Does anybody know how to add custom items to the "Toolbars"? I recently watched a video from Pret-a-3D and Paulo has what I can only assume a customised toolbar.....

I would like to add my own but I'm having difficulty figuring it out....

Comparison screen shots attached.

Cheers

Stiks

Decimate is 100 dollars i dont have momney now.

Are there any free tools or plugins?

so i can successfuly import scenes and stuff into Unity.

But i don't really know how to export and create Animated DAZ characters?

AND PS no i'm not doing commercial games, it's just games for myself and my family in my house.

Anyways,
So Yeah. I tried importing Assets (DS 4 animation of V4 exported as FBX using DAZ 4) and the character does get imported in Unity but no matter if i follow tutorials that do the same thing, my characters don't animate.

They do seem to animate in the Preview little screen that Unity has in one of the tabs, but it doesn't animate in the main game. at all.

I'm using Unity 4.1.5 for Mac. The 4.2 mac installer doesn't work and it produces a nonworking Installer so i went back to 4.1.5.

Macos X here 10.6.8

So let's say one preset turns on a set of lights around the wall. Another one will turn on the overhead lights.

The problem is when I click on one, it will add it. Ok. Then I click on the next, it replaces whatever lights are in the scene. It doesn't add to what is there.

I tried to research it and saw two things. One holding down the CTRL key and dragging into the scene (doesn't work). And right clicking and selecting Merge into scene. That doesn't either. No matter what I do it also replaces the lights rather than adding to what is already there.

So what am I doing wrong? I was almost tempted to save each separately and try and merging the files together but that's just too much work. Besides some settings are opposite like make ambience high and make ambience low.

It's got to be something simple but I'm not seeing yet.

Thanks.

Since I am very curious when I install programs, I usually check afterwards what's been done / added / changed.
I noticed that in the .dsx manifest file (the 237 KB one), at the end, it said

And when I looked at that file, it was apparently some bugs in it:

First:

The goal is obviously to make several
[***file\shell\\open\command\] keys with

"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\DAZStudio.exe" "%1"

However, in the registry, this instead becomes

"C:\Program Files (x86)\DAZ 3D\DAZStudio4\DAZStudio.exe" ""

So the code should be like

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dazfile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dazfile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%1\"" /f

Second:

The "DAZ Script 2 (Encrypted)" section reads like this:

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dseile" /ve /d "DAZ Script 2 (Encrypted)" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dseile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,6" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsefile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

As you see, there is an inconsistency - the two first lines use "dseile" while the last one uses "dsefile".
Since I have not used Daz before, I'm not sure, but - I would guess that "dsefile" is the correct (intended) one..?
If that is the case, in addtion to changing the 2 "dseile" keyname entries into "dsefile" in this "register_file_ext.bat",
it will also be needed in the "unregister_file_ext.bat" - i.e.:

REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dseile" /va /f

REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsefile" /va /f

Third:

Shouldn't there also be some entries that assigns the actual filename extensions..? I.e. like this..:

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.daz" /ve /d "dazfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ds" /ve /d "dsfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsb" /ve /d "dsbfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsa" /ve /d "dsafile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dse" /ve /d "dsefile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsf" /ve /d "dsffile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.duf" /ve /d "duffile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsx" /ve /d "dsxfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsi" /ve /d "dsifile" /f

Putting all these fixes together - I created my own variant of this:

