Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 9
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I have no idea if the pleurectomy is standard or not for this surgery, but sounds like they were hoping they wouldn't have to do it. Still, surgery is done and your son is on the road to recovery. Home in three days? Medicine sure has come a long way in the past few decades. I can remember when surgery like that would have kept a person in the hospital for a week or more.
I'm a little bit glad the weather is pushing you off the computer and back to bed. I can't imagine you've gotten enough sleep in the past few days. Take care of yourself. Hugs.
No Dental Plan for G3, then. I wonder how good SF-Design's Easy Teeth products are...? I was holding out for Zev0's... And now we know why he's been swamped, and unable to judge and announce the winners for his SB3 render competition!
It might be backwards compatible, He said on another thread that his pose converter will be. There may be other products that are as well.
Glad your son is doing well post surgery! I totally get the sudden thunderstorm "thing" we have that happen in my area frequently as well, get some sleep.
Trish
I'm just getting caught up in the thread and read this. Sorry to hear that this happened. I never heard of lungs collapsing without injuries before. I guess there are some advantages to having boys who aren't tall and skinny. I'm really glad he seems to be doing better. Hugs!
I love Valandar products and have 195 myself and even more wishlisted. Not sure if this means I win or if I spend too much money. ;) Hopefully, someone will post that they have more Valendar products than I do. I agree that sometimes it's those little things that really make the scene that tends to be forgotten when we go to give credit. This is especially true of utilities, poses, and essential props. I've found myself having to add things like that weeks later to my gallery images when I remember that I used something but forgot to list it.
Yeah, I set one up awhile back. It's nice having a place to put images you don't want to upload to the general forum but want to still be able to use in a post. This is especially true for PMs where you can't upload an attachment and might not want to use the thread for attachments. Having a private gallery is a good place to upload those images.
Oh, that looks nice. I have that but have not tried it in Iray. I think I'm going to have to load it up. Thanks for showing it. :)
I can't believe this thread already has 9 pages! You guys just spin on by. I'll have to see what renders I have with Khory products. I know I have a few of her things in my library and I've used quite a few of them in renders. I missed giving my top picks for May. I did not actually render all that much last month.
Good to hear you son is out of surgery and doing better, Novica.
Okay I caved and bought her. I like her expressions and nope I don't want to talk about how much I spent this month nope.
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To be honest, she looks beautiful, (I don't know how some folks look at her and think she looks masculine!)
But the treasury is all but empty, and the peasants are refusing to pay any more taxes... I just hope those of you who get V8 don't make those of us who didn't too jealous...
Maybe owning her will give you a discount on M8 when he arrives.
I don't think she looks masculine at all. I do notice she looks a bit red in the face and her jaw is firmer . I think skin transparency is up and lots of light is coming through the skin of her face in some of the promos...but I haven't played with her at all yet. I bought the figure and morphs and expressions. I intend to use G3 skins with her so probably won't be buying new female characters.
That would be cool.
Novica so glad that your son is doing well!
I can second this its a beautiful resource and has fall colors too.
Still working in Daz 4.6 (because my senile old coffee grinder has enough trouble runnign that), but I must say Genesis 8 seems to work fine in there. Never did a thing with 3, but I may adopt 8 :)
LOL, neither do I!
L'Adair - Try playing with the free Gen 8 base, There's a lot that can be done with it. Morphs can be transferred over, poses adjusted, skins used. Autofit is working on most things. I posted a render earlier of Anneka's skin on G8F, looked pretty good and the expressions come out well. I'm tweaking one now with Ceridwen's skin and some morph dialing. We're only on Day 1 of Gen 8. I'm sure we'll see a lot of tips, tricks and tools to get our existing content over as well as do new things we haven't even thought of yet. I'm excited!
That's good to know it works well with the older versions. I'm on the latest version but my computer is 5 years old and pretty much upgraded as high as it will go. It keeps chugging along.
Does anyone know whether the orange banner thing works more than once? I ask because I'm on the fence about V8 Bundle as I'm running short of Store Credit and my pre-load dollars cc expired and new one not yet arrived, but I'd like to pick up some of the (cheaper) Gen8 add-ons. The banner said "expires June 22" but not whether it works more than once.
@Novica - glad to hear you mother is doing well, I hope your son has a speedy recovery too.
It appears to still add additional discounts for me. Even though the discount copy says everything must be in cart at time of purchase I bought her already and put a texture set in the cart and see an additional discount in effect .
Thank you for checking - I may wait till tomorrow in case the cc arrives but nice to know I could pick up the morphs, for example, then come back to V8 in a few days.
I'm guessing that once you buy V8, the store "knows" and the banner remains in play. Since it states it works through the 22nd, that makes sense. And with this new release, they will be releasing quite a few more things.
@fishtales That map is really interesting! Thanks for letting us know about it. I bookmarked it.
