A Daz Studio Rookie needs some advice/help in 3 areas

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• sriesch Posts: 4,243

  January 2017

  1) Not sure if this is what you mean, but you can move the camera back from the center of your view, or create a new camera to use then change the focal length to make it wide angle?

  2) Are you using Iray (the default render engine) or 3DL?  Research iray and skydomes.

   
• Etrigan Posts: 603

  January 2017

  Turk_WLF said:

   

  I need some advice/help with the 3 following questions…

  1)  I’m used to working in Hexagon, Carrara, CorelDraw where we have pretty large “viewpoint”/workspace & in comparison Daz Studio has a pretty small  “viewpoint”/workspace, is there a setting or a way I can adjust that into a larger work area?

  In my experience, the "floor" is not the whole of the workspace. it's more of a directional reference. I have many scenes and sets that dwarf the floor grid.

  2) I’m trying to do an ocean scene is Marshian’s “Ocean Wide” at ( http://www.daz3d.com/ocean-wide ) with the Orca(s)/Killer Whale(s) from ( http://www.daz3d.com/orca-killer-whale ) but I’m having trouble with getting the sky, if I add my own skydome every renders into a “Black Screen”. Is there something that I’m doing wrong?

  In Iray, don't use a skydome, but set the sky in the render settings. I use TerraDome 3's skies, even when not using their ground. Also First Light Skydome is useful, but limited to early morning/late afternoon images. The use of a skydome in Iray actually blocks the light's rays. 

  3) Also on my ocean scene I some advice on which set of brushes I need to do the water Effects off of the whale seen in the main picture on Orca(s)/Killer Whale(s) from ( http://www.daz3d.com/orca-killer-whale ) the Brush Sets that I’m referring to are from Deviney’s Ray’s Water Bundle (http://www.daz3d.com/rons-water-bundle )

  Keep in mind that Deviney's brushes are for photoshop, they're not D|S tools. There are some wake meshes available on ShareCG.

  Thank you,

   
• Marshian Posts: 1,465

  February 2017

  Hi Turk_WLF-  Did you get Ocean Wide to work as expected?

  Turk_WLF said:

   

  I need some advice/help with the 3 following questions…

  1)  I’m used to working in Hexagon, Carrara, CorelDraw where we have pretty large “viewpoint”/workspace & in comparison Daz Studio has a pretty small

  “viewpoint”/workspace, is there a setting or a way I can adjust that into a larger work area?

   

  2) I’m trying to do an ocean scene is Marshian’s “Ocean Wide” at ( http://www.daz3d.com/ocean-wide ) with the Orca(s)/Killer Whale(s) from ( http://www.daz3d.com/orca-killer-whale ) but I’m having trouble with getting the sky, if I add my own skydome every renders into a “Black Screen”. Is there something that I’m doing wrong?

   

  3) Also on my ocean scene I some advice on which set of brushes I need to do the water Effects off of the whale seen in the main picture on Orca(s)/Killer Whale(s) from ( http://www.daz3d.com/orca-killer-whale ) the Brush Sets that I’m referring to are from Deviney’s Ray’s Water Bundle (http://www.daz3d.com/rons-water-bundle )

   

  Thank you,