Creating complex outfits in Daz Studio requires extra levels of knowledge and experience. It isn’t easy to find a “How to” guide on creating good quality long dresses, full length skirts or multi-layered outfits.
This five part tutorial series creates these types of outfits in detail. It shows you in step by step fashion. In addition there’s tuition on creating matching jewellery to boot!
In this third part Arki presents a thorough walk through of rigging, with plenty of high value tips and tricks throughout.
Used in this tutorial: Daz Studio 4.9 Pro, Hexagon for modelling
Duration : Tutorial videos run 3 hours
Session 3 : “From Solid to Articulated – Rigging Magic”
Rigging Magic: How to rig simple skintight models with a snap
Rigging Mastery: Smoothing and fixing weightmap issues
Rigging Acrobatics: Rigging a challenging outfit with extra bones and groups
Rigging Veteran: How templates can shorten your workflow
Master Secret: Short introduction to rigging templates and their possibilities
- Presentation Details Session 3a
- Rigging the jewels
- Overview of rigging
- Rigging the jewels
- The transfer utility
- Figure/Prop Asset save box. Details and what it means
- Separate Runtimes for each project? Yes!
- Rigging the dress
- Using the Full Body Template
- Group/Bone relationships
- Isolating problems – procedure
- Geometry Editor
- Reassigning Geometry
- Weight Maps assigned to bone affecting geometry
- Deleting Bones
- Weight Map Editing
- Finding Active JCMs
- Example of template use
- Creating bones for clothing pieces
- Weight mapping the new bone
- Rigging the Scarf/Shawl
- Rigging the jewels
- Session 3b
- Introduction
- Overview of templates and weight maps
- Rigging with Templates
- Starting with a “freshly rigged dress” and demo of the working morphs
- Arki’s long dress projection template
- Overview of creating the model for the projection template
- Demo of the morphs that exist in the template that are transferred to the model
- Where to save projection templates
- Work backwards to create a template? Not recommended.
- Extracting mesh based on G3
- Extracting Mesh “Body Bagging” — copyright infringement question
- Scarf rigged with chain rig
- Introduction
BiTC – Session 3B – Creating a Project Template v1-2
