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The third finale slots are being reserved for Maria... And possibly Chan, if i give him a full set... and the game mechanics only allow for 3 finales, of course, so the options are limited.

Sigh... Sorry about that. Maria is due to be part of the pack, but circumstances have left me lacking in time to complete her. Chan was working for me without going into the avatars, it's just not advisable to select him as an opponent, just as an avatar.

Well, my pc setup is a little limited and difficult to work from but that matters less as the cosplay set was already complete... mostly. It uses all the new features provided in the latest update, such as _sequences and the new voice tags. Denise and Miku will be familiar to you already, and there are new opponents like Debbie and Darcy, plus some solo male opponents that could be used as playable characters... depending on your tastes. Note that the males might be needed to make some of the finales usable. Anyway, here's the link

https://mega.nz/file/OgQDXaRA#jHImp2xZ2S0kZjlHSgi0ZyA0ek69qFcePJkK2peHg3U

Pc temporarily setup but not sure how much work I'll be able to do.

Now relocated to the UK, but staying with a friend whilst my wife and I recover from the move and find a home. The Cosplay set is ready to go but I'll discuss with Eldricus  the best way to post it once my system is setup again. Thanks for your patience.

Sadly, i have no computer to download and try. I'll get right on it as soon as i've relocated.

Ty for the kind wishes. She's able to hobble around now.so mending slowly.

Well, no plan survives contact with the enemy, and this one didn't. My wife fractured her ankle and we still haven't moved yet... However, flights are booked, things have been shipped, and we'll be out of here by the 17th. No idea when I'll be able to get back to work on the picnic pack after that, but things are moving in the right direction.

I'm afraid I can't say when there might be any new updates from me. My wife and I are moving to the UK from the US, and as you might imagine, that's no easy task. We hope to be fully settled by the New Year, but we'll see. However, I do have that cos play pack ready to go, so I will post a link to that as soon as Eldricus releases the next game update. The pack uses some of the new coding. I'll keep everyone here informed of my domestic situation as I can.

Eldricus and I use mega synch to host our files.

I appreciate your concern, Etherial, and yes, that's part of the craziness. I don't think anyone's mental state of health is good here right now. I think my pc is back to normal, at least I can work with it fairly well. I've done a couple of tweaks to the settings of the new scene since I did those above, just to tone down the grass a bit. So, I'm ready to start on getting renders done.

Things have been a bit crazy here so not much has been getting done. I do have the cos play pack ready to go... I think, but it will work better with the next update from Eldricus. In the meantime I did come up with another theme... couples! Only 4 packs  to start with, but the finales planned will be... intense. Here are the sample images. No promises on when this will get completed, but I'm trying.

You're welcome. A lot of folks prefer the old style layout and color scheme. you can change it all the way back by going to windows>styles>default. I don't mind the darker mint green look in general. I think it provides a better contrast but I did miss the color tabs.

No problem. It bugged me too, which is how I knew the answer.

4.24 has the same color scheme as 2025. If you're missing the parameter colors then go to Window>Styles>Customize Styles.... Which brings a pop up menu, on the pop up, select 3D Axis and you can set the colors there.

For those of you that use Daz Studio, Daz recently released an alpha version of the next major Daz update: Daz 2025. Whilst there are some major issues with it, scripts and plugins don't work, so no mesh grabber or mat copy for Golden Palace, it is noticeably quicker at rendering. So, it might be worthwhile downloading it to help your workflow. It installs separately from the current Daz version and you can use the old and new side-by-side. I'm trying out a workflow where I use old Daz 4.24 to set up the scenes using all the usual tools, then loading the scene into 2025 to render it. So not only can I reduce render times, perhaps by 50% with a GPU render, I can work on another scene whilst the previous one renders in 2025. I figure every little helps.

TY Eldricus!

Miku now corrected and working. Yay! Isiah will be next and I might put up a link to the pack when he is done, and then add Maria later.

The migration of Daz to my D drive helped by freeing up 700gb on the c drive, which improved performance. Windows just updated again and I'm seeing how that affects things/ It's not as bad as it was, but still not great. And when I was waking up this morning, I figured out what I'd done wrong with the composites. It's an easy fix, the renders will be fast, it's just a pain to have to load up the 20 composites at 5 mins a load.

Well, Miku is done for the cosplay set... or so I thought. Turns out her composites are messed up and I have to redo them all. Arrrghhhh!!! Sigh, it will be another day  mainly due to the file loading times rather than render times... then it will be on to Isiah for the set, leaving just Maria to go. But Aubrey for the office will get done before Maria.

