The one I made didn't show the legs, but all I did was change the diffuse color to a blueish purple in the Surface tab.  Same thing with the rest of the skin.  Yeah, I used the creature creator hoofed legs, but her horns are actually the Troglodyte horns.  (Don't mind the crappy hair painting.  >.>)

The morphing I didn't worry too much about as the legs were covered by a skirt.  But if you're intending on showing more skin, then obviously the torso skin has to blend with the legs.  In my case, I'd take the textures into Photoshop at that point to try and blend them together.

I don't have the advanced D|S 3, but it shouldn't be too different.  If there's an easier way to do this, I'm not sure.  I tend to do workarounds more than anything because I don't have a whole lot of fancy toys.  ;P

debates posting the hypnotic-Hasselhoff-in-a-speedo pic

Nahh, never mind.  I decided I'm not THAT mean.  Nor do I feel like getting banhammered.  ;P

Congo-rats to the new fiancée's!!!

looks around

I have no idea what else is going on in this thread, but I think I'm gonna stick around.  Am I allowed to post creepy speedo pictures too?

Quote - You can use a prop hair and place a few animated hair strands on to it. This way you have a good head of hair, but can still animate some whispy bits.

Why did I never think of this before?  And here I was killing my wrist by painting!

Sueposer, you're awesome.

Hmm, I might try this... just hope I can do well enough!  ;P

Ahh, beat me to it!  ;P

I oughta play with it some, see what it can do.

There is - I had it downloaded somewhere but I've never actually given it a go.  I'll search around for the link and post it.

That is probably true of any 3D program to some extent.

The point is I don't have the scratch to get DS3A, nor do I really have a purpose for it, at least not yet.  If C8 is really supposed to be getting dynamic clothing support, then there's really no point to me getting the advanced version.

Well at any rate, I've pretty much graduated [almost] fully to C7.  I just use DAZ for making my base characters.  But once the character morphs and texturing are done, I do the rest in Carrara.  Only because when I view textures in the Assembly Room the memory is once again atrocious.

I tend to get more memory loss with DAZ 3 (free version) than I did with 2.3.  No, I cannot extract any logic from it.  ;P

I've noticed I get a lot of those problems as well.  Then again, if you were to look at my DXDIAG you'd be scratching your head as to how I can even render to begin with.  I basically have an underpaid, scrawny workhorse doing my eeeeevil 3D bidding.

I don't know what is to blame for this, whether the software or the rig, but whenever I run C7 I very frequently get memory leaks, even when I use the classic workarounds (Remove Unused objects/shaders).  1.) Sigh.  2.) Save.  3.)  Close and reopen.

A while back I found a whole bunch of tips for memory improvements and I compiled them in this thread.  And yes, I've tried the 'pause render' since then, and it does work.

And there's a couple other things I've learned over time:

• Only use high-res textures on models that are close to your camera.  I literally just did this on my last upload, and holy freakin' moo-cow did it make a difference.  It also gives a bit of a faux-DoF effect, which I think is kind of cool ;P
• If you have to go to the modeling room, close that window when you're done.  Sounds simple enough, but I've found many instances where I was lagging, and once I handled that point it seemed to work better.
• Use shaders whenever possible.  If there's a texture map on one of the material domains that gives the piece a metallic appearance, I'll usually replace it with a metallic-type procedural shader.  It might seem like a small improvement, but that stuff can add up over time.

Holy frijoles, I just had 40 GB of space in my Tmp folder!  O.O  Not to mention I almost had to redo one of my recent pictures because of corruption.  I couldn't understand it until now.

bows to the almighty Mark  I really ought to visit these forums more often.

This is good stuff to know.  I sooooo badly want to animate the story I've been posting, but I feel like kind of a doofus when it comes to the whole concept.  ;P

Seeing that bear animation has just rekindled the desire to learn, so we'll see what happens on that front.   hugs her computer  It was nice knowing you.

Quote - C7 wasn't a significant impressive upgrade from 6 (and it was sort of a bug fix patch that we paid for versus got for free).

So I'd heard, but C7 was my first version so I can't really make the comparison.  Plus being new to the 3D field in general (2 years now) I really don't see the point in upgrading right away, especially in a program that I'm still figuring out.  Seems they just want to rush the new releases but that's DAZ for you... not really headline news there.  ;P  Not really complaining, 'cause they have DAMN good deals most days, just pointing out the obvious, I guess.

At any rate, in the end I'm really in no rush to get C8 - if anything my next step would probably be Maya.

I'm with you on the cameras - it's a minor, ongoing peeve for me whenever I use C7.  And I echo the sentiments on the better landscaping, which is swamped by the likes of Vue and Terragen - maybe it's my newbish skill level, but I can't seem to get a decent-looking environment for the life of me, and for what I'm working on I'll be using landscapes more and more.

Dynamic clothing compatibility is always a plus, but it would still mean that I'd have to buy the content for it.  Maybe a way to create dynamic clothing is in order; I don't know how DAZ makes theirs, to be honest, so I don't know how realistic of a request that is.  If C7 can already do this... well then I'm a dum-dum - I've only been using C7 (almost) exclusively for about 6 months, and I'm STILL learning what it can do.

I just hope the update price isn't too hard on the wallet and doesn't set my computer on fire.  If so I may just stick with 7 for now.  There's no point for me to get mondo-upgrades for software if my current system can barely handle what I have.  ;P