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Boyd has always liked Superman and comics in general. When he becomes ill at a young age, reading comics was one of the few things he could do, as he did not have a lot of friends except for his older brother Tate, and his nanny. (Tate goes missing when Boyd is about 11).
Superman seemed impervious to harm, was very nice to people, and cared about justice... and best of all could fly! When he disembodied, he purposely chose a body which could fly, although he could've easily chosen an android body flying was a lifetime aspiration for Boyd.
So, I wanted to make him some Superman underwear. Couldn't decide if the logo should be on the back or the front, but opted for the front. this was interesting because, the logo stretched, so I had to experiment with making it narrower to compensate for the stretching. I think it turned out pretty well.
It turned out great!
Thanks! I made one for the underwear in the back as well. I'm not sure which style I will use, but now I have both sides covered.
Nice superman logo!
I wonder what tate will be like when he re-surfaces?
Like long-lost (not really dead) brother Nicky on This is Us.
Boyd is the result of an affair his father had with a Canadian news anchor. When she is unable to care for him, Dad gets custody. Dad already had 3 kids with existing wife, including Tate the oldest.
Tate was a kind, and intelligent young man with a brilliant mind. He is unswayed by his father's stubborness or his moms' rigid adherence to protocol. He also doesn't care for his two younger siblings, who are much like his parents.
He ignored Boyd' illigitimacy, and enjoyed little Boyd a great deal. They are both quite smart and it was always Tate's longterm goal, to see if Boyd could live with him, since Dad is an asshole, and the cool distance between Dad and his wife, is not healthy for a young child.
When Boyd becomes ill, the Michael's hire a nanny, Nanny Stevens who is in fact a poor grad student at a local medical school. Tate is quite fond of her as well, although, she will have nothing to do with him at first, believing he is a rich snob, like the rest of the family. Eventually though, she warms up to him, and Tate, talks about marriage, and perhaps taking Boyd to live with them. This nanny (who doesn't have a first name as of yet, and he make secret plans about this). The country is at war though, and most people are drafted, but doctors, and medical personnel are only drafted as needed.
Unfortunately, one Day, Tate goes to his lab to work and does not return. He is a rising star in the bio medical field. The lab has been tossed. Police investigate and find no sign of Tate. Foul play is suspected, but eventually, Boyd's dad concludes that Tate staged this to avoid the draft. He is so awful about this that Nanny Steven is almost fired, but she stays to care for Boyd who she has grown fond of.
No trace of Tate is ever found, and Boyd knows that TATE did not run away to avoid draft, and so does Nanny Stevens Eventually, investigators discover that it isn't just Tate that went missing at the clinic, but other medical and science personnel all in the same week, from different parts of the country. Dad is forced to retract his comments about Tate being some sort of elaborate draft dodger.
What happened to Tate Michaels, is a mystery that Owen and Boyd solve and is quite interesting story.
Not really alone on Valentine's day.
When I saw this pose and prop set, I knew I wanted to try it on the men. =-)
You know, you may have answered this before, but I don't remember, I'm afraid. Does Boyd move back and forth between Bot and Real Boy very much after he and Owen get together romantically? How much longer is he indentured to the government for his new body after they get together? For that matter, do he and Owen stay in the service once they're really together? Are they even allowed to leave the military during wartime? (The whole story is during wartime, right?) Do they want to?
I'm just curious because sometimes it seems like once he's out of the bot into a human body, then he's done with the bot, and sometimes it seems like he moves back and forth a lot. It does seem like moving back and forth would make it a lot harder to remember How To Human when he goes back.
My original plan, was that Boyd would get the body and stay in it permanently which is what he wants, however, from a storyline perspective his abiilty to man and control machinary as the pilot is what makes the character interesting and different, so I have been considering possibly ways to make that continue to happen. Plus giving Boyd a permanent human body, when he's essentially a powerful asset, would make no sense from a military strategy point of view at the time when he does it.. he's just too valuable. Perhaps after the aliens are mostly.... Dealt with.
The government of the future, is not evil. But, they are losing, and so, I just don't see that happening.
Therfor we can conclude that the rich senator who got Boyd's first body attempt, received the body by design and Boyd's attempt to reclaim his body is probably sabotaged.
There is a fairly long level of conspiracies involved in my stories. The government may be losing the war with aliens, but it employs some of the best minds on the planet. Also the computers in the future and artificial intelligence also are very powerful...so there are a lot of forces in play at almost every level. The government may not have the firepower to destroy the aliens, but it does have some of the best minds on tap to do a great many things. Making good soldiers is just one of those things it has learned to do well.
Boyd was allowed to choose a body at the bodybank as part of his settlement. So he owed them nothing for it. Since they commandeered the one he'd already paid for. That the body is a reject and quite different from a typical body was a wildcard no one anticipated.
