Jay Versluis posts
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Using Synty Characters in Unreal Engine 5.1 with Live Retargeting
Hello Supporters!I've been torturing my brain with too much Unreal Engine recently, and this is the first video reflecting the consequences. I've been using UE4 since 2019 on and off and haven't had a chance to investigate UE5 until recently, so I thought a good start would be to re-visi...
Moving Tabs and Splitting Toolbars in Daz Studio
Hello Supporters!In this early access episode I'll show you how to move those pesky little toolbars in the Daz Studio UI around. The trick is to grab hold of that little divider on the left hand side, then drop it anywhere you like. It's a tad fiddly, but you'll soon get the hand of it. ...
Hip Gate: Using Poses on Daz Horse 3, Genesis 9 and Rustic Old Carts
Hello Supporters!On Saturday I was "horsing around" with the new Daz Horse 3 and thought I'll give a quick overview on how it worked on the Daz+ stream. Turns out, applying hierarchical poses to the horse, attached cart and Genesis wasn't easy or intuitive. I've had a play with t...
Using the Daz Decimator and Texture Atlas
Hello Supporters!I've made a new video about using the Daz Decimator for the Daz channel. It's been on my list of things to cover in more detail, and with an eye on exporting content to other places, I took the liberty to mention how use Texture Atlas too. This way, users get an overview of ...
Flipping and Mirroring Poses with Scene Tools
Hello Supporters!Today I have an early access video for you, in which I'll show you a neat way to flip and mirror poses on a figure. Say you have something that looks great when the character faces left, but you'd like the whole thing the other way round. Or an arm pose on the left arm that ...
Valentine's Day Stream this Saturday
I did this promo image for this Saturday's Daz stream, in which we get to hang out and build a similar scene from scratch. Drop by and say hi.Since it's Valentine's Day next week, I thought a pink couple's theme would be great, using two of the new Daz characters Angela and Ivar 9. I...
Saving and Packaging Morph Files from Daz Studio
Hello Supporters!I've been getting a lot of questions about how to save and distribute morphs and thought it's about time I made a video about the process. And here it is, both in English and German.There's a little story behind this actually: I've tried structuring my week by doing ...
Posing a Sitting Character in Daz Studio
Hello Supporters!Today I have an early access video about posing a character for you. This was a question I got recently, and I thought this might be a nice start into a little casual mini series about posing characters into all kinds of positions. If it's in my power, I'm happy to show it (...
Anime Girl
I've been following a course with Grant Abbit last week, in which I learnt how to model a low poly base character, then transform it into different characters, add a pixel shader and add an animation with Mixamo. Here's my take on the classic Anime Girl - all done entirely from scratch in Bl...
Animated Shaders in Daz Studio
Hello Supporters!Today I have a video about animating shader properties in Daz Studio for you, something you can do with ABAS. This will appear on the Daz channel tomorrow, together with a related video in which I'll show you how to animate VDB files with the same product.I've recorded anoth...
Your First Hour with Daz Studio - Full Series
Daz have released the mini series I've made last year called Your First Hour with Daz Studio. It's part of a product called Basics and Beyond Tutorial Bundle. I haven't seen a public announcement yet, but the product and series are already live. I believe it's part of a campaign to a...
Moving the Pivot Point in Daz Studio
Hello Supporters!Today I have an early access release that explains how to move the pivot point or origin point of your objects in Daz Studio. It's the position of where that little manipulator gizmo shows up. Sometimes it's just not in the right spot, and in this video I'll explain how ...
The Introspector (WIP)
I've had a play with re-creating The Introspector from Deathloop this morning. It'll be nice to see if I can do this for real, with Substance materials and those creepy eye blink animations. This was just a layout, but it taught me valuable lessons that I'll implement should I make a mor...
Changes to Mesh/Ghost Lights in Daz Studio 4.21
Hello Supporters!First of all, Happy New Year 2023! May all your wishes, hopes and dreams come true. Remember to treat yourself well, do what you're passionate about and avoid what gets you down. I believe that's the key to happiness. Let me know what your plans are for the new year if you h...
Substance Painter Material Zone Workflow
Hello Supporters!Today I have a video I've made for Websoul, inspired by a chat we had on Discord about using objects with material zones in Substance Painter. Each material zone creates a whole texture set on export, wasting resources and costing time when we want to apply those in the target a...
