I heartily recommend staying away from DA forums - It's a cesspool. 

In my experience, forum moderators are not your friends. They are to enforce forum and company rules, since in many ways the website owner can be made responsable for forum post.
Forum moderators also make sure, that no forum posts or threads are damaging the website owner's business model.
Just house rules.
So what do you expect?
You don't like DAZ moderation?
That's fine, you don't have to.
Just don't believe, it would be better here.
It isn't, neither at rotica or RenderHub.
DeviantArts is different as they don't seem to have an active moderation. 
Instead you'll see MAGA fascist all over at DA in their forum threads. 

Latest development update Jan, 19th.

Nevertrumper posted at 7:00 AM Wed, 5 June 2024 - #4485724

freek2 posted at 5:18 PM Sun, 2 June 2024 - #2987875

[...] especially when the V4 model is already as versatile as I'll ever need. [...]

YIKES !
I get it, some people just prefer a New York back alley hot dog over a healthy 5 star dinner.

M4/V4 has more content by several orders of magnitude over any post V4 poser figure.

In addition, it is very easy to upgrade a legacy figure in Poser.

Sadly any skin shader for DAZ Studio is way too dark.
Go download "Venitian Sunrise HDRI" from the Poly Haven website for free and use it as a reference.
You can see a lot of people in the background in it. Set all render settings to default and adjust your skin shader to match those people's skin color.

Any solution for that notorious skating effect with character animations in sight?

[...] especially when the V4 model is already as versatile as I'll ever need. [...]

And I will add that AI is destroying Artist's way of life and careers.  People making things in 15 mins is NOT ART. It is ART THEFT no matter how you look at it.  If you are mainly using AI to create your stuff, that is stealing from other people and if you do not have consent to use their artwork, that is THEFT PERIOD.  I'm glad there are many that are taking a stand on this and trying to make AI not allowed in the Entertainment Industries cause it is literally THEFT.

FirstBastion posted at 10:27 AM Thu, 4 April 2024 - #4483243

So Daz finally did it,  they added an AI generation tool to their site.

Not only that, they have succumbed to the "pandering" of agendas.  You go look at their site, they have now in categories "NON BINARY".  I'm sorry but every sane person that uses daz or no longer uses daz knows Gen 9 was a STUPID move and pandering to the small 1 percent of people in the world that don't exist.  nuf said.  soon as i learn blender/zbrush, I am done with DAZ.  i will not give them a penny anymore.  i have ways to get what i need without paying a cent.

Nevertrumper posted at 11:05 AM Thu, 28 March 2024 - #4482962

Bejaymac posted at 7:28 AM Tue, 26 March 2024 - #4482890

It was explained over at DAZ many years ago, probably before this thread was even made.

It's part their location (Utah), but it's mostly to do with credit card payment systems, CC companies charge a 2.5% surcharge on every transaction, some sites will swallow that charge, while others pad the bill to cover it, but that is for "PG13" classed sites. With more adult orientated sites (non sexual) that surcharge gets increased by quite a bit, and with sexual sites some CC companies will refuse the transaction, which is why most of them use "middle man" companies like CCBill for payments.

So DAZ decided to stay PG13 to avoid all of that.

Wait, how much more censorship is coming, once the MAGA lunatics are taking over.

Add to the MAGA lunatics the Woke snowflake left.  Both of them are guilty for making us middle of the roaders more miserable.

It was explained over at DAZ many years ago, probably before this thread was even made.

It's part their location (Utah), but it's mostly to do with credit card payment systems, CC companies charge a 2.5% surcharge on every transaction, some sites will swallow that charge, while others pad the bill to cover it, but that is for "PG13" classed sites. With more adult orientated sites (non sexual) that surcharge gets increased by quite a bit, and with sexual sites some CC companies will refuse the transaction, which is why most of them use "middle man" companies like CCBill for payments.

So DAZ decided to stay PG13 to avoid all of that.

Not LF ! ! !

Just for fun...

sorry for the politics, but your comments are very hurtful to most people, so maybe you should change your handle as it is very political .

I will never use political comments here again as I don't want to be shut down!

John 

Yes, and I post at Deviantart under goofygrape use it for almost other than model railroading, Microsoft train simulator also.

Pro Trump go MEGA 2024

DAZ Studio is my hobby. Nothing more.
I don't expect any real world benefits from it. If there wold be real world benefits, the better, but nothing to be expected. That would be like forming a band and counting on having success in the charts.
No person in my real life environment gives a sh*t of what I'm doing on my computer. Being on my Computer is all they see. The best responds to my images are <shrug: "nice">.
For a 3d hobby you have to be committed to your hobby only. 
No connection to other people or financial results can be expected - in fact it is quite expensive.