It is possible though, that this part will have to be rewritten though. Since I want Boyd to maintain his body versatility. I have seveal thoughts about that percolating.
Owen is drafted and must remain in the military until the war is over or he is unfit for service. After his final mission as a soldier, (when he is 27) Boyd rescues him, and he gets wounded in the process and is placed out on disability for a while. They are engaged already, as Boyd proposes to Owen, before he leaves. After that, Body asserts himself, and there are no more involuntary separations. Owen is Boyd's prime, and as Alpha he's entitled to one and the boys should not have been separated in the first place.
Boyd starts as a very small scout bot, with a big eye. As his skills advance, he gets more advanced bodies with more skills. If this were a videogame, Boyd levels up to gain more powerful bodies as Owen levels up to become a better soldier. Unfortunately, I don't have much way to depict him getting more interesting bodies, because most of the robots here are all pretty cool looking.
Owen and Boyd don't become physical until boyd gets his human looking form. This happens when Owen is on disability after Boyd rescues him. Although Boyd does assume an android body, from time to time prior to this its not really with the purpose of romance, and they are mostly machine like.
The original plan was that Boyd could occasionally take a different body on demand for certain missions. Even different human bodies. But I may revise it.
Brains as they increase in skills get more mental disciplines.
Okay, here we have the Almar Outfit for Genesis 8 Male dforce Daz Studio.
The outfit is a mostly black sci-fi biker outfit/uniform/space with optional colorful accents. The pants, shoes, jacket and scarf and shoulder pauldrons are separate parts so you can remove them and mix and match the outfit. (Boyd has the default load, and Owen, has no scarf or shoulder pieces) and the red accents.
I like the set, although something about the set reminds me of the 1980's. Perhaps it is the rebok looking boots. The set is also dforce compatible, but I didn't see a reason to dforce it for this simple pose.
I think this is useful. The scarf looks good for an assassin, desert or urban character. The shoes could be used with activewear, and the whole outfit used for biking, or urban sci-fi. The wrinkles are removable.
This is the Aristrocrat Outfit for G8m. It comes with a shoe/sock combo, pants, jacket/ascot/shirt combo and hat all with a nice decent set of material zones. I particularly like the way the pants drape with natural looking folds. The coat, has mat zones, so you can hide the shirt and ascot if you like.
The set reminds me of something from the old movies, such as what the Millionaire might wear on Gilligan's Island, or something that you might see in an old Bob Hope movie. The pants could be useful for sleepwear.
The mats are all daz default, not iray, which is a bit disappointing.
Thanks for sharing that, with and without the accessories on/around the jacket.
You are welcome. Glad to help.
Okay, here is the Number 01 outfit for G8M with the texture adddon. Each piece of clothing has a number of surface mat zones so it is quite easy to retexure this yourself. The boots are interesting as they have chains hanging down the sides and the tops have ropes or braiding over the shoulders. I really like the number of extra morphs included with the set. I really liked the 'puppy dog under the shirt morph.'
I didn't care for the default red leather texture but, some of the expansion textures are attractive. Here are beige/tan and black.
Here's my first attempt at Owen's mother Maeve. We don't see a lot of Maeve, story-wise. She is supposed to be waifish and pretty and in her 40's sort of like an Evil Merida. People understimate her, which she uses to her benefit, as she is a hard core zealot.
Maeve fights against the aliens, but also against the government which she believes is corrupt. She is a human supremecist, and will only associate with born humans- people who have not been gene modded. Her cell has a series of tests and trials which perspective members are subjected to including a full genetic screening. She is adept at flying under the radar, and does so to avoid checkpoints, scrutiny and arrest.
She advocates a return to natural genetic selection and elimination of all genetic modification and gene-modded people. The extreme members of her group believes aliens are manipulating humanity's dna, for unknown reasons. Although, she doesn't hate Owen, she blames the government for taking him away from her, and giving custody to her father.
She is outraged when she discovers Owen is Marrying Boyd- not because Boyd is a man, but because Boyd is heavily gene-modded and from a prominent family.
Like Grandpa Silas, Maeve has red hair.
Owen shared little in common with his mom personality wise. Maeve is probably his least favorite topic. He hasn't seen her in years, and yet, her actions are constantly something that people scrutinize him for. But like most things Owen tends to roll with the punches, and he has come to grips with the fact that his mom is a zealous nut.
Maeve is believed to have gone missing in one of the alien raids, as she drops out of the picture at some point.
This is the new Greybro Jacket for Genesis 8 Male.
This fills a much needed gap for cold weather clothing for men. The jacket zips up and opens on both sides. It has some decent textures. I think this is going to be a useful purchase. EDIT: Sorry about Boyd's left hand. Didn't notice it initially, and, I'm involved in doing something else, so cannot fix it at present.
Argh! You keep making me spend money on things!
You are welcome.
