D-Former Basics in Daz3d (Tutorial)

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To set all expectations properly, I still refer to my using dformers in daz as "witchcraft" or
"voodoo." That being said, for those of you with no experience whatsoever, here's basic tutorial for
you.
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In your "Scene" tab, select the item you want to add the dformer to. In this case, the "plane" Views 5,416 (1 today)
object we just created. Once it's selected, go to "Create > New DFormer...". A dialog will pop up, Favourites 55 (who?)
and you can give it a name. In my case, I called it DFormer_Foot. If you add multiple ones, it can Comments 64
get confusing very quickly.
The Create dfomer creates 3 objects, parented to what you've selected. The dformer base, the d
former field, and the dformer handle. The base is where the deformation originates from, so we'll
want it in the center. The handle (the "top" looking object), is what you manipulate to create the
deformation. The distance and relative manipulations to the base are reflected in the intensity of
your deformation.
The field shows each vertex, and how strong the affect of the dformer will be. The more red, the
more intense, yellow is weak, and if a vertex isn't highlighted, the dformer won't manipulate that
one.
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On creation, it tends to encompass the entire object. Here, you can see an unrendered Leslie very
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confused about a blanket that doesn't move under her feet.
You can manipulate the field like any other object. translation, scale, and rotation (especially Zapamtite ! Istrošeni
scale!) are great ways to shrink it down. Then you can translate it to the location you want it. After
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a series of manipulations, you can shrink the whole field, a bit in the x and z directions, translate
it, and you'll see it looking something like this:
After manipulating the field to the area you want to control, select the handle and translate (or
rotate, or scale) it to deform the polygons. In this case, we want to account for the idea of gravity
so we will translate the handle into the negative y direction. You'll see the red vertices moving
faster than yellow ones. Once you drag it south and adjust the model's position, you'll get
something that looks like this:
It's a bit hard to tell from the image, but the area under Leslie's right foot is now somewhat
rounded. When you render it, you'll get something that looks like this:
As you can see, she's now somewhat depressed into the
hole. Congratulations, you've deformed something!
Now, in this particular case, you can certainly see the actual polygons that are now being
manipulated. Assuming we don't want that going forward, you can add both a Subd modifier and a
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smoothing modifier. In this case, I do both. Select the plane and then:
SubD: Edit > Object > Geometry > Convert to SubD
Smoothing: Edit > Object > Geometry > Apply Smoothing Modifier. dana: lagana metoda
I put the SubD at 2 for the blanket because it's so primitive and increased the smoothing modifier
to about 6. This rounds the hole out a fair bit, but also "raises" it because of the smoothing aspect
of it. So you can grab your dformer and lower it again. If you find the hole is too steep, scale your riješila proširenih vena !
field out. As the field gets bigger, you'll get more vertices affected, many of which at a minor
level.
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Render that, and you get something more natural, like this: (it would be more natural if I spent
more time on the lighting).

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I find this method to be great for doing small dents in beds, couches, etc. A field that is tiny in 2
directions and extreme in the 3rd can be useful for dealing with bits of poke through (shirt tails, zglobovi se mogu izliječiti
etc.) za 3 dana !
I hope this was helpful for those of you who have never dealt with dformers before. Please ask
any questions and provide any feedback that you have on this, as it's the first tutorial I've ever
written for Daz. I'm not always sure what is overdescription or underdescription. If you think
more screenshots would help, let me know and I'm happy to add them! If desired, I can also add a
more "do it yourself" tutorial where I give you the numbers and the steps and you do it alongside.
Just let me know what I can do to help!
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dfg568 Oct 22, 2017
thank you!
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3d‐rotic Sep 13, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Hi and thanks for this tutorial, i seen lots of renders that clothes are morphed( i know some cloth props
can morph trought sliders) but can you deform clothes also?
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
 Sep 13, 2016 Hobbyist Artist
The short answer is "yes".
The longer answer is that a dformer works on the geometry in the scene so it would work on
clothes, models, or primitives. The only major limitation to it is that it can't add to the geometry. I've
had an issue with a couch where the surface of the cushion was basically 1 polygon. Dforming was a
bit rough there.
