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Texture Education Please

hhglickhhglick Posts: 52
in Daz Studio Discussion

I saw when V9 was released she came with 8k quality textures.  Since then, it looks like all the 3rd party releases have been 4k.  I bought Victory, but none of these 4k models.  Why the difference?  Has 3rd party developers just just not caught up yet?  Educate me please.

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  • Korpin.SulatKorpin.Sulat Posts: 414

    The intro video to G9 stated "textures up to 8K," not that all G9 figures would have 8K. Not even Daz's. And really there's no point to all that extra resolution wthout proper control over sub-d, which is something that only Daz PAs have access to.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    The detail maps are 8K, other maps are 4K.

  • hhglickhhglick Posts: 52

    But to be clear, no current G9 model has the 8k textures that V9 has?

  • FenixPhoenixFenixPhoenix Posts: 3,083
    Only the detail normal map is 8K (which is where the resolution difference made a difference). So all other Victoria 9 skin maps are actually 4k.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    FenixPhoenix said:

    Only the detail normal map is 8K (which is where the resolution difference made a difference). So all other Victoria 9 skin maps are actually 4k.

    and the detail maps that come with Genesis 9 Starter Essenmtials are already 8K.

  • hhglickhhglick Posts: 52

    I'm still not getting it.  The Victoria model came out with 8K textures.  No G9 since then has been released with 8K textures.  They seem to be around 4K, which is the same as the 8.1 models that are being released.  Why am I not seeing more 8K textures?  It seems like this was a pretty big deal for the upgraded model and it doesnt look like anyone is taking advantage of it.  Is it because people are taking models that were planned for 8.1 and releasing them in a G9 model?

    I guess to put the question in a more straigtforward way, are they really G9 models or at they G8 models stuck on G9 bones?  I don't want to spend my money buying a model when I am not getting something that is using the full G9 potential.   

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,800

    Victoria 9 has 8K details and 4K otherwise.

  • hhglickhhglick Posts: 52

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Victoria 9 has 8K details and 4K otherwise.

    all g9 models should have this, and they don't seem like they do... why not?

  • FenixPhoenixFenixPhoenix Posts: 3,083
    Because only the normal detail maps benefit from being 8k. The rest of the skin trextures maps don't benefit from being 8K enough to make a difference (at that point you are better off upping the subdivision render level of the character itself). So G9 characters that do not have their own detail normal map don't need 8k textures. The majority of the users will also have systems that would struggle if every skin texture for every character was 8k. Of course, at the end of the day, each PA can decide whether to include 8k textures or not. Btw, characters released for G9 are G9 characters, regardless of the size of their textures.
  • davidtriunedavidtriune Posts: 452

    DAZ definitely should not have been so vague with "8K HD Materials" on the genesis 9 promo page. I agree with OP.

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