/3/ - 3DCG

Posted this in last thread right before it closed.
So I'm trying to make pic-attached, but am having trouble finding a good base character to start from. Any suggestions?

>>740662
eyes open pic for more detail.

>>740663
For now I'm considering : https://www.daz3d.com/lancy-character-with-dforce-hair-and-expressions-for-genesis-8-female
https://www.daz3d.com/dior-hd-for-genesis-8-female

https://www.daz3d.com/salem-for-aiko-8 ->> with smaller eyes.

>>740647
Why is Daz full of so many cringe coomers who pay for the shittiest humanoid models?

0/10 worst OP image yet.

>>740662
https://www.deviantart.com/xelandis/art/Gwynevere-XNALara-689210212

Found a model rip from DkS, it's obviously not good for animating but you can reference the face objectively rather than from pictures.

>>740690
damn! Thanks man.

>>740680
It is very DAZ3d

>>740647
bros
imagine the webbing

Shush, goblin is sleeping.

>>740717
wait a sec...

Any idea on how to fix poke throughs like this? I'm thinking of ditching the head piece entirely, no hair works with it

>>740722
Add dformers to hair.

>>740717
>An actual Daz gobbo

Well played, anon

>>740723
This

How the fuck does this software not have an easy way to zero the origin point like blender? I spent an hour looking for a way to do it so I could export environments as fbx files without having to manually place objects back. The only thing I found were dead links to a script and people saying manually drag it to the center using the joint tool. Fuck that. I can put it in blender, hit the A key, then right click and click set origin. It’s that easy. I see why people shit on daz so much.

>>740723
>>740740
I dont know how to work that. Any dformer hair tutorial you could point me to? I only found 1

>>740746
There really isnt much, the official daz youtube had one. I think maybe WP Guru too. It's really trial and error. Otherwise, export hair to some tool and reimport modified as a morph.

>>740647
VADE RETRO SATANA

>spend shitload of money on cute assets
>don't even know what to do with them

worse than gambling

>>740757
Just figure it out man it’s not hard. Part of being an artist is just winging it. Click the hair go to the create drop down menu load the dformer and position the ball where you want it. There is two parts one is for the area your dformer Will cover and the other is to apply a push/twist on it so it deforms, Hence the name. Use the move gizmo and parameters to adjust it

>>740768
Buy vr and import them in to virtamate with blender

>>740768
"I don't remember buying this"
Daz needs a better catalog system, the thumbnails are way too small. Nevermind the dpi scaling I need to do for my meme display.

Lucie Wilde a cute!

https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/71793/?page=2 Soon

in all seriousness though, what are you even doing with daz

Is this like, a tool for creating your own degenerate porn or is there more to it

>>740777
>houdini
More like literally WHO dini
>>740778
I make wallpapers for my various devices and artwork for my game streams. Though I constantly get sidetracked by COOMER scenes.

>>740758
>>740769
Thanks guys. I've figured out how to work it, just having trouble moving it realistically and selecting the exact part to be moved.

As for the theme of thread, pic related is what I made last. I want to attempt Capt Marvel but having trouble finding a close short hair

Sometimes I really miss the musclegirl poster.

>>740776
Had to look up who that was.
Wow, I usually don't pick on people's looks.... but man. That woman herself looks like a bad Genesis 8 morph.
Just imagine.... CID from Ice Age.
And funnily enough, your character still looks nothing similar (which I actually think is good, because dear god).
Pic related.

>>740776
>>740786
Anon, you know there's pornstars with big boobs that also look... you know....decent?
Hell if you're gonna Daz 4 coom, you might as well have a character that looks ok?

>>740778
it's mostly used for for creating magazine scenes or for reference posing.

>>740790
That's actually pretty neat anon. Most in progress shots posted here are default lighting/settings/materials.

>GO TO THE OFFICIAL DAZ GALLERIES
>HARD MODE: BRING SOMETHING BACK YOU ACTUALLY LIKED

>>740798

>>740800
That is more charming than it ought to be.

>>740778
I have never used Daz for Porn

Ever

>>740809
Be proud, also show her full body shape.

>>740798
These are the fruits of my search.

>>740798

The only one I found with some post work done to it.

>>740815
Cute!

>increase render times significantly by using regular alpha hairs instead of the shitty fibermesh ones
Wish more daz asset creators ditched that garbage

>>740809
>>740822
That's quite the rack for non porn.

can I somehow animate my daz scenes in blender and then get everything back into daz for the rendering without having to redo all the materials and shit

>>740828
actually I just found animate2
that seems to at least cover fundamental tools, guess I'll try that

>>740828
Yeah but setting up the materials with eeve will be faster in the end due to render times.

>>740834
is eevee really a net gain? I mean yeah render times are faster, but don't you also have to spend more time again faking stuff?

