If you are a familiar and seasoned user of Poser and are now starting to use Daz Studio, some of the functions, tools and methods you are used to can be a little tricky to pick up or find. These two video sessions give you a thorough grounding and essential key knowledge to help you become accustomed to the workspace and tools.
These two 1.5 hour sessions are also particularly for you if you have started to explore Daz Studio and want to get things right from the beginning. Get into good habits and set things up right now to save pain later down the line. Learn where important time saving functions are and learn an easier workflow from a presenter who’s had eight years of experiencewith creating content in Daz Studio.
Session 1 (1 hour 43 minutes)
Installation:
Software installation & content installation
Manual installation vs. DIM installation vs. Smart Connect
File Structure
Customizing the workspace:
Changing UI layout & style
Managing libraries
Custom keyboard shortcuts
Setting up a scene:
Finding & loading content
Selection methods
Fitting conformers, parenting props
Moving, scaling & rotating objects
Creating groupings
Using the camera:
Navigating the scene
Normal cameras vs. perspective camera
Important camera settings
Pointing eyes to the camera
Posing and morphing the figure:
Applying presets & useful tricks
Manual posing & morphing
Using pose controls
Session 2 (1 hour 35 minutes)
Tweaking content inside DS:
Deformers
Push modifiers
SubD
Geometry editor tool
Setting up lights:
For 3Delight
For Iray
Working with shadow cameras
>Shaders:
3Delight shaders
Iray shader
Using the Surface Tab
Difference between shaders & materials
Rendering:
Iray
3Delight
Quality vs. render time
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