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UGH! That render is awful! The hair clipping in and out of the cheek looks painful, the eyelid has no texture and something crazy is happening to the nose. Sloppy.
Seems like the scar would be an easy fix for someone with photoshop skills. Its not super big, so the maps could be altered to remove it with ease.
Cut all the maps in half (vertically), then mirror them. Not real fancy, but it would get the job done.
Just to say this: I don't like the Daz new concept which is to make new bundles including older items because I already have many and in the end it is not interesting despite the discounts. I tthink they are for occasional byuers and not for old customers like some of us are.....
Not really interested in the character herself, but the Tara Outfit is really awesome, the amount of details is amazing.
Thanks for this one, and kudos to the people who made it :)
Look at this like the Underbelly bundle, a figure made elsewhere, brought into Daz Studio with some additional thematic items put with it to make a bundle. It's not really Tara 8 despite how it's listed.
As for what happened with Honni 8 it seems like there was a last minute decision to go with a Weird West theme so they bumped a plain looking new outfit to put in an older outfit that added to the theme. It's pretty clear from what happened on release day and the promo images that the change occurred late in the decision making process. Doesn't really look like a sign that they plan to bundle older stuff with new pro bundles going forward, at least not on a regular basis.
A couple of things. The earrings from the outfit don't know exactly where the ears are. Maybe they're just stopping for directions? And the scars on Tara are part of her sculpt. They aren't super noticeable with alternate skins. They're fine imo, and lend a bit of character imo. There are lots of flawless characters, after all.
It's all too confusing for me lol, I got an 8% banner but also the 20% under it
In my cart it's $90.14 (64% off)...$40.14 after credit but also not discounted in the Interactive Licence sale..
Not a lot I can use but $18 for a couple of old pro bundles I wanted may be worth it????? New artists so no idea how light in triangles it might be.
Could someone who's bought it already give me a look at the ctris count for the Tara Outfit? (on the fbx export page)
On a different note, the fact the Tara Fierce Bundle has no Tara content, not even the promo image items beggars belief!
First thing I did, was check how low HD-Addons for other figures go with the world bundle. Around $5.60 for a HD-Addon, not bad really, they rarely go below $11 on other deals, and it's been ages since I saw a "buy X, get Y HD-Addons free" promo.
I just downloaded the Tara World Adventurer Bundle and looked at the materials too. I am attaching a snip of the materials since a picture is not available in the promos. I am surprised the initial discount price is $22.03 for a character and so few options. I mean, the PAs here work their hearts out to provide us fantastic characters with so many options and the characters are released at ranges of $13 to $17.00 approximately. What is going on?
I really like the character, but she's overpriced for a character with no 3DL materials. She's every bit as distinctive as Underbelly, even if she's from a different designer. But the option for 3DL is the major reason why I virtually always buy the offiical DAZ character bases. Underbelly didn't have those either.
And the confusion is deliberate. The newsletter, calls her Tara 8. Nor is that the only place she's called Tara 8. Just about everywhere she's called Tara 8. Except on her own store page, where she is just Tara.
All in all I feel like someone is trying to pull a fast one. And in view of that, I Am Offended.
I am going to pick up the olive trees and shrubs. Those are new content and I'd probably have bought them anyway.
Tara's own bundle I probably will drop into the cart. I'm waffling on the hair a bit, but the fact that it *does* have 3DL options is a selling point. The outfit is hadsome, but reading the list of parts, it doesn't sound a kitbashable as I'd prefer. That the Tara bundle is roughly the price of the character and hair together means that I don't really have to be in love with the outfit, and the texture add-on gets thrown in.
So this is not a pro bundle but more expensive types of bundles. I thought otherwise when I first got the email today.
That would probably also make unwanted seam issues. There are at least four ways of removing a scar like that in Photoshop, all of them quite easy.
Ther are other ways too, I'm sure, but those are all really quick and easy and won't cause unwanted seam issues emerging.
*Edited for formatting.
If you exactly mirror it, there shouldn't be a seam, though. It'll just be a mirror from that point over.
Anyway, similar copy pasta over the different maps, a little erasure on one layer so it doesn't look like a mirror image.
What i like:
The offer (like Honni) with credit returns is nice, a lot better than select DO credit. Now, i'm not a fan of huge bundles because they require too much money upfront.
Both selections items with big discounts are really nice too. If they add a store wide sale that then stacks with this, sweet. And even without it: careful DAZ because you can buy two bundles and the discounts stack. You can add the middle one for 52 (with the 20% discount) and get extra savings for over 70 (only tested a couple, but the more expensive the items the biggest the savings). Considering there are PA items involved, i imagine they would be a little concerned about this.
What i don't like:
Items from other bundles. I agree with OP here. One thing (not really good) is having older items, another is items from other bundles. I think DAZ needs to add an automatic proportional discount for when you already own an item of any bundle past and future. Having only banners on release is not enough because what if in a couple months i want to buy Tasha, Darcy and Tara bundles?
The fixed scar and few mat options. Like others said, price is out of proportion. Most DO numbered characters are already on the too expensive side, but this is insane.
In the middle:
The new outfit, looks fantastic. And i also see the Linday's "inspiration"........maybe too much inspiration(?). Probably is just me but i think owning some (this one in particular) makes this new one not add much.
