New! Novica & Forum Members Tips & Product Reviews Pt 14

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    I've seen formu, posts about some tiff files not working in the latest DS 4.15.0.30. Maybe some of your textures use tiff instead of png or jpg for some images.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    Happy Birthday to ex-President Jimmy Carter. He is 97 years old today! He is spending the day at home in Georgia. 

  • RGcincyRGcincy Posts: 2,834

    Novica said:

    Happy Birthday to ex-President Jimmy Carter. He is 97 years old today! He is spending the day at home in Georgia. 

    Hard to believe he's done so well for so long. I've admired his work for Habitat for Humanity. 

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    RGcincy said:

    Novica said:

    Happy Birthday to ex-President Jimmy Carter. He is 97 years old today! He is spending the day at home in Georgia. 

    Hard to believe he's done so well for so long. I've admired his work for Habitat for Humanity. 

    He is quite the goodwill ambassador. Nice to see some of the ex-Presidents staying active and making a difference for other folks, even outside the US.  

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,736
    edited October 2021

    RGcincy said:

    Novica said:

    Happy Birthday to ex-President Jimmy Carter. He is 97 years old today! He is spending the day at home in Georgia. 

    Hard to believe he's done so well for so long. I've admired his work for Habitat for Humanity. 

    And also with Lionism. Happy Birthday ex-President Carter.

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  • RainRain Posts: 335

    Checking out Alternative Shapes for Kayden and it shows that it requires Road Bicycle, an actual bicycle.....and it's a really old bicycle.  It doesn't show that you need the original Kayden figure and I think that you do. My morning chuckle.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited October 2021

    There's a couple Metro products for 1.99 if you're PC+ (or Daz+ whatever) and  Metro Interior can be misleading if you're breezing past the product only using the main promos.  It's not just the inside of the Metro car, it includes the outside. Take a peek at the additional promo thumbnails :)  

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    How about this dolphin playing with a golden retriever? (And they really were playing, that's not a disoriented dolphin.)

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    edited October 2021

    Novica said:

    How about this dolphin playing with a golden retriever? (And they really were playing, that's not a disoriented dolphin.)

    Maybe the dolphin was trying to run the dog out because chasing shoals of fish to shore is one of the favorite hunting methods of dolphins and that dog was chasing off it's meal. You can watch dolphins do that all day long on parts of Tampa Bay. Did you know Flipper the TV Series is on Roku Channel? I hadn't seen it since the 60s on TV until recently and it's still just as good. The thing that always got me about that show is that Bud (the littlest kid) talks with a comically heavy Jersey accent and the others don't. I wanted to be a marine biologist for the longest time after that show.

    There is another Metro Train that I bought instead of the one you linked above with clean textures.

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    I have that other Metro Train already. It doesn't have the walking areas outside the train from what the promos show and description says. But Metro Train is indeed a prettier, cleaner option and worth having.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    Novica said:

    I have that other Metro Train already. It doesn't have the walking areas outside the train from what the promos show and description says. But Metro Train is indeed a prettier, cleaner option and worth having.

    Oh, yeah. The train platforms alone are worth $1.99.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    Thanks for pointing out both $1.99 Metro products. I had overlooked both.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 6,880

    It loooks like it has a lot of material zones you can alter. I wasn’t going to get it based on the main promo because I’m not into dirty, rundown stuff, but it seems you can make it very modern and clean with shaders. 

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited October 2021

    I'm posting this before I head off to get some sleep, because she is 1.99 and looks good IMO. The last photo is shown with Alawa 8 skin (with the teeth darkened, they were Pesodent bright.)  The Baylee teeth materials are more yellow and you might play around with lightening them or add some blue. 

    I was hesitant to get her as the promos make her skin look splotchier than it really is. Good deal for 1.99 even if you just use the morphs, but I think her skin is fine. The circles under her eyes are something unique.

    VYK Baylee (G8F)   (now 1.99)  Lounge Wear (G8F)      dF Lounge Wear (G8F) 

    I like her side profile. Looks like a normal person, not a model.

    Alawa 8 skin.

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    She looks very nice with the Alawa skin. But you know, the last thing I need is another G8F!

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    @barbult  Yeah, me too. I'm at the point where I'm passing up 1.99 items which are sets, because I have too many living rooms, kitchens, etc. 

