My Daz Pet Peeve: When Up isn't Up.
Pet peeve of the day: somehow different objects can have different XYZ default. So while a figure is standing upright (and it's green Y arrow is pointing straight up) the camera shooting that figure may have a different orientation (it's green arrow pointing at 2 or 10 o'clock). It's great that we can adjust everything, but XYZ should remain the same.
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You can change the behavior of the universal tool to use the screen coordinates, so that you can still drag the figure straight up and down relative to your screen (rather than relative to the world or the object.) see screenshot.
as sriesch says, change the tool settings as needed.
Thanks. Another peeve bites the dust!
No doubt about it! I need to start posting pet peeves too!
Someone has always:
1.) been there
2.) fixed it
Here's one: I was following a Dreamlight tutorial just a few minutes ago. He wanted me to change the background color of the viewport to white. "Click this tab", he says. "Now click 'change background color'."
Well, when I clicked the viewport menu twirl down thingy, there was no option to 'change background color'. So of course, I clicked EVERY TWIRL DOWN THINGY ON THE SCREEN!! No option to 'change background color' anywhere! So, I switched workspaces, tried looking in the documantation and checked Youtube.
No joy.
Then I came here. Your turn.
Who's been there and fixed it?
(the trick is: keep your sense of humor and your perspective. In a hundred years, it won't matter in the least...)
You realize , of course, that when I went to make this adjustment to fix this pet peeve, there was no Tool Settings tab anywhere to be found, right?
Another pet peeve alive and well...
Well-meaning help that doesn't really help.
Just adds another layer of frustration...
(relax...it only took me 3 minutes to find it. Youtube: no; documentation: no; random browsing through an endless array of menus: YES!)
: )
(the trick is: keep your sense of humor and your perspective. In a 50 years, it won't matter in the least...)
Edit to add: oh, and BTW, before I get flamed to death for being unappreciative...my frustration is never with the nice people who are trying to help. It's always with myself for being so slow on the uptake, or so inexperienced with the software. After 2 years, I should be more knowledgable.
/sigh maybe I should take up golf...
Part of the problem is Daz Studio's reliance on contextual menus. So what you see when you hit a button depends on half a dozen other possible factors.
RE Tool Settings you should be able to go to Window....Panes (tabs)...and find Tool Settings in that long list.
Yeah, I found that one fairly easily. Still haven't found how to change the background color. The tutorial I was watching and the documentation were both for DS 4.6. What they describe doesn't seem to be were they say it should be in 4.8
It has moved to the Environment tab. I think select "Backdrop" from the dropdown, then you can set the background color? Verify that before you write it down.
Also remember in Edit > Preferences > Scene, there are options to ignore background colors when loading scenes, and to save or not save the background color when saving scenes.
Got it! Worked fine.
Thanks, Sriesch!
: )