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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

The Render Settings menu


Studio can render an image in several formats and at any resolution that you need. To determine those choices, we need to access the Rendering Settings panel. This is done by navigating to Render | Render Settings. We can also use the Cmd + Shift + R (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows) keyboard shortcut. Either way, the result will be presented with the Render Settings panel, which looks like this:

Your settings will very likely be different. Let's see what all those values mean.

The first slider at the top-left controls the quality of the final image, from 1 (worst) to 4 (best). Why would we like to degrade the quality of our image? As higher quality rendering takes more time, we can save some seconds by using the lower quality settings. This is in theory. In practice, the lower quality settings are so horrible to be useless. Stay at the highest quality; even in that way we need to work quite a bit to make the images look good.

Next is the Shader: field value under...

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