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Category Archives: DAZ Studio
Animating cloth in DAZ Studio
A new video tutorial showing how to animate cloth in DAZ Studio 4 , with the free script animMorph. You also need the plugin Animate 2, if you want to combine the cloth animation with the character animation…
Zorn – new Mass Effect style DAZ character
A great-looking Mass Effect style character from TheAntFarm, Zorn — just arrived on the DAZ Store.
Second edition of the official DAZ Studio guide book, published
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
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…
“Arrr, there be treasure here!” Free pirate chests from DAZ
The DAZ Store has a nice freebie through 15th May 2012, a set of quality pirate chests, “Treasure Chests” which normally retails for $15.
3D Art Direct – new service, first podcast
The editors of 3D Art Direct magazine have started the magazine’s first download podcast. Artists covered in the first MP3 include…
DeeDee Davies (Vue Studio, Poser Pro and Carrara Pro); and Les Garner from Sixus1 Media (Poser models and props)
New Blender-to-DAZ scene export plugin, free
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
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.
Getting started with Reality 2 – new video tutorial
PretA3D has a excellent new 15-minute tutorial on how to use the Reality 2 high-quality renderer plugin with DAZ Studio… “Getting started with Reality 2″…
Micheal 5 – out now
Micheal 5, the new Genesis-enabled version of Micheal for DAZ Studio, has just been released.
DAZ to Blender – new pipeline tutorial
Send your DAZ Studio characters to Hell Blender, with a brand new tutorial and pipeline overview researched and written by Jon Hallier. The Blender guys are of course working on the free Make Human software, which is current stuck at alpha 0.6. But until Make Human becomes usable, Exporting DAZ Studio 4 figures to Blender might come in handy.
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.”
New Nursoda female figure – freebies
Any new standalone figure from Nursoda is welcome. They are always of excellent quality, and have immense amounts of character. So it’s great news that he’s just launched another excellent characterful older female character called Aina…
Nursoda’s freestuff website has also updated with a fab set of free poses for Aina and his popular Hein figure…
Done to a T
Rampa has posted a file that gives a better starting t-pose, for use in exporting FBX characters from DAZ Studio to iClone using the new 3DXchange5 Pro.
Micheal 5, almost ready for release
DAZ’s Micheal 5 character is almost ready for release, to join the existing Victoria 5 as DAZ’s flagship male/female characters. This is a preview of what he’ll look like…
