Box Shots with DAZ? How?

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Hello,

I am using DAZ mainly for Book Covers, means: I create the models and the coverdesigner will use them for the book cover in Photoshop. But now I need to create a good Box Shot from such a book. There are programs out there like BoxShot4 but they are not for free. I am a bit stubborn and not willing to pay 50 $ for a program, which creates just this box shot, when I can do that with other programs as well. But I lack knowledge about DAZ: how do I import a texture (book front and spine) to map these on a primitve? Can some1 help me out?

Greetings - Rael

BeeMKay

You'll have to assign material zones to the primitive, and then load the images to their respective surface in the surface tab. But without UV-Mapping, things might look a bit weird.

The shop has books as well, like https://www.daz3d.com/everyday-books

You can also download a free book from ShareGG, like those below, and just change the front&spine to what you need. If you use somewthing from them make sure that the person who shares allows commercial use.

• https://www.sharecg.com/v/74767/browse/5/3D-Model/Book-texture-kit
• https://www.sharecg.com/v/82973/browse/5/3D-Model/Old-Scroll-Feather-Candle

 

maclean

Also, Everyday Books has all the templates included, so you can use them as guides to position your own photos.