What is Movie Maker DS 4.6 Edition

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What is Movie Maker DS 4.6 Edition?  What does it do? and will it work with iray?

Knittingmommy

It's a more automated way to make some quick animations inside Daz Studio. It's made for 3Delight. I'm not sure it can be used in Iray without a lot of work because of the way it uses the skydome. I remember trying at one point when people figured out how to get 3Delight skydomes to work in Iray, but there were a lot more issues than the skydome. It doesn't really work the other way, getting the iray skydomes to work in 3Delight.

That said, I actually like it and it still works well the last time I tried it last year in Daz Studio 4.9. I don't remember testing it in 4.10.

Basically, here is what it does. It gives you a ground plain to make it easier to keep the characters' feet grounded. It also uses images in a 360 degree format of the environment. Those are what are used for the background. It's been a while, but I believe you can actual things to the scene to interact with the characters. You still need to do the animations on the timeline in Daz Studio in whatever method you like best, either the timeline or with Animate2 and aniblocks before you do the actual movie.

It's been too long since I've played with it to give you much more info than that. My one thought the last time I played with it was to see if I can do my own images in Iray and use those images because there is a way to make your own images and import them into Movie Maker and not use the premade assets that go with Movie Maker. Lighting-wise, you'd probably still have to use 3Delight but not completely convinced. It is definitely an idea I still plan to explore because I do like the ease of the interface to make movies inside Movie Maker.

There are just no guarantees you'll be able to get it to work using Iray if you buy it.

Zilvergrafix

animation in Daz is very impractical, even the Youtube Daz Channel ads prove that!!