FilaToon is a new shader that’s been introduced in Daz Studio 4.23. The actual render engine to make this possible (Filament) has not changed and was actually introduced sometime in 2019, but it never did anything other than auto-translate Iray shaders under the hood for faster scene previews in the viewport. With FilaToon, the developers …
Last week I wanted to add a table cloth to a table and add a lace trim, so that it would match an existing item of furniture in our scene. I went through several iterations until I came up with a good workflow, and thought I’d share it with you. This took much longer on …
Flipping or recalculating normals usually requires a round-trip into a modelling app, but thanks to Unreal Engine’s built-in modelling tools, it can also be done “in-Engine” as they say. Let’s see how to do it! It’s a little hard to see from this screenshot, but the object on the right needs its normals flipped for …
Node graphs can get large and insane fast, and often it’s not feasible to drag wires across long distances and into multiple nodes. It’s impossible to decipher relatively simple stuff we’ve done weeks ago, only because the node setup got a little out of hand. That’s where Named Reroute Declaration Nodes come in. They’re really …
If you’re looking for the new Daz Premier Subscription features (aka the ManFriday Subscription), here’s where to find them. You’ll need Daz Studio 4.23 or higher, and an active Daz Premier subscription to use these. Search Install Manager for “premier” and install the currently five packages that show up and restart Daz Studio. Here’s where …