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Oh yes, Anja and Dragon. And now that we have that CISPA law that singlehandedly turned Tumblr as pure as the driven snow, it's gotten even more disturbing. And yes, I hate the wear them all utilities. It's especially bad on anything for M4H4 fitted to Genesis8. I've recently started trying to pull my old DZheng collection out, and converting it to Gen8 and everything looks clean and beautiful until I move the arms and discover the shirts have developed wings lol. The sad part is I usually alot myself around 100 to 200 dollars a month to spend on 3d vendoring and such, yet most of the time I end up blowing it on video games or such because the male content is just rinse and repeat. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten frustrated because the new male outfit Daz is schlepping is just another tshirt and khaki pants outfit for men. I miss the old days when Luthbell was making kick-ass armor and outfits, but armor is harder to do now for Genesis figures because of the conforming function of clothing.
My friend Antonio is revamping his older sites into one brand new male site, MPE3D. It was hacked a couple years back by someone from Rotica after Antonio sued them for stealing a figure out of development and selling it without rights. We have proof only of the location of the hacking attack (California) which was where Rotica was located then, and since then the owner of the site has died and others have inherited it. So now the quarrels are over, however Antonio's long running site "MalePoserotica" which catered to homoerotica, poses, clothing and toys and bondage furnishings etc and 3d penises, lost the momentum and he had health issues and couldn't restart the store right away.
A brand new version is about to open up and he will need lots of feedback and members who are interested in male stuff and want more than Daz can offer. I'll keep you guys informed.
His plan he told me is to create better clothing, more creative and functional than Daz does, stuff that works, and has practical applications, like hands in the pockets morphs, drop morphs, open morphs, zipper morphs and many figure shape morphs, and focus on movement. He has themes planned and is looking at finding more desired themes. He isn't located in the USA so he doesn't have to follow US regulations, just EU ones. So nudity only has to follow the PayPal rules if he wants to use PayPal as a payment processor.
But his focus is on real clothing, real styles, and historical ones which are truly accurate, and at least enough to create a full scene from those periods.
Daz has archived most of its Egyptian products as they were made over 25 years ago and were for M3, D3, V3 and no longer port well onto the Genesis figures, but they also archived all the cool props and accessories too. Making it nearly impossible to to realistic Ancient Egyptian scenes any longer. The only outfits are focussed on being a Pharaoh or Nefertiti, and not a common peasant or soldier or visier. All that is gone. So everyone in Ancient Egypt is a Pharaoh or a Queen, but no "little people" as the assets do not exist. Roman stuff is gaining on Renderosity thru Deacon215, but he is going on vacation from making Roman stuff, so we still don't have Emperor's garments properly or proper Praetorian Guard stuff, to make the town of Pompeii or Rome, there are no construction kits available (yet) those are some of the planned things for the site's offerings. And Ancient Greece is also planned. Antonio is a big fan of Assassin's Creed so I think some of those periods may eventually come into play as well.
Modern day things which are necessary will also be made and offered.
With the new SBH Hair at Daz he started looking for hairstylists to help out making actual male hairstyles that can be sold as presets.
I'm excited about all of this, hopefully it will catch an audience. And that audience will be willing to give feedback and wishes and desires so he can make stuff people actually want for their males.
And he's aware of the share community, but will hope that via sharing his store could possibly take off by people seeing that their stuff is desired, and as long as a link back to the store is given it will eventually drive people to look and check it out.
Anyway, there are plans on the horizon and I am excited about it.
My son has given him tons of ideas, to cover the teenage range as well. He wants to see actual skaterboy clothing and boards and stuff, which are accurate and animateable.
So big plans, hopefully they will pan out over 2020.
Anja
I use male stuff, but mostly because I like to sexy girls and manly heroes. Both, and here's something Daz Originals don't do well, often somewhat realistically and practically dressed! Imagine that!
Do you have any idea how impossible it is to find a full length long sleeved male T-shirt? A fucking shirt! I own like 6 of 'em!
Okay, now I'm venting...
@daishi Go ahead and Vent! That is why I started this thread to get people to talk about male stuff and what they WANT but isn't made for us.
Vent away!
Anja
I like simple, practical items that can be used to do a lot.
What I hate is how everything on Daz is either...
a) weird and only usable for a narrow selection of options (oh look, another set of underpants armor!)
b) Has strange elements that lower its utility (What do you mean that cool leather jacket has a giant cross on the back?)
c) is textured in a lazy way that makes it so using custom materials is basically impossible (Gee, it would be great if this large, intricate item with 75k polys had more than one surface...)
d) Is actually a practical useful item... that was made for a figure at least 2 generations old that doesn't convert well. (What a practical and common sense item! Too bad its for Genesis 1)
e) It's overpriced as shit (they're asking 25 dollars for what?!)
f) It has no morphs or flexibility (Time to load up fit control again!)
g) ALL OF THEE ABOVE
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