You know you use Daz too much when.
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You see someone in the street and can identify their clothes/hair as assets.
Your pay check goes to new daz purchases before such minor things as rent/mortgage/food.
Your day is divided into time spent rendering and wasted time.
You cannot afford lunch tomorrow but that 2080 ti is looking good.
You run more than one session of daz so you can setup the next render while one is running (despite the fact it cripples your pc).
You are sure your new neighbour is only a Genesis model.
Rendering takes precedance over sleeping (yawn).
Let me know your sure tell signs...
(Sadly due to not enough exercise and too much food I have graduated to a George asset and male pattern baldness has left me with Floyd's hair).
TIC>
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I've definitely done the "Rendering takes precedence over sleeping". lol
I had a chuckle at "George asset". :P
My family and I were eating at a restaurant and there was a woman sitting at a table nearby who was wearing an exact copy of the Lustrum Dress Outfit for Genesis 8 Female and had green hair that looked like something created by Out of Touch with hair blending. Her face didn't look real, her skin was so pale she looked like she had a bad texture map. I swear she was an escaped Genesis 8 character.
I certainly have grown far more aware of what men's and women's actual hair styles look like nowadays, and sometimes look for Studio assets when I see hair that looks good; I never noticed hair at all before this hobby.
Setting up a scene in one Studio while rendering in another? Sure: I render on the Windows PC I built for the express purpose of rendering, and set up the scenes (and do pretty much everything else) on my long-owned iMac. Oh wait, building a PC just for rendering probably goes in the list, huh?
When you see people on the bus, and you have an inexplicable urge to dial their faces.
When you realize you have been staring at someone a long time marveling at their skin trying to figure out what settings were used to get that perfect SSS effect..... then you quickly look around to make sure no one noticed you staring
RichardHaseltine and Chohole showed up at your last family reunion.
Mine are:
1) You think you can set up a scene is 30 minutes.
2) You think you have an ideal for a very nice scene but it winds up humdrum.
3) You go back and look at renders you thought were realistic but as it turns out they aren't.
4) You no longer belong to the PC+ club because you honestly don't need more models.
5) You check the emails from DAZ everyday and the freebies too in the DAZ Store even though you very rarely buy products now.
6) You post in the lots in the DAZ forums even though you usually have nothing original to say.
7) You get excited when new public betas are released.
8) You have a very old slow PC but you use DAZ Studio anyway.
Sometimes I look at an old wall or whatever and my first thought is, "wow, this must have taken forever to render... "
I study (discreetly? I try to!) blond and ginger passerby to see what exact colour their hair and complexion is. I find it challenging to achieve attractive and realistic blond and ginger characters in DAZ.
I have definitely looked out of a bus window and said, "wow, look at the textures on that!", or " must be HD mesh!"
My latest one was seeing a woman with long hair and thinking she must be using dForce to get it to drape like that.
When I started with Poser I would sometimes see someone standing still and think they'd made a great job of that pose. Both feet on the ground and neither sinking into it. It's really tricky to get the feet that accurate.
...when, after a 48h non-stop rendering session and 40 cups of serious java, you finally take your dog for a walk around the block and wonder who the hell made all this
You have your paycheck directly deposited at DAZ.
When someone asks who your favorite authors are you, say Dreamlight, Drew Spence and Esha.
Your family vacation pictures are all photos of tree bark, rock surfaces and clouds.
You went to New Zealand just so you could be closer to Stonemason.
You've actually considered moving to Utah just to shorten your product download times by a few milliseconds.
You join a DAZ Users gang so you can go out and kick the butts of the Renderosity Poser Users gang.
Your kids are named Michael, Victoria, Stephanie, Michael 7 and Aiko.
You changed your name to Victoria... and you're a guy.
You got Cs in math but can do the long-form calcualtions required to figure out DAZ discounts in your head.
You commissioned a guy who normally does Velvet Elvis paintings to make you velvet painting of Jack Tomalin.
You only eat food if there's a model of it available at DAZ so you and your figures can share meals together.
You had a lifesize figure of Victoria 8 3d-printed in soft vinyl. And married her.
The C.E.O. of DAZ has your picture hanging on the wall of his office.
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- You've convinced yourself that $30 is a great deal for a lot of items you might get around to rendering one day. And then, you do this again a couple of days later when an even better deal shows up.
- You think a few hours is a reasonable amount of time to spend combing through Daz sales every day.
- You automatically wake up at Daz Midnight to check out the latest sale every night and get annoyed when the store isn't working right.
- You buy old outfits to match the freebie textures you downloaded, just so you have the full set, even though you don't ever use older gen outfits and already own the updated version.
- You buy loads of pretty characters even though 99% of the time you only use and render your own original characters.