>>740836
I guess it depends on what your scene is like in the end.

>>740824
Thats just the aesthetic that I like.

In all likelihood, your mother has large breasts from having you.
does that automatically maker her a porn star?

You're just projecting your own debased sexual thoughts onto me.

I'm applying for PA wish me luck!
Also has anyone tried the meshgrabber update with rotate? RN I have a naughty copy of the base version but it's fucking great, im gonna buy it for sure next time I remember I wanna use it.

Left or right?

I keep thinking I'll do a scene with the characters I make, but I just make one and move on to the next

>>740866
Left. Too much Jerry curl on the right.

>>740867
Skin tone wise as well? Tried to make the right more comic accurate but yeah, the top kind of ruins it

Why do Daz characters look so shitty?

>>740870
Mostly lighting but people tend to also overstylize.

>>740870
Same reason most people have REALLY shitty waifu characters in games like skyrim, fallout 4, oblivion, fallout 3, etc...
People have shit taste in grossly proportioned women because they're fucked in the head from porn.

How hard is moving a scene from daz to blender? I want to get in on that realtime rendering

When you apply to become a PA do they check if you own all the products in the promo shot? :x

>>740875
its easy dude just export is as a collada or fbx or obj and import

sometimes certain objects will be off because daz is fucking retarded when it comes to parenting object and not having any tools for changing origins easily

>>740866
she has tiny arms and her shoulders are too narrow. try again dumb coomer

>>740893
I wanted to do that but I don’t have the morphs

>>740894
Except the standard bodybuilding one but it doesn’t widen the shoulders for some reason

>>740875
Look up "DaztoBlender 2.8". You can buy it , or if your google-fu is decent you can get creative.
It's split in 2 parts. A Daz script for exporting everything about your character, and a Blender addon for importing it in.
It auto-rigs characters (with everything being great except the arm IK's , which have no elbow pole targets), it handles materials really well, and the addon comes with a menu interface to tweak materials without having to go into the blender node wrangler.
Ok, I'm done shilling.

>>740904
The only thing that's fucky about Daztoblender is it does NOT like Geo shells, like at all.
I wanted to import this android lady into blender:
https://www.daz3d.com/da-15y-lvl-4-hd-morph-for-genesis-8-females
And it would not import her armor pieces, no matter what settings I used.

>>740786
Wow. That lady looks exactly like :"What if Hitomi Tanaka was trailer-park white trash instead of asian?"

In the last thread I made a model of Daphne from Scooby Doo. (Pic attached).
Now I want to make Velma.

>>740911
I want to ask if you know any morphs/characters that look vaguely like pic attached.
I have found no Daz characters that have round faces, and I have no idea what morphs to look up for that look.

>>740912
I looked up the redesign, and that IS something I could pull off in Daz with something like "The Girl 8", but on the other hand I absolutely hate that fucking Dreamworks, smug looking stylized character. And I want to make the character look true to the original show.

>>740913
For as hard as the face would be to make, Daz actually has her outfit premade, so no need to mix and match lol.
https://www.daz3d.com/the-mystery-solver-outfit-for-genesis-3-female-s

>>740786
this is a 10/10 in GB

>>740916
I don't know what this "GB" is, but it sounds degenerate.
I mean, her face could be.... passable, if not for her weird, fucked up, spread apart. droopy eyes.
She literally looks like a fucked up Genesis 8 morph.

>>740911
Good job on the almond shaped eyes.

>>740776
there is some resemblance

>>740783
for all we know he might be working for pixar atm

>>740822
what hair and face morph is that, good anon

> every daz retard on deviantart / twitter / whatever
> "So guize I've been getting into animation lately..."
> proceed to post their gobbos with the literal same walking animation everyone else use

does anyone know what might have caused this? it's in Texture Shade mode

>>740798

>>740938

>>740776
Omg i love Lucie. Can you share the skin and morphs u used pls?

>>740768
>have 100's of gigabytes of content
>only use the same 15 things
How do I clear out my runtime?

>>740934
BlueJuante teeth material doesn't work properly in the textured viewport because it has refraction on. You can turn it off in the surfaces pane (put refraction weight to 0) for the teeth, but it won't lookg good in renders then

>>740961
It's a fucking pain if you have been pirating a lot of shit like me, due to the way it's organised.

You really just need to set some time aside with Daz open on one side and your folder open on the other, and navigate to each thing and see if you use/want it, then delete.

My Daz folders over 300gb now i really need to clean up but it's so daunting. Full of a lot of shit too.

>>740938
Thanks, I hate it.

>Introducing Aubrey 8!

>>740782
Would an outfit ever look like that across the chest? No.

>>740980
I don't understand why they continue to release these hags.
>>740981
It's often comic accurate but I find the taut lines between the breasts for things like that in real life to be much more attractive.

