The Daz Studio and Related Product Deals Thread (Daz3D, Renderosity, Renderotica, etc.)

[OhWee]

A point to note:

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I usually check the main sales page every week, sorting prices from low to high. That generally shows all of the currently offered freebies that don't involve coupons and such.

Looks like the twice monthly batch of 'regular' freebies hasn't dropped yet, or maybe I just have all of them already...

I did note the $2/3 minimum prices on March Mehness items. Which of course makes tokens a bit more useless.

And I'm very happy to have thrown my Daz budget Renderosity's way for a change. Sure, the prices are a bit higher, but with that 'blip' 50% off gift certificates sale a couple of weeks back, yeah I have no regrets r.e. not grabbing a Daz3D.com gift card instead when those were on sale. I missed the 'micro-blip' 50% off gift card thing on the Daz end (they caught that one fairly quickly), but so far March Mehness just isn't wowing me, so I'm essentially just grabbing a cheap item every two days (over $1) to maintain my 'gold star' status.

Renderosity seems to be making an honest efffort to have a March Mayhem sale, although the discounts are essentially the 'usual mix'. I already fired off my monthly Prime coupon over the weekend, so I'm in a holding pattern until another coupon offer pops up, probably towards the middle-end of the month, we shall see.

I do get that a number of you are still building up your Daz libraries, so hopefully you are finding decent deals here and there at Daz3D.com and the other sites.

I'm in the middle of copying 6 million+ daz related files over to my new 8tb drive, which will take a number of hours... then I have to play around with moving my current software setup over to my dedicated rendering rig, so in short, I won't be paying attention to the sales in the next couple of days. As usual, call out the deals when you spot them!

 

[oaiki]

I usually check the main sales page every week, sorting prices from low to high. That generally shows all of the currently offered freebies that don't involve coupons and such.

Looks like the twice monthly batch of 'regular' freebies hasn't dropped yet, or maybe I just have all of them already...

I did note the $2/3 minimum prices on March Mehness items. Which of course makes tokens a bit more useless.

And I'm very happy to have thrown my Daz budget Renderosity's way for a change. Sure, the prices are a bit higher, but with that 'blip' 50% off gift certificates sale a couple of weeks back, yeah I have no regrets r.e. not grabbing a Daz3D.com gift card instead when those were on sale. I missed the 'micro-blip' 50% off gift card thing on the Daz end (they caught that one fairly quickly), but so far March Mehness just isn't wowing me, so I'm essentially just grabbing a cheap item every two days (over $1) to maintain my 'gold star' status.

Renderosity seems to be making an honest efffort to have a March Mayhem sale, although the discounts are essentially the 'usual mix'. I already fired off my monthly Prime coupon over the weekend, so I'm in a holding pattern until another coupon offer pops up, probably towards the middle-end of the month, we shall see.

I do get that a number of you are still building up your Daz libraries, so hopefully you are finding decent deals here and there at Daz3D.com and the other sites.

I'm in the middle of copying 6 million+ daz related files over to my new 8tb drive, which will take a number of hours... then I have to play around with moving my current software setup over to my dedicated rendering rig, so in short, I won't be paying attention to the sales in the next couple of days. As usual, call out the deals when you spot them!

There is this one on Renderosity, not sure if it's Prime Member only or a general coupon ... might be worth a try ...

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Coupon Code: SPRING12025
[EDIT] expires 6th March 2025 ... not 3rd June 2025, I'll never get used to American dates [/EDIT]​

 

[SvenVlad]

[EDIT] expires 6th March 2025 ... not 3rd June 2025, I'll never get used to American dates [/EDIT]​

I'll admit that, sometimes, it confuses me too.

 

[SvenVlad]

What are your thoughts on this AI plugin released today?

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In case anyone is interested, do pay attention to this message:

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[orgtech]

What are your thoughts on this AI plugin released today?

AI slop, forget it and move on.

Worse yet, they lie and say it is "ethically sourced", trained solely on Daz 3D's original characters. I looked at their website for more details but there are none. While maybe some final 3D step is only trained on Daz's original characters, clearly it could not have the breadth of knowledge to create all the things it can (with a natural language English prompt) without training on some other data. Like, it can't know how to make a "lizard man" (one of the examples in the video) unless it's seen some data somewhere with a lizard man. Any concept for which there's no Daz original character had to come from somewhere, and that somewhere was not a Daz original character, and therefore we can assume that it was not ethically sourced.

