You are aware, of course, that the terms of the gallery haven't changed?

From July: https://web.archive.org/web/20170710154121/https://www.daz3d.com/eula

4.0 Forum and Gallery Submissions Addendum

This Forum and Gallery Submissions Addendum to License Agreement (the “Addendum”) is a legal and binding agreement between you, hereinafter also referred to as the “User”, and Daz Productions, Inc., hereinafter also referred to as “Daz”. User and Daz are parties to that certain License Agreement accepted by User upon creating a user account at daz3d.com (“Agreement”). The Agreement is hereby expressly supplemented by the terms and conditions contained in this Addendum.

The Agreement, as supplemented by this Addendum, applies to and governs the rights and duties of the parties hereto with respect to images, text, video, and other materials uploaded by User, or by an authorized representative of User, to any of the websites, social media accounts, blogs or other Internet-based sites or accounts owned or operated by Daz (collectively, the “Sites”). Such images, text, video, and other materials shall be collectively referred to hereinafter as the “User Creative”.

By pressing the “Accept” button below or by uploading User Creative to any of the Sites, User hereby indicates User’s complete and unconditional acceptance of all the terms and conditions of the Agreement and this Addendum. The Agreement and this Addendum together constitute the entire agreement between User and Daz with respect to the User Creative.

If User does not agree to the terms of the Agreement and this Addendum, User must not select the “Accept” button below or upload any User Creative to the Sites.
 

• License to Use the User Creative. User hereby grants to Daz a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use the User Creative (“Right to Use”) as follows:
   
  • to store, backup, copy, transfer, publicly display and exhibit the User Creative, or any part of the User Creative, digitally, as well as through other mediums such as print or video, including, but not limited to, displaying the User Creative on any of the Daz Sites; and
  • to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the User Creative, or to incorporate the User Creative into one or more combined work(s) with images, text, video, or other materials submitted by other Daz users or with other elements (each a “Combined Work”).
• Ownership. Under this Addendum, Daz acquires only a right to use the User Creative pursuant to the terms hereof, and does not acquire any title or ownership of the User Creative. Except as provided in this Addendum, User retains all rights in, title to, and ownership of the User Creative. Other than its rights in the User Creative, User shall have no right, title, ownership or other interest in any Combined Work.

Current: https://www.daz3d.com/eula

4.0 Forum and Gallery Submissions Addendum

This Forum and Gallery Submissions Addendum to License Agreement (the “Addendum”) is a legal and binding agreement between you, hereinafter also referred to as the “User”, and DAZ Productions, Inc., hereinafter also referred to as “DAZ”. User and DAZ are parties to that certain License Agreement accepted by User upon creating a user account at daz3d.com (“Agreement”). The Agreement is hereby expressly supplemented by the terms and conditions contained in this Addendum.

The Agreement, as supplemented by this Addendum, applies to and governs the rights and duties of the parties hereto with respect to images, text, video, and other materials uploaded by User, or by an authorized representative of User, to any of the websites, social media accounts, blogs or other Internet-based sites or accounts owned or operated by DAZ (collectively, the “Sites”). Such images, text, video, and other materials shall be collectively referred to hereinafter as the “User Creative”.

By pressing the “Accept” button below or by uploading User Creative to any of the Sites, User hereby indicates User’s complete and unconditional acceptance of all the terms and conditions of the Agreement and this Addendum. The Agreement and this Addendum together constitute the entire agreement between User and DAZ with respect to the User Creative.

If User does not agree to the terms of the Agreement and this Addendum, User must not select the “Accept” button below or upload any User Creative to the Sites.
 

• License to Use the User Creative. User hereby grants to DAZ a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use the User Creative (“Right to Use”) as follows:
   
  • to store, backup, copy, transfer, publicly display and exhibit the User Creative, or any part of the User Creative, digitally, as well as through other mediums such as print or video, including, but not limited to, displaying the User Creative on any of the DAZ Sites; and
  • to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the User Creative, or to incorporate the User Creative into one or more combined work(s) with images, text, video, or other materials submitted by other DAZ users or with other elements (each a “Combined Work”).
• Ownership. Under this Addendum, DAZ acquires only a right to use the User Creative pursuant to the terms hereof, and does not acquire any title or ownership of the User Creative. Except as provided in this Addendum, User retains all rights in, title to, and ownership of the User Creative. Other than its rights in the User Creative, User shall have no right, title, ownership or other interest in any Combined Work.

You need to submit a ticket and give the recipients info to CS and have them transfer it from your account to theirs.

Hi All 
I have noticed that alot of Dforce users are having a bit of a rough go
with the new free aniblock s released with the apparent intention
of use with dforce.

