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Second edition of the official DAZ Studio guide book, published

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Just published, Les Pardew’s new book for DAZ Studio 4 users, Figures, Characters, and Avatars, Second Edition. This is an update of his earlier book for DAZ, and this new edition of the official guide weighs in at 221 pages. The title shows up on Amazon USA as Figures, Characters and Avatars: The Official Guide to Using DAZ Studio to Create Beautiful Art. Potential UK buyers will either have to wait until the UK publication date of 8th June 2012, or order from the USA.

Here’s the book’s cover and the table-of-contents for the new edition… click on the table-of-contents to see the full-size version…

New Blender-to-DAZ scene export plugin, free

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Do you have a scene made with the free Blender, that you want to render complete in DAZ Studio? Silvio has written a new Blender plugin that claims to do that…

“I have written a plugin for Blender 2.6.2 bridge, to DAZ Studio 3.1 or up. It exports the 3D geometry to DAZ Studio, via [Blender’s] Collada export, and it exacts camera animation positions, rotation, dolly, zoom, DOF…”

Probably not textures, though, if it’s a Cycles scene. I know from experience that nothing on earth will export one of those with textures.

Here’s his detailed 24-minute video tutorial…

New set of DAZ-to-Blender scripts

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McjTeleblender is a…

“new kit of scripts designed to quickly export DAZ Studio scenes, even animations, and render them in Blender using Blender’s GPU-accelerated ray-trace renderer named Cycles.”

It’s early days, and the scripts are still being patched. But it all appears to work and offers yet another (and free!) option for high-end raytracing from DAZ Studio scenes.

DAZ to Unity – detailed technical overview

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DigiTech has posted a lengthy new whitepaper/tutorial on pipelining customised character assets for the popular free Unity game engine, based on DAZ Studio exports…

“This tutorial presents an asset pipeline, and design and code analysis information, to support the character customization workshop project download [available] for Unity game engine. […] The character customization workshop provides a foundation for a startup individual or small team of developers to begin introducing character management to their games.”