Angharad 8

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,953

    Angharad looks to my eyes rather like Bridget 8

    Angharad: https://www.daz3d.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/n/angharad-8-09-daz3d.jpg

    Bridget: https://www.daz3d.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/0/4/04_alt.jpg

    Same height, but Angharad is an inch larger in all the three circumferences quoted.

    I shall not be getting the figure, not because I dislike her, or that she's so close in looks to Bridget (whom I did get - because of the derived figure 'Ellis' not Bridget). Instead it's because I've had a fair bit of involuntry spending recently (need new mower, got to tax the car etc) and as a result voluntary spending has had to be curtailed.  Were I to get her, it'd be because of the derived figure Daenestra, not Angharad.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • RiggswolfeRiggswolfe Posts: 906

    I love her outfits and hair. A bit bummed that the banner is only if you bought stuff yesterday. i did but not from the sale that was going on. Oh well.

  • RiggswolfeRiggswolfe Posts: 906

    So, I just bought her and a decent amount of DO stuff because of the discounts and got a message from Paypal I've never seen before:

    Your payment to DAZ Productions Inc on Jun 10, 2020 is pending 

    To comply with government regulations, PayPal is required to review certain transactions. The payment you sent is currently being reviewed and we will complete this process within 72 hours. This review only involves this transaction and does not affect the use of your PayPal account.

    All of the items are still in my cart after I checked out so not sure what will happen now....

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,185

    So, I just bought her and a decent amount of DO stuff because of the discounts and got a message from Paypal I've never seen before:

    Your payment to DAZ Productions Inc on Jun 10, 2020 is pending 

    To comply with government regulations, PayPal is required to review certain transactions. The payment you sent is currently being reviewed and we will complete this process within 72 hours. This review only involves this transaction and does not affect the use of your PayPal account.

    All of the items are still in my cart after I checked out so not sure what will happen now....

    wow..thats kinda really bad news. 72 hour wait? 

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,185

    anyway, initially my opnion is why do I need this new character. The $10 off is cool, but the overall deal isn;t that compelling. $29.75 isn't too bad for the bundle, but to get qanything else you have to buy the adds, which, other than the too expensive HD don;t do anything for me. 

  • ScarletX1969ScarletX1969 Posts: 587

    When I saw the name, it reminded me of the character played by Maurine O'Hara in the movie, How Green Was My Valley.  I think her name was Angharad.

  • HaruchaiHaruchai Posts: 1,983

    I installed her via DIM and there are lots of thumbnails missing in the materials folders. I have submitted a ticket so there may be an update to the file at some point. Also the character thumbnails (character and HD) have a very 'placeholder' feel to them

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  • MelissaGTMelissaGT Posts: 2,611
    daveso said:

    anyway, initially my opnion is why do I need this new character. The $10 off is cool, but the overall deal isn;t that compelling. $29.75 isn't too bad for the bundle, but to get qanything else you have to buy the adds, which, other than the too expensive HD don;t do anything for me. 

    How did you get the bundle down to $29.75? I get the banner was worth $10, so without that it would be $39.75. That's the price I'm at...but in order to get that, I had to do 4 add-ons. From what you're saying, I should have been able to arrive at that price without the add-ons? 

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,185
    daveso said:

    anyway, initially my opnion is why do I need this new character. The $10 off is cool, but the overall deal isn;t that compelling. $29.75 isn't too bad for the bundle, but to get qanything else you have to buy the adds, which, other than the too expensive HD don;t do anything for me. 

    How did you get the bundle down to $29.75? I get the banner was worth $10, so without that it would be $39.75. That's the price I'm at...but in order to get that, I had to do 4 add-ons. From what you're saying, I should have been able to arrive at that price without the add-ons? 

    yes to that price without add-ons. I also have the $10 off banner. Added two PC+ items, the tiles , and the car textures. Brought it down to $29.75.  I'm going to delete something to see what happens, but it looks like its combining the PC+ sale discounts. 

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,185

    the sale over all I said was not compelling ..$15 off the categories for buying 4 adds gives you 1 product per category, as the pricing is set that most will put you over the $15 mark, so then youj end up leaving a lot of $$$ on the table unused. 1 free product is 1 free product, but overall the deal for this pro bundle not that good. 

