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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

Simpler, faster keyboard shortcuts

The most efficient, fast, and fun way of using Studio is to use a few keyboard shortcuts in combination with the mouse. This workflow avoids interruptions in the creative process caused by searching for specific tools in the UI. For example, it's much faster and less distracting to press Cmd + S (on Mac)/Ctrl + S (on Windows) to save a scene, instead of taking your eyes away from the scene, looking up for the File menu, and then searching for the Save option.

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As Studio works on both Mac OS and Windows, it's necessary to find a notation to refer to keyboard combinations that work for both OSs. Macintosh uses the Cmd key to trigger special key combinations. Windows uses the Ctrl key. So, when you see something like Cmd/Ctrl + S, it means that you need to press a key combination that on Mac OS is Cmd + S and on Windows is Ctrl + S. Similarly, Opt/Alt + S indicates Opt + S for Mac OS and Alt + S for Windows.

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