Also here's a quick howto for a dress:
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former with Node
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3d‐rotic Sep 13, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks for explaination. have a nice day
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sleepydem0n May 8, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Great article. Dform was easy to understand since its very similar to Poser magnet. Any chance you're
going to write something on New Push Modifier Weight Node? Googling that has zero result, I'm sure it
Reply would be popular.
SlimMckenzie ƒ
 May 10, 2016 Hobbyist Artist Kako sam se riješila
I'll try at some point I need to get a better handle on it myself before I can do that, but I'm dana: lagana metoda
certainly poking at it!
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Laspe ƒ
 Apr 26, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Great thought to add a SubD and smoothing!
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
 Apr 26, 2016 Hobbyist Artist
Thanks! Learning about the smoothing / collision modifiers in Daz is what I think changed my art and
understanding the most!
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Laspe ƒ
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Victor2112 ƒ
 Apr 23, 2016
Excellent tutorial. I never thought to use that tool and especially on an item that a figure might be
standing/leaning on. Thank you for adding the screen shots to help explain what you are talking about.
Reply Those are very helpful.
SlimMckenzie ƒ
I'm glad it was helpful! Let me know if you have any questions on it!
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Lady‐Quantum ƒ
Thank you for the Tutorial!
One of these days I'll get around to using these more often if I have the time, but right now they still
intimidate me more than anything. I'm afraid that I'm going to mess something up and that it's going
to be broke forever! My biggest problem at this point, is that even though the G3F comes with a
cleavage fixer built in, I have all kinds of issues with clothing fitting some of my models properly. (Mostly
my more busty ones to be honest, but there are some outfits that just don't seem to fit any model right.)
I've thought about using DFormers in order to fix the issues with the clothing, but I'm not sure how to go
about doing it. I've seen how the model has some kind of invisible morph that works to fix things, so that
would be nice, but in the end it seems to not really work right, forming a kind of lump in the center of the
chest that doesn't want to round out right.
Suggestions would be helpful as to where I should get started. I'm not that good at this sort of thing, and
don't want to mess up my model.
Lot's of
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
My pleasure! I'm a firm believer in the idea that teaching is the third step of learning, so any
opportunity to describe something (even if I just made up the opportunity) tests my knowledge of it
and is a great time to play
That being said, the first thing you should know is that the dformers create 3 objects that are
attached to the model in question and can be deleted at any time. I'd say as long as you don't try to
bake it in as a morph, you can always undo it. (by lowering the dform value or deleting the dformer
altogether.) It doesn't change the base model, so you don't really have much to lose.
As an IT person, I would also say, better safe than sorry, take a backup
As for something specific like cleavage fixers, I find that reusable enough that it was worth the
money to buy a product that helps. SickleYield ƒ  has a product on renderosity (
www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/sy… @) that I use for my G3 models. I have a couple products for G2
models as well.
I would suggest following the "tutorial" with the primitive model. I still struggle with dformers (a lot,
sometimes) when dealing with fabric that naturally bends and has different polygon sizes, but to get
a feel for how it works, working with a plane, or a even a sphere could be useful.
As for the lump in the chest, I handle that twofold. 1) Ensure the smoothing modifier is enabled for
the object. Some clothes ship with it, others do not. It's a daz feature, so it's easy to add. Certain
clothes (ones that are baked with wrinkles for instance) don't handle it quite as gracefully, but I've
yet to find a piece of clothing that doesn't benefit from a smoothing modifier of somewhere between
2 and 20. and 2) The cleavage fixer modifier doesn't have to go to 100%. Watch the shape and only
push the cleavage out as far as her chest extends. That might be silly advice for you but I needed it.
I assumed that it was basically what percentage I wanted it to be fixed, but it's more of a flat amount
it pushes it out. On all accounts, the "front fixers" are usually attached to the model, not the
clothing. So in some cases, some clothes handle cleavage themselves just fine so you'll need to
'remove' the fixer from the model depending on the clothing.
If there's a specific piece of clothing you're having an issue with, let me know and I'll see if I can help.
I hope that isn't too rambly, and I hope it helps you out. Let me know if you have questions, if I
Reply missed the point, or if there's a second tutorial I can add that would help bring it together for you!
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Thank you for the tutorial
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
You're welcome. When I get to level 2, I'll be sure to try pass it along Zapamtite ! Istrošeni
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Ahegao3DX Apr 18, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
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firestorm31z ƒ
 Apr 18, 2016
you should make this a PDF file.
