After gaining years of experience playing around in Daz Studio both personally and professionally I've decided to create a youtube channel to continue my hobby and to try and pass on the benefit of my experience and any tips and tricks I've picked up on over the years.
I imagine could get a morph that pretty much just 0's all the curvy parts of the model flat, that way the entire body will grow into shape using this method. Should pretty much solve buttocks creasing and everything else too. Kinda feel like Daz should just do this by default when you run a sim from pose, as it's a easy natural way to solve clothing stretch.
9:46 Hello, do you know why the paramterer settings is missing on some of my dforce hair when i click on the cok like you did? i wanted to to turn off the limits of gravitiy too but i can't now
@MachiaveIIi25 hey .. for some reason in Daz 4.22 they've hidden the setting. Sadly I'm away at the moment and don't have Daz infant of me to be able to go through the steps to get it back. However, I wrote them out elsewhere on another video .. I'll see if I can find it and post the link here if I can EDIT: it's on a commentary on this video .. lower down .. someone asks the sake question
Is it possible to have different units for Flux? I noticed through the tutorials that i always need to set the Flux much higher to achieve simmilar light to Yours and i thought it may be due to units?
@@musictop_SI I'm not sure when it comes to scene lights. I'm away at the moment and don't have Daz infant of me to check. You can with emmisives but can't quite remember with point / spot lights
Great tip! I have one for you too! It looks like you are using improved joint corrective morphs. It makes kneecaps and legs look really weird and unnatural. You can turn it down so its not so drastic.
@@RaukoDaz3Dinteresting, must be the body morph. Something made her kneecaps look really weird. Btw cant wait to check out your visual novel, I make one as well.
@Clapstain I think it's one them weird daz poses. It looks "OK" from a specific direction but completely off if you look it at a different way. I think I might be half way between the two here! 😃
If everything has been installed into the correct places and the support files that are normally included in asset files are there .. you should be able to right click on the “Content Library” tab in Daz, select “Content DB Maintenance“ and you’ll see the option to “Reimport Metadata” - select that and hit Accept. It should update Smart Content - if everything is there as I mention. This is me taking these instructions off the Daz Forums : I never do it myself as I don’t bother with Smart Content (I’m old school, dude!) .. so I can’t comment on how well it works or even if it does work - so do under your own guidance and if it Fs things up - blame the forum guys!
Over on the daz store - you can download for free the Daz to Unity Bridge : tinyurl.com/yt282e4y that will allow you to export and import into Unity. I've never used Unity - so I don't know how easy or hard this is nor could I help you beyond this - but that will be your starting point.
How do you deal with white surfaces that become unrealistically bright when you point a light source at them. Is there another way to fix this rather than having to change the surface colour to an ugly shade of gray?
A white surface is always going to reflect the most light .. can't get around that .. but you can mitigate it somewhat by either changing the angle that the light hits it or the angle of the camera looking at it. If you want to get more Daz technical about it - you can select the object in the Scene and then look in the surfaces tab for the glossiness and specular settings - sometimes even just the slightest bit of gloss / specular can cause a white surface to shine bright. Look to playing around with "Glossy Reflectivity" (decreasing) and Glossiness Roughness" (increasing) and the similar Specular settings. This might solve your issue but it also might need a combination of things .. even in the worse case, sadly, making the surface slightly grey if these other ways don't give the results you want. EDIT : Did you sort out your "posing" problem? I've got the notification about your comment on the Partial Posing .. but somehow RU-vid won't let me see the comment on the actual video ..
@@RaukoDaz3D Thank you very much for that information. I will keep it in mind while trying to fix the problem I have. Regarding the posing, I was being a blind idiot. I had missed a step and I had deleted that comment. That is probably why you couldn't see the comment on the video. I just want to say thank you for the videos you have made on Daz Studio. They have been extremely helpful.
What is the UTC offset option for? Is there any sense in time zone here if we set exact longitude and latitude so the timezon should be known for DAZ automatically?
The UTC is for adjusting the time-zone as you guessed .. I don't think Daz is sophisticated enough to adjust for the timezone when you enter the Lon / Lat .. so if you want exact, then you'll have to set the UTC manually ..
