DAZ Studio 3 & DAZ Studio 3 Advanced Are Here!

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:40 pm

Over 50,000 Downloads of DAZ Studio 3
in Less Than a Month

Are You Ready to Get Serious With Your 3D?

DAZ Studio is a free, feature rich 3D figure design and 3D animation tool that enables anyone to create stunning digital imagery. And now, you can get more out of DAZ Studio than ever before. Order DAZ Studio 3 Advanced and enter a higher level of 3D art and animation. Packed with must-have features for the serious 3D artist, this brand-new edition of DAZ Studio provides high-end tools and features with extended export capabilities and greater compatibility with its big brother, Carrara.

We hope you've had a chance to test-drive the new features and see first-hand all the fun new tools and improvements that have made it into this release of DAZ Studio. If not, it's not too late! You can still download a copy of DAZ Studio and test-drive the full DAZ Studio 3 Advanced feature set for 30-days, risk-free, or purchase your license now to permanently unlock DAZ Studio 3 Advanced on your machine:

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NEW IN THE DAZ STUDIO 3 CORE FOR FREE

Improved Render Engine
COLLADA Import/Export
aniMate Lite - Special thanks to GoFigure!.
Visual Helpers for Cameras and Lights - Special thanks to Dreamlight.
Selection/Bounding Box Display
Render Album
Visible in Render
FREE Plugin SDK

NEW IN DAZ STUDIO 3 ADVANCED

Learn More About These New Features in the DAZ Studio 3 Information Pages

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Sample Renders That Showcase Many New Features:

Rendered scene using area lights applied to the room prop and Michael 4 armor in DAZ Studio 3. The visible monitors are emitting the green light illuminating the room, and the glowing pads on the Epsilon armor are emitting the yellow light that illuminates the figure and side of the center pylon.

Test render showing indirect light global illumination used in tandem with a traditional spotlight in DAZ Studio 3.

Test render showing environment lighting with ambient occlusion and soft shadows in DAZ Studio 3.

Test render showing environment lighting with indirect light global illumination, color bleeding, and directional shadows in DAZ Studio 3.

Girl 4 shown rendered with environment lighting using indirect light global illumination with directional shadows and color bleeding and a single back light.

Illustration showing area lights used with ray traced reflections in DAZ Studio 3. Image created by theSea.

Illustration showing volumetric lighting in DAZ Studio 3. Image created by theSea.

Illustration created using environment lighting with ambient occlusion and directional shadows, with ray traced reflections in DAZ Studio 3. This illustration is a raw, untouched render. All figures and props seen in the illustration are part of a single DAZ Studio scene rendered using DAZ Studio 3 on a 64-bit PC. Image created by joelegecko.

There are also some fun presets being created from within Shader Mixer to help provide some sample brick recipes. These presets show off how powerful Shader Mixer really is once you take the time to get to know it. Examples are chrome and glass surfaces with caustics calculated through the glass surface:

Test render using caustics shaders and lights to create realistic reflections, refractions and caustic lighting effects of a complex glass surface.

Test render using caustics shaders and lights to create realistic reflections, refractions and caustic lighting effects of a simple glass surface.

Test render using caustics shaders and lights to create realistic light bouncing off a chrome surface.

">Learn More About These New Features in the DAZ Studio 3 Information Pages

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We hope that you enjoy using this latest version of DAZ Studio as much as we enjoyed developing it. Those of you who haven't tried DAZ Studio in the last year or so probably don't realize just how much cool stuff has been added since 2.0. And since DAZ Studio is a free application with frequent updates of new features and bug fixes, it's easy even for regular users to forget what's new since the last major version was released.

We have a large forum topic posted that helps give you a brief, yet informative introduction to many of the features released since DAZ Studio 2.0 came out. You can view all of it here in this topic: DAZ Studio 3 Feature Overview

Thanks!,

The DAZ 3D Team

Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 8565 Location: Lost in Darkness

Bundle pricing seems to be off compared to the product page. ^_^;;

Joined: 24 Oct 2003 Posts: 1229 Location: Oh, USA

Someone already spotted the Mac version at Downloads.com and posted a link in the Commons Wink

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=1859034#1859034

And also wanted to say, Yay! It's here! Very Happy

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:49 pm

adamr001 wrote:

Bundle pricing seems to be off compared to the product page. ^_^;;

oops.

thx

Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 8565 Location: Lost in Darkness

No problem! Copy'n'paste'll get ya every time. Laughing

That and crazy long hours!

