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Polishing Tips
I own the intellectual copyright for the written tutorial. What you make is yours, but please do not take my tutorial. Share only my link. This tutorial was created for some friends of mine who wanted to begin learning more about DAZ Studio. It is intended for beginners to learn about some tips to do before rendering. If you have any questions, please feel free to Email me. To do this tutorial you will also need DAZ Studio. Here are some tips to help your renders be perfect. The ones in this tutorial are some common issues that beginners have when first using a 3D rendering program. You must pay attention to details. Ok, here's my doll, she's dressed and posed. But I'm not ready to render because there are some issues that need to be corrected, and most of these can be done in the 3D program before rendering. 1. In the picture below, the most obvious problem is the dress being torn. This happened when posing her.
2. Right-click over the torn area, and choose Select the dress: chest. Be sure it's the outfit you're selecting and not the doll. (I'm assuming you have already clicked on Fit To > doll. If you haven't, do that first)
3. When I chose the dress: chest selection, the parameters opened up for the dress. Check at the top that it says the outfit name and not the doll name!
4. Now as you look at the bottom there are a bunch of parameters that you can try changing to fix the dress. If there are no parameters, then you will not be able to fix the dress this way (you'll have to try fixing it in Postwork. See my cloning tutorial.) I figured that the breasts of the dress needed to be enlarged a bit, so I changed the slider on some (pink circled) to see how it would affect the dress. If you chose the wrong one, just right-click over the number part of the slider and then you can type in 0 to return it to where it started. Try all sliders, or combination of sliders, until you get what you're looking for. 5. Once you think you have it, you need to look more closely at the correction. I chose the Orbit Camera (circled) to rotate the view of the camera, so I could make sure that I didn't distort the dress somewhere else.
6. All looked good for the chest area! But when I rotated it around to her legs, I found another common problem. The arm is sticking through the clothing.
7. I right-clicked on the bottom part of the skirt and tried selecting dress: hip but there were no parameters to fix. 8. So instead, I used the rotate tool and carefully pulled her arm up out of the skirt until all her fingers show.
9. Remember: Look closely at problem areas where you think you may have fixed it. So I chose the dolly camera to bring the camera closer to the screen to get a close look at the fingers.
10. All the fingers are out of the dress, but there's a piece of lace that looks like it doesn't belong.
11. So I played around with rotating her arm and fingers some more until I got that lace out of the fingers. Here's my finished image-- ready to render.
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