Features & Advancements:
- All new PowerPose Expression Interface for easier, more realistic facial poses
- All new eyelash system to enable mixing and matching between characters
- Improved default pose to allow for new content types
- More realistic fingers, toes, and nail beds
- Dramatically improved IRAY Uber Shader with new Sub Surface features for natural depth and detail of skin
- Included clones for compatibility with Genesis, Genesis 2 & Genesis 3. Even between male & female
- Improved abdomen, shoulder and collar bone bends and built-in muscle flexion
- Reworked heel and toe bending to support more shoe types
- Extreme backward compatibility and amazing advancements all in one
Technology Advantages
The Genesis 8 figure platforms is more than just a figure or a character. It is a true character engine that allows you to choose characters that appeal to you, modify and enhance them to meet your needs, or even mix and blend them with other characters to create your own, unique vision. All of this while providing a huge library of content that will adjust to fit your characters and a global network of thousands of top artists constantly creating even more.
With Genesis 8 the platform takes is biggest steps forward, while also embracing the power of its past like never before. By including clones for Genesis, Genesis 2, and Genesis 3, The Genesis 8 figures are backward compatible to be able to use a massive amount of content and provide you with the most selection possible.
MORPHING
Take advantage of powerful morphing capabilities – Combine various body and extremity shapes, sizes, and muscularity in order to build your one-of-a-kind person or creature.
MALE AND FEMALE BASES
Providing bases in both female and male forms gives you even more control and the power to create more realistic characters. Dressing your characters in feminine and masculine design specific clothing makes for sexier and truer-to-life attire that drapes, hangs and hugs more realistically without stretching.
INCREDIBLE DETAIL
The more detailed a character is, the more realistic and life-like it becomes. Genesis 8 continues to expand the available HD morphs you’ve come to expect from our figures, especially in some of the most critical body parts including the face, mouth, teeth, hands, feet, chest and neck. These advancements combined make Genesis 8 more true-to-life than has ever been seen in a morphable human 3D figure.
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
Using the PowerPose plug-in in Daz Studio Genesis 8 comes with a full expression interface. The click and drag interface makes both symmetrical or asymmetrical facial expressions effortless and organic. Further upgrades to Genesis 8 include separate conformers for eyelashes and a whole new eye design.
ARTICULATION AND FLEXING
No matter how life-like a figure is, it requires the ability to move in a realistic way. More organic bends and articulation have been integrated across the figure including in the abdomen, shoulder and collar. To make those movements even more realistic, Genesis 8 includes built in flexing of major muscle groups as the figure bends and poses.
Compatibility
Genesis 8 includes backward-compatible and even male to female clones for all of the previous generations and sexes of Genesis products. This means that most items that were specifically created for Genesis, Genesis 2 or Genesis 3 can now all be used on Genesis 8. So break out that Genesis 2 space suit you loved or your favorite party dress for Genesis, it's time to strut your favorite stuff!
CROSS APPLICATION SUPPORT
Daz Studio has built in export capabilities for numerous 3d formats. This means that all of your Daz 3D content can easily be imported into other popular 3D software tools such as 3DS Max, Mudbox and Maya.
Export formats include: Autodesk FBX • COLLADA • OBJ • BVH • Universal 3D Alembic format support with purchase of the Alembic Exporter Plugin