@serenenight It makes sense for M8 that V8 people will get a discount, so just hold on to that thought for rationalization. Remember, I said I wasn't doing it either unless I got a big discount, and they diabolically said, "Okay. Gotcha! Resist this!"
So, trying to keep up with all the threads from this morning (I just got back online. Yes, thank you, I slept very well. My son is snoozing and can control his own pain meds up to a point. BTW, there's less than 3% chance of complications. We're happy campers so far. He'll sleep most of tonight.)
Anyway, question- do shoes from G3 work on G8? Most clothes?
The shoes don't I hear. G8 has different feet. Haven't tried it personally though.
Lots of people have said clothing and skins both work very well on G8. The base UV map and V7 anyway, some of the specialty characters like Teen Josie show seams when using that skin.
oh i LOVE the look of VYK Raine! she's on my wishlist for purchase in the next week or so. The really good thing is that she ONLY requires the head and body morphs - I took me a bit to realize you DON'T need Victoria 8 for her - just the head/body morphs.
I'm not planning on getting V8, but I do want to pick up the head morphs at least - body morphs later on when I have more spare change.
Also that Perrin hair looks wonderful! is that just default or did you do something extra special to it?
Just so you know, this thread is still going to be chocked full of G3's. That's going to continue to be my main focus. :) Speaking of which, let's see if I can entice you spend some money on that.... (evil cackle)
Okay, not sure what is triggering what, but I do have a new V8 thing in the cart (although this section says "A new release" so PC+ may trigger-
Shavonne Hair is 72% off for Gen3F and was an April 10th release (I KNEW there was a reason I didn't have it, it came off new status after 60 days.) So take a peek at that one.
Here's a cartoonish gallery one.
Wezor Hair goes 72% off also to $6.14 Gallery I have al lot of long hair, this one is simple and I rather like that. EJ's always have excellent morphs though and with 97, you can get SUCH a different look (look at the list) that it's not just a simple long hair. Worth a second look.
VYK Poppy- goes 60% $7.58 Wanted to point out the second thumbnail, the makeup is quite different. Remember, you can use on other gals!
VYK Lexie goes 60% to $7.18 I don't care for the smaller, squinty type eyes, but love the materials. The brows are thicker, and longer across the face. You can morph the eyes to get them larger (or leave as is, if you like them) and change the lids. It's nice to have variety. And she makes quite a good bad gal.
Gigalien from RawArt goes 60% to 8.78. I don't know what the material zones are, but it looks like it would be easy to separate sections and make some really cool effects. Picture this as a metal creature.
While more expensive, look at the headpiece, which is quite unique. And those boot covers can be taken off so you have normal ones. Calyphlox Codex is 60% off and $13.98 With a bodysuit and kitbashing, this will be stunning. There are TWENTY SIX gallery entries with this, that says it all. Here Here and note this- how it can be used simply, just the undergarment type approach.
Currently in the process of assigning numbers for the drawing for Top 3-5. You folks need to remind me about that, I got distracted (this time understandabe, but DO tell me anytime a day goes by after the deadline. Just PM me.) So I will be contacting you with your number via PM, sometime this evening, and asking SereneNight later tonight to do the drawing. Good luck!
Just default. And one thing I absolutely adore is it's easy to click on the braid out in the viewport and use the Universal Tool to simply pull it forward or back, away from the clothes. That's whitish light btw, (Pro-Studio HDR as usual) her skin really is close to that color, perhaps less green though. Very unique.
Dang it @RGcincy You keep pointing out things I already own and haven't tried. I'm going to have to start a "Do Rich's" list. (DRL) I did try the link in the product page which goes to a forum thread. Mods- that should be taken out of there, it's a 404 Error. Probably old forums?
@morimann Always enjoy your characters!
BTW, I posted it but not sure where- I did install the new version of studio- and it did NOT mess up any custom categories. I've surfed quite a few threads and not found any instances of people having problems with that aspect. (If anyone has, please let us know.)
Okay, I emailed SereneNight with the numbers, she'll post when she draws the number.
I have a lot I haven't rendered, so decided it's time I did. Do you have Sun Temple? An oldie from 2008. I combined it with Ecomantics for an iray render. I replaced the temple's grass with a shader from Nature Shaders as it looked too flat. Other than that, these are all 3DL textures auto-converted to Iray.
Here's a render of G8F default skin and Toulouse hair. I had fun with Power Pose morphing her face and giving her a smirky smile.
I've been resisting Victoria 8 all day but after another look I'm weakening. She is so beautiful and has fibermesh eyebrows!
RGcincy, I love the Economatics renders you have bee doing. I bought it when it first came out and haven't used it much. Great background trees and awesome grass!
Okay two things I don't really care for. I'm not fond of the hair included in the pro bundle. I thought I was going to get the long blonde hair displayed on the model. One hair, the Godltassel hair is really thin in the hairline.
I'm also not really keen that when I apply makeup options to the skin I can't see them on Vicky in preview. I used to be able to do that. But when Iapply her skin options now I hardly realized I'd done it.