White Priestess 8.1 discussion

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  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255

    No clue what a "WoW NPC" is, but personally I'm thrilled we finally have an all powerful, elf-eared character with horns and laser beams coming out of her eyes. I just hope she comes with a sword. 

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited March 2021

    ebergerly said:

    No clue what a "WoW NPC" is, but personally I'm thrilled we finally have an all powerful, elf-eared character with horns and laser beams coming out of her eyes. I just hope she comes with a sword. 

    I'm not detecting any irony at all.

    I rarely buy, fantasy bundles (this might be the first), but she appealed for some reason.

    I'm not a Wow fan, so if I'd got that vibe, I'd have been more likely to not buy.

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  • HylasHylas Posts: 5,070

    Toyen said:

    I really like her. :)

    Gorgeous! She reminds me a bit of Lilith 7 here.

  • ToyenToyen Posts: 1,915

    Hylas said:

    Toyen said:

    I really like her. :)

    Gorgeous! She reminds me a bit of Lilith 7 here.

    The head morph is actually 75% White Priestess and 50% Tasha 8 :)

  • JeniMorrisJeniMorris Posts: 147

    Oh I love her face here!

    Toyen said:

    I really like her. :)

  • JeniMorrisJeniMorris Posts: 147

    Oh gorgous! The gold tones and lighting are beautiful!

    Kaye Kaye said:

    I'm liking her, too :)

  • NerevarineNerevarine Posts: 177

    ebergerly said:

    No clue what a "WoW NPC" is, but personally I'm thrilled we finally have an all powerful, elf-eared character with horns and laser beams coming out of her eyes. I just hope she comes with a sword. 

    A non-playable character, in the game World of Warcraft. It is identical makeup, ears, and brows to World of Warcraft, so me and my pals are in agreement it's too WoW-esque for us, sadly. Nowhere near as bad as the Sylvanas rip, luckily! I am happy to see a strong elven female, I was just a smidge miffed about the WoW thing! :)

  • I bought the Whie Priestess enchantment bundle, just spent 5 hours installing, updating, deleting, reinstalling and can get pretty much nothing in the bundle to work.

    The figure itself looks great in the preview, but renders as a completely white no textures figure.

    Bellinia only works for Gen 8, loads stock figure for 8.1

    Sylverin hair goes to an "obtaining data from Daz Connect" and hours later still hasn't installed.

    This has been the worst prduct I've ver bought from Daz or Renderosity.

    Has anyone else had similar problems?  Is it just a server issue with Daz?

    Or maybe some idea what went wrong and how to fix it?

    Is there a better way to install this corrently other then the in Studio Install option to make this work?

    Barring that, is it possible to get a refund on this?

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 4,314

    Submit a Customer Service request and you can request a refund. They are very helpful on that issue.

    I downloaded through DIM yesterday without issue. Her hair, again showed up in Lost and Found, with only the Hair itself with metadata. I don't remember any other product in the bundle or the add-ons having an issue that was unusual, but I haven't had a chance to take her and the bundle out to play with.

  • Mark_e593e0a5Mark_e593e0a5 Posts: 1,599

    Her hair, again showed up in Lost and Found, with only the Hair itself with metadata. 

    I suppose they have a ge neral issue at DAZ creating the metadata for AprilYSH hair. I had that each and every time when buying any AprilYSH hair. And no, it is NOT the PA's fault. Metadata is created by DAZ during the QC and release process (perhaps that is why it is borked so many times). 

  • RenderScot3DRenderScot3D Posts: 167
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  • JeniMorrisJeniMorris Posts: 147

    WOW! Gorgeous!!!!

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  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,986

    @JeniMorris I saw at the beginning of this thread you worked on the textures and think the character looks fantastic, but I'm hoping you can help me here, and I'm sorry if this has been beaten to death elsewhere. I'm just so confused at the shaders for 8 and 8.1 and what to do because I think I recall in one thread you had to do that for the 8.1 base model, but not Victoria 8.1, that she was already set up for it. And so if that's the case, is it that way for all 8.1 characters like the White Priestess? Please note I could be way off about that, there was so much information in those first 8.1 threads being thrown around. So when I load the White Priestess into my scene, do I need to first go and apply the PBR shader to her, or is that already done and I just need to apply whatever eyelashes/eye colors/etcetera to her? Thank you for any and all help! 

  • memcneil70 said:

    Submit a Customer Service request and you can request a refund. They are very helpful on that issue.

    I downloaded through DIM yesterday without issue. Her hair, again showed up in Lost and Found, with only the Hair itself with metadata. I don't remember any other product in the bundle or the add-ons having an issue that was unusual, but I haven't had a chance to take her and the bundle out to play with.