How to use Map Transfer in Daz Studio
Hello Supporters!I have an early access video for you today in which I'm explaining the Map Transfer tool. This is a mystical little script that lets us convert texture sets from one UV set to another, as long as both UV sets are on the same figure. I'm bringing this up because it may come i...
Legacy UVs for Genesis 9 by Cayman Studios
Hello Supporters!Here's an early access video I've made for the Daz channel, scheduled for sometime in December. In it I'll show you how the current Legacy UVs for Genesis 3/8/8.1 female product works. A male version is in development. Hope this helps make sense of the product.In other n...
New Editing Toy and Early Access Sneak-Peek
Hello Supporters!Today I have a quick early access video for you that gives you a preview of Zev0's new Shape Shift product. It'll be released on November 30th, and I've just finished editing it. Enjoy!Speaking of editing, I've ordered a new toy that has arrived this week, and I'...
Time Lapse: Making a Flag Thumbnail
Hello Supporters!Today I have a quick time lapse for you, in which I'm building a relatively unspectacular thumbnail featuring a waving dForce Flag as a hero. I've made this for a clip that's going live today on the Daz channel, and since I've caught the process on camera I narrated ...
Creating a Follower Eye Morph for Genesis 9
Hello Supporters!I have an early access episode for you today, in which I'll show you how to create an eye morph for the Genesis 9 Eye Attachment that will follow your figure morph. On some characters, eye adjustments are necessary that need to follow how much the figure morph is dialled in.The ...
Converting Genesis 2/3 Character Shapes to Genesis 9
Hello Supporters!I've recorded a follow-up video to my previous Genesis 9 conversion video, in which I'm explaining how to convert Genesis 3 and 2 characters to the new figure. The instructions differ slightly from the previous method as we're adjusting the donor figure before running th...
Reducing Boots Platform Height in Hexagon and Blender
Hello Supporters!Today I have a Supporter Exclusive video for you that I've recorded for Aaron. He wanted to know how to reduce the plateau on wedge platform shoes in Hexagon. I tried my best to make it happen, but the results aren't great - but the process and some of the explanations might...
First Hour with Daz Studio Promos
Hello Supporters!Last week I've finished working on a little project that Daz and I had been discussion for some time. It's a bundle of products and accompanying mini-series of videos for new customers. The twist is that I've assembled the bundle items into a demo scene to dissect, and a...
Converting Genesis 8 Shapes for use with Genesis 9
Hello Supporters!As promised yesterday, here's a video I've made this morning that'll show you how to convert your "legacy" characters and import them onto the new Genesis 9 figure. This works by turning G9 into a fit suit that the old character will wear, thereby distorting the ...
Using the Iray Auto Exposure Tool in Daz Studio
Today I have a quick early access episode for you, something I've made with Charles (csbond2) in mind. He accidentally clicked it on stream recently and asked me what may have possibly gone wrong. It occurred to me that I don't actually have a video on this thing, so this was the perfect opp...
Running Daz Studio on Linux (Exclusive Supporter Preview)
Hello Supporters!Today I have an exciting preview for you of something I've been tinkering with for a while: running Daz Studio on Linux! This is exciting because there's no native Linux version of the software out there. Instead, we can use the Windows version with a tool called Wine, which...
Applying Partial Poses in Daz Studio
Sometimes you find a feature and you can't quite believe it's been there for like... ever. This tends to happen in Daz Studio, and applying poses partially is one such thing. Having been a core feature in Daz Studio since version 4 released some 15 years ago, it's as easy as selecting sa...
Visualising Depth of Field in Daz Studio (and other updates)
Hello supporters 😍Today I have a couple of little updates for you, the first one being a new early access clip in which I'll show you a neat trick that lets us visualise the focal plane of our cameras in Daz Studio. This will let us place the focus exactly where it needs to be, no matter how ...
Patreon is offering mid-month charge option - should we switch to it?
Patreon have introduced a change with which new patrons would be charged on the same date they've joined.Right now, everyone is being charged on the 1st of the month, irrespective of when they join. This is a little mean if you've pledged $25 on the 28th of the month, get charged immediately...
Greta 9 - 8K Skin Detail Comparison
Last Saturday I had the pleasure to create this model from the Genesis 9 figure, together with prompts and votes from the community. This was fun! We decided to call her Greta (or Gretel actually, but I guess I must have read it wrong in the chat and thought it's a fitting name). She's not p...
