The only thing I disagree with is pose packs, having a decent pack for sitting, standing laying etc to build off to create a custom pose saves so much time and helps to stop the figures looking like robots. but too many are not needed as you will find you tweak the poses to what you need anyway. Creating rubbish poses is easy creating decent ones does take a lot of time.
I don't disagree with you. My point was more aimed at people who buy multiple pose packs without looking at the poses. Of all the products I've bought over the years, I probably could have saved half the money I spent if I removed all the duplicates.
Thanks much for the tips! Still being newbish, myself, these kinds of friendly warnings do help! I've already noticed what you mentioned about certain pose packs being waaay too exaggerated for good use -- to the point of looking like parody. As others have said below, pre-made poses can provide a time-saving "starting point" if you're newer like me, but I try to keep an eye out and avoid the absurd stuff.
So true! Although as a promo artist I like to have a few pose packs, I particularly like the ones with partials, so I can easily build my own poses from it.
You forgot the most annoying part of those "tutorials" they are just infomercials for products, I remember buying one on lighting indoors and it was 90 minutes of "go buy this, go buy that"
I use pose packs as a shortcut to get my figure into roughly the right position before actually setting it up. It helps save time on checking whether a manual pose is (say) leaning just a little too far, or having to tweak legs and hips endlessly to look natural and appropriate, or avoid a pose that looks OK in one direction but weird when you move the camera.
I have a shapeshifting character but that is kind of niche so most people don't need all the morphs. I do want to learn blender to add to my ability to create more. Great video as always.
I was grimacing waiting to see how many I might have purchased, thankfully I’m only guilty of the pose packs lol. One might even extend the purchasing of any types of lighting to be a little frivolous as most of the time making one’s own lights is fairly easy to do and gets easier with experience. Thanks for the video!
I download all the free content Daz Studio give us weekly, an on occasion I buy. Mainly new morphs, in order to study them. I love genesis 8 topology. I still need Sakura 8 and all those cartony models. Recently I started to create my own models
I'm a 2D painter and use Daz to get my scene blocked, and photo bash the rest in before painting over. Quick to set moods and poses. I do agree there's loads of poses out there though. Also for me I don't pay for hair. Cos I can just paint them in later anyway
quick question, ive been trying to import my characters into blender for animation, but whenever i do no part of the body is selectable. can you do a video on how to do this?
I had no idea about the ghost light thing! I still bought some ghost lights but now I can uninstall them. I like pose packs but we not out spending 30.00 on em lol
Pose packs you just need to be very critical of. But they save so much time that i would not say to stop using/buying them. I'd say be especially wary of very niche posing packs. Let's say you have one scene in your entire VN where you visit a wrestling show or something. Do you really want to buy a wrestling pose pack? For that one scene? Probably not. You'd be better off just creating those poses yourself and using lots of reference material. But sitting, walking, standing poses that you can apply in pretty much any scene are a must have in my opinion cause it changes the set up time of a render from 2 hours of posing to get everything JUST right, to 30 minutes if not less.
Pose pack i kinda picky about it, bcs posing is a pain in the back ngl. I usually bought one if they offer individual pose such as half of the body, only the arms, fingers, legs etc. That way i can mix and match poses for different result however i want. Shame there arent many of them that offer things like that, it offer so much flexibility
Thank you. last year I built a good computer for a few games I'm into and is really fast. But only a month ago I got into Daz Studio and I'm enjoying it. However I soon discovered that the render engine is NVIDIA Iray yet my PC has a high spec Radeon. Is it worth spending all that money on a new NVIDIA graphics card just for using Daz Studio? It still works fine although slow to view in Daz Studio, and when rendering the fan is pretty noisy. But still, is it worth changing it?
Personally I wouldn't waste money upgrading for the sake of using Daz. It's not the only software out there for creating photorealistic renders. When it comes time to upgrade again it could be worth looking into nVidia.
Any chance you got the time and patience to go over a quick tutorial about how we can create our own shadow figures ? In my case I'm looking to create a intro animation for my game, in which 2x shadow figures fight each other as the story is told. I've looked around and I could ONLY find a single such product which in my honest opinion is way overpriced for just having a couple auras around a black figure, only way I could find to do this is post production using other software and it is time consuming, but yet I do not feel like is justified to pay that much money for a product that is poorly done such as the said "SY Shadow for Genesis 8 and 8.1" from daz store that charges 17$ and doesn't even look that well. I'm still new to daz and trying to learn as much as I can, I am sure this is something that can be done with ease for someone with your experience. I've managed to create something similar by messing with the skin color but it looks rather bad. Cheers in advance if you find the time, but keep it up with the great videos regardless.
