Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 12
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Beautiful!
Wow, amazing render!
Thanks @Novica and @alex86fire !
My brain is too tired to figure out all the new sales to see if there's any stacking lol...
@Wonderland, Sue looks so etheral and lost. You created an incredible piece of art.
The CJ banner is in Newsletters for some reason.
What is stacking is the artist sales or Dreamlight with the 30% no DO items. I think the DO items can also stack with the DO items coupon.
That's about it I think, I tried some combinations in the morning. found nothing interesting and stopped. Since the coupons are valid for the whole weekend I hope tomorrow and Sunday we get better offers to stack with them.
Yes, @alex86fire, the coupon codes for the weekend offer are stacking with other offers that are still active. (Yay!)
So far, I've picked up Daz Originals from multiple offers, including Fast Grab, with the 50% coupon, (HA-HA-STAYIN-A-FIVE); and bought Sue discounted an additional 30%, with two other new releases, and grabbed another Mousso girl for my collection at $10 off, (EYE-OF-NEWT).
I'm currently trying to decide what PA items, (non-Daz-Originals,) to apply the THIRTY-HARRY coupon to. It doesn't apply to new releases, and adding one to get better discounts doesn't mess up the cart. And there are some really nice offers still active…
As I posted in the sale thread, the 50% off five or fewer DOs doesn't exclude Fast Grab, so I'm pondering whether to buy Gabriela, two of her pro bundle add-ons plus the HD add-on and a related dress that's not in her bundles, for $25.73 now, as opposed to waiting for a time when I can buy the pro bundle for cheap enough. I already got my free item, and I may use the 30% off non-DOs with the Dreamlight sale. An extra 30% off new isn't enough of a discount to compel me to purchase anything.
Yeah, testing. Dreamlight goes 79% with the THIRTY-HARRY.
There's too much to try and contemplate LOL. I'm headed to my wishlist to check out bundles, going that route first. All this for around $26.00
Shopping Cart
Luxury Pool House and Garden $22.95 $4.82 79%
Old Swedish Town - DAZ Studio Iray HDRI Pack $24.95 $5.25 79%
Contaminated Waters - DAZ Studio Iray Backgrounds $14.95 $3.13 79%
Hotel Switzerland - Hot After Ski $21.95 $4.61 79%
Take a Swim Again $19.95 $4.20 79%
Castles In The Mist $19.95 $4.19 79%
Okay, so still testing THIRTY-HARRY
If you buy any new release, the stores in the Awesome Saturday Sale will go 65%. So if you like those stores, that's a pretty good deal.
I used the Crab thing in PC+ to test it.
The Park Way (oops, lost the image)
$21.95 $7.69 65%
Leon Hair and Beards for Genesis 8 Male(s) $24.95 $8.72 65%
Dominator Crab: Nemesisnew THIS IS THE NEW ITEM $12.95 $2.99 77%
Okay, with ANY new release (still using the crab) the items in the Her Hair Will Take Your Breath Away under the Eastern Cultures section will go 76% off. (Still using THIRTY-HARRY)
The Welcome to Red Crow Inn if you buy from the new releases from that day, the 60% off 2017 items go 72%.
Noemi HD & Smile HD Expression for Genesis 8 Femalenew (new item from that section)
$27.95 $19.57 30%
Boned Wings for Genesis 3 and 8 and Midnight Skeleton
$17.95 $5.03 72%
Res Mortifera Texture Expansion Pack
$12.95 $3.62 72%
Alien Queen for Genesis 8 Female
$24.95 $6.99 72%
Okay, so back to the cart. (Been out walking, it's in the 60's here and gorgeous!) I am doing Dreamlight, as previously shown. Then using the crab (PC+) for "any new item" the CJ featured stores only require that. It does NOT have to be from the CJ sale. So those artists drop to 68% and I am picking up some gals.
DD Menolie for Leisa 8 $19.95 $6.29 68%
Hallie HD for Genesis 8 Female $18.95 $5.96 69%
XF-Diana for Genesis 8 Female $18.95 $5.97 68%
Will probably go back to those stores to grab the 50% off 5 or less products that are DOs as these are in that store (will also grab another cheapie PC+ item so the starting price drops.)
https://www.daz3d.com/norina-hd-for-genesis-8-female is a DO
https://www.daz3d.com/sherisa-hd-for-genesis-8-female is a DO
https://www.daz3d.com/raakel-hd-for-genesis-8-female is a DO (not sure if she's in the sale, somehow I found her.)
Now onto the Ha Ha code. That one is 50% off 5 or less DOs, so I put "any" new release (used a PC+) in the cart, then dove back into that featured stores section I just told you about from the CJ promo. For this one, go into the left side and uncheck everyone except the Daz Originals and you'll see what you can buy. A lot of those artists co-partner with Daz so it's really a great place to shop for the Ha Ha code. Look at these prices with one PC+ in the cart!