  • Daz Jack TomalinDaz Jack Tomalin Posts: 13,509
    Haruchai said:

    I installed her via DIM and there are lots of thumbnails missing in the materials folders. I have submitted a ticket so there may be an update to the file at some point. Also the character thumbnails (character and HD) have a very 'placeholder' feel to them

    It's been investigated :)

  • RiggswolfeRiggswolfe Posts: 906
    daveso said:

    So, I just bought her and a decent amount of DO stuff because of the discounts and got a message from Paypal I've never seen before:

    Your payment to DAZ Productions Inc on Jun 10, 2020 is pending 

    To comply with government regulations, PayPal is required to review certain transactions. The payment you sent is currently being reviewed and we will complete this process within 72 hours. This review only involves this transaction and does not affect the use of your PayPal account.

    All of the items are still in my cart after I checked out so not sure what will happen now....

    wow..thats kinda really bad news. 72 hour wait? 

    That's what the email said. I don't know who to reach out to or what caused it to flag. From looking at Paypal forums most of the time it seems to be some random word in your purchase triggers an algorithm. But usually those words have to do with stuff that, shall we say, is politically troubling. So unless one of the DO characters in my cart is a code name for some bad organization or something I have no idea what caused this.

  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,504
    Nath said:
    nemesis10 said:

    This could be most unpronounceable bundle so far! I get the theme, but, geez. 

    Her skin looks off. Like the normal and bumps are way too high, and it just doesn't look right. Daisy has more realistic skin, and she's supposed to be the fairy.

    The EXzela hair looks nice, its about the only item that peaks any interest for me. Though Daenestra (these names are wack) is nice, too. EXzela is elegant, yet still practical hair, and looks better than most dforce hairs. However in this promo pic here you can see it is conforming to something it shouldn't be, which I thought dforce was supposed to prevent from happening. 

    That might be something that could be dialed out, I don't know. This hair lists no regular morphs, so its strictly dforce only. That is a serious drawback in my book, as I like the utility of being able to just use it without dforce sometimes. One thing though, the promos of Angharad for EXzela are much more appealing than the promos on her own product page, so maybe there is hope for her.

    The offer is ok, its basically a repeat of Daisy's, and I am guessing the purple banner will also repeat Daisy's. But this model looks much weaker overall. Some of the bundle items prop her up slightly, but I feel like I have seen these outfits before. 

    Buyer fatigue is setting in. You are playing a dangerous game Daz.

    As someone of Afro-Welsh ancestry, i have to ask what is hard about Ang (as in sang) plus Har (like hard without the d) plus ad (like add): Ang Har Ad.  It means "much loved one".

    It's probably hard if you're a monolingual American angel

    I am an American who speaks only English but it isn't any harder than Idaho.

  • Yeah, $39.74 in my cart with 4 add-ons is adequate. Not the deepest discount I've ever seen, and not the most shallow discount I've seen on a new pro bundle.

    I don't NEED fantasy as I was leaning towards science fiction with my next project. (Why don't we get this kind of look in science fiction? I really end up kitbashing dark fantasy with Midnight Stories, most of the time, because gritty sci fi does not seem to be of much interest to artists?) I'm more likely to use these outfits than Sahira's bundle, and people seemed to love that one.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,185

    having said what I've said, I do end up with total of 18 items in my cart for $65. plus the 10 more in the pro bundle. Overall $2.32 each. BUT ... I don;t have $65. Well, that was a nice game to go with the morning coffee. 

  • WolfwoodWolfwood Posts: 787

    What a horrible sale. Yes, i mean it.

    Usual price for PC memebers (outside this PC+ sale month) of New Pro Bundle + 4 (cheaper) addons: $66

    Same on the sale: $57, that is only $9 less. This sale has a base of 45% DO discount instead of 30%, additional 15% on debut/still new + 10% for buying 2+. And all that only translates in mere $9 (less than 15%). Very little benefit for a release during PC+ sale. So let's see the other benefits.

    5xSelect Gen8 for 1.99 each. What? I even have to spend more? Why not free? Those same were literally FREE on daisy sale.

    All the others $15/$30 off. Wow, what a horrible and limited selection. People complained of the selection on last sales, i think this one is way worst, by a LOT (and i'm really new here). On top of that, ALL items are only with DO base discount, that is very little and because of the PC+ sale chances of getting a nice big extra general DO discount are very slim. It even looks like the items were carefully selected to not stack with PA rotation.

    And the cherry to top this. No banner for owning many G8 Pro bundle. Yes, i got the $10 off but i was expecting to get a similar discount like daisy sale too. We actually pay for the $10 so its benefit is less than that.

