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Only applies to Iray mostly PS: I'm by no means an expert in DAZ3D and I'm speaking from my experience. 1. Faster Renders 1.1 Activated OptiX Acceleration   I didn't know about this until 1 year into DAZ3D. It basically makes your renders 50-100% faster if you have a Nvidia GPU 1.2 If you activate Iray Preview mode and wait until the grey turns into the iray preview, it will start to render a lot faster than when you just hit render out of Texture Shaded Mode. I'd recommend saving the scene before you do that though, as DAZ3D crashes sometimes using this method. 1.3 For some reason when you disable the CPU and let it only render on the

I've made some progress in understanding how the node weight maps work in Daz and I'm able to (sometimes) get a d-former to work that way. If you don't understand the d-former basics, you can check my other tutorial on them, which covers what they do. Fundamentally, this does not change. In this case, instead of using a sphere to define the influence, we're going to create and use a "weight map." To draw a parallel, the sphere would effectively generate the weightmap based on where it intersected the model, how far from the center it was, and so-on. The advantage of the sphere is that it is, inherently, smoother. Without going out of your wa

Using Filter Regexes in DAZ Studio as an Alternative to the "Favorites" Feature This is a tutorial for anyone interested in a better alternative to the rather useless "Favorites" system for DAZ Studio parameters. I'm talking about this thing: Why the "Favorites" Feature Sucks 1. The favorites are saved for an individual object and do not carry over to others. If you have a bunch of favorite pose/shape parameters on a figure, they don't exist on other figures you make and you have to favorite them all over again. 2. There is no way to have multiple groups of favorites. No way to organise them. It's just one set of favorites for the object

Note: I am not afraid to talk about the 'naughty' uses of Daz 3D and may make mentions of the potential adult morphs that can be created. While I am not going to be making a adult morph or featuring anything relating to nudity, if you don't like the adult use of Daz 3D by sites like Renderotica, this tutorial might not be for you. Alright. Today I'm going to show you how to make custom clothing morphs in Daz 3D. This is for those moments where the built in morphs don't cut it, or you want to do something the original clothing creator didn't think of. I mean let's face it, there are a huge number of potential poses you can place your characte

Many of you expressed an interest in doing renders, so I thought I'd do a little tutorial on basics. Like many, I use Daz Studio, which is free but every other prop is behind a paywall. The good news is, the render engine is also free, and you can still tinker with the default figures and free props you can get here and there. Note that I won't touch scene and lighting setup here. There are better tutorials for these, and I want to address setting that many users seem to overlook. 0- Basic setup For some reason, the default settings don't allow GPU use for the interface. Go to edit/preferences and set "Display Optimization" to Best. I also