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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

Making a dress for Dawn


Making even the simplest garment for a 3D character can be a daunting task if you have never done it before. A whole book could be dedicated to that process, if we had to cover all the techniques in detail. On the other hand, we can cover the basics in a few pages, if we keep our target simple. The following tutorial is based on a very simple dress. Don't expect high fashion. We are going to keep things very, very simple so that we can see all the steps involved from zero to the finished product. After we are done with this chapter, if you find the matter interesting, you can look for more tutorials about modeling.

Let's begin.

Obviously, we need to have the base figure loaded in modo so that we can model a dress around it. modo does not read the Studio file format, but it can import many standard 3D file formats, such as OBJ. Unfortunately, Studio does not use the OBJ format for its figures as Poser does. A Poser character file, or CR2, is a file that refers to an...