Having a rough start

scottstory_2926497e53

Hello 

 My name is Scott story , and I'm at longtime graphic novelist and writer . Recently I've become rather obsessed with learning 3D art and I picked Daz 3D as my primary application . I joined the Platinum Club and have purchased quite a bit of content already .

 Learning the ins and outs of this new medium has not come easily for me, however. I'm hoping to get into character and content design , focused on the characters from my graphic novels and prose books . Loading content and getting it to apply to different characters has not been easy , so I'm hoping you can suggest a really good set of videos that goes into these things in detail . In fact, I have not had a lot of luck loading third-party content into dance studio at all.I've watched the videos on this site and they were handy but I really want to mix-and-match content from various characters and create original characters and monsters. 

 Any advice on video resources to help me come to terms with these issues and master this medium would be great . My past experience with 3D art has been mostly limited to Google sketch up

Richard Haseltine

Perhaps if you could give examples of some of the things you are having trouble with we can give some advice? There are various tutorials, but I'm not sure which are current and good.

MelanieL

There are a set of DAZ Studio tutorials here (some of which - especially the "101" named ones - are fairly basic): https://www.youtube.com/user/WWWDAZ3DCOM/videos

Or maybe you already saw those.

A PA here called Xenic101 has this youtube playlist including some videos abut character creation (making your own morphs, etc): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzELNMh86qwS20f1eP0IpA/videos

scottstory_2926497e53

It's kind of hard to describe, but for example I had trouble getting Michael 4 to come up, and then I loaded the Freak in and he wouldn't come up because Michael wouldn't come up. When adding 3rd party assets I have been unsure whether to just put the new runtime into the Daz library, or to separate its elements and put it into the separate folders bit by bit ( know, like geometry, textures, poses Etc. In other words, I haven't been able to mix and match the assets that I've collected, and that has slowed down my progress. I'm going to focus on the Genesis figures, but I want to be able to mix them with older assets. I have watched the 101 videos on this site and the did help.

MelanieL

These might help with installing 3rd Party assets:

https://sickleyield.deviantart.com/journal/Tutorial-Installing-Content-in-DAZ-Studio-508155677 (Sickleyield has quite a few other useful things in her journal at DeviantArt)

https://www.sharecg.com/v/67312/related/3/YouTube-Video-Tutorial/Installing-3rd-Party-Content-in-DazStudio (a little old but probably still valid), or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVqM-10sOzY (newer)

How did you install your M4/Freak 4 - DIM (Installation Manager) or DAZ Connect or manually? Older figures like M4/V4 (pre-Genesis) are trickier to install correctly unless you use DIM (maybe Connect works too, but I don't use that myself)

Richard Haseltine

Merging the Runtime from the zip with the existign Runtime in your content directory should be all that is required - on Windows that's simply dragging the Runtime into (say) the My Library folder.

With Michael 4, are you not finding the content in the content panes or is it not loading when you do find it?

scottstory_2926497e53

Thank you for the great answers everybody, I believe this answers my question. I won't know for sure till I get home tonight and get to play, but I believe this sets me up on the right path.