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

USE

1 - Select an object in a daz studio scene

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

2 - launch the mcjElevateRevA 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

3b - Deselect unwanted materials

Only checkmarked materials will be affected by the morph.

This is a new feature of Rev. A !

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

You can also specify a channel name other than PBMCC_01.

but this feature is intended for "experts".

Creating pz2 files (for experts)

This is another new feature of Rev.A

it will create a simple injection file for the

selected node name and the morph channel you specified

i am not extremely familiar with pz2 files, so ...

you will possibly want to tweak this INJ file by hand later

here is another example of what can be achieved with mcjElevateRevA

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

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