A new patch is available for pwCatch to make it compatible with DAZ Studio 1.8.

To install this patch:

1. If you did not download and install pwCatch for DAZ Studio 1.7, you must go to your DAZ account page, reset your pwCatch download, and install that update.


2. Unzip the linked file to your DAZ Studio directory.

Download the pwCatch 1.8 patch

Fixed in this update:

• The "Use Backdrop" feature will no longer cause the object to render as all black in DS 1.8.

An online help section has been put up for pwCatch. This section contains all information that could be found in the Tutor software.

If you have trouble accessing the Tutor, or prefer to access the information through your web browser, visit the pwCatch Online Help site.

An online help section has been put up for pwSurface. This section contains all information that could be found in the Tutor software.

If you have trouble accessing the Tutor, or prefer to access the information through your web browser, visit the pwSurface Online Help site.

pwSurface is one of the ten best-selling DAZ Published Artist products to be released in 2006!

You can see the full list of the Top Ten PA Products of 2006 on Daz3d.com.

The latest member of the Poseworks Shader Collection, pwCatch, is now available for DAZ|Studio!



Bring your virtual world together with the real world with this surface shader for DAZ|Studio. Use pwCatch to catch and create shadows, capture reflections and integrate your scenes with other images the way that you've always imagined.

Check out pwGhost and Puzzler, both new today for DAZ|Studio 1.3.1.0!



pwGhost

Phantoms and spirits will delight in this surface shader for DAZ|Studio. Use pwGhost to fill your renders with surreal shapes and eerie effects.

pwPuzzler

Experience your renders in a whole new way with this game for DAZ|Studio. Use pwPuzzler to create tile puzzles from your scenes, and then play and share them with other users.

The update for pwSurface is now available. The following changes have been made:

• Significantly faster shadow map generation
  
• Significantly faster AO
  
• Multiple opacity-mapped surfaces above an AO surface will now occlude correctly (before only the closest surface would occlude)
  
• Opacity maps saved as grayscale (not RGB) will now work as expected
  
• Displacement is now identical to the Dz- shaders
  
• "Diffuse Fill Strength" has been removed from the Tutor

To get the update, go to your DAZ account page, click "Itemized Order History", locate "pwSurface" and click its "Reset" link. The download should become available in your account shortly thereafter. Contact DAZ's technical support if it does not.

If you purchased pwSurface on or after 5/16/06, you do not need to get the update.

If you haven't already, scope out the pwSurface Presets discussion board.

There are new presets popping up almost daily, and you can upload your own to share with other users. Recently, other DAZ Published Artists have been getting into the act. Neo10 just posted a series of skin presets, and others, like stonemason and AprilYSH, have sets in the works.

Feel the love!

pwSurface

A potent surface shader that brings a wealth of professional features to DAZ|Studio. You'll be able to render lush, soft skin, luxurious jade, marble and many other different kinds of materials, using powerful tools like subsurface scattering, translucence, ambient occlusion and translucence.
Features

• Can be used with any figures, objects or maps that you own.
  
• Soft Diffusion and Specularity gives you precision control over how light hits the surface.
  
• Subsurface Scattering allows light to enter and illuminate the surface from within, and is the technique professionals turn to for simulating skin.
  
• Ambient Occlusion shadows wrinkles and crevasses, bringing definition and detail to your renders.
  
• Translucence allows light to shine through one side of the surface to the other, and is perfect for plants' stems and leaves.
  
• One-click quality control lets you pick your render time without any hassles.
  
• An interactive tutor that shows you the effects of each property and helps you pick settings as you go.
  
• Five material presets to help you get started.
  
• All standard surface features are supported.

More teasing, this time you get a name and a bit juicier an image.