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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
I would like to present to you a Shader Builder Tutorial for DAZ Studio 4.5. This is a beginner’s tutorial, that is, this tutorial assumes you have little to no experience with the Builder and leads you through the process of creating, building and accessing a shader for DAZ using an exsisting shader language script. For the tutorial I have used Mike King’s Gooch shader. The tutorial is in pdf format, Also included in the zip file are the preset files (in duf, dsa and sdl formats) of the created block. My small gift to those that have given to me. Hope it is informative. If there are issues please tell me. I too am new to this that is why there is minimal technogeek in the tutorial. Looking forward to seeing people create some cool shaders.
Lonnie
Access the tutorial here:
http://www.sharecg.com/v/66014/browse/3/PDF-Tutorial/DAZ-4.5-Shader-Builder-Tutorial—-MK-Gooch-Shader

Good job on the tut and nice work on the shader and presets.

thanks mjc. I needed to solidify my learnings from the summer and this is how I did it. I give thanks to Takeo.Kensei for giuding me through the tougher parts of this learning.

Great! The second most useful D|S 4 tutorial I have seen (the first was one who taught me how to make that new interface usable )!

Hibernatus - 29 November 2012 01:38 PM

Great! The second most useful D|S 4 tutorial I have seen (the first was one who taught me how to make that new interface usable )!

Thank you. I thought my trials and troubles should be put to good use. Hopefully this is not so simple that it becomes a waste of time.

I haven’t read it all but it’s a very nice tutorial! I guess I can stop porting posts for the Shader Builder sticky from the old forum (besides the spherical camera shader doesn’t work anymore in DS4).

ReDave - 01 December 2012 03:06 PM

I haven’t read it all but it’s a very nice tutorial! I guess I can stop porting posts for the Shader Builder sticky from the old forum (besides the spherical camera shader doesn’t work anymore in DS4).

Thank you. It is a start. Nothing to serious, but it might ease someone’s frustation with the fact that documentation for this feature is very sparse indeed.

Thank you so much for this tutorial.
Going through it now, wish i had found it earlier… 

BlackFeather1973 - 22 March 2013 02:24 AM

Thank you so much for this tutorial.
Going through it now, wish i had found it earlier… 

BlackFeather, Your welcome. Hope to see your results. I used the tutorial myself to get Stephen H Westin’s velvet shader created. It worked! So I hope that you are successful too.

Great job on the velvet shader, it looks fantastic !
I’m just learning the basics of shader mixer/builder. Still a long way to go, it gets complicated quite fast. Your tutorial is a big help !