Almost There

For the First Impressions Dress, I've got the Cookie and Victoria 3 versions done except for nice thumbnails. The Victoria 3 version includes a metric buttload of morphs to match the DAZ morph pack. Not every morph, because some just didn't look right, but a whole bunch.

I can now do the Victoria 4 version morphs because Lyrra's and Netherworks' magnet sets finally went on sale in DAZ's PA sale. Warning, "Good Old Days" story coming in. I left the 3D hobby about 5 years ago, and I've been back in less than a year. Now, back then the annual Published Artist half-off sale lasted the whole month of November. A lot of PAs didn't like that, and I can't blame them, because for an entire month they were only making half their usual commission. Well, now any given PA's items only go on sale for one day (usually works out to a day and a half, and I've heard rumors of a one-day "catch-up" at the end of the month), and I think that's a little too far the other way. I wasn't able to get something off my "A-list" until November 26th, and I was getting pretty frustrated. Ironically, yesterday's A-list item wasn't even on my wishlist. It's Uzilite's brand new Marquis set, which I have plans for.

I much prefer Runtime DNA's 2 or 3 week long annual 50% sale, and frankly, it works better at getting my money. I got the things I absolutely had to have when it first started, but more things have kind of been sneaking into my cart over the last few weeks. ::whistles innocently:: At DAZ, however, I've actually taken things off my wishlist this month, because I'm in there every day to see if anything's on sale (the alerts are infamously unreliable), and some items I stared at long enough to realize "I don't really want that after all". You know how it is, when you look at something enough times, you suddenly see flaws you never would have noticed if you'd only looked 499 times instead of 500.

I wonder how they'll run their DAZ originals sale next month. They do seem fond of these "one day only" sales.

Anyway, back to my original topic, I'm almost done with the First Impressions Dresses. I "just" need to make the V4 morphs and thumbnails, and get everything packaged up. Of course, I can't distribute it until I can buy a Marvelous Designer license. They updated their TOS in preparation for going gold, but haven't actually gone yet. Nonetheless, I'll be ready for when they do.