NOTE: this is NOT a Dforce tutorial !!
I dont use/need this version of studio.
this is merely a brief overview of how to morph a character from a standing
 "t-pose" into a morphed and animated state using the animate2 plugin in daz studio

NOTE!! this invloves adding and empty aniblok.
I dont know of this option is available in the free base version of animate2
so YMMV.

Apologies for the poor quality as this is my first use  of this screen nrecording program
I recommend veiwing in full screen mode on YT.

Okay, I wasn't aware that you could use discounts when buying gift cards. It's been a long time since I (or my alter ego) paid any real money here - I think 3d stuff was called 'stuff' in those days - now it's 'assets'... ;o)

Related question: Since gift cards are ruled out, is there any way to transfer store credit from one person to another ?

You would need to chat up a real friendly person who has DAZ_ in their user name. And have a very good reason why.

Okay, I wasn't aware that you could use discounts when buying gift cards. It's been a long time since I (or my alter ego) paid any real money here - I think 3d stuff was called 'stuff' in those days - now it's 'assets'... ;o)

Related question: Since gift cards are ruled out, is there any way to transfer store credit from one person to another ?

I should have added that I used the method of the two separated folders, as advised by Daz, since I've read that putting items from outside of DAZ store directly in the main "My DAZ 3D Library" folder can lead to issues. I don't know if this "content package assistant tool" would prevent that kind of issue, but I don't really plan to use it for now (and I don't know what the percentage of items on the net it can make compatible with DIM). 

There are a few typs of content where the separate fodlrs simply won't work  -the mopst obvious being morph expansions for exP figues like Michael 4 and Victoria 4 where only the main /Runtime/Libraries/!DAZ/Figurename folder will be used.

I'm sorry but I'm not sure to understand that : 

For the rest, if you drag the icon from the Content Library to a category in the Smart Content pane while the base figure is loaded and selected it will be made "smart".

I've tried to drag everything from Content Library into Smart Content pane, figure selected or not, nothing "moves". Did you mean that I can make the Smart Content pane interacting with an item loaded via Content library as if it were an item from Smart Content itself (and show items compatible with it in the Smart content pane)?

 

In short, I will never be able to really use items (meaning "choosing them from") Smart content if I've downloaded them from outside of DIM and put them on another folder than "My DAZ 3D Library" ? Is that correct?

 

Thank you for your answer.

They shouldn't move - the Content Library (under ... Formats) is showing files on disc. However, dragging them should add them to categories adn make them smart in that they get tagged as compatible with the active figure (so you want to handle materials separately). Another option is to create a product from a folder, via right-click, which lets you set a clothign item as the smart filter for its materials.

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I heat leftover pizza like this:

heat for 18 seconds in the microwave

transfer to toaster oven, set to toast, and watch it carefully.  

When the cheese starts to drip, it's ready!  No rubber crust, and everything is nice and hot!

Dana

Eaten enough cold pizza not to mind it too much although cold pizza and seawater doesn’t taste so good.... 

Seawatwer *barf*

I heat leftover pizza like this:

heat for 18 seconds in the microwave

transfer to toaster oven, set to toast, and watch it carefully.  

When the cheese starts to drip, it's ready!  No rubber crust, and everything is nice and hot!

Dana

If I feel brave, or bored, I'll pop a slice in my air fryer on 200 and give it 2-3 minutes.  It's dicey because the crust will blacken into a space shuttle tile if I'm not vigilant!!!

(smole alarm noises and shouting firemen)

 

 

Bravest I get is if it is cold and we got marshmallows on short sticks of sit closer to fire :)

depending on the fire, that can be risky...!

Not sure how many completed games use Daz models, but there are plenty discussions among indies. I know on Epics Unreal engine forums there are people discussing using using Daz. As for unity, while I know there are people who talk about bringing Daz models into the engine Daz has a option called Morph3d which is a game only Daz system. It got a lower price tag than Daz but the models are only usabe in Unity.

The Morph3D system is only available in the Unity Store but the licence of anything purchased in the Unity Asset Store allows users to use those assets in any game engine, so if one needed only the models or is able to port the system to another engine, Morph3D could be used in another game engine.

I just saw on Morph3D website that they have a new software called 'morph studio' coming 'soon' aimed at games and VR.

Since it seems that Morph3D is a Daz Company and that I don't see how anyone serious about making a game could do so with assets from the Daz store with the new licensing system, I now wonder if this move with the interactive license is not a way to drive game makers away from Daz and have them use systems made for games, namely Morph3D and that new stuff when it'll come out.

I guess time will tell.