@@pureluck8882 Just go to the surfaces tab for your character. Select the skin property and change the base color from white to black and drop the glossy layered weight to 0
The most important rule: never pay full price for a product... If you have enough patience, you can buy for 1/4, 1/5, or even 1/10 of the price (in the Daz Store... Renderosity is a li'l more complicated... a 70% discount there is a great deal).
I really hope people understand about the tutorials. It has to be the biggest scam on Daz's website. A while back I got a tutorial on how to organize your library. It's currently $24.95 US on their site. I thought this would provide valuable insight on how to get this under control. Nope. Allow me to summarize the entire video: "Use Daz categories to organize how it makes sense to you. Oh, you can put items in more than one location." Two sentences for a two-hour video. Both I already knew. I still want to strangle someone.
Yup. The frustration for me is that I already teach everything that these videos claim to teach in a fraction of the time for free and yet people still go and pay for them lol.
Daz is pretty much obsolete just like poser. The only thing going for it is the gen 8 models and morphs i export those into Creator Creator and over to Iclone
I've learned that there's literally no lighting I could buy, that I couldn't do as well or better myself. Yes it takes longer, but I can get it looking exactly how I want.
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The only thing I disagree with is pose packs, having a decent pack for sitting, standing laying etc to build off to create a custom pose saves so much time and helps to stop the figures looking like robots.
but too many are not needed as you will find you tweak the poses to what you need anyway.
Creating rubbish poses is easy creating decent ones does take a lot of time.
I don't disagree with you. My point was more aimed at people who buy multiple pose packs without looking at the poses. Of all the products I've bought over the years, I probably could have saved half the money I spent if I removed all the duplicates.
Thanks much for the tips! Still being newbish, myself, these kinds of friendly warnings do help! I've already noticed what you mentioned about certain pose packs being waaay too exaggerated for good use -- to the point of looking like parody. As others have said below, pre-made poses can provide a time-saving "starting point" if you're newer like me, but I try to keep an eye out and avoid the absurd stuff.
So true!
Although as a promo artist I like to have a few pose packs, I particularly like the ones with partials, so I can easily build my own poses from it.
You forgot the most annoying part of those "tutorials" they are just infomercials for products, I remember buying one on lighting indoors and it was 90 minutes of "go buy this, go buy that"
True
I use pose packs as a shortcut to get my figure into roughly the right position before actually setting it up. It helps save time on checking whether a manual pose is (say) leaning just a little too far, or having to tweak legs and hips endlessly to look natural and appropriate, or avoid a pose that looks OK in one direction but weird when you move the camera.
Paying $14 for couple poses is insane.
I'd add character pack with only morphs and textures (no hair/fur/clothing). The store is full of these products.
I have a shapeshifting character but that is kind of niche so most people don't need all the morphs. I do want to learn blender to add to my ability to create more. Great video as always.
I was grimacing waiting to see how many I might have purchased, thankfully I’m only guilty of the pose packs lol. One might even extend the purchasing of any types of lighting to be a little frivolous as most of the time making one’s own lights is fairly easy to do and gets easier with experience. Thanks for the video!
I download all the free content Daz Studio give us weekly, an on occasion I buy. Mainly new morphs, in order to study them. I love genesis 8 topology.
I still need Sakura 8 and all those cartony models.
Recently I started to create my own models
renderosity, renderhub, and if interested renderotica 😜 have freedie sections also
Question: I turned down the opacity on the emissive object and the light disappears, how do I get rid of the object and keep the light?
Daz Productions screwed up ghost lights on more recent updates, Check out my video on the workaround ruclips.net/video/jkC6MkojKtM/видео.html
I'm a 2D painter and use Daz to get my scene blocked, and photo bash the rest in before painting over.
Quick to set moods and poses. I do agree there's loads of poses out there though. Also for me I don't pay for hair. Cos I can just paint them in later anyway
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quick question, ive been trying to import my characters into blender for animation, but whenever i do no part of the body is selectable. can you do a video on how to do this?
I'll see what I can do :)
@@GameDeveloperTraining thank you!
