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Handyman4545
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[2018-11-04 16:45:32 +0000 UTC]
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# Statistics
Favourites: 4; Deviations: 1022; Watchers: 361
Watching: 26; Pageviews: 9350; Comments Made: 518; Friends: 26
# Interests
Favorite movies: Star TrekFavorite TV shows: Lost In Space
Favorite bands / musical artists: Kenny Chesney
Favorite games: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Zone
Tools of the Trade: Blender, Daz3D, PSP
# Comments
Comments: 36
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It kinda annoys me a bit when people peruse my site and download my stuff without so much as an "atta boy" or "thanks" much less actual comments, you know.
Against my better judgement, I put one of the Tie Bombers on my storefront at Renderhub as a freebie.
I've had over 250 views, no idea how many downloads and 4 favs on it while it's sister, same ship but a better detail version at $10 has had 12 views, no purchasers and no reviews.
I hate cheapskates man.
Worse part of it is no one really even cares how much time and effort we put into this stuff.
They open their free Daz program, call up a free, naked doll, dress it in something they got for free and Mayyy Beee, add a free PSP backdrop to it then post the piece of shit work on the gallery and pridefully, call it art.
My grandson uses more talent in applying his feces to the bathroom wall than these dweebs do.
At the very least, he made the feces.
Only a couple of them actually create their work.
The rest, plagiarizer.
Fuck.
Maybe it's just me getting old and grumpy this week.
I took the Tie bomber off yesterday and resubmitted it as a $1 item.
Fuck-um.
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you really don't know much about Daz studio do you lol
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STAY AWAY FROM HEXAGON
Well.
I'm still in the learning curve of Blender (I seriously wish I'd never started in Hexagon) but I'm making progress having abandoned all hope in Hexagon.
After trying it out again for a couple days, I'm still vastly disappointed and yet totally not surprised that Hexagon (Daz Studio) V:2.5.2.137 (current version), despite Daz's proclamations (BS) of it's great abilities, is still the most unreliable 3D design software I'v used thus far.
If you're doing simple polies perhaps it's ok but if you have any interest in anything complex, stay far, far away from this software.
Hexagon is a toy. Not a professional design program and Daz shows no interest in changing that.
Their last update was June 13, 2018 and the changes were minor from the previous update of Feb 1 2018.
While it's relatively easy to learn there-in lies the trap.
Complex polies and vertices cause it to lock up and crash regularly so if you're doing large or high detail models, at some point after you've rebooted 6 or 12 times (no exaggeration on that either) you'll give it up and go looking for something else and if you learned 3D design on Hexagon, it'll be 4 times harder to learn it on any other, more professional software.
Boolean's, an extremely important tool and a nefarious task in any design software, are an even worse nightmare in Hexagon.
In addition to the standard, habit of adding hundreds of additional vertices (n-gons) regardless of the surfaces you're working with that most platforms also have, Hexagon is even worse in that it also simply makes one or both of the surfaces, disappear.
Again. I invite anyone to step in on the defense of this software.
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I was tooling around on Utube last night and I ran across a video on an old game I used to play many years ago.
After whatching it, I started wondering why no one was doing anything in the 3D word on the outfits.
Terran, Protoss and Zerg.
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I removed the Cat850 pic from my library because apparently, people did not understand why it was there.
That pic was not my model.
That pic was pulled from the internet, probably originally sourcing to a mfgr brochure.
I'm doing a model of the vehicle (see the WIP's) but it isn't anywhere near complete as depicted in that pic, so I can't and won't claim credit for it.
My apologies if there was any confusion because of that post or the ensuing removal.
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Is there any model, or category of model that anyone likes most and would like to see more of?
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Jeez!
Once again I gotta whine about the lack of higher level creativity in the Gallery on Renderhub.
Damb near every submission on there is a DUD (Dress Up Doll).
REALLY folks???
That's the best your limited talent can create?
Press a button and get a naked G8F...
Press another button and get a skanty bikini outfit for your naked G8F...
Press another button and pose your skantilly clad G8F in an aggressive stand (there are literally millions available in every pose imaginable)
Press another button and get a stupid sword and finally,
Add a copied internet back drop!
Viola!
Bland art.
No admission to any higher development art university for you pal.
Learn how to create something rather than simply paste it onto a backdrop.
On the other hand...
Contact your local comic store for erotic comic publication.
Blah, blah, blah.
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I bought this setup re manufactured, refurbished for less than $220
To this I added a 32" HD Flat screen TV (with a hdUSB port adapter).
