{"id":5051,"date":"2010-09-16T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2010-09-14T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T18:08:01","slug":"making-daz-3d-stuff-using-cheetah3d-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"Making DAZ 3D stuff using Cheetah3D – part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I said yesterday, DAZ 3D Studio<\/a> has truckload of nice posable 3D objects, so many you could probably get ruined trying to collect them all. Playing with 3D is like a collecting card game, you never have enough bits and pieces.<\/p>\n

To show you what I mean, here is a picture made with DAZ 3D Studio. This is the Model Michael 4, with the clothes props Mafioso and Hats.\u00a0Edited using OmniGraffle<\/a> to add the blood and the bullet hole. If I wanted I could probably find both bullet holes and blood to DAZ 3D Studio, but I like to do things the quick and fast way, using the tools I know, and save time and money on the way.<\/p>\n

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OK, now back to my crates. This is the file Null.cr2, but I will only show the parts that are of interest.<\/p>\n

In the beginning of the file you find this:<\/p>\n

figureResFile :Runtime:Geometries:filepath\r\n\r\nactor BODY\r\n\r\n{\r\n\r\n}\r\n\r\nactor bodypart\r\n\r\n{\r\n\r\nstorageOffset 0 0 0\r\n\r\ngeomHandlerGeom 13 bodypart\r\n\r\n}<\/pre>\n
And at the end of the file you find this:<\/p>\n
material Preview\r\n\r\n{\r\n\r\nKdColor 0.767388 0.414228 0.633106 1\r\n\r\nKaColor 0 0 0 1\r\n\r\nKsColor 0.039729 0.0466933 0.0481765 1\r\n\r\nTextureColor 1 1 1 1\r\n\r\nNsExponent 50\r\n\r\ntMin 0\r\n\r\ntMax 0\r\n\r\ntExpo 0.6\r\n\r\nbumpStrength 1\r\n\r\nksIgnoreTexture 0\r\n\r\nreflectThruLights 1\r\n\r\nreflectThruKd 0\r\n\r\ntextureMap NO_MAP\r\n\r\nbumpMap NO_MAP\r\n\r\nreflectionMap NO_MAP\r\n\r\ntransparencyMap NO_MAP\r\n\r\nReflectionColor 1 1 1 1\r\n\r\nreflectionStrength 1\r\n\r\n}\r\n\r\n}<\/pre>\n
Now we shall make some changes to our copy of the file, not to the original file.<\/p>\n
First, you will see the word bodypart<\/strong>, which we will change to the name of our object in the .obj-file, CrateOne<\/strong>, we do a replace all using our favorite text editor, I’m currently using TextWrangler.<\/p>\n
Then we see the string\u00a0:Runtime:Geometries:filepath<\/strong>, which we should change to the relative path within the DAZ 3D Studio path structure where we will have our model, which in this case is :Runtime:Geometries:4EYes-crates:4E-crate-base.obj<\/strong>. As you can see, I’ve changed the name of the .obj file to 4E-crate-base.obj, as I will use the same geometry for all the crates I will make (all five of them), and to save disk space and memory, they can all point at the same geometry file.<\/p>\n
Now, in the last part, there are several different things to pick from the .mtl file, material<\/strong>, KdColor<\/strong>, KsColor<\/strong>, KaColor<\/strong> & NSExponent<\/strong> first.<\/p>\n
These are picked from their equivalents in the .mtl file, but they have different names.<\/p>\n
material<\/strong> is set to the newmtl property, in this case WoodenCrate. KdColor<\/strong>,\u00a0KsColor <\/strong>&\u00a0KaColor <\/strong>to the Kd<\/strong>, Ks <\/strong>& Ka <\/strong>values, and last NSExponent<\/strong> to the Ns<\/strong> value.<\/p>\n
\tmaterial WoodenCrate\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\tKdColor 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1\r\n\t\tKaColor 0.1 0.1 0.1 1\r\n\t\tKsColor 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1\r\n\t\tTextureColor 1 1 1 1\r\n\t\tNsExponent 80<\/pre>\n
Now, we nee\u00a0do define the texture to use, and that is set to the texturemap<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
textureMap \":Runtime:textures:4EYes-crates:4E-crate-5-texture.jpg\"<\/pre>\n
We are ready to save our own cr2-file, and we call it WoodCrateOne.cr2 and save it in the Runtime:libraries:Props directory where we first create a 4EYes-crates directory. We also put the texturemap in Runtime:textures:4EYes-crates.<\/p>\n
OK, ready to test this? Come back tomorrow for some more 3D fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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