It would be good to see these improvements to the cloth room:

1. no need to setup animation with a bunch of frames, just have in place simulation at the press of a button
2. after the simulation finishes, add the ability to add inside and outside thickness to the cloth. Basically grow the mesh on one side or the other -- or both.

One of the things that kinda makes the results of the cloth room need more work is that the cloth is infinitely thin so at some angles, it doesn't look that great.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

From what I can see, I think the figure looks very nice in practically every aspect. The only thing that I thought detracted was the eyebrows. They seemed to be flat - someone mentioned this earlier. Maybe adding some type of bump map would help there.

I'm not sure if you would want to consider using the eyebrow portion of the figure added in V4.1 and later IIRC, instead of placing it directly on the face map, since that would allow for easier change to the eyebrow color.

I think that, on the same note, and if it even applies, it would be good for the drapes to be able to match the carpet....

That's just my 2 cents.

This is great news for people who are interested. I'm actually quite productive without genesis, and can't think of a reason why I would want to get it in poser. I think the only things that will get me to consier going back in the DAZ store are:

1. F5 - Figure Gen 5. I would want a unimesh figure that's higher rez than Genesis, intelligently designed, and takes advantage of all Poser Pro 2012 has to offer

2. I don't need DS installed to use it

It would be nice if there were a welcome back discount for all the people that ended their Platinum Club membership because of Genesis.

Ok... back to reality. I think there is going to be a Genesis plug-in for Poser which will use the new features in SR3.

Quote - As the above headline asks. Does anyone know? Cheers

Later this month according to the internet. See page 2.

http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/08/07/smith-micro-bolsters-poser-brand-exclusive-reality-3-partnership-goz-plug-and-exciting-ne?page=0,0

Quote - Yup. It's available for download with user guide and everything :-)

Especial thanks to Basicwiz for writing the bulk of the documentation.

Just wanted to say thanks to both of you.

Specular only lights?

Quote - Yes, you will be able to edit the materials to your heart's desire. One of the main features of Reality is in fact its full-fledged material editor. In fact you will be able to start with the converted material form Poser and then add to the complexity of it as much as you want.

Well, I'm sold. Thanks.

Wow, this new plug-in looks impressive. I'm pretty sure I'll get it.

Will Reality 3 also allow for creating/using any materials I would like to make? Let's say I want to just want to configure the bitmaps in poser, but do my own thing for the rest of the materials in Reality 3... would that be possible?

I like to experiment with different things when going for a specific look, so I'm hoping there is a way to use whatever materials are available in Lux for whatever I want, and manage it all from Reality 3. Maybe the answer is obvious to everyone here, but I don't have DS, nor Reality 2.

I don't think that DAZ sat there when DS4 was released thinking "... okay, and at the end of January, lets make it free for a month." Really? Do people really think this?

I think this is a good move (possibly the only good short term move they can make) for DAZ and their customers. It will be a great way to get people to try their software who wouldn't consider it before, or thought the featureless version that was/is free earlier was lacking too much.

I still think that DAZ would have fared much better if they didn't cut off a chunk of their market in the first place. If DAZ can make a V6 that's truly outstanding and natively takes advantage of all the poser features, then I would reinstate my platinum club membership and get it.

You can always look into using something like Genetica to get you started on textures for your project: http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/genetica.htm.

it looks like you're running into an extreme case of the black spot problem with SSS. Report this to Smith Micro. I still see this black spot problem with sp1.

I think that most people are happy to just look at the images and probably wouldn't have anything to say; however, maybe if you specifically asked for constructive critisim in the description people would leave it.

Looking at just that image in the gallery, I don't get the impression you're fishing for it, and I'd rather not leave unsolicited feedback. I'm sure others have similar thoughts... or maybe they really don't have any feedback and they think it's just fine.

Quote - But they are merged into this one xml file.   Snarly has stated,  "You can have multiple FIGURETYPES within the XML file, so add as many as you need. They must have different names, of course."  So I don't undestand what unnecessary or duplicated effort you mean.  You just add the figures you want into that one xml file.   Having multiple xml files would, on the other hand, be extraneous.

Ok. I misread.

itwould be nice if all these changes could be merged into one file. It would prevent a lot of unnecessary/duplicated effort. That, or allow ezskin to read from multiple xml files.