Index of free DAZ|Studio scripts

Posted:Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:33 am

Links to threads (and a couple of DAZ free archives entries) with scripts to add functions to DAZ|Studio.

Since the list was getting rather long I've split it down with a post per type.

If you notice a script I've missed, please let me know so that it can be added.

My thanks to maclean for suggestiing this listing

Posted:Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:47 pm

Application tools
Rigid-body physics
Bullet-engine plugin for rigid body physics in DS32, Windows.

Content search
Launch the content search with a custom action.

Show Log
View the DAZ|Studio log file in a window

MAT Exporter
Export surface settings in a Poser mat file (not working in DAZ Studio 3)

Create Poser Matfiles
Export material settings in Poser format, or DAZ Studio 2 format. For DS 3.

Check textures
Checks texture paths for validity in unencrypted presets and poses.

Bryce material fixer
Modify textures so that settings which rely on a mixture of texture and diffuse colour will export to Bryce correctly

mjcLathe
Create new props from a profile within DAZ Studio.

Prop exporter
Export props from DS as pp2 files.

Magnet exporter
Export DForms as Poser magnets, in pp2 files.

Poser format exporter
Save figure poses in Poser format - now exports animated poses

Prop Pose exporter
Export poses for props in Poser format.

PMD importer
Load morphs in Poser 6+'s PMD format.

Inj/Rem maker
Turn a custom morph into an Inj/Rem pose pair usable in Poser or DAZ|Studio

Morph to CR2
Makes a copy of a selected CR2 including a selected morph (very useful for things like The Tailor and Morph Magic).

Spawn morphs
Combine the currently set morphs into a single new morph.

mcjElevate
Create a morph from an image map.

DForm morph fix
Repair the link from a root control to a morph spawned from multiple morphs in D|S 1.7.1.5

V4 pose-hang fix
Fix for the frozen progress bar when applying certain poses to a second or subsequent V4 loaded int a scene.

D|S 2.1.1.3 ERC bug fix
Make a modified version of a CR2 to get around the freeze-on-load bug with a few figures, such as the Millennium Dog and Apollo, in D|S 2.1.13

Content Collector
Lists the files used in a scene

Shader preset fix
Fix Shader presets saved from D|S 1.4.16.0 and 1.5.1, subject to constraints.

Quick save
Save a scene without rendering the thumbnail image - useful for complex scenes.

Posted:Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:48 pm

Scene tools
Morph Mover
Change the channel used by a loaded morph so that you can use two different morphs that load into the same channel.

mg Scene tools
Add notes to your scenes, and quickly view textures and their paths. Not yet compatible with recent builds of DAZ|Studio.

Translate Tool
Move a selected by distance and direction

Move Origin
Change the origin of the selected item

Scale It
Scale an object to a set size

Size Of
Report the size of the selected object

Centre of Mass
Scripts to locate and mark the centre of mass of V4 and A3, as a posing aid.

Node tools
Set of scripts for measuring distance and transferring settings between nodes.

XprssnMagic Importer
Allows the use of XpressnMagic in D|S

Set interpolation type
Change the interpolation of keyframes on the timeline.

bLooper
Repeat a range of keyframes multiple times on the timeline.

PinMeDown
Create animation of movement with a body part pinned in place.

Unanimate/Reanimate
Disable/enable the animation of transforms on a node.

Mirror DForm
Makes a mirror-image copy of the selected Dform.

Copy spline
Copies the spline (the curve that controls how the strength of a DForm falls off from centre to edge of the field) from one DForm to another.

Magnetise clothing
A script to run instead of applying the magnetise pose to every piece of clothing fitted to V4, and a script to make similar scripts for other figures that use magnets.

Hair - parent to fit
Clean up script, if you load figure hair from an HR2 this unparents it and fits it instead.

Safe zero
Runs the usual D|S zero commands, then fixes the locked joints they cause in Victoria 4 when the Creature Morphs are installed.

FlyCam
"Pilot" the camera through the scene and record its motion to the timeline.

PreSlerp
Process animated rotations to avoid the wobble DS often introduces.

SceneGraf
Graphically edit the timeline graph for up to six properties on a single node. A plugin, not a script.

Camseq
Merge animations for several cameras into a single sequence for one camera.

Camera autofocus
Set the focal distance of the current camera to the selected object.

Visibiliy toggle
Hide/show an item and all parented/fitted items at one go.

Posted:Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:49 pm

Surface tools
Bump to Displacement
Displacement to Bump
Put the bump settings in displacement and vice versa

Default shaders
The standard DAZ|Studio shaders with extra settings made available

ShaderEx
Reset surface shaders to the DAZ Default shader

Pendragon's shaders
A suite of new shaders for D|S.

JLG shaders
A collection of special effect shaders - not updated for DS3

MatAnim
Animate UV offsets, to allow effects such as water flowing.

Chrome shaders
Set of chrome shaders

Eilir
A Java applet that creates new shaders from a node-based interface

Diffuse colour blender
Combine diffuse colour with the texture for exporting to Bryce without issues.

Aiko/Hiro mat fix
Correct the missed zones when applying older third generation figure mat files to Hiro and Aiko.

Posted:Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:49 pm

Light tools
Upgrade lights
Add the improved (now with added falloff!) lights from the Scripting SDK to your scenes.

Activate lights
Convert standard lights to the more advanced versions from the scripting SDK (which is required).

Light Dome pro helpers
Two scripts to make managing Light Dome pro easier

Light panel
A control panel from which you can configure multiple lights

Shadow Control
Temporarily turn shadow-casting off for lights, and back on again.

Posted:Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:50 pm

Render tools
ah Render Plugin
Plugin with several render management and control options.

Autosave
Saves your scene before starting the render, so that you don't lose it to a crash.

Render Thumbnail
Render a thumbnail image

Render Storage
Store and retrieve different render settings

Batch render
Render all the scenes contained in a single folder with one command.

CompoZ
Script to produce a batch file to combine an image stack with an animated background.

TexAnim DS2
TexAnim DS3
Script to apply a sequence of images to a surface over a series of frames and render, giving animated textures. Now with a DS3 version as well as the original DS2 version.

pwSurface quality switcher
Quickly change the quality setting of the pwSurface shaders used in your scene for test/final renders.

RSL to D|S Shader
A Java script (not a ds script) to make a D|S shader from an RSL shader.