@ECHO OFF
SET curDir=%~dp0
IF %curDir:~-1%==\ SET curDir=%curDir:~0,-1%

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.daz" /ve /d "dazfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dazfile" /ve /d "DAZ Studio Scene" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dazfile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,2" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dazfile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ds" /ve /d "dsfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsfile" /ve /d "DAZ Script (Ascii)" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsfile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,3" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsfile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsb" /ve /d "dsbfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsbfile" /ve /d "DAZ Script (Binary)" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsbfile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,4" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsbfile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsa" /ve /d "dsafile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsafile" /ve /d "DAZ Script 2 (Ascii)" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsafile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,5" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsafile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dse" /ve /d "dsefile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsefile" /ve /d "DAZ Script 2 (Encrypted)" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsefile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,6" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsefile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsf" /ve /d "dsffile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsffile" /ve /d "DSON Support File" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsffile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,7" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsffile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.duf" /ve /d "duffile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\duffile" /ve /d "DSON User File" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\duffile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,8" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\duffile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsx" /ve /d "dsxfile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsxfile" /ve /d "DAZ Shared XML" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsxfile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,9" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsxfile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dsi" /ve /d "dsifile" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsifile" /ve /d "DAZ Studio Layered Image" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsifile\DefaultIcon" /ve /d "%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe,10" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dsifile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%curDir%\DAZStudio.exe\" \"%%1\"" /f

Can someone please help me? I'm really frustrated and ready to quit playing in DAZ.

Update 8-4-2013

I'm back from vacation and then a death in the family.

I decided to try and install my old Aiko 3. Still getting the boxy figures. However, when I rendered her (just for fun) I get Aiko. This is really wierd. I now have a trouble ticket at the help desk. Any thoughts are still very much apprecitaed. Thanks in advance.

can somebody please tell me, what type of database Daz Studio 4.6 uses? I know its a dat-file but that doesn't help me as long as I don't know which format is behind. I want to write a program that automatically adds Products and categorizes them depending on the folder structure I use on disk. So I don't have to do it manually. Whould be great if someone can help me.

Possibly help me figure it out.

They have NEVER worked.

When I attach it to M5 Hero for instance it shows up, looking somewhat flimsly and wrinkled. But if I try to change morphs the mask doesn't act like normal clothing props.

How did this pass the quality control at Daz Studio?.

I am not quite sure where to put this question so I will simply put it here.

I used a single SpotLight for the following scene and rendered it both with 3Delight and with Luxus. While in 3Delight the light looks very good in Luxus the light is too strong. And I cannot turn the intensity down. Even if I turn the intensity of the light to 0.01 it doesn't change anything. Put a pane between the light and the scene doesn't change anything either.

Can anyone give me some tips on how to work on this?

Also, is there a tutorial on how to use LuxRender for DAZ Studio scenes? What need to be done and how and such things?

Thank you very much for the help.

Greetings
P.

Attached:
Image 1 with 3Delight
Image 2 with LuxRender via Luxus

Which do YOU think looks like it has better lighting?

So here are two shots. I'm not sure which load order it will be. But the one with the "whiter" looking glass on the shower is pretty much as is except I added a Uber Base light and changed the settings on the mirror which I'm pretty pleased with.

On the other shot I've - changed the floor to be more shiny, changed the metal to chrome (which is just a shader I have. I have no idea where it came from even but to me even tho it is supposed to be hi-quality, it still looks fake), Changed the glass to clear (so clear it doesn't look like anything is there lol).

So I've made some changes like that. The faucets just don't look real to me. and I messed the towel up. It looked better the other way. I was going for more of a fluffy terry cloth type look. And I haven't did anything with the toilet yet. (I don't see where I can do anything shiny and white). Nor have I tried anything with the window.

So anyway, advice? I just want to make things like this look more realistic and give renders a more consistent appearance at least for this Day-in-the-Life series I'm working on.

Thanks for your time!

By rotate the joints or by aply a Pose ?

1st, stupid question. I can use the Parameters values to create my own person and that is called a morph? 2) I can give away or sell those morph settings? Correct?

I've made a child body and face with Gen female 2. I want to make sure I'm doing this correctly before testing the morph at Sharecg.

I saved as a preset character in My DAZ 3D Library\Data\DAZ 3D\Genesis 2\Female\Morphs\Kimberly is that the correct spot to save it? I have a feeling that is the wrong spot.

I also so tried save as > support asset> Morph asset which I would think is correct however I can't find the file location it only gave me the main folder options to pick from when saving.