>>740981
In comics, yeah

>>740980
You've never needed an older woman in a scene?

>>741000
Nice trips. I have a few but it seems like the majority of characters released for GF8 are older.

>>741000

>>740968
Yes, aside from maybe 4 items my entire runtime is pirated content. Think I'll have to do what you suggest.

>>741000
MILF porn my man

>>741026
speaking of MILFs, what's with all the recent straight shota shit in 3D?

>>740981

>>740980
>>740983

I literally don't "get" your points.
AFAIK characters in Daz with numbers after their names are themed templates.
You have "standard teenager", "standard strong guy" , "standard old guy", "standard alien girl" .
They're meant as an average representation of that specific archetype. So yeah, "standard woman in her late 40's " is gonna look like standard woman in her late 40's.
If you want "hot version of woman in her late 40's" , they have that included in the pack.
https://www.daz3d.com/shop/camilla-for-aubrey-8

I literally don't get you saddo coomers. Want to have women that look like real-dolls / anime waifus? There's a template for those, along with a ton of character variations.
https://www.daz3d.com/aiko-8-pro-bundle
Want to jerk off to Pixar women? There's a template for that.
https://www.daz3d.com/the-girl-8-pro-bundle

Realistically aged women with realistic imperfections and blemishes also get a template, the same way "comic book strong guy with biceps big as his head" gets a template.
What's so hard to understand lol?

>>741034

what do you think we are doing here man?

>>741072

get out with that granny fetish you perv

>>741088
ok coomer.

>>740983
>>741000
>>741026
Tons of people use Daz Studio to make incest /weg/s and Daz 3D knows it

>>741095
That's a good point. There have been lots of older ladies with Gen8. Moreso than with prior generations.

>>740647
Holy texture stretching batman !

>>740690
Initial outline of the face. I've been staring at the face for too long that I can't notice any specific imperfections.
Any feedback from anyone is appreciated.

>>741151
Actually , took a break and came back to it for a second look and came up with pic attached. This one is less animoo-waifoo, but I think it's a wee bit closer to the source material.

>>741166
Also found on my browsing for assets:
BEWARE OF HD!
https://www.daz3d.com/medieval-death-hd-for-genesis-8-male

>20 bucks boiiiiiiiii1

>>741174
Image background?

>>741175
yes

The diffeomorphic daz to blender exporter claims that the generated materials are "quite faithful"

is that just a blatant lie or am I missing something

>>741214
Pretty much a lie, I think it exports at default values instead of whatever you may have changed in Daz. Also transparency issues with hair and eyes sometimes. Nothing that cant be fixed but still!

>>741174
Heathen

>>741278

>>741279

why anon

>>741279
>>741278
Pizza time

>finally got decent IK chains and keyframes set up
>starting to understand animate 2 despite literally zero documentation
>now this shit crashes every 5 minutes

FUCK
Should've just gone the blender route

>>741420

>>741437
>try rendering this in cycles
>eye material gets fucked up
>actually a pretty cool effect

Anyone here try Caprice Hair? It's a great fit for one of my characters but it leaves these random outlines if you change the preset style

>>741486
This is Caprice hair with morphs applied.
>>741166

>>741489
That is weird then, I'll do a test render and post to show whats up. When I change the preset, it leaves an outline where the hair used to be

>>741489
Here. Stopped render at 40% but doubt it would have made a difference

>>741500
Looks about right. How's the length though? Promotional shots on DAZ3D show it as quite long.

>>741500
By outline you mean those little hairs on the front?

They're loose hairs . I can actually select them on my model, but they're harder to see in my HDRI.

>>741504
At max length front-back, it goes till her groin and butt crack. At the shortest, its touching her shoulders. It's pretty adjustable

>>741521
Those white lines on her suit and side of her face.
Damn that's loose hair? They look terrible but maybe it has to do with the light. They dont look connected, ruins the whole look. Do you know of a way to remove them?

How can them human whitebois even compete!?

What would be a good base for making pic related? I cant figure out the skin tone

>>741620
the eye shape?

>>741633
soon you will have 100% modeling capabilities inside of daz itself

>this renders in real-time

alright
eevee is pretty based

>>741634
Nice ice shader wanna share

>>741633
>>741634
Yeah I have been playing around meshgrabber really impressed someone managed to get to working inside Daz.
I have a feeling Daz will buy them up.

Biggest uses I have found for it aside from fixing slight collision errors that would otherwise take endless hours of fiddling, is lifing clothing ever so slightly in parts, even easier with rotation now. Before it having to take something to MD just to make it look like someone was holding something was annoying.
Loving the ability to squish models skin for slight indetnations, but faster than taking to zbrush or blender just for a single tiny morph

>>741644
How do you make eevee look good?

>>741644
What application is this?

>>741659
Define good
Is this good?