I was just sitting there with mouth wide open and thinking WTF, this works? It‘s absolutely amazing! Just one question remains: Is it a bug or a feature 😂
Ha! It does work. Bug or feature? Hhhhmm .. I don't know .. With HDRI - we have "Dome and Scene" and "Dome Only" .. It doesn't make any sense therefore to only have "Sun-Sky Only" ... Why not "Sun-Sky and Scene"? So it maybe that not having the latter is an oversight? Maybe they forgot. As for the hack. The Sun-Sky is basically a HDRI - with extra special controls that allow us to change some of it's features. So it kind of makes sense that switching to "Dome and Scene" and removing the current HDRI Map would then effectively switch to "Sun-Sky and Scene". But given this is Daz - I don't think it would have been planned .. :) .. So I won't say bug. I won't say feature either. I'll drop it in the "Unintended Consequence" category .. :)
There are two ways to load a HDRI .. One from the content library (like what I do early on in this video with the sky / cloud HDRI) .. However, it's not an image that your loading there - but running a script which then loads an image .. just trying to load an image via the content library won't work .. so only try and load something that is part of a specific package that loads HDRIs. The second method it do so by manually. That means clicking the currently load HDRI icon (ie, the Ruins), selecting Browse in the menu that appears and then navigating to where the image is on your system. I always use the second method even if I know I have an installed HDRI package. I just load it in manually all the time.
This seems like a fantastic method, only problem is that I don't have such a tab in there. I'm on 4.22 and my parameters tab doesn't have any of those options under it...😅 There's just "All/Favorites/Currently used." Any idea what's wrong with my program or how to make all those options show up?
No idea what's wrong with your program. If you have something selected in the scene tab then you should have more than just "All/Favorites/Currently Used" in the parameters tab. With something selected in the Scene Tab - check some of the other tabs near Parameters .. Shaping .. Posing .. and let me know if something appears under them? These are the basic tools of Daz and so if they aren't there - then there has to be an issue with your install and Daz will probably need re-installing.
Hhhmm .. Have you got all the basic elements of Genesis 9 installed? Make sure you have "Genesis 9 Starter Essentials" installed (www.daz3d.com/genesis-9-starter-essentials) .. Can't think of any other reason why you won't have them
thanks for the tutorial, just a quick question, installing is not a problem but what about uninstalling? after putting all this data there i have to manually look for each of them and delete one by one? or there is a better way?
Sadly, as far as I'm aware - you have to do it manually by hunting down every folder associated with the particular asset and deleting by hand. It's not massively hard - but time consuming if you're doing it for multiple assets. I'm surprised nobody has created a script for it by now ..
Thanks for the video. Awesome as always. One question. Could you make a quick video with some photoshop editing tricks you use for your finished images? I feel like there is a big difference between the original work and the finished one. I'd like to know how you do it. Thanks and sorry for my English. I'm using google translator haha
Thanks for watching. I do mean to do a Photoshop video for post processing at some point .. but there's always been two things stopping me .. Firstly, I am in no way good enough with Photoshop to feel justified in doing a video on it - there's many excellent Photoshop dedicated channels out that demonstrates color grading and various other techniques that can be used (I highly recommend PIXimperfect : ru-vid.com) .. Secondly, I don't actually do that much! As I mention - I do a little colour grading or just play around with Curves or Blending Modes until I get something I like. There's no real process to what I do! But if I ever work out what the method is that I use - then I probably will do a video at some pont!
Beautiful work as always! I would love to know how you achieved this effect with the fog and the light from the window, it looks just perfect. Thank you for your videos, they really do help a lot 👍
Thanks - and thanks for watching. I won't take any credit for the fog / Godray .. With the environment I used - there's a fog prop included which is designed to give this effect. Originally in the scene, there is a bright light source at the window - but I removed that so I could use Sun / Sky instead but I left the fog prop in the scene. So - not my doing, sadly!
Whatever spotlights, pointlights they are a shit render no matter what so-called fix you make. They slow renders down they bounce to much light and you get white pixels or unfinished pixels in render, they never render clear. You might love them I fucking hate them, distant light for some stupid reason renders better for iray. Fact is this daz3d studio renders shit most times. Most crap you buy isn't setup correctly to render with figures standing in them. Very few items and environments actually render models quickly and clearly. Not going into how fucking stupid the daz3d studio is and how much I'd like to kick the fuck out of many of its so called half arsed artists who supply half the content required and fail to setup environments and lighting as displayed in store pages.
Just added a background and added some lights .. The video isn't about the "jazzing up" part - other videos cover that - it was just makes it something more pleasant to look at once we've built our character out how we wanted
@@RaukoDaz3D ok thanks! im gonna see the other video. Also I got a question when making visual novels you render the characters in scene together with background or sprites for characters and background separated? (for renpy specifically) thanks
Sadly not. The spot render only works on a single frame. I've done an animation myself this morning where I wanted to reuse the bulk of the animation and only move the head of a character to turn and look at something in scene. But as I say - the Spot Render only works on a single frame. Fortunately, my head turn consisted of "only" about 30 frames - so I spot rendered those frames, one by one, manually by hand and then stitched it together in Photoshop. If there's one feature I want for Daz 5.0 (if it ever gets released) - is to spot render over the timeline. But until then .. it's a no go.