I looked in the help guide but if anyone knows of a good tutor for making a morph show as a bar in Parameters values, please share it.

Thanks
Kimberly

Thanks
Kimberly

I have the DS 4.6 with stock Genesis and Genesis 2 figures. I understand I need Victoria 4.2 and the morphs++ .. what is the easiest & cheapest way to get what I need?

And will I be able to achieve the quality in the FWArt render (they used Poser...can DS4.6 be that good`?)

TIA!

Ed

-Kenny

/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/RawArt/Laticis n Genesis/The Watcher.dsf
/data/DAZ 3D/Genesis/Base/Morphs/RawArt/Laticis n Genesis/LI Genesis SweetHeart.dsf

Could anyone tell me what set this might be from? I want to try and reinstall the files but I'd like to know what files I need to access.

Thanks!

Please help.

My newest project includes a bunch of real-world russian and american military vehicles including armor, air (Both jets and choppers). Their list is quite demanding on me.... Mostly financially since I DO NOT model... Which means I'm going to have to break out the old bookmarks and find which site sells what, and hopefully for not too much!

I need historically correct models for U.S. marine soldiers, as well as some russian special forces uniforms (not yet specified as to what which special forces, I know they're all different. But they will be whatever forces are more gurilla style fighting). here's what has been requested from me:

Apache AH-64, AH-6J Little Bird, UH-1Y Venom, WZ-10, Z9, Mi-28 Havoc and AH-1z Viper.

Planes include: FA-18 Hornet, Su-35 Flanker, A-10, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, Su-25 Flanker. Full U.S. Marine core modern combat clothing, perhaps a few assault rifles. Also need russian models of current active special forces uniforms and hand-held rockets including: RPG-7. SMAW, Javlin, ATA4, Stinger, IGLA.

Then I need tanks: M1 Abrams (luckly, I already have a model.), T-90, Type 99, M1128, Sprut-SD

I put units that my friends clans have specifically said they really need for their front page in bold. Ugh, it's quite the list! Then we need launch points, either military hangers (runway and towers with the tarmac are the most important focus) and carriers.

Carrier models include:
USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise (CV-6) and the USS Hornet (CV-8)

I'm curious:
If anyone here does DAZ/Poser work for profit and you get a request like this: how do you go about getting the models and charging (if any)? I am thinking about asking them to use some of our server donations to do the same for me, perhaps then we can all pitch in and get models quickly, of those we can find anyways... No profit what-so-ever will be made off the entire bits we make, and most will be small banners and etc. Headers/Footers for the forums, etc.

So far I have found 2 great apache models, the F-18, M1-Abrams, a RPG (Though it isn't the best, it looks more generic, but it may do alright). Carriers I have found 0 models so far. The two top models requested of me atm is the AH-64 and the F-35 Lightning II. I have yet to find a F-35 model as of yet. The Little Bird is also very much up there since we use them in-game a lot.

Lastly, and probably not used much will be the uniform outfits. I am thinking just taking in-game footage, and extracting snap-shots will work. Especially if I convert those images into backgrounds/IBL to pop into the photos of various vehicles. Lastly: Since aircraft carriers will be used extensively for the main ground, I need great looking ocean (makes me think that after setting it up in DAZ (I don't own Poser), Exporting to Bryce may be a good choice. Unless DAZ can do large ocean scenes?

I find it funny they asked me to do it, As I am just a casual 3d artist who does things for fun, I'm hardly very skilled at it. But apparently they like my work. So I suppose I'll try my best and get some banners going, etc. I found one site which has a lot of models on their site, but their prices are WAY too high for a none-profit type project, ranging from $300.00-$900 for a single artillary model... I'm looking for something in the range of $10.00~$40.00- per model.

This will certainly be a fun little project. I can see the price of this skyrocketing depending on which ones we end up using, as I highly doubt we will use them all.... at least for the sake of my wallet I hope not. lol.