It may be a while before I post. My daz studio has become mega slow, so foolishly thought, I should perform a fresh install of daz studio, and for some reason, Connect, keeps popping up telling me to install.... Weird items, to get the guys to run. I did not use Samdy in Boyd, but connects think I did Z well as dozens of FW characters. It doesn't even see that they are already installed. Weird. So, I will likely now just do a clean install. How tiresome.
Sorry to hear you're having issues. Are you about to reinstall all of your content, or just Studio again?
For what it's worth: one of the reasons that I stopped letting Studio do its metadata updates is that Daz pushed out one massive, really bad update for something like 600 products -- a few months ago -- that convinced everything I had installed that it was incomplete and needed to download things through Connect. If you don't let it update metadata, that seems to take care of most, if not all, of those issues.
Well, that, plus whenever it decided that something I needed to work on needed to be reinstalled, I officially uninstalled it with DIM, and then reinstalled. (DIM has no idea where my content actually is, but it seemed to fix whatever was going on with the metadata, most times.)
One thing you should know about me, is that occasionally I am a tweaker. This usually works well for me, but sometimes It goes badly. This is one of those times.
Problems started with Studio just doing a major slow down on me. Each render I did, even simple ones were taking a lot longer than normal... I hadn't changed anything. I keep the same characters saved, load them for tests, but every render even simple ones was taking too long. It was tiring me out.
Then for some reason, dim went haywire. It had lost its database or something, because it began telling me to reinstall the same stuff, constantly. When I did, it would forget again. I was just hiding it, but then, I miss updates, and that wasn't working for me. Then it wanted my entire library to be installed. Not sure why.
So I decided, I'd just install a basic DAZ Studio install on my primary drive, and just install only my g8M and Female, Animals, and robots and monsters from various generations. I really don't use about half of the early purchases I made, so I decided to leave them out, and install as needed.
Unfortunately, even though I dumped all my installers in the downloads folder, dim is moving as slow as a snail to put it all in place, so I've learned my lesson now. Not to do this again.
One interesting thing, I've found is that I've tweaked Boyd and Owen in ways I don't understand by mistake. It appears that boyd uses another character's specularity on his face, I was unaware of. I also had forgotten that I tweaked his eyebrows manually because one was higher than another and going up a bit above his fibermesh on one side. Sadly fro me, I didn't back that up, so I will have to alter the textures again.
i have notice lately that textures and shaders I apply don’t fully alter my models leaving some bits of the previous color configuration in place.
unfortunately even after hours of tweaking I appear to still have traces of my original install in place. I really had wanted to start afresh but even with removing it carefully bits of it still seem in place
So figured out the cause of the slowdown with daz. Apparently the newest nvidia driver is the culprit. It was like slowIng studio down to abou 4 times it’s normal speed. What a ginormous pain. Rolling back the driver and my studio is back to normal..
Yes, the driver causes Iray to revert to CPU - it's a known issue, nVidia is working on it (though apparently the latest updated driver hasn't fixed it).
Ooh, wish I'd known the Nvidia update broke DAZ Studio sooner. But thanks for confirming what I have discovered!
This is the new Dodge Ram truck. Materials are all POSER, but, it is easy enough to iray-ize if you have the Mec4d shaders.
I like the details of this vehicle. The doors and the bed open up. (Sorry no hood) ...Although I am disappointed the promos show so many colors you don't get in the package.
The hood looks too flat but otherwise it looks good.
Owen's finally gotten out of sthe hospital with broken leg after his secret mission and Boyd and Owen are together at last.
This is the first time, they've been alone together since he has gotten back, and you can tell Boyd's nervous because his glowing blue eyes give him away. Boyd has on the Tactical assault underarmor t-shirt and pants, which I thought looked rather sexy. I couldn't decided what Owen should wear. He'd probably be bundled up, but, I wanted him to be skinny so, I couldn't give him full sweats and sweater or you might not notice.
I wondered why Boyd's eyes were glowing. Thought maybe he was using the X-Ray eye to make sure Owen was OK.
You might want to push Owen down a bit on the bed if you can. He looks a bit ... floaty.
Boyd's eyes tend to glow in response to combat situations. But sometimes strong emotions can trigger the eyes. They basically are his pilot's vision, giving him fully enhanced, bot-style vision. One of the limitations of human form, is that he has such poor vision. As a bot, he is accustomed to really different visual input. He has an inplant in the back of his head which helps improve his sensory input but tiny human eyes are no match for the gigantic lens he had as a scout-bot. Oh the price one pays for looking human.
Yeah, the hard bit about that blanket, is its not dforce. If I put him in the blanket he is impaled. I may see if I can replace it.
Blue Skies and Hot guys... At the beach of course!
This is the painterly style I think I like the most.
Their skin tones just emphasize the great posing here.
Man, I am ready for summer looking at this!