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The big announcement on September 21, 2022 - place your bets!

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  • Catherine3678abCatherine3678ab Posts: 8,386
    edited September 2022

    There are some good ideas in here so far, and some ideas one really shouldn't give the company!

    .........................

    There's a free giveaway for watching the video ... Rawart is hoping for a release SO, given that when Genesis, which was an amazing jump forward for 3D, was provided a free Gorilla [temporary offer], I'm going to suggest "maybe" Genesis 9 and a free RawArt special something [hopefully for both genders]. Genesis 9 of course requires D/S5.003.045.2 [or something like that], will be the best still rendering program on the market AND also very good at animating :-) Will not require new hardware over and above the 3060/3090 series although should work of course with the new 4000 series. Will include a new, WORKING, Hexagon built in or on the side with a decent working bridge. Will include the fancy Morph Loader PA edition so we can make HD morphs too [maybe not to sell or redistribute save through the store, fine by me], and oh yes, as default poses for figures have a habit of changing, we might expect G9 to be in the fetal position. This will make it easier for the alien transition morphs [maybe]. Comes with A and T posing presets AND ALL the required A and T posed autofit clones [I DID put out tutorials on how to, so hopefully somebody read them] [and include the fetal position autofit clones too 'cause hay] ... and a beautiful Friesian Morph for Horse 2.
    All signed up, waiting for the show.
    Sep 21

    Post edited by Catherine3678ab on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,504

    the free item could just be a NFT angry

  • leemoon_c43b45a114leemoon_c43b45a114 Posts: 870

    daveso said:

    I've had a subscription with DAZ for a very long time. Not just PC/DAZ+ but buying products constantly. I could have purchased a new car with all I spend here.  

    Funny you should mention that.  Last week I significantly reduced my Digital Art budget and put that amount in my new car budget.  And then went out and paid cash for a new EV.  Still left a tiny amount in my Digital Art budget. Just in case. :)

    Lee

     

  • The Inner CircleThe Inner Circle Posts: 229

    A plug in that finally accurately calculates Daz shop % discounts while also allowing money not to be wasted on free items in the cart. If you are a Daz+ member you will also be allowed to apply more than 1 discount coupon to the cart.

    Or Daz 5/Genesis 9. Accurate soft body physics would also be good.

  • NotAnArtistNotAnArtist Posts: 390

    Some of you folks are making me nervous, so let me think about this...

    Another major change coming to Daz Studio? Could it relate to Filament?

    OK, this is just speculation, but I fully believe that Daz 3D is speculating that since EVGA is leaving nVidia, it could cause all other GPU manufacturers to speculate that they should leave nVidia as well.

    So to be ahead of the game, Daz3D has decided to drop Iray immediately while the dropping is good. And I'm still just speculating here, but I also fully believe that Daz3D plans to replace Iray with 3Delight, upgraded to be on par with Filament.

    Then they will remove one of their more recent embarrassments, that is, Filament. It's brilliant!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,504

    the Filament hate I don't get

    nobody is forcing you to use it 

    you used to not be able to render in wireframe either yet nobody is complaining that was also added

    its not actually a render node just an optional viewport node and the ability to render all the viewport nodes was added even bounding box if you want it

  • ByrdieByrdie Posts: 1,783

    Maybe the real big news is they've figured out a fix for that so now we can have unisex Genesis 9. Of course, there'd still be at least 8 female folderols made for every 2 male items.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,143

    I surely wouldn't want to see Iray go away unless the textures for everything Iray I have can be ported over to something else without a big hassle. 

  • QuasarQuasar Posts: 650
    edited September 2022

    I'm confident that it's going to be Genesis 9, which I won't be switching to unless it's backwards compatible with 8 or it has major advancements that I really want. It might include the DS 5 announcement, but I won't be surprised if not. If it turns out to be just a minor update to the Genesis figures, I'll be hoping the next big announcement after this one is better.

    Post edited by Quasar on
  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    the Filament hate I don't get

    nobody is forcing you to use it 

    you used to not be able to render in wireframe either yet nobody is complaining that was also added

    its not actually a render node just an optional viewport node and the ability to render all the viewport nodes was added even bounding box if you want it

     

    I don't think it is hate so much as disappointment. If I am an example of those who are disappointed it was because I was hoping for something that could rival Blender's Eevee and some of the examples of Filament renders I saw online encouraged that hope. Instead we were given a cut-down version of Filament that is not even close to Eevee and certainly a long way from those rendered examples I saw online.

    So if we are getting a fully-fledged version of Filament, that would be something to cheer. But I doubt it. I'm starting to think it will be something connected with NVidia ... Omniverse? USD? Maybe.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,749

    What is USD?

  • Male-M3diaMale-M3dia Posts: 3,581

    mrposer said:

    Complete Poser compatibility - LOL, I been around a long time. 

     

    Seems like so long ago, doesn't it?

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    barbult said:

    What is USD?

     

    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/omniverse2020-om1235/ ;

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,533

    barbult said:

    What is USD?

    Probably this: Universal Scene Description (USD)

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,480

    Male-M3dia said:

    mrposer said:

    Complete Poser compatibility - LOL, I been around a long time. 

     

    Seems like so long ago, doesn't it?

    Real long time

    I started with Poser 1 

  • PetraPetra Posts: 1,156

    Daz Studio 5 or Genesis 9.

    Either would be great.

     

  • Male-M3diaMale-M3dia Posts: 3,581

    Robert Freise said:

    Male-M3dia said:

    mrposer said:

    Complete Poser compatibility - LOL, I been around a long time. 

     

    Seems like so long ago, doesn't it?

    Real long time

    I started with Poser 1 

    Now that's a long time ago! 

