Tropical Beach by Dekogon Studios

Greebo

ChallyII said:

I really hope DAZ+ exclusives don't become a thing. I don't like the idea that I can only buy a product if I pay a subscription fee. It doesn't make me want to get DAZ+, it makes me want to shop elsewhere.

+100

WendyLuvsCatz

I have all the palms I will ever need from here and elsewhere too including coconut palms

My 3D library biome seems very palm heavy for some reason.

cough cough, CGaxis, Xfrog ...

MeneerWolfman

Praxis said:

 

My biggest problem for "Tropical Island" sets is finding a realistic Coconut Palm model for DAZ Studio:  The most realistic palms I've found so far at DAZ are in https://www.daz3d.com/tropical-palm-trees-for-daz-studio: they are nice realistic-looking, high-resolution  palm trees, but... although they are called "Coconut Palms" in the product description, they are definitely not Coconut Palms.  All the other "Coconut Palm" products offered by DAZ are either 'Toon trees or suitable only for distant use.  This latest Tropical Beach product is no exception, and is certainly not going to tempt me to renew my PC+ subscription.  Also, Coconut Palms have... Coconuts - but none of these seem to.

Highly recommend this product: https://www.daz3d.com/tropical-nature-pack-1​

This has both cococnut trees with nuts and separate green coconuts you can use as a props by themselves.. 

Praxis

MeneerWolfman said:

Highly recommend this product: https://www.daz3d.com/tropical-nature-pack-1​

This has both cococnut trees with nuts and separate green coconuts you can use as a props by themselves.. 

Thank you for the suggestion.  The separate coconuts are useful, and look quite realistic, but I think the coconut palms themselves are a bit cartoon-ish.  I have https://www.daz3d.com/tropical-lagoon by the same PA, but have never used it - for the same reason.

The most realistic coconut palm I currently have is a heavily-modified version of a model from CGTrader:  The tree next to the human in the attached HDRI-lit image.  Even then, I'm looking for something more realistic still.  (I've spent a lot of time around coconut trees, so I'm very fussy about their details ).

 

nonesuch00

Daz Jack Tomalin said:

nonesuch00 said:

It must be the most expensive DAZ+ item yet. Or are DAZ+ exclusives considered luxury items a step above in quality then the regular new PC+ items?

As I said prior, it's essentially an exlusive Daz Original

It's actually one of the cheaper ones, 2 released earlier were a little more expensive.  Both were among the highest sellers of the year, so they are popular with a good chunk of the membership.

OK, thanks. It is detailed but I was a bit nervous regular PC+ pricing was headed in this direction or release of new PC+ items would slow to a trickle in favor of DAZ+ exclusives.