Christmas 2023

[Agent0013]

DAZ has more (Bi)Weekly Freebies up, a week after the last set. I already had most of the product packs, but there were 8 that I didn't have, so I grabbed them.

[Agent0013]

Dynamic hair? Don't remember all those PFD threads on making furry creatures like Mica huh? Or the "How to grow hair on anything, even a bowling ball" thread? I gave away a dynamic pony-tail for use on any figure. Universal pony-tail hair. That was Poser's Hair Room. None of that stuff took any special amount of computer power. I used a Pentium and then a Core2Duo to do that stuff for years. No special graphics card required. No massive amount of RAM. It's been part of Poser for 10 years or more now I guess.

I do remember the threads. Was using a lot of your tutorials to learn Poser 10, when Smith Micro had it. When my laptop went almost belly up, it became difficult to do things on it. I still have the old laptop, but no battery or power supply for it. I would like to put the harddrive in another computer, but do not have one to put it in. My current computer is an HP All in One, and does not even have HDMI connection capability. I think I have a lot of my old files on it.
Dynamic Hair in Poser, I did expect was possible. I don't know about my version of Poser 10, as it is not the pro version, but if as you say, it is light on the resources of the computer hardware, my version may have had it also.
DAZ Studio had Optitex dynamics for clothing, but nothing for hair in DAZ Studio. The dForce Dynamics engine is for both clothing and hair. Both engines include dynamics animation capabilities. Making clothing or hair dynamic for any engine is beyond my current skills, and learning it would put too much on my already full learning efforts at this time. In the future though, I may decide to take it on.

[parkdalegardener]

Dynamic hair? Don't remember all those PFD threads on making furry creatures like Mica huh? Or the "How to grow hair on anything, even a bowling ball" thread? I gave away a dynamic pony-tail for use on any figure. Universal pony-tail hair. That was Poser's Hair Room. None of that stuff took any special amount of computer power. I used a Pentium and then a Core2Duo to do that stuff for years. No special graphics card required. No massive amount of RAM. It's been part of Poser for 10 years or more now I guess.

[Agent0013]

CR2   Character file. Anything with rigging.
PP2    Prop file. Anything without rigging.
They are interchangeable.

Poser dynamic is a simple OBJ file with collision between OBJ vertex and face detected and an offset provided. Delaunay triangles are the best geometry for the colliding OBJ.

You are not going to "ripple" a house with dynamics. You might use the physics engine to do it but I haven't tried such a thing. It is beyond easy to ripple a flag with respect to Wind Force using dynamic cloth.

Poser's Cloth Room has absolutely nothing to do with making or deploying dynamic cloth. It is a way to transfer rigging from one CR2 into another group of one or more OBJ files to make a new CR2 file. Conforming cloth not dynamic cloth.

There are multiple ways and plug-ins to do cloth in Blender. Each is different and separate technique.

I've written ad nauseam on the process over the years. I wrote numerous tutorials on pfdlives at one time as well as Rendo and other places.

Thank you for clarifying this, PDG. I learn from you because of it. Sadly, those PFDLives tutorial files have been lost, due to the switch to a different server for the site. If those files had been allowed to remain, I would be more likely to know more about Poser, including the way Dynamics works in Poser. With such bad search engine skills as I admittedly have, finding other tutorials and info concerning that and other things about Poser is quite difficult for me. Don't worry, my friend. Sooner or later, I will find a way to learn. I am studying what I can find, even though it is coming to me rather slowly.
In the meantime, I and also working to learn about the equivalent version of dynamics in DAZ Studio, even though at the moment I do not have the capability to learn about the dForce Dynamics engine. Thus far, I've only successfully used the Optitex Dynamics plugin. Soon I will be brushing up on that, as my current computer is able to handle it. When I am able to get a better computer that has the needed hardware, I will be working to learn the new dForce engine, which can even do dynamic hair. I don't know for sure, but I expect that Poser now has dynamic hair also, if it did not have it already.
Again, thanks for the more accurate information!

[thelufias]

Will take a trip to Daz shortly.....Thanks Aelin

[Aelin]

For Renderosity, it's over with Christmas freebies.

For Daz, there is a new one today (available also tomorrow and the day after, if the countdown is right).
There are also the 2 newest Christmas freebies of the list.
For the 3 in all, check the first message of topic.

[parkdalegardener]

CR2   Character file. Anything with rigging.
PP2    Prop file. Anything without rigging.
They are interchangeable.

Poser dynamic is a simple OBJ file with collision between OBJ vertex and face detected and an offset provided. Delaunay triangles are the best geometry for the colliding OBJ.

You are not going to "ripple" a house with dynamics. You might use the physics engine to do it but I haven't tried such a thing. It is beyond easy to ripple a flag with respect to Wind Force using dynamic cloth.

Poser's Cloth Room has absolutely nothing to do with making or deploying dynamic cloth. It is a way to transfer rigging from one CR2 into another group of one or more OBJ files to make a new CR2 file. Conforming cloth not dynamic cloth.

There are multiple ways and plug-ins to do cloth in Blender. Each is different and separate technique.

I've written ad nauseam on the process over the years. I wrote numerous tutorials on pfdlives at one time as well as Rendo and other places.

[Aelin]

Advent Calendar is over officially all around the world; but in case you missed one or the other freebie(s) at Daz, it's back at that link (but you find direct links also in first message of topic)
https://www.daz3d.com/holiday-freebie
Only for today, so last chance!
You find also the freebie of today on that link.

And if you missed a day or more at Rendo, it's also possible to take today those you missed! Only a little more than 16 hours left.
https://www.renderosity.com/article/27861/dec2023-12-days-of-christmas-give-away-december-25th

Of course, our Christmas page continues
https://www.thefantasiesattic.net/xmas/2023/index.html

[Aelin]

For a house, I suggest a very strong computer

Don't forget our beloved Christmas page
https://www.thefantasiesattic.net/xmas/2023/index.html

And for Rendo today
https://www.renderosity.com/article/27866/dec2023-12-days-of-christmas-give-away-december-24th

I'm going to edit that message if Daz has few freebies back for today.

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EDIT: Freebies back today
FPE Button Eyes for Genesis 9
Sexy Skinz - Shattered Bodysuit for Genesis 9
Gingerbread Booties for Genesis 9
Heroic Masks for Genesis 9
A Glass of Tea

[Agent0013]

The pp2 gives infos to the programs, which calculates what is necessary to do with infos that you added in the Cloth Room.
A pp2 for a dynamic isn't different from a standard pp2. You can even add a simple shape like a place and simply with the Cloth Room transform it in a "fabric in the wind".

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So using Poser Dynamics, I could make a house ripple in the wind? Would I like to see that? Yes I would! LOL