is quite time consuming and frankly haven't been up to the same level of quality as the Iray settings so it's likely I'll continue forward with Iray-only unless there's overwhelming feedback to the contrary.
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. Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.
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
There are two different shaders that add color based on angle of the surface to the camera. The first shader is fairly simple, useful for velvet and satin. It can take two different image maps to create intricate effects. The second has 5 different arcs of color, allowing a more precise and varied range of tints.
Note that these shaders add to the base color; if the result is too dark, you may need to lighten either the iridescent or base color.
Experiment with metallicity and refraction. Iridescent creates intense effects with both.
There are bump patterns in many of the presets. Control how fine or coarse the pattern is by right clicking on the bump map and selecting Image Editor, adjusting the tiling pattern.
This new all originial character is part of the stylized Incantoo line of characters I have been hard at work on. It may be doing battle with the more human version I previewed here.
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In your modeling workflow, you're going to want to include as many shortcuts and time saving tricks as possible. Use symmetry to halve the amount of modeling you do; but when is best to do that how how? Use instancing to build complexity from simplicity; Arki takes you through how to do this in detail alongside other tips and tricks. In this special Halloween modeling event, Arki shares twelve high value "treats" to speed up your workflow and get more done for your modeling in Hexagon.
Hexagon Treats
In this high value tips and tricks modeling webinar we'll cover these items using one or more examples....
1. Modeling Treats:
- Symmetrical Modeling as Timesaver
- How to weld Symmetries
- Instancing objects
- Copy on support function
- Soft brush settings and their benefits
2. Hierarchy Management Treats:
- Why to name objects with clear names
- The Benefits of Grouping
- Managing your Object Hierarchy
3. Material Management Treats:
- Setting Material Names
- Unclutter your Material List
4. Selection and Picks Treats:
- How to quickly select the Faces you want
- Quickly find N-gons, Tris and Co
Presented by Arki (Kim Schneider)
Kim attended the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Design and Illustration.
Over the years Kim has done work in the role-playing game industry applying her illustration skills for RPG games such as Engel for Feder & Schwert, Redaktion Phantastik, and the Pegasus Spiele game—Call of Cthulhu.
Her journey into 3D Digital Art began in 2000 with Poser (yes fourteen years of Poser experience!), then Poser Pro and started vending Poser content in 2006. She's since been now hard at work at creating content for DAZ Studio.
She delves into other packages occasionally including Photoshop, Quixel, ZBrush, Hexagon, UV Mapper Pro and UV Layout in her workflow.
Coming Soon: Infernal Succubus Outfit and Add-Ons for Genesis 8 Female
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The Infernal Succubus Outfit and Add-Ons comes with demonic wings, tail, horns, claws, and a sexy gothic outfit for the Genesis 8 Female. Also includes demonic eyes material preset and poses for the wings and tail.
Place holder thread. Nothing to see here yet.Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. All I can say is those who own Skin Builder 3 will get a huge discount as this is essentially an upgrade for official Genesis 8 support and is also standalone without owning the Genesis 3 version as all files had to be natively included for this version. In otherwords, textures are all in its own genesis 8 folder and shares nothing with Genesis 3 version.
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.
This is just a quick note to let you know of a new product coming down the pipeline. Please let me know if this may be something you would be interested in.
(I may still be in need of a few testers with slower computers, to get a better sense of how well the props are handled).
Hi Guys. Here is a sneak peak of Molly. I created her to showcase Growing Up but never really had the time to release her, but now I have. That incomplete folder on my desktop was working on my nerves lol.
Some of Molly's features-
- Contains her own added jcm's for corrections.
- She is a custom sculpt with separate head and body morphs with slight asymmetry in the face.
- Contains separate head and body HD morph details.
- She can be customized by adjusting the used Growing Up and Molly Morphs.
- Two skin variations, freckled and non-fleckled, both with browless or added brow texture options for Iray and 3Delight.
- Molly comes with a Morphable Fibermesh Brows set which contain morphs to create a wide variety of shapes that can also be used on any character for Genesis 3 Female and Genesis 3 Male.
How would you like to discover the steps to design, model and rig complex outfits, such as long dresses or multi-layered outfits for DAZ Studio?