For example, you could imagine it's built to use something like Stable Diffusion under the hood to generate 2D shapes that they then conform the 3D wireframe shape to. Every 2D image generator out there was not ethically sourced, so if it's anything like that, it's not ethically sourced. Basically, anything with English prompt following ability was not ethically sourced, because to get that prompt following you need more data than anyone can ethically source.

What makes it worse is not just that it's not ethically sourced, it's the fact that they bring the subject up, they explicitly claim it's "ethically sourced" when it's (almost certainly) not. Because that makes it an intentional lie meant to defuse a criticism that surely is actually valid. Lying liars can get fucked.

 

[SvenVlad]

AI slop, forget it and move on.

Worse yet, they lie and say it is "ethically sourced", trained solely on Daz 3D's original characters. I looked at their website for more details but there are none. While maybe some final 3D step is only trained on Daz's original characters, clearly it could not have the breadth of knowledge to create all the things it can (with a natural language English prompt) without training on some other data. Like, it can't know how to make a "lizard man" (one of the examples in the video) unless it's seen some data somewhere with a lizard man. Any concept for which there's no Daz original character had to come from somewhere, and that somewhere was not a Daz original character, and therefore we can assume that it was not ethically sourced.

For example, you could imagine it's built to use something like Stable Diffusion under the hood to generate 2D shapes that they then conform the 3D wireframe shape to. Every 2D image generator out there was not ethically sourced, so if it's anything like that, it's not ethically sourced. Basically, anything with English prompt following ability was not ethically sourced, because to get that prompt following you need more data than anyone can ethically source.

What makes it worse is not just that it's not ethically sourced, it's the fact that they bring the subject up, they explicitly claim it's "ethically sourced" when it's (almost certainly) not. Because that makes it an intentional lie meant to defuse a criticism that surely is actually valid. Lying liars can get fucked.

You may have a point there. When I read that, I thought that perhaps Yellow used Daz morphs to train the AI, but even if he used the others PA morphs without their consent, it's already unethical. And it does seems suspicious if they didn't explain that further.

Also, people on the forum aren't exactly jumping with enthusiasm either

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[Vicho75]

We can ignore it and simply put it aside and dedicate ourselves to the classic renders of a lifetime.

But it is an undeniable fact that AI has been incorporated into practically every aspect we can imagine. Now even in what was always considered "Exclusive Human Territory": artistic creativity.

For my part, I prefer to participate in this irreversible process. (Of course, now in its infancy its results are clumsy and of little artistic value. But I also remember the results of ChatGPT in its infancy. And that was only 3 years ago).

In the horizon of 15 to 30 years, I am sure that the creative processes will be paradigmatically different from what we have now. So I will enjoy them as they are now, while there is still time.

 

[oaiki]

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[Jumbi]

Hello friends,

In today's Renderosity's newsletter, in addition to the normal information about new sales (with the

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apparently being the one with the best deals at the moment, with up to 65% base discount for Prime members), there's also notice about an item that it's currently free and that will remain free for one week: the

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, which I find interesting enough. It's free at any rate.


On top of that, there's an active coupon code, that grants 15% off for orders worth $25 or more, working at Renderosity at the moment, at least that's my experience. You should notice an active notification about this coupon code when you visit the site.

 

[orgtech]

On top of that, there's an active coupon code, that grants 15% off for orders worth $25 or more, working at Renderosity at the moment, at least that's my experience. You should notice an active notification about this coupon code when you visit the site.

I didn't get a notification, but it's in a banner:

 

[OhWee]

Looks like there's a 25% off $30 or more coupon at Renderosity, good thru Thursday.

Prime Flash may or may not be worth a looksee, other sales seem to be more of the usual.

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[Jumbi]

Looks like there's a 25% off $30 or more coupon at Renderosity, good thru Thursday.

Prime Flash may or may not be worth a looksee, other sales seem to be more of the usual.

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I haven't been a customer of Renderosity for very long. But in my experience, this extra 25% off coupon is slightly better than the usual 20% off they usually drop. The downside is that this time they are requiring you to spend $30 on your order, which is a bit more than the usual $25 they usually ask you to spend to benefit from the coupon. But then again, I have enough WL items at 60% off at this moment and lots of credit left. So I'm a happy customer right now.