    I'm going to be playing around a bit with some of the G8Fs who I haven't rendered, probably using the same light so I can compare them. 

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131

    I looked through the $1.99 PCFAD items and I'm through as I think they've had the same batch all sale long and there isn't anything else I can make use of that I don't have several similar items of already.

    I did buy other items on sale though like the B.E.T.T.Y. Stained Glass Mirrors and the Ansiko Boxing Gym. I still can't download anything since Saturday morning but I'm patient. 

  • nonesuch00 said:

    I looked through the $1.99 PCFAD items and I'm through as I think they've had the same batch all sale long and there isn't anything else I can make use of that I don't have several similar items of already.

    It's a catch up, so yes it is the same ones that have been available earlier in the sale.

    I did buy other items on sale though like the B.E.T.T.Y. Stained Glass Mirrors and the Ansiko Boxing Gym. I still can't download anything since Saturday morning but I'm patient. 

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    nonesuch00 said:

    I looked through the $1.99 PCFAD items and I'm through as I think they've had the same batch all sale long and there isn't anything else I can make use of that I don't have several similar items of already.

    I did buy other items on sale though like the B.E.T.T.Y. Stained Glass Mirrors and the Ansiko Boxing Gym. I still can't download anything since Saturday morning but I'm patient. 

    If you have the mirrors, note there's tables to match them. Would be a pretty set.  Do you know why you can't download stuff? Is it a known DIM issue?

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    Man, I am HATING this forum font. 

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    Can someone answer this question? In the Caribbean Island product, can you turn off just the flowers? They are flat and even if they weren't, they look totally out of place to me. Those look like daisies! All I see is a mention of vegetation being separate, so I'm wondering if the flowers (instances most likely) can be turned off or opacity-outted in Surfaces. You get a lot with that product and it's in the 50 percent off (more with purchase, etc) so I'm looking at it. If those flowers can't go bye-bye without losing all the vegetation, not buying it.  

  • Novica said:

    Can someone answer this question? In the Caribbean Island product, can you turn off just the flowers? They are flat and even if they weren't, they look totally out of place to me. Those look like daisies! All I see is a mention of vegetation being separate, so I'm wondering if the flowers (instances most likely) can be turned off or opacity-outted in Surfaces. You get a lot with that product and it's in the 50 percent off (more with purchase, etc) so I'm looking at it. If those flowers can't go bye-bye without losing all the vegetation, not buying it.  

    They have their own surface groups, so they can be hidden with opacity or removed entirely with the Geometry Editor

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    @richardhaseltine  Thanks!  I've never seen such squashed flowers :(  and definitely want them gone.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    Novica said:

    @richardhaseltine  Thanks!  I've never seen such squashed flowers :(  and definitely want them gone.

    Look at this promo snippet. Either those flowers or that character are way out of scale!

     

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  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited October 2021

    @barbult  Yeah, that too! My goodness. I am still looking at it, it goes 15.73 and 55% off, but with another item it gets me over 18.00   I've had Sheet Ghost wishlisted for awhile and it's in Fast Grab. I love the way they put the transparent ghost over the skeleton, very clever. So with both of those the island went down to 9.73. (With a new release in the cart, I've got both the B.E.T.T.Y items in the cart, both PC+.  New items get you a slight discount, hence the 15.73.) 

     So  the island dropped to 15.73  (55%) from 17.48, then used the PC+ code and it went to 9.73 and 72% off. Good deal! (Fast Grab items and new items are not discounted with the code, so the entire 6.00 off went to the island.)

     

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    I'm not buying that Sheet Ghost, because that pointed top is too KKK-like.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887
    edited October 2021

    barbult said:

    I'm not buying that Sheet Ghost, because that pointed top is too KKK-like.

    It's got rounded options. :)  Most the promos are rounded.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,244

    Novica said:

    barbult said:

    I'm not buying that Sheet Ghost, because that pointed top is too KKK-like.

    It's got rounded options. :)  Most the promos are rounded.

    I know, but I still cringe when I sse that pointed one, so I just don't want it.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,887

    @barbult  It was a rather poor choice for the main promo. Definitely, even though pointed ghosts came long before KKK it still has that negative vibe attached to them. 

  • Sad that that's what some people immediately see.

    I've had the misfortune of having to deal with members of that organization but my first thoughts were of cartoons

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