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The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4

You're reading from   The Complete Guide to DAZ Studio 4 Bring your 3D characters to life with DAZ Studio

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849694087
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paolo Ciccone Paolo Ciccone
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Preface 1. Quick Start – Our First 3D Scene FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Studio 3. Posing Figures 4. Creating New Characters with Morphs 5. Rendering 6. Finding and Installing New Content 7. Navigating the Studio Environment 8. Building a Full Scene 9. Lighting 10. Hyper-realism – the Reality Plugin 11. Creating Content 12. Animation A. Installing DAZ Studio Index

Using the Install Manager

Studio is free to be downloaded from DAZ. The reason for the $0 price tag is that DAZ's business model is based on selling content. They see the software as a platform for using the content that they sell. As the company collects 50 percent of every sale that they make on behalf of content authors, the brokerage of content provides the business model to pay for the development of Studio.

So, the first step is to go to www.daz3d.com and look for DAZ Studio, which is generally under the Products or Software menu. The program is not directly downloadable; we need to create an account with DAZ and then add the product to the shopping cart. There are no charges, so no credit card information is needed.

Once the order is submitted you will see the following page:

Using the Install Manager

All software from DAZ now is installable via the DAZ Install Manager, also known as DIM. It is possible to download and install every package directly, but for the sake of simplicity, in this section we will...

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