There are a few products out there that let you mimic the imprint of applying pressure to breasts. Some are simply not worth the effort. Some do a good job. These are the four I am reviewing today:
https://www.daz3d.com/fg-dforce-breast-presets-for-genesis-8-female
https://www.daz3d.com/hs-dforce-breast-for-genesis-2-through-genesis-8-female
https://www.daz3d.com/ghost-dynamics
https://www.renderotica.com/store/cat/8344_checkQS/sku/61170_Breastacular-For-Genesis-8-Female
It happens all the time. Youâre posing your Genesis 8 Female character and you come face to face with the reality that you canât use certain poses because their arms intersect their breasts. Or your character is Lying on the ground and their breasts go through the floor. These products are meant to be solutions to these problems. Some work better than others. For this review I ran three tests - A self-grope test, a clothing test, and a floor test.
Breastacular
This one creates a geoshell and hides the original body part. The geoshell has the properties needed to make deformable breasts. The problems with a geoshell solution are that clothes donât conform to the geoshell and geoshells donât always work nicely with other geoshell products like Golden Palace. Of the solutions, this one is the easiest to work with.
Test Results:
Handprint: Good
Laying: Nope to Fair
Clothes: Nope
Pros: Easy to use. Comes with many useful breast add-ons and modifiers
Cons: Tricky if you use more than one Geoshell, such as Golden Palace or Futalicious
Secret: You can edit the geoshell to hide the parts of the body covered by the other products geoshell.
Bottom Line: You need this if you do nudes.
Ghost Dynamics
This uses native collision and smoothing, but adds props to collide with. Supposedly the ghost props donât appear in renders. This is true if they donât intersect with any of the objects or models that are being rendered. Clothing is unaffected by this, meaning itâs useless on clothed areas. Perhaps some clothing can be maniupulated using ghost dynamics as well, but the clothing I used did not work with Ghost Dynamics.
Test Results:
Handprint: Awkward to pose - limited to shapes of the provided props hands.
Laying: Nope
Clothes: Nope
Pros: Not just Breasts, usable on any object. This is the real selling point here and perhaps the one that makes this worth the price.
Cons: Leaves artifacts in Render. Limited posability.
Secret: All you need is the Add Smoothing button - Anything can be the collision object. And you can accomplish the same thing in Editâ>Figureâ>Geometryâ>Add Smoothing Modifier. Instead of using a prop to manipulate what your characters hand is doing to their own body, add a pair of gloves as the collision object. Make them invisible (hide them) if you donât want to see them.
Bottom Line: Save your money. Just learn to add Smoothing Modifiers and Collision Objects to your figures.
HS dForce Breast for Genesis 2 Through Genesis 8 Female
There are two significant differences in the above picture: First she is blonde because I had to create a new figure and didnât change the hair. Second, she is actually lifting her breasts up, not just indenting the bottom of them.
Adds a dForce subsurface prop to the model, which the skin conforms to when the prop is deformed. To use this, you must start with the provided G8F model with prop model and add any character you are using to that figure. They do provide a prop to add to an existing model, but this doesnât seem to be working.
Easily the most versatile of the products here, when it comes to breasts. Another downside is the need to animate into the pose. You must start your models in a non-contact position and move them into contact.
Test Results:
Handprint: Good
Laying: Fair to Good
Clothes: Fair
Pros: You donât need a Renderotica account to buy it. This is the only one that moves the whole breast when part is pressed.
Cons: You need to animate into the final pose. Doesnât really add to an existing model; you have to start with their G8F base character. You can then add a character to that model, but that takes several minutes with a good computer.
Bottom Line: You need this.
FG dforce Breast Presets for Genesis 8 Female
Just Nope.
Bottom Line: Donât bother with this one.