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I heat leftover pizza like this:

heat for 18 seconds in the microwave

transfer to toaster oven, set to toast, and watch it carefully.  

When the cheese starts to drip, it's ready!  No rubber crust, and everything is nice and hot!

Dana

Eaten enough cold pizza not to mind it too much although cold pizza and seawater doesn’t taste so good.... 

I heat leftover pizza like this:

heat for 18 seconds in the microwave

transfer to toaster oven, set to toast, and watch it carefully.  

When the cheese starts to drip, it's ready!  No rubber crust, and everything is nice and hot!

Dana

If I feel brave, or bored, I'll pop a slice in my air fryer on 200 and give it 2-3 minutes.  It's dicey because the crust will blacken into a space shuttle tile if I'm not vigilant!!!

(smole alarm noises and shouting firemen)

 

 

Bravest I get is if it is cold and we got marshmallows on short sticks of sit closer to fire :)

I like the look and style of most of the items that have been released so far, but I find it frustrating that most of them are G8F or Iray only. It is reasonable and understandable, but not very helpful for me. Because of these issues, I am largely indifferent to the dForce compliant clothes and am concetrating on using my existing library with dForce. I have put two on my wishlist, Shawl Style and Casual Style Outfit, and will continue to look at future offerings.

Two things about G8F clothing. 1) G3F and G8F are so close, they can share each other's skin and wardrobe, (though it's a bit more work putting G8 skin on G3 than the other way around.) You can use Sickleyield's tutorial to make G8F clothing fit G3F (and vice-versa,) without using auto-fit. It's really very easy, though shoes are hit or miss, and probably always will be. 2) Using Redz's tutorial on creating clones, (used to transfer G3 shapes to G8 before Singular Blues wrote a script for that,) shows you how to create a G8F clone for your G3F, allowing you to dress your G3F in G8F clothing using Auto-Fit, if you don't want to use Sickleyield's method. (Check out Morphs from G3 to G8 for more information.)

And of course, the whole point of making clothing dynamic is being able to use it across generations.

As for Iray materials, there is a free IrayTo3Delight conversion script. That link takes you to the forum thread where you can download the script and get support.

I hope you find this information helpful.

drzap said:

Last time I tried to import fbx, it was a disaster.  I was trying to import facial mocap animation. Maybe I was doing something wrong or maybe it's been fixed recently.  I don't use Motionbuilder, nor do I want to add another layer of software to my workflow.  DaztoMaya isn't magic.  Its a automation script that gives you an instant rigged Daz figure that is ready for animation.  For most shots, fussing with those extra maps is unecessary for me.  For closeups, I would be doing a little extra work anyways.  I wish there wasn't a need for the script and I could stay in Daz.

 

Facial mocap defintely works in motionbuilder FBX export, as a combination of bone based animation and blendshapes (morph targets) . But you don't use the re-imported FBX directly, you need to save it as an animated shape (or pose preset) then re-apply to the character in DS . It should be basically the same process the same in Maya. Bryan Stegall posted a video tutorial , including editing the duf if you use morph animations (pure bone based animations don't require it)

 

Thanks for the tip.  Now I have mocap software with a direct plugin to Maya, but it's good to know.  The more options, the better.

Which mocap software / plugin  ?

I didn't test it for Maya but I'm just thinking that probably it would work instead of being a "disaster" if/when you needed to go back into DS. I'm basing it on the logic that there shouldn't be anything different about the FBX specification between Mobu and Maya, both Autodesk.  There are some steps you need to do with the duf and saving out an animated preset. It's not as simple as just importing a FBX - you need to merge the pose preset to the DS character in order to get the full quality JCM/ HD/ subd  ie. everything missing from DS exported FBX

yeah, I got it, I need to read the tutorial.  At the time, I was using Faceshift.  The animation came in horribly distorted.  Now, I'm switching to Faceware.  I will do a test when I get my business handled.

drzap said:

Last time I tried to import fbx, it was a disaster.  I was trying to import facial mocap animation. Maybe I was doing something wrong or maybe it's been fixed recently.  I don't use Motionbuilder, nor do I want to add another layer of software to my workflow.  DaztoMaya isn't magic.  Its a automation script that gives you an instant rigged Daz figure that is ready for animation.  For most shots, fussing with those extra maps is unecessary for me.  For closeups, I would be doing a little extra work anyways.  I wish there wasn't a need for the script and I could stay in Daz.

