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BJ Rapid Pose - Faster posing better IK in/out of Daz Studio

bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272
edited July 30 in The Commons

Why hello, it's me again. Since the Patreon is still free I'm not breaking any forum rules. It's all a benefit to Daz Studio anyway so I doubt it ruffles any feathers smiley

Find video on Patreon or YouTube.

If this doesn't get you interested then I don't know what will!

Find bluejaunte on Patreon.

Happy to answer questions.

I have edited the post to comply with forum rules, as I have now launched paid tiers.

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  • SorelSorel Posts: 1,435

    omg this is so cool!?

  • AsuCafeAsuCafe Posts: 550

    The fact that the hands and feet remain perfectly in contact with the surface after being locked in place, regardless of any movement of other parts of the body, is incredibly cool. No current plugins can achieve this.

  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    AsuCafe said:

    The fact that the hands and feet remain perfectly in contact with the surface after being locked in place, regardless of any movement of other parts of the body, is incredibly cool. No current plugins can achieve this.

    Right, it's pretty good as it is now. You can totally break the locks if you yank it around like madman. At some point they just can't be maintained anymore. Especially multiple cross-figure locks, which is crazy enough that this works at all. Then it's a question of do you hard stop the user or let  it happen. It feels horrible to be stopped so let the user rip if they want. With great power comes great responsibility kind of thing.

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 2,244

    Wild.

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 10,309
    edited July 25

    That looks awesome !!  It seems it even works better than Cascadeur !

    I wonder if the IKs performance is significantly enhanced by the plugin or if there's any other specific techniques given by the plugin ? 

    Edit: Will there be both plugin versions for DS 4 and DS 6 ?

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  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    crosswind said:

    That looks awesome !!  It seems it even works better than Cascadeur !

    I wonder if the IKs performance is significantly enhanced by the plugin or if there's any other specific techniques given by the plugin ? 

    Edit: Will there be both plugin versions for DS 4 and DS 6 ?

    Better than Cascadeur? Really you think so laugh 

    The plugin is just for sending figures and receiving back the poses.. the IK happens in a separate application to escape any Daz Studio slowness.

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 10,309

    bluejaunte said:

    crosswind said:

    That looks awesome !!  It seems it even works better than Cascadeur !

    I wonder if the IKs performance is significantly enhanced by the plugin or if there's any other specific techniques given by the plugin ? 

    Edit: Will there be both plugin versions for DS 4 and DS 6 ?

    Better than Cascadeur? Really you think so laugh 

    The plugin is just for sending figures and receiving back the poses.. the IK happens in a separate application to escape any Daz Studio slowness.

    Absolutely I did think so yes at least comparing to the cases where I manipulated Daz figures in Cascadeur !

    I can't wait to give it a try though I 1stly prefer to the version for DS 4... don't tell me it's only for DS6 lol ~ 

  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 2,001

    So how can we get this? Do we have to join your patreon to get it or something? 

  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 2,244

    The plugin is just for sending figures and receiving back the poses.. the IK happens in a separate application to escape any Daz Studio slowness.

    Now it makes sense how smooth it was. :)

  • furiousstugfuriousstug Posts: 231

    Wow, just wow. Want.

  • donniekeidicdonniekeidic Posts: 171

    wow, so a few questions:

    1) is it possible to import props (so if making a pose(s) to fit a chair, bed, car, there is not too much tweaking necessary when bringing it back into Daz)

    2) is this only for still poses or will you be able to export an animation range

    3) any chance it will work with geografts

  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272
    edited July 25

    benniewoodell said:

    So how can we get this? Do we have to join your patreon to get it or something? 

    It's in development, so yes if you want to see it developed further and get early access to it, Patreon is the best bet. As mentioned it only has a free tier for now. I gotta work out the details, access to various monthly/weekly builds, possibly access to my smaller plugins that may be in development, or new versions of existing plugins. Then at some point, or even multiple points for various milestones/versions (typically 1.0, 2.0 etc), it could be released in the Daz store as well.

    This model will ideally allow me to develop the bigger stuff (BJ Cycles and BJ Wicked also fall in that category) that is hard to do in a "finish then sell" way. Not to mention getting input of backers to help shape it. And hopefully just a cool community of interested people.

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  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    donniekeidic said:

    wow, so a few questions:

    1) is it possible to import props (so if making a pose(s) to fit a chair, bed, car, there is not too much tweaking necessary when bringing it back into Daz)

    2) is this only for still poses or will you be able to export an animation range

    3) any chance it will work with geografts

    I made a post the other day about future plans: https://www.patreon.com/bluejaunte/posts/bj-rapid-pose-164752188

    1) Not yet, probably my first priority.

    2) Right now you could import the pose to various keyframes in Daz Studio, just like any pose. In app there is no animation yet but it would be a great fit in the future.

    3) Not yet but sure, I'd put that in 1). I mean, let's just be honest? Pron creators are gonna have a field day with this right. Don't even wanna think about how much time they spend trying to get one thing to be on or... in... some other thing :)

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,634

    bluejaunte said:

    benniewoodell said:

    So how can we get this? Do we have to join your patreon to get it or something? 

    It's in development, so yes if you want to see it developed further and get early access to it, Patreon is the best bet. As mentioned it only has a free tier for now. I gotta work out the details, access to various monthly/weekly builds, possibly access to my smaller plugins that may be in development, or new versions of existing plugins. Then at some point, or even multiple points for various milestones/versions (typically 1.0, 2.0 etc), it could be released in the Daz store as well.

