How much money do you spend every month in Daz?
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How much money do you spend every month in Daz?
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Too much is the typical answer.
More than any technically sane person should.
OTOH, according to the DAZ Deals Browser add-on, I've paid just a shade over 29% of current list - and I know some bundles I bought years ago aren't in the store anymore.
To amplify, without really embarrassing myself - in the 13 years I've spent enough money to purchase a really nice car or a couple of very good ones - and the list price would have paid for a nice 3-bedroom 2 bath house with a finished basement in Northern Indiana.
It depends on the new content and/or the discounts.
For example: if Kenji 8 is released the next week I'm ready to spent up to $200. If it's a new female figure it will be $0.
It depends. There have been months, when I've used close to $300 and months, when I've used $0. I think, it's usually around $30.
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It depends on what is released. Some months though, way too much.
Me too. Except that I've only been at this for about 21/2 years....I will say that in the last 6 month my spending has dropped by at 75% though and I am buying far far less than when I was. Good thing its tax dedectuble for me...
I still habitually check for new content every morning. Mostly because I have been waiting for 2yrs for a certain outfit to appear and every morning is like Christmas before you come down stairs. Unfortunatly every morning is also like coming down stairs and finding out the Grinch was there.
But even with that, i'd still put myself at about $200 a month. Which is not really a good number now that I see it in print. I have dialed back lately and limited myself only to NEEDS not wants.
Less than what it costs me to smoke cigs. But I recommend picking a generation of figure models and sticking strickly to it for a couple of years. I kept trying to upgrade to the newest models at first and deck the genesis figures out with morphs and make-up and things and I missed getting things like poses, lights, places to pose them in. I am still working with G3F and I can decide to deck out a male or fill in the holes in my content. I can't afford a new car every year just because they make a new one either. Also getting things from the platinum club saved me tons. Being a PC member makes a huge difference in how far your money goes here. Also I have spent some time looking at cheap ways to edit textures and things to make more out of less. I recently rediscovered Krita which is a great alternative to pay painterly programs and totally free. I use Photoshop Elements instead of subscribing to photoshop cc. If a job is too big or difficult for Elements or Adobe removed a function I need, I use Gimp as my fallback. Having Elements lets me use all the free Photoshop add-ons over on deviantart, brushes etc. and that's the reason I still have Elements at all. I have never actually learned to use Blender, but it is free. I did pay for Filter Forge on sale cheaper than a fresh copy of Elements and I use it lots for Photo Filters and making weird textures. A new tutorial from Dreamlight showed me a great site for stock resources for backgrounds and I picked Krita to trace or paint over them in. If you buy only what you need for a render, you will save tons. If you need a large library of items to feel free to create things in multiple genres, well that can get spendy. But I do this hobby without insane spending and over the years my library has grown to about 2000 items, and a ton of texture resources. The shopping has slowed as I get a grip on what I have and try to find to time to render more of it.
I've yet to, I don't know yet what I want, theres just a ton of stuff
You could help yourself with buying yourself a gift card (best when they are on sale) with the amount you're ok to spend, and that has to last until there is money free again for the hobby. using the wishlist wisely helps as well. A taktical PC membership lasting for the upcoming great PC anniversary sale will help to provide you with a great base of things at a really good price (plus lots of free stuff)
$50 is about average. I spent way more than that during the recent PA sale though. I decided not to look as long as I can still eat and pay my bills. :)
I'm scared when I think about how much I've spent during these two months! Then again, I'm still just starting out, and I needed a lot of basically everything. So far, I'm actually mostly sticking to Genesis, plus good old Victoria, because that's where the affordable stuff is. They're more than good enough for my purpose, which is illustrations for story-telling. So what if they don't pose as perfectly as Genesis 8?
My wishlist is another matter entirely. Loads and loads of G8 and 3 stuff on it.
I returning to 3D art from the days of Metecreations Bryce and Poser 7. I used to author video games in Macromedia Director. All that is gone and those files are lost. Discovering DAZ Studio has brought my 3D dreams back to life! Now I am a sci-fi content "junkie'' trying to shake the habit of binge shopping. I litterally have gone through 420 pages of DAZ content and have bouhgt at 65% of the sci-fi content. I've even discovered products that don't work (refunded of course). That hasn't stopped me yet. I do agree that the wishlist helps to tamper down the buying impulse. What is keeping me in check, is realizing i will never be able to use all of these products simply due to the time it takes to render them. I have basically bought content to keep me busy for the rest of my natural life! Cheers and enjoy your craft! You only live once!
Too darn much!