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This. So much. That would be as silly as creating "Hot" and "Not" categories for characters. I'm not crazy about segregating by ethnicity, either.
I don't use genres for reasons already provided by others. Until tagging is improved, I won't.
What we need is to be able to split out
I rarely find the current ones helpful and almost never use them. I usually find products I want by monitoring the new releases or sales, and if I'm searching for something specific I usually google it, try a few random keywords in the store and if that fails, beg for help in the forums. Should the item happen to fit nicely within a single genre and returns a lot of results I might select that to try to weed out results. Any new genres that get added would likely be used in the exact same somewhat infrequent way.
I personally would not find any of these useful, but don't object to their inclusion. In the past I likely would have found them helpful once or twice when first filling my runtime and not being able to find a good selection. Be aware the first three might generate some flak about why every other race isn't in the list, even if they are useful for those who are looking for those specific three.
There are a number of other search filters I would like to see. Like the last one "staff picks" in the Genre dropdown they aren't actually genres, but just flat out useful filters, and perhaps would benefit from a new column dropdown. Some of the obvious ones would be:
shaders (probably would have been the #1 most useful filter to have had over the years. I'm stuck in the 3DL world so this is less helpful going forward since people seem to no longer be making many new ones, but assuming this could randomly change over the years without compatibility, the subcategory of shader would likely be wanted by others (3DL, Iray, etc.))
props (the store appears to be geared primarily towards people, clothing and architecture, but I'm often looking for objects that aren't one of those three things, and being able to exclude these three items would dramatically speed up the search.) Obviously there will be overlap with a set that includes props as well as clothing or whatever.
environments (see explanation above for props, similar idea, except that architecture might by necessity be included in this category. prebuilt scenes, skydomes, etc.)
There are probably a lot of others that would be helpful I can't think of off the top of my head.
This is a really cool idea! I've long struggled with how to comprehensively categorize 3D content in a meaningful/useful way. And this would go a long way towards accomplishing that. Especailly since accounting for items that could fit in more than one place/time would be a breeze.
I support this but would like to see a category pop-culture, and mid-century or 1940's,1950's added.
I'd also like to say that the "Gothic" genre makes very little sense as-is - the items popping up don't really represent either the Gothic literature / architecture or the Goth subculture.
we get a list and can pick which ones to show... why not an option to hide... like v2, v3, v4.... all the stuff that predates genesis... for instance?
even perhaps a permanent ban list? for our feeds?
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and I don't care what date daz declared something was a different category or whatever...
if it's sort by newest...why do V2 items pop up early in new arrivals than a g+ item... newest arrival sort by sku number?
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yes, a hundred pages of stuff to wade through kinda makes you just stop...
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...yes.
I also would like to see filters for specific categories of content (including "Resources" with possible sub categories of Scripts, Morph/Shape, Skin, Materials) as well given that the store search routine has been so buggered for a while now.
One thing to consider about the filters, especially genre filtres, as oposed to funcionality filters (such as owned/not owned).
Someone has to add the proper genre tags to the products. All the products. See how many there are, by how many PA's. Unless the community can participate and add filters to products.
it would also be helpful i think to filter by compatibilities. Iray, filament. PBR. Both. Old daz, new daz. dforce not dforce. dhair/strand based hair. shaders. lights/hdri.
animals and environments as people have mentioned.
DUF format. Sometimes i buy something and can't find it because I forget to check the "old" runtime. :) probably think of more in time...
The problem is not the lack of genres. It's that everything is so sexualized. Does everything have to be sexy, even when it doesn't fit the genre? I can't use, and don't buy, the majority of fantasy genre items for that reason: Nothing against it, but I'm not making 3D porn here.
I'll be happy when they fix the store search to use the tags we add when uploading our products. (At the moment it still only works if the word is in the title).
Genre categories would be useful too, when browsing, but if a product is already tagged '1920s' and '1920' and '1920's' , then that should cover the search function.
...for a category filter, those tags are already there on the product thumbnail so that should make it reasonably simple to implement, The sub categories would require their own tags..