Nah... it's definitely stockings

Stockings... Stockings are always the answer...

Hehe....

Hmmm.... Call me suspicious...

Nope. It gives no clues. My computer is still working though. It's a little twitchy but usable, running that Win 11 that it's not supposed to support...

And I've redone those grainy composites. I'll include the updated files in a megapack when I finish Aubrey and round out my office staff. Currently running a few Miku cospplay renders for that set.

Mixed news... my pc still isn't fixed. MS customer support have conceded that the 24H2 update likely corrupted the win 11 files, but something in my hardware is preventing them from fixing. Attempts to reinstall win11 give the report that my pc doesn't meet the win 11 system requirements... and yes, my pc is running win 11 already. On the brighter side, I have migrated Daz to my D drive, and I still have all my smart content tags and no 'missing file' errors when I load up and old scene... so woo me for that. 

I'll try those ideas as soon as I have a working computer. It's not going well.....

Well, I managed to get Mary finished... I think. I'm sure you'll be able to point out things that I missed though. With Mary done, I need to rebuild windows and fix that, and that's going to include reinstalling Daz,  I have no idea when Aubrey will be done for the office. See you on the flip side. Wish me luck.

https://mega.nz/file/KpYjlSYA#WAIF5ORcPr0zzXH4WuiXWjg6gOCC-sLZIMY1O_t5yzU

Windows update went badly wrong and left the system glitchy... Sigh

Sigh... trying to get Mary finished before I have to reinstall windows on my pc...which means reinstalling daz...and likely all its assets...which isn't going to be pretty.

Here is a link to a YT video for creating billboards. As for the cosplay set, I've not done any further work on it as I've been trying to help fill out the office. Mary's main renders are now done and I've just the composites left to to do.

If you've got the money, a 12gb vid card will do wonders, even an old 3060 like mine. 32gb ram will be fine, too, and the CPU doesn't matter anywhere near as much if the vid card is handling the rendering.

Hehe. Let's see... I'm running an Intel i7, 64gb ram, and an rtx 3060 12gb vid card. Close ups and full body shots take about 10-20 mins to render (the office environment is particularly demanding). As a general rule, 4-5 models in a scene is all my rig can handle before it drops to CPU rendering and the render time moves to hours. The club scene above went through in under 5 mins. And yes, some assets are particularly rough on a system. Sea salt hair is another resource sink. I can't even move a model around a scene if she has that hair. The billboards are a way around the crowd scene issue, and you can easily reuse them. So maybe have individuals in the front row that are going to stand out, then duplicates in the rear where they'll be less noticeable.

Yep, the lighting on the billboards is awful. I just created them without really thinking about lighting as it was a basic test piece. To get them properly lit, I'd redo them using the scene lighting. I was also considering the use of some sort of composite as well. There are pros and cons to each method. It's easier to get the lighting right with composites, but then you're stuck with the crowd in place...unless you do multiple composites. Billboards are more flexible with placement, but the lighting might end up off in certain positions in a scene... kinda depends on the scene. But, it was an interesting experiment and I learned something, so useful in it's own right. My thinking was that for this particular location in a CSP sense, you might want the male stripper(s) as part of finales, and therefore it would make sense to have them somewhere in the main scenes. Speaking of finales, I'm still clueless about a theme for the office, if anyone has any ideas.

And you're welcome, Swag

I've been thinking about a possible new location... a nightclub holding a bachelorette/hen party. To make it a little more realistic and atmospheric I wanted some bystanders, perhaps a lot of them, but Daz would have fits with all those extra models. I'd heard about billboards and decided to give them a go. So here is my test scene. The only actual model is Denise. The others are 2D billboards... sort of cardboard cutouts. I don't think it came out badly for a first attempt/

Woohoo!!!!

Got it. Doing Mary's mains atm

Yep, I adjusted the light on the rest of the ezcomposites 

It's been another horrible week, but I did manage to get Kim finished... not sure about the ezcomposites though. Sometimes they seem to be missing and I don't know why. I'm sure Eldricus will locate my stupidity though. Here's the link. Again just Kim's office set.

https://mega.nz/file/6lgRURpY#9gjUlPdAeUNNTRvY-C9wi2W0I5SnXYdLuTnDhs9zw3A

Just doing her composites now. Extra voice files are already done, so I hope it won't be too long. Probably Mary will be next.