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Trouble using the VWD Cloth And Hair for Daz. Can anyone help?

ToobisToobis Posts: 993
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While the main poser version comes with instructions I do struggle still and would prefer a simplier explanation from someone who know how to use this script and I learn from example very well.

In the screenshot I have what is the 'VWD Daz bridge' version up. What I basically want as an example is to have the girl spin with about an almost 2 second animation and have her hair be animated as she does it. What are the basics of what I would need to select? please confirm I have the right VWD version up too please if I do.

Please try to give screenshots for this if you can help thanks.

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  • LindseyLindsey Posts: 2,011

    There are free VWD video tutorials posted here:  https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?uid=572568

    Although the navigation tutorial I looked at was using it within Poser, the initial VWD screen in Daz Studio as shown in your picture looks the same as in the tutorial.

  • ToobisToobis Posts: 993
    Lindsey said:

    There are free VWD video tutorials posted here:  https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?uid=572568

    Although the navigation tutorial I looked at was using it within Poser, the initial VWD screen in Daz Studio as shown in your picture looks the same as in the tutorial.

    So am I using the wrong version you think?

  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,175

    No, you are using the right version. VWD with the Daz Studio bridge. If you can see it from within DS, you have the right one. You'll just have to adapt the tutorials from Poser to the DS equivalents.

    Laurie

  • UthgardUthgard Posts: 881

    According to your screenshot, you are running the demo, so I don't know what limitations you will have. Remember: the bridge and the VWD program are two separate things and you need to buy both of them.

    Regarding your question, you need to set up the animation within DS, start VWD via the bridge, click on "Host list" ("Poser list", in you screenshot), import the relevant figures as collision and, lastly, the hair as... well, as hair. There are a lot of settings to fiddle with, but I would suggest starting with the presets and working your way up from there. Also, the manual is a bit hard to read because of the language barrier (the author is Francophone and, as a fellow Romance language speaker, I can sympathize), but the video tutorials are very informative regarding the basic workflow.

    I would suggest reading the readme in the bridge to make sure you have installed things properly. Its not about the program version but about setting things up right and making sure they work. Good luck.

  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715
    edited November 2016

    VWD only produces one version; it works with Poser and Daz, Python, and a Daz Plugin handle the transfer of data from Poser/Daz to VWD. (There are two variants of VWD, can animate a series of poses, and can only animate one static pose.)

    There is a forum on rendo.

    I presume you already know how to crate animations; if not figure that out first. VWD merely allows you to add believeable cloth and hair drapes; if you don't know how to create good animations, it won't be of much use to you. It's all a learning process.

    Create in Daz what you want the figure to do; your animatation.

    - Start pose (frame 0),

    - End pose (depends how many frames you have per second, but presuming 30, then two seconds gives 60; I would then add a few to the end to allow some time for stuff to settle; you can always clip it off or delete I presume (I've only done animations in Blender)).

    Start VWD in Studio using the script.

    Then...

    In VWD you click 'Hot List'

    Select the figure as Collision.

    Add any clothes as Collision items.

    then add Hair as a Hair Item.

    (Note, if you need to drape/animate clothes then do those first; then the hair. You would then add the draped clothes with VWD names as collision objects as above.)

    NOTE: Save you scene in Daz; save after returning stuff from VWD, the occasional crash can cause the loss of stuff; but saving often negates this issue.

    ... And as one user pointed out, you have the Demo; you can NOT return completed poses/animations to Daz (or Poser) with this. You can practice using VWD, which does require some practice.

    It's a great product though, and I've bought clothes from Daz I wouldn't otherwise have purchased because of it.

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  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,640

    There is a VWD Carrara bridge and a VWD Daz bridge Then there is the lite and full version of the software. Here are some free tutorials by biscut: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?uid=572568

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