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The Biggest Problem with Iray.

As I was trying to rush completion of my next comic, I figured out a potential solution to a long-standing problem I had.

Anytime I render something, it would prevent me from using most other software at the same time. I often would work in Blender while rendering and that created situations where I had the mesh done, but couldn't do texture work until the rendering was done.

So, what I've done is assembled another PC with older equipment that should be able to render most scenes...

American Princess Two Piece Outfit 2025 for Genesis 8 Female

A two-piece outfit used for my Willow Knight OC.

Separate top and bottom.

Misaki Toyoda Outfit 2025 for Genesis 8 Female

This is a complete rework of an older item I made for Genesis, but now works on Genesis 8 Female.

It is broken into four pieces: suit, armbands, gloves and boots so things can be mixed and matched.

As always, I've provided the UV layouts for each piece.

Messy May

Seems the month of May was a bad one. Nothing major, so no disasters, but just enough little things happening to make a mess.

I did complete a wrestling image set for a friend, so I got something done, and a new "much more Asian" wrestling set to go with it. I'll be working on it more for EWF20, but for my Lust in Las Castigo event.

I started having tailbone pain that just wouldn't go away, then some sharp lower back pain to go with it. It was a very weird, very localized sharp...

Kabuki Joshi Outfit 2025 for Genesis 2 Female

Here is the second Japanese outfit created for a commission work.

Has for separate items: garter, top, shorts, and gloves.

Including the UV layout for customizations

Dragon Joshi Outfit 2025 for Genesis 8 Female

For a short commission set. Comes in four parts: choker, top, shorts and gauntlets.

Providing the UV layout for customizations.

DAZ Installer Issues

Hmm. Trying to create a new pack but it's not installing files properly at all. Textures go in to the right locations but not the data and People folders. Not sure why it's not working suddenly.

Log for DIM says items were installed properly and verified and reverified the file paths.

Very frustrating.

Luxe Glide Lubricant

A simple set of props that I created for an advertisement. Since I made the box and the bottle for the purpose of the advertisement, I made a second version of the bottle with it uncapped.

Collared Suit 2025 for Genesis 8 Female

Made a new version of the suit with a number of materials for it. Accepts a seamless texture.

Providing the UV layout for further customizations

It's Springtime

And I'm cleaning out all my Blender files.

It's a gigantic semi-organized mess right now. I have stuff with really weird names and half completed items galore. It makes it very hard to find things when people request changes/customizations so it's time I cleared the files out.

I should be using present tense, because I've been slowly going through and have found a fair number of gems I'll likely be releasing in short order. There are a number of female outfits that can be put up f...

Gauntlet Pads 2025 for Genesis 8

For both Genesis 8 Male and Females.

Each limb has their own texture space for easier application of logos and text.

Providing the UV layout for customizations.

Testing Post

Seeing why attachments are not working.

Boxing Gloves 2025 for Genesis 8 Female

Didn't fit these to G8M properly yet, but providing these with a few textures, a couple of which I wouldn't mind having in real life.

Poseable laces should help as they can be moved.

Maintained the same material zones

(I did notice one thing and that is normal map for some of the gloves have to be added manually. I might fix that with an updated texture pack if I ever get around to it. Seems something happened with the Substance Painter file when I upgraded my SSD.)

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Boxing Gloves 2025

Some texturing work.

Had to alter some of the lacing UV maps, but also thinking about seeing if I can relax up some polygons on the wrist area.

Boxing Gloves 2025 Alpha for Genesis 8 Female

Boxing Gloves 2025 Alpha are the latest boxing gloves I have been working on for a while.

They are currently untextured and no normal maps are being done until two things happen:

1) I am sure the mesh works right (any changes to mesh can mess up UV maps), and

2) installation of a new SSD into my PC to get extra space.

The second is important because Substance Painter isn't liking the low disk space and I'm going to do that right after I post these.

I made the la...

Backstage Corridor 2025

For DAZ Studio.

This is a rather sizeable effort that took quite a while to finish. It's essentially a scene subset, where walls, ceiling and floor can be turned on and off to make camera work a heck of a lot easier.

I have to say I learned quite a few things doing this. Making it modular was worth the time and effort to part out into pieces.

Was created as part of a scene in EWF15.

Update: Scorpion Outfit for Genesis 8 Male

This is an update of an older item. Based upon the wrestler from the Saturday Night Slammasters series, this updated version has a posable sash, as well as the original dForce-based one.

