Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: Need Direct Eye Contact with Camera in DAZ-Pulling Hair Out!!

MarkR151 opened this issue on Feb 01, 2013 · 18 posts


MarkR151 posted Fri, 01 February 2013 at 12:54 PM

 

dcd111,

Yeah, I've been doing the Point At thing and that does not work 99% of the time much to my frustration.

Anyway, I've actually turned off the Point At  and not used any cameras but just Perspective View a few times. That worked on maybe a couple images when I just used the eye control sliders for up & down, side to side, but even then that was still major trial & error for countless hours! I tried that on this latest pic and no success. I could never get both left & right eyes aligned towards me, and just as importantly with each other. I would get the left eye pretty close, but the right eye was always a little off or slightly cross-eyed or vice versa. There's something in the parameter controls for iris align and I tried that thinking that would align both eyes, but it did not.

Another thing is sometimes she is close enough that I can see pretty well if her eyes are on target, but other times she's positioned farther away in a bedroom or boudoir scene like lying on a bed virtually 8-10 ft away and when she's farther away in the image, that makes it even harder to check for eye contact and alignment.

But bottom line is that whether she's far or close, I still can't get direct eye contact without epic struggles with these controls.

Oh, and another thing is that anytime the scene or parameters or content library pane is open when I'm adjusting the parameters, etc, that gives a different and inaccurate indication of whether I'm getting that direct eye contact. I have to close the pane on the right after every adjustment, and then reopen it & try some more. That's where so much of the trial and error comes in.

So I don't know what else to do. Other people are getting this working in their portraits & pinups, but I don't know why I can't.