omg freeeeeeee , dough i don't have the intelect not the precious time to read manuals and actually try something , but who knows when am bored i could get going at it , .... for bout 15 min and if it isen't working out quit and play more wow :p

I am up for it ^^

think i will like it ^^

Now if I could just figure out how to use the dang thing! (played with 2.3 but never got much done with it. )

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grab the manual

To quote the movie ‘Beetlejuice’, the one for 2.3 read like stereo instructions!

(but I will give 3 a try.)

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Any plan which depends on a fundamental change in human behavior is doomed from the start.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. ~ Lao Tzu

I personally don't use DS, I use Poser. And I know the feeling when it comes to instructions. page 1 ZZZzZZzzzzZZZZzzzz

Latest DAZ manual (31meg) still says V 2.0, last rev says v2.2.14 8 Feb 09, and it says something about 2.3.3.9 changes, so it doesn’t sound like it will cover all of 3.

Still something to play with in me idle time.

I CAN GURU-ATE

roger that thank you

Daz is a great program, not perfect but very good for the ...hhhmmm... money.

I do most of my rendering in it. (I'm still using the 2.x version, waiting for some bug fixes before jumping to 3.x)

You also need a real modeler like Blender. Blender and Daz only get along 'so so' their scales or very different and the way blender uses grouping is different than Daz which can limit the number of materials you can assign. (Blender has several different types of 'groups' and the type that Daz agrees is 'material groups' seems to limited to 16 materials in Blender)

heheh ya get what ya don't pay for its weak in creating original content. I need to make up a list of free yet decent model building programs

For low-poly models, though not free, I'd say $25 - $30 is reasonable. For that price, Milkshape 3D is an excellent pick-up. Some of my friends have had excellent success with Wings 3D and Blender, though I find them too steep a learning curve for someone with no real 3D experience outside of Second Life.

LittleDragon used Milkshape

I am more than suitably impressed then. I am by far and away a complete novice when it comes to actual 3D modeling, and amazingly I have found Milkshape 3D to not have the intense learning curve most other 3D modeling software has. I describe the other stuff as "having its' guts hanging out". It's kind of like being told to type on a computer by having to cross the correct wires inside what would be a keyboard without the wire combinations being labeled except by a hex code and no list of what code is what. Sure it's learnable, but it's less fun than stereo instructions written in a foreign language with no illustrations.

The other one, though it has gone pay, is Moment of Inspiration 3D. It's an excellent program, but the $200 or so price tag is a mite steep for a) a small program and b) something with limited output methods. However, it is HIGHLY intuitive and very easy to learn, and fun as hell to play with. ^_^

With best wishes and hugs, plus an intense look forward to whatever your next work will be,

Yours,
Mika Kyubi
Kitsune-at-Large

I know what ya mean, How to manuals as think as phone books. Not to mention as you said the price of some of these is equal to my house payment those on the high end.

Thanks for the hug and wishes

Here's a start:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utili.....software.shtml

Probably more can be found with the right search terms. Personally, I prefer blender, probably because I was able to start modeling stuff BEFORE the obligatory RTFM.

Excellent

yeah but sometimes house cleaning is a good thing, I'm such a pack rat

aww thanks for addin me to the list hon *hugs*

My pleasure, you know tons more about that program than I do

*giggles* well yeah

I have DS 2 and 3, not expert but glad to help. I am mainly focusing on Carrara 7 (for the modeling and a bazillion other reasons) right now and learning post work, but sure glad to help if I can.

Excellent on the Carrara, I need to expand my horizons as well

Looks pretty good. Do you know how it stacks up against mental ray,renderman or Brazil?

Unfortunently I do not. Its simular to what I use and for me its like super charging a ford pinto

Well...I got it and most of the free add-on as well.

Let's see how fun this is...

*ominous music is played*

que the music

Already got it Mapper, thanks for the notice though, great program!

i use daz for my renders but daz3 is is wonky after i open it and scan for content it just closes its kinda annoying...

There is some comments on that in the forums and how to fix, if I come across the thread I will post it here. Its in the dazstudio part of daz forums.

actualy after a reinstall now it work...that remind me i should post my daz 3 render