ASINA - April Fools Competition 2024

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  • ShimrianShimrian Posts: 533
    edited April 2

    Awesome and thank you, @KindredArts!

    And thanks, @Stezza. I couldn't resist after watching the show. =)

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  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,184
    edited April 29

    well ....  what are these strange creaturez  &  where do they come from ?? 

    +  Thanx

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  • KindredArtsKindredArts Posts: 1,239

    @Newguy has donated his rigged version, i've attached it to the original post. Thanks Newguy heart

  • ElorElor Posts: 1,473

    Hello,

    Thank you for the original version and thank you both for these new versions smiley

    What's the best way to install the new versions when the original one was installed with DIM ?

  • KindredArtsKindredArts Posts: 1,239

    Elor said:

    Hello,

    Thank you for the original version and thank you both for these new versions smiley

    What's the best way to install the new versions when the original one was installed with DIM ?

     Download the ZIP files attached to the original post and copy the files into your daz3d content library. If you've not done this before, there's a little youtube tutorial here -

    There's nothing special you have to do, just uncompress the file into your library. Then either refresh your library inside daz or restart the program to see the files. NG has put his version in a "Figures" folder.

  • NewGuyNewGuy Posts: 170
    edited April 3

    KindredArts said:

    @Newguy has donated his rigged version, i've attached it to the original post. Thanks Newguy heart

    You are all welcome!  Enjoy!

    I want to add that manual installation does mean that in the unfortunate case that you ever wanted to uninstall (if the little guy is giving you nightmares), then you'd need to manually delete the files.  To do that you'd need to delete everything under the following directories in your Daz Studio Library:

    data/NewGuy/Hero Asina Relic

    Figures/Asina Hero Character

    Runtime/Textures/NewGuy/ASINA Hero

     

    I probably should have included a readme.txt file, but was rushing to get it out and not used to the lack of DAZ installers.  Thanks again to KA for letting me add to his creation!

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  • Carola OCarola O Posts: 3,823

    This little one is supercute :) Many thanks!

    Within the Rosebush

    When picking roses, one may find more than bargain for...

  • NathraiNathrai Posts: 67

    KindredArts said:

    @Newguy has donated his rigged version, i've attached it to the original post. Thanks Newguy heart

    The two of you are awesome! heart

    I was fully prepared to learn how to rig - and die trying!  wink

  • NewGuyNewGuy Posts: 170
    edited April 3

    @Nathrai, that's how I lost all my hair!  It's an adventure in DAZ Studio for sure.  

    @Carola_O, very nice image!

    I wanted to add for everyone that the easiest way to pose with the mutations pack will be to use the pose controls found under the root figure.  Then use the individual bone rotations to tweak.  I didn't put any limits on the bones, so be careful not to go too far or you might get some weird distortion.  

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Instructions for Manual Installation

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  • joannajoanna Posts: 1,452

    Big thank you and appreciation to NewGuy who has discovered new subspecies of relics, ensuring that no relic will be unaccounted for!

    Also, great images, everyone! The month has just started, so keep them coming!

  • AlmightyQUESTAlmightyQUEST Posts: 2,003
    Thanks to both Kindred Arts for the original, and New Guy for sharing the mutations!
  • Faeryl WomynFaeryl Womyn Posts: 3,623

    Just saw the announcement for the advanced version and thank you both Kindred Arts and New Guy, such a cute critter, so many uses...lol

  • luci45luci45 Posts: 2,755
    edited April 4

    The Yellow Ones

    My mother's Great Aunt Suzie found this in a box of photos in her attic. She doesn't know where it came from. Her brother might know, but he has been missing for a few years. I hope this helps some.

    Thanks, NewGuy. Great morphs - they should help a lot. I was getting very frustrated with Mesh Grabber. 

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  • nomad-ads_8ecd56922enomad-ads_8ecd56922e Posts: 1,949
    edited April 4

    In the zip with the rigged version, with the same-named copies of the original, do I let it overwrite the originals, or leave the originals?  They all seems to be the same size as the originals, but have a different timestamp.

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  • NathraiNathrai Posts: 67
    edited April 4

    NewGuy said:

    @Nathrai, that's how I lost all my hair!  It's an adventure in DAZ Studio for sure.  

    2 days of trying and I swear my hairline has already started rising ... All the more thanks for the great work, it was a joy using the rigged figure! heart

     And used it was, a lot ...

    I WILL catch them all, breed them, cuddle them and then use their fuzzy greatness to take over the galaxy!

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  • KindredArtsKindredArts Posts: 1,239

    nomad-ads_8ecd56922e said:

    In the zip with the rigged version, with the same-named copies of the original, do I let it overwrite the originals, or leave the originals?  They all seems to be the same size as the originals, but have a different timestamp.