Iray renderings that took 2 to 7 hours on the old system now render in under 70 min. Most in 10 or 15.
On the old system, four V4.2's in the scene and the mouse was lagging. add a 5th and I was pulling my hair.
Now I have 6 V4.2's and 3 M4.2's in the Eng Pod scene and I haven't seen any appreciable difference between that and one V4
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Compaq 6200 Pro SFF PC
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU A2W44UT#ABA
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 3101 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
(The system came with (2) 4Gb SD-3 RAM (8GB)
$120
Additional Memory RAM Newegg
Item Number: 9SIAB0Z49W0270
Item
Description:SAMSUNG M378B5273Dh0-Ch9 Memory Module-M378B5273Dh0-Ch9
Quantity: 2
(I added (2) more 4Gb SD-3 chips) Total now 16Gb
$32
Adapter Type Quadro K600, NVIDIA compatible
Pay explicit attention to your mounting bracket length!
You need the short bracket.
Adapter Description NVIDIA Quadro K600
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
$65
I'm thinking lightly about looking into another gig or two in the Quadro.
Not sure if I have to buy the new card or merely swap out the RAM on it.
Not in any hurry at the moment though.
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Chuckles...
I just looked at the latest add from Daz and Surprisingly, of the 10 spots only 3 have a woman in it and of the three, two are only head shots and one is a child.
At the moment, that's only 30% and perhaps more fairly, 15% since there's realistically no sex being sold here.
Typically it's 70% to 90% sex adds.
What's more is that one of the adds is a scenic shot and a rather good one at that.
I'm impressed by the change.
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The reason Hexagon sits stagnant and ignored is because it makes no money for them.
The reason all the other engineering software moves forward is because it's either seriously treated as open domain and encouraged advancement or it's an income source.
DAZ isn't interested in opening the software up to outside sources. It's been quietly bounced off the inner walls for a long time and ignored each time.
AND
DAZ doesn't sell engineering software. They sell SEX DOLL CLOTHING.
Ergo you get once every two years, token upgrades.
If you're serious about engineering software, stay away from Hexagon.
There are other, much better systems free and at cost.
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Q)
"You got banned from the blog site for talking about Hex?
How the heck did that happen? Maybe they didn't like your profanity (did you curse alot, because I know I do when DS acts like an ass)?"
A)
chuckles
I got black balled because I called their Hexagon (Daz by ext'n) management staff "incompetent".
No profanities, just open accusations of incompetence, ignorance and blatant disregard.
I expected that they would announce their new interest in resolving the issues, even if only quietly, to just me.
What I didn't expect was that I'd get bumped.
That was a surprise.
When I sent an email to the company complaining about that, they sent back a reply stating total deniability.
'It wasn't us. It was the site admin'.
Hmmmm. What smells here?
Who's site is it again?
Who controls that site?
Who's ultimately responsible for that site?
Who sets the rules for that site?
Once again...
All they care about is selling sex doll accessories.
Just look at the adds they send out. It screams SOLO SEX at you.
It's not art. It's not imagination. It's not creativity. Its erotica. Plain and simple.
They give you the sex dolls free to sell you the clothing, hair etc.
Hexagon makes them ZERO money!
That's why they don't care about it.
All Hexagon does for them is provide a hook to reel in other schmucks who they plague with new sex doll advertisements to entice into buying new sex doll accessories.
DAZ SELLS PRODUCTS EXCLUSIVELY DEVISED FOR SOLO SEX AIDS.
What's more is the merchants that sell there know that if you don't have sex aids in your inventory, you don't sell on DAZ.
Daz knows it and they know it's wrong but it makes them money so they protect it. Worse than that though, is that their merchants know it too and capitalize on it as well.
There. I said it.
Now watch for further developments in regards to their cancellation of my Member acct.
Odd don't you think, that the company hasn't made any retorts or even raised a defense for my accusations?
I slammed the idiot admin (ChoBlo) for doing it and not even that brown nosed idiot has raised any defense.
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"Explore Our 3D Talent"
Render Hub
That's the header I received in todays email from Render Hub
At the risk of being expelled from this site too I have to comment...
What a load of CRAP!
Talent?
Where?
Certainly not there.
What blows my mind here is all these so called talent that post 15 minute composition (it takes longer to render than cut and paste) war renderings staring scantily clad, scantily muscled, HIGH HEELED and yet, heavily armed women barely out of their teens in poses of victory where in any realistic situation (even for the imagination) they would have been chopped up, stabbed, hacked and beaten within the first 15 minutes of any battle.