Yeah, in 4.22 they've .. took it out by default? .. I'm guessing it's a mistake .. it has to be .. But then .. this is Daz .. so who knows. To get it back : Press F3 to bring up the Customize Daz Dialogue Scroll down the Left Menu to find "Styled Properties" and expand it out by pressing the "+" or down arrow button next to it Find "Parameter Settings" On the right pane - click "Menus" at the top Scroll down for "Property Options (Element)" and expand it Now on the left pane - click, hold and drag "Parameter Settings" onto the "Property Options (Element)" title and let go (there'll be NO indication you're actually dragging it - but you are) "Parameter Settings" should now appear under "Property Options (Element) and Finally, curse Daz Studio 7 times a day
thanks for your tutorial, i found you on deviantart and usually the people there who put viideos just try to sell theyr product, you do a real tutorial so thank to you
It is a little confusing .. maybe it was an oversight .. maybe is just another Daz-ism. When you think we have "Dome Only" and "Dome and Scene" .. Yet have "Sun-Sky Only" .. but no "Sun-Sky and Scene" .. Even with "Dome Only" - it's a pointless addition .. Just give "Dome and Scene" and if people don't want to include scene lights - it's up to them! So yeah, I don't know what's going on there! Anyway .. thanks for watching! Glad you appreciated the tip!
Damn I am late to this party but I am glad I found this. I knew of Daz3D in the Visual Novel spate for forever but assumed it was going to cost me an arm and a leg to get it. Boy was I glad to find out it is free to download. Question; do you have a video that on a general scale, showcases the extent and limitations of what Daz3D can and can not do? For myself in particular, as much as I love VNs, I am a film maker. Something that has constantly caught my eye with a lot of VNs using Daz is that the 3D renders are... quite simple. There is not a whole lot going on. Usually feels like it is in a loop, and pacing just often feels like a sped up version of the starting loop. It works, sure, but not all that impressive and it makes me wonder if there are other motives to why this appears to be happening a lot with VNs.
No! Daz is completely free as a base piece of software. The cost comes in buying assets - models, clothing, hair etc .. although after you get your hands on a few models you can start to mix and match them a little to create fairly unique models. As for limitations - there aren't too many. In the hands of an experienced artist then the images can be comparable to anything created in any other 3d rendering software. There is a danger of a "Daz look" which you'll see a lot - certainly if you've played a lot of VNs - but that's more down to a) the base model that's been used - some model creators you'll find on the Daz store take a cookie-cutter approach when creating their models. ie, they take what's been done before and then tweak it to "create" a "different" model .. so a lot of models come with a "Daz" look b) the skill level of the artist. Daz might be easy to use but it can take a lot of years to get to grips with fully As a film maker - the animation tools within Daz leave a lot to be desired. You can do animations within Daz but a lot of the time you feel like your fighting against Daz to do what it is you want to do. There's apparently a new Daz in the works (5.0) - but it's been "soon" for about 2 years now. A new interface might see animating improve but I wouldn't hold my breath. Any animations I do - I do outside of Daz and then import the FBX into Daz. As with any 3D renderer - a single image can be slow to render. Unless you have one of the most powerful GPUs - expect a render to take hours to render. Top end GPUs can reduce this to minutes .. so, imagine how long a 10 second animation would take.
@@RaukoDaz3D Oh... well that puts a dampener on things. Hum... I don't mind the wait, but im going to have issues if its going to be that hard to work with animation. It is either this or Unreal Engine 5.0 and now I'm starting to think UE may be a better direction of commitment regarding my interests. I think I will have to let Daz3D stick around or less demanding projects. Thank you for the detailed response. I appreciate it sir. 👌
@@christopherpoet458 Don't let that put you off taking a look at Daz .. once you get over the difficulties of the UI - you can certainly do some animation. I wouldn't do anything major like a dance routine or two characters fighting .. but for smaller less ambitious things it can still do a somewhat of a job. But you have to remember - Daz isn't an animation package and it's not going to be able to compete with dedicated software. First and foremost - it's a render suite aimed mostly at those who don't have full blown 3D skills that you need to use dedicated software like Blender or 3ds Max etc You have your ready made 3d models, clothing, hair, environments etc .. just focus on composition, lighting and telling stories and in that world, it's as good as anything.
