Did you know that the 32bit version of DAZ Studio has a tool included called Lip Sync? It's a separate tab that lets you add a WAV file, specify a DMC configuration file and generate visemes from the audio. I had never tried it out until today, inspired by many a conversation with vie...
2021-02-18 01:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I'll show you how to disable the yellow surface flashes that happen when you hover over parts of a figure. It's enabled by default and not quite obvious where to find the option to leave us in peace.
I made this video for Solomon, he has a great chann...
2021-02-10 17:47:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I've just investigated the Spring Dynamics script by 3D Universe. This thing rules! I've applied a walk animation to the Toon Mouse, then added the spring effects to his ears, nose and tail. Now everything wobbles, without manual animation work. I love it!
I'll make ...
2021-02-06 01:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I'll show you how to make a group of polygons invisible on any given object in DAZ Studio. I'll also explain how to create selection sets to turn your inivisbilised faces on again with ease. This is a great trick to fix poke through without changing the actual geometry of your fig...
2021-02-04 21:32:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday I've spent about 4 hours with Jeremy in Singapore re-configuring my OBS for two camera sources. We've been co-streaming Raft for a bit last year, and we've been meaning to try this out with video. Such a workflow presents various challenges from a production point of view:
In this episode I'll explain how you can create icons in your DAZ Studio product that will open links and internal text/PDF documents. The trick is to write a super small DAZ Script that will launch either a web browser, or the appropriate app to read your included document. It's a little fiddly,...
2021-01-28 15:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I'll explain how to package a prop so that it becomes a shareable ZIP file. The principle is the same for other objects you want to share, like clothing or scenes, only the way in which each item is saved will differ. I'll walk you through the whole process using the Tangaroa Coff...
2021-01-27 20:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I'll show you how to adjust the walk heigh of an aniblock animation for a Genesis 8 figure in DAZ Studio. Sometimes aniblocks don't line up well with others, particularly when you're mixing and matching those from different vendors. We can either edit keyframes, or use a clever wa...
2021-01-22 15:26:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I did a stream this week in which I was bringing a Mixamo animation into DAZ Studio, then export it to Marvelous Designer and animate a skirt. From there I brought the skirt animation back into DAZ Studio - and it all worked with no poke through!
There are a great many steps to the pr...
2021-01-16 23:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I'll explain how to extract an OBJ sequence from DAZ Studio, using Blender as intermediary application. All that's required to make it work is the full version of aniMate 2 and a copy of 2021-01-15 14:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I'll apply a pose to the skirt I've imported previously. This involves exporting a posed OBJ of your character from DAZ Studio, importing it as a Moprh Target in Marvelous Designer, then exporting the posed garment again as a Morph in DAZ Studio.
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In this episode I'll show you how to export a garment from Marvelous Designer or CLO into DAZ Studio.This involves setting up UVs, baking maps and creating a new material with them in DAZ Studio.
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2021-01-06 18:24:46 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode I'll show you how to resize patterns in CLO and Marvelous Designer, both vaguely and in precise increments. I'll also explain how you can resize the outside edge of a pattern without affecting any internal shapes. htt...
2021-01-04 17:20:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been playing a bit of Cyberpunk 2077 over on Twitch recently. I don't know much about the story or its history, nor do I understand much of what's going on in the game, but from a 3D point of view it's an incredible gem to look at. The attention to detail on characters, clothing and environm...
2021-01-03 19:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a 4K version of my inflatable boat animation. This is an Eevee render with screen space reflections and ambient occlusion enabled. It takes less than a second for one frame to render at 3840x2160.
I've scheduled the stream as a 2020-12-09 19:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Several years ago I showed how to exchange animations between Marvelous Designer and DAZ Studio. It's still a hot topic and not achieved in a hurry. The magic ingredient is a script called animMoprh. Its original sources on the internet have long been extinct, so I've decided to host in a central...
2020-12-08 15:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I've recently built an adorable inflatable boat animation with Marvelous Designer. I didn't get a chance to upload the final version yet, but I'll do that tomorrow (hopefully). In the meantime, I've got this quick 2020-12-08 00:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been working on a new animation through the City Park Environment set by Silver TM in Unreal Engine. Here's a compilation of all text renders I've made during the session. The whole thing including rendering took about 3 hours to put together during a Twitch stream. You &nb...
2020-12-01 19:14:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In yesterday's Twitch stream I've imported Urban Future 6 from DAZ Studio into Unreal Engine and built a camera animation. The whole process took about 2 hours, including rendering. I did a 4K pass just now and uploaded it on my 3D Shenanigans channel. I've adde...
2020-11-25 16:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode I'll talk about how to apply a shader to an object, how to select material zones, and the differences between a Shader and a Material Preset. I'll also show you how to create a shader from an object's material zone description.
This was a viewer question and a subject matter...
2020-11-23 18:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostI've been working on this little project on Twitch over the last few days and thought I'd share the first playable demo with you. It's nothing special, but it gives you a chance to play with the code we've been putting together.
I'll see how difficult it is to make some or all of the ...
2020-11-18 23:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent an hour this morning putting together a new trailer for my Twitch channel. They only gave us the option to add one with this interface upgrade earlier this year, limited to exactly one minute in length. All I could think of that fit the bill back then was the BTracer animation of my Twitc...
2020-11-17 18:44:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I've great fun following Lori's new Marvelous Designer course and made this dress. I really liked the animation and wanted to break it up a bit, so I used all four CLO runway stages and rendered it from different angles. That way I had a few cutaways. I love the way the cloth dr...
2020-11-14 18:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had great fun getting back into Marvelous Designer this week, as well as its big sister CLO. You may not know this, but MD was not originally designed to be a 3D app. It's more of a "little brother" project made by their Korean parent company CLO Virtual Fashion, and they have their sights s...
2020-11-14 01:58:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode I'll show you how to get started with the current implementation of the Filament Engine in DAZ Studio. It's early days, and things may change for the final release. In essence we need to adjust how the lights are translated so that the Filament render looks approximately like our ...
2020-11-12 00:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostIn this final episode of the series I'm adding a few minor tweaks to the project: adding a gamepad specific message, dismissing the menu automatically when we're using the controller, and removing the debug messages.
2020-11-08 19:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode we'll implement a way to make the currently selected character highlight in the menu. To make this happen we'll write a Map Variable, extracting the name of our mesh and translate it into a Button object.
2020-11-08 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode we'll add support for game controllers to our Unreal Engine project. We'll take a look at what functionality is already working and find a way to amend the missing bits with something called Keyboard Focus.
Written instructions and more info: 2020-11-07 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we'll amend the current menu with a descriptive text above the icons, so that users know how to change the outfits and skin tones. We'll add another animation to this text to finish off our previous foray into animating Blueprint Widgets.
2020-11-06 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode I'll talk about how we can animate our menu with a neat fade. Up until now it just pops into place, so we'll make it look more handsome. This will be a good foundation for another animation we'll add later on.
Written instructions can be found here: 2020-11-05 20:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post