The on going issue with Animate2 for animation and genesis with the shoes crunching up and some character toes will curl up once you add the ani block…
and a big issue i have with daz4.5 and ani-block that is most frustrating is when you add a ani-block to a character you spent a hour or so setting up getting the morphs right, it’s all lost once you add the ani-block to genesis, the morph will revert the character to the default morph and having to add a script to correct it for every render cycle is a pain and slows work flow.
No aniBlock from GoFigure has done this. When does this happen for you?
A layout that is very much like Poser (but without actually making SmithMicro angry at Daz). That way, more Poser users can be attracted to Daz Studio because many are turned off by the interface.
That is mainly because these users don’t want to take the time to learn something new. Every program has it’s own unique UI, some worse than others. I hated the UI for DS for the longest time, but learned it to take advantage of a few things DS specific and actually love DS4.5 now.
...with the Darkside UI and optional Content Tree view, it feels and functions pretty close to older versions of the application. While I first thought it as bothersome, the Camera Cube is so much easier and more precise to use than the old orbit control.
One thing I find though is that the item selection tool needs to be a bit more precise. Often times I just want to select a single body part or prop but it frequently ends up selecting either the whole figure or the entire scene set in the background.
I also agree, a sculpting tool would be a nice addition.
Here is what drives me nuts with your software. When you want to pose or move your character the control axis is either right on top
of the thing you want to move as a finger, or so far away that it is not even in the same room as with moving a character. It needs to
be smart and be in the sceen you are in, and not on top of the thing you want to move. Or have a button on it to move the control
wherever you want it, so you can see what you are doing.
The viewport widget appears on the origin of the selected node. If you are going to use the Parameters pane to do the posing you can use the Node Selection Tool, which doesn’t have a widget to get in the way. If you ue the hip, rather than the root Genesis node, for positioning then the widget will be local (but then it will leave the root node’s origin in the centre of the scene, which will be away from the repositioned figure, so you need to be consistent about which you use).
I want self collision smoothing. EG if I make Genesis finger press into the arm I want to see an indentation:) Using invisible suits and props is not an answer. They are too limiting and Genesis can only collide with one at a time. Or if this cannot happen, make an actor able to collide with multiple objects.
I want to be able to move characters easier in different parts of large sets easier. Woe bedide you if you want to place a character on a balconey or at the side of a screen. Lots of paramenter moving and such.
Ability to specify where characters are posed.
Abilitiy to make any surface ‘ground’. I hate getting a new set, and having the characters feed dip down into the ground because it is rocky or raisesd.
Abililty to really delete content fom content manager. I find if I uninstall content, there is some legacy stuff sometimes left in my runtime. I’d love to be able to just click and delete and remove ‘em
Ability to easier focus the character’s eyes, or move to face eachother for posing. Sometimes I think a character is well posed, move around to a different view, and nope, they aren’ even looking towards eachother. So would love a way to ‘group interract characters so they are both facing eachother, and in the character’s line of sight… Natually.
Can we get a STICKY from this thread?
it’s important for daz improvement, that all daz users can have their input and not only a few that found this thread.
just an idea.
The viewport widget appears on the origin of the selected node. If you are going to use the Parameters pane to do the posing you can use the Node Selection Tool, which doesn’t have a widget to get in the way. If you ue the hip, rather than the root Genesis node, for positioning then the widget will be local (but then it will leave the root node’s origin in the centre of the scene, which will be away from the repositioned figure, so you need to be consistent about which you use).
This sound to me like bad programming skills, to make us work, so you don’t have to. Sounds like Bill Gates to me.
And you proved my point “which will be away from the repositioned figure” There should be a way to move the
widget or you make the program where it is always in the pane that we are working in, but not on top of what we
are posing. And people are saying there needs to be a sculpting tool to take your product into the future, and
not be a “toy program” as people are saying. I think your product can be the best out there, if you get over your
Bill Gates mentality. You do the work so we don’t have to, not the other way around. Blow away the competition,
or I am going to start a software business again and put you all out of business. No body had to ask how to use
my software, it was so easy to use they did not have to ask. I mean 20 .exe files just to load one product. Give
me a break. They should all be like genesis, one .exe file with options to load a character.
If the widget moves away from the actual origin then using it to rotate or scale will have unexpected results - hardly user-friendly. The conceptual problem is that the root, “Genesis” in the Scene pane, is not tied to the figure - that can be a good thing (if you set up a multi-figure group using the hips to ge the relative positions you can then apply the same transformations to all of the root nodes to place the group in the scene). Personally I’m not convinced that losing that, or having rotation and scaling occur relative to a different point from the widget being used to apply them, would be desirable but I’m not a developer - if you have a concept of how you would like it to work make a bug report, setting the severity to feature, so that the development team can review it.
...it would be nice if you could actually assign and save an individual name to a figure in the scene tab. That would be very helpful when working with multiple figures instead of just having them labelled “Genesis, Genesis(2), Genesis(3)” etc…
...it would be nice if you could actually assign and save an individual name to a figure in the scene tab. That would be very helpful when working with multiple figures instead of just having them labelled “Genesis, Genesis(2), Genesis(3)” etc…
Very easy to do. Just click on the Genesis 1 2 or 3 once or twice in the Scene tab. It will highlight and you can name it what ever you want. When you save your scene the named Genesis’s will save with their new names.
I’d like to be able to temporarily turn off smoothing on the Scene level, like preview lights. That way I don’t have slow down while I’m setting up the scene, but I also don’t have to remember which items did and didn’t have smoothing enabled when turning it on and off with batch select.
