Daz Studio is Officially Awesome

ebergerly

I've pretty much been a Blender guy for many years, and on the rare occasions I wanted to do characters I'd use Carrara. And honestly I never liked Daz Studio, for a bunch of reasons. But in the last couple of weeks I tried it again, and I'm absolutely blown away by the improvements that have been made. Here's my latest attempt as I muck about figuring out the controls and tools available. Nothing special, but for a newb like me it's pretty impressive that I can use pretty much out-of-the-box characters with D|S and generate some stuff that, at least to me, is pretty awesome. 

The only tweaks I made were in the materials/Iray shaders, the jewelry objects, and I threw a Photoshop gradient background in there just for grins. 

I really have to hand it to Daz. I mean, there's even a node editor for materials/textures !! And the G3 characters together with Iray is just amazing. 

Good stuff. 

ebergerly

And by the way, it will become officially Super Awesome when they include a cloth simulator, like Poser. I'd love to be able to drape the rigged clothing instead of relying on the often stiff-looking way it hangs. Although the improvements they have in collision are a big step closer, I wish they'd convert that into a real draping simulator. 

ProPose

Another one bites the dust (in a good way)

IceDragonArt

ebergerly said:

And by the way, it will become officially Super Awesome when they include a cloth simulator, like Poser. I'd love to be able to drape the rigged clothing instead of relying on the often stiff-looking way it hangs. Although the improvements they have in collision are a big step closer, I wish they'd convert that into a real draping simulator. 

There is a plug in that will drape cloth in Daz Studio.  But its not sold here...