  • NotAnArtistNotAnArtist Posts: 390

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    the Filament hate I don't get

    nobody is forcing you to use it 

    you used to not be able to render in wireframe either yet nobody is complaining that was also added

    its not actually a render node just an optional viewport node and the ability to render all the viewport nodes was added even bounding box if you want it

    It's not hatred for Filament. It's respect for what it's capable of as an aid in setting up the scene, even if it's cut down a bit. Now that I have a GPU that can render in Iray, it's frustrating trying to get the Filament viewport to consistently look decent enough to help with that goal.

    So I hope, or wish, the new addition to DS could be an improved Filament viewport. Something that looks and works like a professional piece of software.

    It's as if my music-writing software got a nice new rhythm section added, to help with laying out my melody, but it turned out to be cut down to just the metronome. Why would anyone do that?

  • DamselDamsel Posts: 384
    edited September 2022

    barbult said:

    What is USD?

    United States Dollars.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • windli3356windli3356 Posts: 239

    I doubt there will be a Genesis 9 in the next few years, the current  gen 8/8.1 eco system is too robust, so much that Daz's livelihood depend on it 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,749

    windli3356 said:

    I doubt there will be a Genesis 9 in the next few years, the current  gen 8/8.1 eco system is too robust, so much that Daz's livelihood depend on it 

    I think you will lose that bet.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,202
    edited September 2022

    barbult said:

    dForce and strand hair editor were DS jaw droppers for me.

    No jaws dropped for Genesis 8 or Genesis 8.1. They were just small iterations of Genesis 3. And each one caused incompatibility issues with the previous version that users had to overcome. G8 default pose change, T to A,  and G8.1 surfaces change and expression incompatibility were the biggest consternations for me, I think.

    ...+1 on the asessment of G8/8.1. which is the fact behid why I didn't jump on G8 when it first appeared and afterwards, only on characters I wish we had for G3. 

    Silent Winter said:

     

    Personally I'm with the Spuggles 2.0 suggestion from earlier in the thread.

    Either way, a free item just for tuning in sounds good to me :)

    ...+ Creeper 2.0. and Biguana 

    Sevrin said:

    Probably Daz 5.  It's something big they've been working on for a while.  Or maybe they're moving the store to the Ethereum blockchain!

    ...if that were the case. My work is done here. 

    PerttiA said:

    DAZ Cat 8 or DAZ Horse 8

    ...yes, the former with optional LAMH settings

    Sven Dullah said:

    DAZ will finally upgrade to 3Delight 13 with all the bells and whistles like physically plausible superfast rendering OSL shaders, USD support, 3Delight cloud rendering for all the animators. So sorry guys, strictly CPU rendering from hereonyes

    ..would make building that dual 16 core Xeon workstation a lot more enticing.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,169

    windli3356 said:

    I doubt there will be a Genesis 9 in the next few years, the current  gen 8/8.1 eco system is too robust, so much that Daz's livelihood depend on it 

    If what I've seen is to be believed it's probably the one and definitely not the other. How's that for being specific? LOL

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,169

    barbult said:

    windli3356 said:

    I doubt there will be a Genesis 9 in the next few years, the current  gen 8/8.1 eco system is too robust, so much that Daz's livelihood depend on it 

    I think you will lose that bet.

    laughwink

  • StoicStoic Posts: 134

    Genesis 9 with all models capable of having rigged four arms. And an entire four arm compatible dforce wardrobe released with it.

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,480

    Stoic said:

    Genesis 9 with all models capable of having rigged four arms. And an entire four arm compatible dforce wardrobe released with it.

    And a tail with morphs 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,504

    Stable Diffusion AI happily gives me 4 arms whether I want them or not but the number of fingers if any varies a lot, often a tummy face too and a missing or extra leg

    so take that DAZ and the most beautiful 3D figures out there laugh

    your reality is far too accurate, the future of art is text prompted  Eldrich horrors cheeky

  • vwranglervwrangler Posts: 4,901

    Just out of curiosity, could someone who actually got the email post the text, if you still have it and if that's allowed? For some reason, I never got it -- umpteen other marketing emails from Daz every week, but that one doesn't arrive, of course -- and the Youtube page is wonderfully unspecific as to what time zone it's telling me that the livestream starts in. All it's saying is "September 21 at 3pm." Is that Mountain? Is Youtube translating to my time zone? Is that GMT? What?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,504

    vwrangler said:

    Just out of curiosity, could someone who actually got the email post the text, if you still have it and if that's allowed? For some reason, I never got it -- umpteen other marketing emails from Daz every week, but that one doesn't arrive, of course -- and the Youtube page is wonderfully unspecific as to what time zone it's telling me that the livestream starts in. All it's saying is "September 21 at 3pm." Is that Mountain? Is Youtube translating to my time zone? Is that GMT? What?

    http://link.daz3d.com/q/VzbmI5G6nMtClt2xMs306-lo60WmtQ6AYcgV6I9QLFB2iVufQT2BZl31sJ 

  • NathNath Posts: 2,846
    edited September 2022

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    vwrangler said:

    Just out of curiosity, could someone who actually got the email post the text, if you still have it and if that's allowed? For some reason, I never got it -- umpteen other marketing emails from Daz every week, but that one doesn't arrive, of course -- and the Youtube page is wonderfully unspecific as to what time zone it's telling me that the livestream starts in. All it's saying is "September 21 at 3pm." Is that Mountain? Is Youtube translating to my time zone? Is that GMT? What?

    http://link.daz3d.com/q/VzbmI5G6nMtClt2xMs306-lo60WmtQ6AYcgV6I9QLFB2iVufQT2BZl31sJ 

    https://time.is/compare

    It's midnight for me. Not gonna happen. LOL

    Post edited by Nath on
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