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Originally Posted by: Ebonix115

I love Daz with a burning passion, honestly, I do. But there is one thing that I absolutely cannot stand and it gets me to my wits end. Maybe it's the fact that artist come out with things at different times. Maybe it's that I just don't know how to use Blender and make my own stuff. Maybe it's just because the Daz3D gods want to punish me or something. I guess I'll never know the reason. However!

Every time that I need something, then I go to the shop looking for it given that I can't make it with the products that I currently have. I have spent the last week working on a lab for an evil scientist. It looks pretty ok, but I'm not happy with the room. I've just been dealing with it and making it look good (colors, materials, angles, etc) just for this to come out today - 

https://www.renderotica.com/store/sku/64384_High-Security-Laboratory

Why? Just why? Why does the universe have to do me like this? I swear if this just had've been out like a week prior, I would have been fine. But no, it's after I've spent a week puting it together. 

 

Alright, my rant is over. Thanks for listening. 

The universe is a hateful thing that enjoys our suffering.  It's always looking for an opportunity to destroy our joys so try not to attract its attention.

However, I think doing your own modeling, however crude, is more creative than using a set that you purchased. Of course, it's true that there are those times that one wants just to get an image out there and not reinvent the wheel, and that's fine too,  Digital art is at the junction between two different models of work; one is the lone artist that does it all on their own, and the second is the artist who crafts a new work of art out of the contributions of others.

I started my art journey ages ago, with pencil sketches on paper; went to oil paints (and then acryllics and watercolors and airbursh), and finally digital art.  While I never wrote my own modeler or rendering engine, I never made my own paper, canvas, pencils, brushes, airbrush, paints and inks either. I think we have left the lone artist mode work far, far behind.

So I use Blender (an earlier version), Poser (now version 12) and Vue 11 (they switched to a subscription model which has stopped me from upgrading for now). I model when I want to (in all three packages, modeling in the latter two is assembling primitives), and I use purchased content when I want to.

So don't throw away your models.

Originally Posted by: Hellboy

The worst is when you are creating a big, complicated product you planned to do months ago and then, despite being a very unusual, specific design, something very, very similar is released along the way. Meaning I didn't just lose my time, but the product/income.

What product was that? You make pretty unique stuff that usually for male figures. I'm shocked someone beat you to something.

Sorry for a belated post, but being so used to little activity I fully overlooked this specific forum (stupid me), and as a rather devoted Daz Studio user myself I couldn't resist posting anyway.

Originally Posted by: Ebonix115

Every time that I need something, then I go to the shop looking for it given that I can't make it with the products that I currently have. I have spent the last week working on a lab for an evil scientist. It looks pretty ok, but I'm not happy with the room. I've just been dealing with it and making it look good (colors, materials, angles, etc) just for this to come out today - 

https://www.renderotica.com/store/sku/64384_High-Security-Laboratory

Why? Just why?

First... thanks for sharing that, it went directly into my wishlist because I agree, that looks sweet. The work on that table alone must have taken Dub their sweet time and I agree: it looks amazing! Hopefully I'll be able to pick it up next week myself.

But second....   I cannot help wonder what kind of products you bought or own and what you're looking for when you grab something? See...  from my point of view you can divide a lot of scenery products into 2 categories: "works best stand-alone" and "is modular". It's not always easy to recognize one for the other, but many products I bought over the years turned out to be modular. Basically... if you carefully go over a products description and check how many components it provides (not always a given) then you can often be decently sure things are modular.

Which means that you can easily use parts of the product and mix that with something else. Yah, it will take some sweet time to set something up (which is why I love the DS sub-scenes) but if you do it right you might even be able to re-use your sub-scene as well.

Maybe food for thought?