We have a new comprehensive course presented by Arki on exposingeverystep on how to do this. The course will be first broadcast as a series of live webinars and the HD recordings will be available in the DAZ store, most likely towards the end of March. At the five live sessions, you can learn a little faster, ask questions on the spot, go deeper on certain topics and have steps repeated if necessary.
We're even working on a screenshot guide for those that prefer to learn in this way; again we'll make this available in the store.
In the images below, Arki shows her original design sketches and the final rigged and textured dress. You'll learn exactly how these garments (including jewelry accessories) are created, gaining a higher level of mastery for creating these kind of attractive outfits in DAZ Studio.
In this course we're using DAZ Studio Pro 4.9 and the modelling sofware Hexagon in the workflow. There will be five sessions, each planned to last 1.5 hours, though extra Q&A may extend the time.
Registration for the live webinars will include the HD recordings.
REGISTER EARLY FOR $88 SAVINGS AND 7.5 HOURS OF TUITION
When : Saturday February 18th 20:00 GMT London/12:00 PST Los Angeles/15:00 EST New York
In the Beginning there was …, Part 1: Creating the rough shape
Refining the Shape, Part 1: Refining the outfit shape/dividing separate pieces
In the Beginning there was …, Part 2: Creating the rough shape of the jewelry
Refining the Shape, Part 2: Refining the shapes of the jewelry
Master Secret: A hint on how to build a dummy/low poly outfit template library as a timesaver for future projects
Session 2 : “Tame the Beast – Groundwork for Texturing”
When : Saturday March 4th 20:00 GMT London/12:00 PST Los Angeles/15:00 EST New York
The usual Suspects: Tris, n-gons and their associated problems
Material Zones a la Model: What are they and what can they do for you?
Four modes of mapping: Planar, box, cylindrical and spherical projection as examples for simple UV mapping models in UV Mapper Pro
Flattening for Winners: How UV Layout can work miracles on distortion free UV maps.
Master Secret: How material zones can help you with your UV maps
Session 3 : “From Solid to Articulated”
When : Saturday March 11th 20:00 GMT London/12:00 PST Los Angeles/15:00 EST New York
Rigging Magic: How to rig simple skintight models with a snap
Rigging Mastery: Smoothing and fixing weightmap issues
Rigging Acrobatics: Rigging a challenging outfit with extra bones and groups
Rigging Veteran: How templates can shorten your workflow
Master Secret: Short introduction to rigging templates and their possibilities
Session 4 : “How to add Quirks and Moves”
When : Saturday March 18th 20:00 GMT London/12:00 PST Los Angeles/15:00 EST New York
Adding the Final Touch: How to create FBMs
A Small Excursion: Talking about Weightmaps, Bones and Groups in DS
Tame your Bends: Adding JCMs to make your outfit respond to movement realistically
Joint Morph and Movement: Creating ERC in DS
Master Secret: How to create a seamless morph over multiple parts in ZBrush
Session 5 : “Adding that Splash of Colour”
When : Saturday March 25th 20:00 GMT London/12:00 PST Los Angeles/15:00 EST New York
Doing the Chores: Preparing a model for texturing
Pixel Nudging and Taming: 2D texturing in an image manipulation application
Dancing with Pixels: Preparing your 3D model for projection paint texturing
Smooth and Seamless: Eliminate texture seams in a 3d application vs texture seam hunting in a 2d app
Master Secret: Basic texturing tips: how to use your own resources to create simple materials or even tiling patterns
REGISTER NOW FOR $88 SAVINGS AND 7.5 HOURS OF TUITION
“Midnight Skeleton” is a new standalone figure from Midnight_stories. it’s an anatomical skeleton with a difference, it combines soft and hard rigging to give you a unique and flexible boned character.
The rigging is based on Genesis 3 Male figure. This means you can use all the poses and clothing set from Genesis 3 Male, which gives it a huge support base. There are extra morphs for the facial expression, sharp teeth and vampire fangs morphs as well, see list for full details. Comes with both Iray and 3Delight material presets. This will be great for all your horror and fantasy scenes.
Be on the lookout for the Boned Wings addon and the expansion pack. It’s a skeleton with lots of options! Also, Genesis 8 Male version coming soon !
