manleystanley opened this issue on Oct 26, 2020 ยท 11 posts
wolf359 posted Tue, 27 October 2020 at 8:03 PM
So, honestly, has anything really changed at DAZ since my time? Still banned >from the forum lol
Alot has changed since your "time" Dude.
Daz inc. now has a major Direct competitor in the form of Reallusion Iclone & Character creator 3
It can import and shape project ANY genesis Character onto an Iclone native Avatar including converting the clothing hair & skins for use in the realtime animation software from Reallusion or still rendering with the optional IRay plugin for Iclone.
ALL of the Reallusion software is sold right here in the Renderosity marketplace
Reallusion targets the highly lucrative Multi -billion dollar Video game content industry and received a Mutil-million dollar "megagrant" from the "kingmakers" at Epic Games ,makers of the powerful Unreal game engine.
this $$$grant$$$ was shortly after Reallusion created a realtime live link between Iclone & unreal engine4
(Alas No such acknowledgement for Daz by Epic games) ?
Sorry ..no news on the Carrara front but Daz has recently released a set of unidirectional export plugin( incorrectly called "bridges") to send Genesis figures to the major 3DCC applications Like Maya Blender, C4D as well as the Unreal game engine.
Most of the plugins send over an incredible amount of Genesis Bloatware to recreat the Daz studio joint morphs, creating massive multi-gigabyte figures over in apps like C4D and Autodesk Max for a single naked G 8 girl with no animation.
Thus it is doubtful IMHO that users of the major 3DCC wil find the daz exporter useful for professional production?
There is a free third party Daz content export for Blender called 'Diffeomorphic" that is ,by any measure,far superior to the new Daz exporter for Blender.?
Daz studio also has a new strand based hair system but the dynamic version of it is only Available to active Daz PA's IIRC
There is also a new paid feature to create Characters faces from Photographs that is better than ,the soon to be defunct, poser "face room" but is still inferior to the Headshot plugin for Reallusion Iclone Pro
DAZ implemented a new IK manual frame by frame foot pinning sytem for animation in a futile attempt to compete with Iclone but it is beyond useless for that purpose.
To put things in perspective regarding how Reallusion is about to overtake the 3D character market segment from Daz.
In this video ,I made with Reallusions Iclone/ CC3 rendered in Blender, ..Reallusion are the big guys in the dark green heavy armor and cool helmets
Daz inc are the skinny guys with the insect eye helmets desparately trying to hide from the inevitable.
https://youtu.be/Qb2qNXjDls4