>>741701
they look like plastic dolls

>>741663
Blender with daz assets

>>741659
Lighting
With eevee you don't get the free GI you're used to from cycles and iray, so you need to start faking again

>>741753
Sent my post too early, fuck

Left: Indirect lighting from smooth HDRI + Direct Sun Lamp for specular highlights

Right: Just slapping two random ass direct lights into the exact same scene

>>741701
lady mormont preparing her mighty steed for battle

how do i do indoor lightning, just tried out basic 3 point lightning and it leaves fireflies, white dots everywhere in the background

Any pro tips for posing? If I pull the tentacles, they don't behave like pulling a string.

>>741818
I think it may depend on on how the rig was setup but have had generally good results starting at the root bone and rotating each connecting bone going from there. Pain in the ass though.

So I 'm at a bit of a sticking point.
I tried to cobble together a rough "Gwynevere outfit" from a lot of fantasy gear I got. I intended to import it to Blender and cutaway all the excess parts, but Daz crashes when I try to export.
Can I export just the clothing piece by piece to FBX? Will that fuck up my attempts to rig it in Blender? Can I cut pieces of geometry in Daz and only leave what I need?

>>741845
Some of those pieces look pretty generic enough that you could probably just create them in blender. Most of it looks like large bits of cloth.

>>741753
Is left realtime too?

>>741852
yeah that's also eevee

Damn, I thought I would be able to find MightyMite's superhero costumes somewhere but there's only 3-4. Guess I'll buy a couple

>>741845
Does it has to be FBX?
I usually export clothing in Collada

>>741753
I tried to bake HDRI into a probe, but it still doesn't give good shadows
I guess it's only good for architecture, not humans

>>741847
Yeah, the large bits of cloth are actually the bits I want to remove (and the bits I suspect are causing Daz to crash) . For example the large cape is worthless to me, I just want the part that drapes over her shoulders.

I found a hack-y workaround by exporting my model in parts. Once for the body, once for the bandages and trims, once for the hood, once for the shoulder cape etc.

The whole reason WHY I'm really set on taking the assets from Daz and going through the exporter is I really love the weight painting and parenting that it does, and doing that by hand from a blank model would be hell

>bought daz to realize my own porn fetishes
>takes so long to get a scene right, by the time I'm done I'm already sick of the image

fuck I didn't think this through, did I

>>742007
Welcome to the reason 99% of people who come to this board and say "I want to learn animation for porn" give up.

Ok final import to blender done. This is the results with the materials directly from Daz. I'm going to rework all of them, but as the initial model, I'm quite pleased with the result.

Judge my workflow
>have 2 computers, first one with alot body dials and facegen 2, second computer used for renders and clothing
>export entire character to obj and on to second computer
>turn into morph dial
>make skin with skin builder
>save as character preset

Making a scene
>do pose first before everything and export pose to marvelous designer to make an outfit
>start out with t pose model then morph into scene pose
>export outfit into daz
>make sure materials are iray
>if needed get shoes for character because i cant fucking model shoes
>setup background
>setup lighting
>render
>photoshop poke outs if needed and general design

How retarded am I?

>>742019
So complete list of things I have to do for this model :
>Fix her weird eyes with the proper iris color and reflectivity
>Fix hair color and transparency issues
>Create shiny silk shader
>Create silk shader with gold trim
>Create cotton shader
>Create proper lace material for her hood + veil
>Use sculpting to add the frilly waves to her hood, add creases to her shawl
>Clean-up all the extra, useless shape keys that are bloating the model to 1 GB in size
>Re-work all the corrective drivers for things like her thigh/elbow clothing deformation
>See what other small detailing could I import over from Daz.

>>741985
>would be hell
But you'd learn and add something to your skill set!

>>742039
I am bad at it, to the degree that I'd have to start with something easier before I'd be able to do something like weight paint shoulder deformations.
I'd just be ruining the model DESU.

>>742042

>>742043
Fair point. Well , I still might add some detail myself, which I have to manually weight paint.

>>742019
what a qt, show bobs

AAAAAAAH I need more models of Asian fug puppets

>>742054

>>742057
Have a site?

>>742057

>>742072
meant for >>742070

>>742108
no, I'm just starting with modeling.

>>742121
That's a good enough reason for a deviant art account.

>>742105
I thought this was real for a sec. I think it's because she has an asian face and because they all look the same it's harder to read the faces so the uncanny valley effect doesn't happen as quickly.

>>742105

> fishnet not adherent to legs

literally unwatchable

>>740776
Lol she looks just like her

make sure to grab the new dazcentral manger https://www.daz3d.com/dazcentral
now you can mange and delete your pirated daz content with the install manger !

