3 newbie questions

Rascal3D

Hello,

I have been using Daz Studio 4.8 over the past week and have 3 questions:

(1) At some point, my cursor in the 3D viewport got bigger and now it obliterates smaller parts of the G3F/G3M anatomy such as fingers and eyes -- making it difficult to pose these parts.  How do I control the size of the cursor or its visiblility?  Currently it is an icon with the 3 axes and a large, white cube.

(2) How do I add a tab to the tabs on the left hand side of the screen (i.e., where the content tab is located)?  Specifically, I want to add the Weight Tool tab to this area.  Currently, I am using the weight tool as a left-click pop-up menu in the 3D viewport.

(3) I am having problems with weight mapping.  After rigging a tentacle, I start painting the weight map for each segment.  But when I go back to the first segment, it now has 'spotty' weights from other segments and vice versa -- each segment have 'spotty' weight-maps from other regions of the figure.  Why is this happening?  On my first pass to establish the weight maps for each segment, I am sure that I did not paint on the other segments.  Also, unlike some of the tutorials that I have seen/read, when I select an individual segment the rest of the model does not turn blue (i.e., no influence) but stays gray in color (basic diffuse map with no imported texture).  I only observe blue on the periphery of the segment that I am weight mapping.  Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks, now back to posing...

Richard Haseltine

1) That depends on the tool in use - if you are going to pose with the sliders the Node Selection Tool has no widget at all but allows node selection.

2) Make sure Pane Docking/Undocking isn't locked (in Window>Workspace). If not, to add one pane to an existing pane group drag and drop by its tab; to dock as a new pane group drag it by the top window frame bar until the dock area shows a line in the highlight colour, then drop.

3) On the colour, DS switched to using sparse weight maps - unmapped areas show grey, and have no value asdsociated with them (but are implicitly zero). Is the spottiness affecting the bending or is it a visual arrtefact only?

Rascal3D

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your help. 

With regards to the last problem, when I bend 'segment one', it affects some (random) polygons associated with the other segments in the hierarchy.  When I would select the bones on these other segments, I would see additional, and apparently randomly distributed, weight map zones that were not part of the original weight map.  I can fix some of these by going back and subtracting these areas, but I am trying to understand if I am missing something in setting up the initial weight maps.  I have been following Blondie9999's excellent "Rigging Original Figures in DAZ Studio 4 Pro", but obviously I am still learning.

 

 

Richard Haseltine

Are you sure the groups for the bones are correct, with no stray polygons? Did you paint the maps, or did you use the Fill by selection group command?