    Daisy was a proper sale, this one is BS. Sadly i could have used the items of this bundle more. Functional boots, sweet! The main character, so so; but Daenestra, really nice. Too bad, but $47 is just too expensive for me without getting more benefits. The extras on a debut character sale are what makes me pay more for a new release and this one offers very little to nothing.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,343

    She reminds me of Kat Slater from East Enders but with a shorter face (which Bing tells me is played by Jessie Wallace). Probably just the makeup & hairsyles reminding me though.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,343

    I'd say that name Angharad as Ang-grid in my accent and leaned when I was in Grantham that it's not pronounced Grann-um but Grant-Ham, I'm like OMG my tongue can't even do that, which the train ticket sales lady took much delight in correcting. laugh

  • MelissaGTMelissaGT Posts: 2,611
    daveso said:
    daveso said:

    anyway, initially my opnion is why do I need this new character. The $10 off is cool, but the overall deal isn;t that compelling. $29.75 isn't too bad for the bundle, but to get qanything else you have to buy the adds, which, other than the too expensive HD don;t do anything for me. 

    How did you get the bundle down to $29.75? I get the banner was worth $10, so without that it would be $39.75. That's the price I'm at...but in order to get that, I had to do 4 add-ons. From what you're saying, I should have been able to arrive at that price without the add-ons? 

    yes to that price without add-ons. I also have the $10 off banner. Added two PC+ items, the tiles , and the car textures. Brought it down to $29.75.  I'm going to delete something to see what happens, but it looks like its combining the PC+ sale discounts. 

    Thanks - I was able to get that to work for me. Now the question is...save money now and not get the add-ons, or get the add-ons and spend more now when I know I'll end up buying them later? There are a few outfits from the bundle I like, and the textures as well (Ninian and Crimsoneye). The HD add-on, though expensive as always, is also a good HD add-on. Decisions...decisions...

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    I'd say that name Angharad as Ang-grid in my accent and leaned when I was in Grantham that it's not pronounced Grann-um but Grant-Ham, I'm like OMG my tongue can't even do that, which the train ticket sales lady took much delight in correcting. laugh

    https://forvo.com/word/angharad/

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,680

    I wouldn't get too caught up on the name denoting any sort of theme. It just looks like the name was chosen because it cool. Her style is a sort of fantasy/warrior/goth. I'm not into that sort of thing, but she seems the typical red-faced thin-browed impossible-fantasy-corset-garbed DAZ girl.  The interesting thing about her, is she has a petite kind of real world build. 

  • Joe2018Joe2018 Posts: 266
    Haruchai said:

    I installed her via DIM and there are lots of thumbnails missing in the materials folders. I have submitted a ticket so there may be an update to the file at some point. Also the character thumbnails (character and HD) have a very 'placeholder' feel to them

    It's been investigated :)

    Same on my system also with the HD Add-On and the Angharad Hair - all other look fine.

  • MelissaGTMelissaGT Posts: 2,611

    Ok so cart refresh and apparently the Pro Bundle is no longer on sale at all... *sigh*

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,558

    They're probably fixing it to get rid of the Fiat...

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310

    Ok so cart refresh and apparently the Pro Bundle is no longer on sale at all... *sigh*

    That's unfortunate.

    BTW, I especially like the Monique combination here, but the others are also very good.

  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,977

    what happened to the sale?

  • JUJUJUJU Posts: 1,131

    I have no purple banner this time at all indecision And the cart is changing every refresh? I think I wait a little longer.....

     

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,310
    edited June 2020
    Chohole said:

    I'd say that name Angharad as Ang-grid in my accent and leaned when I was in Grantham that it's not pronounced Grann-um but Grant-Ham, I'm like OMG my tongue can't even do that, which the train ticket sales lady took much delight in correcting. laugh

    https://forvo.com/word/angharad/

    This seems pretty good and authentic.  It jives with the BBC site.

    This other site has two and the first one sounds really poor, while the second is much better.

    Post edited by Sevrin on
  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,848

    what happened to the sale?

    My guess would be that they just updated the product to fix the problems with the bundle content, so the pricing rules need to be reapplied.

  • JUJUJUJU Posts: 1,131

    It is really a pity, that the PC+Monthly Coupon doesn't work. I have the Starter Bundle and an Add on and 2 selected G8 in the cart and if I try to use the Monthly Coupon it only good for a change from 34.88$ to 31.43$ .... there is no freebie in the cart....shouldn't teh Coupon work with the full 6$?

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