Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: Just a heads up.....

AnnieD opened this issue on Nov 04, 2010 · 23 posts


LBAMagic posted Mon, 08 November 2010 at 1:07 AM

Attached Link: A Brief Introduction to Toon Shaders in DAZ Studio

For those who are lazy (like me LOL), the following is an easy step to get DS surface settings into your Poser skin that doesn't have DS surface settings available.

This was actually the method from the linked tutorial used to load shaders. But I thought why not try it with borrowing skin surface settings also. And it works well.

  1. Load your DAZ Gen4 person, example, Vicky 4.

  2. Load the Poser skin (from Pose folder).

  3. In DS "Surface" tab select all the surfaces.

  4. Find any other skin that already has DS surface settings.

Sometines content creators are nice enough (many thanks)  to create skins with both Poser & DS surface settings. You will find them in either your Content folder or your Pose folder.

  1. Hold the CTRL button when you click to load the other skin.

  2. A menu will pop up. Choose "Ingore" (not "replace").

This will allow DS surface settings only to be loaded without replacing the texture maps.

So now you have your prefered Poser skin texture map with DS surface settings borrowed from another skin. Some tweaking may be required.

Note this will only work between skins for the same character (i.e., V4 to V4, but not V4 to M4).

Never be afraid to experiment (I love to press big red buttons LOL).

Happy rendering.