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Changing the polygons included in a set of surfaces

nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

If I change the set of which polygons are included in a set of surfaces or add new surfaces or combine surfaces to that set of surfaces and I save those changes as a 'surfaces preset' of some sort so I can use with the other characters or whatnot if the geometry matches?

Example: I have a set of butterfly wings and I want to create a bunch of surfaces on them so I can apply different material presets to the butterfly wings. Sure one set of surfaces I can use many multiples of materials presets on such a set of surfaces but I want to change the layout of the surfaces themselves so the pattern on the butterfly wings can be changed as well but just the materials. 

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,907

    A character preset would give the changes (as long as it was used to load a new figure, not if it was used to change an existing figure). The preset needs to be able to store/load geoemtry, not just settings.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
    Richard Haseltine said:

    A character preset would give the changes (as long as it was used to load a new figure, not if it was used to change an existing figure). The preset needs to be able to store/load geoemtry, not just settings.

    OK, thanks.

  • TimmothTimmoth Posts: 108

    If you're happy here nonesuch00, can I hijack your thread, as it sounds like my problem, but I need more detailed help...

    I have a sail barge that has only two surfaces, the hull and the mast - unfortunately the cloth of the sail is in the same material zone as the hull (see attached pic).

    How can I seperate the sail into it's own, third, material zone, please?

     

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333
    Timmoth said:

    If you're happy here nonesuch00, can I hijack your thread, as it sounds like my problem, but I need more detailed help...

    I have a sail barge that has only two surfaces, the hull and the mast - unfortunately the cloth of the sail is in the same material zone as the hull (see attached pic).

    How can I seperate the sail into it's own, third, material zone, please?

    I will give you a quick hint to get started but you'll probably want to search for "DAZ 3D Geometry Editor" on YouTube and watch a tutorial or two.

    You need to

    1) open and dock the 'Tool Settings' tab in DAZ Studio.

    2) open via Alt-Shift-G the Geometry Editor

    3) Now choose polygons you want until you have chosen all of them you want to be on one Surfaces and then Assign them in the 'Surfaces' and name this new group the name you want it to be named. Note: As you assign polygons to new Surfaces 'MyName' you create those polygons should be subtracted from the old Surfaces 'Old Name'

    4) Repeat until your raft is divided into Surfaces in the way you like.

     

     

     

     

  • TimmothTimmoth Posts: 108

    Thanks very much nonesuch00, that's exactly what I needed.

    For anybody else needing the info I'll leave this for reference:

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