    This model will ideally allow me to develop the bigger stuff (BJ Cycles and BJ Wicked also fall in that category) that is hard to do in a "finish then sell" way. Not to mention getting input of backers to help shape it. And hopefully just a cool community of interested people.

    It looks like it would be very useful. I joined your Patron group but I still don't see anyway to download it. 

  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    Charlie Judge said:

    bluejaunte said:

    benniewoodell said:

    So how can we get this? Do we have to join your patreon to get it or something? 

    It's in development, so yes if you want to see it developed further and get early access to it, Patreon is the best bet. As mentioned it only has a free tier for now. I gotta work out the details, access to various monthly/weekly builds, possibly access to my smaller plugins that may be in development, or new versions of existing plugins. Then at some point, or even multiple points for various milestones/versions (typically 1.0, 2.0 etc), it could be released in the Daz store as well.

    This model will ideally allow me to develop the bigger stuff (BJ Cycles and BJ Wicked also fall in that category) that is hard to do in a "finish then sell" way. Not to mention getting input of backers to help shape it. And hopefully just a cool community of interested people.

    It looks like it would be very useful. I joined your Patron group but I still don't see anyway to download it. 

    I have to come up with paid tiers first. Sure hope you didn't expect me to give this away for free...

  • kprkpr Posts: 466

    bluejaunte said:

    ...

    3) Not yet but sure, I'd put that in 1). I mean, let's just be honest? Pron creators are gonna have a field day with this right. Don't even wanna think about how much time they spend trying to get one thing to be on or... in... some other thing :)

    Gave me a chuckle (almost certainly too true though wink)

    'Professional Subscription' Level probably required? laugh

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940

    I would definitely be interested in this, but only if it works in DS 4, it's not worth me installing DS 6 just for one plugin.

  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 956

    background said:

    I would definitely be interested in this, but only if it works in DS 4, it's not worth me installing DS 6 just for one plugin.

    +1. I too have no interest in DS6 as I run 30xx and 40xx GPUs. 

  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    DS4 and DS6. DS4 was used in video above. 

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 940

    bluejaunte said:

    DS4 and DS6. DS4 was used in video above. 

    Thanks, that's good news. 

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,913

    I am glad you are developing with IK. I am using IK in Unity most of the time.

     

  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    I have edited the post to comply with forum rules, as I have now launched paid tiers. Is it ok to say that it has launched per se though? Maybe? laugh

  • Cam FoxCam Fox Posts: 487
    edited July 30

    Looks very Cascadeur influenced, I love that app. Having a daz-integrated workflow with multi figure pose/ik/balancing controls would be really slick. :)

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  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272
    edited July 30

    3DIO said:

    You're on a roll lately, and honestly I reckon Daz should employ you!

    Great stuff, although crazy as it sounds, one of the single most important things Daz Studio is missing regards posing, is that 'Auto-Balance' system that Poser uses.  If you switch-on Auto-Balance in Poser and drag a limb, the whole figure reposes itself in order to add a natural looking balance.  It's done that for decades now, and IMHO it's pretty damn important for natural looking poses, yet Daz never did implement it in Daz Studio.

    Your tool looks pretty amazing to start with, so I can only imagine how good it would work with that 'centre of balance' thing going on as well.

     

    Why, you wouldn't per chance be talking about this? ;) edit: ah crap now I posted a link again. This is gonna be annoying. Check for a post about Balance Assist on Patreon ok.

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  • HelenAimee3DHelenAimee3D Posts: 7

    A quick screenshot of a couple of poses made from scratch with Rapid Pose. Really enjoying it so far, thank you!

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  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    Helen Aimee 3D said:

    A quick screenshot of a couple of poses made from scratch with Rapid Pose. Really enjoying it so far, thank you!

    Cool! Thanks for subbing heart

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 10,309
    edited July 31

    Wow, that's great !  I'm playing with it now. BTW, can we report the issues / bugs / feature suggestions in here or on patreon ?

    For instance, that little plane of Z axis cannot be highlighted sometimes when hovering mouse onto it... though it still can be dragged. (in screenshot)

    Thanks !

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  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    Yeah definitely not here, we'd be asking Daz to host our debugging session. Ideally you'd get on the Discord probably. Message me there or drop it into bj-rapid-pose channel that you got automatic access to when you subscribed. Thanks!

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 10,309

    Okay, sure thing !

  • bluejauntebluejaunte Posts: 2,272

    The first weekly build is out for MEGA or higher Patrons. It has mostly boring but needed new features as promised. Better font readability as a result of switching to a proper UI framework. A slightly more unified design. And a few bug fixes.

    A new menu button in the top left

    brings up a config window.

    It has presets for the most common 3d packages and by default uses your customized Daz Studio settings if you had any, otherwise default.

    You can customize by clicking on a field and recording your preferred combination of Shift, Ctrl, Alt and Mouse button 1 to 5. These will be persisted in a Custom preset.

    Customize all your keyboard shortcuts here. Bit overkill with a primary and alternate, but I wanted Ctrl-D and G to both drop to ground and Ctrl-Y and Ctrl-Shift-Z to both undo so why not. Restore to defaults at the bottom of the list.

     

    Improved/Fixed

    • Prevented a newly transferred figure from intermittently appearing as a black silhouette while its graphics pipelines finish loading.

    • Faster startup time.

    • Improved text clarity, display-scaling support for icons, control outlines, and checkbox grouping.

    • Receiving a figure now restores BJ Rapid Pose and brings it to the foreground if it was minimized.

    • Prevented mouse orbit from crossing a pole and unexpectedly reversing its vertical direction.

     

    Cannot link, find it on Patreon.

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