    Looking at the files, i think NGs version is just using a couple of my textures, so that's what it's asking to overwrite. His data paths are different to mine, so they will still be two separate characters.

    I have them as separate directories, though. If you unzip the files into a folder somewhere, then go into daz and right-click an empty area near your folder tree, then "add a base directory...", navigate to your unzipped folder and select it as the directory. Now you can have the original and NGs version in their own separate directories. It's not really needed, but i do it.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 1,452
    edited April 4

    It remains to be determined whether she dropped the relic while falling and this is how it all had started or she failed to catch it while falling... and this is how it all had started.

    Both versions postworked in Affinity Photo.

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  • NewGuyNewGuy Posts: 170

    nomad-ads_8ecd56922e said:

    In the zip with the rigged version, with the same-named copies of the original, do I let it overwrite the originals, or leave the originals?  They all seems to be the same size as the originals, but have a different timestamp.

    I included the two original textures files from KindredArts' ASINA.  They are the same and have the same directory as the originals, which is why they are trying to overwrite.  Whether you overwrite them or not they will not make a difference if you are including them in the same library as the original.  Since this was an add-on, I probably should have not included the files and only linked to them so that everyone needed the original for it to work.  That is the way...  my bad.  I was thinking if I get some more time down the road I may try to add a few more expressions if KA is okay with that and do an rc2. Maybe when I need a break from pose building.  Hope you got everything to work well in the meantime.  

    @Nathrai, glad you are enjoying the rigging.  Makes it so much easier with so many relics in your render.

    @joanna. I love the stylized look of the second image.  As a fellow Afinity Photo user I'm curious how you did it?  

     

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 7,760

    Stezza said:

    April in Carrara smiley

    Relics of Tokens

    I see what you did there.  Excellent creativity. 

  • joannajoanna Posts: 1,452

    NewGuy said:

    @joanna. I love the stylized look of the second image.  As a fellow Afinity Photo user I'm curious how you did it?  

    It's one of the macros in Frankentoon's POP! set. It required some tinkering with the sliders (and probably would have been better if I didn't have the background), but all in all it's great. I have quite a few of FT's products, and they're always of high quality and pleasure to use. They feel like they're made for Affinity (both Photo and Illustrator), and not an afterthought of making PS brushes and converting them only to get some $$$ out of Affinity users (which I sometimes feel was the case for other products offered in digital artists' stores). Affinity store only has 2 or 3 of his products, but you can get more on his website. My faves are Texturizer (oh, these procedural brushes heart), Concept Master - Nature, and Neptune. Splat! is nice for old comics look, and Garage Press for textures (this one's for Designer, though).

  • KindredArtsKindredArts Posts: 1,239

    Guys i hate to add in post-hoc rules, lest you see me as some kind of tyrannical forum ogre. I've just added a quick stipulation regarding AI, as the new text-to-image tool has rather rudely dropped right in the middle of our holy union. It's no problem if you're using AI, as you're going to have to render the relic separately anyway, there's no real way around it without some kind of concerted effort. If you're using AI to a significant extent though, please leave an "AI" tag somewhere in your submission. We won't disregard submissions that contain AI, but it should hopefully reduce confusion among other forumites as to how you're compositing your scene. I'm sure everyone will maintain the spirit of competition, and not sully the dignity of our annual gatheringangel. As you were investigators.

  • NathraiNathrai Posts: 67

    Keeping my relics deloused and certified AI free - they only deserve the best, after all! heart

  • NewGuyNewGuy Posts: 170
    edited April 4

    Thanks @joanna, I'll check them out!

    Edit:  Just checked it out... VERY cool site!  Thank you.

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  • HoppittyHoppitty Posts: 473
    edited April 4

    We may not even realize ASINA is among us... 

     

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,054

    FirstBastion said:

    Stezza said:

    April in Carrara smiley

    Relics of Tokens

    I see what you did there.  Excellent creativity. 

    thankyou...

     

    they made me do it! laugh 

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,054
    edited April 5

    A I ~ another image smiley

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  • MissLeahMissLeah Posts: 61
    edited April 5

    Uh-oh... I just received a mayday from my boys in the Delta octant. It seems they've been dealing with a critter infestation on the base that's gone... a bit out of control. They really tried to lock them down, but... ASINA may have appropriated the teleporter. I don't like the looks of the surveillance images. Seems a bit... hairy up there. I might have to toss some extra credits the boys' way as a hazard pay bonus. Yikes.

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  • cjfeacjfea Posts: 230
    edited April 6

    "Honey, did you buy the dog a new toy?"  "No..."

    Title:  Penelope's New Toy

    This piece features the original ASINA.  I just saw the updated ASINA version tonight.   Thanks for the update!

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