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Not sure what to say to that other than "Holy Cow!" :)
Pre Genesis, I bought mostly clothing, especially clothing in the adventurer, historical/medieval, fantasy (fairytale/warrior/mage), or steampunk themes. There has never been enough medieval or steampunk. Think SCA for medieval and Victorian Steampunk Society for steampunk. I rarely bought contemporary and avoided skimpy/club type clothing ... though very little female warrior/mage clothing wasn't skimpy. Given the percentage of V4 to M4 clothing released, most of that clothing was for V4.
After clothing would be characters (for the textures), hair, and buildings/scenery/vehicles. I bought most of those products during the introductory period unless there were a lot of must have releases in a week. I also purchased most PC products on release.
Fast forward to the last year.
I purchased very little, and very little of those purchases were clothing. However, after the DSON Importer for Poser was released, I purchased the Genesis bundles and picked up a bunch of PC Genesis clothing in October and November. Unfortunately, I found that neither Genesis nor Genesis clothing worked well in Poser for me. So, I won't be buying any more clothing unless it's Gen 4.
Most of what I purchased was building/environmental sets, vehicles, and Gen 4 hair.
In February, I purchased:
7 vehicle products: 6 PC Products (1 intro, 5 PC Catalog), 1 ancient DAZ Original with PC coupon
8 building/environmental products - 2 PA (intro), 6 PC Products (intro)
2 clothing - 1 PA new release (V4), 1 older DAZ Original release (V4), 1 ancient release (Gorilla spacesuit)
3 Ron's Photoshop brushes
1 tutorial on lighting
So in the post Genesis world, what will I buy from DAZ?
Stand alone figures (like AntFarms Rock Golem)
Characters, clothing, and PA hair for Gen 4
and obviously ... vehicles, environment sets, and building sets
I like the idea of Ron's brushes but too afraid to try them. I know nothing about brushes and even less about photoshop although I have an older version. I think CS4 or something like that. Looks like your February was a lot like mine. Thanks for the post.
Care to make any recommendations? Not sure the style of vehicles you buy but I'm looking for a nice SUV type vehicle tha I can pose in of course and open up from all sides. Vegetation - I'm starting to work on a campsite and would like to make it with trees and grasses, plants, etc. I'm trying to make it foresty and "lived in" but trying to keep render times down too.
Will buy:
Sci-fi models particularly buildings
Sci-fi props
Sci-fi clothing
Weapons
Armor
Aliens
Critters
Skins for Gen 5 characters
M5 stuff with well-done attractive skin/morphs (The adult characters)
M5 clothing
Gender neutral practical genesis garb
Clothing for v5 which is not smexy and useful for multiple scenes
Action poses
Group poses
Well-done environment props
Rocks
Trees
Cliffs
Mountains
Water props
Grass
Cat stuff
Horse 2 stuff
Long hairs for Michael
Brushes
Light-sets
Citiy buildings
Apartment (interior) sets
Middle-tone skinned characters
Dogs
Will not buy
Toons
anime
manga,
anything with large eyes
Teens
Hitomi/Aiko/Hiro./YT
Most v3/m3 stuff
old cycloramas
corset and heel outfits
old light sets
dated looking hairs, clothing, cycloramas, sets with big chunky looking unrealistic props
skinny/anorexic female characters
duck-lipped models
Most sexy stuff
overpriced hairs, clothing, sets
Doughy looking genesis clothing
Clumpy hair
Care to make any recommendations? Not sure the style of vehicles you buy but I'm looking for a nice SUV type vehicle tha I can pose in of course and open up from all sides. Vegetation - I'm starting to work on a campsite and would like to make it with trees and grasses, plants, etc. I'm trying to make it foresty and "lived in" but trying to keep render times down too.Funny - I was just about to send Daz an angry ticket about the Bus Maxis, which doesn't install properly on my Mac (DS 4) and find myself writing recommendations for Daz products... :)
Anyway, Daz products are mostly good to excellent, but the installers drive me crazy since they changed to 4.5. But now for the SUVs: I have only one, a beautiful WWII Jeep, available as PC item ($ 1.99); in the PC shop you can also find additional textures. If you are looking for vehicles, petipet's shop here at Daz is a must. He or she does incredibly crazy things, excellently crafted. Many of petipet's models are PC items. There are many other good vehicles from other artists; just search the categories.
I am the proud owner of some wonderful ships, but they are all historical: 'HMS Victory', 'Licorne', 'Drakkar', 'Sacred Barge', 'Hawaiian Voyager' (could be also contemporary), 'Ancient Egyptian Canal Boat', 'Ancient Greek Boat'...
If you are looking for vegetation: Andrey Pestryakov's 'Forest' and 'Tropical' series are highly recommendable. Single plants you can find z.B. under 'Lisa's Botanicals'. DinoRaul makes wonderful plants (contemporary and prehistoric) over at Rendo's.
