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Dawn Release Date Announced

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Update: Store now open.
Just a few weeks since Dawn’s initial announcement HiveWire3D have given us a date. For some the wait has been long and restless, but on the 9th of August, 2013 Dawn will be available from HiveWire3D’s website at time of publishing), with additional content brokers Poser World, Renderosity, RuntimeDNA, YURdigital, and numerous content creators (many of whom are of great renown) being at the forefront of the charge to offer up as much content as possible at launch.

The enthusiasm from the community has been enormous, and with creators and brokers coming together like this, it seems all but a foregone conclusion that Dawn will be a massive success from day one. Launching the new figure for free for a limited time certainly won’t hurt either.

If you’re still catching up and have no idea who or what Dawn is, you can read the initial post about Dawn here – full coverage of the developments up to the days before the release date announcement. To as briefly as possible fill the blanks, Dawn is a new Poser/Daz Studio compatible figure developed by Chris Creek and HiveWire3D, famed creator of many Poser figures including Victoria and Michael.

HiveWire3D job opportunity

If you’re looking to get in on the action, and have some experience as a product tester, HiveWire3D are looking for team members. More details are available from their Facebook page.

 

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Bring On Your Undead

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DAZ Monstrosities: Undead Fiend

Zombies For DAZ Studio

What can I say? As a lover of the undead (no, not in the literal sense) DAZ Monstrosities: Undead Fiend is more than tempting. For a long time now I’ve held off on buying undead character/texture sets because, frankly, many of them just didn’t look all that good. This beauty (yes undead hideous beauty – but not literal love) is a show stopper! Personally, I would like to see character textures starting to come out in sizes larger than the current 4096 x 4096, but as someone who rarely does huge renders this is little more than a wishlist upgrade for the market’s consideration.

Of course that would mean more work for the artists, and therefore a probable rise in product price. I only feel compelled to mention this here as the texture details are amazing (beautiful-undead-amazing), and I hate to think of the detail loss/warping on the torso when rendered at large sizes with serious morphing thrown on top. So, that is too say I’m worrying too much about stuff I really don’t need to be worried about.

Undead Fiend MorphsI’m also quite fond of the Wicked Undead Fiend Morphs too with all those gnarled, mutated and wasted details. A huge plus here is that these morphs can be combined with all other Genesis morphs so you can zombify all your custom characters and favourites. The related items like the weapons pack and poses look handy too, but I’m a traditionalist in so far as to say my zombies don’t wield weapons. Of course all zombies are undead, but not all undead are zombies so… extenuating circumstances. Character posing has been something of an undeveloped skill since I started out with DAZ, and a bit of a serial tweaker of stock poses, so I see a lot of value in pose packs.

DAZ Studio 4.6 Upgrade and Huge Sales

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DAZ Studio 4 - Create 3D Art for FreeUpgrade to DAZ Studio 4.5 today

I’ve let writing about the DAZ Studio 4.6 upgrade slip a bit longer than I would have liked. Instead of writing or working on any number of other relatively pressing projects I’ve been spending time getting my blog to play nice with Google and attempting to squeeze a little more speed out of my WordPress configuration while making as few drastic changes as possible (no one likes a slow site), but let me not get distracted with the technicalities of self hosted blogging.

So, back to the matter at hand. DAZ 3D have just launched DAZ Studio 4.6 (still free), and what a beauty of a point release it is. For sometime the team at DAZ has been working on implementing a host of new features into DAZ Studio, with features like Pixar’s game changing OpenSubdiv having kept beta testers entertained for some time now.

DAZ Studio 4.6 features Highlights

  1. Subsurface Shader base by Age of Armour (will take a bit of experimentation to get realistic human SSS)
  2. CMS updated to Valentina 5, apparently fixing crashes (esp for Mac users)
  3. Updated 3Delight render engine to 10.0.125 (not the most current, but lots of goodies since last update)
  4. Support for TriAx to TriAx AutoFit
  5. Support for OpenSubdiv subdivision algorithms; Catmark, Bilinear, Loop; adds support for edge and/or vertex weights/creasing
  6. Support for Ptex (no UV unwrapping/seams!)
  7. Support for independent UV set selection on Geometry Shells
  8. Support for Gamma Correction
  9. Support for Surface Selection Sets
  10. Spot Render to  new window (handy for fixing up those bits you don’t like in an otherwise good render)
  11. Support for Hierarchical Pose Presets
  12. Improvements to various CCT tools/actions.

Undoubtedly these are great advancements for Studio. Just taking a look at Ptex and OpenSubdiv in action, if you don’t already have a good idea of what they are, you can glimpse the huge possibilities for rapid and experimental content creation and customisation. The base for Studio 5 has been put down, and I really can’t wait to see what they have planned. DS has come a long, long way since its first release back in 2005. See the DAZ Studio 4.6 announcement thread for more details and all the gossip.

DAZ Studio 4.6 compatibility and plugins

I’ve heard some anecdotal accounts that 4.6 is having some issues with Windows 8, but is working well on many previous Windows versions, and is even reportedly working well on OSX, which is great news for users that have been having a streak of compatibility issues with DAZ 3D programs.

As there were no changes to the SDK all plugins should be working as normal, and I’ve heard of no major incompatibilities.

Sneak Peek Weekend – Platinum Club For Everyone

To keep the action going DAZ 3D have thrown open the Platinum Club to all who come to grace the store. The Sneak Peek Weekend sale has big savings in the continuing tradition of DAZ 3D’s Store.  So, that means $1.99 items for everyone, access to the value catalogue, 30% off DAZ Originals, and 30% discounts on annual Platinum Club memberships. For those of us that are already PC members the deal is rounded off with a 30% discount on Premier Artist products, on top of 46% off selected items such as:

Luxus

Luxus

Garibaldi Express Hair System For DAZ Studio

Garibaldi Express Hair System

Look At My Hair

Look At My Hair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Genesis Generation X2

 

 


Still don’t have DAZ Studio? Get it now.

Hopefully I’ll have some time to test out some of the new features and have something more substantial on the features specifically, but until then happy renderings.