Dual Monitor layouts.
Scavenger
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I was wondering if anyone has come up with a good layout plan for using 2 monitors with Daz Studio.
I've cobbled something together that isn't great, though servicable, but I'm thinking/guessing/hoping some folks with much more experience than I have found/made some better way to do it.
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(and as much as I bash the forum software, KUDOS for users being able to move their threads to different sections, as I had posted this in the wrong one).
I use dual, my content library and other frequent used tabs is on the second screen. Main screen is mainly viewport. Been using this layout since I started using Studio.
I use the monitor portside monitor for Studio full-screen and starboard for whatever other tools I might need. Photoshop, Cyberfox, etc.
Mostly because I still need tutorials for some things.
I think it will really come down to your own personal preference, I don't think my layout will help you much. And of course monitor widths and resolutions vary too. But in case there's some brilliant idea hidden in here that I'm not yet aware of, here's what I see. The space on the right waffles a bit, sometimes I shrink it down to half the screen width so I can get a text file of instructions to the right of it, sometimes I expand it full width so I can see a little bit more of my content library. I did put some of the wider tabs on the 2nd screen to the right (content library takes up lots of space, so does Shader Mixer) both so I could use them and so I could make the side bars narrower to get more viewport space on the left monitor, and arranged tabs so that certain combinations of commonly-needed things would be visible at the same time (for example I can always see the scene pane so I can select stuff even when I'm using other tabs.)
(note thumbnail of attachment gets sides cut off, must click it to see what it really shows).
I see Zevo and Sriesch both have their side tabs in a single pannel...which hasn't even occured to me...so that's a plus.
I actually keep all my DS stuff on the main monitor, and my render viewport on the second monitor. I use octane render. When tinkering with animation, i often move Animate/Keymate to the second monitor instead of expanding it at the bottom of the main window.
I don't spend a lot of time in the content browser however.
Also I mostly render in portrait aspect ratios, so it doesn't hurt me to have 3 column view in daz. When I render square or wide I tend to minimize one of the columns.
I typically leave the second monitor for references, folders, render viewport, web browsers and stuff. If I rendered more widescreen, landscape stuff I'm sure that would change.
Left column is Content Library, Parameters and Octane Render tab. Center is Preview Viewport, Right is Scene, Surfaces, Toolsettings, Property Hierarchy.
It's convienent for me to have Both Octane Render tab and Surfaces tab visible at same time. Or Parameters and Scene at the same time. That's why I don't only have 2 columns.
For me, I have a 27" as my main (right half of the screenshot) and a 22" as my secondary on the left (left half of the screenshot). The main is my workspace, and the left is mostly content and quick render viewport.
The 22" used to be my main with a 19" as my aux monitor. I won't go back to anything smaller than a 27" for the working area though, as my bad eyes need the bigger screen.