White Swan Outfit 2025 for Genesis 8 Female

Okay, so I made this years ago for Genesis 2 Female.

Coming back to it years later, I just had to rip it apart and update it.

Split into three parts: mask, suit and boots.

There are a number of material zones for colour customization, but I didn't take a chance, so I made a "default" base colour map. I remove the map and just threw up a couple different colours and it seems to work, though I never zoomed in.

From her on out, I'm going to 4k textures. I finally figured ...

Fight Cage 2025 for DAZ Studio

A simple mesh, untextured. The door is operated by a slider in the parameter tabs.

Future Items

In the last few weeks, aside from the holidays, I've undertaken a bunch of projects. The result will be a lot of content best described as "bits and pieces."

I released a new pose pack and well on the way to having another one ready to go.

I was asked to make a pair of native American boots/mocassins, and while I got something pretty decent, I just can't figure out how to (easily) get dforce to make the tassles work.

I've also worked on a nice Rainbow Mika heel costume an ar...

Kickpads for the Genesis 8 Female Golden Outfit

Made these for a tournament. Instead of making new versions, I just took the boots apart and rebuilt this so it uses the same UV map as the Golden Outfit itself.

It's confusing to see the year 2023 for this now that it's 2025.

The only potential worry is that I cloned polygons from the sides of the foot to connect the sides around the bottom of the arch to the other side. But worked quite well.

Face Mask for Genesis 8 Female

Let's celebrate the (attempted) return of the mask mandate with this.

Genesis 8 Wrestling Pose Pack #30

It's been a while, so let's start 2025 with a set of wrestling poses for DAZ Studio:

Basic Posing

• Leaping over Ropes

• Pleading

• Run Into Ropes

• What's the Big Deal

Hurt Poses

• Slumped in Corner

Duo Poses:

• Backbreaker, Variant

• Bodyscissors, Simple

• Camel Clutch, Elevated

• Handshake

• Headscissors, Grounded...

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El Toro Mask 2024 for Genesis 8 Male

I created the mask belonging to another artist from Deviant Art (Cartwork Studio).

It's a nice, simple, and clean design that oozes domination. I took one of my existing masks, then did some heavy reworking of the face and openings to bring it to 3D.

Go check out his work.

Steel Cage 2024

Here's a rework of an older item. It's just a simple steel cage that is extended downward, has a door that can be opened or closed (via morph as I couldn't get the bone to work.

I also created face sets for all the sides, so a side can be hidden from a camera looking inside.

Rika Outfit 2024 for Genesis 8 Female

This was a custom request for an outfit based upon an anime episode of "Air Gear."

I tried to make it as close as possible, but some things were unclear or just looked bad, like the boots. So, this is why I used my previous version as the basis for this one. These boots are shorter to accommodate pads better. The UV maps do not match with the original boots.

As always, comes in parts: mask, armwear, top, bottom, pads and boots.

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Tie Outfit 2024 for Genesis 8 Female

It's been a while since I posted a clothing item. This one is based upon an AI generated image I made.

Moving forward, even if it's more work, I'm going to be releasing stuff so that it can be parted out. It is quicker to work on a hero object, but that's only true if I don't make mistakes (especially UV mapping issues).

So this comes in four parts: gloves, stockings, boots and suit.

Nothing really remarkable about the boots, gloves and stockings, but the suit has an articu...

Adjusting the Belt

The next step in the creation of the belt is to roughly fit it to Genesis 8.

After scaling and roughly positioning the belt where it normally goes, I then used proportional editting to try and roughly wrap the belt around. I noticed that they probably aren't long enough, so I grafted another segment onto each side.

If it still isn't long enough, I will go back in and add another segment.

Making the Belt (Video)

For the first stream I'm going to take an existing texture found during a web image search.

The source image is from: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=393613003606442&set=pcb.393613083606434

It's not the best, as you can see the sides are pure black while the trim around the plaques are lighter. One solution might be to go and repaint the black so it ...

First Attempt At A Livestream

It is going to be in the Slam Central discord channel that subscribers have access to. It will begin at 12:00pm Eastern. Since I disconnected my microphone system from the PC and not plugged it back in, I'll have to rely on chat for the time being.

It's going to be a simple blender item. I'm taking a texture I found online and using that as a texture 'skin'.

Today, the hope is to make the basic mesh for eventually importation into DAZ Studio as a posable prop.

The first step...