First 3d Sig!

Hooray! I finally did a posed sig in Daz! This is my cleric.

I'm going to ask for cc 3.5 on this because it's my first 3d piece. Before you offer cc please read below on the things I'm struggling with.

I'm hella confused about many things about Daz that I can't seem to figure out. I haven't figured out yet how to work with the hair, so I did an alt+printscreen and copied it over to Photoshop where I played with the hair to make it look less plastic. I then smudged out the Victoria mole and the rough edges on the render. I assume there's ways to do all of these things in Daz but I don't know them yet.

I was able to give her an expression (that I think pretty much suits her personality LOL) but wasn't able to figure out how to make the metal pauldrons as shiny as the text.

The reason I put it in Photoshop to work with it was because when I try to "save as" in Daz, it won't save it in a format that either Poser or Photoshop reads. At this tutorial http://www.daz3d.com/support/tutorial/index.php?id=1187, it says to just open it up in Poser, and I can't for the life of me figure out how.

Anyway, go easy on me because it's my first 3d :)

ROzbeans 20 years ago
(moved to 3d)

HAHA cute expression on her face! Her right eye (our left) looks like its opened a little too much. It's almost buggy. The background and border look great though!

As for installing stuff, just extract into daz, the runtime will put it in the correct spots, only sometimes their idea of correct isn't what you'd assume it would be, so you have to search for stuff most of the time =/

I dont use DAZ, I use poser, but when I save it to work in poser, it'll save as a pz3 or something, but you can pull down the menu and it should have .psd for photoshop or even .jpeg/.jpg. It does for me at least in poser.
Mai 20 years ago
Dude, I didn't realize you could save the images as a .psd... I didn't even think about *smacks forehead* I've been saving them as a .bmp.

*mutters something about learning something new everyday..*

I agree with Mae on the eye. Looks good especially for your first render. I don't know where my first one is but I highly doubt its sig worthy. I'd probably smooth out the wrinkle that's above her eye. It might be realistic but its a bit distracting.
Hijinks 20 years ago
Daz doesn't let me save anything except in it's own format. No .psd or .jpg or anything like that :(
Guest 20 years ago
In D|S, render your image, then go to file, then save last render. You should have options for file type. My preference is TIFF, but that's just me.
Guest 20 years ago
Oh, and *nice* first render. Her skin looks great.
Hijinks 20 years ago
Sweet, thank you Ryala!

What does rendering do anyway?
ROzbeans 20 years ago
To render is to get your final product. I'm not sure about daz, but poser isn't 'what you see is what you get' for the most part.
Guest 20 years ago
Yeah, Daz is the same.