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
Hrm, you make an interesting idea. I'll have to look into that, thanks!!
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firestorm31z ƒ
 Apr 19, 2016
makes sense to do this.
this website not really suitable to keep a library of tutorials. (they could but its not really
practical)
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
Do you have any good suggestions for tools to make a PDF with?
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firestorm31z ƒ
 Edited Apr 20, 2016
not sure.
generally, using Adobe Acrobat is a starting point to collect all the material for your
tutotial.
as for other tools, I don't know.
Reply I think you might wanna ask pdsmith for details. he has made some pdf tutorials.
ClockworkEros Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Sweet! Works very well; thanks! \o/
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
Glad to hear it!
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forged3DX ∫
Awesome tutorial, thanks! Much appreciated
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
My pleasure!
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thomvinson Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you! I needed this one.
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 Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Artist gljivične infekcije za 9
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Let me know if it helps, or if it causes any questions!
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This is something I really should have jumped into ages ago, but I have been resisting. I will try
it out soon though, I would like to make a "V" wake or rings on a water surface for a pool scene. Zapamtite ! Istrošeni
I have several props that will do it, but it is a royal pain in the ass getting shaders to match the zglobovi se mogu izliječiti
Reply water to the prop. I think the DFormer might be the way to go. . . za 3 dana !
SlimMckenzie ƒ
I've played the *slightest* bit with the dformer node weight maps. i think those could be
the way to get what you're looking for. But I will also say that while I have found *a* way
to do it, I have no idea if it's the best way.
Another odd way to try to accomplish it would be a series of primitive toruses (torii,
multiple torus objects...) and putting them close to the surface and having the surface
Reply "collide" with them?
I did try to use a torus but it was too perfectly circular and I didn't (still don't really)
know enough to make it look more natural like a ring in the water.
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
You could dform the torus to give it more of a wave shape
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yeah, I see that now.
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forged3DX ∫
For water, I use a displacement map made in Photoshop to distort the water surface
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
I was originally thinking that, and it would work. But if you wanted to have both
the natural displacement of water from the wind, etc. as well as a ripple from a
body (the V or the concentric circles), it would make for a very challenging map
to have the natural displacement on the ripple. At least, it seemed like it to me,
Reply but I don't do much with my own maps yet.
robandodeveras Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Nice job, I did not think about the subd smoothing... I'm gonna have to check that out.
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
The male and female models have enough polygons that by using a field you're almost assuredly
going to get smoothing by default. It's great for more primitive objects (or if your field is otherwise
limited).
I'm messing around with the node weight map feature. It's interesting, but if I work at it too long I
Reply get antsy and my ears start to bleed
I saw the node weight in the influence parameter, but i didn't know what to do with it. I was
hoping to subd a model, to get further detailed dforms. But the dforms seem to not follow the
Reply subd'd mesh wireframe. Well I guess that's how we learn.
SlimMckenzie ƒ
Yeah, I noticed that as well. The subd doesn't seem to add additional polygons in the
interactive screen, though I may play some more and see if it makes any more sense
(unlikely). I'm still trying to make headway on the node brush I was able to make some
Reply bumps on a flat surface, but anything beyond that is, well, beyond that
Cool . I'm definitely interested in the node weight mapping and I wanna also see what
the pushpull modifier does. See if I can figure out enough to be able to share it. ×
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
There are moments where I think I understand the node weight mapping tool.
Then I'm pretty sure I don't. Kako sam se za 7 dana
My $0.02 on it all (for me as much as anyone else) is to try to work with
primitives from an education perspective rather than trying to actually do it on a
Reply posed 3d girl. I get too ambitious sometimes and then I get frustrated
3DPerson Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist za 3 dana !
Cool work! I've been trying to understand this in Daz. I really find the morph tool much easier to work
with in Poser, although, seeing this, much of it is not giving this a chance.
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
I haven't worked in poser, but I can imagine about 5000 different ways this could be easier.
Nevertheless, it's great to have in your pocket for when you need it!
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3DPerson Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Very true
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designerinc Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
thats great tip...bravo
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SlimMckenzie ƒ
Thanks!!
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tora‐no‐shi1369 Apr 17, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist
I did not know how to do this.
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