>>742461
is it a trap so daz can check for pirated content and ban my account

tried importing G3F+Futalicious+Roasty into blender using diffeomorphic
warning: You have to include shells. I'm not sure how he did it, but I thought I'd be a smart arse by just bringing the figure without the shell, but as soon as you try merging the geograft, the UVs shit themselves.

However, using shells, you can bring it in cleanly. I'm still trying to figure out how to texture paint so as to blend the textures nicely. Still have no fucking clue what I'm doing, so no surprises there.

I'm also trying to make a korean/japanese looking face, but i just don't understand the workflow for texturing/cant find a base texture that has that combination of pale, but pink look yet

Still cant figure out how to make blender stop shitting itself as soon as I bring any hair in.
This is just a direct import from DAZ straight into blender. I've not understood how to go about dealing with the hair yet.

>>742461
Hah, I was just bitching about thumbnail size in this thread. That said, I've given it a shot and don't see its usefulness as I was already rebelliously sorting my different libraries.

Any proper DAZ3D & DIM support for Linux yet?

>>742508
wine-staging seems to support cuda off and on depending on your version of studio and the position of stars in the sky.
There are some workarounds to get DIM working using native SQL but I cant be arsed. Check the insanely long thread on the daz forums.

>>742508
>>742525
That's really the only thing holding me back from full time neckbearding.

>>740776

isn't she "bigger" than that?

Why is the default point light brighness so low? It's 1500 by default, but I have to crank it to ~1 million before it illuminates anything. What am I missing here?

>>742656
Those lights are still set with 3delight in mind.

>>742658
That.

>>742656
To be more accurate, check the "width/size" option for your point light. Point lights don't work at all with pathtracing, which iray uses, so your "point lights" need really not to be points but spheres with a volume. This wouldn't be a problem if the default volume used by Daz wasn't something like 1 picometer cube.

You can cranck your picometer cube of light all you want, it's still a picometer cube of light. Most of the time you want to tweak the volume of the light, not the illumination.

>>742714
Changing light geometry from point to sphere and giving it a considerable diameter (50 cm) made the shadow softer, but had no effect on brightness.

>Download a detailed environment
>50 MB
>Download a single hair style
>1 GB

>>742723
yeah hair is a big data sink, accounts for maybe 80% of my storage

>>742723
> >1 GB
> it's just three hair strands on top of the head
How do they even do that?
At the same time some other pretty legit looking hair are under 100 mb

>>742786
its the gen 8 stuff thats mostly high data

i just get gen 2 iray hair, its around 80MB per hair and looks pretty much the same

I swear, I'm gonna lose it with DAZ to blender workflow. Diffeomorphic fucks up the UVs, DAZtoblender only does G8F. No idea if it works with G3.
Does anyone know a good way to bring a figure with multiple geografts (roasty add-on etc) into blender, without a geoshell? I'd like to be able to use blender's texture painting to fix seams.

So I've been trying DAZ. It's pretty fun.
I've been using Yuna for Genesis 8 (although I might go with some other Asian body like Difa) plus the necdaz feet stuff.
For some reason, when the legs bend close to the body, like all the way up, the model gets distorted and part of the pelvis justs out like a tail. Is this common?

>>742812

post example

What the fuck with DAZ, why i can't login in studio.

>>742809
you can manually load missing uvs

>>742839
Do explain, if you don't mind, that is

>>740647

>>740809

>>742812
Daz is fun

>>740647
is Gerald a superhero ?

>>742835
why would you

>>742859
What hair is that

>>742814
Here, the weirdness happens when I move the left/right thigh bend like this.

>>742019
Where I'm at with texturing:

>>742889
Looks like Leyton hair for GF3
>>742893
oof, do you use any third party morphs?>>742907
nice

>>742889
>What hair is that

https://www.daz3d.com/leyton-hair-for-genesis-3-female-s-and-genesis-2-female-s

>>742911
Well, the morphs I have installed are Growing Up, the Muffin add on for growing up, Yuna, big girl morphs, and breast/glute control, and some feet stuff, although the only things I have on when I was using the character should just be the Yuna stuff.

>>741753
Rendering in real time is great and all, but not having everything at your disposal at all times kinda makes it a waste of time. It's really only good if you're making one Render.

Does 3delight have a preview mode like iray? Or am I pretty much stuck with relying on just rendering?

Any tips on making a texture from scratch?

>>742963
stuck

what i do is remove the hair and just turn down res for a test render

I feel like a lot of people in these threads are new to 3d and character stuff in general. Everyone is excited and eager to make some lewds. I get it, I often indulge in cooming as well.

But I feel like a lot of people have these misconceptions about the human body and its abilities. One of the most common ones I see, is when a character is holding something, like a sword, a pole, a horse dildo, you name it. A lot of the time, they hold it with their wrist bent to the absolute max, a very uncomfortable position. That always takes me out of the immersion, makes me cringe.

