I am still using DAZStudio 3.1.2
I want to create an animated file which contains several different clips

suppose I create the first animation ex frames 1 - 30
Then I create the second animation, let say : frame 40 - 60

the key frame #40 changes the original key frame #30
In other words the two clips affect each other

What shall I do to create unrelated clips in one file only ?

Thanks in advance

To make categorizing easier, I usually only install one product at a time, or a combination of obviously unrelated content. Because the Unassigned category is always empty, everything in here can be immediately found, no problem. However the non-Unassigned Default categories are a bit trickier. Theoretically one can look for the blue highlighting to find the content. Unfortunately sometimes the blue highlighting is not removed for empty categories which would gradually create more and more categories to have to look through to find your newly installed content, and of of course if you actually try to use any of the content (perhaps to see exactly how it interacts with existing content to determine where to put it) the blue highlighting will be lost. Short of manually looking at every single category and subcategory in the entire system under Default, I don't see a good way to find lost content in here if you don't know it's name.

How do other people avoid this problem?

There is no foot pose that helps either. Thanks in advance.

Create MORE pose controls for the face.

As far as I can tell, most if not all of those pose controls are not simply morphs, but morph controllers.

I was looking at Victoria 4's expression controls, and I noticed, for instance, that the Pucker set to a value of -50% (or -.5) is a fantastic smirk.

However, I can't make that work with the Genesis by turning the limits off. Just doesn't have any effect below a value of 0.

So... there are obviously a tonne of little morphs being controlled by these dials. And since we can organize them, we can add to them and have them be operable. There are no tongue controls, for instance, save for the Visemes.

We can make her better! We have the technology...

Oh, and while we're at it... if we can figure out how to do this... or if one of the gurus already knows, and can share the knowledge, we can add to the Body pose controlls as well!

finally realized I changed it on the view button...teach me to play with what i don't know:\

Does anyone know if these brushes can be used with Gimp? I would like to purchase this but not if they can't be used with Gimp.
Thanks loads.

I'm quite a novice at 3D art, but technically savvy enough to get up and running. I commissioned a professional 3D artist to create a head for a character based on my specifications. The work is done and I have Zbrush and 3DS exports of the mesh and a basic skin map baked into the Zbrush project as well as in a separate PSD file.

I'd like to now take that bust and weld it to a body that I can customize on my own in DAZ, ideally using the full suite of morphs, textures, wardrobe, etc with a Genesis base model. I'm out of money to hire a pro so I'd like to figure out how to do this myself, but I'm pretty stumped on what steps to take next.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

many thanks,
W

win7 pro 64 8 gig ram amd 8ish card honestly cant remember model. new drivers on all I can think of mebe just the amd card who knows.

For the record, I'm using Daz Studio Pro 4.0

I did a fresh install of DAZ Studio 4.5. I do not have DAZ Studio 3 installed; however, I have a lot of DAZ Studio 3 content waiting to be installed. Can someone direct me to a site that goes step by step on installing "older content" in Studio 4.5. Basically, I want to search through my old content and see what works with Studio 4.5, before having to re-purchase similar content.

Thanks.

I've found references to this in various places but no solutions, so here I am.

I'm trying to export a character from DS4 in the FBX format. Most of the time, I have no problem with this. But I started playing around with the creature creator kit, and now I can't get some of the morphs to work.

As it's exporting, I see the character straighten out into a default pose as usual, but *without* some of the morphs that it normally has. (It goes from being a hulking beast to a hulking couch potato.)

When I open it up in 3DS Max, it has the pose that I gave it, but it loses the morphs (i.e., it's the same hulking couch potato form that appears quickly in the default pose during export).

I've tried checking/unchecking the morphs option for the export and fiddling with the morph export options to no avail. I have no idea what's going on.

Any ideas?

I attached cropped screenshots of the model normally, during export, with a reset pose for comparison, and as it appears in 3DS Max after import.

Thanks,
Rick

My shirt moves to the middle of gen. What am I doing wrong?

PS:
Sorry if my English is not very good.

When I got up this morning it was still running, and I also noticed that my 'screensaver & log off' for online passworded protection didn't run - so I exited the service and the SS/LO sequence still worked fine.

So, my question is this: Is there some setting I need to change so the CM doesn't interfere with my system security features?

Next question is where do I get 'em

Here's the problem:

Trying to export my [heavily] modified Genesis based character out to Mudbox via FBX for texture painting.
Problem is, Mudbox sees the FBX as having 26 separate UV tiles, one for each material. [I counted]

I cannot paint 26 separate 2048x2048 TIFFs, all loaded into memory, at the once. That's crazy

Surely the Genesis mesh does not have 26 UV tiles! Does it? No... couldn't be. Should only have the 5 or 6 [if you count the tear]

So the question is:

How do I get my geometry out to my 3D painting package?

Thanks

And because a picture is worth 1KWords

Thank you in advance to anyone able to offer some guidance!

I have started a small project with a group of my grade 6 students where we'd like to import a short animation of a Toon Alien we purchased in the Daz store (http://www.daz3d.com/shop/toon-alien) saying a few things using Mimic Lite and then use him in a short space video they have created using green screen in Sony Vegas... I have discovered how to import the Toon Alien into Mimic lite but only the head moves around with the audio file loaded...The mouth doesn't move at all. In DS I am able to manipulate everything around the Alien's mouth including the mouth, tongue, etc... there are even sliders for emotions that allow me to manipulate the mouth further... Long story short, Alien has a mouth, it can move... Why is it not cooperating in Mimic?

if all else fails I will try this method (does this only work with 32bit version?) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya2_AiX0F5c but it seems very time consuming... With a school day already squeezed for instructional time, I'd love for this to work so that others may benefit in their future productions...

thanks for taking the time to read this and thanks again for anyone who can make any suggestions!

Take care!

1. New stuff not showing up in Smart Content, even after metadata was manually reimported. Smart Content from products installed more than a few weeks ago is still there.

2. Sometimes, with Genesis selected, when I load an article of clothing, it loads without fitting to Genesis. I can then manually "fit to," but previously this step wasn't required...

3. Not enough data to say for sure, but it seems like renders are taking a LOT longer all of the sudden. I had one recently that took 70 hours; previously my longest was around 24 (I had two take about that long, one of which was 2000x2000 pixels with UE2 and DOF, just to give a benchmark). The 70 hour render resulted in the image below. It had very high-quality render settings and UE2, and was the first time I rendered Gregoria Hair which I understand can take a while...but it still seemed excessively long. I just tried rendering another scene, with the settings (shading rate, etc.) turned down to default levels, but I cancelled it after it ran for an hour and was still at 0%...lots of transmapped plants in the scene, but again it seemed to be taking longer than expected. I made some changes to try to speed things up, and am trying it again. Two slow renders don't really make a trend, but since I've got other issues listed above, I thought I'd mention this potential one too. After further testing, it looks like this might be a non-issue...let's consider it solved for now.

I'm using DS 4.5.1.6 on a 64-bit machine, 3GB RAM, 1.6GHz single-core, Windows 7. My system specs aren't so great by 3D standards, but they've been good enough so far... Let me know what additional information would be helpful in diagnosing the problem and I'd be happy to provide it.