    I'm planning on installing DIM or DC today and try re-installing through those to see if that helps. 

  • Okay, so my hunch was right.  White Priestess IS a new Genesis 8.1 character, like Torment 8.1.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,041
    edited March 2021

     

    The first one is literally “out of the box” just a slight expression and default HDRI lighting, the second one is some  post tweaking on an iPad. I am not thrilled with her morph, expressions look awful on her, can’t get a good smile on her but I rarely, if ever, use characters as is, so I’m fine with reducing her morph quite drastically but I still don’t know how to make the 8.1 shaders look good even with Morris’s nice skin. I’m still not a fan of of G8.1 at all and don’t see any advantage to the new shaders. Luckily I never do straight renders and everything can be fixed or made artistic easily with postwork.

     

     

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,837

    benniewoodell said:

    @JeniMorris I saw at the beginning of this thread you worked on the textures and think the character looks fantastic, but I'm hoping you can help me here, and I'm sorry if this has been beaten to death elsewhere. I'm just so confused at the shaders for 8 and 8.1 and what to do because I think I recall in one thread you had to do that for the 8.1 base model, but not Victoria 8.1, that she was already set up for it. And so if that's the case, is it that way for all 8.1 characters like the White Priestess? Please note I could be way off about that, there was so much information in those first 8.1 threads being thrown around. So when I load the White Priestess into my scene, do I need to first go and apply the PBR shader to her, or is that already done and I just need to apply whatever eyelashes/eye colors/etcetera to her? Thank you for any and all help! 

    If a character uses the PBR shader it will be applied with the character's materials, there's no need to apply it separately.

  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,986

    Leana said:

    benniewoodell said:

    @JeniMorris I saw at the beginning of this thread you worked on the textures and think the character looks fantastic, but I'm hoping you can help me here, and I'm sorry if this has been beaten to death elsewhere. I'm just so confused at the shaders for 8 and 8.1 and what to do because I think I recall in one thread you had to do that for the 8.1 base model, but not Victoria 8.1, that she was already set up for it. And so if that's the case, is it that way for all 8.1 characters like the White Priestess? Please note I could be way off about that, there was so much information in those first 8.1 threads being thrown around. So when I load the White Priestess into my scene, do I need to first go and apply the PBR shader to her, or is that already done and I just need to apply whatever eyelashes/eye colors/etcetera to her? Thank you for any and all help! 

    If a character uses the PBR shader it will be applied with the character's materials, there's no need to apply it separately.

    Awesome, thank you so very much @Leana. I just had to laugh when 8.1 came out because I had literally just started to understand how materials worked. I can sit down and figure out 8.1 stuff but I wasn't sure what the starting point is for bringing in characters. Glad to know I can import the characters in and it's set up with the proper shading. 

  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,977

    This is a very versatile character.  I love the skin

     

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  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,057

    ALLIEKATBLUE said:

    This is a very versatile character.  I love the skin

     

    I LOVE her head morph! Thanks for showing another side, ALIEKATBLUE! 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is SASE Merida for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Females a true 8.1 character?

    texture maps.head?  morphs in the 8_1 data folder?

    the product pages don't give the necessary information.

  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,986
    edited March 2021

    She's awesome. 

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  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,977

    Mystiarra said:

    is SASE Merida for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Females a true 8.1 character?

    texture maps.head?  morphs in the 8_1 data folder?

    the product pages don't give the necessary information.

    I got Merida in 2019 from Rendo.  I don't see that the materials were updated according to the readme.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ALLIEKATBLUE said:

    Mystiarra said:

    is SASE Merida for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Females a true 8.1 character?

    texture maps.head?  morphs in the 8_1 data folder?

    the product pages don't give the necessary information.

    I got Merida in 2019 from Rendo.  I don't see that the materials were updated according to the readme.

    Thank you.  

  • JVRendererJVRenderer Posts: 661
    edited March 2021

    A quick n dirty render of the White Priestess. I've done some kitbashing. Sorry, I like the darker side of things...

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  • digitelldigitell Posts: 577
    edited March 2021

    j cade said:

    A bundle with not one, but two fantasy dresses??!!

     

    count me in!

    and a v quick render

    Ohhhhhh..What outfit is that you have her in. Beautiful!

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  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,837

    That's the Silver Elf outfit from the first bundle, with one of the textures from the add-on.

  • MimicMollyMimicMolly Posts: 2,211
    edited March 2021

    I got her yesterday because I own Aubrey 8, so it worked out to just grab the base. Decided to mix and match her makeups, and her eyes.

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  • rafidewrafidew Posts: 180

    Finally had a chance to try the character.
    Really interesting morph, and the makeup options are just gorgeous!


     

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