Forum: Virtual World Dynamics


Subject: Daz Studio bridge to VWD

philemot opened this issue on May 25, 2016 ยท 335 posts


gustaftoni posted Wed, 31 August 2016 at 5:14 PM

Hello developers, I'm getting the hang of your software and it's really impressive and way more convenient than the old Dynamic Clothing Control.

A few issues I'm facing:

1 - Closing the VWD bridge locks D|S for 30-40 seconds, even if I close it immediately after starting it. Most times it's just an annoyance, but sometimes D|S crashes without any trace left in the log file.

2 - Once the simulation is started, I cannot open the Collision parameters or the Dynamic parameters tabs. These menus remain inaccessible even after stopping and resetting the simulation. IDK if this is by design, but being able to adjust the friction of the collider after a first simulation would be very useful.

3 - If you use the mouse to drag the clothing item, the simulation gets reset to when you started clicking instead than resetting to the original imported shape. This could be useful, but having a full "reset to import/re-read obj shape" function would be a major improvement.

Now a few suggestions for incoming updates:

1 - When VWD/the bridge creates the new mesh, materials are set to 3DL instead of Iray. This would be a minor annoyance if the material names were not changed for the new object. As of now, you need to restore the Iray parameters and then copy/paste every single material because names don't match. If they did, you could copy/paste in a single move.

2 - Implementing a scissor tool to separate vertices that were welded at import would be great (it's easy to "go too far" and weld vertices that weren't meant to using the vertices neighborhood option without a preview).

3 - Please add an option to select only visible vertices instead of all vertices in the square.

4 - Please implement a round/oval vertice selection tool (click to set center, drag and release to select size, move around mouse to set eccentricity and click to confirm would be awesome).

Useful info: Core i7-5820K, RAM 16 GB, Rampage V Extreme, 2x GTX 980Ti, 1600 W PSU, OS and D|S on Samsung Evo 840 SSD (250 GB), Daz Library on a 3 TB WD Red. Windows 10 Pro 64, latest available drivers, D|S 64 Beta 4.9.3.71, VWD 1.0.408.2976 (can't say about the bridge, is there a version history available?)

Thank you for your time and efforts :)