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The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4

By : Paolo Ciccone
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The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4

By: Paolo Ciccone

Overview of this book

„While 3D technology can be intimidating, DAZ Studio provides a perfect entry point for anybody interested in it. DAZ Studio is designed to empower the readers with tools to manipulate "ready to use" models and figures. With DAZ Studio, you can use thousands of pre-made 3D models and create fantastic scenes without any hassle. Embark on a journey through the amazing world of 3Ddesigning and create great 3D art with DAZ Studio. This book will show you the way!The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4 shows you how to effectively use DAZ Studio 4 from start to finish. This guide takes you on a fun journey into the world of 3D art with DAZ Studio. Using everyday situations and practical examples, this book leads you from understanding the basics of 3D to the exploration of all the relevant topics, including posing, lighting, rendering, and content installation. You will follow step-by-step examples that will show you how to create great 3D art with fun and ease.With a free download code for Dawn: the brand new and hugely anticipated 3D figure by Hivewire3D and two free environments by renowned 3D artist Jack Tomalin, this book is a must-read for all aspiring 3D artists.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Render Settings menu


Studio can render an image in several formats and at any resolution that you need. To determine those choices, we need to access the Rendering Settings panel. This is done by navigating to Render | Render Settings. We can also use the Cmd + Shift + R (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows) keyboard shortcut. Either way, the result will be presented with the Render Settings panel, which looks like this:

Your settings will very likely be different. Let's see what all those values mean.

The first slider at the top-left controls the quality of the final image, from 1 (worst) to 4 (best). Why would we like to degrade the quality of our image? As higher quality rendering takes more time, we can save some seconds by using the lower quality settings. This is in theory. In practice, the lower quality settings are so horrible to be useless. Stay at the highest quality; even in that way we need to work quite a bit to make the images look good.

Next is the Shader: field value under...