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I doubled my DO WL (or maybe even more), adding plenty of both G8 and G3 and what did i got as freebie? Texture for a genesis dress i don't even own (the 2.99 is an item i added yesterday, so my changes were already considered).
Maybe each customer must have a different threshold for the freebies. From those that were a bit more usefull, mine seems to be bellow $16 and G3 or older. Even G3 gets difficult with that number
For me so far, the free gift has been a better choice, even if both items were free for pretty much each day so pretty happy so far. I do have over 900 items on WL though and none are specific to Genesis below 8.
Day 4 of a free gift being so old and useless I'm not even going to take it.
https://www.daz3d.com/kaelyn-for-kids-4
The $2.99 item continues to be from my WL, but as always more expensive than it's been in the last part of the year
I'm sticking to the trees by Howie. At least something useful. If you have Ultrascenery 2. I do.
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Buy it straight out for 2.99, no buy-in mumbo jumbo, which is required for pretty much anything else on "sale" I grabbed the free holiday deal as well. Hey, I might even have a punch for tomorrow and regain the free calendar offer.
...I have Ultracenery 1 which I picked up during a sale but haven't used it yet as I'm not sure if it would be too much for my 13 year old (237 in computer years).system.
it might be pretty tough rendering with it. Even my 4080 bogs down with the newer Ulrascenery stuff, but I think its more a DAZ Studio problem than an Ultrascenery one.
Wow, if your 4080 has to work hard with it, my 3080 would be hopeless. There have been times I've been tempted to try Ultrascenery, but I got the feeling it would be resource intensive.
Thanks for the reminder on ComfyUI. Your comment made me remember that I was interested in installing and testing the Krita AI plugin. Wow! There is a lot to learn and digest, but also a lot of possibilities for integration with renders from DS. Of course the obvious is to use it to refine rendered images, but you could also use other software to create character Loras using multiplier renders of your custom characters, then use the pose function to even pose them in Krita AI (it uses Stable Diffusion. I think this could help me bridge the price/income gap.
I also now realize that there can a lot more to AI art than just typing in a few words/statements if you want specific output. I think it could make a nice companion to DAZ. It could also be used for generating quick draft image that you then use as inspiration for a scene in DAZ. Or to add infill elements using Krita for things you don't have 3D models for.
Now back to the subject of the thread. I'm really glad I was able to finally pick up some of the UltraScenery stuff that I've wanted for a loooong time on a good sale! Now to give UltraSenery 2 a try (picked it up last week on a huge discount).
Following the advent calendar, I missed some doorbusters, I didn't get them, but now I regret it. Do you think they will come back, towards the end of the sale, like they did in previous sales?
No guarantee but IMO there's a good chance there will be a catchup at some point.
I have 2060 and have rendered things with US before. It does take time and forget about doing Iray preview, though you might be lucky if you do "restrict to camera", but it's doable. Also, the amount of other things you can put in the scene will likely be limited, but it's definitely doable and renderable. It'll just take some time.
The original Ultrascenery ran fine on my 3060, which is what I had when I bought it years ago. The current issue appears to be with Daz 4.22, which brought the 3090 I'm using now to a near standstill. The problem affects original USC and USC2. There's a bunch of conversation about it on the USC thread.
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i'm using DS 4.23 and it still dogs out with USC2 and USC, depending on a lot of factors, but certain ecologies and lighting really affects it. I don't condiser my system as old, its a 4080, 32gig ram, and an Intel i7 13700KF CPU. Yeah, I ran USC just fine with my 2070 Super. It actually wasn't all that much slower than my 4080. Shocking to me actually, and disappointing.
Maybe that means that the bottleneck is not the GPU. I only have a 3080 (10GB), a much much older CPU and 32 GB of system RAM. I am not normally experiencing the big performance issues that some are reporting. Some of the USC2 Pasture ecologies have way too many plant instances (IMO) and do cause slow performance for me, but those are an exception. I am using DS 4.23.0.4 Public Build. Maybe the Public Build (beta) has significant improvements. Have you tried it?
no, haven't tried it. I usually stay away from beta products, other than when a general release is actually a beta in disguise.
Ah sorry, I just saw your post now. Like you said, this really isn't the forum to talk about AI, but I can tell you; making pretty AI pics by just typing a few words is easy indeed. Running your own artwork through AI in order to improve it or change the style - that can be every bit as challenging and frustrating as any task in 3D. It almost feels like you're arguing with another artist who wants to do things their way, just today I wanted to render *only* a pool of water in a cave and *every single time* the AI said "nope, I'm putting a naked woman in it".
As for this sale...oh yay, another Genesis 2 clothing texture set for an item I don't own. I think I've spent a total of $2.99 this month at DAZ and it was on the trees from yesterday.
Add ~100 Daz Originals priced under ~$32 (the 2.99 selection offered me up to that price this year) and older than one year to your wishlist and you should start to see items from your wishlist instead of items randomely selected among all Daz Originals.
Whoof, hoping for a decent lightning deal today, because scrolling through the low/high sort on the store is just... wow.
I've had only wishlist items in my calendar for a good handful of days now and I was pretty confident that I'd figured it out... but today my free calendar item is a random item again. Yes, I have plenty (~170) DO's on my wishlist, not counting new items, DAZ+ items, or items over $30. There's plenty of very old items amongst them, too. So... idk
Yes, that's happening for me, too atm - a change for the worse for sure. I'm probably gonna stop purchasing (again) for the next few days, the advent calendar as is is just not worth it anymore.
The maximum price sems to be variable by individual purchasers. For me the cutoff seems to be $25 and I recall someone else reporting a cuttoff of about $16
Highest I've gotten so far for freebies has been a $24 base price (2 items), with a couple around $20, and most under $17. Highest recent best according to Daz Dealz was $4 for one item, $3.30ish for 3 items, $2.25-$2.50 for 4 items, and $1.25-$1.67 for 3 items (although I know the RBs are a little deciving because it doesn't count the often deeper discounts that come with codes, but it's still something).
I think my favorite so far has been https://www.daz3d.com/fg-oktoberfest-bar ;
I don't think I have a bigger Daz budget than yours and I think the difference in upper price is just due to the random nature of the selection because before getting a $32 item, I mostly had items under $20 in either category.
My freebie items often have a higher base price than the $2.99 one.
Same thing happened to me, with the same result.
Yeah, I've had a few splurges this year during the really good sales, but they're splurges by *my* standards, which are not extravagant. Overall I'm a pretty low budget spender. I rarely have any tokens to work with.
Maybe; but I have had a couple of times when the only DOs on my wishlist were over $25 and then I only got some random unwanted selections.
After several tries/test i'm confident saying the upper price cut specific to customer is the better explanation i can find. On top of that, there might even be an year/generation cut as well. Mine seems to be $16 and G3 (or older). While having plenty bellow $20 and $25 G3 and G8 (some G8 textures bellow 16 too), the freebie was random once the pool i had of old cheap stuff was depleted from my WL. A few days like that, then added more and it worked again.
And is a very low cut, there is not even that much iray ready stuff in that range that is not also daz+. Soon i will have to look for oldies that interesting enough to convert or maybe really old aiko3 stuff (i got her mech girl mini bundle as one of the freebies, might as well play with that a bit).