So to help some people out, I decided to make this info-graphics. Hope this helps people get a better idea about wrist posing. Remember the human wrist BARELY has 30 degrees of side to side swing. When something has to be held at an angle the fingers have to be rearranged to accommodate the object. Try it yourself, grab the TV remote and try to hold it like a sword, but like in the top image. It's uncomfortable as all hell.

Also the wrist twist. 99% of the twisting motion in the wrist is actually just inherited from the forearm. The wrist itself is only able to do like 15 or so degrees of twist.

Whenever I try using Intermediate OpenGL to render, DAZ just freezes.

>>743012
beta?

>>743020
4.12 64-bit. Tried googling but nobody seemed to have the same issue.

>>743022
what's in your scene? are you using fibermesh hair? dforce?

What are the essential add ons to get? There's not a lot that I can do with the default tools.

>>741022
this looks exactly like the old jewish woman that would blow me every day after school when i was younger. good times.

>>741524
>Those white lines on her suit and side of her face.
>Damn that's loose hair? They look terrible but maybe it has to do with the light. They dont look connected, ruins the whole look. Do you know of a way to remove them?
Check the Surfaces tab and see if they have their own material, then set opacity to zero.

Alternately, use the Geometry editor to hide or remove them.

>>743095
If you're a piratefag, just get all the pro bundles.

>MOM SAID ITS MY TURN TO RENDER

>>742907
Ok final shading is done.
I mean, there' s a ton of things I could do to improve it.... like:
>Add more gold trim to her bandages to make them stand out more.
>Add her head pendant thing.
>Try to make the creases on her bra better looking.

But at the end of the day, it's "close enough", and I can't be assed.

>>743176

>>743176
>>743177
not bad at all. What's that on the floor by her feet in >>743176 ?

>>743184
The default cube..........
No but seriously, it's textured empties that the Daz export script uses as controls for the rig. I forgot to hide them.

>>743095
Get maybe 3 female and male characters you like. Get 3 pieces of versatile hair. Get a lightning set. Get a morph pack (allows you to shape body and shape more)

>>743095
Depends
Shape Shift, and the Various Morph stuff is good for modifying bodies.
It never hurts to get various characters, it's easier to modify faces that way.
Pro Bundles in general
Hair that you'll use.
Also a ton of freebies and such

Also, this is what I was messing with, dunno how well a Surface Pro 8 can actually render this, this is the Iray preview.

>>743175

wtf are those random ass hairs

>>743255
Dazlet's anatomy.

>>743255
Vellus hair aka peach fuzz. Unfortunately you're a perma virgin stuck behind a screen, so you'll never come that close to a real female...or any other person for that matter. :^)

>>743240
Correct: Surface Pro 6

>>743281
You could always use some cloud sync app to share with your main pc or upload to some render cloud. I've considered those sorts of options myself.

>>743283
Ah cool, that might work, I'll have to see. I'm probably going to just do transparent background renders if anything.

>>743283
>>743284
I heard good results from shadow pc and clara.io offers vray rendering for free, though I'm not sure how easy it is moving your scene to there.

>>743176
Yeah this sucks

Why is it so difficult to making decent looking small breasts? Every time I try, they just look like big boobs that were deflated.

>>743337
use the "breasts gone" slider. i think it's in the essentials for genesis 3 and 8.

Any recommended morph/skin packs if I want to make my characters look like Honey Select characters?

>>743343
remove slider limits

to those who shifted from mac to windows, was it as simple as just copy pasting the library?

What’s a hair that will allow me to add a streak like pic related?

>>743353
StreamingHair for GF3 but I know there are several others for GF3 and 8

I need better eyebrows for my elf

>>743367
Anon, maybe these would be better?
https://www.daz3d.com/addison-hair-and-brows-for-genesis-3--8-females
(brows and hair are separate)

>>743344
>slider
i keep forgetting i'm on /v/

>>743332
kay.

Why does my character’s face change so much depending on whether I use HDR or light set?

>>743388
Other layers like specular /subsurface scatter/ bump maps are affected in different ways by light intensity.

>>743278
nice try.

It looks like absolute shit, or actually the kind of stuff a dazlet would do to make their render feel more real.

>>743383
>REEEEE ITS A DIAL

>>743436
ok coomer

>>743447
>comes in to thread dedicated to coomer software
hmm...

>>740647

>>743449
>coomer software
Post one sexually suggestive thing on the official daz marketplace.

>>743483
>HAHA GOTEM THERE ARE NO DICKGIRLS SOLD ON THERE LOL I PWN THAT GUY ;-)

>>743485
I'm waiting.

>>743436
>>743447
>>743449
>>743483
>>743485
>>743486
I'd like to thank you retards for keeping these threads bumped all the time. We'd never hit post limits without you.

