Comments on: DAZ Studio and Victoria – a crash course in terminology

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:46:45 +0000

I agree with your other contributors. Your explanation of the terminology is extremely useful for those starting out in Poser or DAZ Studio.
One very minor suggestion: when you have time, it would be useful to add a sentence or two under HAIR on the difference between Hair as a character and Hair as a prop. This one is always catching me out!

Many thanks for your hard work on this very useful glossary

By: mstum

mstum — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:59:49 +0000

Glad that it helps. INJections are used in two contexts usually, and it simply means "Apply". If you INJect a Morph into a character, this gives you the dials in Poser or DAZ Studio in order to tune them. For example, if you INJect the Morph++ Pack and then click on Victorias Body, you should have Dials for LegsLength or ShoulderShrug. The other use is with Character Preset. For example, you can INJect a Face, which means that the preset settings are applied. It's essentially the same technology behind: Some INJ just add new settings, others are just Presets, while some do both. Just replace "Inject" with "Apply" and the meaning is clearer.

By: DBax

DBax — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:57:49 +0000

I second Eugene's thanks... Getting started in this is proving to be an enormous headache, and a lot of it IS vocabulary that seems to exist for no other reason that "we need a cool name for this!". Example, I'm STILL trying to figure out what an "injection" is! (example, a pack I'm thinking about buying says "...includes a body injection and two separate custom head/neck morph injections, in versions for both V4.1 and V4.2.".. and I'm left thinking, "OK, and I guess that is good?"). Your article helped me get my head around some of the other terms/concepts, so thanks alot!

By: Eugene Frank

Eugene Frank — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:30:39 +0000

Thanks so much for your write-up. I have been working on DAZ Studio for 16 hours these past two days. If I had known what you have written it would have helped greatly. The problem is vocabulary. Knowing the essentials is so important.

Thanks

Gene

By: Xiayuo

Xiayuo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:34:39 +0000

I can't stop starring at that picture, in the last sentence.

By: Xiayuo

Xiayuo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:31:58 +0000

This was really good, the picture looks amazingly real. I was in Aww. Very helpful! =)