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Mixing and matching your sets and seeing what I can come up with is something I find pretty fun when making my art, for example the Madlab 5 core restraint works well with the Madlab 6 operation mech if you make everything invisible but the ring and op arms.

The new Water Works set sounds interesting, do you have a rough date/timescale on its release?

Sounds like some interesting ideas there, I did this package called "the citadel" way back in the day that was kind of like that but no lava. The heated devices sound cool. I'll store these ideas up. Thanks!

Well, the Poser version is finished, the DS version is being worked on my Freeone and I haven't got it back yet. Keeps fingers crossed :-)

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Glad to hear and will be eager to get!

Frankly I don't like most of the stuff out these days - not just DAZ v Poser.
Now IF there was a Poser version for Laudnum's, Meipe's stuff and that new fleshy tentacle thing I'd have bought them instantly.

The Citadel! What an awesome set that was. It was my second purchase, right after MadLab III. I loved the look of Citadel, as well as the Gothic/natural sort of blend. Had a lot of fun with those altars. I'd definitely go for and updated Citadel or Citadel-like product.

Madlab III was my first set, and in some ways it will always be a favorite. It came with several different texture options to completely change the look of it, and i made a lot of use of that feature.

Quanset Hut was another favorite - so much possibility there. An update with Daz texturing and poses would be most welcome. Textures to match the Grungeon stuff would be fantastic.

I like the 40's- 50's bunker theme - lots of possibility there. Evil medical experiments are always fun, and mix well with that theme. a set that includes some industrial ladder rungs/ grab irons/ handles would be great. Would love to finally do a Videodrome-like set, with pillars and ladder rungs. Lots of opportunities for new poses.

The Grungeon sets are just excellent. They are my Go-To these days, along with your recent electro set. (Love electro - HATE posing wires. Always conflicted).

Thanks so much for all the really cool & unusual stuff you have made over the years. Had many hours of fun with it.

Hi guys,
My apologies for not replying sooner. I usually get a notification in my email when a post is made but not on the last few posts.
In regards to water works 2, it's still in the works. Freeone is engaged heavily in work outside of 3d stuff and hopefully will have it soon.
Sparky! Thanks for your comments. I do try to make my products as versatile as possible and include a lot of morphs and moveable-repositionable parts so users can get creative and do a lot of custom posing and fitting. Sometimes a specific camera angle needs some repositioning of a character.
In light of changes in 3d, I've decided it's time to gradually become more literate in DazStudio, so I'm trying to learn it. What I have noticed or heard, is that there is a necessity to have different material settings for iray versus 3delight? I am somewhat loathe to have to go thru twice the work, so I'm going to have to chose one or the other, if I could get an idea what the preferred render engine is, that would be appreciated.
Also, some issues have come up in posing method, traditionally in poser, you parent a figure (character) to a body part of a restraint device, then apply a pose for the device and a matching pose for the character. This allows movement and adjustment of the device and the character will move with it, allowing progressive posing for the scene, device and character. The other method imports your character, device and the pose in one click, however the device is parented to the character and the character needs to be reloaded for each new pose. Not being familiar with DS or the preferences of users, I am curious how you all feel about the posing methods. If you want to do progressive posing without reloading your custom character each time, is the first method preferred? If you don't want to do any modifications or adjustments, is the second method preferred or still the first method so you can tilt a device part the character is patented to a smidgen?
Poser users, don't worry, all the rigging of my models is going to always be done in poser.
Any input is always appreciated, if you are a regular user of my products, this is important information for us.
Cheers,
Davo

Re: Daz render engines - IRAY. I believe I did only a handful of renders in 3delight when moving to Daz. Enough to find out that I preferred Iray strongly. It takes much longer render, but has much better results IMO. I have no idea of the process of creating items for Iray, but i would think twice about buying a product that was 3delight only.

Regarding your posing question: I still use the Poser procedure - Load character, then device, then load poses for both. Then I tweak the poses until I have something I can live with. The "one-click" method is great when it works. Sometimes though, things don't work as intended. A couple days ago, I loaded a heavily modified custom G8F character into grungeon restraint 2. The pose loaded for both the character and restraint, and the restraint scaled to match the character, but the restraint was placed halfway below the floor and would not move, even after un-parenting. I deleted restraint 2, reloaded just it and it worked fine, but did not scale to the character. The custom character was short - about 5'2", and I think that may have confused something. I loaded another custom character today and it worked fine with restraint 2. That character was about same height as the default G8F.

Overall, I like the old "load both, then pose" method. Followed by lots of progressive tweaking. I almost never use any pose without progressive adjustment - not just yours. I spend way too much time fiddling with the angles of hands, adjusting finger joints, moving eyes and trying to hide thumbs. But thats just me.

Thanks again for all the great products, and here's hoping video cards will drop in price to where I can get a good one with enough memory to render complex scenes in Iray.

I prefer IRAY as a render engine and the 'poser method', because the results are in most cases better / require less adjustments and it is also more versatile, because you can use the poses in other situations without deleting the items.

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Water Works 2 was worth the wait in my opinion, because it is an amazing set! I like especially the option to automatically parent the character to the devices.

I am looking forward to the expansion packs for this set :)

I have something more akin to "Labworks 2" with lots of isolation/restraint table stuff that would fit in with the last Labworks set.  Anything in particular you'd like to see in a new madlab/labworks?