Favorite products
Just contemplating the products I've gotten that have been most useful/cool...
For me:
Unshaven Beard
Men often have facial hair, and this one small product covers a HUGE range. And it works great in Iray... really looking forward to the new version!
Real Hairy for Genesis (I should consider getting the G2M one someday!)
Underarm hair, body hair... adds a huge amount of realism for lots of scenes, particularly if you want close in shots and some realism.
Aging morphs bundle
I like showing characters with some, well, character, and anything that extends that is great. Plus, I like having a range of characters, and this allows me to not just make older characters but different sorts of appearances.
Plus plus, HD details are always fun to, again, enhance that fine detailed realism.
Morphs bundles (Male, female, G2, etc)
This somewhat disappears seamlessly in my process, but I have to remind myself that any character with, well, character, I'm probably making use of these bundles to tweak appearance.
Among other things, it's allowed me to capture various ethnic variations without having to specifically go buy a figure or ethnic morph.
Creature collection
There are a bunch of different varieties, but generally I like the ability to have wildly different not-quite-humans, and this lets me do so. Also some nice new skins and HD options.
Bot Genesis
This is more personally important, since I work on a webcomic where one character is based on this product. I suppose if I wasn't, it would be more of an occasional thing.
Look at my Hair
Originally I was mainly interested in it for body fur, but now that I'm in Iray, that's not very tenable. HOWEVER I've forced myself to actually try to make hairstyles, and I'm finding myself at the point where it's 'paid for itself' by managing to make a few hairstyles I like (which I would otherwise had to have bought)
Dynamic Clothing
Similar to LAMH, I'm slowly getting a grip on this. It's hard to use, but when it works it's AMAZING.
It's also been great for the four-armed character I just introduced, since a number of dynamic clothes will quite happily drape over however many arms you have...
So, how about you?
Comments
Oh sheesh, forgot some more really useful ones:
Skin Builder
-- Create a wide variety of skins. More importantly, make them without eyebrows and then either add eyebrows or do something else. Create your own eyes! VERY handy.
And if you grab the UV Setter script from online, you can set Genesis 2 male to use the Victoria 5 skins Skin Builder generally makes (V5 or V4)
Skin Overlay
-- Add freckles, wrinkles, cellulite, all sorts of tweaks to enhance a skin. These are particularly useful with Iray, since you can add crucial displacement details.
LIE Baker
-- And when you've done all that, Baker can squash all your files down so it doesn't take 15 minutes to load a project.