A test with Daz3D model *Nudity warning*

jeff hammond · 24 Jan 2014, 18:26

@box said:

For those of you in the US who might be shocked by coloured pixels I've made one you can look at without risk.

funny how the u.s is setup.. we have all these censorship issues with nudity (amongst others) but in reality, most americans will open this thread based solely on the fact that there's a nudity warning in the title.

Box · 24 Jan 2014, 18:44

I know Jeff it's ridiculous, my first thought on seeing Frederiks post title is that this one will hit the view record in no time. My experiences with the lunacy of US censorship knows no bounds, I have even been employed to rework sculptures to remove nipples and other assorted bits for the US Market.

tadema · 24 Jan 2014, 18:55

"The frog perspective view inside the shower is quite spectacular... "

see... being a frog has it's advantages

Great scene and clean render
John

Box · 24 Jan 2014, 19:14

Great scene, clean render and a well put together bum p map.

Frederik · 26 Jan 2014, 13:03

Another angle for Oli and Rich...

pbacot · 26 Jan 2014, 17:49

@box said:

I know Jeff it's ridiculous, my first thought on seeing Frederiks post title is that this one will hit the view record in no time. My experiences with the lunacy of US censorship knows no bounds, I have even been employed to rework sculptures to remove nipples and other assorted bits for the US Market.

Probably someone employed to put them back on. What job descriptions!

olishea · 26 Jan 2014, 22:48

Nicely done!! it really is a great model!

My only crit is perhaps it needs more entourage. I thought ladies always go to the bathroom together?

jo-ke · 2 Feb 2014, 10:38

That is a very interessting topic.

I use poser. which is quite similar to DAZ Studio.

I often tried to export models like Victoria 4 to SU via obj. But it was always to hightpoly. I also wasn't able to preserve the textures.

I'm very interessted in your workflow.

Frederik · 2 Feb 2014, 12:28

@jo-ke said:

I use poser. which is quite similar to DAZ Studio.

I also had a license of Poser v6 (which is app. 7 years ago ), but never became satisfied with it...
Daz3D is available for free and development have progressed since, I wanted to give it a shot and I was very happy with it...

@jo-ke said:

I often tried to export models like Victoria 4 to SU via obj. But it was always to hightpoly. I also wasn't able to preserve the textures.

I'm very interessted in your workflow.

I assume you tried to import the model directly into SU using one of the OBJ-importers available... Have to say that I also had issues with the direct import...

@frederik said:

...it's easy to export the model from Daz3D to OBJ and then I can use Simlab Composer to export to SU or another 3D file format...
(For this I exported to 3DS which is easy to import to directly to Thea Render...)

Indeed the models are very heavy when brought into SU...
Since I'm using Thea4SU, I can make a library in Thea, insert the model as a proxy in SU and then make the render...

jo-ke · 2 Feb 2014, 15:59

I'm still using twilight.

What can I do to preserve the texture and texture cordinates and to reduce the mesh?

Which programm is able to do that?

Frederik · 2 Feb 2014, 16:29

@jo-ke said:

I'm still using twilight.

Rumor has it that TWR will also get a proxy system in v2...

In the mean time, you can use KT as studio and place your Poser models in KT...
Kt is able to import OBJ and 3DS directly...

@jo-ke said:

What can I do to preserve the texture and texture cordinates and to reduce the mesh?

Like I wrote previously, I use Simlab Composer...
I can import various 3D formats and to export an equal variety of different 3D formats, including SKP...

Although I haven't tested it with a Daz3D and/or Poser model, Artisan has a PolyReducer tool...
Whaat have also made the Polyreducer 0.1 plugin, but I really don't know how it work with such complex models...

@jo-ke said:

Which programm is able to do that?

If you're looking for external programs, Blender has a very good poly reducer tool...

jo-ke · 2 Feb 2014, 17:16

@frederik said:

@jo-ke said:

I'm still using twilight.

Rumor has it that TWR will also get a proxy system in v2...

In the mean time, you can use KT as studio and place your Poser models in KT...
Kt is able to import OBJ and 3DS directly...

good news. Can't wait for the update.

Blender... well... hmmm... I started 7 years ago to understand blender but refused everytime. may be I have to try it one more time.

I think I have to reduce the polys before importing it to SU

jo-ke · 3 Feb 2014, 16:37

I've had success this time.

I've exported a V4 via Poser to OBJ an imported it to SU. Reducing the mesh with meshlab outside SU wasn't possible. The file has 35 MB and took over an hour to import. Unfortunately all textures were lost and I had to retexture the whole body.

I've embeded to my scene, which has also about 50 MB. Unfotunately that was to much für twilight and kerkythea, the xml has over 100 MB and couldn't be loaded to the Application.

So I gave up, hoping for a better capacity of future SU- Version and hoping for the new twilght version.

Frederik · 4 Feb 2014, 08:52

I haven't tested these models with TWR, however, like I wrote previously, you can import an OBJ file direct to KT and then merge it together with your SU scene...
Really can't see what the issue is...

Roger · 11 Feb 2014, 05:47

Does she have a phone number?

Box · 16 Feb 2014, 13:17

As you already had the nudity warning and I was bored this morning I knocked up a bit of a sculpture to help soften the lines in your bathroom.

Frederik · 16 Feb 2014, 14:45

Looks really good, Box...

Box · 16 Feb 2014, 16:05

Thanks Frederik, I rather enjoy playing with Vertex tools.

jgb · 3 Mar 2014, 00:31

Anybody ever tried creating a 3D model (car, room fixtures, etc) in SU and export it to DAZ? If yes, how?

Frederik · 3 Mar 2014, 11:08

That's easy...
Export to i.e. OBJ and use the import function in Daz3D...