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  • gitika1gitika1 Posts: 948
    Novica said:

    I have no idea. I did PM a lot of folks for the Facebook coupon, if you didn't get a PM, contact me. I am dealing with Ci Pwff, putting birds to bed, etc. cheeky

    I PMed you.  I wasn't able to find either of the FB that have been mentioned in the last week or two.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 6,890
    edited February 2020

    i think sometimes when PAs try to do realism, it backfires. Look at the teeth on this promo. I'm sure the PA was trying to make imperfect teeth on purpose but it just looks weird I think...

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  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,119

    It is like she had a major food dificiency when she was getting her adult teeth or a serious medical problem that messed with them.

  • LyonessLyoness Posts: 1,615
    memcneil70 said:

    Novica! I picked it up too, along with the character and texture set. I loved the way it dForced.

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/90/1444413ed5b77d2a21e1bdc52d88b4.png

    OMG! I love this!  Well done!

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 6,890

    I hate that they made this new bundle the key item because the only thing I'm interested in (but don't need at all!) is Mousso's new girl. I feel like they threw in a bunch of stuff they knew wouldn't sell on their own and made a bundle with extra incentive...

  • evacynevacyn Posts: 975
    Wonderland said:

    I hate that they made this new bundle the key item because the only thing I'm interested in (but don't need at all!) is Mousso's new girl. I feel like they threw in a bunch of stuff they knew wouldn't sell on their own and made a bundle with extra incentive...

    Yeah - I was disappointed with that too. I think they should at least keep the last Pro Bundle as another key item at least until they release the next base character.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 6,890
    evacyn said:
    Wonderland said:

    I hate that they made this new bundle the key item because the only thing I'm interested in (but don't need at all!) is Mousso's new girl. I feel like they threw in a bunch of stuff they knew wouldn't sell on their own and made a bundle with extra incentive...

    Yeah - I was disappointed with that too. I think they should at least keep the last Pro Bundle as another key item at least until they release the next base character.

    And they got rid of the previous MM bundle that I did purchase as a key item.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,119
    Lyoness said:
    memcneil70 said:

    Novica! I picked it up too, along with the character and texture set. I loved the way it dForced.

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/90/1444413ed5b77d2a21e1bdc52d88b4.png

    OMG! I love this!  Well done!

    @Lyoness, thank you so much. I have so many of your characters and I am always amazed at how they speak in unique ways to me.

    Mary

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    Wonderland said:
    evacyn said:
    Wonderland said:

    I hate that they made this new bundle the key item because the only thing I'm interested in (but don't need at all!) is Mousso's new girl. I feel like they threw in a bunch of stuff they knew wouldn't sell on their own and made a bundle with extra incentive...

    Yeah - I was disappointed with that too. I think they should at least keep the last Pro Bundle as another key item at least until they release the next base character.

    And they got rid of the previous MM bundle that I did purchase as a key item.

    Put two MM items in your cart, PA items not DOs, and it doesn't matter which. Check your discounts in the cart. If you're seeing 55% off, then you're getting the extra 10%, probably because the store is still including the previous products that triggered the discounts. I didn't buy either of the MM bundles, but I do have both of the Pro bundles listed previously. And I'm getting that extra 10%.

    Of course, there's no guarantee that Daz won't "fix" that come tomorrow…

  • jewels99jewels99 Posts: 30

    @Novica  Thank you for posting such wonderful renders of Beckett.  

  • alex86firealex86fire Posts: 1,130

    With the 50% coupon applied the new bundle goes to $11.65. It's not so bad.

    I'm thinking of getting it. I only really want the girl and the loft but that seems decent for 11$ if it keeps being a key item for at least 3 days

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    alex86fire said:

    With the 50% coupon applied the new bundle goes to $11.65. It's not so bad.

    I'm thinking of getting it. I only really want the girl and the loft but that seems decent for 11$ if it keeps being a key item for at least 3 days

    And thus begins the journey to the dark side…

    wink

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited February 2020
    jewels99 said:

    @Novica  Thank you for posting such wonderful renders of Beckett.  

    You're welcome. I'd change up the mouth I think- the overly puffy lips are hard to pose for expressions, from past experience.

    Here's what I did today- for the PC+ discounts. This is really ticking me off though- that build a mega sale wasn't showing when I purchased from the new releases earlier. I'm going to start waiting till the afternoon to buy from those, unless it was just a question of not hard refreshing my cache. When did the 50% off 3 items (etc) promos come up for today?

    • FG Gothic Library

      FG Gothic Librarynew     (I can do poses and I don't like the outfit. Seems pretty MEH to me)

      $22.95    $5.17      77%

     

     

     

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited February 2020

    Here's the two at 40% more off. In the featured stores, so buying two gets 50% off to start with. These are great prices for sets.They were 76% off I think. (I did a copy/paste but it didn't take.) 

