So I had 90 daz bucks, and this pack of plugins for Carrara was $99. So since I only have one item on sale there (the rest were just sold outright to DAZ), I figured I needed 2 sales of my MAXDEFAULT scene (ah, the memories...) to get around 12 bucks extra.

So I went to the DAZ Commons Forum and asked that two people buy it. Didn't bs its potential or anything, didn't beg, just asked to be made rich. And I was, overnight, when two brave souls bought the contraption. I was like YAY!

The plugin is called Shaderstyle and it has a lot of neat shader options, such as wireframe overlays, toon output, and most importantly, something called Anything Goos, which is basically a way of adding dirty, scratches and whatever else you want to the model seams. It's really grand, that one, since it effectively makes me save time from having to ps textures. I just mix a normal one and a dirt-and-grind one and voila!

Now that was one good news for the day, I had a diet pepsi, relaxed, played around with it. But then I saw the thing came from digital carvers guild, and i went to investigate. I got a decent price for hte pack from DAZ, I think. But also, I saw Anything Grows! And since I've had a credit card for a while now, I thought I should muck around and see if the site would take it. $39,95 bucks later, I was playing around with hair/grass/whatever I want. It's basically a plugin that generates any sort of shape you either want or prescribe from the scene around and on top of an object. It's really a multi-replicate function around a shape or object you desire (at whichever distance you desire). I thought it was orgasmic.

Share my happiness and outrightly sing with me: BOO TO BRYSTER! DANAMO ROCKS!

That is all :)

drac
(waves to AS)