PDSmith

It didn't take me much to notice that in 2 days I went from my average of 100 to 200 views for an image to two days later with the current post, I'm up to 9000 views.

So for those who are new to follow me and this chapter, after it's done I'll post all of the Star Wars T-girl series in a single PDF to read offline. Free. With images not seen in the series as well as a few others like test images.

Now the other portion... you won't find sex as an integral part of my TG stories. These stories are plot drive adventure stories with breaks along the way. I will hint and I may push the boundary but all out sex? Not my thing.

And lastly, I don't do request stories or images or 'make me look like a woman' images. Between the brainstorming I do with ShadowhawkOne and recently with DelilahTG, my plate is full with stories. the below are the current stories I'm working on..

1) https://www.deviantart.com/pdsmith/gallery/73023192/star-trek-special-forces-transgender

2) https://www.deviantart.com/pdsmith/gallery/73023090/princess-resort

3) https://www.deviantart.com/pdsmith/gallery/60847179/mirror-universe

and lastly 4) https://www.deviantart.com/pdsmith/gallery/72222174/dungeons-and-dragons Which will be TG based as well.

As well as giving technical support for DelilahTG and her Stepford Academy series.

https://www.deviantart.com/delilahtg/gallery/72458448/stepford-academy-season-1

So thank you to all the new followers and new viewers, I'll try not to disappoint.

I'm tired of seeing it for the last year.

I'm here to have fun, see art, discuss art, talk about concepts, tutorials and stories. I didn't discuss politics now, 4 years ago, 8 years ago or even 12 years ago (I was under a different account then.)

If you feel the need, give yourself a hug or high five and move on.

If you think I'm wrong and my stories are politically motivated, I guess you don't know why I'm doing this...

Politics is NOT my intent. I'm pushing nothing. I have a common theme not an agenda.

I'm not here for the followers, the numbers, or the idea to push what I believe on anyone.

I'm here to entertain. One person. That's all. Entertain one person.

Which is why I even stopped using hashtags and advertising on group sites.

If others like what I do and want my images on their group sites, then sure ask me you want to share it with others, but I'm not going out of my way to push my images, ideas, beliefs, or personal code of conduct on anyone.

So no politics. Not here.

Well it's kind of simple. I'm here on DA to share ideas, art, tutorials and in general to better the 3D hobby. I don't care about views per image, never have. I've always stood by this belief; if one person enjoys my work then I've accomplished my goal.

I'm sorry if you don't agree with me, but if you want me to pay to see your art.

Good bye. I'm not interested in your work and I'll unwatch you in a cocaine heartbeat.

There is my one and only heads up on this subject.

On the flipside of that, I will never charge people to see my work, I don't have a Pat...what ever account, never planned on using one. (Yes I created one, to see what all the fuss was, and I never logged in again.)

For the rest of you. Good on ya and I'll continue to look, comment, and enjoy what you have to say, show, and at times; teach me.

Three days ago I loaded Genesis 8 Female. ( https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-starter-essentials ) it took 1 minute 25 seconds! That's insane! I can load v4 in 20 seconds and apply the morphs I want and call it good. It also doesn't bloat and fill memory with all sorts of morph garbage. Seriously... how many nail morphs need to be loaded into a figure? I had 63 nail morphs! That rediculous!

So I went to the extreme.

I wiped out all of my G8F from the people folder, when wiped out all of Genesis 8 Female from the 'Data' folder in the content folder.  (yes I have orphaned runtime folders but I can live with that.)

I then loaded only the base figures I'd use. Not going to forget to load the G8F body, head and expressions packs. missing the expressions pack is an invitation for a shit ton of errors.

So I loaded; Mika8, Ktyara, Kanade8, Daisy8, Rynne8, Tika8, Teen Kaylee8, The Girl8, Aiko8, Karyssa8, Victoria8.

those are the only base figure I plan to use. 

Yes they are pixie elf figures.  Its my thing for g8.

Next I only loaded poses that actually poses, no expressions, those are part of the problem with the figure. Far too many. (and again I ask...do we really need that many nail morphs? that's memory and time take up to load!)

Next up.  I deleted all .dhdm files.  all but the mouth one.  I don't use HD morphs. I don't need nor want them.

But all but PHMMouthRealism_HD_div2.dhdm  that one has to stay otherwise you get an error.

Think I'm crazy so far... well I used my Windows trash can as my back up, if files are needed I would 'restore' them and Windows would put them back where they are needed.

restarted Studio, loaded g8f and ....

Excerpt from the trouble log of Studio....

2020-06-21 16:36:37.447 *** Scene Cleared ***

2020-06-21 16:36:41.697 Begin Loading Character Addons...

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 File loaded in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 Loaded file: Genesis 8 Female Eyelashes.duf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 Loaded file: PHMEyelashesLengthUpper.dsf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 Loaded file: PHMEyelashesLengthLower.dsf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.775 Loaded file: PHMEyelashesCurl.dsf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded file: PHMEyelashesLengthUpper.dsf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded file: PHMEyelashesLengthLower.dsf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded file: PHMEyelashesCurl.dsf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded Morph Deltas in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.790 Loaded file: PHMEyelashesExpand.dsf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.853 File loaded in 0 min 0.0 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.853 Loaded file: Base MAT Eyelashes.duf

2020-06-21 16:36:41.853 Finished Loading Character Addons

2020-06-21 16:36:41.868 File loaded in 0 min 5.9 sec.

2020-06-21 16:36:41.868 Loaded file: Genesis 8 Basic Female.duf

2020-06-21 16:36:42.462 Loaded image G8FBaseLegsMapD_1003.jpg

2020-06-21 16:36:42.618 Loaded image G8FBaseEyes01_1007.jpg

2020-06-21 16:36:42.806 Loaded image G8FBaseArmsMapD_1004.jpg

2020-06-21 16:36:42.947 Loaded image G8FBaseMouthMapD_1005.jpg

2020-06-21 16:36:43.134 Loaded image G8FBaseFaceMapD_1001.jpg

2020-06-21 16:36:43.384 Loaded image G8FBaseTorsoMapD_1002.jpg

2020-06-21 16:36:43.525 Loaded image G8FBaseEyelashes_1006.jpg

G8F loads in 5.9 seconds!!!!!!!!!! and not one error! (imagine what would happen if I was using a solid state drive?)

And you're wondering what about skins for characters?  G8F uses G3F skins and god knows I have enough of them already loaded. So that means no additional character morphs for g8f but the ones that come with those main base figures, and if I need something unique, I can dial them in. one day I may need a creature morph pack or something else but I'll cross that bridge then.

Looks like I may be tinkering with G8F more often now.   :-)

Yes some people absolutely need the HD morphs, That is good for you, you need it, this is just an idea for those in my boat that really don't need the HD morph loaded.

and yes I use a special homemade shader for the charater skin that takes out SSS and the multiple uses of textures. FYI some figures us a single texture up to 8 times, that could very well be an 8000x8000 20mb PNG file being loaded into Video ram. Now make it 5 different textures used 8 times and all PNG's. Ram is getting full fast!