FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Nov 18, 2005 ยท 22 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Fri, 18 November 2005 at 12:57 PM
"The Surface Selection tool is a tool to use to select the surface of an object with your mouse without having to search for it in the surfaces palette. You can choose another tool in the top row of buttons." 1) I cannot find the right selection button in Daz Studio, I just want to revert to normal selection of objects. And that's just what I cant find! "You cannot create an environment in Studio, but you can use environment props to "fake" an environment. If you have Bryce, you can take what you've put together in DAZ|Studio and import it into Bryce. What sort of things are you looking for?" I just wanted to try creating an image using Daz Studio, preferably before the end of November so that I can take advantage of the current Daz Studio offer. But as I can't do people I thought I'd try using my Wings created models, but they dont show up with the colours I applied in Wings. And now I cant even select the objects themselves, and I cant figure out how to select individual surfaces to try changing their colour in Daz... (sigh) "You can use primitives to create using the free Primitives plugin from DAZ." I dont see that that will help me in this instance... "As for your colour problem, first I'm going to assume that you've got the latest version of studio (1.0.1.0), and you've updated your video card drivers." It's dangerous to assume. I havent downloaded that for 1 original reason and since your reply to me 2 reasons, One is: Last time I downloaded a new version of Daz just after the anouncement of its arrival, I had to uninstall it as it kept on crashing and taking Bryce with it. (Later on I got the version I now have) 2nd reason is that no way am I messing with my video card drivers, they've worked perfectly well up to now and whenever I try doing something fancy like that I crash the entire computer, and I'm way too dependant on it to risk that, especially as my computer guy is not available until half way through December. "After that, Go into your Surfaces palette (if it is not on your desktop, go to Windows>Surfaces) and see what colours are set up for your object." That much I could do, but is that option not available in the previous version of Studio then? (I have version 1.0.0.0 of Studio and Bryce5.5c) ";) Not all of us use Studio for just human figures. I love using Lisa's Botanicals Collection for different images, and importing it into Bryce 5.5 for volumetric environments." Oh good, that's extremely good news, not that I can afford to buy anything like that just now, (especially with Xmas looming) It would be so nice to get a proper handle on how Studio works apart from just using it to get a nekkid figure into Bryce to test shadows, or to aquire a building I've bought. I've done everything in Bryce up to now, but I felt I ought to at least attempt to figure out Studio. Okay, here's all I can find of buttons in the top bar, after the "What's this" tool: 'activate the rotate tool' 'activate the translate tool' 'activate the scale tool' 'activate the power pose tool' 'activate the spot render tool' then it's render, camera and lights but no select object tool help? I just want all those adjustment tools back that used to be over on the right of the screen...
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