Thanks for video . I wonder about tile /tiling render in IRAY using Section plane and how the pros and cons . Thanks again
I had no idea about the ghost light thing! I still bought some ghost lights but now I can uninstall them. I like pose packs but we not out spending 30.00 on em lol
Pose packs you just need to be very critical of. But they save so much time that i would not say to stop using/buying them. I'd say be especially wary of very niche posing packs. Let's say you have one scene in your entire VN where you visit a wrestling show or something. Do you really want to buy a wrestling pose pack? For that one scene? Probably not. You'd be better off just creating those poses yourself and using lots of reference material. But sitting, walking, standing poses that you can apply in pretty much any scene are a must have in my opinion cause it changes the set up time of a render from 2 hours of posing to get everything JUST right, to 30 minutes if not less.
Even with store bought poses you should probably still be tweaking them to get them "just right"
Pose pack i kinda picky about it, bcs posing is a pain in the back ngl. I usually bought one if they offer individual pose such as half of the body, only the arms, fingers, legs etc. That way i can mix and match poses for different result however i want.
Shame there arent many of them that offer things like that, it offer so much flexibility
can you do another video on how to make a HDRI in DAZ3d?
I'll see what i can do :)
This is golden knowledge many thanks
Thank you. last year I built a good computer for a few games I'm into and is really fast. But only a month ago I got into Daz Studio and I'm enjoying it. However I soon discovered that the render engine is NVIDIA Iray yet my PC has a high spec Radeon. Is it worth spending all that money on a new NVIDIA graphics card just for using Daz Studio? It still works fine although slow to view in Daz Studio, and when rendering the fan is pretty noisy. But still, is it worth changing it?
Personally I wouldn't waste money upgrading for the sake of using Daz. It's not the only software out there for creating photorealistic renders. When it comes time to upgrade again it could be worth looking into nVidia.
@@GameDeveloperTraining Thank you!
Any chance you got the time and patience to go over a quick tutorial about how we can create our own shadow figures ? In my case I'm looking to create a intro animation for my game, in which 2x shadow figures fight each other as the story is told. I've looked around and I could ONLY find a single such product which in my honest opinion is way overpriced for just having a couple auras around a black figure, only way I could find to do this is post production using other software and it is time consuming, but yet I do not feel like is justified to pay that much money for a product that is poorly done such as the said "SY Shadow for Genesis 8 and 8.1" from daz store that charges 17$ and doesn't even look that well. I'm still new to daz and trying to learn as much as I can, I am sure this is something that can be done with ease for someone with your experience. I've managed to create something similar by messing with the skin color but it looks rather bad.
Cheers in advance if you find the time, but keep it up with the great videos regardless.
I'm unclear on what you mean by shadow figures.
@@GameDeveloperTraining Something similar to "SY Shadow for Genesis 8 and 8.1" from Daz3d shop but without auras.
@@pureluck8882 Just go to the surfaces tab for your character. Select the skin property and change the base color from white to black and drop the glossy layered weight to 0
Any plans for render reviews?
Just waiting on submissions mate. Not got enough for another episode yet
on the matter of posses, the overly dramatic bit really kills most of them. I can't think of a situation in which to use 99% of them. THEY LOOK SILLY!
agreed
The most important rule: never pay full price for a product... If you have enough patience, you can buy for 1/4, 1/5, or even 1/10 of the price (in the Daz Store... Renderosity is a li'l more complicated... a 70% discount there is a great deal).
I didn’t know that you could turn primitive object ghost lights invisible!!!!!
Dead on info.. thanks!
I really hope people understand about the tutorials. It has to be the biggest scam on Daz's website. A while back I got a tutorial on how to organize your library. It's currently $24.95 US on their site. I thought this would provide valuable insight on how to get this under control. Nope. Allow me to summarize the entire video: "Use Daz categories to organize how it makes sense to you. Oh, you can put items in more than one location." Two sentences for a two-hour video. Both I already knew. I still want to strangle someone.
Yup. The frustration for me is that I already teach everything that these videos claim to teach in a fraction of the time for free and yet people still go and pay for them lol.
I never understood why people buy poses- there are lots of free ones and you will probably modify them all anyway.
The Dreamlight videos are the worst. He packages super simple ideas and acts like a genius all while being sexist.
Daz is pretty much obsolete just like poser. The only thing going for it is the gen 8 models and morphs i export those into Creator Creator and over to Iclone
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Dont agree bout morphs .
That is your prerogative.
I've learned that there's literally no lighting I could buy, that I couldn't do as well or better myself. Yes it takes longer, but I can get it looking exactly how I want.