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SKYLAB CHAT

Gadget Girl

Extraordinary
Contributing Artist
Testing the Rachel Dynamic Tunic and Shawl for V4...I wish all robes were this easy to deal with. The tunic ran beautifully, with all default settings, and the only tweaking that might would be needed is at the feet. Otherwise, it was perfect. The shawl, when running sim 2, tries to slide down the arms, just as GG indicated would happen with outer garments, so I stopped the sim before it completely slid off the arms in order to grab a screen capture, showing it's potential. I suspect it needs to be constrained at the shoulders somehow...and this is why I need to spend time with Eisha's Master Class tutorial, since I have no idea yet how to constrain an area of the garment. Anyway, here's screen cap of this very pretty outfit.

That looks nice. Constraining isn't really that hard although like most things it often needs tweaking to get it right. In the cloth room after you've set up the collision go down a little further and click on edit constrained group. It's where the arrow in the screen shot I've attached is pointing. The group editor will popup when you click that. By default you'll have a selection tool, so basically you can just drag around the area you want to 'pin' in place. The red dots that will appear on your item are the constrained area. You can remove them by clicking on the minus sign and selecting. Or if you click on the box next to the plus and minus you can get a pencil tool to be more exact with.



The important thing to remember is that you aren't really 'pinning' the fabric in place. It's actually more like adding glue to that section of the fabric. When it collides against something, the areas with glue will stick, and won't move away from whatever they've stuck to.

Hope that helps.
 

skylab

Esteemed
Next up, a few DS tutorials in order to deal with common issues encountered, including how to get content to show in the Smart Content library, and at the end, an IRAY demo.





 

Gadget Girl

Extraordinary
Contributing Artist
Thanks for these. I just bookmarked them for later when I try diving into Daz again. It confuses the hell out of me.
 

skylab

Esteemed
Oh wow GG, that will help a great deal....I'll tackle that today. I have to wait until I have super good eyesight days to tackle a lot of reading of tutorials...so any quick tips save me a tremendous amount of time :) Thank you so much!

Edit to add: It sorta reminds me of the Poser Hair Room, only in this case it's drawing red dots on the figure, instead of red blocks.
 
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skylab

Esteemed
Yep, I'm with you there...I had my DS 4.7 working just fine, and happened to click on the wrong thing in the Content Library, trying to back up in order to select more content, and bam, everything disappeared...so I'm back to an empty Content Library again. Decided to go searching YouTube for CL issues, and found others had the same thing. I'm also having problems getting the DAZ Big Cat 2 to show at all in either library...and again, these kinds of inconsistencies just frustrate the heck out of me too...so as I find tips on YouTube, I'll post them here....maybe I can help you out a little too...haha. :)
 

Gadget Girl

Extraordinary
Contributing Artist
Interesting conversations in here, and some useful tutorials! I just spent the past two days off and on reading this thread from page 33. Whew. Nice to see so much collaboration among peers. :)

Oh, I meant to say hi. I stuck my head in hear a few weeks ago, and I think you probably have read more of this than I have. But then it's not really an ongoing topic. And everyone was very nice when I started putting my two cents in, as well as helping me out.

Yep, I'm with you there...I had my DS 4.7 working just fine, and happened to click on the wrong thing in the Content Library, trying to back up in order to select more content, and bam, everything disappeared...so I'm back to an empty Content Library again.

This makes me feel so much better. The same thing happened to me, and no matter what I did I couldn't find my content. This is part of what scares me about Daz, I'm worried I'll make everything disappear and won't be able to find it again. Knowing it's still sitting on my hard drive isn't as comforting when I can't use it.
 

skylab

Esteemed
This old dog is learning some new tricks today :) Thank you so much GG...it worked. The only thing I didn't know how to do is to "unblacken" the screen...like it didn't have an OK or save and close option, but otherwise, it was smooth sailing. Reminds me very much of the Poser Hair Room.

I did an overkill the first attempt, highlighted the entire shoulder, but that was too much and affected how the garment fell....so I went back and tried doing a smaller area (see pic), which yielded better results.

CONSTRAINT SETTINGS.jpg


rachel robe test2.jpg
 

skylab

Esteemed
Here's a fairly thorough demonstration of installing DS 4.9, so I'm thinking about trying it on one of my workstations, just to see how it goes. If I hit a snag, you'll be the first to know....haha.





 
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Gadget Girl

Extraordinary
Contributing Artist
This old dog is learning some new tricks today :) Thank you so much GG...it worked. The only thing I didn't know how to do is to "unblacken" the screen...like it didn't have an OK or save and close option, but otherwise, it was smooth sailing. Reminds me very much of the Poser Hair Room.

All you should have to do is close the group editor by clicking on the X in the corner. That should get you back to the normal view.
 