No. That was incredibly generous.
Maybe 10 minutes but most likely 5.
Are you people really sooo shallow, so unimaginative, so sexually despondent that that's all you can come up with?
REALLY???
If I were looking for talent, the last place I'd look would be your sex dolls.
That's not talent. That's Penthouse.
Really, folks.
Get a freakin life!
Show us some imagination not stupid fantasy, sexed up, naked children.
Are you artists or frustrated Heffner grounds keepers?
You're really an embarrassment to the rest of us serious "talent".
What a load of BS.
M
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I reached the wall with Hexagon and have started really looking into Blender.
Turns out (as with many other short work issues) Hexagons LOOOONNNGGG running problem with the "Boolean" tool (I've complained in great length and my posts were deleted) have made the software useless to me both time and work wise.
I've hence, dove into Blender full throttle to get around this wall.
In Hexagon, if you use the boolean tool on just about any mildly complicated geometry primitives, the tool adds dozens and dozens of additional verticies to the two primitives you're merging.
To make matters worse, often it even deletes some of those additional surfaces leaving you with hours of tweaking after you chose the assumed, shortcut merge option.
Then, as if that's not bad enough, often, as is the case here, it won't even merge the two primitives leaving you instead with only the merged but not truncated version you started with or only one of the two primitives.
As I've noted in previous comments, complaining about the crappy engineering of the software falls on corporate "deaf ears" or simply results in one or more of the hard core posters, replying with ridiculous work arounds that actually defeat the purpose of the "shortcut" tool itself.
Stay away from Hexagon till they work out more of the bugs (probably 2030 the way they are going) unless you want to have to learn a new engineering program all over again.
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Damn I just read your profile posts and didn't realize Daz staff was so touchy about criticism. I started with modeling recently and guess I'm glad now that I didn't go the Hexagon route. I had watched a few tutorials on it and almost began using it to learn modeling but instead started with different software (I've sampled a bunch of products now through the free versions/trials).
So far I've gotten Zbrush which is way more geared towards organic sculpting, not as much the hard surface architectural style modeling. I've also dabbled with Blender a little and another product I really liked after testing it out was Cinema4D. I still am strongly considering buying it through an educational license (using a family member who's a full-time educator) that brings the cost down from $3500 down to like $250. The other options I tested out (that also are extremely reduced for the educational licenses) are Maya and 3dsMax. I preferred Cinema4D though, the workflow seemed easy to pick up for a new modeler like me while the program still has all the advanced characteristics of other high-end modeling software. And, it's supposed to be the best for motion graphics if/when I decide to go that route as well.
Thanks for your honest posts about Hexagon, I'll likely be steering clear of it. I don't want to deal with a program that has half-done developments that don't get corrected. Or no up-to-date manual so I can paint myself into corners that I have to constantly trial/error my way out of (I've already got Daz for that haha.)
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I'm honestly disappointed in having to slam the software because it really could be very good but there's almost zero interest on the part of Daz to fix anything that would make it better and any tech support is answered weeks after submission, with QUESTIONS of ignorance on your part rather than fixes (wonder why) and nearly all the user feedback for issues is a work around that honestly, defeats the purpose of the tool in the first place and the online manual, which hasn't been updated since they bought it, is frustratingly short, undetailed and nearly useless as well.
And if you think I'm BS'g here, be my guest. Download the software and see. Or go to the user threads and look at the myriad of problems with technical work arounds and ZERO fixes.
Worse than that, nearly all the U-tube tutorials are of an older version because most of those really good designers, dumped the software long ago too.
But what really rankles my undies, is the protection mode that they employ to protect the company and keep the discord quiet.
So long as you state the issue and never expound on it, never question the LOOOOONNNNGGGG duration's of no resolutions, and absolutely, never, never, never question the staff or designers, you get left alone.
But start to make a scene and they start editing your posts, then hold your posts for review and edit and finally, eradicate all your posts and lock you out.
I got locked out for calling the management, ignorant cronies, which they are, after I spent 3 months looking for a solution to the useless Boolean tool nightmare.
The company makes its money selling sex dolls and sex doll clothing.
They don't need Hexagon to make money. Hexagon was a gimme that came to them in a package purchase of another software package that they are also, really screwing up, and they really have no interest in it so they ignore it.
That really hurts those of us learning dubes who buy into the BS, sales pitch, then spend months learning it (all the while being inundated by the companies sex dolls and sex doll clothing pitches), start having issues and go looking for NON EXISTANT, support, turn finally to the user base only to find there are no solutions to the months and years long issues and finally leave Hexagon to start all over again with something else more professional.
