Introduction

mcjElevate lets you modify the shape of objects including clothing items, based on a gray scale image

Watch mcjElevate in action here

Also see the powerful Revision A here : https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjelevate-reva

The terrain in the image below started as a simple 100x100 primitive plane, and it took less than a minute to turn it into a terrain

Versions

mcjElevatewas released around Jan 16, 2010

as of Dec 16 2012 it now includes a version for Daz Studio 4.5

The improved version of mcjElevate can be found right here ---> mcjElevate RevA

Mar 9, 2019, 11:37 PM - Updated Upgraded and SAFER

by safer we mean, if you create o morph on a subdivided surface, before this update,

this made your scene save'able but not loadable ever again !

( unless maybe you can delete the data/element from the data/ folder )

Installation

The zip package is found at the bottom of this page

unzip it in your daz content folder,

typically :

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library

once installed, it will appear in your content library, under

The Daz Script will be found in My Library / Scripts / mcasual

Starting with Windows 7 if you right click on the downloaded zip file

and select the [Extract All ....] pop-up menu item

you simply browse up to your Daz Studio Content Folder

and the files will fall in the proper folder

1 - Select an object in a daz studio scene

example: a 4 meters by 4 meters primitive-Plane, 32x32 divisions

2 - launch the mcjElevate script

3 - click on the "Load Elevation Image' button

and select an Elevation image also known as bump map or displacement map

here is an example of an Elevation map

where you see white dots, the plane will be pushed upward

where you see black dots, the plane will not move

the height for black and white dots is given by the "Level" settings

shown below.

values are in centimeters, so, white pixels push the plane 10 cm up

4 - Click on the "Create Elevation Image" button

there can be a rather long waiting time while the script performs thousands of computations

In our example, a 32x32 division planes means there's 1024 vertices to process.

in one test, processing a 64x64 divisions plane ( 4096 vertices ) took 3 minutes

When computations are complete, you'll be able to close the script using the "exit button"

5 - Go in daz studio's parameters tab

there's a new morph channel named Elevate !

turn it up to 100%

and there you have it, the Elevation map was transformed into a morph

Note: you can specify a name other than Elevate for the Morph name

it's probably better to avoid using names already in use

here is another example of what can be achieved with mcjElevate

and

Let's try to add wrinkles to a piece of clothes

we take a skirt by Zardok a.k.a Jean-Jacques Roh

here: http://www.sharecg.com/pf/Zardok

we select the skirt and we tell Daz Studio to show us the UV maps

we set the mode to "View by Node"

and we get this, which we copy using "print Screen" on a PC

then "Paste" in a paint program

here is our elevation map

here is the elevation map on the Diffuse Color channel of the skirt's surface

i select the Skirt's hip

and run mcjElevate

select the Elevation map,

process ...

and here's the result after conversion to subD

to get better looking results, the wrinkles xhould follow more closely the geometry's polygon edges

applying this map

adds a rippled fringe

and applying this to a sphere and to a cylinder

gets us this

another simple sphere becomes