The Daz Studio and Related Product Deals Thread (Daz3D, Renderosity, Renderotica, etc.)

[Jumbi]

And I've just been told by one user at the Daz forums that earlier today that coupon code was giving a much higher extra discount and not the 10% that was supposed to offer on Daz Originals, meaning that some fortunate folks surely have purchased GCs with huge discounts earlier today. Not me, sadly. Still, I shouldn't complain, 28% off GCs is still nice.

 

[OhWee]

There's a 55%/65% off sale on a bunch of environments stuff over at Renderosity:

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If you are Prime and have not fired off your 20% off coupon yet, might be worth a looksee.

There's a few other sales going on as usual, as well as a short Q&A with Powerage:

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[oaiki]

Circular Promo at Daz3D today

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It works, but you have to work hard to maximise the benefit ...​

 

[orgtech]

It works, but you have to work hard to maximise the benefit ...​

Note that there are 3 different sections with ~60% off with 1 new release:

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[oaiki]

Note that there are 3 different sections with ~60% off with 1 new release:
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Yup!, I just focused on the first as it had a lot of my wishlisted items, the 70%er was good for bringing the cost of the buy-in down ...

 

[Jumbi]

Hey,

Today is a decent opportunity to get a GC with an attractive 28% discount. Let me explain it.

In my current cart, I'm getting a 28% discount on the gift card included. But I believe it follows the sale logic. I mean, I have three of yesterday's new releases in the cart that grant an extra 20% discount to the order, and then I also have one of today's new releases (I have two of them in fact), that together with the LUVIN-DAZ coupon code of today's sale grant an extra 10% discount on Daz Originals. And it seems that gift cards count as Daz Originals. At least, they appear listed among my wishlisted Daz Originals items (yes, I've grown accustomed to WL gift cards as well). Hence the total 28% discount on the GC.

Today the opportunity is even juicier. The GC discount can mount up to 35%. The bad news is the important number of buy-ins required. In total:

At least 3

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to get an extra 20% off*‡ your entire order
At least 1

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and use Coupon Code LUVIN-DAZ
At least 1

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Still, if you can throw in tokens to bring the final price down, it's a good chance, especially if you have an interest in your buy-ins.

 

[Schlongborn]

Today the opportunity is even juicier.

Damn, now I regret buying one for 24% off, even though the buy-in is large if you get a 500$ one it is quite worth it.

EDIT: Well, I shouldn't complain too loud, since I guess you guys bought some at 10% or 15%. It's just what you gotta deal with in Daz land I guess. I do have a tendency to just buy a big one when a good GC discount like this one hits anyways, even though I don't need it. Hope they don't go even lower next week...

 

[Jumbi]

Damn, now I regret buying one for 24% off, even though the buy-in is large if you get a 500$ one it is quite worth it.

EDIT: Well, I shouldn't complain too loud, since I guess you guys bought some at 10% or 15%. It's just what you gotta deal with in Daz land I guess. I do have a tendency to just buy a big one when a good GC discount like this one hits anyways, even though I don't need it. Hope they don't go even lower next week...

Oh, yes, absolutely. The budget of the card is also a crucial aspect to decide whether it makes sense the extra effort of buying that many buy-ins or not. For small budget cards, then it's hard to justify making a purchase like this. But for a $500 one, it's worth it. And as I said, if you happen to have tokens to spend in the process, the deal gets even better. Add to those two variables that you also happen to wish the buy-ins and then you've found one hell of a deal.

 

[orgtech]

For small budget cards, then it's hard to justify making a purchase like this. But for a $500 one, it's worth it. And as I said, if you happen to have tokens to spend in the process, the deal gets even better. Add to those two variables that you also happen to wish the buy-ins and then you've found one hell of a deal.

Yes. The tokens don't apply to the gift card, but they do to the buy-ins, and that can make a difference.

At the other end from "small budget cards", if you believe you're going to spend a lot on Daz in the coming years, you can buy more than one gift card at once, and the buy-in becomes a smaller proportion, making the final effective percentage higher. If the gift card is identical to one already in the cart, it won't add it, but if you change the "from" name by adding a single character, it will allow it, and then you can put in as many cards as you can afford.