That's your path if you buy into Hexagon and I sincerely invite anyone to disagree with me.
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FRUSTRATING:
Once again, the process of "over engineering" screws up a great software program.
Daz apparently had a feature in their earlier version that allowed you to select "volume" (the actual material within a primitive you create) and "scatter" (the ability of that matter to reflect light broadcast through it).
These features were simple, clear and straight forward.
Now however, due to someones over engineering, those simple and CLEAR features are gone, replaced probably, by some name that is now obscure and over technical and while you can find U-tubes of the old settings, there are none of the new much less an actual, updated technique for using the new ones, much less any kind of help or explanation in the software itself.
I'm still pulling hair trying to figure out how to scatter light around a spotlight beam.
There's a lot to be said for simplification or for that matter, a help guide that actually works and is updated.
Daz lacks both.
You're left to the blogs for assistance or explanation and most of the reply's are from people who were frustrated themselves and after days of pushing buttons, figured it out.
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LOL...
I guess it's official now.
After boycotting the forum for the last month or two I looged back in to see if anything had changed and discovered that I am now blackballed from Daz. Persona-non-grata for insulting the management staff of Daz and their Hexagon project personnel.
ChoBlow apparently cleaned out all my postings and locked me out of the forum completely.
It's really sad how Daz encourages POSITIVE commentary but the minute you start degrading the errors, slip ups and sloppy management of their company, instead of doing something to correct it and make the company better, they erase your negative comments, slap you on the hand and warn you then cut your throat if you continue it.
(Not to mention installing two-bit, brown nose critiques to mod the forums.)
What's more is that my name has even been hushed so despite the fact that I posted so much cool stuff and help threads, if you mention my name or inquire about me, you get slapped too.
Either that or the people who post there are really superficial.
Don't get me wrong though...
I'm impressed with most of the Daz software.
The modeling part works really well and is relatively easy to learn, customize and work with but they really dropped the ball when they attempted to get into the engineering side with Hexagon.
The software is only half complete and filled with really stupidly simple glitches and errors that are relatively easy to resolve but yet don't get done (bad management).
I still maintain that the staff for Hexagon numbers 1, and he/she was locked away in a closet with one ceiling bulb that has long ago burned out and a computer that still has a Commodore name plate on the front of it.
Bottom line...
Daz caters to sex dolls. What I refer to as DUD's (Dress Up Dolls) and its merchants sell almost exclusively, female characters and sex oriented clothing.
Download Daz3d if you want personal fantasy fodder that's easy to sex up.
Stay away from Hexagon (if you're a serious modeler anyway) till they get a couple more versions out (maybe 2030 at the current rate). Blender is still a great tool and Hexagon is fraught with frustration.
Oh! And, never, never, never insult the staff.
Like small children, they don't do criticism well.
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I have been forbidden from posting on Daz now because I questioned the capability of the management and the wisdom of letting a small child moderate the posts.
Beware of posting anything disparaging about Daz on their site. Apparently the Moderators have been charged by Daz management to censor it.
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Wow...
They dropped my post again!
And they even went to the trouble of explaining why they censored my post.
I hurt their feelings.
I've been banned from posting my disparagement. LOL
DAZ Forum Moderators
3:24 PM (3 minutes ago)
to dazforummod, me
Posts you made to the "Deleting Textures & Materials " thread haver been removed as they were again going beyond the limits of reasonable comment - which does not mean that members sre forbidden from criticising Daz or its products, merely that the criticisms need to be made in a civil manner. We do need to point out that there was nothing accidental about the removal of your posts - and this willful misrepresentation is another example of going beyond reasonable comment. In light of the spate of posts we have had to remove your posting has been set to be subject to pre-moderation - if you attempt to get around this then we will have no alternative but to suspend your posting rights entirely.
- This email was sent to you by the Daz 3D Forum Team. If you have further questions or require clarification, please continue to reply todazforummod@daz3d.com . If you wish to have the matter reviewed/escalated please contact mod.escalation@daz3d.com , including the full exchange of emails to date along with your reason for seeking the review.
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How bout that!
My post got "accidentally" erased.
Imagine that huh.
JR
That is exactly my point.
They should have done that years ago but instead they keep advertising a sloppy piece of work that has little to no interest to them.
What's more is the Mods here are abviously going to great extents to keep it under wraps and God forbid that the devs or management ever be criticised!