Most texture artists aren't going to texture in such a way that just copying half the face map and mirroring it wouldn't cause seam issues. There are tonal and skin variations that would cause seams when meeting the other maps (around the head, neck, etc). For most skin sets, just cutting one of the maps in half and mirroring it (with no other modifications) would definitely cause seam issues.
it have 3 bundles, 1 mega bundle with everything, one "medium" with only the "old outfits and props and her "tara small bundle" with her own stuffs (character, hair, outfit, pose and outfit textures), you can choose which one of the 3 you want to buy, the most logic would be buy the big specially if you already owns some of the stuffs from the pack to get more discount".
I had this though; is she a core character or not.
My opinion is that core characters are pricey, with HD an additional pricey extra charge. The character has the cost and an HD but seems to be unsure what they are.
For me its both, but I have this problem also with many expression packs, where sometimes all of the expressions are weird even in the promo renderings. On the other hand, judging by gallery votes many people agree with me on what looks right and what not ...
I like the character, but it is a no go due to the scar.... send it back to the factory for some modifications. Also way too expensive.
But her suit is great.
the problem with this "way of handle" it is which is a "temporary way", it only work for peoples buying it now", later for the party peoples, not gonna have the same discounts, and gonna have to pay the "normal dicounts" later which make then both expensives, in others stores which i know they give the "bundle" discount let's say "forever in the sense which if you already have some pieces of the bundle you can still get a special discount for those stuffs forever in the bundle not just a "single time", which is my issue here, the discount is a single time and you need to already have, if you are planning to buy "later" then you get nothing, for exemple if my credit card not already was "full broken" i could had bought it with some extra pro bundles i'm deep interested in buy, however, i can't do it now and need to wait til next month to come to buy it then for me it not not gonna work then i will enter in the "later for the party" group, my pocket is not a black hole to have endless money to give to daz
, but not just my case but overal, daz really need to add at last a "forever discount" system for cases like that, where if you alredy own something from the pack you aways get a discount for those stuffs.
but for the me big problem still being using stuffs from "another bundles", if it was non bundle old daz stuffs no issues or in worst case only "base characters" from others bundle would be less but also using outits, hairs, expression and others stuffs from another bundles to fill this bundle really looks so wrong for me, again as i'm told i'm not against using "old stuffs' as long they where in the past stand alone stuffs and not part of others packs/bundles creating "new full sets of bundles" would be much costume friendly than put mixing bundles to make a "new bundle.
As someone said above, the Store Credit does no reduce the price. It gives you extra to spend later and some discount to spend more on. It does not make you save any money on the bundle. You still spend the same amount of money. That is the problem for many people - the upfront cost is the same.
I took the approach to use another skin, in this case Georgina HD for G8F from Colm Jackson who is also freckled.
The outfit is absolutely not for simulation and if you are going to simulate hair, I highly recommend 'NOT' putting this outfit on first, except for the hood. It locked my system up bad and took a good half hour to unknot itself. I think the separate parts of the outfit might be kitbashable, just depends on what you are mixing it with.
The hair looks like it was done by AprilYSH based on how the material icons look and the lovely way it behaves. The poses are great for placing the hair before simulation and if you can't use simulation, it would still look good.
The hand pose for the swords, I had to adjust. The fingers went into the handle. But I liked these poses a lot. The swords loaded without their materials, so you have to do it manually.
I bought the Tara only bundle-the outfit is GORGEOUS!
This is an Iray preview of a larger render I have going, I did make a 2nd face option without the scar, just bringing the face textures into Photoshop and using the healing brush to blend it.
I guess I'll see how it looks in the larger final render when it's done ;-)
I do LOVE the character's face and clothing though!
Here's a link to the artist's page that originally modeled her...
https://tristanliu.com/projects/58YQv1
The outfit is gorgeous in parts...I don't go for the whole no pants thing...but I still want it for kitbashing. Funny tho...parts are very similar to Sabriel by Mada -
https://www.daz3d.com/sabriel-outfit-for-genesis-8-females
And just like Underbelly, it's a shame she doesn't translate to Daz-land as nicely as the original.
I suspect that what happened with Underbelly will happen with Tara. There will be a later update addressing areas of concern -- possibly a version of her mat without scar, possibly adding makeup options, possibly dealing with the swords that load without materials, etc. (I wish the update to Underbelly's vest had been a completely separate item. The original vest had his shape burned in, but dForced perfectly; the new version has layered geometry and just explodes if you try. But I digress.)
One thing that won't be addressed, and which annoys the snot out of me with this type of character, is that according to her product page, she appears to be a one-piece single morph. If you want to use her head in combination for another character, her body comes along for the ride, or vice versa.
The parts of her bundles that interest me most ar the vegetation and the lights. (And that is an impressively random set of lights to include with this bundle.) Somehow, I actually have all the previously released clothes, I guess because they were mostly parts of other bundles.
Basically, buying the bundle, after initial outlay and refund, would give me a small price break on the parts of it I actually want. (And yes, that entire purchase/store-credit-refund process makes the most sense if you'd be paying for the bundle through store credit in the first place.)
You're making a dizzying number of faulty assumptions here.
edit: ...wait, aren't you that guy?
Is it just me or is that Tara Outfit not dForce ready?
The outfit has shorts with garters hanging down. The dress covers the shorts pretty completely. As I was adding the items to the figure, I was thinking the dress could fit over leggings or a pair of longer leather pants maybe, or a long skirt? Have to experiment.