{"id":21117,"date":"2023-02-20T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=21117"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:22:25","slug":"release-gmic-v3-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/release-gmic-v3-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: GMic v3.2.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new release for GMic, aka G’Mic as GMic v3.2.1<\/a>. Changelog<\/a>. Highlights I noted are…<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> A new 3D handling feature, though possibly command-line only?<\/p>\n

Command | extract_textures3d <\/em><\/p>\n

“This will help you extracting textures from 3D objects directly as 2D images, that you can save or process and remap on the object.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Probably not a replacement for dedicated tools used to get a texture atlas and\/or seam templates, but it may be of interest to some. <\/p>\n

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In Poser Pro, a FBX or Collada export can also get you a single texture map (a \u2018texture atlas\u2019)<\/a>, output alongside the FBX output. The problem with a ‘texture atlas’ is that it then prevents drag-and-drop re-texturing of parts. It’s all or nothing. DAZ Studio also has a ‘texture atlas’ output command somewhere or other, with the location depending on which UI layout you use.<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> Better voxelisation of 3D…<\/p>\n

“Improved the triangle voxelization algorithm even more. G’MIC is now really a quite nice tool to voxelize 3D meshes!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Could be useful if you want to have your OBJ export from DAZ\/Poser look like a hologram and, once it’s back on Poser or DAZ, put on transparency and glow? But don’t expect to animate afterwards.<\/p>\n

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3)<\/strong> Basic subdivision of 3D object meshes. Again, you can do this natively in Poser and DAZ.<\/p>\n

4)<\/strong> A new filter, to be found in ‘Testing’… <\/p>\n

Garagecoder | Upscale [Recursive2x]<\/em><\/p>\n

Appears to be a sort of ‘intelligent sharpening’ that preserves details better on low-res images? Again, you’d probably do this with AI Gigapixel or online with Base Ten or SWIN, though perhaps this (I’m guessing) is optimised for low-res images?<\/p>\n

As always, beware of updating. Because if someone changed the name of their filter, then that breaks your custom preset. For instance, last summer GMic’s long-standing Artistic | Comic Book<\/em> filter had its functionality updated and the name changed to Comicbook<\/em>. All my custom presets based on this filter were gone in a flash, and some of the filter’s needed switches and sliders had also been removed. Filter makers really need to be told: “If you’re going to tinker to that extent, then keep the old filter the same and call your new one Comicbook_2″<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new release for GMic, aka G’Mic as GMic v3.2.1. Changelog. Highlights I noted are… 1) A new 3D handling feature, though possibly command-line only? Command | extract_textures3d “This will help you extracting textures from 3D objects directly as 2D images, that you can save or process and remap on the object.” Probably not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-utilities","category-companion-software","category-freebies","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117","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=21117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21124,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117\/revisions\/21124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}