Interstingly others say they are better for females than males. In any event a dot release would not change the basic geometry as that would then be a new figure (8.1 adjusted surface groups but kept the mesh the same otherwise).

G10F/Victoria 10 with DS5 maybe???  V9's facial expressions with V8.1 joint bends?

Let's hope that G9 is upgraded with the release of DS 5.0, whenever that happens.  I use V8.1F for my renders.  G9's arm and leg joint bends at a huge step backwards - to pre-V4 days.  Not good for those of us who like to do "full body" renders.

I just received a refund notification from HEAT.  My thanks to HEAT, they have resolved my issue to my satisfaction.  

People can't be controlled with censure

We should never censure the truth or honest opinions and theories, but what about calls to violence, hate speech, fake news, and fake presidents?

Never seen a "Woke snowflake" armed and in military gear breaching the capitol.

Very true - The former is merely a "pain in the ass", while the latter is a "clear and present danger".  A better comparison would be the Wokes (with their "safe spaces" where no one is "offended") and Moms for Liberty (with their book banning and trying to control what everyone's children are taught) .  

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.

I have had posts on the DAZ Forums deleted.  The latest being critical of the way DAZ makes you keep browsing through their products to find out what is on sale and for how much - In order to stimulate "impulse buying".  Also, I had a post that was critical of Genesis 9's bending problems deleted.  So censorship is alive and well at DAZ.  

You do realize that you are responding to a question that was asked over 20 years ago.

I need help understanding why DAZ Studio will not load certain body parts in models that have them. Example any male model based on Micheal 4 will not include genitals. Is there a way to fix this or work around it?

thanks

Congratulations to the winners, and thank-you to the judges, who had to work hard due the number of entries!!  

nakamuram posted at 2:09 PM Thu, 16 March 2023 - #4458727

Stargazey posted at 11:10 AM Thu, 16 March 2023 - #4458701

Suggestion for DAZ - Split Genesis 9 into Genesis 9.1F and 9.1M and fix all of the joint bend problems.  Then the product might be successful.

I'd aggree on the split, but the joint bending problems cannot be fixed on G9.
The mesh just doesn't support it, because of the lack of edge loops. G9 is mostly modeled of plain quads, which is pretty much a beginner's mistake.
I have no idea, why DAZ is making such a mistake.
My guess is, they just wanted to save time and ran an automatic re-mesher over their draft shape of Genesis 9.

I remember the hype when Genesis (1) was first released, it never really came off, and Genesis 2 came quite soon after. I suspect that Genesis 9 will also be a bit of a "damp squib" and Genesis 10, when it comes, will go back to separate male and female figures!

Anyway, I've decided enough is enough. I'm sticking with Genesis 8 (and occasionally older figures!) for the foreseeable future, and not investing in Genesis 9 at all. I actually prefer having different male and female base figures and just don't think there are enough advantages of G9 to justify the expense of buying into another "generation"!

Suggestion for DAZ - Split Genesis 9 into Genesis 9.1F and 9.1M and fix all of the joint bend problems.  Then the product might be successful.

To get a full idea of G9, I just purchased the flagship V9 HD, in order to see if G9 is still somehow useful to me.
In fact male G9s might still be useful, but since V9 I would brand G9 for female characters a total fail.
Sausage limbs, joint bend creases resulting from a mindless mesh topology, PBR shaders that force you to crank up your exposure values. 
My DAZ wishlist has shrunk to 4 items, since everything is for G9 now. and I was still hoping for useful hair for G8. Most likeley not happening anymore.
All that's left will be for environments and tools.

I've bought some content for G9 and tried to work with it, but I pretty much only do male characters. G9's breasts have an odd effect that occurs when the are reshaped to look like pec muscles or when flattened out to appear like an undeveloped chest. They look too sharply defined compared to the rest of the musculature in the cleavage and underbreast area, sometimes with a beveled effect. It can be compounded by the texture and normal maps, but the effect can carry through to clothes so it's definitely a shaping issue.  

I don't expect any fixes for it, female characters sell a lot more and I think G9 was made with that in mind.