Congrats Very Happy

Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 24147 Location: RWC, CA USA

WOW!!

YAY!!

WOOT!!

Laughing

PS: font color is not applying so no multicolored text to really punch this up a bit more!! Confused

Can someone tell one of the webmonkies to get that fixed? It's been broken for like a year now! Confused

Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 138

Does this release install into the same path as the beta as I would like to keep DS2 as well Question

Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 913 Location: Ruhrgebiet

I already have the "Figure Setup Tools Bundle" "FBX-Plugin" and so on, do they work in DS 3 advanced ?

Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 579

Wishlisted but will the Items in the bundle I already own still work with 3 or are they being updated to work. thanks in advance.

Sal.

Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 726 Location: France

Those lights!!!! Shocked

Is there a list of the plugins updated for ds3 ? (like LightDomePro2 Razz

)

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:02 pm

As the questions begin......

On the bundle which includes:

# Figure Setup Tools Bundle
# 3D Bridge for Photoshop
# FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio
# Multi-Layered Image Editor

If I already have these items, will I be getting an upgrade free? Can I have both DS2 and DS3 installed on one machine, and have both versions... (Want both until the other stuff is upgraded HSS and UberEnvironment)

Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 14987

Nakiloe wrote:

Those lights!!!! Shocked

Is there a list of the plugins updated for ds3 ? (like LightDomePro2 Razz

)

It would be ncie to have a separate thread where DAZ or vendors will leave a notifications that this or that plugin/addon is updated under 3.0 Smile

Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 2410 Location: Gone Hunting!

only part of the big bundle i don't have are the figure set up tools and don't really need them at this time so i'll just enjoy DS 3.0 Advanced which i am about to install Very Happy

Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 8565 Location: Lost in Darkness

Kattey wrote:

Nakiloe wrote:

Those lights!!!! Shocked

Is there a list of the plugins updated for ds3 ? (like LightDomePro2 Razz

)

It would be ncie to have a separate thread where DAZ or vendors will leave a notifications that this or that plugin/addon is updated under 3.0 Smile

Agreed! But for what it is worth, Walle announced on the DL forums that LDP2 had been sent to DAZ for QC. Smile

Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 8565 Location: Lost in Darkness

DraagonStorm wrote:

As the questions begin......

On the bundle which includes:

# Figure Setup Tools Bundle
# 3D Bridge for Photoshop
# FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio
# Multi-Layered Image Editor

If I already have these items, will I be getting an upgrade free? Can I have both DS2 and DS3 installed on one machine, and have both versions... (Want both until the other stuff is upgraded HSS and UberEnvironment)

All DAZ owned plugins will be updated for free (they've already stated this elsewhere)

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:09 pm

DAZ have previously said that all their products will have free updates to DS3, so you shouldn't need to buy the bundle or new copies to get things like Figure Setup.

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:09 pm

Has Carrara 7.2 been released? It was said that it would be at the same time.

(If so, please post an announcement in the Carrara forum. I don't think that either the DS or the Carrara customers particularly want to see a Carrara discussion in this thread).

- Jaeger

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:09 pm

Cool... Then I know what to get Smile

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:10 pm

Sal UK wrote:

Wishlisted but will the Items in the bundle I already own still work with 3 or are they being updated to work. thanks in advance.

they've been updated, yes.

Posted:Mon Jun 15, 2009 2:11 pm

DraagonStorm wrote:

As the questions begin......

On the bundle which includes:

# Figure Setup Tools Bundle
# 3D Bridge for Photoshop
# FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio
# Multi-Layered Image Editor

If I already have these items, will I be getting an upgrade free? Can I have both DS2 and DS3 installed on one machine, and have both versions... (Want both until the other stuff is upgraded HSS and UberEnvironment)

These items have been updated, and we're in the process of getting downloads ready to reset, etc.

and yes, you can have both DS 2.3.x and DS 3 installed at the same time.