@primorge .. Sorry to go off topic.. but that is a cool looking freebie, may I ask where (if) it can be gotten?

I try to use LF and LH, but to be perfectly honest, neither has the type of content I use for renders (historical/fantasy/armor) so it's hard to have anything beyond portrait renders. If that were to change and I didn't have to try and convert V4 stuff for them, I'd use them more often. I have a lot less time these days to tinker.

bwldrd posted at 9:53PM Fri, 10 September 2021 - #4427146

@primorge .. Sorry to go off topic.. but that is a cool looking freebie, may I ask where (if) it can be gotten?

Sharecg. Recent, DS first page I guess. Steampunk Heart or something. Just be aware that you'll have some smoothing artifacts with it unless you subdivide or mess with crease settings. Depends if you are using IDL probably. Not sure if it would be an issue in Superfly, I only did a very fast low quality IDL render. Some of the edges don't have much in the way of control loops so Poser smoothing will be finicky. Being that it's a prop you could very easily add a few loops here and there where necessary in a modeler with very little effort, that would fix it right up and not effect the UVs at all.

Aside from that very nicely modeled freebie...

Rhia474 posted at 10:00PM Fri, 10 September 2021 - #4427147

I try to use LF and LH, but to be perfectly honest, neither has the type of content I use for renders (historical/fantasy/armor) so it's hard to have anything beyond portrait renders. If that were to change and I didn't have to try and convert V4 stuff for them, I'd use them more often. I have a lot less time these days to tinker.

Same. LF has mostly impractically skimpy dresses. Contemporary or pinup wear, which I don't have a lot of use for. I'm also not wild about most of the textures available for her. Or for L'Homme. Not enough variety. And not pretty enough. I prefer a slightly idealized look.

Perhaps the biggest issue for me is that there's not enough morphs. It's hard to get a likeness with their available morphs. Clothing is really the least of it. :-/

@primorge TYVM :)

_"Heh. Fairylicious is 61% off right now. I think the old stuff goes on sale pretty regularly, but you have to check. (I usually check when I'm bored at work. Or over the weekend, when they always have sales.) There will probably be a yuuuge sale on Black Friday, but mostly, they alternate between DAZ originals and published artists, so everything's not on sale at once. And they have "theme" sales - fairies, SF, Asian stuff, etc.

As for La Femme...I haven't a clue. It's occurred to me that if Dawn 2 is a success, they might just go with her as their flagship figure. Though I like La Femme because she's made for Poser. I don't care for L'Homme. His shoulders are just too weird. And his lats are weirdly sharp.

And neither of them really have enough support to let me give up V4 and M4." _ Lol ;)

In all seriousness though, I've been making things for La Femme, textures, makeups, and morphs, off and on, for over a year now. I haven't really shown any of it. If these "knock off" images, below, of quick demo or joke morphs are any indication, imagine the things I have for her made with serious intent. For me variety or peculiarity or having content isn't really a concern, I have a bunch of outfit (crossdresser and just external modeler refits) and hair refits made and I'm still at work on all of these things. And not all of it is "crazy shit". I do have a fondness for gothic, horror, sci fi, and fantasy though. Prettiness very easily fits into those scenerios. Haven't really used L'Homme much. Never invested in the pro package.

I imagine I'll take all this stuff and start making serious renders (at least what I consider serious) soon enough... Itching to do so really. In the meantime I really enjoy tinkering with the figure, so most of my time is spent outside of Poser and returning to test and set up files.

Anyway, thanks again for pointing me to DSF Toolbox Kalypso and Randym77, very very useful.

Sorry for the awful formatting above. Posting via mobile here is excruciating.

Most dforce hair produces an obj indistinguishable from rigged hair, which goes to show how fake a lot of dforce stuff is in terms of “dynamics.” . There are exceptions to the rule, such as Biscuit’s, that start out looking like a spread mop. I have not found these to work in the cloth room. Also stay away from anything that is fiber mesh or uses geo shells.

Interesting. So some dForce hair will work via DSF Toolbox?

I just tried it on a dForce dress. Littlefox's Rainboo dress. I didn't expect the textures to work, but they do. Somewhat, anyway. I had to manually apply them, and there may be some DS-only elements (there were a bunch of texture files). It's a dress meant for a very young child, but I put it on an older figure.

The OBJs did come in really yuuuuuge. Like, the main camera was inside the garment, and it took me awhile to figure out what was wrong. (Does this mean DAZ has given up on Poser's absurdly tiny scale?) And I suspect the modeling isn't ideal for Poser. There was some crumpling during the sim (like at the back of the dress). Messing with the cloth dynamics controls would probably help.

I'm not wild about the A-pose dForce uses. Makes it harder to fit it to other figures.

Uncheck all options when u import the OBJ file... the scale and origin of the hair is just perfect... well almost some very fine tuning really

I didn't have to scale either hair, they were in perfect size.

Scale with DS is a bit strange, some props come in gigantic... I usually check 'percent as standard figure size' set at 100 and then adjust from there. Hairs and stuff I translate and scale to roughly and then refit in Blender or Mudbox sometimes adding additional morphs.

primorge posted at 7:48AM Tue, 14 September 2021 - #4427381

I usually check 'percent as standard figure size' set at 100

That's exactly why it's gigantic... uncheck ALL options when importing to preserve the original prop dimensions and location.

I was talking about the single prop I've converted from DS to obj so far. When I imported at its default scale it was larger than the scene lol. Similar deal when importing anything from max or maya. Gigantic. Percent of standard figure size just makes it so it's about the size of a figure so I can see it.

Haven't converted any daz hairs yet, pictures above are a Poser v4 hair being fit to LF.

BTW twiz, remember when some guy named Eldritchcellar lectured you on leaving all the options unchecked during import?

That was me lol.

TwiztidKidd posted at 7:44PM Tue, 14 September 2021 - #4427385

primorge posted at 7:48AM Tue, 14 September 2021 - #4427381

I usually check 'percent as standard figure size' set at 100

That's exactly why it's gigantic... uncheck ALL options when importing to preserve the original prop dimensions and location.

Thanks, that does seem to work. At least with this particular dress.

primorge posted at 9:08PM Tue, 14 September 2021 - #4427424

BTW twiz, remember when some guy named Eldritchcellar lectured you on leaving all the options unchecked during import?

That was me lol.

I knew it was you when you posted va-Gface lol... and thank u so much for that tip, it works out perfectly every single time lol