DAZ Studio

What's new in this version:

DAZ Studio 4.10
Simulation:
- dForce


Rendering:

NVIDIA Iray:
- Integrated Iray 2017.0.1 (287000.7672); see below for more details
- Increases hardware requirement to Fermi class or newer generation GPUs; recent driver recommended

3Delight:
- Added a "3DLEnvSpace" transform to 3Delight renderer pipeline
- Added a "3DLEnvSpace" transform to default calls in Scripted 3Delight renderer


Content Creation/Conversion:

Transfer Utility:
- Added a "Distance Tolerance" option
- Added a "Parent To Source Figure" option


Scene Items:

SubDivision:
- Added a General > Mesh Resolution > SubDivision Normals property to an object with geometry when converted to SubD
- "Smoothed" is the current behavior (default)
- "Preserve Cage" attempts to preserve sharp edges present in the cage mesh
- Not compatible with 3Delight Catmark, legacy DzCatmullClark, or Bilinear


Import/Export:

BVH Import:
- Added a "Limit Translations to Hip" option
- Now attempts to match node names exactly when seeding the node map; if more than one node name does not match (e.g., the figure root), node map seeding reverts to the previous behavior

FBX Export:
- Added a "Locks" option
- Added a "Limits" option


General User Interface:

Menus:
- Added a Window > Workspace > Update and Merge Menus action
- Fixed handling of a case that could cause Update and Merge Menus to fail when re-integrating user customizations
- Updated default menus; recommend using the Update and Merge Menus action
- Pane [Group] Docking/Undocking:
- Replaced "Make Pane Undockable" and "Make Pane Group Undockable" actions in pane group and pane tab context menus with "Undock Pane" and "Undock Pane Group" respectively; the previous behavior can be accomplished by holding the ControlModifier when clicking the action
- Added "Make Pane Dockable" and "Make Pane Group Dockable" actions to pane group tab bar and pane tab context menus when a pane (group) is in an undockable state
- Fixed an issue where the order of panes in a pane group were reversed when the pane group was made undockable
- Fixed an issue where the Add Pane (Tab) submenu of the pane group tool bar context menu did not list available panes in the same order as Window > Panes (Tabs); entries were being sorted case-sensitive but should have been sorted case-insensitive
- Undocking a pane group (or a pane) now ensures that the undocked pane group will be of a size that fits on the screen that the pane group (or pane) was on when it was docked and that the undocked pane group will be centered on that screen
- Making a pane group (or a pane) undockable now ensures that the dialog will be of a size that fits on the screen that the pane group (or pane) was on when it was docked and that the dialog will be centered on that screen
- Making an undockable pane group (or a pane) dockable now ensures that the undocked pane group will be of a size that fits on the screen that the dialog was on and that the undocked pane group will be centered on that screen

PowerPose pane:
- Improved overall performance
- Now prefers a figure's base template set over a template set defined by the default Template Suite
- Added a "Template Set" drop-down above the point selector widget
- Added a "Template" drop-down above the point selector widget that provides a list of templates in the set for a given figure/geometry
- Added an “Edit Mode”; accessed via context (right click) menu; protected templates/sets do not allow editing or saving:
- Displays all points of all types (including those that are not valid/resolved) on the current template
- Save a template set in the "Template Set" drop-down
- EditAddDelete a template in the "Template" drop-down
- Right click an empty area of a template to add a point
- Right click on a point to edit/delete
- Right click on a control to edit/clear
- Now elides the text of controls that are longer than can be displayed at the current width; full text is displayed in the tooltip
- The context menu (right-click) for the point selector widget now provides quick access to many useful actions related to posing
- Added support for saving/loading template sets for parametric (legacy) figures to/from ./data/PowerPose/<sanitized_geometry_name>/


Content Library pane:
- Fixed a potential crash when saving presets


Scripting:
- Many API additions and/or resolved issues in various areas
- Fixed bugs and/or made improvements in various areas