Once again My Disappointment is Immeasurable and My Day is Ruined over a DAZ3D Product

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https://www.daz3d.com/ozias-hd-for-genesis-8-male

If you think about buying this product, just don’t. It’s a low effort, low quality scam product.

Why. I wanted to (re)create Na’vi characters in DAZ3D and saw Ozias HD* (HD my ASS) in the daz shop. The promo renders looked decent enough. I didn’t need the character itself, but its texture maps. With a little bit of work on the textures, so i thought, i could make pretty decent blue skinned aliens. I even commissioned a Zbrush artist to paint the na’vi stripes for me, which i intended to combine with the ozias maps.

And then after getting the product, I opened the texture maps in PS, and Oh My God, they are so jarringly bad, that It’s an insult. jpeg compression artifacts!?! !!! on a product that has HD in the title… The texture itself is a senseless patchwork of texture overlays, obviously from different daz products. Was the creator trying to avoid any license issues by stealing from multiple sources and randomly putting them into one? I don’t know… I feel scammed. I would feel scammed even If I pirated this product. Lol.

Too bad one cannot rate a product and write a review in the DAZ shop.

Am i allowed to post a sample texture here? In case you want proof.

That’s it.

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I wouldn’t post the raw texture, that could be seen as infringing on the creators’ copyright, but certainly if you posted a marked-up version where you’ve drawn on the texture and pointed out/ called-out the flawed areas or other areas of concerned that would be fine.

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you can and should return it within 30 days and say why

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Well, yeah.

I think, even a layman could tell that something isn’t right with this texture. If you bring the camera closer to the characters head in a render this becomes very obvious, irritating and ugly.

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This is supposed to be the diffuse map. and yet it has very bright/dark spots. They don’t know what they are doing. And there’s nothing more annoying (to me) than incompetence.

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For comparison, the textures for Graciana by Sangriart on Renderosity are possible the best I’ve seen for a daz product - for nearly just half the price. I’ll just use them and color them blue lol.