    Sewer Tech 32673 1 $4.09
    Abandoned Infirmary 55287 1 $5.33

     

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,941
    alex86fire said:

    In the end I replaced Lainey hair with the European Apartment. I have plenty of straight hairs for now but not that many apartments.

     

     

    spuffy said:
    Taoz said:
    Novica said:

    The new Annissa with the old Wachiwi's Finery for Genesis 2 Female(s) and Calista Tail Hair


     

    Thanks for showing her, her main promo looks awkward at best,  and you show her much better IMO.

    She's got the best fiber brows I've seen yet, hopefully the other vendors will catch up...

    I've long decided that the fiberbrows provided by the merchants with the characters are not sufficient for my needs so I went and got https://www.daz3d.com/super-natural-brows-merchant-resource-for-genesis-8-and-3-female . I am very happy with them.

    There are also these brows: https://www.daz3d.com/beautiful-brows-for-genesis-8-females but I prefer morphable ones to a lot of preset ones.

    Thanks, I already have both of these though for the same reason.  It's just a bit annoying to have to spend time and work on replacing the brows.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,941
    edited February 2020
    Wonderland said:

    i think sometimes when PAs try to do realism, it backfires. Look at the teeth on this promo. I'm sure the PA was trying to make imperfect teeth on purpose but it just looks weird I think...

    Well the texture is nice so replacing the head morph and using this can fix it.


     

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,741
    edited February 2020
    Novica said:
    jewels99 said:

    @Novica  Thank you for posting such wonderful renders of Beckett.  

    You're welcome. I'd change up the mouth I think- the overly puffy lips are hard to pose for expressions, from past experience.

    Here's what I did today- for the PC+ discounts. This is really ticking me off though- that build a mega sale wasn't showing when I purchased from the new releases earlier. I'm going to start waiting till the afternoon to buy from those, unless it was just a question of not hard refreshing my cache. When did the 50% off 3 items (etc) promos come up for today?​

    According to the time stamp on my ATI email it started about 10:45 DAZ time.

    I used the 50% coupon to get:Content Wizard, the Dior Bundle, and a featured artist item that was on my wishlist:

    Content Wizard 67507 1 $8.99
    Dior's Day Off Bundle 67755 1 $11.64
    Z Household Chores Cooking for Genesis 8 65591 1 $4.04

     

    ETA: After much agonizing I decided on these for the 40% off coupon:

    FG Gothic Library Bundle 67565 1 $10.79
    FG Place of Power 58325 1 $4.84

    While I mostly just liked the library itself in the bundle  the difference to get the whole bundle was only $4.70. So, I figured the poses and outfit were worth that much. Then I almost went for Rustic House but I already have a couple of other furnished houses and I felt like there could be a lot of kit bashing between Place of Power and the Gothic library -- May be make a wizard's library.

     

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  • DaventakiDaventaki Posts: 1,624
    edited February 2020

    @novica Thanks for the pm!

    Shopping Cart

    Grand Total $9.71

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 6,890
    Taoz said:
    Wonderland said:

    i think sometimes when PAs try to do realism, it backfires. Look at the teeth on this promo. I'm sure the PA was trying to make imperfect teeth on purpose but it just looks weird I think...

    Well the texture is nice so replacing the head morph and using this can fix it.


     

    Yes, I have teeth morphs but it's adding more work. I usually love Emrys' work but I think here an attempt for realism  backfired.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    @taoz  Yours looks really good yes

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,941
    Novica said:

    @taoz  Yours looks really good yes

    Yes, I think it's the first teeth morph product I've seen that actually can make the default teeth look better, rather than worse.

  • Tramp GraphicsTramp Graphics Posts: 2,411

    I decided to convert the Girl 6 and a few other G2F characters over to Genesis, and then decided to try an update on my characters Ashley Chrome and Maria Mirandez using the Girl 6 as a base, and I'd like some opinions on what you all think, and which version of each girl you like best. 

    Up first is Ashley, starting with the before pic:

    After:

     

    And here's Maria 

    Before:

    After:

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,119

    I picked up PhilW's https://www.daz3d.com/faces-of-the-world--africa-for-genesis-8-female, along with his https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-african-hair-for-genesis-8-female today and the backdrop set https://www.daz3d.com/fe-decoration-background-vol-1 so did a test run using the African American character. I dressed her in the https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-for-genesis-8-females, used the texture set https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-divine and then the pose set https://www.daz3d.com/fashion-editorial-poses-and-expressions-for-genesis-8-female that barbult reminded me that I owned that Those Things did. Pose sets get buried too easy.

    The character set comes with many options, I think it would take a week or two to try out all the possible combinations. The hair is fun, easy to use and dForce. I was surprised by the necklace in with the dress in that it simulates! I did have to 'tone' the white fields in the backdrop and the shawl down as they got too glowy. I used Pro-Studio HDR Lighting System, 14L this time. 