 

[Schlongborn]

Not much going on this week, other then what? An Unreal Bundle of course:

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I think I like it, it has Dekogon stuff and I always like those. I assume there is some overlap with older bundles but I haven't checked yet.

 

[ouch2020]

Not much going on this week, other then what? An Unreal Bundle of course:

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I think I like it, it has Dekogon stuff and I always like those. I assume there is some overlap with older bundles but I haven't checked yet.

Looks impressive, but if I am not wrong, it is all stuff for unreal right ?
BTW, I know this is not the best forum to ask, but has anyone any idea how difficult it is would be to have characters and environments in DAZ, and then animate them in Unreal, and get the resulting animation exported in something that can be used somewhere else (even just as video file) ?

 

[Schlongborn]

Looks impressive, but if I am not wrong, it is all stuff for unreal right ?

Yeah, it is for Unreal, but I have always posting these because I think they're actually a pretty good deal (Unreal assets are super expensive if you buy them on Fab.com). I made a post a while back where I ramble about importing them into Daz: https://thef95zone.info/threads/the-daz-...nderosity-renderotica-etc.64546/post-14582839

Even though they are for Unreal, those assets are just 3D files that you can use in other programs.

About animating outside of Daz your best bet is Blender. You can import Daz Scenes into Blender relatively easily (there is a builtin way which sucks, use Diffeomorphic instead), and you'll also find a lot of documentation how to get assets from Blender into Unreal. So I'd recommend looking into that.

Another option is Reallusion Iclone8+CC3. That actually supports importing Daz characters and is a program specifically meant for animation. It will either convert the Genesis rig into a Character Creator 3 rig (CC3 is usually bought together with Iclone8, it is Reallusions alternative to Daz), or it can also just animate the Genesis rig but you'll loose out on some advanced functionality then.

If you want to use the animation in multiple programs, then ideally all those programs should use the same rig. Like if you want to animate Genesis 8 in Blender and then use the animation in Unreal, both should use the Genesis 8 rig. Or, if you want to use a different rig, like CC3, or the Unreal rig, or whatever, then you gotta checkout how can make sure all the programs in your pipelone use that rig. It'll make things easier and that would be the first think I would try to figure out.

Also note what I just said only applies to animations for the bones of the rig. You'll probably also want to deal with animations of morphs (shape keys driven by attributes) and facial animations (which are also bone based, but usually those are driven by attributes, otherwise it's too complicated).

 

[ouch2020]

Yeah, it is for Unreal, but I have always posting these because I think they're actually a pretty good deal (Unreal assets are super expensive if you buy them on Fab.com). I made a post a while back where I ramble about importing them into Daz: https://thef95zone.info/threads/the-daz-...nderosity-renderotica-etc.64546/post-14582839

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Also note what I just said only applies to animations for the bones of the rig. You'll probably also want to deal with animations of morphs (shape keys driven by attributes) and facial animations (which are also bone based, but usually those are driven by attributes, otherwise it's too complicated).

Thanks, I have a "demo" version of iClone, but never even installed. AFAIK Blender has a very steep learning curve, though I used it together with Daz to convert some stuff for use in Daz, but I also know it is routinely used to create morphs and modify assets for Daz, and it is free.
So, I guess the best investment would be spending time learning Blender well enough, so I have one tool to use both to modify assets more than what I can do in Daz, and to do animations, or find out if animate2 is better than the timeline.
I managed to do something with the timeline for dForce, but it seems to me that even just creating a keyframe is a lottery, sometime it works after a long time, many others it freezes.

 

[OhWee]

So close...

So first off, Xivon is very talented! And the fact that he's making stuff that often end up as Daz Plus items is very cool!

In any case, over at Daz3D.com, there's some sort of wishlist sale going on atm,

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I also spotted a 'lightning deal' item in the 89% off range, so it might be a good idea to keep an eye on those today for discount stacking opportunities.

Most of the prereq items are well over $10, so usual prereq baggage to deal with. Well, except for this thingie, at $4.19 if Daz+...

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Anyways, other than the cheap buy-in thingie, it's so close to a modern take on the 'jet truck'. Those that have watched the 80's cult classic Buckaroo Banzai will know of what I'm referring to...



Well, cockpit-wise at least. If the back of the Xi vehicle was longer, a jet engine just looks like it'd belong there!

