Bought the above book and the code for downloading Dawn for free is invalid. Has anyone else had this problem?

Thank you for any information you may have.

Radioham

Hi.

Thank you for buying the book. Please contact Hivewire 3D directly about it. I'm sure that they will take care of it.

Cheers.

Hi @radioham - I am moving this to the DAZ forum. Thanks!

Many Thanks to the above two people for answers I will let you know what happens Radioham

Happy to see that book exist but actualy out of stock at Amazon.ca Can i have some insights about table of contents? Version 4,8 iridium is covered? I am still confused about iray shaders, iray lights ,iray mesh lights and iray rendering parameters

The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4 Table of Contents Preface 1

Chapter 1: Quick Start – Our First 3D Scene 7 Stepping into DAZ Studio 7 Studio uses 3D assets 8 Customizing Studio 8 Introducing Genesis – a shapeshifter 13 Adding smart content 15 Adding clothing 16 Adding hair 18 Treat yourself 18 Strike the pose 19 Fixing nonconforming clothing 20 Saving your scene 22 Adding an environment 22 Rendering an image 26 Summary 28 Chapter 2: Customizing Studio 29 Getting more screen space 29 Customizing the layout 30 Removing screen clutter 35 Saving the new layout 36 Simpler, faster keyboard shortcuts 38 Changing the background color 43 Summary 44

Table of Contents

Chapter 3: Posing Figures 45 The main blocks of a pose 45 Using premade poses 46 Purchasing the right poses 49 Creating a new pose 49 Planning your shot 51 Setting up the scene 51 Using a reference image as a backdrop 56 Selecting an image size 56 Setting the position of the surfboard 59 Setting the surfer pose 60 Bodies without limits 62 Avoiding common mistakes 64 Keep a level head 64 Posing the lower part of the body 66 Positioning the legs 66 Positioning the legs with Inverse Kinematics 68 Finishing touches 69 Arms and fingers 69 Removing the "gaze of death" 70 Saving the pose 72 Summary 73 Chapter 4: Creating New Characters with Morphs 75 Understanding morphs 75 Combining premade morphs to create new faces 79 Saving your morphs 83 Character creation with morphs 83 Inside the monster factory 84 Summary 88

Chapter 5: Rendering 89 Gearing up for rendering 89 Framing the scene 90 Choosing the camera 92 The Render Settings menu 94 Selecting the image format 97 Rendering 99

The art of lighting 10

Faking ambient light 106 Replacing the background 111 Summary 112 Chapter 6: Finding and Installing New Content 113 Places to find more content 113 The beginning of the DAZ Studio era 116 Genesis and the market 116 Sources of content 117 Buying from DAZ 118 Purchasing from Renderosity 122 Purchasing from RuntimeDNA 128 Downloading free models 132 Installing content in Studio 134 Selecting the location 134 Configuring Studio for the new content 144 Summary 147

Chapter 7: Navigating the Studio Environment 149 Polygons – the building blocks of our scenes 149 Finding the number of polygons in the scene 152 Subdivision 153 Moving in the 3D space 154 Benefits of using a real camera 155 Moving the camera around 158 Learning about the Viewport tools 160 The Node selection tool 160 The Scale, Rotate, and Translate tools 160 Other useful tools 161 Let there be light 161 The spotlight 162 Casting shadows 164 Point lights 165 Distant lights 165 Managing content 166 The Smart Content and Content Library tabs 166 Organizing the Content Library tab 167 Importing models from other applications 171 Scaling issues 172 Importing an OBJ file 172 Summary

Chapter 8: Building a Full Scene 179 Adding an environment 179 Putting the scene together 181 Adding the character 184 Using Inverse Kinematics (IK) 184 Dressing the character 185 Delving into material poses 191 Editing materials manually 192 Using channels 193 We are in control 196 Mixing colors with image maps 196 The specular channel 199 Using the alpha channel 201 Learning UV maps 203 Setting the character's skin 205 Final bits 206 Summary 206

Chapter 9: Lighting 207 Setting the scene 207 The frame 208 Adding the required lights 210 Renaming objects 212 Cinematic lighting 213 The braziers 214 Moonlight 215 Ambient color 218 Adjusting darkness 219 Checkpoint 220 Finishing touches 220 Cookies 221 No lights in the frame 223 Summary 224 Chapter 10: Hyper-realism – the Reality Plugin 225 LuxRender 225 Interfacing with Lux 227 Creating Reality 228 Understanding LuxRender concepts 228 The render never stops 229 Lights and exposure 230 Installing Reality 231 Running Reality 232

Rendering 233 Using realistic materials 234 Converting materials 237 Using glass 238 Lighting with Reality and Lux 240 Creating water 243 Reality in production 244 Summary 245 Chapter 11: Creating Content 247 Creating clothing 247 3D modeling with modo 248 Rigging a figure 249 Box modeling or retopology 251 Dawn of a new era 252 A surprise for you 253 Layout of the tutorial 253 Making a dress for Dawn 253 Exporting a figure as an OBJ file 254 The Transform tool 263 Assigning a material 273 Defining UV maps 274 Getting the dress out of modo 282 Rigging the dress 282 Importing the dress 283 Distributing your work 286 Choosing a file format 286 The distribution hierarchy 289 Getting down to business 290 Summary 292 Chapter 12: Animation 293 Understanding animation 294 Understanding frame frequency 294 Delving into the frame ratio 296 The Studio timeline 297 Scrubbing 298 A simple animation test 299 Controlling the keyframes 301 Editing keyframes 302 Doing it the Studio way 303 Understanding the logic behind animations 303

Organizing your project 304 The shot list 304 Defining NLE 305 aniMate2 305 Spline editing 306 Rendering 308 The reason to avoid movie clips 308 Horror story 1 309 Horror story 2 309 Escaping the horrors 309 Color grading 310 Adding music and sound effects 311 Exporting for playback 311 H.264 settings 314 Summary 316 Appendix: Installing DAZ Studio 317 The reason for installing software 317 Using the Install Manager 318 32-bit and 64-bit versions 320 Running DAZ Studio 321 Index 323 I do hope this helps..... So far no joy about the figure... Yes I have asked my daughter and it is still here in Amazon GB.... but the post to you would be high she tells me that it can be brought for an E reader and that there is an firm in the U.S.A. that will supplt an Pdf of the same Radioham