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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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ISBN-13 9781849694087
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Paolo Ciccone is a software engineer and photographer who lives in Santa Cruz, California. He has been developing software for more than 20 years in a large series of disciplines, including IDEs (JBuilder) and 3D modeling and rendering. His field of expertise is developing multiplatform applications (Mac OS and Windows) that help computer graphics artists achieve photorealistic results. In 2010, he founded Prt--3D (www.preta3d.com), a company dedicated to bringing high-end computer graphics tools to the masses. His Reality software for Poser and DAZ Studio has been used for video game illustration and for the preproduction of Hollywood large budget movies such as Jurassic Park IV and Hunger Games: Catching Fire. For more than two decades, Paolo has taught all kinds of classes, from training for large corporations to live workshops about 3D graphics. Paolo's experience with 3D software started in 1999, with the first public version of Blender, and then evolved to include other programs, including DAZ Studio, which he has used since version 1.0. Paolo is very active in the online community and he publishes a weekly blog covering topics about 3D graphics.
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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

Installing Reality

LuxRender is available at http://www.luxrender.net. As mentioned, there are versions for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. The Mac OS version is 64-bit only. For Windows, there is a choice between 32-bit and 64-bit. You should download Lux at the same bitness as your OS.

The second option for Windows users is to select the OpenCL or non-OpenCL version. OpenCL is built inside Mac OS, so there is no need to choose if you use a Macintosh. LuxRender for Mac includes support for OpenCL, which is a technology that allows programs to execute instructions in parallel using the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which is another name for the video card. Modern GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA can be used to accelerate some types of processing. Lux has some options to use the GPU. In case you are not sure if your GPU is OpenCL-enabled, download the non-OpenCL version. You can always change your mind later.

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OpenCL should not be confused with OpenGL or CUDA. OpenGL is the API (Application Programming...

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Paolo Ciccone is a software engineer and photographer who lives in Santa Cruz, California. He has been developing software for more than 20 years in a large series of disciplines, including IDEs (JBuilder) and 3D modeling and rendering. His field of expertise is developing multiplatform applications (Mac OS and Windows) that help computer graphics artists achieve photorealistic results. In 2010, he founded Prt--3D (www.preta3d.com), a company dedicated to bringing high-end computer graphics tools to the masses. His Reality software for Poser and DAZ Studio has been used for video game illustration and for the preproduction of Hollywood large budget movies such as Jurassic Park IV and Hunger Games: Catching Fire. For more than two decades, Paolo has taught all kinds of classes, from training for large corporations to live workshops about 3D graphics. Paolo's experience with 3D software started in 1999, with the first public version of Blender, and then evolved to include other programs, including DAZ Studio, which he has used since version 1.0. Paolo is very active in the online community and he publishes a weekly blog covering topics about 3D graphics.
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