    Mary

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    memcneil70 said:

    I picked up PhilW's https://www.daz3d.com/faces-of-the-world--africa-for-genesis-8-female, along with his https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-african-hair-for-genesis-8-female today and the backdrop set https://www.daz3d.com/fe-decoration-background-vol-1 so did a test run using the African American character. I dressed her in the https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-for-genesis-8-females, used the texture set https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-divine 

    Ooooh, I like that outfit. Hadn't picked it up yet but wishlisting it now. I like the flow of the folds, conforms nicely. That teddy bear looks lonely! 

     

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,245
    memcneil70 said:

    I picked up PhilW's https://www.daz3d.com/faces-of-the-world--africa-for-genesis-8-female, along with his https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-african-hair-for-genesis-8-female today and the backdrop set https://www.daz3d.com/fe-decoration-background-vol-1 so did a test run using the African American character. I dressed her in the https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-for-genesis-8-females, used the texture set https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-divine and then the pose set https://www.daz3d.com/fashion-editorial-poses-and-expressions-for-genesis-8-female that barbult reminded me that I owned that Those Things did. Pose sets get buried too easy.

    The character set comes with many options, I think it would take a week or two to try out all the possible combinations. The hair is fun, easy to use and dForce. I was surprised by the necklace in with the dress in that it simulates! I did have to 'tone' the white fields in the backdrop and the shawl down as they got too glowy. I used Pro-Studio HDR Lighting System, 14L this time. 

    Mary

    The dress is clipping through her left leg. Did you dForce it?

  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    barbult said:
    memcneil70 said:

    I picked up PhilW's https://www.daz3d.com/faces-of-the-world--africa-for-genesis-8-female, along with his https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-african-hair-for-genesis-8-female today and the backdrop set https://www.daz3d.com/fe-decoration-background-vol-1 so did a test run using the African American character. I dressed her in the https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-for-genesis-8-females, used the texture set https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-divine and then the pose set https://www.daz3d.com/fashion-editorial-poses-and-expressions-for-genesis-8-female that barbult reminded me that I owned that Those Things did. Pose sets get buried too easy.

    The character set comes with many options, I think it would take a week or two to try out all the possible combinations. The hair is fun, easy to use and dForce. I was surprised by the necklace in with the dress in that it simulates! I did have to 'tone' the white fields in the backdrop and the shawl down as they got too glowy. I used Pro-Studio HDR Lighting System, 14L this time. 

    Mary

    The dress is clipping through her left leg. Did you dForce it?

    I just thought it was that weird hemline: low on the sides, high on the front and back.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,119
    edited March 2020

    I will bring the computer back up, I saved the file. It does have an odd hemline. And yep, dForce all the way.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,245
    L'Adair said:
    barbult said:
    memcneil70 said:

    I picked up PhilW's https://www.daz3d.com/faces-of-the-world--africa-for-genesis-8-female, along with his https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-african-hair-for-genesis-8-female today and the backdrop set https://www.daz3d.com/fe-decoration-background-vol-1 so did a test run using the African American character. I dressed her in the https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-for-genesis-8-females, used the texture set https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-nuits-dete-divine and then the pose set https://www.daz3d.com/fashion-editorial-poses-and-expressions-for-genesis-8-female that barbult reminded me that I owned that Those Things did. Pose sets get buried too easy.

    The character set comes with many options, I think it would take a week or two to try out all the possible combinations. The hair is fun, easy to use and dForce. I was surprised by the necklace in with the dress in that it simulates! I did have to 'tone' the white fields in the backdrop and the shawl down as they got too glowy. I used Pro-Studio HDR Lighting System, 14L this time. 

    Mary

    The dress is clipping through her left leg. Did you dForce it?

    I just thought it was that weird hemline: low on the sides, high on the front and back.

    Maybe so. It might just be the camera angle. Sorry.

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,119

    This does appear to be a varied skirt length. When I looked at it on the side, it is weird. Where we are used to them being longer in the back/front, this is longer on the sides. I turned the character around in the scene and took a snip for you to see. 

    Not to worry, it also looked like a clip to me when I saw that render again. I have a postette on my desk that says 'Look at the FEET!' because I have 'issues'. I actually had to restart the render because her toe was still buried in the shoe sole. 

    Mary

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,245
    memcneil70 said:

    This does appear to be a varied skirt length. When I looked at it on the side, it is weird. Where we are used to them being longer in the back/front, this is longer on the sides. I turned the character around in the scene and took a snip for you to see. 

    Not to worry, it also looked like a clip to me when I saw that render again. I have a postette on my desk that says 'Look at the FEET!' because I have 'issues'. I actually had to restart the render because her toe was still buried in the shoe sole. 

    Mary

    Yup, its a weird design is all.

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