Read quick guys, this one will be deleted soon too because it doesn't fit the "sunny" side of Daz in the interpretations of its moderators.
I got this message from Daz...
DAZ Forum Moderators10:55 AM (3 hours ago)
to DAZ, me
A post that you made to the "Deleting Textures & Materials ." thread has been removed because it went beyond reasonable comment.
- This email was sent to you by the Daz 3D Forum Team. If you have any questions please reply to the email, or send an email todazforummod@daz3d.com
BTW Ask:
That's BS. Nothing needs to be "Ripped Out"
This issue isn't complicated to resolve and the only reason it's not is because it has a very, very, very low priority status with Daz.
I'm not criticizing the Dev's. I'm disparaging the moron management that puts chains around their necks and then puts the computers 6" further out than the chains will reach while bemoaning the complications of the project while simultaneously gloating about the ridiculous achievements.
JR's right.
They should give it up. They've proven over 13 years that they're incapable of doing it themselves.
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"The next major version improvement of Hexagon, Ver 2.5.3 is expected to be released early 2025 and will incorporate a new, more vibrant splash screen!!!
No other details are available at this time"
"On a more somber note. Daz is sad to announce today, that one week ago, the body of "Bobby", the 96 y/o, sole Hexagon software coding developer assigned in 2007 to correct and improve the software, was found attrified in the 4' by 4' closet established for Hexagon development. It's still unclear why the door sign was removed, the sole light bulb burned out, power was cut to the computer and hundreds of file cabinets and boxes filled with dress up doll records were piled up against the door leading authorities to believe the developer was simply forgotten by management more concerned with Vicky and Geneight and their "skin tight" undies than Hexagon.
Daz was contacted but has as yet, declined comment."
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And now for some thing completely different...
I wrote a post on Daz site about an issue I have with the program and the sloppy developers involved in the scripting of Hexagon.
I'm guessing that certain MOD's won't like the adverse airing of their problems and that it might be "accidentally removed" so here it is on another site.
If you're using or thinking about using Hexagon, think real hard on it.
I started and learned on it and I'm sorry I did now because I have to learn another competitors software to continue my professional work and honestly. I'm not even that good.
YET anyway.
Dear Daz:
Ironically, Both may be good usable suggestions but what it boils down to is key hole fixes to get around sloppy scripting work left half done by the DEV's.
Seems to me that anyone in the construction biz that's been in it a while has enough common sense to work backwards out of the building lest he/she be trapped inside by short sighted planning.
I'm not surprised that no one has their personal name or contact info on this prodct.
For Gods sake, the slide buttons on the top and bottom of the gutter don't even work! REALLY???
Who's brilliant idea was it to put them in if they don't even work?
I imagine that if I'd written that code I'd be embarrassed enough about that to go back and at least fix that but we're into rev 2 and still the buttons don't work. (chuckles)
And then there's Daz... Tech support? LMAOROTF....
The last couple suggestions I left were returned 2 weeks (project long forgotten) later with a request for "video footage of the issue".
REALLY???
Like I really have nothing better to do that spend 2 hours videoing a problem they won't fix anyway, that pissed me off so much when I first encountered it that I shut off the PC and went to bed to cool off????
Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about that same scenario called Alices Restaraunt. Look that one up some time.
What video do you need to understand that the gutter buttons don't work???
Does it really not bother anyone else or has everybody just given up on the sloppy work and found key hole fixes or switched to another program more professionally assembled?
For first time users that have never done 3d engineering, it's fun at first because it does really really good cubes and spheres but that's about all it does really, really, well. After that, it becomes frustrating and sadly, as we become more learned in our designing, simple boxes and spheres loose their glamor and Hexagon looses it's glitter for other alternatives.
I've been doing this for only 8 months and I'm already venturing into Blender because I'm tired of the frustrating Hexagon that no one even cares enough to fix, MAYBE, (and I emphasize the maybe) once a year..
Daz should either spend the doe to fix the software or drop the product completly and stick to the dress up dolls that they do much better and that's a shame because in the right developement hands, Hexagon would be a great product.
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TY
I'm still on it about every day for at least a couple hours.
Someone said they find it therapeutic.
I agree.
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Trying to build stuff from scratch, for me, would be the opposite of therapeutic. LOL
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[chuckles]
Ironically, I have more stress issues with learning this texturing crap than I do with making a small cylinder into a warp engine or for that matter, writing 50 pages of story line.
I would love to find someone who can put my books into graphic form or add a new twist to the stories with new concepts.
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