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Changing and Animating Figure Material surface

porunopalporunopal Posts: 16
edited January 2019 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I'm testing a figure morphing sequence in Daz3d 4.5 and so far I've got the figure's shape to change perfectly.

I've tried to simulate a manual change using keyframes and the surfaces tab, however there are so many different values to alter, not to mention all the body parts.

Here are my questions:

1) How do you animate a change of the figure's material? If you can, can it be done through key frames?

2) If I have to use a script such as TexAnim, will it retain the final frame of the skin material? Or will it keep looping?

3) Am I able to use a material replacement from the content library and animate that, or do I have to alter each individual surface, including its displacements, bumps, specular and base texture for each limb?

Thanks for the help everyone!

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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Your on the right track with the TexAnim thing. There is a NEW script under development JUST for this Read here...
    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/33791/
    in one of the examples your idea is shown. I'm waiting on it JUST for your very reason.

  • porunopalporunopal Posts: 16
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the reply! I actually stumbled across this earlier but didn't give it much attention because it didn't seem to help.

    So although I should be able to animate the skins, will I be able to stop the animation, or will my figure go from being a skinned cat to werewolf for the entire duration of the animation?

    Thanks!

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I'm as in the dark as you, but You should be able to animate back to normal if you like, with a second use of the script.
    Tip: I never do a Animation in ONE long scene. I use different CLIPS, or scenes, that mostly CHANGE as my camera does. And I then use a editor to Stitch the different scenes into one full animation. I also Render to FRAMES and never to a FILE. That allows me to reload my CLIP and edit just the section of BAD frames a second time to be rendered a second time without needing to render a LONG file again. I hope this helps you some.

  • porunopalporunopal Posts: 16
    edited December 1969

    Hey thanks for clearing it up for me, guess I'll be waiting like the rest of the community!

    Jaderail said:

    Tip: I never do a Animation in ONE long scene. ...

    I think what I wrote didn't come across correctly, what I mean was that the skin would keep looping a change, not me actually using morphs to change the character from a human to a monster throughout the scene, I was just worried that the animation wouldn't know what to do when it finished animating, because as far as I know, this script is for making rippling water and other things that loop.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Good question, But I believe it has a run once option as well. Of course I've not installed it into DS4+ yet and my one and only use was in DS3 for a TV screen. I have MANY of Casuals scripts they really can help.

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