Fantasy stuff that sounds really cool to have- utilities too!

Griffin Avid

Things I'd like to see from the store or added as a script product.

Firstly, any kind of utility makes me excited. Those are things that change the ENTIRE way to work or be big time savers.

1) Scene Optimizer was a big one, a Real Time Animator Mode - imagine something similar for animation that allows smooth animation and then a big swap (in textures and scene obj) for the final output render. Maybe, like PARTS of the set are wireframe- depending on distance so that you can load a full set and script out your animations.

2) A Smart Content Sort or a few more options. like -- most used -- recently used - a better NATIVE favorites - Custom Categories. AND the big part is getting the interface right so it's a simple DRAG and DROP.

3) A scene Data export that is a checkbox in the Daz Settings to "Save scene product data" where it generates a text file of the name of all the products you used in the scene. A text or excel sheet is a sub-choice. It can also be another Tab called "Scene Data" and every time you add or use  a product, it gets added to that list.

4) Along with that is a Content Link TOOL, where it has a tick box for follow selected tool (surface or Node or...tool) or Universal so whatever you click on in the scene, the Tab pulls up the name of the product - that object or thing came from.

5) A full short cuts or Key binding system. Another area by the help menu that allows me to pick my own shortcuts for almost EVERY Daz function. If it's in a menu or reached by right-clicking, I should be able to design my own combo-shortcut.

6) A USERS TAB. That's a tab...  that's like a script bar, where I get to slot my favorite operations. It'd be like I record a series of operations and Daz can batch them. I need sleep so I can't remember the proper term right now....

7) Batch render, where there's an Export to Batch Render Bank and a Special Camera is created, along with a special save function that locks in the scene info and creates a cue. This Plug-in has a preview window/tab and saves a thumbnail of each proposed render.

8) I know it's almost impossible and would be inaccurate, but some kind of TIME LEFT clock. There must be a way to guess-timate how long a render would take.

Even if it was just based on the machine's specs and Ram versus memory footprint and...and....

OR - the meter includes a few test scenes that it runs on your machine and analyzes the data and proceeds to create a curve or average line for that computer set up.

And/Or it could combine and pool data from other machines and create a curve.

That's enough for now. I could do this all night.

 

chris-2599934

Number 5 already exists: Window > Workspace > Customise... in the menu, or press F3. Find the function you want in the "Actions" area on the left, right-click it, and it lets you choose a shortcut for it.

Richard Haseltine

Griffin Avid said:

3) A scene Data export that is a checkbox in the Daz Settings to "Save scene product data" where it generates a text file of the name of all the products you used in the scene. A text or excel sheet is a sub-choice. It can also be another Tab called "Scene Data" and every time you add or use  a product, it gets added to that list.

 http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/metadata/list_products_used/start

Griffin Avid said:

5) A full short cuts or Key binding system. Another area by the help menu that allows me to pick my own shortcuts for almost EVERY Daz function. If it's in a menu or reached by right-clicking, I should be able to design my own combo-shortcut.

Window>Workspace>Customise, find the command on the left, right-click, assign short-cut and press the key combo you want.

 

Griffin Avid

Yes. Great thing to find out.

See, some of my wacky posts turn out to be helpful.

FSMCDesigns

On number 6, if you right click any icon you get the option to create a custom action and it goes into the script tab on tob, so kinda the same thing.

Robinson

Hey, if we're going cloud cuckoo land, how about a brand new dope sheet for animation with functions like "stabilise feet" and "stabilise hands" or just "stabilise", to magically execute scripts like McCasual's orient, hold on and auto-limb.  And on that subject, what's with the current dope sheet displaying all twenty hundred thousand values instead of only the values with keys, or values specifically added - without a search function.  And... puppeteer, why doesn't it save deltas.  Why can't I do real layering of only changed values since the previous key... I'd better stop before I get going...

btw, your "users" function looks like a transform history list.  You know, a transform stack.  That sounds interesting for sure.