mcjLagEffect is a free script for Daz Studio initially published in spring 2010 the release page is here : https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts/mcjlageffect Typically it replicates the animation of a figure onto a skirt with a short delay, and this gives the appearance of dynamic clothing Let's see if it still works ! The test scene/animation  A few notes about this scene Tamoka's skirt is in fact a prop That's why it is not affected by the leg movements I made this skirt as a figure a while ago for Aiko3, and fit'ed it to Genesis ( Tamoka) but it wasn't reacting too well to this dance and it was too short for our purpose so i converted it to .obj format and modified it then i parented it to Tamoka's hip bone i also increased the number of facets because the d-forms will look better when all the twisting and turning is added another way to get this is to apply a SubDivision to the clothing This is found in the Daz Studio menu : Edit/Object/Geometry/Convert to subD menu Adding the D-Form I Select the root node of the skirt and do a Create / D-Form by default the field is centered ... well actually it seems a bit higher than the center  we want the dform to pull the bottom of the skirt, in a way that lags-behind ... relative to where the hip would bring the skirt  note how i squashed the d-form field and how i made it very wide and deep the bottom rows will swing wildly, the top rows will swing less and the waist belt wont move i could probably make it grab a few more rows, but not the waist band! another important note: by default Daz Studio created a d-form field with all sorts of bizarre offsets and rotations before fixing it to my liking, i zeroed XTranslate, ZTranslate, and all the rotations The D-Form Base  by default the D-Form Base created by Daz Studio had all sorts of offsets and rotations that i zeroed, Xtranslate, Z Translate, All the rotations, zeroed i moved the base up a bit ( YTranslate ) we wont move the D-Form Base from now on Now, when i X-Rotate the D-Form , the skirt sways back and forth when i z-rotate the D-Form, the skirt sways sideways Understanding what's going on Since the dform and dform-base are parented to the skirt which is parented to Tamoka's hip they both move together, the d-form has no effect on the skirt if we deport in time the orientation of the d-form, but we leave the d-form-base alone the d-form will tilt and sway and spin, relative to the d-form base the skirt should see some action ! Follow the leader mcjLagEffect needs something that acts as "the leader" and something that acts as "the follower" we already know the follower will be the d-form we cant use the d-form as the leader, so we will create something that acts (travels) the same way as the d-form presently does Create a Daz Studio Primitive cylinder, 10 cm tall, 2 cm in diameter parent it just like the d-form ... to the D-Form base select the d-form node, do a Edit/Copy selected item ( ctrl-c) select the cylinder, do a Edit/Paste selected item ( ctrl- v ) there you go, the cylinder will travel along with us  Now the scary moment where we test the old dusty script According to the instructions,
well that's interesting, it means we could simply select the D-Form as the leader and the D-Form base, which is its parent would serve as the leader! This may work since i think they are perfectly aligned by default or we could select the D-Form and secondly the D-Form base But since we went through all the trouble of creating our dear leader cylinder ... we select the D-Form, followed by the cylinder and we run the mcjLagEffect.dsa script for Daz Studio 3 and 4  my animation is 15 frames at 15 frames per second, so i used a delay of 3 frames instead of 5 and it's an Orientation-only delay, Success it Worked !  |