 

Facial mocap defintely works in motionbuilder FBX export, as a combination of bone based animation and blendshapes (morph targets) . But you don't use the re-imported FBX directly, you need to save it as an animated shape (or pose preset) then re-apply to the character in DS . It should be basically the same process the same in Maya. Bryan Stegall posted a video tutorial , including editing the duf if you use morph animations (pure bone based animations don't require it)

 

Thanks for the tip.  Now I have mocap software with a direct plugin to Maya, but it's good to know.  The more options, the better.

Which mocap software / plugin  ?

I didn't test it for Maya but I'm just thinking that probably it would work instead of being a "disaster" if/when you needed to go back into DS. I'm basing it on the logic that there shouldn't be anything different about the FBX specification between Mobu and Maya, both Autodesk.  There are some steps you need to do with the duf and saving out an animated preset. It's not as simple as just importing a FBX - you need to merge the pose preset to the DS character in order to get the full quality JCM/ HD/ subd  ie. everything missing from DS exported FBX

Last time I tried to import fbx, it was a disaster.  I was trying to import facial mocap animation. Maybe I was doing something wrong or maybe it's been fixed recently.  I don't use Motionbuilder, nor do I want to add another layer of software to my workflow.  DaztoMaya isn't magic.  Its a automation script that gives you an instant rigged Daz figure that is ready for animation.  For most shots, fussing with those extra maps is unecessary for me.  For closeups, I would be doing a little extra work anyways.  I wish there wasn't a need for the script and I could stay in Daz.

 

Facial mocap defintely works in motionbuilder FBX export, as a combination of bone based animation and blendshapes (morph targets) . But you don't use the re-imported FBX directly, you need to save it as an animated shape (or pose preset) then re-apply to the character in DS . It should be basically the same process the same in Maya. Bryan Stegall posted a video tutorial , including editing the duf if you use morph animations (pure bone based animations don't require it)

 

Thanks for the tip.  Now I have mocap software with a direct plugin to Maya, but it's good to know.  The more options, the better.

Last time I tried to import fbx, it was a disaster.  I was trying to import facial mocap animation. Maybe I was doing something wrong or maybe it's been fixed recently.  I don't use Motionbuilder, nor do I want to add another layer of software to my workflow.  DaztoMaya isn't magic.  Its a automation script that gives you an instant rigged Daz figure that is ready for animation.  For most shots, fussing with those extra maps is unecessary for me.  For closeups, I would be doing a little extra work anyways.  I wish there wasn't a need for the script and I could stay in Daz.

Facial mocap defintely works in motionbuilder FBX export, as a combination of bone based animation and blendshapes (morph targets) . But you don't use the re-imported FBX directly, you need to save it as an animated shape (or pose preset) then re-apply to the character in DS . It should be basically the same process the same in Maya. Bryan Stegall posted a video tutorial , including editing the duf if you use morph animations (pure bone based animations don't require it)

Approval granted.  ;). Well done- love the lighting in this, KM

Ah, thanks! I'm glad you approve. :) I think he's an amazing character, maybe even your best yet. I'm not just saying that because of his awesome tattoos either. I love his morph.

Will someone just do a render from maya 2018 to show us that the bump maps do come in I still only get the color map nothing else ?

Second that>>>>>>>PRETTY PLEASE!!!!

MAPS ARE DEAL BREAKERS,<<<<< UNTIL NOW BEST WAS POWER FUSION

As I said, some of the maps don't transfer automatically.  You must retrieve them manually from your runtime folder.

version 2018???

 

Ok, here are some comparison renders.  I was playing around with the textures.  The first pic is from Daz (45 second render time).  The second pic is Arnold with just the color map (also about 45 sec).  Third pic is Arnold with color, spec, bump, and SSS (no map)1min.12sec.  The last pic is a high quality render (about 14minutes).

The lighting is different and I probably need to play with the eyes and specular settings a little more, but this gives you an idea of how this figure looks with all the texture maps.  Each figure will probably be different, though.

This was done in Maya 2017 update 4, which is almost 2018.  It's just a script, I doubt it will be any difference.

I heat leftover pizza like this:

heat for 18 seconds in the microwave

transfer to toaster oven, set to toast, and watch it carefully.  

When the cheese starts to drip, it's ready!  No rubber crust, and everything is nice and hot!

Dana

If I feel brave, or bored, I'll pop a slice in my air fryer on 200 and give it 2-3 minutes.  It's dicey because the crust will blacken into a space shuttle tile if I'm not vigilant!!!

(smole alarm noises and shouting firemen)

This https://www.daz3d.com/dynamic-martial-arts-gi-genesis-2 ? Optitex clothing doesn't morph as the base figure morphs, so if you have taken the character far from its base shape the fit will be poor or unusable (this set does have a version for SWOLE). You could probably adapt these to work with dForce, sicne theya re already set to work as dynamics.