I've taken a couple of stabs at re-creating the '80's Ford truck body conversion in DS/Hexagaon as an attempt to pay homage to the BB jet truck, but I always get tripped up on the cockpit, which is essentially a 'center seater' instead of the 'side by side' that most modern gound vehicle 3d models have. So I usually give up and move on to some other project. In any case, my point is that the Xi vehicle cockpit has potential... I love the computer screens/control layout!



Anyways, yeah I'm getting off track here, just wanted to share my creative thought process for a sec...

My main point here is that there may be some interesting stacking opportunities today on wishlist items. Kind of 'more of the usual' but yeah Lightning Deals might be worth keeping an eye on!

 

[Schlongborn]

So, I guess the best investment would be spending time learning Blender well enough, so I have one tool to use both to modify assets more than what I can do in Daz, and to do animations, or find out if animate2 is better than the timeline.

I don't want to make this go too off topic, but still wanted to answer: Yeah, I think learning Blender is a good bet, definitely worth more then learning the Reallusion stuff. You'll find plenty of tutorials for Blender since it is free, and the "Blender has a steep learning curve" is a bit of a meme at this point imho. Yes it is steep, but all powerful programs are complex, and Blender is probably one of the most powerful 3D programs around.

Animation in Daz3D is kind of a nightmare, but it works. Personally I have animate2 just because it unlocks some functionality, but when I do anything animation related inside Daz I pretty much only use the timeline. When you do something like creating a keyframe in the timeline, then it creates it for all properties of the thing you're creating a keyframe for. You can disable that behaviour to make it faster. What you see as "freezing" is just Daz going through all your properties and making a keyframe for each of them, and I assume you just have way too many properties.

Each figure you install, each morph package, adds properties. These will all have to be processed when doing stuff with the figure often, and these are what slow Daz down so much. Loading figures being slow is another one that is affected by these. The solution to this is to simply not have all your figure/morph packages installed while loading a figure.

 

[amster22]

The number of concerned items is very high (53k) and most items before july2024. It stacks with other offers. For instance, with today "Artists Stores", you can get 92%off if you purchase 3 or more (with an extra 12%off with a new release).

 

[Schlongborn]

The number of concerned items is very high (53k) and most items since july2024. It stacks with other offers. For instance, with today "Artists Stores", you can get 92%off if you purchase 3 or more (with an extra 12%off with a new release).

This is must be one of the best sales ever, with thousands of PA items at ~94% off.

EDIT: I am kind of thinking this is too good to be true, and might be a glitch. Some items go up to 97-98% off, quite recent ones go over >91% easily too.

EDIT2: Maybe it isn't actually, either way it feels like you can basicly buy some PAs entire libraries for 94+% off. Polish for example, which makes me angry that I bought his stuff before. Could have saved so much...

 

[OhWee]

Damn evil Daz3D.com stacking sales!

Ummm, I mean I really appreciate the heads up guys! This one would have blown right past me if not for this thread!


So yeah, I ended up buying a bunch of stuff. The 3 wishlist items, yeah had to do a bit of cart Jenga to maximize the discounts for the three most expensive items on my wishlist, but I was able to get there eventually...

This should tide me over until March mehness...

 

[orgtech]

Dang, I entirely missed that FLASH ALE. That's ok, I guess I already have plenty of 3D-modeled beverages.

 

[Jumbi]

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The number of concerned items is very high (53k) and most items before july2024. It stacks with other offers. For instance, with today "Artists Stores", you can get 92%off if you purchase 3 or more (with an extra 12%off with a new release).

This is must be one of the best sales ever, with thousands of PA items at ~94% off.

EDIT: I am kind of thinking this is too good to be true, and might be a glitch. Some items go up to 97-98% off, quite recent ones go over >91% easily too.

Excellent flash mega-sale, glitched or not. With 8 tokens, the items with an original 50% discount, got a final 88% discount for me. And these were the least appealing of them all. As many others, I bought a lot of non Daz Originals with a terrific 94% discount, and some Daz Originals with 97%. Simply great. I also read comments on the Daz forums of happy users with this sale. For what little I've seen, if one sale's economic prices are due to an error and people comment on the Daz forums, the price gets corrected sooner rather than later. So perhaps, yesterday's prices were Daz's real intent after all, who knows.