>>743483
>>743483
>>743483
>>743485
>>743518
fellas plz. this is a daz thread. render, steal and pose in harmony

>>743521
>curtains don't match drapes.

>>743521
you can make characters like this in daz?

>>743521
What base is this?

>>743524
>>743523
various add-ons for the girl 3 with toon generations (not at 100 percent of course)

>>743525
I really hate that you would spend time on something like that.

>>741022
There we go that's my kind of stuff.

>>743528
Please stop, he haven't talked about THOSE people here for several threads and they've been gone for even longer.

>>743382
Thanks

>>743521

can you give us a little more detail about the morph used?

girl or toon morphs but not 100%, did you also tinker with her face with dials?

I've seen some decent result using only Toon generation morphs on G8F (somewhere around 50-60%).
Yours looks more convincing tho.

also what textures could fit for such a character? Girl 3/ 8 stuff?

I have a G2 morph I want to convert to G8. Is there an easy way?

>>743631
essentially just combing the other morphs like the girl or aiko with toon generations until you get the result you desire and of course if the body already looks fine for you, you'll want to make toon gen only effect the face.

>>743631
>>743633
wrong pic

>>743633

is that GIRL 3 texture on her?

>>743638
nope just GLOSS!

>>743176
continuing from this, would pic attached be a good look for a "standard Dark Souls, default, female main character?"

I wish we had a realtime renderer that could understand Iray materials. Something like Eevee. Iray is an overkill for rendering plastic gobbos like >>743633

>>741765
I haven't mastered indoor lighting but I find that lighting a room like an actual room irl gives more consistent results than photography studio style lighting.

>>743662
isn't octane realtime?

>>743665
I thought it was a path tracer like Iray.

>>743666
you're right, your other options is to also use blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgwXj1t5gfc

>>743632
either steal one of the character converter scripts on the official store or use the method here. https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Transferring-Character-Morphs-G1G2G3G8-409437916 (the scripts work better from what I've seen)

>>743663
any guide or infographic that tells how rooms irl are lighted? I just went with the photography style cause it was clear in it's instructions and easy to emulate

>>743669
>any guide or infographic that tells how rooms irl are lighted?
Are you in a room right now anon?

>>743703
On mission station down in Kongo for the next 6 months, my lappy is powered by a diesel generator... so yeah, no.

>>743623
Check your demona-headness.

Since I installed demona, for some reasons, the demona head shaping became a default on all new gen8 figures. This fucks up heads rather well. I don't know if it's just me or anything, but that looks like a demona fucked head.

>>743623
>>743744
Also, you can prevent the weird hair/ear interaction by removing the ear shape in the hidden morphs for the hair.

>>743704
Ok. Look at a picture of a room on the internet. Look at where the light sources are. Open a room in daz and replicate the light sources you saw in the real room.

What if you wanted to get a bunch of daz files for REALLY cheap?

Any way to limit GPU usage while rendering so that DAZ doesn't make Firefox and Discord stutter?

>>743862
Buy a second GPU.

>>743661
Aaand my Dark Souls main character lady is now in Blender, with a lot less hassle. I deliberately made her more of a plain-Jane, since she's supposed to be something out of the Dark Souls 1 character creator.

>>743862
What specs? I render while gaming with minimal issues.

>>743886
She reminds me of Natalie Dormer.

What hair is number 14?

>>743916
most of those look like V4 or G2 hairs.

Decided to try out Daz, how do I make her skin less shiny/plastic-y?

>>744059

select skin in the surface tab of a G8F character and try to change these settings

Why does Iray want to load textures again for every frame when rendering animation?

Can anyone help me replicate this character?

>>744106
yikes

Sorry for the stupid question but, how do I activate the lens options in the camera setting controls? Do I have to download something for it to work?

Guys I finally decided to download DAZ, I'm entirely new to it. Got just the client and genesis 8 essentials. I have to coom really fast and I mean really really fast.
What do I do, where do I get models from, are there any good tutorials you recommend? What do I have to know about working in DAZ? Help me speedcoom I really really have to coom fast

>>744286
put a penis in the volleyball, call it futaball

>>744286
I made my first genesis 8 character and I coom very hard but I must coom more. Teach me how to get better at making women 3d so I can coom really really fast I beg you

>>744304
If you want the model I export it to you here for free. I made her with the volleyball bitch package
Just teach me how to make better models I shared you my work, no?

>>744307
hnnng

>>740867
No Such Thing

>>740913
I worked on that movie. Wish I could've put her on a USB drive to make mad bucks from coomers.

>>744370
why didnt you

did you work on the cop too

>>744370
Well her design in the movie is shit. I don't know how many saddos would like that smug dreamworks , dime a dozen style. And again, you can get that style with Daz really easily.
They should've made her look like the original show, but I guess that's too much to expect from today's shitty no talent 3d modelers.