My 2 cents:
- I don't find "genres" much useful, but increasing their number surely would do no harm - as long as the items are correctly tagged when realesed
- I surely find ABSOLUTELY NEEDFUL the feature of filtering by categories
Woops, posted before finishing!
- For all the filters, being able to use Boolean operators would much improve their usefulness; also, subcategories would be lovely (i.e.e hairs - short/long/updo/semi-updo/braided)
- Anyway, what really would be good would be the possibility to add our own tags and filter by those
- Agree with "look at what Daz Deals plugins offers" suggestion
- Would appreciate a "search by price range" feature
Yes, in principle I find the division into genres useful; subdivisions of existing categories were useful, too. For example, I have subdivided my historical scenes into different folders for historical periods:
++ Prehistoric ++ Antiquity ++ Early Middle Ages ++ Middle Ages ++ Modern times to 19th century ++ 19th century ++ 20th and 21st century.
My subdivisions do not refer only to the periods of the European history. They include everything, no matter if Classical Maya (Antiquity and/or Early Middle Ages), the Merovingians (Early Middle Ages) or the Kingdom of Ghana (Middle Ages).
From the suggested categories, I would find 'Mediterranean or Ancient Greece‘ most helpful.
add:
Anthro Characters...
I honestly don't think I've ever looked at the genre tab, I usually search for what I'm looking for in the search box or I'll use the Artist tab to search for the ones I'm looking for, but if it's not that much extra work to do, there's no harm in doing it for folks that might find it useful.
Hello,
Considering the ethnicity "genre": I'm not a fan.
However, as Daz is often used for story telling, I would like more literature/movie genres and subgenres: e.g. thriller/crime, or as subgenre: horror (zombie, survival, cosmic) etc.
Instead of ethnicity I would suggest a regional/cultural categorization, HOWEVER not based on reality (I mean, DAZ figures are not the most real anyways...) but on stories!
E.g. Asian, African, South American.
African would then not only include figures of color, but also: african animals, safari figures, a Tarzan figures, everything that you would associate with stories playing on the african continent. Of course also environments and props.
Same for e.g. south american. It would not only include mexicans, inca, etc. but also e.g. spanish conquistadors or british scientists.
What I mean with all my babbling: don't categorize products, because it might seem political correct to categorize in certain ways. Categorize products to aid story tellers and artists.
Best regards
Absolutely this and also:
Exactly. 'Story' should be the main focus.
I would like to see the filters
If we take an example... I want to see female Genesis 8 Characters.
I choose People and Wearables->Genesis 8 People->Female and I get 2207 items.
At 60 items per page that is 37 pages and one third of the first 60 results were not characters, but clothing, make-up or even https://www.daz3d.com/the-cat-collection
In principle the store already has tools for sorting and filtering, but when the metadata for the items doesn't really match the item, the situation is not going to improve by increasing categories.
I’d like a sports category. Clothes, sets, poses, etc... Sometimes things are listed under fitness, or gym or exercise or workout or sports or yoga or whatever. And they are all separate and don’t use the same key words. I’d like everything involving workout, gym, fitness, yoga, exercise to be findable under the same key words and maybe a main sports section.
lets filter out textures and poses
its hard to shop with all this stuff
Texture sets!
This would be great, so it would then be possible to see if wishlisted items are included in large & complicated offers where the reduced price is not shown until the correct combination of items lands in the cart - I currently ignore those because there is no way for me to see if any wishlist item is in the offer (DAZ Deals plugin apparently doesn't work on Android 9 Chrome). Though, to be honest, my preference would be to simplify offers to %off and no mix & match.
Having add-ons appear on product pages is definitely needed. And they should appear even if you already own them!
I'd like an Exclusion option - so I can filter out G*F and just see everything else I might buy - some huge sales catagories your can't see anything else for all the G*F. And I am sure others would appreciate excluding out G*M. There are also times when I don't want to see Poses, etc.. So I think an Exclusion options would be useful for allot of us faced with a sales catagory in thousands.
And a way to exclude Starter Bundles when you already own the Pro Bundle.