I've recently got DAZ/Studio and I'm struggling!  Does anyone know where I can get a good basic, easy to understand tutorial?  I've cannot seem to find a way to add the clothing I've bought for V4.  I've sorted out how to pose her and have bought several sets of clothing and hair but even though I think I've followed the instructions OK when I try to fit anything to V4 nothing happens and now I'm getting bored and frustrated.  Any help would be most appreciated.

Mags

Did you check the Daz tutorial or try youtube with keywod DAZ.. But steps should be easy.

1. Load V4.
2. Select her in the scene tab
3. Load the clothing items.
4. To make sure select the clothing item(s) and make sure FIT TO is set to V4
5. The when clothing still selected your can choose PARENT TOV4 again. This so when you pose clothing will follow body of V4.

Hope helps or let me know what you do exactly and what happens

stephan

Wow Stephan - thanks so much for a really quick reply!  I haven't tried Youtube so will certainly follow up that idea.  I'll try following your instructions and if I still can't do it I'll get back to you if I may.

Thanks again

Mags

sure just let me/us know. We will sure help no worries. Have fun and a great weekend

Hi again - I'm even more confused  because I can get some of the clothes to 'work' now following your instructions but not others.  Nothing happens - I don't get any error message - just nothing!  For example, I have bought a package called Thistledown.  This contains sets of clothes in various colours - green, gold, white, etc.  The green set loads OK but none of the others.  I have a set  called Forest Fairy, which also doesn't load.  Annoying that the basic clothes that came with the programme for free are working  (and not what I want to use) and the ones I bought aren't!  Same with hair - I have Sparkelicious but can't load it.  I'm very confused as to what should be in the Runtime files Geometries, Libraries and Textures so I've very probably got something set up wrongly.  Still it's taken my 15 years to get to grips with Photoshop, and several years to be able to produce a decent fractal with UF and Apophysis, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that I can't understand how it works!  Any further advice would be very welcome.

Mags

If you buy items it mostly has a standard zip file that you can unpack and it will install the runtime into the correct directories. If the default items work that is good. Remember that if you buy some items thay can be extensions to another items, like haircolors/style for hairpiece or textures to clothing so make sure before you buy you have the MAIN item or it will not work. If you want to apply a texture or color to clothes/hair remember to select the main items first and then the color or texture. Example you have hair (default) and want to change color/style then select the hair first and then the new color or style. Maybe better check the youtube tutorials first since they give much info. Good luck and speak soon

As Stephan says, the figure will load from one set of icons (that will be the green set for the Fairy gown) and the other sets of icons are what are called mat files which change the appearance of the clothes once you've loaded them and selected any part of the one you want to change. it's generally easiest to select through the Scene palette, or by right-clicking (control-clicking on a Mac) as if you click on a clothing item fitted to its wearer you will select the wearer instead. I think Forest Fairy is a texture set for the Fairy Gown, so you have to load the dress first and then apply the desired file from that set.

Thanks very much for your help.  I'm sure this is what I was doing - loading the default dress and then trying to apply a variation - with nothing happening.  I'll give it another go to make sure I haven't forgotten anythinThanks again

Mags

OK - so I've fitted the basic white fairy gown and parented it to Victoria - I hope this means it will still fit when I change her pose.  Then I tried to fit the forest fairy gown to the basic white gown in the same way but nothing happens - is there something I'm not doing here?

Thanks

Mags

.... and when I change the pose to sitting, the top of the dress fits the body OK but the skirt stays the same so her legs are poking through the skirt instead of the skirt falling over the legs.  I really haven't got the hang of this at all have I :-(  It usually does take me a long time to understand how a programme works but nothing's been this difficult before!

You need to make sure you have some part of the gown, not some aprt of Victoria, selected when you try to apply the new material settings - if you just click on something in the viewport you will get V4, not the gown.

Skirts don't auto-fit - it's a limitation of the Poser rigging system. Usually there will either be handles attached to the hip of the dress (select them through the Scene palette) which will adjust the dress as you move them, or there will be morphs in the hip of the dress (you change those through the Parameters palette) or both. I can't recall how practical it is to fit the fairy Gown to a sitting pose.

Agree and remember that many pieces of clothing are almost impossible to get right for sitting pose or will need a lot of fiddling. Remember that many outfits have several individual parts that you have to select 1 at a time to change colors or textures.

Thanks guys - seems like there are more limitations that I expected - might just have to go back to doing photomanipulations in PS Elements - thought DAZ would be easier and give me more scope but it seems to be the reverse.

Mags

Dont give up that soon right. Just looks at the tutorials. I mean we all learned by trying so start simple and then progress. Good luck

Besure you go to your Figures directory, load the clothing there, then go into your Pose directory and select the textures for the clothing.