Daz Environment animateable?

surody

Is it somehow possible to animate the environment in Daz Studio to achieve a day/night cycle?
Are there scripts or does anybody know a work around? Thank you in advance!

WendyLuvsCatz

you can try Casual's scripts and animating the lighting, if emissive the shader might be animateable with matanim

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/matanim

surody

Wendy_Carrara said:

you can try Casual's scripts and animating the lighting, if emissive the shader might be animateable with matanim

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/matanim

Yea thank you, I got this script, but I was hoping to animate the sun in Daz Studio.

WendyLuvsCatz

surody said:

Wendy_Carrara said:

you can try Casual's scripts and animating the lighting, if emissive the shader might be animateable with matanim

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/matanim

Yea thank you, I got this script, but I was hoping to animate the sun in Daz Studio.

well make a light a sun node and animate that in position

I never tried seeing what happens if it is below the horizon

Sven Dullah

surody said:

Is it somehow possible to animate the environment in Daz Studio to achieve a day/night cycle?
Are there scripts or does anybody know a work around? Thank you in advance!

Just a heads up! Every surface property for aweSurface is animateable out of the box, no extra scripts needed;) Animating a sunrise should be totally doable.

https://www.daz3d.com/aweshading-kit-10-for-daz-studio

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/280441/awe-shading-kit-for-daz-studio-and-3delight-commercial/p1

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/277581/awe-surface-shader-a-new-physically-plausible-shader-for-daz-studio-and-3delight/p1

 

Imago

Sven Dullah said:

Just a heads up! Every surface property for aweSurface is animateable out of the box, no extra scripts needed;) Animating a sunrise should be totally doable.

https://www.daz3d.com/aweshading-kit-10-for-daz-studio

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/280441/awe-shading-kit-for-daz-studio-and-3delight-commercial/p1

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/277581/awe-surface-shader-a-new-physically-plausible-shader-for-daz-studio-and-3delight/p1

 

It saves the animation along with the scene or I have to reapply the animated material at every scene load?

Richard Haseltine

You can use http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/referenceguide/scripting/api_reference/samples/start#post-load_callbacks to show how to use a script to link the proeprties to a proxy prop, which does have animatable properties (this is how IBL Master was made to work).

Sven Dullah

Imago said:

Sven Dullah said:

Just a heads up! Every surface property for aweSurface is animateable out of the box, no extra scripts needed;) Animating a sunrise should be totally doable.

https://www.daz3d.com/aweshading-kit-10-for-daz-studio

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/280441/awe-shading-kit-for-daz-studio-and-3delight-commercial/p1

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/277581/awe-surface-shader-a-new-physically-plausible-shader-for-daz-studio-and-3delight/p1

 

It saves the animation along with the scene or I have to reapply the animated material at every scene load?

Saves with the scene.

Edtit: Sorry no, I was wrong:( Have to look into that!

Sven Dullah

Ok wowie came up with a workaround, which is a bit fiddly, but doable:

Here's an easy workaround. Create the loop with your animated properties. Once done, save shader preset(s) for each of the keyframe. That takes care of settings for each keyframe.

Next, use the pose preset to simply mark frames. Create a puppeteer dot for your object. At each keyframe, click on the dot so DS timeline will save settings for that object transform properties for that frame. Save that out as an animated pose preset.

With a new scene, you can simply apply the animated pose preset to add marked keyframes on the timeline, then apply the shader settings per each created keyframes.

It maybe possible to actually save out an animated surface properties preset, but that means creating a new preset type for DS. Probably via a script. But right now, the above process works.