>>744304
still better than Blunder

Any suggestions on recommended bend morphs?

God damn this program hogs memory. It eats 16 GB for breakfast. I tried rendering a relatively simple scene and RAM usage shot to 100%. Had to close other programs before it actually started rendering anything. And I mean system RAM. VRAM usage was less than 50%. What does it need RAM for if I disabled CPU rendering and the scene easily fits in VRAM?

What sort of process do you use to build a scene? Similar to level design where you block things out with primitives or placeholder content before adding to the scene and lighting?

>>742023
Personally hate using SB, I got a shitload of obtained characters to use as skins instead.

I use MD but not sure I see the benefit of your pose first method. All my clothes I just make on gen8female base so I can reuse, then fit and can load on my character. Then after posing, I take the posed avatar and the clothing into MD and sin the clothing to load back as a morph.
It becomes much faster in the long run to do multiple poses and making sure the clothing is simmed in each.
Sometimes dforce is enough if the clothing piece is not too complex, but always create my clothing with the ability to reimport to MD in mind.

Fuck shoes brother

I used to Photoshop pokethroughs but now with meshgrabber i virtually never need to. Always do some post work though anyway.

>>744582
t's Iray that needs to load everything (all these ridicilous high def textures) into RAM before rendering. Octane is much more efficent in that respect but I hate it's always-online DRM

>>742502
Honest if you are bringing into blender just make hair in blender

>>742502
>>744683
Here's a pretty good tut.
https://youtu.be/BqWYgrXw7Jk

why is this happening and how 2 fix

>>744758
Did you apply materials that were designed for that item? Is that a MightyMite item?

>>744774
Yeah it's MightyMite. And I applied some Iray Spandex shaders

>>744789
Spandex shader from other than mightymight? I'm no expert but you'd need to remap the shader somehow if it is not designed for the particular item. Unless the item mapped using a 1:1 square material. Then you could try changing the tiling options under surfaces> geometry.

>>744474
Because IT would notice right away that a file is being copied locally and would start asking questions.

I worked on one shot with the cop, but it's nothing interesting.

Fun little fact, though: Daphne and Velma have the exact same body topology. I had fun blend shaping each character to eachother's animation and end up with a tall, thin Velma and a small pudgy Daphne.

>>744811
should have taken the risk anon, would have made thousands

>>744811
This, also most corporate machines have management software embedded that will not even allow the use of flash drives.

>>744582
I noticed that too.

I personally think something changed in 4.8 or 4.10. Before, a 4 GB VRAM scene took ~4 GB of sysRAM, which is somewhat logical. I don't know what changed and can't be bothered to read the patchnotes, but nowadays the same 4 GB VRAM scene takes 16 GB of sysRAM.

I personally believe Daz is using Iray incorrectly, probably telling the renderer to copy textures several times for optimization and forgetting to release the memory or sending improper parameters. Or it could just be that the last versions of Iray is shit regarding sysRAM.

This is embarrassing to ask but how do people quickly apply a plain white material to everything? I'm trying to submit stuff for PA but not sure how people get this look quickly.

Pic related the kind of shot I'm talking about

Basically how do you just clear everything form surfaces?

>>744967
Something like this, I suppose.
https://www.deviantart.com/spyrorue/art/Genesis-Grey-Materials-G8-Bundle-700269005

>>744722
>>744683
Thanks.
Don't suppose you know anything about the geograft problem?

>>744996
I have only used diffeomorphic and don't remember having geograft issues, but I also didn't do multiples, as in usually just a pussy or peepee.

>>745128
Awww poops. Im trying to get a two in one.
Have you tried texturing in blender vs just fucking around in DAZ and photoshop? I'm considering learning it, but im not sure if it'll actually be more work

>>745136
I either use skinbuilder, a store "bought" skin textures or I edit in PS if I need some serious recolor (inhuman colorrs like blues or greens) or something like tanlines.
Most of the time I end up using good quality store bought ones and making slight tone changes in PS.

If I was gonna redo all, I would do in substance painter.

thoughts?

>>745143
Thanks a bunch! Guess I might look into substance

How do you save a prop + a pose together
For example, a sword + the sword getting gripped, or high heels + the high heel pose

I know i sometimes get items that do that so it's possible, I'm just not sure how

>>745152
Skirt and top needs a bit more detailing, they take up a lot of screenspace and don't match sit the detailing on the boots.
Not sure what's up with the patch on the side of her head.
Glowing eyes would be neat.

>>745152
How did you match the orangish skin tone? I'm having a hard time with it

>>740647
How would I go about making a character look like they're slathered in baby oil for lewds? I've been trying to do this since I started in 2013.

>>745550
You haven't found the roughness slider in 9 years

>>745557
Explain like I'm retarded