Shopping Cart
Norina HD for Genesis 8 Female $18.95 $2.98 84%
Sherisa HD for Genesis 8 Female $18.95 $2.99 84%
More Patterns Iray Shadersnew $14.95 $2.79 81%
Duane HD for Genesis 8 Male $18.95 $2.98 84%
dForce Winter Kisses Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s) $22.95 $3.62 84%
dForce Winter Kisses Outfit Textures $14.95 $2.35 84%
All for
84%
Somehow, every time I've put carts together and bought a gift card for that purpose, the total ends up being wrong This time, I clicked forward to the payment page and noticed that the total makes a couple minor corrections before settling on the actual price, so I wrote those numbers down and bought a gift card for THAT total, and it was still five cents short of what I actually ended up paying.
dForce Flamenco Dancer Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s)
Gabriela 8
dForce Fiesta Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s)
Gabriela 8 HD Add-On
Spirited - Expressions for Genesis 8 Female and Gabriela 8
Eastern Warrior for Genesis 8 Female(s)
Between Trees
QX Gale for Gabriela 8
dForce Casual Hair and Beard for Genesis 8 Male(s)
Medieval Castle
Items Invoiced
M4/V4 Creature Creator Bundle
Sports Car Morris 1936
SeaFolk KelpBra for V4 and A4
SeaFolk KelpArmor for M4 and H4
Sports Car Meteor 1947
Also the Legacy items go to 77% off. While those are all pretty old, the cat include animals from Noggin, many of which still hold up well. (Remember Joe's Gangster Hamster render some months ago, using SBH?) AM is in that list as well, and if I'm not mistaken, he's updated all his animals to use Catalyzer. Even if he hasn't, I've been wanting those bear cubs for years. And the foxes. And… Yeah, I suspect my Store Credit is going to take a big hit, but my menagerie will grow by leaps and bounds.
Crop Jacket (G8F)
I've been tackling using Content Package Assist and doing all my files from another site, and am testing a few after installing after DIM. This is Savira and Halo Hair sold elsewhere. I used Dodge and Burn again, particularly on the hair to get some details.
Note the cuff band (white strip with black on both sides) doesn't line up. Look at the arm over the head on your left. I do like that these jeans are high waisted and not low slung.
TIP: Take the color of the lips and use a 100% softened brush, with very little opacity (like 3-8%) and use it for blush and to apply the color to shadows.
Load both images and click back and forth. I put the purple of the lipstick on the cheeks of the first render. Note also the neck.
This first one you can see the lack of detail in the hair.
Dodge and Burn tool used on hair and slightly down nose.
Dodged and Burned to make the jeans darker, the hair lighter, etc.
Is it just me, or does the scaling on today's Medieval Courtyard look really weird with a figure in the scene?
It looks to me like they are using wide angle camera shots in a fairly small area. That can distort things a lot. It's just more obvious with the figure in the scene.
Could be. But even accounting for that, it still looks weird to me. I do like the look of the set, but I don't have time to buy and test at the moment (and I'd probably forget if I assume I'll have time before the end of the return period). Ah well, into the wishlist it goes.
It's funny, I'm finding all these great deals in the V4 section for like 40 cents and then I realize I already have G3/G8 versions of almost the same things (like scuba gear.) I already own soooo much, most of which I have never used and completely forgotten I even own, and yet I feel weirdly feel obligated to use sales coupons just because they are there. I used the freebie coupon but not sure I want to even waste more time on the others. I can never even find V4 stuff in DS, BUT I still have Poser on my Mac which I haven't used in ages and actually miss and hope I even remember how to use lol! I'm afraid to even think about how much money I would have saved if I just stuck to Poser and Gen 4. I mostly do a ton of postwork anyway and do a lot of non-realistic art. Did I even need IRay? Ugh.
In any case all the PC items in the V4 sale are about 40 cents with the coupon and include other things besides characters and clothes so it's worthwhile for people who don't already own most of the store lol...
I wasn't expecting to buy anything from the G4 category, but I ended up grabbing some cars that I didn't have yet, and there were some creature related items that didn't necessarily have counterparts in later generations. I was hoping to pick up the V4 harpy, but that not only wasn't in the discount bin, but was considerably pricier than I remembered. Oh well, some other time.
As someone who joined the Daz family in November 2019 I can't bring myself to buy G4 stuff.
I bought I think a victoria 4.2 pack/bundle at christmas time for under 2$ that had a lot of stuff but most of the old stuff really doesn't look well enough for me to get.
At one point I considered buying a lot of stuff because it is cheap and then buying a converter to G8 but I think I'm better off just sticking to G8 stuff (some few G3s if they looks really good and don't have a G8 counterpart).
It's funny but when people outside of Daz or the 3D community see my old art with V4 I get tons of compliments but when I show them new stuff they just say " But that's a photograph!." I explain, no, it's not. Then I try to explain for 15 minutes what it is, but I don't actually get compliments like I did on my old art. So I end up taking everything into Photoshop and doing arty postwork to make it not look real after spending hours on a render that would have taken me minutes in Poser...
That is hilarious!
I guess it depends who your target audience is :D .
Thanks to @L'adair posting about the Red Crow sale, I finally broke down and bought it, and picked up the V4 harpy for pretty cheap as one of the legacy items. Really disappointed that the Laguna Mermaid wasn't in there, as someone earlier today posted a method to use it on G8.
You're welcome @Gordig.
I'm glad you didn't wait any longer, too. The coupons are still valid but the Red Crow Inn promo is no longer active today.
Rendered in Iray in three layers and put together in VEGAS Pro 16.
nice
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An update to the last video. A new layer rendered and added in Vegas Pro 16.