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Making props

geoff6geoff6 Posts: 250
edited December 1969 in New Users

Hi all,

Could one of you lovely people direct me to a good source of tuition on making props/objects in Daz 4.6?

Thanks in advance,

G

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  • Herald of FireHerald of Fire Posts: 3,504
    edited December 1969

    Daz Studio isn't a modeller. To create decent props, you'll want to use a modeling program such as Blender or Hexagon. You can create very basic props by mashing together primitives and deleting polygons here and there, but it's incredibly basic, and fairly hard to do anything even remotely complex without needing dozens of individual objects.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    edited December 1969

    Visit the Silo thread in my signature and see if you'd like that perhaps for in the future. I did screen shots so people who don't own it can see what it involves, see if they're interested in modeling.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,309
    edited December 1969

    Also may be worth checking out Hexagon and Blender. Here is a thread with Hexagon tutorials http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/298/

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited August 2014

    There is a very interesting thread here where one of our PAs is helping someone who wants to make clothes in Blender (which is a free modelling app)

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/42075/

    And another thread here which may have some useful info, although it is not being posted to currently

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/8736/

    and one more http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/24184/

    Another option, which seems to be popular in the Bryce Community, is Wings 3D

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  • MarcCCTxMarcCCTx Posts: 926
    edited August 2014

    All that being said, check out Everyday Morphing Objects by MacLean, they're great when you just need simple props.

    Edit: grammar

    Post edited by MarcCCTx on
  • Scott LivingstonScott Livingston Posts: 4,344
    edited December 1969

    geoff said:
    Hi all,

    Could one of you lovely people direct me to a good source of tuition on making props/objects in Daz 4.6?

    Thanks in advance,

    G


    I agree with everyone else who said that if you want to learn to make your own props, you're probably better off using another program because that's not where DAZ Studio's strength lies. However, to directly answer your question, there actually is a tutorial aimed at people who want to learn to make props in DAZ Studio: DAZ Studio Modeling. It's not cheap, but sometimes the vendor's products get deeply discounted during a sale.
  • geoff6geoff6 Posts: 250
    edited December 1969

    Hi again,

    thanks very much for all your help. I already have Blender and I'll follow your collective advice and use that. So, there's just one more tiny question...

    What is the best format to use to import into Daz from Blender?

    Thanks again,
    G

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    OBJ I would think

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