@@RaukoDaz3D No, I won't outright dismiss it. My first thought when I saw this was getting 3D conceptual ideas of characters I have made and I like that this is basically a video game character creator xYes lol. Another tool that caught my eye for the same reason is Character Creator 4. And while my primary agenda is going to stay in film, I have been considering entering the Visual Novel space as a means to express and show the world I have made through a method that - while still expansive - is cheaper than trying to go head first into film production. Overall, the limits in animation are dumbed me out but as you said the software is not designed or made with the intent of being used on some of the thing I am after or interested in. I am going to check Daz out regardless. The base platform is free so its quite accessible. And I will go from there. Thank you for the responses and feedback. I do appreciate it.
@@christopherpoet458 You're welcome - if you have any questions not covered in any of the videos I currently have on here - then just give me a shout and I'll help out where I can! Have fun!
I've been struggling with this very problem, Rauko! Thank you so much for this very timely solution, it is *absolutely* appreciated! Oh, and a quick DAZ question, if you don't mind? How much RAM do you run? I find DAZ runs poorly with 48GB (sluggish over time, crashy) even with a 4090 GPU, and I've been told more than once that DAZ is a monster for RAM, and needs at least 64GB (if not 128GB) to run smoothly. Is this your experience? Thanks!
Glad to have been some help .. As for Ram .. I run 128gb with my 4090 .. I used to regularly run out when I only had 64gb .. the general rule of thumb is have 4x the Ram than what you have Vram .. so on the 4090 with it's 24gb Vram .. you should have at least 96gb Ram to cover all possibilities .. and yes, Daz is a beast with the way it eats up Ram so it quickly fills up
@@RaukoDaz3D Thanks for the speedy reply, sir! The worst part about computer weirdness is that it always provokes the question: "Is this problem unique to my rig, or is it a general problem anyone could have?". Guess I better start planning some bank robberies to pay for more RAM 😄 Okay, no crime, but I will feel that upgrade cost. Thanks again, Rauko. Be well!
I think this was about 6000 iterations at 4k resolution .. which took 20 minutes or so (?) on my 4090 graphics card. I can't remember the exacts but it will have been something like that!
I've been using Daz Studio since before Iray was implemented, and I thought I had gotten pretty good at all the tricks and hacks over the years. But this was a new one for me. I'd never heard that removing the default HDRI defaulted to Sun/Sky. Pretty cool. Thanks for the great video!
I've started using Sun-Sky a lot more lately. I began early on using it. Moved away from it for an age - and then just come back. Emissives negate the need for this video but still worth seeing how to do stuff in different ways.
Hi Rauko, glad to see you making videos again. Could you make a video on god rays or sunbeams, similar to the one you have in this video? I know there are other videos out there, but I really like your teaching style. Thanks for the great videos.
I'll add it to the list - although I'll admit that in this scene there's a bit of a cheat. With the environment I've used comes a little fog prop and it's that that creates the God Ray in this instance .. Anyway, glad you like the style and thanks for watching!
This is amazing, and absolutely useful. The amount of time I've spent [and lost] trying to recreate the sun-sky look in dome and scene just because you can't have spotlights in Sun-sky mode is immense, so this is absolutely fantastic. Thank you!
Glad to be of service! It's little simple things like this that can make all the difference - not only to the images we create but the time it takes to create them! Thanks for watching!
Sun-Sky gives more control over your daylight scenes (or night time if you get creative with it) than what you can get with a HDRI that will only provide a specific light .. from one scene to the next you'd have to find a HDRI that will match the mood and lighting that you want whereas with Sun-Sky - you should, with a few tweaks here and there, get exactly what you want. Make sure you check out the Sun-Sky video I did last time : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iHqB0ekiqEI.html
and here I was using a Noon Skydome HDRI and spot lights to get the right kind of Outdoors scene I wanted with added spotlights/emissive for the shine/reflections I wanted. I wish I knew this 10 renders ago. Would need to go back and redo 10 renders of my comic book just to get consistent lighting. I will remember this for the scene change, thanks!
Happy to help out! It's always good to hear that people get something out of the videos - means I'm doing something right and keeps me going to do more!
It's always a feature .. :) .. To be fair, this could well be a feature .. We have "Dome Only" and "Dome and Scene" .. So "Sun-Sky Only" is probably right .. they just forgot to include "Sun-Sky and Scene" or reckoned we'd figure it out ourselves!
The only thing that bothers me is that the HDRI map always resets if you save, close, and reopen the project But it's really cool. I wish they'd fix it for Daz
I will be getting round to animation in due time - I've only just recently started animating myself this last year - so when I'm up to speed, I'll have a go at it!