 

[OhWee]

*sigh*

I was thinking that this gal would have ended up somewhere else, alas she's apparently nowhere to be found outside of my inactive items thumbnails in my Daz3D.com wishlist...



Hellafae for Genesis 3 Female

I even tried a tineye search, no joy. Sure, I have plenty of Daz Studio hotties already, but if anyone has any leads, feel free to chime in!

Edit: Documentation page here (CGNZ's vendor page is now blank):

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HPVYK Ashton is vaguely close. it'd take some work to morph it more closely.

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I just really like Hellafae's face, I'll get over it I guess...

Also, not sure if its a decent sale or not as far as RenderHub goes, but Marcius stuff is 40% off currently. Looks like a few of his G3 era characters are $3 currently, for those that like a 'stylized' look.

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There's a few other stores/items at 40% off currently. I'm seeing a number of characters in the $3 range. Nice of the associated vendors to set $5 as the 'base' price.

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[OhWee]

Another 45% off/65% off if Prime sale at Renderosity. The product mix is eclectic and interesting, and probably worth a looksee, particularly if you haven't fired off your 25% off $30 or more coupon yet.

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The 'midweek' sale seems to be a thing now, something to keep in mind.

 

[Jumbi]

Another 45% off/65% off if Prime sale at Renderosity. The product mix is eclectic and interesting, and probably worth a looksee, particularly if you haven't fired off your 25% off $30 or more coupon yet.

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The 'midweek' sale seems to be a thing now, something to keep in mind.

The 25% off coupon from yesterday is reusable. I've just used it again in today's order.

 

[oaiki]

The 25% off coupon from yesterday is reusable. I've just used it again in today's order.

Yea! I keep forgetting that Renderosity usually specify if a coupon is single use ... too jaded by the other place's cons

 

[SvenVlad]

Finally a decent gift card sale.

 

[OhWee]

Thanks for the heads up SvenVlad !

The buy in for me was less than $10 (gold star discount), so something like 28% off for the gift card counting the 'buy in' offset. The bodysuit was sufficiently interesting though, to me anyways, and something that I'll probably use, which was nice.

I like that it's designed for G8 as well as G9. Sure, there's autofit, but native saves a step or two.

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On another note...

Apparently Daz actually was an acronym for Digital Art Zone at it's inception, but they tossed the acronym at some point and have been just Daz 3D for a couple of decades now. Yay Wikipedia!

Back on topic:

As SvenVlad noted, now would be a good time to recharge your store credit if you are so inclined. Particularly if you aren't Daz Premier (Premier members often get better GC discounts). Sales glitches aside, I'm not expecting to see gift card discounts over 30% off anytime soon, but with the turbulent economy and such I suppose anything's possible.

I've mostly just been sniping $2 items at the Daz store lately every other day or so, and then recharging 8 tokens every other week, spending around the minimum amounts to keep my gold star status for MM. Hopefully y'all have found a few decent deals.

I'm just not interested in G9. I have a bajillion G3 and G8 morphs/characters/etc., and have no desire to go through the 'gotta get 'em all' morphs things for G9 as G3 and G8 are good enough for my purposes. Sure, there's some cute G9 hotties, but I'm all about keeping the spirit of G3 alive!


I've been pretty happy with my Renderosity hauls, and have a pretty nice mix of new items to play around with from Renderosity. Looking forward to focusing on my new project soon, I have a few other things to tackle first.

Note that there is a weekend sale going on over at Renderosity that is somewhat interesting, but I already burned my monthly coupon so I've mostly been doing the midweek thing.

I think I'm pretty much done with my Renderosity shopping spree for now (thanks again for the heads up on the GC sale Jumbi !) so I'm in 'sniping' mode at this point. I probably overdid it in my shopping spree, but when I see virtual hotties that I like, or hot skimpwear...

Anyways, enough rambling. Just wanted to say thanks for giving us heads ups y'all!

 

[orgtech]

I forgot to keep up my gold star a few days ago, so I'm just assuming the "50% off" applies to the list price for this GC analysis ($10.49 refers to the 30% off price):

 

[Vicho75]

the assets I have purchased throughout this month and haven't install yet, receiving the new assets I purchased today.