{"id":2531,"date":"2012-08-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2012-08-15T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T21:30:00","slug":"my-jareth-render-2-and-some-comments-about-daz-studio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/08\/15\/my-jareth-render-2-and-some-comments-about-daz-studio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"My Jareth: render 2 [and some comments about Daz Studio 4]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was originally rerendering my Jareth on my old compooper, on which was installed Daz Studio 3. The compooper moved very slowly because most of its memory was used up. While I was trying to get to sleep last night, I thought that, if my Jareth is going to be a long-term project [which he is], I should probably move him to my new, current compooper so I can easily futz with him.<\/p>\n<p>And so began the Epic Trek. I thought that I could [relatively easily] port him over by saving his morphs as a Daz character preset [or a pose preset &#8212; not clear on the difference]. Then I could install the latest version of Daz on my current compooper, as well as the files needed to build my Jareth. Then I could load the appropriate raw Jareth materials, then apply the presets, and <i>voila!<\/i> Insta-Jareth [TM]!<\/p>\n<p>Insta-Jareth [TM] took about 5 hours because Daz Studio 4 is, as the kids are calling it these days, <b><u><i>a horrid piece of shit.<\/i><\/u><\/b> First I downloaded the raw Jareth materials, which took about an hour [huge files]. Then I downloaded Daz Studio 4, which took about another hour. Then I installed it, which took a ridiculously long time because it wanted to add all sorts of slick starter content and fancy plugins that I did not want. Then I spent some time swearing at the new interface until I beat it into intelligible submission. I installed all the raw Jareth materials and sent up a raw Jareth-to-be figure, downloaded my presets, tried to apply them and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And nothing. Daz Studio 4 could not, for some reason, read my preset files from Studio 3. I&#39;m not sure why. I ended up taking screenshots of my morph settings on my old compooper, saving them, then referring to them on my new compooper as I transferred the values by hand. Yeah, that took a little bit of time. &gt;_&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my Jareth model is now on my new compooper, along with a whole bunch of other starter content crapola that I have no use for. I may try uninstalling Daz Studio 4 and seeing if I can redo a custom installation. I don&#39;t need your freebies, Daz!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t understand how anyone can use Daz Studio for more than either amateur futzing and\/or digital porn. It&#39;s a bloated, jerry-built piece of software with a non-intuitive user interface and way too many bells and whistles. Did I mention it was also a memory hog? Its documentation remains incomplete, woefully behind the times and obscure.&nbsp; I only know how to use it because I climbed its steep learning curve several years ago, and I&#39;m only using it now because I <strike>bought a lot of content<\/strike> threw a lot of $$$ in the Daz toilet, and it&#39;s perfect for this particular case.<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s that? Oh yeah, I did futz with my Jareth today. Here he is with a much less pointy nose, although it&#39;s probably almost impossible to tell from this angle.<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/myjareth\/second\/myjareth2.jpg\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was originally rerendering my Jareth on my old compooper, on which was installed Daz Studio 3. The compooper moved very slowly because most of its memory was used up. While I was trying to get to sleep last night, I thought that, if my Jareth is going to be a long-term project [which he&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/08\/15\/my-jareth-render-2-and-some-comments-about-daz-studio-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Jareth: render 2 [and some comments about Daz Studio 4]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}