Vanish

Motivated
Afternoon. Wish I could offer some help, but I've never played with dynamic cloth. In fact, I've been away from the 3D world for a couple years now and am just rebuilding my runtime libraries. I'm a DS user. I've owned several versions of Poser since the original, but I just prefer working in DS. :shrug:
 

skylab

Esteemed
Okay, thanks....figured it would be something simple. Now I have some new "tools" to use when I hit problems with dynamics.
 

skylab

Esteemed
Hi Vanish....glad you made it back. You'll find that we discuss both here, as the need arises. I'm trying to learn DS, since I've been a Poser user for several years. I guess Seliah is our DS guru...she will be back in the swing after she gets her ongoing projects completed. Miss B is like me, tries to use both, but leans toward Poser. And GG just posted that she's unsure of the DS interface but would like to learn how to get control of the library, and Terre and PDG are dedicated Poser users. I think Sanbie does both, if I'm not mistaken. So, you'll find a rich pool of knowledge, considering all who participate in this thread...and we're always glad to welcome one more :)
 

skylab

Esteemed
I meant to mention, in the second group of YouTube DAZ Studio tutorials, the last three are by Sickleyield.
 

eclark1894

Visionary
Good morning all :)

eclark...ahhh...I'm not sure what you are asking. The M4 Elven Prince robe is a commercial product at Rendo...go to the link below in order to purchase. I'll be using it later on for demonstrations of free pose sets. As for the settings, we haven't exactly got them right yet...it's getting much closer, but still not finished. As for the textures, they are included with the product at link below. Hope this helps.

M4 High Elven Prince

GG has a free dynamic robe, download link in her Dusk biblical robe thread, since you are working on a Dusk project, perhaps this may be of help.
Sorry, Sky, I thought it was a freebie! Sorry, and I was only interested in the textures anyway. I just wanted to see how they had it set up.
 

skylab

Esteemed
Hi eclark....yes, the textures are strikingly pretty....that's what got my attention years ago when I picked up that set on sale. It's not so easy setting up a sim for it, but the textures are beautiful. I'm learning through experience that outfits that have big, wide sleeves can be hard to control...so I'll know to steer clear of that in the future...at least until I learn what to do with it...haha. I'm basically at beginner level cloth room still, and just being introduced to probably what would be considered intermediate level features.

There are a bunch of free dynamic cloth outfits for Poser on ShareCG in Rosemaryr's Gallery, and several pages of free dynamic outfits on Rendo, if anyone is interested in experimenting, plus a free Poser dynamic cloth tutorial by Lully. There's also a dynamic robe for V4, like the one for M4 by Bionic Rooster. These links have been posted before, but I've condensed them into one larger list here, in case it helps. They are certainly great for learning how to handle dynamic cloth in Poser, and I understand from Seliah that the OBJ files can be used in DS to create dynamic outfits for personal use with the DynCreator plug-in from Rendo. So, to be clear, everything listed here in this post is free :)

SAV Dynamic Pants

Dynamic Robe for V4 by Bionic Rooster

Dynamic Robe for M4 by Bionic Rooster

Robe for Steph 3

Imperial Robe Dynamic for M3

Mage Outfit V4 (with outer cloak)

Keffiyah Middle Eastern Headdress M4

Free Dynamic cloth tutorial by Lully, a free dynamic tutorial on Rendo, this one is a video, and another tutorial by Pappy who used to do a lot of biblical robes on Rendo.
 

skylab

Esteemed
Well, I braved installing DS 4.9, found my Big Cat 2, the Content Library has been restored, and I'm doing my first IRAY render. To confirm some folks' concerns, it absolutely does insist on installing on top of your latest version of DS, in my case it was 4.7...so I slide the folder program folder over to my external drive, and will see if it continues to work when I slide it back.

IRAY looks kinda like sparkles while rendering...here's an unfinished render in process...there was really no planning of the lighting or pose, just hit render to see what would happen. The longer it renders, the less grainy it appears. I'm assuming this is like Poser defaulting to Superfly, DS must default to IRAY, because I understand it still does 3Delight I think it's called. Anyway, it's still rendering...here's a shot of the early stages, and then after it had been rendering perhaps 5 minutes, then again at about 8 minutes.

iray wip.jpg

iray wip2.jpg

iray wip3.jpg
 
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skylab

Esteemed
The progress bar says 35 minutes have elapsed, and the render is 34% done, so you can use your imagination...we're looking at over an hour, and more like 90 minutes, for this to complete probably. Just wanted to run a test first thing for the benefit of those who had relatively limited system resources, and this scene has only one light and no props. In other words, it's something you set to render overnight, and get some sleep while it finishes :)
 
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