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I reloaded just the pants and the buckle came up wonky. No adjustments at all. But, using General Transform Sliders I was able to right it, and move it into place. The belt is not threaded through the buckle at all. Why bother then?
LOL... crickets indeed!
I'm really into Kota. His main promo looks amazing! He is the first male Anime core character I really love. Didn't care much for Kenji or Yuzuru, as much as I wanted to like them. But Kota looks awesome and so do his mixes!
I basically never buy characters when they come out, and I basically never buy bundles. But I made an exception for Kota because I managed to get him, Kayo and Kwan, plus their HD's (plus some other random stuff, some of it useful) for a fairly good price.
Too bad I won't have a chance to try him (and all my other new goodies) for at least a week. Will post here when I finally get to play with him. It will also be the first time I'm using the new PBR skin shader, so I'm looking forward to that!
@certaintree38, I think the clothes are pure Anime/Manga and Rock Star Fantasy from the 1980s. Although there are some guys in my area of Denver, who do wear their pants that tight. Makes me hurt to see them. But so do the girls. Comfortable hasn't quite made it into the stores yet.
Is this ?
65% Kota, 35% Dain (Hard times need Hard Men)
Pigeon from RW Butterfly Wings for G3F.
That combination looks great!
Thanks :)
My brain doesn't process the 60% Kota 60% something else blends, but I like using 65/35 splits.
(There's no reason why you can't have more than 100%, of course, but I just don't like it.)
My feeling about Kota is he fills that anime/ manga/anime niche that people want. For what he is, he seems the best manga male figure we yet have in the store.
His pecs seem a bit... Shelf-like. I'm not sure I like that.
I can't use him, since he is 8.1 but I'd buy him if he were an 8.0 figure.
The tightness of the clothes is totally appropriate for this genre though.
Maaaaaaaan, I really should have checked out last night, when a Torment bundle was included in the free G8 bundles.
Did they take it out? That is what I picked up, the Torment bundle.
Yep, the bundle selection now includes only G8, no 8.1.
https://www.daz3d.com/select-genesis-8-daz-bundles
Wonderful render @theburstoftimes
After debating which bundle to get for free with this, I finally decided on the Return to Treasure Island bundle to get the ship and the skull island set. It's been so long since we got a good free bundle deal it took me a little bit of time to decide lol. But I am so excited for Kota. I've been waiting for another anime type guy character to go with Yuzuru so I'm pumped to start thinking of an anime to do now.
Beautiful.
From the looks of it, I guess I'm going to skip this bundle. Don't like the look of those outfits. :/ I appreciate @memcneil70 and @Serene Night taking the time to show them off.
I noticed when I first looked at it overnight that the bundle selection was pretty good, but the store has been so screwy lately that I figured all the discounts might not be there yet, so I just planned to check out later in the day. I'm surprised they pulled so many. It's fine, I found one I wanted anyway, but yeah, I would like to have picked up an 8.1 bundle instead, since they don't seem to be discounting all that much yet.
I can still find stuff I want in the selection, but not stuff I want as much as I wanted the Torment bundle. The irony is that I had Alternative Shapes for Torment in my cart, but the STOCKIN-UP coupon wasn't working for me, which is a big part of why I didn't check out at the time. Now the coupon works, but I have no use for it if I'd have to pay full(er) price for Torment.
I really wanted to like Yuzuru, but for some reason, I am not a fan. Here is a render of Kota mixed with Torment. I love Torment and I think they look great together. The viewport is much more responsive today than it was last night (even with subd and tail), so I think I might have had a memory leak issue before. Now the problem is that for some reason, the fur on his ears is not rendering. It shows in texture mode and all the parameter settings look right so I don't know what is going on. The Tepes coat also did some strange things because of his ears. Not sure how to fix it. Mesh grabber didn't want to play nice. I might have to be more selective with outfits in the future. OH! One more thing. Can someone explain the difference between the top row of tail materials in the screenshot I included and the two rows below it? Because I can only get the top row mats to work.
Oh, I like this bundle idea!
Just from looking at the pics it seems like the buckle is on a rigid node. Since everything else is bent and the buckle lying flat on nothing it seems and doesn't look to be attached to the belt.
Thanks :) Just having fun with him.
I find the stylized figures a little more approachable, less constrained than others that carry more baggage with them.
Little more freedom to mess around, try different things.
And with that, an Ollie 8 mix :)
65% Kota, 35% Ollie, with 35% Ollie Nose - Small to counter the honker on Ollie.
I went Egyptian, with Curse of Kings (one of my favorites) and the G3M Egyptian outfit.
(Thought of Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator... younger brother and husband to Cleopatra (yes, the famous one). He drowned while fleeing the armies of Caesar and Cleopatra.)
The Blurst of Times interesting! I think Kota mixes really well.
Here is a 90/10 mix of Kota and Juan Carlos. I feel like Juan Carlos overpowers Kota pretty quickly, so I kept him low. Obviously, I got the ears working. I turned down the normals on Kota's skin to .5. He comes pretty bumpy for such a stylized design. But it seems like many characters come that way.
Anyway, Kota is cayute.
Just for fun, I dialed in Yuzuru to 43% and dialed Kota's head down to 80%. I couldn't be happier with Kota and hope we get another bundle with an outfit that would match something like the Maho only for the guys.
I still don't understand why half the tail mats don't do anything. Maybe I will put in a ticket.
idk looks looks pretty accurate to me
The clothes in that image have lots of folds and wrinkles even though they are very tight. There are places where they aren't shrink-wrapped. But the clothes posted earlier look like fondant spread on a mannequin: completely smooth and unrealistic.
All of the tail mat colors work for me... what are you selecting?
Half are for the mesh tail, the other half for the dFur.
Hmmm.... I pulled it back up and I see the issue now. The mats that were working for me are for the tail. But the fur mats are a totally different thing. I didn't realize that I had to load the fur separately. The tail actually looks pretty good by itself. Thanks for indirectly helping.
@gordig Yep. I see that now. Thanks.