{"id":11586,"date":"2019-10-02T21:08:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T21:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=11586"},"modified":"2019-10-02T21:08:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T21:08:32","slug":"billboards-for-daz-studip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/billboards-for-daz-studip\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboards for DAZ Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new free billboard import script for DAZ Studio users, Load Image as Plane<\/a>. This automatically imports your image and places it on a correctly sized 2D billboard. (Doing it the old way was a bit complicated and fiddly<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I couldn’t quickly find a good picture to illustrate them in DAZ, but here’s an indicative visual from SketchUp. They look much the same in DAZ…<\/p>\n

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As you can see here, you need to ensure a clean cut-out, and that you don’t have a colour fringe lingering around the edges of your cutout.<\/p>\n

I see that the DAZ Store also has the Billboard Plugin<\/a> currently on sale at $10. This has your billboards “always align to the user. Works automatically with all cameras”. In other words, your billboards will always face the camera.<\/p>\n

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Since billboards are flat 2D and are ready-rendered, they can speed up scenes. They’re also known as “2D cutouts”, “alpha planes”, “faceme elements”, “camera-facing planes”, and as “fog planes” when their picture is of semi-transparent fog. Commonly used for render-time hogs such as trees or waves, to have big crowds in the back of your scene, for fog and mist, or FX such as lightning bolts.<\/p>\n

They tend not to play nicely with Preview (OpenGL) mode, as I seem to recall that the box around the element is usually shown. But Poser Comic-book Preview users might experiment there, re: pre-tooned hair as a 2D plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a new free billboard import script for DAZ Studio users, Load Image as Plane. This automatically imports your image and places it on a correctly sized 2D billboard. (Doing it the old way was a bit complicated and fiddly). I couldn’t quickly find a good picture to illustrate them in DAZ, but here’s an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-daz-studio","category-freebies","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}