Daz might be one of the oddest versions of collecting around. :)
Yesterday you told yourself "Okay, you've bought enough Daz content this month!" ... then you saw 60% off for a custom "flash sale" and thought "I don't need anything else right now." ... then an hour later you saw it again and thought "Well, I could at least see what is in there that's on my Wishlist" ... then you spent $30 on stuff you had just sworn you didn't need and weren't going to buy less than 24 hours ago.
When a new Pro Pack sale comes out you create a spreadsheet to calculate all of the potential savings so you can buy a gift card for the right amount and save another 20% on top of the sale prices!
Hmmm I don't see as I use daz to much, I see it as the glass half full kind of thing and i am not using daz enough for what I have bought,
Please don't make it sound like buying or having to much content is a bad thing. .. IT NOT!!! if you use it eventually
I never seem to have enough time to build and render more animated scenes in a day. I like to propose a 30 hour day, sleep is over-rated anyway
I try to find similar fashions that are offered for daz girl for the clothes i wear ( I just like the some of the styles ) and sometimes I am jealous of Vicky that she has so many cute clothes.
I rather shop online for 3d content, than shop for house hold items i need just because its fun to shop for 3d items. house hold items not so much
I learn to create animation just so I can utilize all my daz asset I have bought.
I rather make a movie than watch a movie.
I rather tell stories in pictures and keep more renders & animation on my phone to show people than my family.
I see something in real life and wonder how i can copy it in animation.
etc.etc.etc!!!
I think the first tell-tale sign that I was using Daz too much happened very early on, like within a couple of weeks starting this hobby: I'd be looking at a product in the store, and used my mouse to try to rotate it. (No joke. I still do, sometimes, if I've just been using DS.)
Hubby and I were in the mall, waiting around for the movie start time, (we arrived in time, but that showing was full, so we bought tickets for next one, but had to wait something like 45 minutes,) and a young couple walked by holding hands, headed for the theater. She could barely walk, but I'm sure she thought she looked really good, in a pair of thigh boots that looked like she'd ordered them from the Daz store! (Except had she ordered them from Daz, I'm sure they would have bent at the knee much better.)
But my favorite example of proof I use Daz too much is very recent. I had to have surgery on my left eye, and as I met the retina specialist my eye doctor had refered me to, I was distracted so much it was hard to concentrate on what he was saying. I kept thinking, this guy would make a beautiful figure in 3D.
Did I mention he's like 6' 4"?
I'm on the DAZ diet bought content instead of groceries ..........
I haven't purchased a new dress for myself in several years, but my Daz models get a new dress every few days.
My Daz models have at least 20 times more shoes than I have.
My Daz models have much fancier homes than I do.
My Daz models have dozens of vehicles; I have one car that is 13 years old.
My Daz models have dozens of hair styles and colors; I have had the same style and color for 20 years or more (thanks to Clairol).
+1 to almost all of that. lol
much ...
When you get odd looks because you're studying how the sunlight interacts with someone's skin.
That Titan is looking really damn good too.
+1
I can identify as every one of those as well 
At least I am among kindred spirits!
My real life wardrobe is busted. The clothes I wore when I was 20 no longer autofit me in my 50's (RSSY please help).
I am also not as happy with my body shape as I was when I was 20. My friends and family suggest this stuff called d.i.e.t and e.x.e.r.c.i.s.e. I checked both in daz documentation and other than few poses did not find what they were on about. And both sound like they would reduce the time I cxould be rendering. So I think I will just select myself in the scene and move some sliders until I look 20 again. That is how real life works isn't it ?
And glad everyone is liking this thread and I am not the only stalker of people for DAZ purposes (what do you mean officer.. I was only checking out her textures).
TIC.
Your computer melts... your computer melting is a strong indicator of overuse of DAZ content and rendering too much and too long...
Also having an empty bank account and no longer being able to blame it on the cat accidentally walking across the keyboard...
Or so I hear... I have a different problem, I have dreams where I’m inside something I modeled or am modeling... usually a set or spaceshipish thing... it sucks actually, because it’s never anything cool, it’s always a project I’ve come to dislike or am frustrated with...
I did have a cool floating GUI (sorta like Ghost In The Shell) once and was able to sculpt a giant statue by walking around it sculpting with hand gestures like with a VR glove or touchscreen... but I was really sick that time and the novelty of the dream wore off after the tenth time in a row... started threading into hallucination-land.
I feel like my day is going to end this way.
...heh, I think Daz Sales Math is now an advanced course at MIT.
Crikey I've studied algebra, trigonometry, calculus, even abstract algebra as well as celestial mechanics and I still can't figure out how they do it.
I always figured it was rocket science; and just few days ago, I remeber a promo of said name? Or do I?
I was driving home from groceries store today, looked around and wondered how fast things render in real life. Viewport navigation and panning is also super fast XD.
I'm happy to let the render run while I sleep; it's how long I spend making "just one more adustment to the scene" beforehand that gets me.