How to play Daz3D files on facade signage.

wenayer

I'm new to Daz3D but am trying to make a video similar to this one for our Halloween Haunt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oTRhWKiGJ0

I just downloaded Daz3D yesterday and have been playing around with it all day today. I am no where near ready to make such a video but did want to see how easy mapping was so I also downloaded Facade Signage which is a projector mapping type software. I saved the work I did on Daz3D (which was two skeletons doing a little dance with a graveyard background.) I tried to bring it up on Facade Signage but it only shows a still photo. I feel like I am missing a step with Daz3D. Am I supposed to doing something before saving the file? It shows it's saved as a .duf file. Any way of changing that?

Thanks for the help

jestmart

You have render to get an image or video.

icprncss

You might want to have a look and the users guide

http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/dazstudio/4/userguide/start

SpottedKitty

wenayer said:

Am I supposed to doing something before saving the file? It shows it's saved as a .duf file. Any way of changing that?

The file you've saved isn't a picture or a movie, it's a description of the 3D objects in your scene, which textures they use, how their surface materials are set up, how they're posed and animated, lights, cameras, etc. This is probably completely different to every other program you've used before — you have to save the scene (which you've just done), and you have to create a render (whether of a single image or a movie) and save that. This "save everything twice" procedure is one of the things many newcomers to 3D take a little while to get used to.