Are you ready to buy into Genesis 9?

[eelgoo]

That is often the way.

They tinker...Don't fix what they set out to do properly & on the way break something else!

I suppose they see it as keeping themselves in a job.

:0/

[Glassman]

Improvements to the figure are very incremental and some parts go backwards - you want a better portrait, but it's clear that say, ears are much worse and distractingly bad now. So now we'll need Natural Ears instead of Natural Eyes... not a clear sell at all.

I think one thing that helps save Daz is realtime, instant dForce : would fix polygonal hair & geometric issues with clothes, also would bake in soft body physics. It's possible with AI methods in 2022 but they don't know/can't afford the coders to make that happen. And that's a cost to their business, not an opportunity to immediately bring cash in.

[eelgoo]

This focus on close up portraiture is exactly what I don't want.

I am more interested in single frame full body renders.

:0/

[Glassman]

Yeah, I mean, we all have slightly different use cases, and that - photorealism - is what they were trying to sell, because 8k textures, right ? But even that they couldn't execute correctly.

[ItsMeNotYou]

I just don't understand why they are being soo slow at putting out new characters , morph packages , merchant resources and converters , is this not their "New" flagship model ? it all has me scratching my head the real lack of products for this new line G9.

[eelgoo]

The whole thing has been half hearted, half assed,right from the first 'big' announcement.

:0/

[gaver]

One good thing...G8 clothes work on G9 to. Was afraid I had to refill the garment section for G9. Studio does nice conversions for you. Sometimes footwear can be a prob i found.
Apart from that, I like the "feel"of the G9 Characters.
Added G9 in G8 Clothing pic. Not fully rendered( just wanted to check if it was possible, and my pc is way slowwww)

[Anonymous]

I understand the interest for G9, but I started DAZ in June of this year and put money into G8 stuff, so it will wait some time before I change, I think.

[DirkDiggler]

I seem to have the same feeling as everyone else here. I have a lot of G3 stuff and I refused to go to G8 for a while.. But then so many nice clothing and poses and other stuff came out of G8 that I just couldn't get to work nice on a G3 so I gave in and started doing G8.
Likely I'll still with G8 for a long time. Daz even gave a $10 off coupon to some people for Victoria 9. I still didn't buy in. Eventually she'll go on sale like everything else and maybe then. But for me. I can do almost everything I need. Like someone else said here. If they make a way to make G9 to G8 stuff. I likely won't bother.

DD

[eelgoo]

Well there is a free tut at 'rosity about making a G9 Clone for G8

Linky ;0)

The catch is you have to install the G9 stuff to make it.

:0/

[Abrasive Angel]

I was a little excited but after it released and took forever to render, I uninstalled it.

[wallyburger]

I guess one of the main draw points of Gen 9 is the higher definition (probably the wrong term but you know what I mean) Sadly with my poor old rig, using the Gen 9 top quality means I can't render complex scenes anymore.
I will not be buying any Gen 9 assets until I have bought a much better rig to use them on, OR Daz actually give us a new more optimized version of their software, which is really what they should have been working on instead of Gen 9. But the almighty dollar affects their priorities of course.
Note: I have purchased many Gen 3 and Gen 8 assets.
I use ZoneGfx mostly as a try before you buy system.

[Frank21]

Priceless @Ethiopia! Spot on the money.

[Glassman]

"-And my baby's my common sense,
So don't feed me planned obsolescence"

- The White Stripes

[ItsMeNotYou]

I think the real question should be is why did they release G8.1 when G9 was being released not much later , that feels like a dumb money grabbing move to me like the G9 model was not ready but release it any way = G8.1

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