Anyway, Daz products are mostly good to excellent, but the installers drive me crazy since they changed to 4.5. But now for the SUVs: I have only one, a beautiful WWII Jeep, available as PC item ($ 1.99); in the PC shop you can also find additional textures. If you are looking for vehicles, petipet's shop here at Daz is a must. He or she does incredibly crazy things, excellently crafted. Many of petipet's models are PC items. There are many other good vehicles from other artists; just search the categories.
I am the proud owner of some wonderful ships, but they are all historical: 'HMS Victory', 'Licorne', 'Drakkar', 'Sacred Barge', 'Hawaiian Voyager' (could be also contemporary), 'Ancient Egyptian Canal Boat', 'Ancient Greek Boat'...
If you are looking for vegetation: Andrey Pestryakov's 'Forest' and 'Tropical' series are highly recommendable. Single plants you can find z.B. under 'Lisa's Botanicals'. DinoRaul makes wonderful plants (contemporary and prehistoric) over at Rendo's.
Well that is kind of funny because I just loaded Bus Maxis this morning. :) It seemed to load fine for me. Installers drive me nuts too. I hate installing stuff and then when I try to use it I have to go searching for everything. Oh well. It is getting better though.
I'll check out Petipets. Thanks for the info. As far as vegetation, I actually have "Forest". And was thinking about buying the new winter pack for it but this morning, I don't know if my PC was running a scan or what but nothing would render fast enough for me. Actually, I did a render of "Forest" overnight. I have no clue how long it took. Which for me, I can render some times 50 shots for a particular scene and sequences so I don't do a lot of one shot wonders and consequently I try and cut down really long render times.
I've been working on my camping scene all afternoon. It has ground cover, all flat. There are no trees. What I may do is finish it up and save the scene and then merge it with the forest and see how it goes.
LOL, curious, care to elaborate?
SereneNight - looks like I lot of stuff I would like! I've bought more than my fair share of lights sets. And scifi is at the top of my list usually. :)
...I've pretty much migrated to the Genesis camp, especially since I finally have all system configuration issues with the new workstation solved (thanks to a very helpful friend). Yes I also have GenX so my investment in Gen4/Aiko3 is still useful. Alas, content for a few characters like the original Mavka will not work with Genesis.
I too have pretty much stopped purchasing clothing content for the older models unless it is something unique that I like which isn't available in tri-ax format (but can be used through GenX).
The only other exceptions are props and scene sets as they are still fairly universal (4.5 will convert these to .duf on saving a scene).
I agree about the hair. Genesis based hairs are so much simpler to use . Used to be I had to manually do fits if I liked say use an Aiko3 hair (such as Mentha Piperata) with K4. Still kind of need to do so with adapting hair from older generations to Genesis, though it is pretty much simple routine for me now.
Of course the versatility is incredible, I can use Sadie poses with Genesis Teens. Conversely, I can dress Sadie in almost anything without needing to run clothing though a conversion programme anymore (see pic below which uses Osean Hair, Mentha Piperata top, JeanZ for V4 and Trainer shoes for Genesis with the sweet little toon girl, something that would have been hit or miss even with WW or XD).
With Genesis I actually have gained a greater appreciation for working with Toon characters as (evidenced in the pic) they are no longer restricted to their own line of content anymore.
Kyoto Kid -
I've never used GenX before. I've used PoseMaster for M4/V4 poses but that is about it. Hmmm...I think I'm going to have to check that out.
Thanks for the post and BTW nice pic. :)
The Buys-
Medieval and Fantasy clothing for any Gen4 and above figures. Think Dungeons & Dragons.
Sets that can be used for those type renders including Ruins, Buildings and weapons.
Creatures and Monsters for those renders as well, Trolls, Ogres, Dragons and the like.
Modern Everyday style clothing for real people, no skankwear, including Police, Solders and others.
Sets for modern renders including buildings, ruins, weapons, furniture and real style vehicles.
Some Sci-Fi items to toss in with the modern stuff because most of it is for Comic book work.
Environments of all types because they can be used in almost in type of renders, including plant sets for those extra touches.
Morph and character sets to fill those scenes with different folks.
Anything Primitive life I can get my hands on.
Shaders of all types.
Not Buys-
Toon figures, I just prefer real to comic strip type stuff.
Skankwear that can not be Kit Based to create other nice clothing.
That's about it I guess. If I can think of a use for something and can get it I do.
LOL, curious, care to elaborate?
Clothing that doesn't look like it is made ought of cloth but playdough. You know, really smooth, wrinkle-free, no pockets round edges, clayish. Smooth. Pants tend to look like tights. A number of gen5 outfits look like this and have an unfinished look. These clothing is intended to look 'real' but instead look smooth and toony or 'doughy.' I don't know why but some genesis clothing looks doughy. I think it is because there are no details like seams pockets, edges, and the way they fit on the character is unnaturally smooth. I think unfinished doughy clothing gives the character a dated feelin. Not all clothing is like this, but it is significant enough for me to avoid buying it when I see it.
Oh I so agree, but never heard it put that way, great way of putting it. I'd love to see the vendors that model like this work on their skills as i like what some of them do, just not the end results.