How not to survive the apocalypse... "survival" bundle content

watchdog79

Richard Haseltine said:

watchdog79 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

watchdog79 said:

In case anyone is thinking of getting the Halcyon outfits and use the male boots on a female in order to not have her wearing the so common bloody high feels, do not even bother.

I tried to use the Halcyon outfit boots for Males on the default Genesis 8.1 Female, and it crashed Daz Studio every time I tried.

If you click the More... button what does it say is causing the crash? Does AutoFit still work for other things?

See attachment, please.

I was able to fit Futuristic Formal Outfit Boots for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Males to default Genesis 8.1 Female without any issues.

That looks to me as if there is an issue with the properties are set into groups - please report this as it may well cause other issues elsewhere.

Done. I added both screenshots and the generated error report.

kyoto kid

Ascania said:

Cybersox said:

I mean, if you're stuck in a situation in a situation where all of the rest of your assets are being cobbled together from scrap, spare parts, and leftovers, exactly what kind of survivors would place their priority on creating snazzy custom matching unIforms with highly intricate decorative trim for both genders? 

 The kind of survivor who faces long evenings without TV.

 

...I haven't had a television since about 2002 when mine blew up one October Sunday afternoon.  Never got another one ans haven't missed it. Dumped cable beforehand as I got tired of paying a bill to have have programmes and films interrupted every ten minutes or so by adverts (that often repeated every other advert segment)..

Ironically I came from the 1960s "television generation" when one of the worst punishments was not being able to watch for a week. 

Crikey, I haven't even been to the cinema in years, mainly because it's just too bloody expensive these days and a lot of the fare today tends to be bad remakes or sequels to sequels. Don't even have subscriptions to Neflix, Paramount, or any other streaming service. 

I actually find television to be a distraction these days when I go to a public place like the corner pub.  I get a lot more important and rewarding stuff done without it.

McGyver

kyoto kid said:

...I haven't had a television since about 2002 when mine blew up one October Sunday afternoon. 
 

Was it the penguin, or did the telly just explode on its own?... Generally it's the penguin exploding what makes the telly look as though it's exploded.

 

kyoto kid

...and yes I actually had a wooden penguin on top of the television that fell off and broke his foot when it happened.  A little superglue and he's been much better since now comfortably standing on one of my bookshelves. 

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Well, the matter of wether this vehicle would be be a good or bad idea to go to a battle in probably also depends on what sort of situations they're likely to use it in.  If its going to be battling its way past other humans with guns and improvised armored vehicles, then its probably not nearly enough protection in it.  If it's being used to battle itself past a pack of crazed zombies in the post-zombie apocolypse, or against weird post-nuke mutated creatures, who aren't going to be shooting back, it would probably be about perfect.  Well, unless the nuke-mutated creatures have great big sharp claws and pincers, at which point you better be a really good at administering the kill-shot before you get close enough for them to deploy their claws on you.

Torquinox

It looks interesting, anyway. Maybe that's all that matters.

Drip

Cybersox said:

I'm used to seeing some rather inane items crop up in the DAZ3d catalog, especially when the term "steampunk" is invoked, but I'm finding it hard to remember anything as completely impractical and counterproductive to the supposed theme ofa bundle as the "Halcyon Fragment Outfits" and the "XI Post-apocalyptic Bomber Truck". 

I mean, if you're stuck in a situation in a situation where all of the rest of your assets are being cobbled together from scrap, spare parts, and leftovers, exactly what kind of survivors would place their priority on creating snazzy custom matching unIforms with highly intricate decorative trim for both genders?  Especially when one also assumes that they either would have to make multiple copies of those outfits or accept the end result of smelling horrifically while sweating under that leather for extended durations.   But as illogical as those outfits are, at least I can hope that they were probably never intended as survival gear in the first place, and that their presentation as such was only due to the fevered imagination of a DAZ marketing person who needed to fill a bundle. 

On the other hand, I can't even fathom what kind of theoretical thought process might decide that using the body of a vintage bomber fuselage as an improvised tank would make sense given that those bombers were notoriously lightly armored in order to maximize their operational range, with the flight crew forced to wear 25 lbs of body armor and steel helmets given the scant protection of the airplane bodies themselves.  And that's before one wonders why said designer would leave the body extending back so far when that would leave the resulting vehicle with poor balance and hindered manueverability, or how, since the engines on the now missing wings are also missing, exactly how the whole massive thing is being powered and steered, let alone where the fuel would be stored... 

I figure the idea of using an airplane body on a truck chassis would be to create some living space. But, at the same time, a regular trailer truck should already provide more than enough space for that purpose, that one could even change the body of a regular trailer and give it slanted sides to increase the thickness of its armor, reducing the internal space, but still leaving enough to include some living space.

But, once people start adding bigger wheels, a wider wheelbase, and a reinforced chassis, I guess it's easy to go overboard with improvements. And then adding an airplane body might seem simpler than building an entirely new body from scratch. For practical purposes, I do believe that in an actual apocalyptic environment, it would be wiser to keep things as small as possible. Box truck size with some extra wheels, upsized engine and reinforced chassis at best. Some military personnel vehicles like the Artec Boxer seem pretty ideal to me. Decent range (650 miles), decent speed (60mph), can go off-road to some degree, armored, spacious for 3 people, but room to carry another 8 (but I'd prefer not to, so it could carry more stuff). If an environment like in Mad Max were real, then these things would be king of the roads.